Medical Prof. in this group?! PLEASE!?

I posted a site regarding the issue (apologies for it not being about pens)
of protein reactive dyes as they were developed in a certain set of labs
over 100 years ago. A lawyer suggested I take it down as it gave out too
much info., he was right...so now for some more limited info., the same
question, & after further experiments were conducted....

I need to know if I am reinventing the wheel here and I believe the doctors
and medical professionals on this board could be of great assistance.

If a dye is biocompatable and when placed in solution has a natural affinity
to multiple types of cancerous growths in mammals, fish, and amphibians -
right down to the boundary of healthy cells with carcinogenic cells - is
this already available? Has this already been done? Or is this new and
should be pursued further? If the dye can also "carry" iodine, is this also
of use (radioactive iodine will show in an x-ray, but does it show ALL types
of cancer growths(?) - I suspect it could be greatly expanded)?

How does one photograph the actions shown in a slide (microscope) - is it
costly to get some type of adapter that would enable photographs of
microscopic demonstrations?

There were doctors in this group once upon a time. What happened? Where
are you when one needs you?


"Noodler" wrote in message
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I posted a site regarding the issue (apologies for it not being about pens)
of protein reactive dyes as they were developed in a certain set of labs
over 100 years ago. A lawyer suggested I take it down as it gave out too
much info., he was right...so now for some more limited info., the same
question, & after further experiments were conducted....

I need to know if I am reinventing the wheel here and I believe the
doctors and medical professionals on this board could be of great
assistance.

If a dye is biocompatable and when placed in solution has a natural
affinity to multiple types of cancerous growths in mammals, fish, and
amphibians - right down to the boundary of healthy cells with carcinogenic
cells - is this already available? Has this already been done? Or is
this new and should be pursued further? If the dye can also "carry"
iodine, is this also of use (radioactive iodine will show in an x-ray, but
does it show ALL types of cancer growths(?) - I suspect it could be
greatly expanded)?

How does one photograph the actions shown in a slide (microscope) - is it
costly to get some type of adapter that would enable photographs of
microscopic demonstrations?

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:32:41 GMT, "Noodler"
wrote:

There were doctors in this group once upon a time. What happened? Where
are you when one needs you?

Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.

I noticed that the e-mail from doctors on FPN is much higher in number...and
some of them seem to be downright brilliant from my perspective! Glad I
posted there too... ;-)

"Roger" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:32:41 GMT, "Noodler"
wrote:

There were doctors in this group once upon a time. What happened? Where
are you when one needs you?

You are already amongst them on FPN, Nathan. There's a
gaggle of them there. Maybe a couple left on PT YB, but with
the way it has gone there, of late, I wouldn't bet on it.
--
Roger
Southern Arizona
rbeamon1(at)cox(dot)net

Noodler-from my wife:

To introduce myself-I have a Masters degree in Immunology from UC
Berkeley, and I have been published in Medical Hypotheses, Journal of
Theoretical Biology and a letter to Nature

Some questions-
Will the dye work in vivo? It sounds as if you expect it to, because of
your reference to the use of radioactive iodine. Does the dye attach
to the surface of living cells, or does it actually enter the
cytoplasm? If the former, is it evenly distributed on the cell surface,
or in patches? Do you know the mechanism of attachment or entry into
cells? (I realize you may not wish to say). Some alternatives would
include

The use of a laser after cells have taken up the dye (laser
"matched" to the color of the dye), to be used for diagnosis with
laproscopic surgery, or as therapy on the surface of an organ, such as
the bladder

Toxins attached to the dye, such as diphtheria toxin, to kill malignant
cells (You mention radioactive iodine, but that may not be the best way
to kill the cell)

Raising antibodies to the dye, making a cancerous but poorly
immunogenic cell much more immunogenic.

There have been problems getting the therapy to all the malignant cells
in a solid tumor. Using a laser would only help where cancerous cells
on a surface. Using the dye to make malignant cells more "visible"
to the immune system (pun sort of intended) would probably be the most
effective in this regard.


BTW: Can't find the thread on FPN; did you take it down?