Reply #125: Autoimmune Autism Linked to Thimerosal and Aluminum in Vaccines

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Autoimmune Autism Linked to Thimerosal and Aluminum in Vaccines

Studies have found mercury, aluminum, and lead cause autoantibodies to neuronal proteins, neurofilaments, and myelin basic protein (73,74,104). While zinc binding with MBP stabilizes the association with brain myelin, mercury and cadmium have been found to intefere with zinc binding to MBP and thus cause disfunction and autoimmunities(74). Dr. Stejskal(11) recently began testing children with autism. Her preliminary results on 18 autistic children and 11 controls, found that 5 of 18 autistic children had a positive proliferative ("allergic") response on MELISA to Thimerosal, vs. 1/11 controls. Similar results were recently found for methyl mercury (6/10 autistics vs 0/11 controls) and inorganic mercury (6/18 autistics, vs 0/11 controls). Most importantly, 13/16 autistics tested positive for reactivity to the mercury-MBP vs. only 3/10 controls. The mercury-MBP reactivity is presumed to be caused by the mercury reconfiguring the three-dimensional MBP, to which the body generates the allergic (autoimmune) response. In another study a significant percentage of children with autism developed anti-SK, anti-gliadin and casein peptides and anti-ethyl mercury antibodies, concomitant with the appearance of anti-CD26 and anti-CD69 autoantibodies(89). These antibodies are synthesized as a result of SK, gliadin, casein and ethyl mercury binding to CD26 and CD69, indicating that they are specific. The study found that bacterial antigens (SK), dietary peptides (gliadin, casein) and Thimerosal (ethyl mercury) in individuals with pre-disposing HLA molecules, bind to CD26 or CD69 and induce antibodies against these molecules. Immune mechanisms are thus seen to be a major factor in neurotoxicity of metals seen in conditions such as autism and ADD(37b,63,72-74).

Peer-reviewed Study References:
(73) (a)C.J.G.Robinson et al, “Mercuric chloride induced anitnuclear antibodies In mice”, Toxic Appl Pharmacology, 1986, 86:159-169. & (b) El-Fawai HA, Waterman SJ, De Feo A, Shamy MY. Neuroimmunotoxicology: Humoral Assessment of Neurotoxicity and Autoimmune Mechanisms. Contact Dermatitis 1999; 41(1): 60-1;
& (c) Hu H; Moller G; Abedi Valugerdi M. Mechanism of mercury induced autoimmunity: both T helper 1 and T helper 2 type responses are involved. Immunology 1999 Mar;96(3):348 57;
(74) Earl C, Chantry A, Mohammad N. Zinc ions stabilize the association of basic protein with brain myelin membranes. J Neurochem 1988; 51 18-24; & Ricco P, Giovanneli S, Bobba A. Specificity of zinc binding to myelin basic protein. Neurochem Res 1995; 20:1107-13.

(104) Auto-Immunity, Vaccines and Autism, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D., Beth Israel Hospital / Albert Einstein School of Medicine, http://www.healing-arts.org/children/vaccines/vaccines-... ; & Vaccine Induced Demyelination, www.healing-arts.org/children/vaccines/vaccines-demyeli...
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Note: none of these studies have been debunked by anyone here or in the peer-reviewed process; if you think so prove it