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Article: MAST CELLS LET RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS OUT OF THE BAG TRANSGENIC MICE TAKE MAST CELL SERUM FROM ARTHRITIC TO HEALTHY ANIMAL MODELS AND BACK AGAIN.(Brief Article)
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- September 10, 2002
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Current wisdom has it that most modern diseases are, in a sense, man-made. Thus, chimpanzees bequeathed mankind the AIDS virus because their African habitat was disrupted by agriculture and "monkey meat" - consumption of chimp cuts by hungry humans.
Malaria is another case in point, with its Anopheles mosquito pushed to proliferate because of stagnant water collecting in ponds and discarded tires. The self-blaming list goes on.
But thousands of years ago, the skeletons inside mummies of Egyptian burials revealed that the Pharaohs and their retinues suffered from such present-day afflictions as gallstones and kidney stones, plus mastoiditis, and ...