Researchers Find the Existence of another Immune System in Humans

The good news is that doctors can determine which antigens a patient’s cancer cells release. By targeting sequestered antigens – the ones unknown to the immune system – doctors could greatly increase vaccines’ chances of success. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to United States Department of Health and Human Services and is for illustrative purposes only.

A groundbreaking new study reveals an unexpected interaction between men’s testes and the immune system. Additionally, the findings could help explain the development of certain autoimmune disorders and why some cancer vaccines are ineffective.

Unexpected connection likely sabotaging vaccines designed to treat cancer.
The University of Virginia, School of Medicine, has again shown that a part of the body thought to be disconnected from the immune system actually interacts with it, and that discovery helps explain cases of male infertility, certain autoimmune diseases and even the failure of cancer vaccines.

Scientists developing such vaccines may need to reconsider their work in light of the new findings or risk unintentionally sabotaging their own efforts. UVA’s Kenneth Tung, MD, said that many vaccines likely are failing simply because researchers are picking the wrong targets – targets that aren’t actually foreign to the immune system and thus won’t provoke the desired immune responses.

Overturning Orthodoxy
Tung, of UVA’s Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, and a team of collaborators have discovered an unexpected interaction between men’s testes and the immune system. While science textbooks insist the testes are barricaded from the immune system by an impenetrable wall of cells, the researchers have determined there’s actually a very small door in that wall, a door that appears to open in only one direction.



The team discovered that the testes release some, but not all, of the antigens – substances that can spur an immune response – that are created during the production of sperm. Because the testes release these antigens naturally, the immune system ignores them. That’s a normal, healthy response, but it also may explain why cancer vaccines are failing. Cancer vaccines target antigens, so if vaccine developers rely on antigens that are ignored by the immune system, the vaccine won’t work.

“In essence, we believe the testes antigens can be divided into those which are sequestered [behind the barrier] and those that are not,” Tung said. “Antigens which are not sequestered would not be very good cancer vaccine candidates.”

The good news is that doctors can determine which antigens a patient’s cancer cells release. By targeting sequestered antigens – the ones unknown to the immune system – doctors could greatly increase vaccines’ chances of success.



Treating Infertility
The finding also may prove important for couples seeking to have children. Up to 12 percent of men who suffer from infertility have an autoimmune response to their own reproductive cells. That means their immune systems are attacking their sperm, essentially. Tung and his collaborators shed light on what may be happening, showing that a particular step during the creation of sperm is responsible for determining whether the sperm antigens will spark an immune response. Cells called “regulatory T cells” then help control the immune system’s response to the non-sequestered antigens. In men who are infertile because of an autoimmune disorder, something is going wrong with the process, leading the immune system to attack when it shouldn’t. With that knowledge, doctors may be able to develop new treatments for the autoimmune disorders and the resulting infertility.

Rethinking the Immune System
The discovery of the unknown immune interaction comes less than two years after UVA’s Jonathan Kipnis and Antoine Louveau rewrote textbooks when they discovered that the brain has a direct connection to the immune system, a connection long thought not to exist. That discovery could have profound effects in the quest to defeat diseases ranging from Alzheimer’s to multiple sclerosis.
Source: University of Virginia Health System.

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The Neurotoxicity Of Vaccines

By: Alexandria Addesso

Illness is something no one wants to suffer from. Over-the-counter, prescription drugs, and holistic treatments are vigorously sought after to alleviate the slightest form of suffering. In the past hundred years vaccinations have become commonplace when trying to combat both deadly diseases and common ailments. Yet there has been a movement against vaccinations springing up in the last two decades.

Of all vaccinations the flu shot has become the most common and the most frequently administered vaccine being that people usually get one annually at the onset of the flu season. It is well known that if a person already has a compromised immune system at the time of receiving the shot they are highly likely to become very ill. Another controversial and alarming aspect about the flu shot is the high amounts of mercury it contains. Recent lab tests conducted by the Natural News Forensic Food Lab found that seasonal flu vaccines contain 25 thousand times more mercury than is legally allowed in drinking water. Mercury is one of the most toxic metals, it is also particularly neurotoxic. Mercury is known to penetrate and damage the blood-brain barrier very rapidly, leading to a dysfunction of the blood-brain barrier system. Women who are pregnant are usually told to abstain from seafood due to it containing mercury, yet they are encouraged to receive a flu shot as well as other high-risk groups such as children and the elderly.



The flu shot is not the only vaccination known to be neurotoxic, nearly all the vaccines we often push on newborns and infants are. For quite some time autism has been seen to be directly linked to newborn and infantile vaccinations, yet many try to argue the opposite despite autism being almost completely unheard of before mass vaccination programs were initiated in Western nations.

"Dyslexia, minimal brain damage, ADD, autism, allergies, visual and many other neurologic diseases grouped together as ‘developmental disabilities, ’barely existed before mass vaccination programs,” said Dr. Ted Koren. “Probably twenty percent of American children, one youngster in five-suffers from, a 'developmental disability.' This is a stupefying figure developmental disabilities are nearly always generated by encephalitis. And the primary cause of encephalitis in the United States and other industrialized countries is the childhood vaccination program.”

What is most alarming about the childhood vaccination program is that it is a major requirement for public schooling, only sometimes avoided by citing religious belief. A quick Google search can uncover a stories of parents telling stories of how their babies had febrile seizure right after inoculations, some numerous times. Yet their first-hand accounts, either go unheard or purposely silenced. Their previously healthy babies having life-long neurological disorders afterwards.



As people we cannot submit to the state’s demands simply because we are threatened. The youth or other high-risk groups can no longer be a sacrificial offering. Stay curious
and keep questioning everything.

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