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- From: rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 16:44:30 GMT
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- Organization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA
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- In article <1993Jan3.063107.9871@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >Let me just that that I wouldn't want to be the first to volunteer
- >for any kind of immunological attack on fat cells. The potential
- >for disaster seems almost limitless.
-
- This certainly seems like a reasonable concern. Various collagen
- vascular diseases such as lupus can have an associated panniculitis,
- which I assume is due to an autoimmune attack on fat cells. This can
- be fatal.
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- David Rind
- rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
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