1 00:00:07,203 --> 00:00:09,205 >> WELCOME. 2 00:00:09,205 --> 00:00:11,974 I'M WIN ARIAS AT THE NATIONAL 3 00:00:11,974 --> 00:00:13,142 INSTITUTES OF HEALTH IN 4 00:00:13,142 --> 00:00:14,310 BETHESDA, MARYLAND. 5 00:00:14,310 --> 00:00:16,178 AND IT'S A PLEASURE TO WELCOME 6 00:00:16,178 --> 00:00:20,616 YOU TO ANOTHER EXCITING 7 00:00:20,616 --> 00:00:22,652 PRESENTATION IN A COURSE IN 8 00:00:22,652 --> 00:00:23,085 BRIDGE BUILDING. 9 00:00:23,085 --> 00:00:25,488 THE NAME OF THE COURSE IS 10 00:00:25,488 --> 00:00:27,123 DEMYSTIFYING MEDICINE. 11 00:00:27,123 --> 00:00:30,960 AND IT HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE AT 12 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,995 THE NIH FOR APPROXIMATELY 22 13 00:00:32,995 --> 00:00:36,866 YEARS. 14 00:00:36,866 --> 00:00:38,300 THE PURPOSE IS TO BRIDGE THE 15 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:40,403 EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS IN 16 00:00:40,403 --> 00:00:43,606 BIOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND 17 00:00:43,606 --> 00:00:46,642 COMPUTER SCIENCES WITH MEDICINE 18 00:00:46,642 --> 00:00:49,345 AND GLOBAL HEALTH. 19 00:00:49,345 --> 00:00:51,614 AND THE BRIDGE, AS EXEMPLIFIED 20 00:00:51,614 --> 00:00:53,049 IN THE UPPER RIGHT PORTION OF 21 00:00:53,049 --> 00:00:56,652 THIS SLIDE, THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE, 22 00:00:56,652 --> 00:00:59,388 EACH WEEK FEATURES SOMETIMES 23 00:00:59,388 --> 00:01:02,892 ONLY ONE BUT USUALLY TWO, AND 24 00:01:02,892 --> 00:01:05,428 THOSE TWO ARE OFTEN JOINED BY A 25 00:01:05,428 --> 00:01:06,295 PATIENT ON THE CATWALK OF THE 26 00:01:06,295 --> 00:01:09,565 BRIDGE. 27 00:01:09,565 --> 00:01:12,101 CONNECTING THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND 28 00:01:12,101 --> 00:01:15,805 EXPERIENCE BOTH FROM A CLINICAL 29 00:01:15,805 --> 00:01:17,873 PERSPECTIVE AND ALSO FROM A MORE 30 00:01:17,873 --> 00:01:19,642 BASIC SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE. 31 00:01:19,642 --> 00:01:21,610 THE GOAL IS TO CONVERT WHAT ARE 32 00:01:21,610 --> 00:01:26,082 SILOS OF INFORMATION, NAMELY THE 33 00:01:26,082 --> 00:01:28,484 IDEA THAT MUCH OF SCIENCE HAS 34 00:01:28,484 --> 00:01:30,252 BECOME SO SPECIALIZED THAT THERE 35 00:01:30,252 --> 00:01:33,089 ARE ALMOST LANGUAGES ASSOCIATED 36 00:01:33,089 --> 00:01:34,657 WITH EACH DISCIPLINE. 37 00:01:34,657 --> 00:01:37,793 AND LITTLE COMMUNICATION. 38 00:01:37,793 --> 00:01:40,529 BUT PROGRESS IN HEALTH AND 39 00:01:40,529 --> 00:01:42,064 MEDICINE HAS CERTAINLY 40 00:01:42,064 --> 00:01:44,934 FACILITATED WHEN PEOPLE 41 00:01:44,934 --> 00:01:47,203 COMMUNICATE, SHARE IDEAS, AND 42 00:01:47,203 --> 00:01:48,838 BRING TOGETHER TO FORM ALMOST 43 00:01:48,838 --> 00:01:52,441 LIKE NEW DISCIPLINES, AND NEW 44 00:01:52,441 --> 00:01:54,677 APPROACHES TO COMBAT AND 45 00:01:54,677 --> 00:01:57,379 UNDERSTAND HUMAN DISEASE. 46 00:01:57,379 --> 00:01:59,348 SO DEMYSTIFYING MEDICINE MEETS 47 00:01:59,348 --> 00:02:04,687 EVERY TUESDAY FROM 3:00 TO 5:00. 48 00:02:04,687 --> 00:02:05,454 EASTERN STANDARD TIME FROM 49 00:02:05,454 --> 00:02:08,190 JANUARY UNTIL THE END OF MAY. 50 00:02:08,190 --> 00:02:10,826 YOU'RE WATCHING IT ON THE 51 00:02:10,826 --> 00:02:15,531 VIDEOCAST FOR THE NIH. 52 00:02:15,531 --> 00:02:18,701 AS SEEP IN SEEN IN THE EARLIER, 53 00:02:18,701 --> 00:02:20,236 THERE ARE CME CREDITS FOR 54 00:02:20,236 --> 00:02:21,103 PHYSICIANS WHO SEEK THIS. 55 00:02:21,103 --> 00:02:23,839 THE CODE NUMBER FOR TODAY'S 56 00:02:23,839 --> 00:02:27,777 SESSION IS 58786. 57 00:02:27,777 --> 00:02:30,079 NOW, OF GREAT IMPORTANCE IS WE 58 00:02:30,079 --> 00:02:32,815 ENCOURAGE YOU TO PLEASE ASK 59 00:02:32,815 --> 00:02:37,720 QUESTIONS AND SUBMIT THEM VIA 60 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:39,688 THE "SEND LIVE FEEDBACK," WHICH 61 00:02:39,688 --> 00:02:42,525 IS ON YOUR VIDEOCAST DISPLAY. 62 00:02:42,525 --> 00:02:47,263 AND THOSE QUESTIONS WILL BE 63 00:02:47,263 --> 00:02:49,565 SORTED AND AT THE END OF THE 64 00:02:49,565 --> 00:02:51,200 PRESENTATIONS, THERE WILL BE 65 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,470 ABUNDANT TIME FOR DISCUSSION, 66 00:02:54,470 --> 00:02:56,539 QUESTIONS, AND WE ENCOURAGE YOU 67 00:02:56,539 --> 00:02:58,107 TO PLEASE DO THIS EVEN DURING 68 00:02:58,107 --> 00:03:01,143 THE COURSE OF THE PRESENTATIONS. 69 00:03:01,143 --> 00:03:02,511 NOW, ALL OF THE PREVIOUS 70 00:03:02,511 --> 00:03:04,513 SESSIONS FOR THE PAST 20-ODD 71 00:03:04,513 --> 00:03:08,918 YEARS ARE ARCHIVED, AND YOU CAN 72 00:03:08,918 --> 00:03:10,986 ACCESS THEM IN THE WEB SITE 73 00:03:10,986 --> 00:03:14,156 INDICATED ON THIS SLIDE, AND IF 74 00:03:14,156 --> 00:03:17,660 YOU WANT ANY ADDITIONAL 75 00:03:17,660 --> 00:03:19,061 INFORMATION, YOU CAN GET IN 76 00:03:19,061 --> 00:03:24,099 TOUCH WITH US AT 77 00:03:24,099 --> 00:03:24,767 DEMYSTIFYINGMED@NIH.GOV. 78 00:03:24,767 --> 00:03:30,873 NOW TODAY'S TOPIC, NEXT SLIDE, 79 00:03:30,873 --> 00:03:32,208 PLEASE, TODAY'S SESSION IS 80 00:03:32,208 --> 00:03:37,880 REALLY ENTITLED SCRATCHING THE 81 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:39,615 HISTORICAL SURFACE OF PRURITIS, 82 00:03:39,615 --> 00:03:44,220 WHICH IS LATIN FOR ITCHING. 83 00:03:44,220 --> 00:03:46,422 NOW, WE ALL KNOW THE ITCHING 84 00:03:46,422 --> 00:03:50,259 THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH A MINOR, 85 00:03:50,259 --> 00:03:52,761 SAY, MOSQUITO BITE, BUT THERE 86 00:03:52,761 --> 00:03:56,599 ARE A HUGE NUMBER OF CLINICAL 87 00:03:56,599 --> 00:03:58,000 ASPECTS OF PRURITIS, SOME OF 88 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,636 WHICH ARE MILD, AND MANY OF 89 00:04:00,636 --> 00:04:03,806 WHICH ARE PROLONGED, COMPLEX AND 90 00:04:03,806 --> 00:04:06,742 CAUSE REALLY GRAVE SUFFERING, 91 00:04:06,742 --> 00:04:09,178 LARGELY IN THE FORM OF 92 00:04:09,178 --> 00:04:12,014 UNCONTROLLABLE PRURITIS 93 00:04:12,014 --> 00:04:14,850 PERIODICALLY, DISTURBING SLEEP, 94 00:04:14,850 --> 00:04:17,253 CHANGING LIGHT PATTERNS, AND 95 00:04:17,253 --> 00:04:19,355 OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH OTHER 96 00:04:19,355 --> 00:04:21,323 DISEASES, PARTICULARLY OF THE 97 00:04:21,323 --> 00:04:23,926 LIVER, THE KIDNEY, CANCER, 98 00:04:23,926 --> 00:04:24,360 DRUGS. 99 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,964 IT'S A COMPLEX FIELD. 100 00:04:28,964 --> 00:04:30,599 IN LOOKING AROUND, I DISCOVERED 101 00:04:30,599 --> 00:04:33,002 THE FIRST REFERENCE THAT I CAME 102 00:04:33,002 --> 00:04:36,405 TO ITCHING IS ACTUALLY FROM THE 103 00:04:36,405 --> 00:04:39,675 OLD TESTAMENT IN THE BOOK OF 104 00:04:39,675 --> 00:04:42,645 DEUTERONOMY, WHERE WHEN THE LORD 105 00:04:42,645 --> 00:04:46,348 DISPENSED MANY PLAGUES, THE LAST 106 00:04:46,348 --> 00:04:47,349 ONE WAS THE ITCH. 107 00:04:47,349 --> 00:04:51,820 AND THE QUOTE IS "THE LORD WILL 108 00:04:51,820 --> 00:04:53,355 AFFLICT YOU WITH THE ITCH FROM 109 00:04:53,355 --> 00:04:56,525 WHICH YOU CANNOT RECOVER." 110 00:04:56,525 --> 00:04:59,495 NOW, HI HIPPOCRATES AND OTHERS 111 00:04:59,495 --> 00:05:02,965 DESCRIBED DIFFERENT FORMS OF 112 00:05:02,965 --> 00:05:05,167 PRURITIS, GAVE IT ITS NAME LATER 113 00:05:05,167 --> 00:05:09,138 ON, AND ALSO VARIOUS TREATMENTS 114 00:05:09,138 --> 00:05:10,739 WHICH WERE EMPIRIC. 115 00:05:10,739 --> 00:05:15,945 IN THE 17TH CENTURY, A GERMAN 116 00:05:15,945 --> 00:05:18,847 PHYSICIAN, HAFFENREFFER, OFTEN 117 00:05:18,847 --> 00:05:20,249 BEGAN THE CLINICAL DESCRIPTION 118 00:05:20,249 --> 00:05:22,651 OF VARIOUS FORMS OF PRURITIS. 119 00:05:22,651 --> 00:05:25,087 AND OVER THE NEXT 200 YEARS, IT 120 00:05:25,087 --> 00:05:28,891 SEEMS AS IF MOST OF THE EMPHASIS 121 00:05:28,891 --> 00:05:31,627 WAS ON THE DESCRIPTION OF THE 122 00:05:31,627 --> 00:05:33,862 CLINICAL PHENOTYPES, AND NOT 123 00:05:33,862 --> 00:05:37,333 MUCH WAS KNOWN OR DISCOVERED 124 00:05:37,333 --> 00:05:40,936 ABOUT ACTUALLY MECHANISMS. 125 00:05:40,936 --> 00:05:44,974 AND IN FACT, IN A 1994 REVIEW, 126 00:05:44,974 --> 00:05:47,176 THERE ARE ACTUALLY TWO EXTENSIVE 127 00:05:47,176 --> 00:05:50,012 REVIEWS, AND THEY BOTH MAKE THE 128 00:05:50,012 --> 00:05:51,780 SAME CONCLUSION, THAT NO 129 00:05:51,780 --> 00:05:52,848 MECHANISMS ARE DEFINITIVELY 130 00:05:52,848 --> 00:05:54,483 KNOWN. 131 00:05:54,483 --> 00:05:59,321 THAT'S 1994. 132 00:05:59,321 --> 00:06:00,622 NOW, IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF 133 00:06:00,622 --> 00:06:02,925 DECADES, ADVANCES IN 134 00:06:02,925 --> 00:06:05,094 NEUROBIOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY AND IN 135 00:06:05,094 --> 00:06:08,697 PARTICULAR THE RECEPTOR BIOLOGY, 136 00:06:08,697 --> 00:06:11,333 HAVE DOMINATED THE FIELD AND 137 00:06:11,333 --> 00:06:13,869 HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT THE 138 00:06:13,869 --> 00:06:15,938 OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY AND LEARN 139 00:06:15,938 --> 00:06:20,209 MORE ABOUT MECHANISMS WHICH 140 00:06:20,209 --> 00:06:22,044 UNDERLIE EVENTUALLY THE DESIGN 141 00:06:22,044 --> 00:06:25,781 OF EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS. 142 00:06:25,781 --> 00:06:28,517 SO THE CHALLENGE IS TO BRIDGE 143 00:06:28,517 --> 00:06:32,021 THESE GREAT ADVANCES IN 144 00:06:32,021 --> 00:06:32,888 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE WITH THE 145 00:06:32,888 --> 00:06:36,058 CLINICAL DISEASE. 146 00:06:36,058 --> 00:06:38,994 AND WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE 147 00:06:38,994 --> 00:06:39,995 TWO OUTSTANDING SCIENTISTS HERE 148 00:06:39,995 --> 00:06:44,466 AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF 149 00:06:44,466 --> 00:06:45,901 HEALTH WHO WORK IN THIS LARGE 150 00:06:45,901 --> 00:06:50,739 AREA AND HAVE M HAVE MADE VERY 151 00:06:50,739 --> 00:06:52,041 SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS. 152 00:06:52,041 --> 00:06:54,977 OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS MARK HOON, 153 00:06:54,977 --> 00:06:59,248 WHO'S A PRINCIPAL SENIOR 154 00:06:59,248 --> 00:07:03,852 INVESTIGATOR IN THE NATIONAL -- 155 00:07:03,852 --> 00:07:05,054 SORRY, I'VE GOT THE WRONG THING 156 00:07:05,054 --> 00:07:08,991 HERE. 157 00:07:08,991 --> 00:07:14,897 HE'S IN THE CRANIO -- THE 158 00:07:14,897 --> 00:07:15,364 NATIONAL INSTITUTE -- 159 00:07:15,364 --> 00:07:17,566 >> NICDR -- 160 00:07:17,566 --> 00:07:21,136 >> CDR, RIGHT, CRANIOFACIAL 161 00:07:21,136 --> 00:07:21,403 RESEARCH. 162 00:07:21,403 --> 00:07:22,137 >> DENTAL. 163 00:07:22,137 --> 00:07:24,173 >> RIGHT. 164 00:07:24,173 --> 00:07:27,576 MARK RECEIVED HIS PH.D. IN THE 165 00:07:27,576 --> 00:07:28,544 UNITED KINGDOM AT THE UNIVERSITY 166 00:07:28,544 --> 00:07:30,846 OF LEEDS, AND THEN WAS A 167 00:07:30,846 --> 00:07:32,781 POSTDOCTORAL NATO FELLOW AT THE 168 00:07:32,781 --> 00:07:35,117 UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG. 169 00:07:35,117 --> 00:07:36,985 HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES, 170 00:07:36,985 --> 00:07:39,388 WHERE HE SPENT SEVERAL YEARS, 171 00:07:39,388 --> 00:07:42,124 VERY IMPORTANT YEARS, IN THE 172 00:07:42,124 --> 00:07:45,828 LABORATORY OF CHARLES ZUCKER AT 173 00:07:45,828 --> 00:07:48,230 COLUMBIA, WHERE RECEPTORS WERE 174 00:07:48,230 --> 00:07:51,100 DISCOVERED FOR SWEAT, TASTE, 175 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:53,502 TOUCH, AND HE WAS THERE AT THAT 176 00:07:53,502 --> 00:07:56,238 TIME AND MADE SIGNIFICANT 177 00:07:56,238 --> 00:07:58,407 CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNDERSTANDING 178 00:07:58,407 --> 00:08:01,043 THE NATURE AND MECHANISM 179 00:08:01,043 --> 00:08:03,112 INVOLVED IN THIS INCREASING 180 00:08:03,112 --> 00:08:07,616 FAMILY OF RECEPTORS. 181 00:08:07,616 --> 00:08:13,288 IN 2006, HE CAME TO THE NIH AS A 182 00:08:13,288 --> 00:08:14,089 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. 183 00:08:14,089 --> 00:08:15,591 MARK HAS RECEIVED MANY AWARDS 184 00:08:15,591 --> 00:08:19,194 AND VARIOUS INVITATIONS. 185 00:08:19,194 --> 00:08:22,364 HIS RESEARCH CONCERNS THE 186 00:08:22,364 --> 00:08:24,133 SOMATOSENSORY RECEPTORS, THEIR 187 00:08:24,133 --> 00:08:25,534 MECHANISMS, INCLUDING THEIR 188 00:08:25,534 --> 00:08:27,936 RELATIONSHIP TO PRURITIS. 189 00:08:27,936 --> 00:08:29,605 AND HIS WORK HAS REALLY OPENED 190 00:08:29,605 --> 00:08:32,641 UP THE DOOR TO A LOT OF VERY 191 00:08:32,641 --> 00:08:35,043 EXCITING CHALLENGES AND 192 00:08:35,043 --> 00:08:37,579 POSSIBILITIES TO BETTER 193 00:08:37,579 --> 00:08:41,283 UNDERSTAND THIS SERIOUS AND 194 00:08:41,283 --> 00:08:43,719 DIVERSE PHENOTYPE OF SEVERE 195 00:08:43,719 --> 00:08:47,523 ITCHING. 