This should have read INNERCELLULAR...or inside the cell...
At 06:45 PM 7/26/99 -0700, you wrote: >Bob, > > Good lesson. I've been diagonosed with a mycoplasmal infection...oh can't >remember its name now...but it is intercellular and causes the symptoms of >Gulf war syndrome. Many believe it to be genetically engineered. The >theory is it can only be killed after a cell has died and the mycoplasma is >in the bloodstream. It carries part of the cell with it to elude the immune >system. This is one reason I am interested in whether working with pH might >affect the cell terrain and make it a poor habitat for the mycoplasma. > >~^^V^^~ > >At 06:48 PM 7/26/99 -0500, you wrote: >>Reid Smith wrote: >>> >>> > All cells, plant and animal have cell membranes. >>> > In addition plant cells have a cell wall. >>> > Animal cells *never* have a cell wall. >> -snip- >>> Interesting I wonder if-how these cell wall defecient cells relate to >>> the mycoplasum that is talked about causing problems in some humans? >>> >>> Take Care >>> Reid >> >> Hi Reid and Listers, >> >> Very interesting that you mention *mycoplasma*, a unique cell indeed. >> We need a little background first for the benefit of listers who may >>not be familiar with mycoplasma. A little zoology please. >> >> Animal cells have cell membranes of -- protein and lipid. >> Plant cells have membranes and-- walls of Cellulose (rigid). >> Bacteria cells have membranes and-- walls of Peptidoglycan (flexible). >> Viruses have a protein coat. No membrane or wall. >> >> There are five generally recognized life *kingdoms*: >> Monera; no nuclear membrane or other membrane-bound parts. >> Protista; single celled eukaryotes. >> Fungi; produce spores, lack chlorophyll. >> Plante; cellulose walls, have chlorophyll, vascular systems. >> Animalia; multicellular, specialized organs, heterotrophic. >> >> All these kingdoms are composed of two catagories of cells; >> Prokaryotes; no nuclear membrane. >> Eukaryotes; have a nuclear membrane. >> >> Kingdom *Monera* is composed of *prokaryote* cells only. >> All other kingdoms are composed of *eukaryote* cells. >> Our bodies (Animalia) are eukaryote cells, we eat (Plante and >>Animalia) eukaryote cells. >> >> Now lets look at the mycoplasma. It is in the kingdom Monera, >>prokaryote cells. It has been called half animal and half plant and part >>virus. Our body sees the mycoplasma cell and doesn`t know what to do >>with it. >> Penicillin won`t work on it, mycoplasma has no cell wall to destroy; >>thats what penicillin does. Most things don`t work against mycoplasma. >> Mycoplasma will do some nasty things to the human body. >> Margulis and Schwartz want to place Mycoplasmas and Spiroplasmas in a >>*phylum* called Aphragmabacteria, because they differ from all other >>bacteria in that they lack cell walls. >> >> Medically, mycoplasma are a genus of minute pleomorphic gram-negative >>nonmotile prokaryotic microorganism (family Mycoplasmataceae) without >>cell walls, that are intermediate between bacteria and viruses. >> >> Mycoplasma is the cause of *pleuropneumonia*, pleurisy accompanied by >>pneumonia. It is highly contagious and affects cattle, goats, sheep and >>horses (M.mycoides). It is also a contagious fatal respiratory disease >>of young pigs (H.pleuropneumoniae). >> M.leprae causes Hanson`s diease and M.lepraemurium cause leprosy in >>man. Then there is M.tuberculosis, the cause of the tubercle bacilli in >>humans(TB), and the bovine type and the avian type and the reptile type, >>etc.& etc.. The M.bovine is a cow and cattle diease which is passed to >>humans thru ingestion of milk and beef, it causes TB of the bones and >>lymphatic system. Human TB may affect any tissue of the body but most of >>the time it is in the lungs. >> Keep taking that CS. :-) >> >> Bless you Bob Lee >>-- >>Oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast >> [email protected] >> >> >>-- >>The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. >> >>To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >>[email protected] -or- [email protected] >>with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. >> >>To post, address your message to: [email protected] >> >>List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >> >> >> > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >[email protected] -or- [email protected] >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
