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    MARTIN PALL -TEORIA NO-ONOO
    http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chroni...-for-treatment/


    Thirty agents or classes of agents predicted to down-regulate NO/ONOO cycle biochemistry:



    Agent or Class of Agents Clinical Trial Data or Clinical Observation/Anecdotal Reports



    Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) - Clinical Trial Data
    Tocopherols/Tocotrienols - Anecdotal Reports
    Selenium - None
    Carotenoids - None
    Flavonoids - Clinical Trial Data
    Reductive stress relieving agents - Clinical Trial Data
    Mitochondrial regeneration agents - Clinical Trial Data
    L-Carnitine/Acetyl-L-carnitine - Clinical Trial Data
    Hydroxocobalamin/B12 - Clinical Trial Data
    Folic acid - Clinical Trial Data
    Vitamin B6/pyridoxal phosphate - Anecdotal Reports
    Riboflavin - None
    Other B vitamins - None
    Glutathione/glutathione precursors - Clinical Observations
    alpha-Lipoic acid - None
    Magnesium - Clinical Trial Data
    SOD minerals/zinc,manganese, copper - None
    NMDA antagonists - Clinical Trial Data
    Riluzole - None
    Taurine - None
    Inosine/uric acid - None
    Long chain omega-3 fatty acids - Clinical Trial Data
    Agents that lower NF-kappa B activity - Anecdotal Reports
    Curcumin - None
    Algal supplements - Clinical Trial Data
    Hyperbaric oxygen - Clinical Trial Data
    Minocycline and Other Tetracyclines - Clinical Observations
    Creatine - None
    Lowered vanilloid activity - None
    Carnosine - None
    TRH - Clinical Observations



    You will note that there is clinical trial data on the efficacy of 12 of these agents or classes of agents, and there are clinical observations and/or anecdotal evidence of efficacy of six others. Nonetheless, each of these individually, have limited efficacy, suggesting that combinations may be more effective than are individual agents.


    SEGUE: Treatment protocols of five different physicians


    Agents from Cheney Protocol Predicted to Down-Regulate NO/ONOO- Cycle Biochemistry



    High dose hydroxocobalamin (B12) injections - nitric oxide scavenger
    Whey protein - glutathione precursor
    Guaifenesin - vanilloid antagonist?
    NMDA blockers
    Magnesium - lowers NMDA activity
    Taurine - antioxidant and acts to lower excitotoxicity including NMDA activity
    GABA agonists - GABA acts as an inhibitory neurotransmitter to lower NMDA activity - these include the drug neurotin (gabapentin)
    Histamine blockers - mast cells which release histamine are activated by both nitric oxide and vanilloid stimulation and may therefore be part of the cycle mechanism
    Betaine hydrochloride (HCl) - Betaine lowers reductive stress, the hydrochloride form should only be used in those with low stomach acid. Betaine (trimethylglycine) is also listed separately in the protocol description
    Flavonoids, including "bioflavonoids," olive leaf extract, organic botanicals, hawthorn extract
    Vitamin E (forms not listed)
    Coenzyme Q10 - acts both as antioxidant and to stimulate mitochondrial function
    A-lipoic acid
    Selenium
    Omega-3 and -6 fatty acids
    Melatonin - as an antioxidant
    Pyridoxal phosphate - improves glutamate/GABA ratio
    Folic acid - lowers uncoupling of nitric oxide synthases



    Agents from Teitelbaum Protocol Predicted to Down-Regulate NO/ONOO Cycle Biochemistry

    Daily energy B-complex - B vitamins including high dose B6, riboflavin, thiamine, niacin and also folic acid. These fall into four categories that I have listed earlier in the chapter
    Betaine hydrochloride (HCl) - lowers reductive stress, hydrochloride -form should only be taken by those deficient in stomach acid
    Magnesium as magnesium glycinate and magnesium malate - lowers NMDA activity - often uses magnesium injections
    A-Lipoic acid - important antioxidant helps regenerate reduced glutathione
    Vitamin B12 IM injections, 3 mg injections (does not state whether this is hydroxocobalamin) - may act as potent nitric oxide scavenger
    Eskimo fish oil - excellent source of long chain omega-3 fatty acids. Lowers iNOS induction, anti-inflammatory
    Vitamin C
    Grape seed extract (flavonoid)
    Vitamin E, natural - does not state whether this includes g-tocopherol or tocotrienols
    Physician's protein formula, used as glutathione precursor
    Zinc - antioxidant properties and copper/zinc superoxide dysmutase precursor
    Acetyl-L-carnitine - important for restoring mitochondrial function
    Coenzyme Q10 - both important antioxidant properties and stimulates mitochondrial function



    Agents from Nicolson Protocol Predicted to Down-Regulate NO/ONOO- Cycle Biochemistry