196 00:08:47,523 --> 00:08:50,025 NOW, OUR SECOND SPEAKER, IAN 197 00:08:50,025 --> 00:08:53,028 MYLES, GRADUATED FROM COLORADO 198 00:08:53,028 --> 00:08:54,196 STATE UNIVERSITY AND RECEIVED 199 00:08:54,196 --> 00:08:55,898 HIS MEDICAL DEGREE FROM THE 200 00:08:55,898 --> 00:08:58,033 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 201 00:08:58,033 --> 00:09:01,103 HE HAD A RESIDENCY AT OHIO 202 00:09:01,103 --> 00:09:03,505 STATE, AND AN NIH FELLOWSHIP IN 203 00:09:03,505 --> 00:09:08,744 ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY. 204 00:09:08,744 --> 00:09:11,580 IN 2011, HE JOINED THE U.S. 205 00:09:11,580 --> 00:09:12,481 PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, WHERE HE 206 00:09:12,481 --> 00:09:15,517 IS AN OFFICER, AND HE 207 00:09:15,517 --> 00:09:18,253 PARTICIPATED EXTENSIVELY IN THE 208 00:09:18,253 --> 00:09:21,323 EBOLA VACCINE STUDY, WHICH WAS 209 00:09:21,323 --> 00:09:25,360 CONDUCTED IN AFRICA DURING THE 210 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:30,299 BEAEBOLA OUTBREAK IN THAT DECAD. 211 00:09:30,299 --> 00:09:32,601 IN 2016, HE RECEIVED HIS MASTER 212 00:09:32,601 --> 00:09:34,670 OF PUBLIC HEALTH FROM GEORGE 213 00:09:34,670 --> 00:09:35,871 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, AND TWO 214 00:09:35,871 --> 00:09:40,175 YEARS LATER, CAME TO THE NIH AS 215 00:09:40,175 --> 00:09:41,877 A LASKER CLINICAL RESEARCH 216 00:09:41,877 --> 00:09:43,645 SCHOLAR. 217 00:09:43,645 --> 00:09:46,481 HE HEADS THE UNIT ON 218 00:09:46,481 --> 00:09:48,550 EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS, IN 219 00:09:48,550 --> 00:09:49,751 THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 220 00:09:49,751 --> 00:09:53,488 ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 221 00:09:53,488 --> 00:09:55,023 HIS RESEARCH ORIGINALLY 222 00:09:55,023 --> 00:09:57,426 CONCERNED THE MICROBIOME AND ITS 223 00:09:57,426 --> 00:09:59,294 RELATIONSHIP TO SKIN DISEASE, 224 00:09:59,294 --> 00:10:02,998 AND HE'S BECOME INCREASINGLY 225 00:10:02,998 --> 00:10:05,300 INTERESTED AND WORKED ON 226 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:09,404 IMMUNOLOGIC MECHANISMS AND IS HS 227 00:10:09,404 --> 00:10:11,740 SET UP THIS NEW UNIT ON 228 00:10:11,740 --> 00:10:12,474 EPITHELIAL THERAPEUTICS. 229 00:10:12,474 --> 00:10:14,376 SO WE WELCOME BOTH OF YOU, LOOK 230 00:10:14,376 --> 00:10:17,145 FORWARD TO YOUR TALKS. 231 00:10:17,145 --> 00:10:18,747 WE ENCOURAGE THE AUDIENCE TO 232 00:10:18,747 --> 00:10:20,782 PLEASE SUBMIT QUESTIONS AT ANY 233 00:10:20,782 --> 00:10:24,453 TIME DURING THE PRESENTATIONS. 234 00:10:24,453 --> 00:10:26,288 AND SO OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS MARK 235 00:10:26,288 --> 00:10:26,622 HOON. 236 00:10:26,622 --> 00:10:32,995 SO MARK, CARRY ON. 237 00:10:32,995 --> 00:10:34,730 >> THANK YOU, WIN, WITH THAT 238 00:10:34,730 --> 00:10:36,465 INTRODUCTION. 239 00:10:36,465 --> 00:10:38,333 SO WHAT I'M BASICALLY GOING TO 240 00:10:38,333 --> 00:10:43,238 TALK TO YOU TODAY ABOUT IS THE 241 00:10:43,238 --> 00:10:44,773 BASIC MECHANISMS, THE MECHANISMS 242 00:10:44,773 --> 00:10:49,211 PART OF THE TITLE TODAY, AND 243 00:10:49,211 --> 00:10:50,912 TELL YOU ABOUT HOW SIGNALS 244 00:10:50,912 --> 00:10:54,182 TRANSMITTED FROM THE SKIN TO THE 245 00:10:54,182 --> 00:10:56,385 BRAIN AND TO PRODUCE THE 246 00:10:56,385 --> 00:10:59,221 SENSATION THAT'S CALLED ITCH OR 247 00:10:59,221 --> 00:10:59,721 PRURITIS. 248 00:10:59,721 --> 00:11:00,989 AND WITH THAT, I HAVE TO FIRST 249 00:11:00,989 --> 00:11:03,492 OF ALL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ALTHOUGH 250 00:11:03,492 --> 00:11:09,164 THE MAJORITY OF ITCH IS ON THIS 251 00:11:09,164 --> 00:11:10,299 MECHANISM FROM THE SKIN TO THE 252 00:11:10,299 --> 00:11:13,535 BRAIN, THERE ARE SOME TYPES OF 253 00:11:13,535 --> 00:11:15,504 ITCH AS WIN ALLUDED TO THAT 254 00:11:15,504 --> 00:11:18,140 DON'T INVOLVE EITHER THE SKIN -- 255 00:11:18,140 --> 00:11:20,976 DON'T INVOLVE THE SKIN, SO FOR 256 00:11:20,976 --> 00:11:26,682 INSTANCE, KIDNEY DISEASES. 257 00:11:26,682 --> 00:11:28,216 BUT I'VE REALLY RESTRICTED MY 258 00:11:28,216 --> 00:11:30,285 TALK TO THIS ONE PATHWAY, AND 259 00:11:30,285 --> 00:11:34,656 THAT'S FOR THE SAKE OF TIME. 260 00:11:34,656 --> 00:11:34,990 OKAY. 261 00:11:34,990 --> 00:11:37,626 SO I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT 262 00:11:37,626 --> 00:11:41,863 I'VE TRIED TO BREAK MY 263 00:11:41,863 --> 00:11:42,864 PRESENTATION INTO TWO DIFFERENT 264 00:11:42,864 --> 00:11:43,498 PARTS. 265 00:11:43,498 --> 00:11:46,468 THE FIRST PART IS MAINLY 266 00:11:46,468 --> 00:11:49,971 CONCERNING THE MECHANISMS 267 00:11:49,971 --> 00:11:51,873 INVOLVED IN ACUTE ITCH, SO THE 268 00:11:51,873 --> 00:11:53,241 SORT OF ITCH THAT WILL HAPPEN, 269 00:11:53,241 --> 00:11:54,776 FOR INSTANCE, WHEN YOU HAVE AN 270 00:11:54,776 --> 00:11:56,311 INSECT BITE. 271 00:11:56,311 --> 00:11:59,047 THE SECOND PART OF THE TALK, I'M 272 00:11:59,047 --> 00:12:01,116 GOING TO TALK ABOUT CHRONIC 273 00:12:01,116 --> 00:12:02,551 ITCH, AND THIS IS THE TYPE OF 274 00:12:02,551 --> 00:12:08,023 ITCH THAT'S ACTUALLY CLINICALLY 275 00:12:08,023 --> 00:12:08,357 IMPORTANT. 276 00:12:08,357 --> 00:12:10,859 THE DISEASES LIKE ATOPIC 277 00:12:10,859 --> 00:12:20,068 DERMATITIS, VIE C PSORIASIS ANDS 278 00:12:20,068 --> 00:12:22,671 WHICH LEAD TO ITCH. 279 00:12:22,671 --> 00:12:24,106 THE LAST IS I'M GOING TO -- 280 00:12:24,106 --> 00:12:26,174 WHILE GIVING THIS TALK, GIVE AN 281 00:12:26,174 --> 00:12:27,209 OVERVIEW, BUT WHAT I'VE TRIED TO 282 00:12:27,209 --> 00:12:30,312 DO IS TO INTRODUCE SOME KEY 283 00:12:30,312 --> 00:12:33,782 EXPERIMENTS THAT WE PERFORMED 284 00:12:33,782 --> 00:12:35,784 AND OTHERS HAVE PERFORMED FROM 285 00:12:35,784 --> 00:12:37,552 OTHER GROUPS THAT ACTUALLY POINT 286 00:12:37,552 --> 00:12:39,388 TO THE EVIDENCE FOR THE PATHWAYS 287 00:12:39,388 --> 00:12:46,461 THAT I'M GOING TO BE DESCRIBING. 288 00:12:46,461 --> 00:12:47,662 WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO BEGIN 289 00:12:47,662 --> 00:12:48,964 WITH THE FIRST SLIDE HERE THAT I 290 00:12:48,964 --> 00:12:51,800 STARTED OUT WITH, WHICH IS AN 291 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,002 IMAGE THROUGH THE SKIN OF A 292 00:12:54,002 --> 00:12:54,236 MOUSE -- 293 00:12:54,236 --> 00:12:55,771 >> EXCUSE ME, DR. HOON, YOU'RE 294 00:12:55,771 --> 00:12:57,172 NOT SHARING THE SCREEN JUST YET. 295 00:12:57,172 --> 00:12:58,373 >> OH, OKAY. 296 00:12:58,373 --> 00:13:08,483 I'M SORRY. 297 00:13:08,483 --> 00:13:18,827 LET ME TRY DO THAT. 298 00:13:21,997 --> 00:13:22,764 SO AM I SHARING NOW? 299 00:13:22,764 --> 00:13:23,865 >> YES, IT'S COMING UP. 300 00:13:23,865 --> 00:13:24,566 >> GREAT. 301 00:13:24,566 --> 00:13:25,734 SORRY ABOUT THAT. 302 00:13:25,734 --> 00:13:28,270 SO THIS FIRST IMAGE THAT YOU 303 00:13:28,270 --> 00:13:31,973 HOPEFULLY CAN SEE NOW IS A 304 00:13:31,973 --> 00:13:33,742 PICTURE THROUGH THE SKIN OF A 305 00:13:33,742 --> 00:13:35,710 MOUSE, AS I JUST TALKED TO YOU 306 00:13:35,710 --> 00:13:37,245 ABOUT, AND IN MAGENTA, YOU CAN 307 00:13:37,245 --> 00:13:38,447 SEE THE CELLS OF THE SKIN. 308 00:13:38,447 --> 00:13:42,717 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IT'S A 309 00:13:42,717 --> 00:13:43,652 LAYERED STRUCTURE, SO DOWN AT 310 00:13:43,652 --> 00:13:44,953 THE VERY BOTTOM HERE IS THE 311 00:13:44,953 --> 00:13:49,257 DERMIS AND THE EP DEM EPIDERMISE 312 00:13:49,257 --> 00:13:51,126 TOP OF THIS IMAGE AND THIS IS 313 00:13:51,126 --> 00:13:51,693 THE OUTSIDE OF THE SKIN. 314 00:13:51,693 --> 00:13:54,429 WHAT YOU CAN SEE IN THIS IMAGE 315 00:13:54,429 --> 00:13:56,865 IS A GREEN FIBER THAT SNAKES ITS 316 00:13:56,865 --> 00:13:58,567 WAY UP TO THE VERY TOP PART OF 317 00:13:58,567 --> 00:14:01,736 THE SKIN. 318 00:14:01,736 --> 00:14:06,975 SO THIS IS THE STRUCTURE OF THE 319 00:14:06,975 --> 00:14:08,310 NERVE FIBER THAT'S ACTUALLY 320 00:14:08,310 --> 00:14:09,110 RECEIVING INFORMATION THAT'S THE 321 00:14:09,110 --> 00:14:14,216 FIRST PART OF THE ITCH PATHWAY. 322 00:14:14,216 --> 00:14:16,718 SO IF WE GO TO MY SECOND SLIDE, 323 00:14:16,718 --> 00:14:18,620 WE SEE A CARTOON OF THIS AT THE 324 00:14:18,620 --> 00:14:19,454 TOP HERE. 325 00:14:19,454 --> 00:14:22,123 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT I'VE GOT 326 00:14:22,123 --> 00:14:24,426 HERE A MOSQUITO THAT'S ABOUT TO 327 00:14:24,426 --> 00:14:28,964 BITE A FINGER, AND YOU CAN SEE 328 00:14:28,964 --> 00:14:30,832 THE NERVES GO FROM THE SKIN, 329 00:14:30,832 --> 00:14:32,801 THEY GO BACK, IT'S A VERY LONG 330 00:14:32,801 --> 00:14:34,402 AXON THAT THEN TERMINATES IN THE 331 00:14:34,402 --> 00:14:34,970 SPINAL CORD. 332 00:14:34,970 --> 00:14:37,939 BUT IMPORTANTLY, THE CELL BODIES 333 00:14:37,939 --> 00:14:41,676 OF THE NERVES THAT HAVE THESE 334 00:14:41,676 --> 00:14:42,644 FIBERS ARE PRESENT IN THIS 335 00:14:42,644 --> 00:14:44,513 STRUCTURE CALLED THE DORSAL ROOT 336 00:14:44,513 --> 00:14:47,115 GANGLION. 337 00:14:47,115 --> 00:14:48,917 AND THESE ARE FOUND CLOSE TO THE 338 00:14:48,917 --> 00:14:51,253 SPINAL CORD AND INNERVATES 339 00:14:51,253 --> 00:14:53,355 SPECIFIC AREAS OF THE SKIN. 340 00:14:53,355 --> 00:14:57,893 AND IN THE HEAD, THE GANGLION, 341 00:14:57,893 --> 00:15:00,028 IS CALLED THE TRIGEMINAL 342 00:15:00,028 --> 00:15:00,295 GANGLION. 343 00:15:00,295 --> 00:15:00,495 OKAY. 344 00:15:00,495 --> 00:15:02,564 YOU CAN ALSO SEE ON THIS SLIDE 345 00:15:02,564 --> 00:15:04,900 THAT I'VE ILLUSTRATED THAT 346 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:08,003 THERE'S DIFFERENT TYPES OF 347 00:15:08,003 --> 00:15:09,237 SIGNAL THAT'S ACTUALLY COLLECTED 348 00:15:09,237 --> 00:15:11,907 BY THIS GROUP OF NEURONS, AND 349 00:15:11,907 --> 00:15:13,608 COLLECTIVELY THIS IS CALLED 350 00:15:13,608 --> 00:15:14,409 SOMATOSENSATION. 351 00:15:14,409 --> 00:15:16,545 SO SIGNALS FROM THE SKIN AND THE 352 00:15:16,545 --> 00:15:19,180 NERVES THAT INNERVATE IT 353 00:15:19,180 --> 00:15:20,715 COLLECTED FOR, FOR INSTANCE, HOT 354 00:15:20,715 --> 00:15:22,784 AND COLD, THE PAINFUL STIMULI, 355 00:15:22,784 --> 00:15:24,419 AND ALSO FOR ALL KINDS OF 356 00:15:24,419 --> 00:15:26,488 DIFFERENT TYPES OF TOUCH. 357 00:15:26,488 --> 00:15:28,790 AND IT'S GENERALLY NOW KNOWN 358 00:15:28,790 --> 00:15:32,527 THAT THESE ARE ACTUALLY DETECTED 359 00:15:32,527 --> 00:15:33,862 BY DIFFERENT CLASSES OF NEURONS, 360 00:15:33,862 --> 00:15:35,263 AND I'M GOING TO BE GOING INTO 361 00:15:35,263 --> 00:15:36,364 THIS A LITTLE BIT LATER. 362 00:15:36,364 --> 00:15:39,968 SO THESE ARE JUST COLOR-CODED 363 00:15:39,968 --> 00:15:41,269 HERE. 364 00:15:41,269 --> 00:15:42,671 SO WHAT DOES THIS ACTUALLY LOOK 365 00:15:42,671 --> 00:15:44,973 LIKE IN REAL LIFE? 366 00:15:44,973 --> 00:15:46,741 THIS NOW SLIDE I'M ACTUALLY 367 00:15:46,741 --> 00:15:48,043 ILLUSTRATING THIS IN A MOUSE 368 00:15:48,043 --> 00:15:52,414 TISSUE. 369 00:15:52,414 --> 00:15:53,615 SO OVER HERE YOU CAN SEE THE 370 00:15:53,615 --> 00:15:54,950 TISSUE FROM A MOUSE WHERE WE'VE 371 00:15:54,950 --> 00:15:57,252 INJECTED A VIRUS JUST INTO THE 372 00:15:57,252 --> 00:15:59,321 PORE OF THE MOUSE, AND THIS 373 00:15:59,321 --> 00:16:01,823 ILLUMINATES WITH A FLUORESCENT 374 00:16:01,823 --> 00:16:04,125 PROTEIN THE FIBERS THAT ARE 375 00:16:04,125 --> 00:16:07,195 COMING FROM THAT PAW, FROM THE 376 00:16:07,195 --> 00:16:07,729 HIND PAW. 377 00:16:07,729 --> 00:16:09,364 HERE ARE THE DORSAL ROOT 378 00:16:09,364 --> 00:16:11,333 GANGLION, THE CELL BODIES, AND 379 00:16:11,333 --> 00:16:12,767 THE FIBERS ARE GOING IN HERE 380 00:16:12,767 --> 00:16:18,340 INTO THE SPINAL CORD. 381 00:16:18,340 --> 00:16:19,975 I'VE ALSO SHOWN HERE ON THIS 382 00:16:19,975 --> 00:16:23,178 SLIDE AN IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION 383 00:16:23,178 --> 00:16:25,447 OF TWO GENES THAT IDENTIFY TWO 384 00:16:25,447 --> 00:16:26,982 DIFFERENT CLASSES OF SENSORY 385 00:16:26,982 --> 00:16:27,649 NEURONS. 386 00:16:27,649 --> 00:16:29,718 SO THIS ILLUSTRATES THAT THERE 387 00:16:29,718 --> 00:16:33,321 IS DIFFERENT CLASSES OF NEURONS, 388 00:16:33,321 --> 00:16:35,523 AND NOW THROUGH SEQUENCING 389 00:16:35,523 --> 00:16:37,392 INFORMATION, SINGLE CELL 390 00:16:37,392 --> 00:16:38,360 SEQUENCING INFORMATION, WE KNOW 391 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:39,961 THERE'S AT LEAST 15 DIFFERENT 392 00:16:39,961 --> 00:16:41,763 DISTINCT CLASSES OF SENSORY 393 00:16:41,763 --> 00:16:42,130 NEURONS. 394 00:16:42,130 --> 00:16:43,498 AND SOME OF THOSE, IN FACT, A 395 00:16:43,498 --> 00:16:47,669 PAIR OF THOSE, TWO CLASSES, ARE 396 00:16:47,669 --> 00:16:49,838 DEDICATED FOR ITCH. 397 00:16:49,838 --> 00:16:53,541 SO THIS IS THE FUNDAMENTAL FIRST 398 00:16:53,541 --> 00:16:57,178 PART OF THE ITCH PATHWAY. 