Perhaps, Dr. Chang thought, that was no occurrence. The new
review arose out of long stretches of examination testing his hunch that Xist
particles could cause immune system illness. He and his partners concentrated
on a kind of mice in which the females are at high gamble of the immune system
sickness lupus, while the guys never foster extreme cases. The analysts
hereditarily designed the male mice so they, like the females, created Xist.
"When the male mice express Xist, they deteriorate levels of resistant
sickness," Dr. Chang said. The scientists likewise found that individuals
with lupus or two other immune system problems had elevated degrees of antibodies
to Xist-related proteins in their blood. Dr. Chang thinks that immune system
sicknesses might happen during the ordinary course of cells passing on in a
lady's body. The cells spill open, unloading their atoms into the circulation
system. In ladies, that trash incorporates a great deal of Xist particles, and
the proteins connected to them. At the point when an invulnerable cell
experiences a Xist particle, it likewise finds countless proteins adhered to
it. This strange experience might confound resistant cells, which then
erroneously begin making antibodies to the Xist proteins. When the resistant
framework begins regarding Xist proteins as the adversary, it might begin going
after different pieces of the body too. That is on the grounds that each cell
sticks parts of its proteins on its surface, where safe cells can examine them.
If a safe cell experiences a Xist protein section, Dr. Chang proposed, it will
kill the cell that presents it. Montserrat Anguera, a geneticist at the College
of Pennsylvania who was not engaged with the review, said the situation was
conceivable. However, she likewise noticed that certain individuals make
antibodies to these equivalent proteins — including men — without creating
immune system illnesses. Dr. Melissa Lechner, an endocrinologist at U.C.L.A.
who likewise was not engaged with the work, expressed that while the new review
was charming, it was conceivable that the Xist proteins just lift autoimmunity,
instead of going about as a causal trigger. "The information doesn't allow
me to recognize the two," she said. A few examinations recommend that the
X chromosome fills immune system illnesses in alternate ways. For example, it
conveys various qualities for proteins that go about as signs between
invulnerable cells. Assuming one of those qualities evades hushing, it might
make additional signs that confound the insusceptible framework. The test the
researchers face presently is in sorting out how this large number of elements
work overall to create the female predisposition in safe illnesses. "This
is science — it's something delightful however it's disappointing," Dr.
Anguera said.
0 Comments