    Other phosphatidyl polyunsaturated lipids - this and the phosphatidyl choline are predicted to help restore the oxidatively damaged mitochondrial inner membrane
    Magnesium - lowers NMDA activity, may aid in energy metabolism
    Taurine - antioxidant activity and lowers excitoxicity including NMDA activity
    Artichoke extract - as flavonoid source?
    Spirulina - blue-green alga is a concentrated antioxidant source
    Natural vitamin E - does not tell us whether this includes g-tocopherol or tocotrienols
    Calcium ascorbate - vitamin C
    a-Lipoic acid - important antioxidant, key role in regeneration of reduced glutathione, but also has role in energy metabolism
    Vitamin B6 - balance glutamate and GABA levels, lowers excitotoxicity
    Niacin - role in energy metabolism
    Riboflavin - important in reduction of oxidized glutathione back to reduced glutathione; also has important role in mitochondrial function
    Thiamin - role in energy metabolism
    Vitamin B12 - as nitric oxide scavenger?
    Folic acid - lowers nitric oxide synthase uncoupling



    Agents from Petrovic Protocol Predicted to Down-Regulate NO/ONOO- Cycle Biochemistry

    Valine and isoleucine - branched chain amino acids known to be involved in energy metabolism in mitochondria, and may be expected,therefore, to stimulate energy metabolism; modest levels may also lower excitotoxicity
    Pyridoxine (B6) - improves balance between glutamate and GABA, lowers excitotoxicity
    Vitamin B12 in the form of cyanocobalamin - cyanocobalamin is converted to hydroxocobalamin in the human body but the latter form will be more active as a nitric oxide scavenger, since it does not require such conversion
    Riboflavin - helps reduce oxidized glutathione back to reduced glutathione
    Carotenoids (alpha-carotene, bixin, zeaxanthin and lutein) - lipid (fat) soluble peroxynitrite scavengers
    Flavonoids (flavones, rutin, hesperetin and others)
    Ascorbic acid (vitamin C)
    Tocotrienols - forms of vitamin E reported to have special roles in lowering effects of excitotoxicity
    Thiamine (aneurin) - B vitamin involved in energy metabolism
    Magnesium - lowers NMDA activity; may aid energy metabolism
    Zinc - precursor of SOD
    Betaine hydrochloride (HCl) - lowers reductive stress, hydrochloride form should only be used by those deficient in stomach acid
    Essential fatty acids including long chain omega-3 fatty acids
    Phosphatidyl serine - reported to lower iNOS induction



    Agents from Pall/Ziem Protocol Predicted to Down-Regulate NO/ONOO- Cycle Biochemistry

    Nebulized, inhaled reduced glutathione
    Nebulized, inhaled hydroxocobalamin (some use sublingual)
    Mixed, natural tocopherols including g-tocopherol
    Buffered vitamin C
    Magnesium as malate
    Four different flavonoid sources: Ginkgo biloba extract, cranberry extract, silymarin, and bilberry extract
    Selenium as selenium - grown yeast
    Coenzyme Q10
    Folic acid
    Carotenoids including lycopene, lutein and b-carotene
    a-Lipoic acid
    Zinc (modest dose), manganese (low dose) and copper (low dose)
    Vitamin B6 in the form of pyridoxal phosphate
    Riboflavin 5'-phosphate (FMN)
    Betaine (trimethylglycine)
    Dr. Ziem has recently added two additional agents: green tea extract (flanonoids) and acetyl L-carnitine.



    Let me add three additional important points:



    It is important, with all of these treatments, to avoid up-regulating NO/ONOO- cycle biochemistry. A number of things will tend to produce such up-regulation. These include chemical exposure in MCS patients, excessive exercise in CFS patients, excitotoxin exposure (including MSG and aspartame) in all of these diseases/illnesses, exposure to food allergens in those who have food intolerances and psychological stress in those sensitive to such stress. These treatments are only effective when the agents down-regulating NO/ONOO- cycle biochemistry are taken along with avoidance of stressors predicted to up-regulate such biochemistry.



    The second point is that I think that all of these protocols can be improved and I suspect that the physicians who developed them would agree with this. Nevertheless, I would argue that we now know how to effectively treat these diseases/illnesses and that such treatment consistently involves down-regulating the fundamental etiologic cycle that causes them.



    The third is that we now have sufficient evidence supporting the NO/ONOO cycle etiology of these diseases/illnesses. This is the only detailed explanation for the many overlaps among these illnesses, their substantial comorbidity with each other and the extraordinary variation in symptoms and signs from one case to another. In other words these are true diseases, with a defined morbid process and etiology, albeit ones with unusual variation from case to case due to the local nature of the underlying biochemistry. This is a major new paradigm of human disease, and there are other diseases/illnesses that are candidates for inclusion under this paradigm."



     
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