399 00:16:57,178 --> 00:16:58,613 THE NEXT PART OF THE PATHWAY 400 00:16:58,613 --> 00:16:59,914 TAKES PLACE BOTH IN THE SPINAL 401 00:16:59,914 --> 00:17:01,783 CORD AND THEN FURTHER IN THE 402 00:17:01,783 --> 00:17:02,250 CNS. 403 00:17:02,250 --> 00:17:03,752 I'M NOT GOING TO DESCRIBE THOSE 404 00:17:03,752 --> 00:17:05,387 TODAY BECAUSE, AGAIN, WE HAVE 405 00:17:05,387 --> 00:17:07,889 LIMITED TIME, AND I WANT TO 406 00:17:07,889 --> 00:17:08,990 REALLY CONCENTRATE ON WHAT'S 407 00:17:08,990 --> 00:17:10,525 REALLY HAPPENING AT THE VERY 408 00:17:10,525 --> 00:17:11,292 PERIPHERY. 409 00:17:11,292 --> 00:17:16,765 BUT THOSE ARE CLEARLY VERY 410 00:17:16,765 --> 00:17:18,066 IMPORTANT FOR THE SENSATION AND, 411 00:17:18,066 --> 00:17:23,872 IN FACT, THIS PART HERE IS 412 00:17:23,872 --> 00:17:25,173 CALLED PRERECEPTION FOR A GOOD 413 00:17:25,173 --> 00:17:29,511 IN FACT, IT'S NOT THE SPINAL SPL 414 00:17:29,511 --> 00:17:32,147 CORD THAT ACTUALLY TELLS YOU, 415 00:17:32,147 --> 00:17:33,682 THE ITCH IS IN YOUR BRAIN. 416 00:17:33,682 --> 00:17:34,883 I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT 417 00:17:34,883 --> 00:17:36,317 ITCH ISN'T JUST THE SENSORY 418 00:17:36,317 --> 00:17:38,820 NERVES. 419 00:17:38,820 --> 00:17:41,356 WHAT THIS SLIDE HERE IS HERE TO 420 00:17:41,356 --> 00:17:45,927 TRY AND REMIND ME TO TELL YOU IS 421 00:17:45,927 --> 00:17:48,263 THAT AS WELL AS THE SENSORY 422 00:17:48,263 --> 00:17:49,330 NEURONS THAT ARE SHOWN OVER 423 00:17:49,330 --> 00:17:50,432 HERE, THE DIFFERENT CLASSES, 424 00:17:50,432 --> 00:17:51,866 THERE'S ALSO CLEARLY CELLS IN 425 00:17:51,866 --> 00:17:54,769 THE SKIN THAT WERE INVOLVED IN 426 00:17:54,769 --> 00:18:01,476 THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITCH. 427 00:18:01,476 --> 00:18:02,777 AND ALSO IMMUNE CELLS. 428 00:18:02,777 --> 00:18:04,913 I'LL BE COMING BACK TO THIS IN 429 00:18:04,913 --> 00:18:06,081 THE SECOND PART OF MY TALK WHERE 430 00:18:06,081 --> 00:18:07,382 I START TO TALK ABOUT CHRONIC 431 00:18:07,382 --> 00:18:07,882 ITCH. 432 00:18:07,882 --> 00:18:10,652 SO I WANT TO NOW GO BACK TO THE 433 00:18:10,652 --> 00:18:11,753 SENSORY NEURONS AND TELL YOU 434 00:18:11,753 --> 00:18:18,993 WHERE MY GROUP STARTED WORK ON 435 00:18:18,993 --> 00:18:19,327 PRERECEPTION. 436 00:18:19,327 --> 00:18:20,628 WE TRIED TO IDENTIFY SPECIFIC 437 00:18:20,628 --> 00:18:22,697 GENES NA WERE PRESENT IN 438 00:18:22,697 --> 00:18:24,466 DISTINCT POPULATION OF NEURONS 439 00:18:24,466 --> 00:18:25,633 IN THE HOPE THAT THIS WOULD 440 00:18:25,633 --> 00:18:28,436 ACTUALLY ALLOW US TO ACTUALLY 441 00:18:28,436 --> 00:18:31,940 START TO DISSECT THE MOLECULAR 442 00:18:31,940 --> 00:18:35,477 BASIS OF ITCH. 443 00:18:35,477 --> 00:18:37,011 THE KEY MOLECULE WE UNCOVERED IN 444 00:18:37,011 --> 00:18:38,880 THAT SEARCH WAS THIS ONE. 445 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:40,081 IT'S NOT REALLY IMPORTANT, THE 446 00:18:40,081 --> 00:18:40,515 NAME. 447 00:18:40,515 --> 00:18:42,617 IT'S CALLED NPPB. 448 00:18:42,617 --> 00:18:45,220 WHAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS 449 00:18:45,220 --> 00:18:46,654 MOLECULE IS, FIRST OF ALL, YOU 450 00:18:46,654 --> 00:18:50,925 CAN SEE HERE IT'S EXPRESSED IN A 451 00:18:50,925 --> 00:18:52,761 VERY DISTINCT CLASS OF NEURONS. 452 00:18:52,761 --> 00:18:55,597 THESE ARE SMALL DIAMETER 453 00:18:55,597 --> 00:18:55,930 NEURONS. 454 00:18:55,930 --> 00:18:57,465 WE SEE THAT THEY'RE ALL ABOUT 455 00:18:57,465 --> 00:18:58,900 THE SAME SIZE, AND THIS IS 456 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:00,368 DIFFERENT FROM OTHER CLASSES OF 457 00:19:00,368 --> 00:19:03,371 NEURONS. 458 00:19:03,371 --> 00:19:04,472 THE SECOND FEATURE OF THIS GENE 459 00:19:04,472 --> 00:19:06,775 IS THAT IT'S ACTUALLY A 460 00:19:06,775 --> 00:19:07,909 POLYPEPTIDE THAT'S RELEASED FROM 461 00:19:07,909 --> 00:19:11,479 THE NEURONS AND ACTS AS A 462 00:19:11,479 --> 00:19:11,780 TRANSMITTER. 463 00:19:11,780 --> 00:19:15,750 SO IN ORDER TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND 464 00:19:15,750 --> 00:19:16,985 WHAT THIS MOLECULE MIGHT BE 465 00:19:16,985 --> 00:19:20,221 DOING AND HOW THIS RELATES TO 466 00:19:20,221 --> 00:19:21,422 ITCH, WE OF COURSE -- AND THIS 467 00:19:21,422 --> 00:19:22,624 IS A VERY OLD SLIDE BECAUSE THIS 468 00:19:22,624 --> 00:19:23,992 IS WORK THAT WAS DONE MORE THAN 469 00:19:23,992 --> 00:19:27,128 10 YEARS AGO, WE MADE A 470 00:19:27,128 --> 00:19:27,562 KNOCKOUT. 471 00:19:27,562 --> 00:19:29,097 AGAIN I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO 472 00:19:29,097 --> 00:19:31,065 ANY DETAIL ABOUT THAT, THIS IS 473 00:19:31,065 --> 00:19:32,267 REALLY OLD TECHNOLOGY. 474 00:19:32,267 --> 00:19:36,204 NOW WE MAKE KNOCKOUTS IN MUCH 475 00:19:36,204 --> 00:19:37,305 MORE SOPHISTICATED WAYS. 476 00:19:37,305 --> 00:19:40,141 WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS, IS WHAT 477 00:19:40,141 --> 00:19:43,745 THAT MOUSE TOLD US ABOUT THIS 478 00:19:43,745 --> 00:19:46,481 PARTICULAR MOLECULE, NPPB. 479 00:19:46,481 --> 00:19:49,551 AND WHAT IT TOLD US IS THAT 480 00:19:49,551 --> 00:19:52,253 COMPARED TO WHEN WE KNOCK IT 481 00:19:52,253 --> 00:19:54,255 OUT, IT DRAMATICALLY AFFECTS 482 00:19:54,255 --> 00:19:54,622 ITCH. 483 00:19:54,622 --> 00:19:56,891 AND SO I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH 484 00:19:56,891 --> 00:19:57,859 QUICKLY HERE THIS EXPERIMENT. 485 00:19:57,859 --> 00:19:59,360 WHAT WE DID IN THIS EXPERIMENT 486 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,330 IS WE INJECTED INTO THE SKIN OF 487 00:20:02,330 --> 00:20:05,400 MICE DIFFERENT COMPOUNDS THAT 488 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:06,701 CAUSE ITCH IN THOSE ANIMALS. 489 00:20:06,701 --> 00:20:08,036 THIS IS REFLECTED IN THE FACT 490 00:20:08,036 --> 00:20:10,104 THAT THE ANIMALS SCRATCH. 491 00:20:10,104 --> 00:20:13,174 AND AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE GREY 492 00:20:13,174 --> 00:20:15,243 BARS, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 493 00:20:15,243 --> 00:20:16,711 THESE COMPOUNDS ARE INJECTED, 494 00:20:16,711 --> 00:20:18,513 AND THERE'S A DRAMATIC DECREASE 495 00:20:18,513 --> 00:20:21,149 IN THE AMOUNT OF SCRATCHING THE 496 00:20:21,149 --> 00:20:23,651 ANIMALS THAT HAVE A KNOCKOUT OF 497 00:20:23,651 --> 00:20:24,452 NPPB DISPLAY. 498 00:20:24,452 --> 00:20:29,591 BUT IMPORTANTLY, THOSE SAME 499 00:20:29,591 --> 00:20:31,759 KNOCKOUT ANIMALS HAVE ALMOST 500 00:20:31,759 --> 00:20:35,263 NORMAL RESPONSES TO OTHER 501 00:20:35,263 --> 00:20:36,130 SOMATOSENSORY STIMULI. 502 00:20:36,130 --> 00:20:37,498 SO THIS IS A VERY SPECIFIC 503 00:20:37,498 --> 00:20:43,004 EFFECT ON THIS ONE TYPE OF 504 00:20:43,004 --> 00:20:45,073 MODALITY WITHIN SOMATOSENSATION, 505 00:20:45,073 --> 00:20:47,175 IT'S ONLY AFFECTING ITCH. 506 00:20:47,175 --> 00:20:54,415 AND THIS CAN BE NOW AS SHOWN 507 00:20:54,415 --> 00:20:56,684 HERE IN THIS SCHEMATIC, CAN SHOW 508 00:20:56,684 --> 00:21:00,455 YOU EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING 509 00:21:00,455 --> 00:21:01,723 WITH THIS TRANSMITTER. 510 00:21:01,723 --> 00:21:05,460 WHAT'S HAPPENING IS, WHEN THESE 511 00:21:05,460 --> 00:21:08,730 NEURONS, THE PRIMARY ITCH 512 00:21:08,730 --> 00:21:12,233 NEURONS ARE ACTIVATED, THEY 513 00:21:12,233 --> 00:21:16,170 RELEASE THIS NEUROTRANSMITTER 514 00:21:16,170 --> 00:21:21,843 TOGETHER WITH -- THAT HAVE THE 515 00:21:21,843 --> 00:21:26,547 RECEPTOR FOR THIS PARTICULAR 516 00:21:26,547 --> 00:21:26,981 NEUROTRANSMITTER. 517 00:21:26,981 --> 00:21:29,284 AND IN TURN, THESE NEURONS THEN 518 00:21:29,284 --> 00:21:30,818 SIGNAL FURTHER IN THE SPINAL 519 00:21:30,818 --> 00:21:33,655 CORD AND EVENTUALLY SIGNALS GO 520 00:21:33,655 --> 00:21:35,290 ON TO HIGHER CENTERS IN THE 521 00:21:35,290 --> 00:21:37,392 BRAIN. 522 00:21:37,392 --> 00:21:37,825 OKAY. 523 00:21:37,825 --> 00:21:40,328 SO WHAT I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU SO 524 00:21:40,328 --> 00:21:41,663 FAR ARE EXPERIMENTS THAT WE 525 00:21:41,663 --> 00:21:43,631 PERFORMED IN THE LAB QUITE A FEW 526 00:21:43,631 --> 00:21:44,699 YEARS AGO. 527 00:21:44,699 --> 00:21:46,100 THESE ARE ALL EXPERIMENTS THAT 528 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:48,202 WERE PERFORMED IN MICE. 529 00:21:48,202 --> 00:21:50,571 SO WE WERE VERY KEEN TO SEE 530 00:21:50,571 --> 00:21:52,273 WHETHER OR NOT IN WAS THE CASE 531 00:21:52,273 --> 00:21:55,977 ALSO IN HUMANS, AND SO MORE 532 00:21:55,977 --> 00:21:59,981 RECENTLY, WE EXAMINED THIS IN 533 00:21:59,981 --> 00:22:00,682 TWO DIFFERENT WAYS. 534 00:22:00,682 --> 00:22:04,519 WHAT I'M SHOWING YOU HERE AGAIN 535 00:22:04,519 --> 00:22:06,454 IS IMAGES THROUGH THE DORSAL 536 00:22:06,454 --> 00:22:07,455 ROOT GANGLIA WHICH I TOLD YOU 537 00:22:07,455 --> 00:22:08,756 ABOUT IN THE VERY BEGINNING, 538 00:22:08,756 --> 00:22:13,494 WHICH SHOW THAT NPPB IS 539 00:22:13,494 --> 00:22:16,664 EXPRESSED IN SENSORY NEURONS AND 540 00:22:16,664 --> 00:22:18,166 IS A VERY SPECIFIC CLASS AND IS 541 00:22:18,166 --> 00:22:20,368 EXPRESSED ALONG WITH OTHER 542 00:22:20,368 --> 00:22:22,570 TRANSCRIPTS THAT HAVE IMPORTED 543 00:22:22,570 --> 00:22:24,305 AND DEFINED SPECIFIC POPULATIONS 544 00:22:24,305 --> 00:22:25,673 OF NEURONS. 545 00:22:25,673 --> 00:22:31,512 THIS WE DID IN HUMAN NEURONS AND 546 00:22:31,512 --> 00:22:32,714 THEN OTHER GROUPS, THIS IS 547 00:22:32,714 --> 00:22:34,349 ACTUALLY DATA FROM A GROUP HERE 548 00:22:34,349 --> 00:22:39,620 AT THE NIH, THE RYBA GROUP IN MY 549 00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:41,356 INSTITUTE HAVE PERFORMED SINK EL 550 00:22:41,356 --> 00:22:44,325 CELL SEQUENCING OF HUMAN DRG 551 00:22:44,325 --> 00:22:44,659 NEURONS. 552 00:22:44,659 --> 00:22:46,294 WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS THERE'S 553 00:22:46,294 --> 00:22:48,262 ACTUALLY TWO CLASSES OF SENSORY 554 00:22:48,262 --> 00:22:50,331 NEURONS THAT ARE 555 00:22:50,331 --> 00:22:50,999 TRANSCRIPTIONALLY DISTINCT FROM 556 00:22:50,999 --> 00:22:54,836 EACH OTHER THAT EXPRESS NPPB. 557 00:22:54,836 --> 00:22:58,106 AND IF WE INTERROGATE THAT DATA 558 00:22:58,106 --> 00:23:02,377 EVEN FURTHER AND PERFORM OTHER 559 00:23:02,377 --> 00:23:03,811 LOCALIZATIONS, AGAIN, WHAT I'M 560 00:23:03,811 --> 00:23:06,647 SHOWING YOU HERE IS IN SITU 561 00:23:06,647 --> 00:23:09,917 HYBRIDIZATION DATA, AND BELOW 562 00:23:09,917 --> 00:23:11,319 HERE, THE SINGLE CELL SEQUENCING 563 00:23:11,319 --> 00:23:12,420 INFORMATION AND WHAT I'M SHOWING 564 00:23:12,420 --> 00:23:16,357 YOU HERE IS THAT THESE NEURONS 565 00:23:16,357 --> 00:23:18,993 EXPRESS NOW THE RECEPTORS THAT 566 00:23:18,993 --> 00:23:21,529 WOULD EXPECT FOR H NEURONS. 567 00:23:21,529 --> 00:23:25,433 IN PARTICULAR YOU CAN SEE A 568 00:23:25,433 --> 00:23:26,768 HISTAMINE RECEPTOR, AGAIN IN THE 569 00:23:26,768 --> 00:23:28,069 SINGLE CELL SEQUENCING 570 00:23:28,069 --> 00:23:29,570 INFORMATION, IT'S PRESENT IN 571 00:23:29,570 --> 00:23:33,307 THESE TWO POPULATIONS OF NPPB 572 00:23:33,307 --> 00:23:35,610 NEURONS, AND THEN ALSO ANOTHER 573 00:23:35,610 --> 00:23:38,579 RECEPTOR, THIS RECEPTOR WAS 574 00:23:38,579 --> 00:23:43,651 FIRST IDENTIFIED BY THE GROUP AT 575 00:23:43,651 --> 00:23:48,423 JOHNS HOPKINS, AND HE SHOWED -- 576 00:23:48,423 --> 00:23:49,824 I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY THE 577 00:23:49,824 --> 00:23:51,259 REFERENCE THAT WIN TALKED ABOUT 578 00:23:51,259 --> 00:23:53,795 IN 2001, THAT THERE'S THIS LARGE 579 00:23:53,795 --> 00:23:59,200 FAMILY OF G PROTEIN COVERED 580 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:04,405 REACCRECEPTORS, AND THEY SHOWED 581 00:24:04,405 --> 00:24:05,907 THEY'RE ACTUALLY ITCH RECEPTORS. 582 00:24:05,907 --> 00:24:10,945 SO I WANT TO NOTE FROM XINZHONG 583 00:24:10,945 --> 00:24:15,216 DONG'S GROUP THAT THESE CLASS OF 584 00:24:15,216 --> 00:24:18,820 RECEPTORS THAT ARE ACTIVATED BY 585 00:24:18,820 --> 00:24:26,327 QUITE DISTINCT PRURITOGENS THAT 586 00:24:26,327 --> 00:24:27,128 ARE ACTUALLY RELEASED PROBABLY 587 00:24:27,128 --> 00:24:28,663 WITHIN THE SKIN WHEN THE SKIN IS 588 00:24:28,663 --> 00:24:30,298 DAMAGED, IN MOUSE, AT LEAST, 589 00:24:30,298 --> 00:24:31,365 THIS IS A SEPARATE POPULATION 590 00:24:31,365 --> 00:24:34,035 FROM THE NEURONS THAT EXPRESS 591 00:24:34,035 --> 00:24:35,870 NPPB, AND THINGS ARE ACTUALLY A 592 00:24:35,870 --> 00:24:37,305 LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE 593 00:24:37,305 --> 00:24:44,312 MOUSE AND THE HUMAN IN THAT THE 594 00:24:44,312 --> 00:24:45,780 RECEPTORS ARE -- THE RECEPTOR 595 00:24:45,780 --> 00:24:50,318 FAMILY IS MUCH SMALLER AND THE 596 00:24:50,318 --> 00:24:52,954 RECEPTORS ARE FOUND IN BOTH 597 00:24:52,954 --> 00:24:54,489 POPULATIONS OF THE HUMAN ITCH 598 00:24:54,489 --> 00:24:56,991 NEURONS. 599 00:24:56,991 --> 00:24:58,192 OKAY. 600 00:24:58,192 --> 00:25:02,897 SO LE LET'S GO BACK TO THIS MAPF 601 00:25:02,897 --> 00:25:07,268 THE PATHWAY FOR ITCH. 602 00:25:07,268 --> 00:25:11,005 WHAT YOU'LL SEE HERE IS I'VE 603 00:25:11,005 --> 00:25:13,608 ADDED AN EXTRA DIMENSION OVER 604 00:25:13,608 --> 00:25:15,143 HERE, WHAT ARE THE AGENTS THAT 605 00:25:15,143 --> 00:25:17,111 ARE RELEASED POTENTIALLY IN THE 606 00:25:17,111 --> 00:25:21,516 SKIN THAT ACTIVATE THE NEURONS? 