Post by Acacian Immolation on Jul 18, 2010 16:56:06 GMT -5
link - Cigarette Smoke Jolts Hundreds of Genes, Researchers Say
This is a fascinating finding. Especially concerning the amount of morgies that I know that smoke.
I tend to look at this unbiasedly, as the scientists are, seeing that they have found both negative and positive aspects of the genetic expression involved.
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Everyone who's going through what some term ' morgellons' knows intrinsically at some base level that your body is changing. You experience phenomena and symptoms that nobody else does.
Any remarkable change in the body is the result of our genetic programming.. ie: puberty, menopause, etc...
could cigarette smoke decrease and/or increase the changes that are already occurring in our bodies? According to this article, this seems to be so, IMO.
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Doctors have long noticed a link between smoking and cancers found in organs beside the lungs, including kidney, colon and bladder cancers.
Now, a new study shows lighting up a cigarette changes a person's gene activity across the body. The findings may be a clue to why smoking affects overall health - from heart disease to combating infections.
Now, a new study shows lighting up a cigarette changes a person's gene activity across the body. The findings may be a clue to why smoking affects overall health - from heart disease to combating infections.
This is a fascinating finding. Especially concerning the amount of morgies that I know that smoke.
I tend to look at this unbiasedly, as the scientists are, seeing that they have found both negative and positive aspects of the genetic expression involved.
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A research team from Australia and San Antonio, Texas, analyzed white blood cell samples of 1,240 people, ages 16-94, who were participating in the San Antonio Family Heart Study.
They found that the self-identified smokers in the group - 297 people - were more likely to have unusual patterns of "gene expression" related to tumor development, inflammation, virus elimination, cell death and more. A gene is expressed when it codes for a protein that then instructs, or kick-starts, a process in the body.
The authors of the study found cigarette smoke could increase or decrease the level of expression of 323 genes.
"On some levels, we were surprised by the extent of the influence exposure to cigarette smoke had on gene expression, especially considering we used such a simple measure of smoke exposure: smoker or non-smoker," said lead author Jac Charlesworth, a research fellow at the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania in Australia.
On the other hand, Charlesworth said, doctors have known "for a very long time" that smoking worsens cancer risk overall, depresses immune systems and causes other problems. Heart disease, cataracts and poor wound healing (edit: non-healing lesions anyone? ) are all more common in people who smoke, according to the National Institutes of Health and the new study.
They found that the self-identified smokers in the group - 297 people - were more likely to have unusual patterns of "gene expression" related to tumor development, inflammation, virus elimination, cell death and more. A gene is expressed when it codes for a protein that then instructs, or kick-starts, a process in the body.
The authors of the study found cigarette smoke could increase or decrease the level of expression of 323 genes.
"On some levels, we were surprised by the extent of the influence exposure to cigarette smoke had on gene expression, especially considering we used such a simple measure of smoke exposure: smoker or non-smoker," said lead author Jac Charlesworth, a research fellow at the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania in Australia.
On the other hand, Charlesworth said, doctors have known "for a very long time" that smoking worsens cancer risk overall, depresses immune systems and causes other problems. Heart disease, cataracts and poor wound healing (edit: non-healing lesions anyone? ) are all more common in people who smoke, according to the National Institutes of Health and the new study.
Everyone who's going through what some term ' morgellons' knows intrinsically at some base level that your body is changing. You experience phenomena and symptoms that nobody else does.
Any remarkable change in the body is the result of our genetic programming.. ie: puberty, menopause, etc...
could cigarette smoke decrease and/or increase the changes that are already occurring in our bodies? According to this article, this seems to be so, IMO.
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