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Gina · 11-15-2005, 11:24 PM

Thanks, Chris,

I didn't put that one in because the kind of H. pylori in her-2 folks that I am researching and looking for is often the kind that does not show up on ANY test. It doesn't grow in petri dishes or in test tubes... It is called intra-cellular H. pylori (you can google it to learn all of its nasties), and it can infect any cell in your body at any time and perhaps go completely undiagnosed for a lifetime....that is unless it starts leaving a tell-tale signature..of which, according to researchers in Germany, over-expression of her-2 in the infected cell is one of these signatures...over-expression of cox-2 is another. Increase in leptin levels is another. Increase in GGT is another...blah, blah, blah. Maybe one day, I'll be able to piece my thesis together and shrink it into a paragraph and I PROMISE..you guys in Australia with Her-2 will be the first to know as AFTERALL you gave us nobel prize winning Barry Marshall...now, THERE is MY kind of researcher--I mean who ELSE but an Aussie would have the audacity to swallow ulcer spit...tease--but I for one am GLAD he did...grin...Take care all and Good'ay to those Down Under, smile...Gina

11-15-2005, 11:24 PM	#3
Gina Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Alexandria, VA Posts: 197	Just testing for H. pylori does not rule out having it Thanks, Chris, I didn't put that one in because the kind of H. pylori in her-2 folks that I am researching and looking for is often the kind that does not show up on ANY test. It doesn't grow in petri dishes or in test tubes... It is called intra-cellular H. pylori (you can google it to learn all of its nasties), and it can infect any cell in your body at any time and perhaps go completely undiagnosed for a lifetime....that is unless it starts leaving a tell-tale signature..of which, according to researchers in Germany, over-expression of her-2 in the infected cell is one of these signatures...over-expression of cox-2 is another. Increase in leptin levels is another. Increase in GGT is another...blah, blah, blah. Maybe one day, I'll be able to piece my thesis together and shrink it into a paragraph and I PROMISE..you guys in Australia with Her-2 will be the first to know as AFTERALL you gave us nobel prize winning Barry Marshall...now, THERE is MY kind of researcher--I mean who ELSE but an Aussie would have the audacity to swallow ulcer spit...tease--but I for one am GLAD he did...grin...Take care all and Good'ay to those Down Under, smile...Gina