607 00:25:21,516 --> 00:25:26,087 SO WHAT ARE THE NPPB NEURONS 608 00:25:26,087 --> 00:25:27,622 DETECTORS FOR? 609 00:25:27,622 --> 00:25:33,094 AND SO IN ORDER TO DO THIS, MY 610 00:25:33,094 --> 00:25:34,495 GROUP HAS USED A VARIETY OF 611 00:25:34,495 --> 00:25:36,597 DIFFERENT METHODS TO TRY TO 612 00:25:36,597 --> 00:25:37,465 IDENTIFY RECEPTORS THAT ARE 613 00:25:37,465 --> 00:25:39,567 SPECIFIC TO THE NPPB NEURONS 614 00:25:39,567 --> 00:25:40,968 THAT MIGHT BE INVOLVED IN ITCH. 615 00:25:40,968 --> 00:25:43,771 AND WHAT WE IDENTIFIED WAS THREE 616 00:25:43,771 --> 00:25:45,339 DIFFERENT RECEPTORS. 617 00:25:45,339 --> 00:25:49,143 NAMES ARE NOT IMPORTANT AGAIN. 618 00:25:49,143 --> 00:25:51,012 HERE ARE THE THREE NAMES OF THE 619 00:25:51,012 --> 00:25:51,612 RECEPTORS. 620 00:25:51,612 --> 00:25:53,548 BUT WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT 621 00:25:53,548 --> 00:25:56,050 THIS RECEPTOR AND THIS RECEPTOR 622 00:25:56,050 --> 00:25:58,586 ARE RECEPTORS FOR SMALL LIPIDS, 623 00:25:58,586 --> 00:26:00,555 AND THIS IS THE RECEPTOR FOR 624 00:26:00,555 --> 00:26:02,690 SEROTONIN. 625 00:26:02,690 --> 00:26:04,258 IT'S A SPECIFIC SEROTONIN 626 00:26:04,258 --> 00:26:04,759 RECEPTOR. 627 00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:09,297 AND IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY 628 00:26:09,297 --> 00:26:10,298 DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THESE 629 00:26:10,298 --> 00:26:13,234 RECEPTORS AND THE AGONISTS THAT 630 00:26:13,234 --> 00:26:15,736 ACTIVATE THOSE RECEPTORS ARE 631 00:26:15,736 --> 00:26:18,706 ACTUALLY PRURITOGENS, WE MADE 632 00:26:18,706 --> 00:26:20,908 USE OF THIS BEHAVIORAL ASSAY IN 633 00:26:20,908 --> 00:26:22,076 MOUSE SO I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH 634 00:26:22,076 --> 00:26:23,177 THAT VERY QUICKLY. 635 00:26:23,177 --> 00:26:25,379 WHAT THIS ASSAY INVOLVES IS 636 00:26:25,379 --> 00:26:26,681 INJECTING DIFFERENT AGENTS INTO 637 00:26:26,681 --> 00:26:30,084 THE CHEEK OF MICE, AND WHEN 638 00:26:30,084 --> 00:26:32,253 SOMETHING THAT'S PAINFUL TO 639 00:26:32,253 --> 00:26:33,454 INJECT IT INTO THE CHEEK OF THE 640 00:26:33,454 --> 00:26:35,122 MICE, THEY HAVE THIS REACTION AS 641 00:26:35,122 --> 00:26:37,525 SHOWN HERE IN A AND B. 642 00:26:37,525 --> 00:26:45,066 THEY WIPE THEIR FACES. 643 00:26:45,066 --> 00:26:47,034 IN CONTRAST, IF AN AGENT THAT IS 644 00:26:47,034 --> 00:26:48,436 ITCHY IS INJECTED INTO THE 645 00:26:48,436 --> 00:26:49,203 CHEEK, THEY SCRATCH. 646 00:26:49,203 --> 00:26:53,040 AND SO WE TESTED THE LIGANDS FOR 647 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:54,041 THESE THREE RECEPTORS IN THIS 648 00:26:54,041 --> 00:26:55,109 ASSAY. 649 00:26:55,109 --> 00:26:59,814 AND WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS THAT 650 00:26:59,814 --> 00:27:02,016 THESE THREE AGENTS DO NOT CAUSE 651 00:27:02,016 --> 00:27:02,350 WIPING. 652 00:27:02,350 --> 00:27:04,218 WHAT THEY DO IS THEY CAUSE 653 00:27:04,218 --> 00:27:07,989 SCRATCHING. 654 00:27:07,989 --> 00:27:08,356 OKAY. 655 00:27:08,356 --> 00:27:11,525 SO THIS IS ONE OF THE PIECES OF 656 00:27:11,525 --> 00:27:13,394 EVIDENCE THAT WE HAD TO SHOW 657 00:27:13,394 --> 00:27:17,665 THAT THE NPPB NEURONS ARE ITCH 658 00:27:17,665 --> 00:27:19,166 NEURONS, AND THAT THEY HAVE AS 659 00:27:19,166 --> 00:27:21,168 THIS SLIDE SUMMARIZES HAVE 660 00:27:21,168 --> 00:27:22,637 SELECT RECEPTORS. 661 00:27:22,637 --> 00:27:25,973 AND IT'S THE FACT THAT THERE'S 662 00:27:25,973 --> 00:27:27,375 INCREASED LEVELS OF THESE 663 00:27:27,375 --> 00:27:29,043 AGONISTS THAT LEADS TO THE 664 00:27:29,043 --> 00:27:31,312 SCRATCHING RESPONSE. 665 00:27:31,312 --> 00:27:33,180 AND IT'S NOT BY ACCIDENT THAT, 666 00:27:33,180 --> 00:27:37,118 IN FACT, THESE THREE COMPOUNDS 667 00:27:37,118 --> 00:27:38,753 ARE RULE TEULLY RELEASED FROM 668 00:27:38,753 --> 00:27:39,954 MAST CELLS. 669 00:27:39,954 --> 00:27:41,289 SO WHEN MAST CELLS ARE 670 00:27:41,289 --> 00:27:47,495 ACTIVATED, FOR INSTANCE, MANY 671 00:27:47,495 --> 00:27:52,233 DIFFERENT INSECTS, WHAT THEY 672 00:27:52,233 --> 00:27:54,935 INJECT INTO WILL CAUSE A 673 00:27:54,935 --> 00:28:01,509 DEGRAITDEGRADATION OF MAST CELLD 674 00:28:01,509 --> 00:28:02,710 THEY THEN RELEASE AND ACTIVATE 675 00:28:02,710 --> 00:28:04,011 SENSORY NEURONS AND IN TURN THIS 676 00:28:04,011 --> 00:28:05,346 CAUSES AN ITCH PATHWAY. 677 00:28:05,346 --> 00:28:07,415 SO THIS IS THE END OF THE PART 678 00:28:07,415 --> 00:28:11,752 OF MY TALK ABOUT ACUTE ITCH. 679 00:28:11,752 --> 00:28:13,220 I WANT TO NOW MOVE ON TO CHRONIC 680 00:28:13,220 --> 00:28:16,924 ITCH. 681 00:28:16,924 --> 00:28:22,730 ONE OF THE BIG CENTRAL CORE -- 682 00:28:22,730 --> 00:28:24,899 OF CHRONIC ITCH IS WHAT'S CALLED 683 00:28:24,899 --> 00:28:27,802 THE ITCH-SCRATCH CYCLE. 684 00:28:27,802 --> 00:28:29,837 SO THE ITCH-SCRATCH CYCLE IS 685 00:28:29,837 --> 00:28:34,008 DEPICTED HERE IN THIS DIAGRAM 686 00:28:34,008 --> 00:28:38,045 THAT WHEN YOU FEEL VERY ITCHY, 687 00:28:38,045 --> 00:28:39,013 THIS LEADS TO YOU WANTING TO 688 00:28:39,013 --> 00:28:40,247 SCRATCH AND SCRATCHING. 689 00:28:40,247 --> 00:28:43,417 AND IN TURN, SCRATCHING CAUSES 690 00:28:43,417 --> 00:28:46,253 DISRUPTION OF THE SKIN. 691 00:28:46,253 --> 00:28:48,322 THE NOW DISTURBED, BROKEN SKIN, 692 00:28:48,322 --> 00:28:50,191 ALLOWS PENETRATION OF VARIOUS 693 00:28:50,191 --> 00:28:53,994 ALLERGENS AND IRRITANTS. 694 00:28:53,994 --> 00:28:55,896 THIS IN TURN CAUSES INPLA NATION 695 00:28:55,896 --> 00:29:00,134 INFLAMMATIONAND RECRUITMENT OF S 696 00:29:00,134 --> 00:29:02,870 TO THE SITE, AND IN FACT, THIS 697 00:29:02,870 --> 00:29:03,704 INFLAMMATION, THE IMMUNE CELLS 698 00:29:03,704 --> 00:29:04,739 AND THE COMPOUNDS THAT ARE 699 00:29:04,739 --> 00:29:07,441 RELEASED FROM THEM, CAUSES MORE 700 00:29:07,441 --> 00:29:11,379 ITCHING. 701 00:29:11,379 --> 00:29:13,581 WE ALL KNOW IF WE CAN STOP THAT 702 00:29:13,581 --> 00:29:14,682 SCRATCHING, VERY OFTEN, THE ITCH 703 00:29:14,682 --> 00:29:17,051 WILL GO AWAY, AND THE REASON FOR 704 00:29:17,051 --> 00:29:22,590 THIS IS THIS CYCLE. 705 00:29:22,590 --> 00:29:24,492 BUT IF YOU WERE TO TELL A 706 00:29:24,492 --> 00:29:25,393 PATIENT WHO HAS CHRONIC ITCH, 707 00:29:25,393 --> 00:29:27,261 OH, YOU SIMPLY NEED TO STOP 708 00:29:27,261 --> 00:29:29,096 SCRATCHING, THEY WILL PROBABLY 709 00:29:29,096 --> 00:29:33,167 GET PRETTY ANGRY WITH YOU, 710 00:29:33,167 --> 00:29:34,468 BECAUSE CHRONIC ITCH IS 711 00:29:34,468 --> 00:29:36,437 SOMETHING THAT YOU REALLY CAN'T 712 00:29:36,437 --> 00:29:40,274 STOP YOURSELF FROM SCRATCHING. 713 00:29:40,274 --> 00:29:41,475 SO BECAUSE OF THAT, WE NOW ARE 714 00:29:41,475 --> 00:29:46,280 STARTING TO HAVE SOME 715 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:46,881 TREATMENTS. 716 00:29:46,881 --> 00:29:47,815 SO SOME OF THE TREATMENTS MIGHT 717 00:29:47,815 --> 00:29:52,286 BE TRYING TO REDUCE INFLAMMATION 718 00:29:52,286 --> 00:29:54,922 AND ONE OF THE VERY OLD 719 00:29:54,922 --> 00:29:58,159 TREATMENTS IS VARIOUS CORTISONES 720 00:29:58,159 --> 00:30:00,828 TO ACTUALLY TRY TO REDUCE THE 721 00:30:00,828 --> 00:30:04,732 INFLAMMATION, AND OFTEN THAT THE 722 00:30:04,732 --> 00:30:06,033 REASONABLY EFFECTIVE. 723 00:30:06,033 --> 00:30:08,235 BUT IF THEY COULD BE COMBINED 724 00:30:08,235 --> 00:30:10,171 WITH ACTUALLY STOPPING TWO PARTS 725 00:30:10,171 --> 00:30:16,243 OF THIS PATHWAY, AS INDICATED 726 00:30:16,243 --> 00:30:17,411 HERE, THEN THE NET EFFECT MIGHT 727 00:30:17,411 --> 00:30:18,045 BE EVEN GREATER. 728 00:30:18,045 --> 00:30:19,246 SO IF WE CAN ACTUALLY, FOR 729 00:30:19,246 --> 00:30:23,517 INSTANCE, STOP THIS -- WHAT'S 730 00:30:23,517 --> 00:30:24,885 RELEASED FROM THE IMMUNE CELLS 731 00:30:24,885 --> 00:30:26,454 FROM ACTIVATING THE NERVES THAT 732 00:30:26,454 --> 00:30:27,588 I TALKED ABOUT IN THE FIRST PART 733 00:30:27,588 --> 00:30:31,292 OF MY TALK, THEN PERHAPS YOU CAN 734 00:30:31,292 --> 00:30:33,427 ACTUALLY GET A BETTER CESSATION 735 00:30:33,427 --> 00:30:36,530 OF THIS ITCH-SCRATCH CYCLE. 736 00:30:36,530 --> 00:30:39,500 AND THE FIRST INDICATION OF WHAT 737 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:43,704 MIGHT BE HAPPENING IN CHRONIC 738 00:30:43,704 --> 00:30:45,005 ITCH CAME FROM A NUMBER OF 739 00:30:45,005 --> 00:30:47,308 DIFFERENT GROUPS, NOT MY GROUP. 740 00:30:47,308 --> 00:30:52,346 THE FIRST IS A GROUP, MARTIN 741 00:30:52,346 --> 00:30:53,647 STEINHOF, THE SECOND, BRIAN KIM, 742 00:30:53,647 --> 00:30:54,949 WHERE THEY IDENTIFIED THAT, IN 743 00:30:54,949 --> 00:30:56,584 FACT, THE SENSORY NEURONS 744 00:30:56,584 --> 00:30:58,452 EXPRESS A DIFFERENT CLASS OF 745 00:30:58,452 --> 00:30:58,786 RECEPTOR. 746 00:30:58,786 --> 00:31:02,823 THESE ARE CYTOKINE RECEPTOR. 747 00:31:02,823 --> 00:31:05,226 SO ONE OF THE RECEPTORS IS A 748 00:31:05,226 --> 00:31:07,094 RECEPTOR FOR INTERLEUKIN 31, AND 749 00:31:07,094 --> 00:31:09,497 IN THIS PAPER, IT WAS SHOWN THAT 750 00:31:09,497 --> 00:31:10,598 INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR WAS 751 00:31:10,598 --> 00:31:13,534 IMPORTANT. 752 00:31:13,534 --> 00:31:16,170 THE FEATURE OF THE CYTOKINE 753 00:31:16,170 --> 00:31:17,705 RECEPTORS IS THEY WORK IN QUITE 754 00:31:17,705 --> 00:31:20,207 A DIFFERENT WAY FROM THE 755 00:31:20,207 --> 00:31:26,780 RECEPTORRINGS RECEPTORS I TALKEE 756 00:31:26,780 --> 00:31:28,215 ACUTE PART OF MY TALK. 757 00:31:28,215 --> 00:31:30,384 THOSE RECEPTORS CLASSICALLY LEAD 758 00:31:30,384 --> 00:31:33,454 TO INCREASE IN CALCIUM AND THEN 759 00:31:33,454 --> 00:31:35,322 DIRECT ACTION POTENTIAL FIRING. 760 00:31:35,322 --> 00:31:39,260 THESE RECEPTORS IS KNOWN TO 761 00:31:39,260 --> 00:31:43,297 OPERATE IN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY. 762 00:31:43,297 --> 00:31:43,964 CLASSICALLY, THEY WERE 763 00:31:43,964 --> 00:31:45,699 IDENTIFIED IN IMMUNE CELLS AND 764 00:31:45,699 --> 00:31:50,304 NOT IN NEURONS. 765 00:31:50,304 --> 00:31:53,240 AND THESE DISCOVERIES WERE SORT 766 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:54,341 OF GROUNDBREAKING BECAUSE THEY 767 00:31:54,341 --> 00:31:58,178 ACTUALLY START TO EXPLAIN WHY A 768 00:31:58,178 --> 00:32:00,147 NUMBER OF BIOLOGICS WHICH ARE 769 00:32:00,147 --> 00:32:07,354 NOW VERY, VERY HOT AND BEING 770 00:32:07,354 --> 00:32:09,456 USED IN SEVERE SKIN CONDITIONS 771 00:32:09,456 --> 00:32:10,958 CAUSING CHRONIC ITCH. 772 00:32:10,958 --> 00:32:17,631 SO FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO -- 773 00:32:17,631 --> 00:32:25,172 AGAINST INTERLEUKIN 31, 774 00:32:25,172 --> 00:32:25,673 INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR. 775 00:32:25,673 --> 00:32:27,341 SO BOTH OF THOSE HAVE BEEN SHOWN 776 00:32:27,341 --> 00:32:29,009 TO BE CLINICALLY EXTREMELY 777 00:32:29,009 --> 00:32:30,210 EFFECTIVE TO REDUCING CHRONIC 778 00:32:30,210 --> 00:32:33,514 ITCH. 779 00:32:33,514 --> 00:32:37,117 SO OUR QUELL QUESTION A NUMBER F 780 00:32:37,117 --> 00:32:38,652 YEARS AGO WAS ARE THERE ANY 781 00:32:38,652 --> 00:32:40,187 OTHER CYTOKINE RECEPTORS BEYOND 782 00:32:40,187 --> 00:32:43,991 THE INTERLEUKIN 31 AND 783 00:32:43,991 --> 00:32:46,760 INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTORS. 784 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,629 AND INDEED, THERE IS. 785 00:32:48,629 --> 00:32:50,364 AND THE RECEPTOR THAT WE 786 00:32:50,364 --> 00:32:51,999 IDENTIFIED IS SHOWN ON THIS NEXT 787 00:32:51,999 --> 00:32:52,433 SLIDE. 788 00:32:52,433 --> 00:32:56,604 THIS IS THE INTERLEUKIN -- THIS 789 00:32:56,604 --> 00:32:59,340 IS THE ONCOSTATIN M RECEPTOR, 790 00:32:59,340 --> 00:33:00,975 AND WHAT I'M SHOWING YOU HERE 791 00:33:00,975 --> 00:33:03,544 AGAIN IS IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, 792 00:33:03,544 --> 00:33:07,014 AND BY NOW YOU S YOU SHOULD KNOT 793 00:33:07,014 --> 00:33:07,414 I'M SHOWING. 794 00:33:07,414 --> 00:33:10,150 THIS IS ONE OF THE RECEPTORS 795 00:33:10,150 --> 00:33:12,019 AGAINST NPPB, THE MOLECULE I 796 00:33:12,019 --> 00:33:12,753 TALKED ABOUT IN THE FIRST PART 797 00:33:12,753 --> 00:33:18,592 OF MY TALK, AND IF WE THEN LOOK 798 00:33:18,592 --> 00:33:22,730 AT WHAT'S PRESENT IN THE HUMAN, 799 00:33:22,730 --> 00:33:27,334 AGAIN, THE ONCOSTATIN M RECEPTOR 800 00:33:27,334 --> 00:33:30,170 IS FOUND IN HUMAN AND THE NPPB 801 00:33:30,170 --> 00:33:32,373 NEURONS AND THIS IS CONFIRMED BY 802 00:33:32,373 --> 00:33:33,240 SINGLE CELL SEQUENCING. 