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Re:Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitat... by realjhol on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:39PM (#35123313)
The problem comes if a mimic of the baddies gets attached to hostages e.g. spike proteins attached to heart muscle tissue. In this case, the immune system will attack the "baddies" causing harm to the heart muslcle tissue in the cross-fire. Heart muscle tissue never regenerates, hence the spike in Myocarditis cases.
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Re:Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitat... by Aardwolf on Sunday March 12, 2023 @02:44PM (#35124372)
> Heart muscle tissue never regenerates

Given the importance of the heart, that seems like a strange way that this has evolved, given that other tissue does regenerate

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Re:Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitat... by realjhol on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:00PM (#35124597)
Hard to fix a machine that can never ever go offline.
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