803 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,944 SO THIS IS ANOTHER CYTOKINE 804 00:33:36,944 --> 00:33:37,845 RECEPTOR, DOESN'T MEAN IT'S 805 00:33:37,845 --> 00:33:38,479 INVOLVED IN ITCH. 806 00:33:38,479 --> 00:33:40,948 SO THE FIRST THING WE TURNED TO 807 00:33:40,948 --> 00:33:43,951 WAS TO ACTUALLY SEE IS 808 00:33:43,951 --> 00:33:46,020 ONCOSTATIN M, ARE ONCOSTATIN M 809 00:33:46,020 --> 00:33:48,122 LEVELS INCREASED IN CONDITIONS 810 00:33:48,122 --> 00:33:51,725 OF CHRONIC ITCH? 811 00:33:51,725 --> 00:33:53,360 SO WE TURNED TO SEQUENCING 812 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:59,066 INFORMATION THAT'S FROM -- THAT 813 00:33:59,066 --> 00:34:00,701 ARE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, AND AS 814 00:34:00,701 --> 00:34:02,770 YOU CAN SEE HERE IN PATIENTS 815 00:34:02,770 --> 00:34:04,605 WITH PSORIASIS, WHEN THEIR SKIN 816 00:34:04,605 --> 00:34:06,373 HAS BEEN SEQUENCED, THEY HAVE 817 00:34:06,373 --> 00:34:10,310 ELEVATED LEVELS OF ONCOSTATIN M. 818 00:34:10,310 --> 00:34:11,645 COMPARED TO NORMALS, SHOWN HERE 819 00:34:11,645 --> 00:34:15,482 IN BLACK. 820 00:34:15,482 --> 00:34:18,519 THIS IS ALSO THE CASE FOR OTHER 821 00:34:18,519 --> 00:34:21,255 SKIN CONDITIONS, FOR INSTANCE, 822 00:34:21,255 --> 00:34:22,589 ATOPIC DERMATITIS, ALSO ANOTHER 823 00:34:22,589 --> 00:34:24,858 CONDITION WHICH IS MUCH RARER, 824 00:34:24,858 --> 00:34:27,828 CUTANEOUS T-CELL LYMPHOMA. 825 00:34:27,828 --> 00:34:32,533 YOU CAN ALSO SEE THAT LEVELS OF 826 00:34:32,533 --> 00:34:34,601 IL4 AND 13 ARE ALSO ELEVATED IN 827 00:34:34,601 --> 00:34:38,305 ATOPIC DERMATITIS AND CTCL. 828 00:34:38,305 --> 00:34:41,909 BUT NOT IN PSORIASIS. 829 00:34:41,909 --> 00:34:44,645 AND IMPORTANTLY, FOR US, BECAUSE 830 00:34:44,645 --> 00:34:46,413 WE ARE A BASIC RESEARCH LAB, WE 831 00:34:46,413 --> 00:34:49,149 WANTED TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THE 832 00:34:49,149 --> 00:34:51,218 MODELS THAT ARE COMMONLY USED 833 00:34:51,218 --> 00:34:53,420 FOR PSORIASIS AND ATOPIC 834 00:34:53,420 --> 00:34:56,156 DERMATITIS ALSO HAVE ELEVATED 835 00:34:56,156 --> 00:34:59,326 LEVELS OF ONCOSTATIN M, AND 836 00:34:59,326 --> 00:35:00,294 INDEED THAT'S THE CASE THAT YOU 837 00:35:00,294 --> 00:35:02,796 CAN SEE HERE IN THIS BOX, 838 00:35:02,796 --> 00:35:04,231 THERE'S ELEVATED ONCOSTATIN M IN 839 00:35:04,231 --> 00:35:09,570 A MODEL OF PSORIASIS, AND ALSO 840 00:35:09,570 --> 00:35:12,005 IN THE MODEL OF ATOPIC 841 00:35:12,005 --> 00:35:13,340 DERMATITIS. 842 00:35:13,340 --> 00:35:15,909 SO THESE ARE ALL INSILICO 843 00:35:15,909 --> 00:35:16,443 RESULTS. 844 00:35:16,443 --> 00:35:20,781 WE ALWAYS LIKE TO LOOK DIRECTLY 845 00:35:20,781 --> 00:35:23,751 IF THESE ARE SUPPORTED IN TISSUE 846 00:35:23,751 --> 00:35:27,454 SO WE TOOK TISSUE FROM THESE 847 00:35:27,454 --> 00:35:29,523 ANIMALS THAT HAVE A MODEL OF 848 00:35:29,523 --> 00:35:31,158 PSORIASIS, AND WE LOOKED AT -- 849 00:35:31,158 --> 00:35:35,529 AGAIN, THIS IS IN SITU 850 00:35:35,529 --> 00:35:38,065 HYBRIDIZATION, THE ONCOSTATIN M 851 00:35:38,065 --> 00:35:38,499 IN THE TISSUE. 852 00:35:38,499 --> 00:35:39,767 YOU CAN SEE HERE THIS IS SKIN 853 00:35:39,767 --> 00:35:42,102 FROM THE EAR OF A MOUSE, AND 854 00:35:42,102 --> 00:35:44,271 THERE'S VERY LITTLE OF 855 00:35:44,271 --> 00:35:45,372 ONCOSTATIN M. 856 00:35:45,372 --> 00:35:48,108 THIS IS VERY MUCH INCREASED IN 857 00:35:48,108 --> 00:35:49,543 THIS MODEL, IN THIS MOUSE MODEL 858 00:35:49,543 --> 00:35:53,380 OF PSORIASIS. 859 00:35:53,380 --> 00:35:58,152 SO WE WANT TO, AGAIN, CHECK THIS 860 00:35:58,152 --> 00:35:59,386 IN THE HUMAN TISSUE, AND IN 861 00:35:59,386 --> 00:36:01,221 PARTICULAR, TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND 862 00:36:01,221 --> 00:36:03,657 WHAT ARE THE CELLS HERE IN THE 863 00:36:03,657 --> 00:36:07,694 SKIN THAT ARE ACTUALLY RELEASING 864 00:36:07,694 --> 00:36:08,796 THE ONCOSTATIN M. 865 00:36:08,796 --> 00:36:11,298 THE ANSWER IS SHOWN HERE. 866 00:36:11,298 --> 00:36:13,500 WHEN WE LOOK AT THE LEVEL OF 867 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:16,570 ONCOSTATIN M, AND THIS IS NOW A 868 00:36:16,570 --> 00:36:18,639 PLOT OF THE DIFFERENT CELLS THAT 869 00:36:18,639 --> 00:36:22,142 ARE EXPRESSING ONCOSTATIN M, SO 870 00:36:22,142 --> 00:36:27,481 THE KERATINOCYTES, ENDOTHELIAL 871 00:36:27,481 --> 00:36:32,619 CELLS AND FIBROBLASTS DON'T 872 00:36:32,619 --> 00:36:36,256 EXPRESS ONCOSTATIN M, WHAT 873 00:36:36,256 --> 00:36:37,791 EXPRESSES -- THIS IS 874 00:36:37,791 --> 00:36:39,626 DRAMATICALLY INCREASED IN 875 00:36:39,626 --> 00:36:41,161 CUTANEOUS T-CELL LYMPHOMA, SO 876 00:36:41,161 --> 00:36:45,098 THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST PRURITIC 877 00:36:45,098 --> 00:36:46,533 CONDITIONS THAT IS KNOWN. 878 00:36:46,533 --> 00:36:49,036 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE 879 00:36:49,036 --> 00:36:51,939 ONCOSTATIN M IS EXPRESSED IN THE 880 00:36:51,939 --> 00:36:54,174 T CELLS, AND THIS IS ALSO THE 881 00:36:54,174 --> 00:36:57,144 CASE IN PSORIASIS, WHERE, IN 882 00:36:57,144 --> 00:37:01,849 FACT, THERE'S THIS ELEVATED 883 00:37:01,849 --> 00:37:03,050 ONCOSTATIN M IN BOTH THE T CELLS 884 00:37:03,050 --> 00:37:05,018 AND THE MACROPHAGES. 885 00:37:05,018 --> 00:37:05,886 OKAY. 886 00:37:05,886 --> 00:37:10,924 SO THIS IS ALL DESCRIPTIVE, IT'S 887 00:37:10,924 --> 00:37:12,226 TELLING US THAT THERE'S HIGH 888 00:37:12,226 --> 00:37:14,862 LEVELS OF ONCOSTATIN M IN THE 889 00:37:14,862 --> 00:37:16,496 SKIN FOR PATIENTS THAT HAVE 890 00:37:16,496 --> 00:37:20,100 THESE CHRONIC ITCH SKIN 891 00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:20,434 CONDITIONS. 892 00:37:20,434 --> 00:37:23,370 WE KNOW THE RECEPTORS ARE IN THE 893 00:37:23,370 --> 00:37:25,772 APPROPRIATE CELLS. 894 00:37:25,772 --> 00:37:30,143 SO WHAT MIGHT BE THE MECHANISMS 895 00:37:30,143 --> 00:37:33,113 BY WHICH ONCOSTATIN M MIGHT BE 896 00:37:33,113 --> 00:37:34,414 DOING SOMETHING IN THOSE 897 00:37:34,414 --> 00:37:37,150 NEURONS? 898 00:37:37,150 --> 00:37:41,655 SO THE TWO MECHANISMS THAT WE 899 00:37:41,655 --> 00:37:43,156 IDENTIFIED ARE THAT FIRST OF ALL 900 00:37:43,156 --> 00:37:45,792 IN AN ACUTE SETTING, THEY CAN 901 00:37:45,792 --> 00:37:47,561 POTENTIATE THE EFFECTS OF ITCH 902 00:37:47,561 --> 00:37:48,528 INDUCING AGENTS. 903 00:37:48,528 --> 00:37:51,164 SO IN OTHER WORDS, THEY ADD AN 904 00:37:51,164 --> 00:37:53,667 EXTRA BOOST TO THE EFFECTS OF 905 00:37:53,667 --> 00:37:56,403 THINGS LIKE SEROTONIN OR THOSE 906 00:37:56,403 --> 00:37:58,171 SMALL LIPIDS. 907 00:37:58,171 --> 00:38:01,875 AND THEN THE MORE INTERESTING 908 00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:04,077 EFFECT OF ONCOSTATIN M AND ALSO 909 00:38:04,077 --> 00:38:08,882 THE OTHER CYTOKINES WE ALSO 910 00:38:08,882 --> 00:38:10,884 STUDIED IS THAT THEY HAVE VERY 911 00:38:10,884 --> 00:38:12,519 MUCH LONG-TERM EFFECTS ON THE 912 00:38:12,519 --> 00:38:13,387 EXCITABILITY OF NEURONS. 913 00:38:13,387 --> 00:38:14,821 I WANT TO GO INTO SOME 914 00:38:14,821 --> 00:38:17,224 EXPERIMENTS WHERE WE ACTUALLY 915 00:38:17,224 --> 00:38:18,191 SHOW THIS. 916 00:38:18,191 --> 00:38:20,160 THE FIRST -- SO THEY BOTH MAKE 917 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,029 USE OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY. 918 00:38:22,029 --> 00:38:23,330 SO FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SHOW 919 00:38:23,330 --> 00:38:24,865 YOU A PICTURE OF THESE NEURONS. 920 00:38:24,865 --> 00:38:26,600 THESE ARE THE NEURONS SHOWN HERE 921 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,036 WITH THE FLUORESCENT MARKER, AND 922 00:38:29,036 --> 00:38:33,740 IN HERE IN THIS GHOST IS 923 00:38:33,740 --> 00:38:37,678 ACTUALLY AN ELECTRODE THAT'S 924 00:38:37,678 --> 00:38:40,380 BE -- WE CAN RECORD THE CURRENTS 925 00:38:40,380 --> 00:38:42,482 THAT ARE GOING INTO THAT NEURON. 926 00:38:42,482 --> 00:38:43,583 THE CURRENTS I WANT TO REMIND 927 00:38:43,583 --> 00:38:45,018 YOU ARE THE WAY IN WHICH NEURONS 928 00:38:45,018 --> 00:38:45,552 TALK. 929 00:38:45,552 --> 00:38:48,922 SO WHEN THERE'S AN INCREASED 930 00:38:48,922 --> 00:38:51,325 CURRENT, OR AN ACTION POTENTIAL 931 00:38:51,325 --> 00:38:52,526 FIRING, THIS IS THE WAY THAT 932 00:38:52,526 --> 00:38:55,062 NEURONS TALK AND RELEASE 933 00:38:55,062 --> 00:39:00,734 TRANSMITTERS DOWNSTREAM. 934 00:39:00,734 --> 00:39:03,603 SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE RECORD 935 00:39:03,603 --> 00:39:07,975 FROM THESE NEURONS? 936 00:39:07,975 --> 00:39:11,144 SO IF WE GIVE A PREU RIT GENERAL 937 00:39:11,144 --> 00:39:15,449 LIKE HIS TA HISTAMINE TO THESE, 938 00:39:15,449 --> 00:39:17,150 THEY HAVE A SMALL CURRENT. 939 00:39:17,150 --> 00:39:18,885 WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS, THOUGH, IF 940 00:39:18,885 --> 00:39:20,988 AFTER GIVING ONCOSTATIN M YOU 941 00:39:20,988 --> 00:39:27,494 GIVE THE STATE Y SAME STIMULUS,T 942 00:39:27,494 --> 00:39:28,795 CURRENT IS A LOT LARGER. 943 00:39:28,795 --> 00:39:30,497 AND FOR COMPARISON, THIS IS THE 944 00:39:30,497 --> 00:39:34,001 EFFECT IF YOU WERE TO GIVE TWO 945 00:39:34,001 --> 00:39:44,344 BOUTS OF HISTAMINE. 946 00:39:44,711 --> 00:39:47,848 THERE'S ACTUALLY REVERSAL OF THE 947 00:39:47,848 --> 00:39:48,682 DESENSITIZATION THAT OCCURS. 948 00:39:48,682 --> 00:39:50,117 SO AGAIN I WANT TO SHOW YOU DATA 949 00:39:50,117 --> 00:39:51,418 FROM WHAT HAPPENS ACTUALLY IN A 950 00:39:51,418 --> 00:39:57,491 MOUSE. 951 00:39:57,491 --> 00:39:59,559 AND IF YOU INJECT ONCOSTATIN M 952 00:39:59,559 --> 00:40:03,964 INTO A MOUSE ON ITS OWN, THE 953 00:40:03,964 --> 00:40:05,499 ANIMAL SCRATCHES BUT NOT A LOT 954 00:40:05,499 --> 00:40:09,436 MORE THAN IF YOU WERE TO INJECT 955 00:40:09,436 --> 00:40:14,808 SASALINE CONTROL. 956 00:40:14,808 --> 00:40:17,411 HOWEVER, IF YOU GO ONCOSTATIN M 957 00:40:17,411 --> 00:40:21,348 WITH A PRURITOGEN, THERE IS THIS 958 00:40:21,348 --> 00:40:22,649 BOOSTING OF THE EFFECTS OF 959 00:40:22,649 --> 00:40:23,750 HISTAMINE, AS I SAID. 960 00:40:23,750 --> 00:40:25,952 THIS IS A POTENTIATION THAT'S 961 00:40:25,952 --> 00:40:27,254 DERIVED FROM THE ONCOSTATIN M. 962 00:40:27,254 --> 00:40:31,958 SO I WANT TO GO ON TO THE SECOND 963 00:40:31,958 --> 00:40:33,960 EFFECT OF ONCOSTATIN M, AND TO 964 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:40,367 DO THIS, I WANT TO TO A 965 00:40:40,367 --> 00:40:43,303 DIFFERENT TYPE OF 966 00:40:43,303 --> 00:40:43,970 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY MEASUREMENT. 967 00:40:43,970 --> 00:40:45,038 WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THIS 968 00:40:45,038 --> 00:40:46,139 EXPERIMENT IS WE'RE EXCITING THE 969 00:40:46,139 --> 00:40:47,808 CELLS WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF 970 00:40:47,808 --> 00:40:49,109 STIMULUS, THE STRONGEST ONE IS 971 00:40:49,109 --> 00:40:51,845 SHOWN HERE IN RED. 972 00:40:51,845 --> 00:40:53,146 AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE NORMAL 973 00:40:53,146 --> 00:40:54,481 CONDITION, THESE NEURONS NEED TO 974 00:40:54,481 --> 00:40:58,585 HAVE A LOT OF EXCITABILITY IN 975 00:40:58,585 --> 00:41:02,456 ORDER TO WHAT'S SHOWN HERE AS 976 00:41:02,456 --> 00:41:03,657 FIRE AND ACTION POTENTIAL. 977 00:41:03,657 --> 00:41:05,625 WHAT HAPPENS NOW IS IF YOU GIVE 978 00:41:05,625 --> 00:41:06,927 ONCOSTATIN M, THIS COMPLETELY 979 00:41:06,927 --> 00:41:08,395 CHANGES. 980 00:41:08,395 --> 00:41:13,934 SO NOW EVEN AT THE LOWEST 981 00:41:13,934 --> 00:41:16,236 EXCITABILITY, WE NOW GET ACTION 982 00:41:16,236 --> 00:41:17,003 POTENTIAL FIRING. 983 00:41:17,003 --> 00:41:19,339 SO THIS SHOWS THAT THERE'S A 984 00:41:19,339 --> 00:41:21,374 LONG TERM EFFECT THAT'S BOOSTING 985 00:41:21,374 --> 00:41:23,376 THE EFFECT ON THE NEURONS, AND 986 00:41:23,376 --> 00:41:26,780 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT OCCURS 987 00:41:26,780 --> 00:41:27,848 OVER TWO DAYS THAT YOU NEED 988 00:41:27,848 --> 00:41:29,616 THIS, BUT THIS DOESN'T GO AWAY 989 00:41:29,616 --> 00:41:32,752 QUICKLY. 990 00:41:32,752 --> 00:41:33,854 SO FOR THIS SECOND EFFECT, 991 00:41:33,854 --> 00:41:36,723 AGAIN, I WANT TO SHOW YOU DATA 992 00:41:36,723 --> 00:41:39,259 THAT IS CONFIRMATORY IN AN 993 00:41:39,259 --> 00:41:40,927 ANIMAL MODEL, AND FOR THIS 994 00:41:40,927 --> 00:41:44,831 EXPERIMENT, WHAT WE USE IS WE 995 00:41:44,831 --> 00:41:48,969 USED AN ANTAGONIST, A GP130, A 996 00:41:48,969 --> 00:41:51,171 BLOCKER, SO THIS IS THE 997 00:41:51,171 --> 00:41:54,474 RECEPTOR, ONCOSTA TIPSTATIN M, E 998 00:41:54,474 --> 00:41:56,443 NOT TOLD YOU THIS ACTUALLY FORMS 999 00:41:56,443 --> 00:41:57,878 A DIMER. 1000 00:41:57,878 --> 00:41:59,846 THERE ISN'T A BLOCKER FOR THE 1001 00:41:59,846 --> 00:42:02,015 ONCOSTATIN M BUT THERE IS FOR 1002 00:42:02,015 --> 00:42:04,651 ITS EXCLUSIVE PARTNER, GP130. 1003 00:42:04,651 --> 00:42:07,287 SO WHAT WE WANTED TO DO WAS TO 1004 00:42:07,287 --> 00:42:09,823 EXAMINE WHETHER OR NOT IF WE 1005 00:42:09,823 --> 00:42:13,193 BLOCKED THIS RECEPTOR, COULD WE 1006 00:42:13,193 --> 00:42:17,797 RELIEVE PSORIASIS AND IN A MOUSE 1007 00:42:17,797 --> 00:42:19,099 MODEL. 1008 00:42:19,099 --> 00:42:19,966 INDEED WE COULD. 1009 00:42:19,966 --> 00:42:28,275 SO THIS IS THE EFFECT OF JUST 1010 00:42:28,275 --> 00:42:29,409 VEHICLE CONTROL, THE ANIMALS 1011 00:42:29,409 --> 00:42:30,677 CONTINUE TO CARRY ON SCRATCHING 1012 00:42:30,677 --> 00:42:32,145 AND IF WE GIVE THE BLOCKER, WE 1013 00:42:32,145 --> 00:42:33,480 CAN ACTUALLY RELIEVE ALMOST 1014 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,382 COMPLETELY THE SCRATCH RESPONSES 1015 00:42:35,382 --> 00:42:35,882 IN THE MOUSE. 1016 00:42:35,882 --> 00:42:37,851 SO THIS SHOWS THAT THE 1017 00:42:37,851 --> 00:42:43,323 ONCOSTATIN M RECEPTOR, NOT ONLY 1018 00:42:43,323 --> 00:42:44,457 IN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL 1019 00:42:44,457 --> 00:42:45,392 EXPERIMENTS BUT ACTUALLY IN A 1020 00:42:45,392 --> 00:42:50,096 MOUSE, IF WE CAN BLOCK IT, WE 1021 00:42:50,096 --> 00:42:51,965 CAN PREVENT THIS MODEL. 1022 00:42:51,965 --> 00:42:53,600 IN THIS MODEL. 1023 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,771 SO THIS IS SHOWN HERE, THIS PAIR 1024 00:42:57,771 --> 00:43:00,840 OF SCHEMATICS WHERE IN NORMAL 1025 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:06,313 CONDITIONS, IF THERE'S A 1026 00:43:06,313 --> 00:43:07,981 PRURITOGEN, FOR INSTANCE, HIS TA 1027 00:43:07,981 --> 00:43:09,849 MEAN OR SOME OTHER MOLECULE THAT 1028 00:43:09,849 --> 00:43:12,352 GETS IN CONTACT WITH THOSE NERVE 1029 00:43:12,352 --> 00:43:14,421 FIBERS, THERE IS THIS CURRENT 1030 00:43:14,421 --> 00:43:16,223 AND THEN ACTION POTENTIAL FIRING 1031 00:43:16,223 --> 00:43:17,724 AND SIGNALING INTO THE SPINAL 1032 00:43:17,724 --> 00:43:20,794 CORD. 1033 00:43:20,794 --> 00:43:27,133 AND WHEN WE GO TO -- NOW WE HAVE 1034 00:43:27,133 --> 00:43:28,235 AN INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS WHERE 1035 00:43:28,235 --> 00:43:31,071 THERE'S ELEVATED ONCOSTATIN M, 1036 00:43:31,071 --> 00:43:34,040 THE SAME PRURITOGEN CAUSES A 1037 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:35,575 GREATER CURRENT, A MORE ACTION 1038 00:43:35,575 --> 00:43:37,110 POTENTIAL FIRING AND, HENCE, 1039 00:43:37,110 --> 00:43:47,053 MORE ITCH. 1040 00:43:47,053 --> 00:43:49,456 I WANT TO GO BACK TO A SLIDE I 1041 00:43:49,456 --> 00:43:50,991 HAD IN THE BEGINNING THAT 1042 00:43:50,991 --> 00:43:52,392 DESCRIBES THE FACT THAT THERE'S 1043 00:43:52,392 --> 00:43:53,159 THIS INTERACTION BETWEEN NOT 1044 00:43:53,159 --> 00:43:54,728 ONLY THE NEURONS BUT THE IMMUNE 1045 00:43:54,728 --> 00:43:55,795 CELLS, WHICH I'VE BEEN TALKING 1046 00:43:55,795 --> 00:43:58,465 ABOUT A LOT, THIS IS THE SOURCE 1047 00:43:58,465 --> 00:44:01,401 OF THE INTERLEUKINS INCLUDING 1048 00:44:01,401 --> 00:44:05,038 ONCOSTATIN M INTO INTERLEUKIN 3T 1049 00:44:05,038 --> 00:44:06,473 THERE'S ALSO CROSSTALK BACK FROM 1050 00:44:06,473 --> 00:44:10,543 THE NEURONS TO THE IMMUNE CELLS, 1051 00:44:10,543 --> 00:44:15,382 SO THIS IS MORE RECENT DATA 1052 00:44:15,382 --> 00:44:18,752 SHOWING THERE'S THIS NEUROIMMUNE 1053 00:44:18,752 --> 00:44:21,388 EPITHELIAL TRIAD THAT IS 1054 00:44:21,388 --> 00:44:23,690 INVOLVED IN SKIN HOMEOSTASIS. 1055 00:44:23,690 --> 00:44:29,396 NOT ONLY IS THERE INTERACTION 1056 00:44:29,396 --> 00:44:32,465 BETWEEN THE NERVES AND THE 1057 00:44:32,465 --> 00:44:33,767 IMMUNE CELLS AND IMMUNE CELLS 1058 00:44:33,767 --> 00:44:35,201 AND THE NERVES, BUT THIS IS ALSO 1059 00:44:35,201 --> 00:44:37,270 THE CASE WITH THE STROMAL CELLS 1060 00:44:37,270 --> 00:44:39,673 AND THE STROMAL CELLS INTERACT 1061 00:44:39,673 --> 00:44:40,907 WITH THE IMMUNE CELLS. 1062 00:44:40,907 --> 00:44:42,342 SO THIS IS A VERY COMPLICATED 1063 00:44:42,342 --> 00:44:44,644 SET OF INTERACTIONS, BUT AT ITS 1064 00:44:44,644 --> 00:44:48,181 CORE, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S 1065 00:44:48,181 --> 00:44:49,316 INTERLEUKINS THAT -- CYTOKINES 1066 00:44:49,316 --> 00:44:52,218 THAT ARE INVOLVED IN 1067 00:44:52,218 --> 00:44:53,853 POTENTIATING BOTH THIS 1068 00:44:53,853 --> 00:44:56,489 INTERACTION AND ALSO THIS 1069 00:44:56,489 --> 00:44:56,790 INTERACTION. 1070 00:44:56,790 --> 00:45:01,528 AND I WANT TO FINALLY NOTE, 1071 00:45:01,528 --> 00:45:02,629 ALTHOUGH I'VE TALKED ABOUT 1072 00:45:02,629 --> 00:45:05,165 HISTAMINE A GREAT DEAL IN THE 1073 00:45:05,165 --> 00:45:08,234 CASE OF THE CHRONIC ITCH WITH 1074 00:45:08,234 --> 00:45:17,110 THE EXCEPTION OF UTE C UTICARIA, 1075 00:45:17,110 --> 00:45:19,612 HISTAMINE IS NOT REQUIRED FOR 1076 00:45:19,612 --> 00:45:21,281 THE MAINTENANCE OF ITCH AND THIS 1077 00:45:21,281 --> 00:45:24,784 IS SOMETHING THAT -- THE ANSWER 1078 00:45:24,784 --> 00:45:26,753 TO THIS, THAT THE MAST CELLS ARE 1079 00:45:26,753 --> 00:45:27,787 PROBABLY NOT THAT IMPORTANT. 1080 00:45:27,787 --> 00:45:29,189 IN CHRONIC ITCH, IT'S ACTUALLY 1081 00:45:29,189 --> 00:45:30,657 THESE OTHER TYPES OF IMMUNE 1082 00:45:30,657 --> 00:45:32,359 KRELTS, THE T CELLS FOR INSTANCE 1083 00:45:32,359 --> 00:45:33,593 THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT IN THAT. 1084 00:45:33,593 --> 00:45:35,462 AND MY LAST SLIDE, I'M GOING TO 1085 00:45:35,462 --> 00:45:37,430 COME UP HERE, PROBABLY MY MOST 1086 00:45:37,430 --> 00:45:38,531 IMPORTANT SLIDE, IS 1087 00:45:38,531 --> 00:45:39,733 ACKNOWLEDGING THE PEOPLE THAT 1088 00:45:39,733 --> 00:45:46,106 DID ALL THIS WORK. 1089 00:45:46,106 --> 00:45:50,243 SANTOSH, JUERGEN AND 1090 00:45:50,243 --> 00:45:51,578 HISPANIC-YEN, WHO HAVE ALL GONE 1091 00:45:51,578 --> 00:45:52,912 ON TO SUCCESSFUL CAREERS OUTSIDE 1092 00:45:52,912 --> 00:45:53,446 OF NIH. 1093 00:45:53,446 --> 00:45:55,281 AND WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO 1094 00:45:55,281 --> 00:45:55,515 FINISH. 1095 00:45:55,515 --> 00:45:59,018 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MARK. 1096 00:45:59,018 --> 00:46:00,453 SO IAN, WILL YOU CARRY ON, 1097 00:46:00,453 --> 00:46:10,597 PLEASE. 1098 00:46:18,371 --> 00:46:20,039 >> IT'S NOT LETTING ME START MY 1099 00:46:20,039 --> 00:46:21,775 VIDEO. 1100 00:46:21,775 --> 00:46:25,645 IT SAID DISABLED. 1101 00:46:25,645 --> 00:46:27,046 >> WE SEE IT ON OUR SIDE. 1102 00:46:27,046 --> 00:46:28,381 >> OH, THERE WE GO. 1103 00:46:28,381 --> 00:46:29,048 OKAY. 1104 00:46:29,048 --> 00:46:32,085 ALL RIGHT. 1105 00:46:32,085 --> 00:46:36,022 SO I'M GOING TO I'M IAN MYLES, I 1106 00:46:36,022 --> 00:46:37,457 WORK WITH NIAID AND I'M GOING TO 1107 00:46:37,457 --> 00:46:38,992 TALK ABOUT SOME OF OUR WORK, 1108 00:46:38,992 --> 00:46:40,527 WHICH IS FOCUSED ON KIND OF 1109 00:46:40,527 --> 00:46:42,729 WHAT'S DRIVING THE DISEASE FROM 1110 00:46:42,729 --> 00:46:45,498 AN ENVIRONMENTAL STANDPOINT. 1111 00:46:45,498 --> 00:46:48,668 SO AS CONFLICT OF INTEREST, 1112 00:46:48,668 --> 00:46:51,604 NIAID DOES HAVE A DEAL WITH A 1113 00:46:51,604 --> 00:46:55,241 COMPANY CALLED SKINESA TO SELL 1114 00:46:55,241 --> 00:46:57,076 THE PROBIOTIC THAT I WILL 1115 00:46:57,076 --> 00:46:58,645 MENTION AND SPRAYING PEOPLE WITH 1116 00:46:58,645 --> 00:47:00,513 BACTERIA IS NOT FDA-APPROVED, 1117 00:47:00,513 --> 00:47:02,048 MAYBE ONE DAY BUT NOT TODAY. 1118 00:47:02,048 --> 00:47:03,716 JUST AS A BASELINE FOR A CASE 1119 00:47:03,716 --> 00:47:05,685 PRESENTATION, IN 2016 WHEN WE 1120 00:47:05,685 --> 00:47:07,320 OPENED THE BEGINNING OF THE 1121 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:08,421 TRIAL, 19-YEAR-OLD MALE HAD COME 1122 00:47:08,421 --> 00:47:11,825 IN, HE SUFFERED WITH ATOPIC DERM 1123 00:47:11,825 --> 00:47:13,927 FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE, HE TRIED 1124 00:47:13,927 --> 00:47:14,894 STEROIDS AND SOME OF THE OTHER 1125 00:47:14,894 --> 00:47:16,229 TREATMENTS THAT WERE AVAILABLE 1126 00:47:16,229 --> 00:47:21,601 IN 2016 WHICH AD ADMITTEDLY WERE 1127 00:47:21,601 --> 00:47:22,569 FAR FEWER THAN TODAY. 1128 00:47:22,569 --> 00:47:29,809 HE WAS ON THE WAIT LIST FOR 1129 00:47:29,809 --> 00:47:32,111 DUPIXON, HE WASN'T ABLE TO GET 1130 00:47:32,111 --> 00:47:32,278 IT. 1131 00:47:32,278 --> 00:47:36,950 SO HE WENT -- AS SOON AS HE 1132 00:47:36,950 --> 00:47:37,917 CLICKED ENROLL, HE SAID HE 1133 00:47:37,917 --> 00:47:40,453 STARTED SEARCHING FOR 1134 00:47:40,453 --> 00:47:41,120 EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS AND KIND 1135 00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:45,492 OF CAME TO US. 1136 00:47:45,492 --> 00:47:47,026 SO I'LL COME BACK TO HIM. 1137 00:47:47,026 --> 00:47:48,561 HE'S CERTAINLY NOT ALONE IN 1138 00:47:48,561 --> 00:47:49,562 TODAY'S WORLD IN TERMS OF THE 1139 00:47:49,562 --> 00:47:55,368 RATES OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS. 1140 00:47:55,368 --> 00:47:59,639 DRTHE VERY FIRST DESCRIPTION OF 1141 00:47:59,639 --> 00:48:03,910 WHAT IS ALMOST CERTAINLY ATOPIC 1142 00:48:03,910 --> 00:48:11,384 DERM CAME OUT OF THE EBERS PA 1143 00:48:11,384 --> 00:48:12,385 PAPYRUS, THAT WAS DEFINITELY 1144 00:48:12,385 --> 00:48:14,053 ECZEMA LOOKING BACK. 1145 00:48:14,053 --> 00:48:14,854 HIPPOCRATES AS HE MENTIONED 1146 00:48:14,854 --> 00:48:20,493 SPOKE ABOUT IT FREQUENTLY, 1147 00:48:20,493 --> 00:48:22,362 AUGUSTUS WAS KNOWN TO HAVE THE 1148 00:48:22,362 --> 00:48:23,563 ALLERGIC TRIAD. 1149 00:48:23,563 --> 00:48:24,998 SO THESE DIAGNOSES HAVE BEEN 1150 00:48:24,998 --> 00:48:26,432 KNOWN FOR BASICALLY ALL OF 1151 00:48:26,432 --> 00:48:27,500 CIVILIZATIONS BUT THEIR RATES 1152 00:48:27,500 --> 00:48:28,501 HAVEN'T COME CLOSE TO WHAT WE 1153 00:48:28,501 --> 00:48:29,068 HAVE TODAY. 1154 00:48:29,068 --> 00:48:30,370 YOU SEE GRAPHED ON THIS 1155 00:48:30,370 --> 00:48:32,338 TIMELINE, THIS INSANE HOCKEY 1156 00:48:32,338 --> 00:48:33,907 STICK GRAPHED FORMAT THERE WITH 1157 00:48:33,907 --> 00:48:35,441 THE INFLECTION POINT OF THE 1158 00:48:35,441 --> 00:48:37,944 UNITED STATES BEING IN AND 1159 00:48:37,944 --> 00:48:39,145 AROUND 1970. 1160 00:48:39,145 --> 00:48:41,247 SO IN THE 50s OR SO, THE RATES 1161 00:48:41,247 --> 00:48:42,882 OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS WOULD HAVE 1162 00:48:42,882 --> 00:48:44,751 BEEN IN THE 1 OR 2%, AND TODAY 1163 00:48:44,751 --> 00:48:47,587 WE'RE LOOKING AT 15 TO 20% OVER 1164 00:48:47,587 --> 00:48:49,155 A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. 1165 00:48:49,155 --> 00:48:51,791 SO THERE HAS TO BE SOME KIND OF 1166 00:48:51,791 --> 00:48:53,326 ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR THAT WAS 1167 00:48:53,326 --> 00:48:55,728 INTRODUCED IN THE 1970s TO 1168 00:48:55,728 --> 00:48:58,464 GENERATE ANYTHING CLOSE TO THAT. 1169 00:48:58,464 --> 00:49:00,433 AND YET YOU CAN PLAY THIS GAME 1170 00:49:00,433 --> 00:49:03,069 FOR YOURSELF IF YOU RESEARCH 1171 00:49:03,069 --> 00:49:06,573 ATOPIC DERM PATHOGENESIS OR 1172 00:49:06,573 --> 00:49:08,908 EX-PA PATHOGENESIS, ECZEMA 1173 00:49:08,908 --> 00:49:09,776 MECHANISM, WHATEVER WORDS YOU 1174 00:49:09,776 --> 00:49:10,743 WANT, YOU'RE GOING TO GET A 1175 00:49:10,743 --> 00:49:13,079 GRAPH THAT LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE 1176 00:49:13,079 --> 00:49:13,346 THIS. 1177 00:49:13,346 --> 00:49:14,380 THESE ARE VALUABLE INFORMATION 1178 00:49:14,380 --> 00:49:16,282 IN TERMS OF WHAT'S GOING ON 1179 00:49:16,282 --> 00:49:17,584 INSIDE THE SKIN BECAUSE OF THE 1180 00:49:17,584 --> 00:49:19,819 FACT THAT YOU CAN USE SOME OF 1181 00:49:19,819 --> 00:49:23,189 THESE MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES AS 1182 00:49:23,189 --> 00:49:26,526 BLOCKERS IN PEOPLE WHO WERE 1183 00:49:26,526 --> 00:49:27,193 PREVIOUSLY SUFFERING FROM 1184 00:49:27,193 --> 00:49:28,494 DISEASE ARE SUFFERING A LOT LESS 1185 00:49:28,494 --> 00:49:29,829 BECAUSE OF THESE MEDICATIONS. 1186 00:49:29,829 --> 00:49:30,964 BUT YOU'LL NOTICE ALL OF THESE 1187 00:49:30,964 --> 00:49:32,265 HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON, WHICH 1188 00:49:32,265 --> 00:49:33,700 IS IT'S GOING TO START AT THE 1189 00:49:33,700 --> 00:49:34,100 SKIP. 1190 00:49:34,100 --> 00:49:36,769 AND IT'S SKIN. 1191 00:49:36,769 --> 00:49:38,071 IT'S GOING TO MAKE THIS 1192 00:49:38,071 --> 00:49:38,771 INSINUATION WHATEVER IS GOING ON 1193 00:49:38,771 --> 00:49:40,273 IN THE SKIN IS SOMEHOW BELOW THE 1194 00:49:40,273 --> 00:49:40,740 SURFACE OF THE SKIN. 1195 00:49:40,740 --> 00:49:41,874 THERE WILL BE SOME COMMENTS 1196 00:49:41,874 --> 00:49:43,576 ABOUT THE MICROBIOME OR SOME 1197 00:49:43,576 --> 00:49:44,777 IRRITANT BUT REALLY NOT MUCH 1198 00:49:44,777 --> 00:49:45,278 ELSE GOING ON. 1199 00:49:45,278 --> 00:49:47,814 SO WE KIND OF REALIZE FROM 1200 00:49:47,814 --> 00:49:48,448 EPIDEMIOLOGY THAT SOMETHING 1201 00:49:48,448 --> 00:49:50,416 OUTSIDE OF THE BODY HAS TO BE 1202 00:49:50,416 --> 00:49:53,386 THE INCITING EVENT, AND YET MOST 1203 00:49:53,386 --> 00:49:54,587 OF THE WORK IS ON EVERYTHING 1204 00:49:54,587 --> 00:49:57,890 THAT HAPPENS INSIDE OF THE BODY. 1205 00:49:57,890 --> 00:49:59,025 SO IF YOU GO THROUGH THE 1206 00:49:59,025 --> 00:50:00,126 LITERATURE AND ASK, ALL RIGHT, 1207 00:50:00,126 --> 00:50:04,430 WELL, WHAT HAVE PEOPLE ESTABL 1208 00:50:04,430 --> 00:50:05,565 ESTABLISHED AS EXPOSURES THAT 1209 00:50:05,565 --> 00:50:07,567 PUT SOMEBODY AT RISK FOR ATOPIC 1210 00:50:07,567 --> 00:50:07,900 DERMATITIS? 1211 00:50:07,900 --> 00:50:10,103 I WOULD PUT THEM INTO FOUR BIG 1212 00:50:10,103 --> 00:50:10,803 CATEGORIES, THE FIRST OF WHICH 1213 00:50:10,803 --> 00:50:12,205 IS LIVING IN AN INDUSTRIAL 1214 00:50:12,205 --> 00:50:14,841 SOCIETY, SO PROCESSED FOODS, 1215 00:50:14,841 --> 00:50:16,709 PARTICULARLY HIGH CONSUMPTIONS 1216 00:50:16,709 --> 00:50:17,710 OF PROCESSED FOODS. 1217 00:50:17,710 --> 00:50:18,911 YOU SEE HERE THE DOTTED LINE 1218 00:50:18,911 --> 00:50:20,213 WOULD MEAN IT HAS NO EFFECT AT 1219 00:50:20,213 --> 00:50:22,448 ALL, SO THIS MEANS THAT THERE'S 1220 00:50:22,448 --> 00:50:24,017 A HIGHER RISK FOR PROCESSED 1221 00:50:24,017 --> 00:50:25,385 FOODS. 1222 00:50:25,385 --> 00:50:27,353 ANTIBIOTICS EXPOSURE, THERE'S 1223 00:50:27,353 --> 00:50:28,354 SOME RISK. 1224 00:50:28,354 --> 00:50:30,990 IF YOUR MOM HAS ALLERGIES, YOUR 1225 00:50:30,990 --> 00:50:33,192 CHANCES FOR ATOPIC DERM IS 1226 00:50:33,192 --> 00:50:34,093 HIGHER. 1227 00:50:34,093 --> 00:50:35,728 DAD DOESN'T SEEM TO BE RELEVANT 1228 00:50:35,728 --> 00:50:37,163 IN THIS PARTICULAR CALCULATION. 1229 00:50:37,163 --> 00:50:38,131 SIBLINGS ARE ACTUALLY 1230 00:50:38,131 --> 00:50:39,699 PROTECTIVE, WHICH IS INTRIGUING. 1231 00:50:39,699 --> 00:50:40,967 LIKE THE MORTGAGE OLDER SIBLINGS 1232 00:50:40,967 --> 00:50:49,042 MORE OLDER SIBLINGS YOUV THE LEG 1233 00:50:49,042 --> 00:50:50,710 TO HAVE ATOPIC D. 1234 00:50:50,710 --> 00:50:52,311 MOVING FROM A NON-INDUSTRIALIZED 1235 00:50:52,311 --> 00:50:53,546 COUNTRY TO THE UNITED STATES OR 1236 00:50:53,546 --> 00:50:55,748 EUROPE PRIOR TO TWO YEARS OF AGE 1237 00:50:55,748 --> 00:50:57,850 GREATLY INCREASES YOUR RISK AND 1238 00:50:57,850 --> 00:50:59,052 THEN THERE'S A COMPOUNDED RISK 1239 00:50:59,052 --> 00:51:01,888 ON TOP OF THAT IF YOU MOVE TO AN 1240 00:51:01,888 --> 00:51:02,722 URBAN ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE 1241 00:51:02,722 --> 00:51:04,223 UNITED STATES. 1242 00:51:04,223 --> 00:51:05,324 AFTER SIX YEARS OF AGE YOU CAN 1243 00:51:05,324 --> 00:51:07,060 MOVE ANYWHERE YOU WANT IN THE 1244 00:51:07,060 --> 00:51:08,594 GLOBE AND YOUR RISK IS NOT GOING 1245 00:51:08,594 --> 00:51:09,729 TO CHANGE WHATSOEVER. 1246 00:51:09,729 --> 00:51:11,698 SO THAT KIND OF SPEAKS TO THE 1247 00:51:11,698 --> 00:51:12,999 CHANCE THAT THERE IS A 1248 00:51:12,999 --> 00:51:14,100 DEVELOPMENTAL WIN DOLE THAT IF 1249 00:51:14,100 --> 00:51:17,870 YOU EXPOSE SOMEBODY TO SOMETHING 1250 00:51:17,870 --> 00:51:20,373 THAT IS AMERICA OR EUROPE LEVEL 1251 00:51:20,373 --> 00:51:21,140 INDUSTRIALIZATION, THEY'RE GOING 1252 00:51:21,140 --> 00:51:23,009 TO BE AT RISK IF THEY GET PAST 1253 00:51:23,009 --> 00:51:24,010 THAT WINDOW, THEN IT DOESN'T 1254 00:51:24,010 --> 00:51:24,577 REALLY MATTER. 1255 00:51:24,577 --> 00:51:25,978 SO NORMALLY WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT 1256 00:51:25,978 --> 00:51:28,214 URBAN ENVIRONMENTS, WE TEND TO 1257 00:51:28,214 --> 00:51:29,315 ASSUME THAT'S FROM AUTOMOBILE 1258 00:51:29,315 --> 00:51:31,350 EXHAUST, WHICH WOULD BE THE 1259 00:51:31,350 --> 00:51:32,585 SECOND CATEGORY, BUT IF YOU LOOK 1260 00:51:32,585 --> 00:51:33,486 AT THE SPECIFIC COMPONENTS OF 1261 00:51:33,486 --> 00:51:34,053 AUTOMOBILE EXHAUST. 1262 00:51:34,053 --> 00:51:35,688 YOU CAN SEE SOME ARE RIGHT ON 1263 00:51:35,688 --> 00:51:37,390 THIS LINE OR NOT REALLY ALL THAT 1264 00:51:37,390 --> 00:51:38,324 RELEVANT AT ALL. 1265 00:51:38,324 --> 00:51:39,125 DESPIECT THE FACT THAT LIVING 1266 00:51:39,125 --> 00:51:40,326 NEAR A HIGHWAY PARTICULARLY 1267 00:51:40,326 --> 00:51:42,195 WHILE YOU ARE PREGNANT CAN HAVE 1268 00:51:42,195 --> 00:51:43,396 A PRETTY PROFOUND EFFECT. 1269 00:51:43,396 --> 00:51:44,731 SO THIS MEANS EITHER THESE 1270 00:51:44,731 --> 00:51:47,266 FACTORS FROM AN AUTOMOBILE ARE 1271 00:51:47,266 --> 00:51:48,568 SYNERGIZING WITH EACH OTHER OR 1272 00:51:48,568 --> 00:51:49,902 THAT THERE'S SOMETHING IN A CAR 1273 00:51:49,902 --> 00:51:51,003 EXHAUST THAT ISN'T BEING 1274 00:51:51,003 --> 00:51:54,273 MEASURED BY THE TRADITIONAL AIR 1275 00:51:54,273 --> 00:51:54,607 QUALITY INDEX. 1276 00:51:54,607 --> 00:51:56,409 SO WHEN YOU SEE THE AIR QUALITY 1277 00:51:56,409 --> 00:51:57,677 INDEX, THOSE ARE JUST SIX 1278 00:51:57,677 --> 00:51:58,578 CHEMICALS THAT TYPICALLY COME 1279 00:51:58,578 --> 00:52:00,012 OUT OF THE BACK OF AN 1280 00:52:00,012 --> 00:52:01,214 AUTOMOBILE, BUT THOSE SIX 1281 00:52:01,214 --> 00:52:03,449 CHEMICALS ARE NOT REALLY 1282 00:52:03,449 --> 00:52:04,951 ASSOCIATING WITH THE DISEASE 1283 00:52:04,951 --> 00:52:06,052 STRONGLY ON ANY INDIVIDUAL 1284 00:52:06,052 --> 00:52:07,253 LEVEL. 1285 00:52:07,253 --> 00:52:10,690 A NEW CATEGORY APPRECIATED IS 1286 00:52:10,690 --> 00:52:10,957 WILDFIRES. 1287 00:52:10,957 --> 00:52:15,394 IT REALLY BECAME PREVALENT AFTER 1288 00:52:15,394 --> 00:52:18,698 THE BIG FIRES IN AUSTRALIA WHICH 1289 00:52:18,698 --> 00:52:20,032 MADE THE NEWS, THEN THE MOST 1290 00:52:20,032 --> 00:52:20,900 RECENT ONES FROM CALIFORNIA, 1291 00:52:20,900 --> 00:52:25,838 MAYBE EACH EVEN THE LAST ONES M 1292 00:52:25,838 --> 00:52:27,507 THE EASTERN PART OF CANADA 1293 00:52:27,507 --> 00:52:30,576 INCREASED RATES OF ATOPIC DERM, 1294 00:52:30,576 --> 00:52:36,415 INDUCING IMMEDIATE FLARES IN THE 1295 00:52:36,415 --> 00:52:37,950 PEOPLE AS THE PLUME GOES THROUGH 1296 00:52:37,950 --> 00:52:38,518 THEIR SOCIETY. 1297 00:52:38,518 --> 00:52:40,253 THEN THE LAST CATEGORY IS KIND 1298 00:52:40,253 --> 00:52:40,953 OF A HODGEPODGE. 1299 00:52:40,953 --> 00:52:42,021 IT WOULD BE THINGS THAT YOU 1300 00:52:42,021 --> 00:52:44,557 WOULD DO IN YOUR HOUSE, HOME 1301 00:52:44,557 --> 00:52:48,194 RENOVATION BEHAVIOR, WEARING 1302 00:52:48,194 --> 00:52:50,163 NYLON, SPANDEX OR POLYESTER CAN 1303 00:52:50,163 --> 00:52:54,200 INCREASE YOUR RISK OF DUST, 1304 00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:55,835 ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO -- 1305 00:52:55,835 --> 00:52:57,203 SECONDHAND SMOKE. 1306 00:52:57,203 --> 00:52:58,938 ONLY IF YOU'RE UNDER 2, THAT 1307 00:52:58,938 --> 00:53:01,240 INCLUDES BY THE WAY IN THE WOMB, 1308 00:53:01,240 --> 00:53:03,776 SO IF YOU RENOVATE, THE RISK 1309 00:53:03,776 --> 00:53:05,211 GOES MUCH HIGHER. 1310 00:53:05,211 --> 00:53:06,078 AFTER FOUR YEARS, YOU CAN 1311 00:53:06,078 --> 00:53:06,946 BASICALLY DO WHATEVER YOU WANT 1312 00:53:06,946 --> 00:53:08,181 TO YOUR HOUSE AND IT'S NOT GOING 1313 00:53:08,181 --> 00:53:08,948 TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 1314 00:53:08,948 --> 00:53:10,817 SO THESE DON'T FEEL VERY WELL 1315 00:53:10,817 --> 00:53:12,018 CONNECTED AND IT WOULD BE HARD 1316 00:53:12,018 --> 00:53:14,220 TO FIND A THROUGH LINE, PER SE. 1317 00:53:14,220 --> 00:53:16,422 BUT WE THINK WE GOT A LITTLE BIT 1318 00:53:16,422 --> 00:53:20,359 SMARTER IN THE FIELD IN 2023, WE 1319 00:53:20,359 --> 00:53:22,128 HAD FOUR DIFFERENT STUDIES, ONE 1320 00:53:22,128 --> 00:53:23,362 OF WHICH WE'RE A COLLABORATOR 1321 00:53:23,362 --> 00:53:23,796 WITH. 1322 00:53:23,796 --> 00:53:25,198 THEY'RE IN FOUR DIFFERENT CAN 1323 00:53:25,198 --> 00:53:26,999 YCOUNTRIES. 1324 00:53:26,999 --> 00:53:28,534 ALL OF THEM TOOK SAMPLES OF 1325 00:53:28,534 --> 00:53:29,836 BABIES IN THE FIRST WEEK OF 1326 00:53:29,836 --> 00:53:31,204 LIFE, THEN THEY FOLLOWED THEM 1327 00:53:31,204 --> 00:53:33,372 FROM ANYWHERE FROM 1 TO 4 YEARS 1328 00:53:33,372 --> 00:53:35,675 TO SEE WHO WENT ON TO DEVELOP AN 1329 00:53:35,675 --> 00:53:37,143 ATOPIC DERMATITIS, AND NOW CAN 1330 00:53:37,143 --> 00:53:39,579 WE GO BACK TO OUR SAMPLES AND 1331 00:53:39,579 --> 00:53:41,314 SEE WHAT COULD HAVE PREDICTED 1332 00:53:41,314 --> 00:53:42,782 WHO WAS GOING TO GET ECZEMA AND 1333 00:53:42,782 --> 00:53:43,216 WHO WASN'T. 1334 00:53:43,216 --> 00:53:44,417 THEY USED THREE DIFFERENT 1335 00:53:44,417 --> 00:53:45,918 METHODS WHICH I DON'T NEED TO 1336 00:53:45,918 --> 00:53:48,721 DETAIL BECAUSE ALL OF THEM -- 1337 00:53:48,721 --> 00:53:51,691 EACH METHOD HAD ITS OWN QUIRKY 1338 00:53:51,691 --> 00:53:52,859 FINDING BUT WHEN YOU ADD THEM 1339 00:53:52,859 --> 00:53:54,393 ALL TOGETHER, THERE WAS REALLY 1340 00:53:54,393 --> 00:53:55,328 ONLY ONE THROUGH LINE, THAT WAS 1341 00:53:55,328 --> 00:53:57,096 THESE CLASSES OF LIPIDS OR OILS, 1342 00:53:57,096 --> 00:54:00,032 WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THEM 1343 00:54:00,032 --> 00:54:01,734 CALLED CERAMIDES, AS WELL AS 1344 00:54:01,734 --> 00:54:03,369 SINGLE LIPIDS AND PHOSPHOLIPIDS. 1345 00:54:03,369 --> 00:54:06,906 I GUARANTEE IF YOU GO TO YOUR 1346 00:54:06,906 --> 00:54:08,007 GROCERY STORE, YOUR DEPARTMENT 1347 00:54:08,007 --> 00:54:11,844 STORE, GO DOWN ONE OF THE -- 1348 00:54:11,844 --> 00:54:13,579 THEY WILL BRAG ABOUT THE FACT 1349 00:54:13,579 --> 00:54:22,822 THAT IT HAS CERAMIDES, LIPIDS, 1350 00:54:22,822 --> 00:54:24,757 PHOSPHOLIPIDS AND IT WE WILL 1351 00:54:24,757 --> 00:54:26,626 COME BACK TO WHETHER THEIR 1352 00:54:26,626 --> 00:54:28,995 BRAGGING IS JUSTIFIABLE. 1353 00:54:28,995 --> 00:54:31,831 ATOPIC DERM IS AN EARLY LIFE 1354 00:54:31,831 --> 00:54:33,366 DEFICIENCY OF THESE SPECIFIC 1355 00:54:33,366 --> 00:54:33,866 LIPIDS. 1356 00:54:33,866 --> 00:54:34,934 SO SOMETHING IN THE ENVIRONMENT 1357 00:54:34,934 --> 00:54:36,903 MIGHT BE INFLUENCING THOSE. 1358 00:54:36,903 --> 00:54:39,438 AND THE GOOD NEWS IS FROM A 1359 00:54:39,438 --> 00:54:40,907 RESEARCH STANDPOINT, WE ARE NOT 1360 00:54:40,907 --> 00:54:44,076 THE ONLY CREATURES THAT SHARE 1361 00:54:44,076 --> 00:54:44,510 OUR ENVIRONMENT. 1362 00:54:44,510 --> 00:54:46,946 SO WE ALL HAVE MICROBIOME AND I 1363 00:54:46,946 --> 00:54:48,147 THINK THE GREATEST DEPICTION OF 1364 00:54:48,147 --> 00:54:50,049 WHAT YOU MIGHT THINK OF AS THE 1365 00:54:50,049 --> 00:54:57,456 MICROBIOME IS RICHARD SCARRY'S 1366 00:54:57,456 --> 00:54:58,057 BUSY TOWN. 1367 00:54:58,057 --> 00:55:00,459 THIS IS HOW THE MICROBIOME 1368 00:55:00,459 --> 00:55:01,594 RESEARCH KIND OF BUILT ON 1369 00:55:01,594 --> 00:55:02,261 ITSELF. 1370 00:55:02,261 --> 00:55:03,329 USUALLY IT WAS VERY BROAD 1371 00:55:03,329 --> 00:55:05,231 CLASSIFICATIONS LIKE MAMMALS 1372 00:55:05,231 --> 00:55:06,132 VERSUS WORMS AND YOU CAN GET 1373 00:55:06,132 --> 00:55:07,867 MORE AND MORE AND MORE DETAILED 1374 00:55:07,867 --> 00:55:09,502 ALL THE WAY DOWN TO WHAT WE 1375 00:55:09,502 --> 00:55:12,171 WOULD CALL STRAIN LEVEL 1376 00:55:12,171 --> 00:55:13,806 ANALYSIS, WHERE YOU CAN START TO 1377 00:55:13,806 --> 00:55:15,141 HAVE VERY SPECIFIC COMMENTS 1378 00:55:15,141 --> 00:55:16,876 ABOUT SPECIFIC ORGANISMS LIVING 1379 00:55:16,876 --> 00:55:18,044 ON THE SKIN. 1380 00:55:18,044 --> 00:55:20,880 BUT NOW WE HAVE A BETTER 1381 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:21,881 APPRECIATION FOR THE FACT THAT 1382 00:55:21,881 --> 00:55:23,182 LIKE IN BUSY TOWN, THEY EACH 1383 00:55:23,182 --> 00:55:23,783 HAVE A ROLE. 1384 00:55:23,783 --> 00:55:25,184 THEY HAVE A JOB THAT THEY'RE 1385 00:55:25,184 --> 00:55:27,887 SUPPOSED TO PLAY. 1386 00:55:27,887 --> 00:55:29,422 WE CAN START TO CLASSIFY THEM BY 1387 00:55:29,422 --> 00:55:31,090 SAYING WHAT ARE THESE BACTERIA 1388 00:55:31,090 --> 00:55:32,725 SUPPOSED TO DO, BECAUSE THE SAME 1389 00:55:32,725 --> 00:55:34,827 EXACT SPECIES MIGHT END UP 1390 00:55:34,827 --> 00:55:36,529 PLAYING DIFFERENT ROLES BASED ON 1391 00:55:36,529 --> 00:55:42,101 THE SKIN VERSUS THE GUT, OR ONE 1392 00:55:42,101 --> 00:55:43,402 PERSON -- ONE PERSON MIGHT NOT 1393 00:55:43,402 --> 00:55:46,639 NEED VITAMIN K PRODUCTION, 1394 00:55:46,639 --> 00:55:47,273 SOMEBODY MIGHT USE SOMETHING 1395 00:55:47,273 --> 00:55:47,606 ELSE. 1396 00:55:47,606 --> 00:55:49,241 SO WE CAN REALLY START TO PIECE 1397 00:55:49,241 --> 00:55:50,509 TOGETHER WHAT THESE BACTERIA ARE 1398 00:55:50,509 --> 00:55:52,578 SUPPOSED TO BE DOING AND THESE 1399 00:55:52,578 --> 00:55:53,479 OTHER MICROORGANISMS ON THE 1400 00:55:53,479 --> 00:55:57,950 SKIN. 1401 00:55:57,950 --> 00:56:00,386 SO IN BECOMES INTRIGUING IF YOU 1402 00:56:00,386 --> 00:56:02,054 LOOK AT WHERE ON THE BODY YOU 1403 00:56:02,054 --> 00:56:03,789 EXPECT SOMEBODY WITH ATOPIC 1404 00:56:03,789 --> 00:56:05,024 DERMATITIS TO MANIFEST THEIR 1405 00:56:05,024 --> 00:56:05,291 RASH. 1406 00:56:05,291 --> 00:56:07,026 YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THIS IS MORE 1407 00:56:07,026 --> 00:56:08,461 OR LESS BASED ON AGE WHERE YOU 1408 00:56:08,461 --> 00:56:08,894 EXPECT IT. 1409 00:56:08,894 --> 00:56:13,966 OVER HERE IS A GRAPH FROM 1410 00:56:13,966 --> 00:56:16,435 DR. JULIE SEGRE AND DR. HEIDI 1411 00:56:16,435 --> 00:56:20,740 CONGRESS WHE HIGHKONG AND THEY L 1412 00:56:20,740 --> 00:56:22,541 OVER THE BODY WHERE DIFFERENT 1413 00:56:22,541 --> 00:56:23,042 ORGANISMS WERE LIVING. 1414 00:56:23,042 --> 00:56:24,910 AT THE TIME THEY WERE JUST DOING 1415 00:56:24,910 --> 00:56:26,746 SPECIES SO THEY ONLY KNEW WHICH 1416 00:56:26,746 --> 00:56:29,215 ANIMALS BUT NOT THEIR EXACT 1417 00:56:29,215 --> 00:56:29,482 FUNCTIONS. 1418 00:56:29,482 --> 00:56:31,851 I'VE COLORED IN ON TO THIS GRAPH 1419 00:56:31,851 --> 00:56:34,153 WHERE YOU WOULD EXPECT TO FIND 1420 00:56:34,153 --> 00:56:37,423 GRAM-NEGATIVE ORGANISMS, SO WHY 1421 00:56:37,423 --> 00:56:39,225 THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT IS THAT 1422 00:56:39,225 --> 00:56:41,761 OF ALL THE ORGANISMS IN THE 1423 00:56:41,761 --> 00:56:43,195 MICROBIAL WORLD THAT ARE CAPABLE 1424 00:56:43,195 --> 00:56:46,065 OF MAKING CERAMIDES, 1425 00:56:46,065 --> 00:56:47,299 SPHINGOLIPIDS AND PHOSPHOLIPIDS, 1426 00:56:47,299 --> 00:56:48,801 THE THINGS WE SAID WILL PROTECT 1427 00:56:48,801 --> 00:56:50,069 THE KIDS AGAINST ATOPIC 1428 00:56:50,069 --> 00:56:50,336 DETERMINE. 1429 00:56:50,336 --> 00:56:51,937 ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE 1430 00:56:51,937 --> 00:56:53,239 GRAM-NEGATIVE ORGANISMS AND THE 1431 00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:54,874 ONLY ONES THAT ARE GRAM 1432 00:56:54,874 --> 00:56:56,342 POSITIVES ARE ALSO RESIDENTS ON 1433 00:56:56,342 --> 00:56:56,876 THE SKIN. 1434 00:56:56,876 --> 00:56:58,444 SO MOST OF THE BACTERIA LIVING 1435 00:56:58,444 --> 00:57:00,446 ON YOUR SKIN ARE MAKING THE 1436 00:57:00,446 --> 00:57:03,282 CLASS OF LIPIDS THAT APPEAR TO 1437 00:57:03,282 --> 00:57:05,151 PROTECT YOU AGAINST ATOPIC 1438 00:57:05,151 --> 00:57:05,684 DERMATITIS. 1439 00:57:05,684 --> 00:57:08,187 THE FEW ORGANISMS THAT DON'T 1440 00:57:08,187 --> 00:57:09,989 ACTIVELY MAKE CERAMIDES FOR YOU 1441 00:57:09,989 --> 00:57:11,557 HELP YOU MAKE MORE CERAMIDES FOR 1442 00:57:11,557 --> 00:57:11,824 YOURSELF. 1443 00:57:11,824 --> 00:57:14,660 SO THIS IS OUT OF MIKE OTTO'S 1444 00:57:14,660 --> 00:57:16,162 GROUP HERE AT NIAID WHERE A 1445 00:57:16,162 --> 00:57:24,136 STRAIN OF STAPH -- IT SURE SEEMS 1446 00:57:24,136 --> 00:57:26,105 THAT ALL THE BACTERIAS FUNCTION 1447 00:57:26,105 --> 00:57:27,840 ON THE GUT SEEMS TO ALIGN WITH 1448 00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:29,008 MAKING THESE SPECIFIC LIPID 1449 00:57:29,008 --> 00:57:30,943 CLASSES TO PROTECT YOU AGAINST 1450 00:57:30,943 --> 00:57:32,144 ATOPIC DERMATITIS. 1451 00:57:32,144 --> 00:57:34,547 SO THIS KIND OF GENERATES TWO 1452 00:57:34,547 --> 00:57:35,648 QUESTIONS, THE FIRST OF WHICH 1453 00:57:35,648 --> 00:57:37,983 WAS ALL RIGHT, COULD WE PUT THE 1454 00:57:37,983 --> 00:57:39,185 BACTERIA BACK? 1455 00:57:39,185 --> 00:57:41,987 A PERSON WITH ATOPIC DERM LOST 1456 00:57:41,987 --> 00:57:44,457 THESE KIND OF BENEFICIAL 1457 00:57:44,457 --> 00:57:45,558 ORGANISMS, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF 1458 00:57:45,558 --> 00:57:47,326 WE PUT THOSE ORGANISMS BACK ON 1459 00:57:47,326 --> 00:57:48,994 THE SKIN, COULD WE USE THAT AS A 1460 00:57:48,994 --> 00:57:49,462 TREATMENT? 1461 00:57:49,462 --> 00:57:51,530 SO FIRST WE HAD TO LEARN HOW TO 1462 00:57:51,530 --> 00:57:53,632 GROW GRAM-NEGATIVES FROM THE 1463 00:57:53,632 --> 00:57:53,999 SKIN. 1464 00:57:53,999 --> 00:57:56,836 I'LL SPARE YOU THE MS. REOF THAT 1465 00:57:56,836 --> 00:58:04,410 MISERY OFTHAT ONE. 1466 00:58:04,410 --> 00:58:05,644 WE TOOK THIS ORGANISM FROM 1467 00:58:05,644 --> 00:58:07,480 PATIENTS WHO WERE HEALTHY -- 1468 00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,315 EXCUSE ME -- VOLUNTEERS WHO WERE 1469 00:58:09,315 --> 00:58:11,150 HEALTHY VERSUS PATIENTS WHO HAVE 1470 00:58:11,150 --> 00:58:11,717 ATOPIC DETERMINE. 1471 00:58:11,717 --> 00:58:15,855 EVEN THOUGH THESE ORGANISMS ARE 1472 00:58:15,855 --> 00:58:20,092 REMARKABLY SIMILAR GENETICALLY, 1473 00:58:20,092 --> 00:58:21,827 JUST VISUALLY IT WAS OBVIOUS 1474 00:58:21,827 --> 00:58:22,795 THAT THESE BACTERIA WERE GOING 1475 00:58:22,795 --> 00:58:24,063 TO BE DIFFERENT, YOU COULD SEE 1476 00:58:24,063 --> 00:58:27,333 THIS KIND OF MUCOUSY, YOU KNOW, 1477 00:58:27,333 --> 00:58:28,434 LIPID-LIKE STRUCTURE VERSUS ONES 1478 00:58:28,434 --> 00:58:29,935 THAT ARE A LITTLE MORE 1479 00:58:29,935 --> 00:58:31,103 TRADITIONAL FOR BACTERIAL 1480 00:58:31,103 --> 00:58:31,570 GROWTH. 1481 00:58:31,570 --> 00:58:32,872 WE PUT THOSE INTO DIFFERENT 1482 00:58:32,872 --> 00:58:34,173 MODELS TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, 1483 00:58:34,173 --> 00:58:35,975 AND THE SHORT VERSION IS THE 1484 00:58:35,975 --> 00:58:41,547 THEY WHEALTHY VERSION WAS GOOD T 1485 00:58:41,547 --> 00:58:42,648 IMPROVING DISEASE IN MICE AND 1486 00:58:42,648 --> 00:58:44,350 BARRIER FUNCTION IN MICE AS WELL 1487 00:58:44,350 --> 00:58:46,418 AS KILLING OFF SOME OF THE BAD 1488 00:58:46,418 --> 00:58:48,487 BACTERIA SO THIS LOOKED LIKE IT 1489 00:58:48,487 --> 00:58:50,189 HAD SOME OBVIOUS POTENTIAL 1490 00:58:50,189 --> 00:58:50,723 BENEFITS. 1491 00:58:50,723 --> 00:58:52,158 THE NEXT QUESTION, OF COURSE, 1492 00:58:52,158 --> 00:58:53,993 WAS, DO WE EVEN NEED A LIVE 1493 00:58:53,993 --> 00:58:55,494 BACTERIA IF WE'RE GOING TO START 1494 00:58:55,494 --> 00:58:56,896 SPRAYING PEOPLE WITH AN ORGANISM 1495 00:58:56,896 --> 00:58:58,364 THAT ISN'T REALLY WELL-KNOWN AT 1496 00:58:58,364 --> 00:58:59,665 THE TIME, WOULDN'T IT BE BETTER 1497 00:58:59,665 --> 00:59:02,635 TO USE SOME KIND OF EXTRACT OR A 1498 00:59:02,635 --> 00:59:03,536 DEAD BACTERIA. 1499 00:59:03,536 --> 00:59:04,937 AND THE SHORT VERSION IS WE DID 1500 00:59:04,937 --> 00:59:06,038 LOTS OF DIFFERENT WAYS AND 1501 00:59:06,038 --> 00:59:06,639 NOTHING WORKED. 1502 00:59:06,639 --> 00:59:08,507 THIS IS WHAT IT LOOK LIKE WHEN 1503 00:59:08,507 --> 00:59:09,975 YOU GIVE A MOUSE ECZEMA ON THE 1504 00:59:09,975 --> 00:59:10,276 EAR. 1505 00:59:10,276 --> 00:59:11,410 THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN 1506 00:59:11,410 --> 00:59:13,179 YOU BASICALLY COMPLETELY TAKE IT 1507 00:59:13,179 --> 00:59:14,813 AWAY USING OUR LIVING BACTERIA, 1508 00:59:14,813 --> 00:59:16,849 BUT IF YOU KILL THE BACTERIA OR 1509 00:59:16,849 --> 00:59:18,250 EXTRACT, THE LIPIDS, DO 1510 00:59:18,250 --> 00:59:19,685 WHATEVER, IT DOESN'T CUT IT. 1511 00:59:19,685 --> 00:59:21,153 SO IT REALLY DOES SEEM THAT YOU 1512 00:59:21,153 --> 00:59:22,655 NEED A LIVING ORGANISM TO PULL 1513 00:59:22,655 --> 00:59:23,889 THIS OFF. 1514 00:59:23,889 --> 00:59:25,090 AND THEN OF COURSE WE WANT TO 1515 00:59:25,090 --> 00:59:26,425 ASK IS IT SAFE. 1516 00:59:26,425 --> 00:59:28,594 BECAUSE YOU ARE SPRAYING -- 1517 00:59:28,594 --> 00:59:29,929 POTENTIALLY SPRAYING THIS ON 1518 00:59:29,929 --> 00:59:31,664 CHILDREN WHO HAVE DISRUPTED SKIN 1519 00:59:31,664 --> 00:59:31,931 FUNCTION. 1520 00:59:31,931 --> 00:59:33,499 SOME OF THAT BACTERIA MIGHT GET 1521 00:59:33,499 --> 00:59:34,633 INTO THEIR BLOODSTREAM AND COULD 1522 00:59:34,633 --> 00:59:35,601 THAT BE A PROBLEM. 1523 00:59:35,601 --> 00:59:36,735 SO WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HERE 1524 00:59:36,735 --> 00:59:38,571 IS MOUSE DATA, WHERE WE INJECTED 1525 00:59:38,571 --> 00:59:39,905 THE MICE ON PURPOSE WITH LARGE 1526 00:59:39,905 --> 00:59:41,373 AMOUNTS OF VARIOUS DIFFERENT 1527 00:59:41,373 --> 00:59:42,374 KINDS OF ORGANISMS. 1528 00:59:42,374 --> 00:59:48,948 THIS IS THE ONE AT THE TIME WE 1529 00:59:48,948 --> 00:59:51,350 WERE PLANNING TO USE. 1530 00:59:51,350 --> 00:59:52,384 IT JUST DOESN'T HAVE THE 1531 00:59:52,384 --> 00:59:53,586 CAPACITY TO GENERATE AN 1532 00:59:53,586 --> 00:59:55,120 INFECTION IN A MOUSE. 1533 00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,623 YOU CAN COMPARE THAT TO OTHER 1534 00:59:57,623 --> 01:00:01,827 HEALTHY ORGANISMS O OF THE SKIN 1535 01:00:01,827 --> 01:00:03,028 AND THAT'S NOT TRUE. 1536 01:00:03,028 --> 01:00:04,330 BECAUSE THE BACTERIA IS NATURAL 1537 01:00:04,330 --> 01:00:06,265 OR NORMAL, THAT IT'S GOING TO 1538 01:00:06,265 --> 01:00:08,100 BE -- NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO 1539 01:00:08,100 --> 01:00:09,969 CREATE AN INFECTION BECAUSE 1540 01:00:09,969 --> 01:00:11,870 YOU'RE USING IT AT SUCH NATURAL 1541 01:00:11,870 --> 01:00:14,607 DOSES THAT WOULD BE A NATURAL 1542 01:00:14,607 --> 01:00:15,107 EXPOSURE. 1543 01:00:15,107 --> 01:00:16,475 SO WITH ALL THAT, WE GO TO THE 1544 01:00:16,475 --> 01:00:18,410 FDA AND SAY WE'D LIKE TO DO OUR 1545 01:00:18,410 --> 01:00:19,178 CLINICAL TRIAL BECAUSE OF THE 1546 01:00:19,178 --> 01:00:20,913 MOUSE STUDIES, SO THIS IS A 1547 01:00:20,913 --> 01:00:22,548 RESULT FROM THE -- WHAT WE CALL 1548 01:00:22,548 --> 01:00:24,450 THE OPEN LABEL PHASE. 1549 01:00:24,450 --> 01:00:25,551 SO EVERYBODY IN THE STUDY GOT 1550 01:00:25,551 --> 01:00:27,186 THE REAL DRUG AND THEY KNEW THAT 1551 01:00:27,186 --> 01:00:28,354 THEY WERE GETTING THE REAL DRUG. 1552 01:00:28,354 --> 01:00:30,990 WE HAD TWO DIFFERENT DOSING 1553 01:00:30,990 --> 01:00:31,724 STRATEGIES. 1554 01:00:31,724 --> 01:00:32,725 IT DEPARTMENT SEEM TO MATTER. 1555 01:00:32,725 --> 01:00:36,495 PEOPLE USED IT TWICE A WEEK FOR 1556 01:00:36,495 --> 01:00:37,496 THREE MONTHS, AND THREE TIMES A 1557 01:00:37,496 --> 01:00:39,231 WEEK FOR THE FINAL MONTH. 1558 01:00:39,231 --> 01:00:44,169 AND ON AVERAGE, GOT ABOUT 57% 1559 01:00:44,169 --> 01:00:45,537 BETTER, BUT THE IMPORTANT PART 1560 01:00:45,537 --> 01:00:46,872 WAS YOU REALLY TALKED TO THE 1561 01:00:46,872 --> 01:00:47,940 PATIENTS AND YOU ASKED THEM WHAT 1562 01:00:47,940 --> 01:00:48,874 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR. 1563 01:00:48,874 --> 01:00:50,509 THEY'RE NOT LOOKING FOR ANOTHER 1564 01:00:50,509 --> 01:00:51,710 TOPICAL PRODUCT THAT THEY'RE 1565 01:00:51,710 --> 01:00:52,478 COMMITTED TO FOR THE REST OF 1566 01:00:52,478 --> 01:00:53,045 THEIR LIFE. 1567 01:00:53,045 --> 01:00:54,079 WHAT THEY REALLY WANT IS 1568 01:00:54,079 --> 01:00:55,814 SOMETHING THEY CAN USE AND STOP 1569 01:00:55,814 --> 01:00:57,483 AND GAIN BENEFIT THAT THEY DON'T 1570 01:00:57,483 --> 01:00:58,350 HAVE TO COMMIT TO. 1571 01:00:58,350 --> 01:01:02,021 SO WE HAD THIS EXTENDED WASHOUT 1572 01:01:02,021 --> 01:01:03,756 PERIOD, WE HAD STOPPED THE DRUG 1573 01:01:03,756 --> 01:01:05,291 AT 16 WEEKS BUT THEY WERE 1574 01:01:05,291 --> 01:01:06,925 FOLLOWED FOR ANOTHER THREE OR 1575 01:01:06,925 --> 01:01:08,093 FOUR MONTHS AND THEY CAME BACK 1576 01:01:08,093 --> 01:01:09,728 AND YOU COULD SEE THAT THE 1577 01:01:09,728 --> 01:01:13,198 TREATMENT PERSISTED UP TO 36 1578 01:01:13,198 --> 01:01:14,633 WEEKS OFFICIALLY, THAT WAS THE 1579 01:01:14,633 --> 01:01:16,702 FARTHEST THAT WE LOOKED OUT. 1580 01:01:16,702 --> 01:01:18,337 YOU CAN COLLECT BACTERIAL SWABS 1581 01:01:18,337 --> 01:01:20,706 AND USING GENETIC MARKERS ASK 1582 01:01:20,706 --> 01:01:22,007 WHETHER THE BACTERIA THAT WE 1583 01:01:22,007 --> 01:01:23,409 SPRAYED ON THEM IS PRESENT ON 1584 01:01:23,409 --> 01:01:23,876 THE SKIN. 1585 01:01:23,876 --> 01:01:27,313 AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SEEING 1586 01:01:27,313 --> 01:01:29,081 HERE, THAT NO ONE CAME IN WITH 1587 01:01:29,081 --> 01:01:30,716 OUR SPECIFIC STRAINS OF BACTERIA 1588 01:01:30,716 --> 01:01:33,619 WHICH MAINGS SE MAKES SENSE BUTD 1589 01:01:33,619 --> 01:01:35,354 OF THE STUDY, EVERYBODY HAD SOME 1590 01:01:35,354 --> 01:01:36,021 BACTERIA ON THE SKIN. 1591 01:01:36,021 --> 01:01:36,922 THAT'S WHAT I WOULD ANTICIPATE 1592 01:01:36,922 --> 01:01:40,225 WOULD BE ABLE TO ALLOW THEM TO 1593 01:01:40,225 --> 01:01:41,894 HAVE THE LONG TERM BENEFIT, 1594 01:01:41,894 --> 01:01:43,262 BECAUSE THE BACTERIA ARE STILL 1595 01:01:43,262 --> 01:01:44,563 THERE DOING WHAT THEY NEED TO 1596 01:01:44,563 --> 01:01:50,469 DO, BUT YOU DON'T NEED TO USE 1597 01:01:50,469 --> 01:01:51,870 THE MEDICINE FOREVER MORE. 1598 01:01:51,870 --> 01:01:53,405 SO THE WAY THIS WORKS, THE NIH 1599 01:01:53,405 --> 01:01:55,040 LICENSED IT OUT TO THE PRIVATE 1600 01:01:55,040 --> 01:02:00,145 SECTOR, WHO RAN TO THEIR CREDIT 1601 01:02:00,145 --> 01:02:01,447 AN OUTPATIENT ECZEMA TRIAL 1602 01:02:01,447 --> 01:02:02,881 THROUGH THE HEART OF THE COVID 1603 01:02:02,881 --> 01:02:03,415 PANDEMIC. 1604 01:02:03,415 --> 01:02:04,550 BUT THERE WERE SOME THINGS THAT 1605 01:02:04,550 --> 01:02:06,885 COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BETTER IN 1606 01:02:06,885 --> 01:02:07,753 RETROSPECT. 1607 01:02:07,753 --> 01:02:08,387 THE FIRST THING IS THAT 1608 01:02:08,387 --> 01:02:09,988 EVERYBODY IN THE STUDY WAS 1609 01:02:09,988 --> 01:02:11,757 FORCED TO USE A LOTION THAT HAD 1610 01:02:11,757 --> 01:02:14,360 CERAMIDES IN IT, WHICH CREATES A 1611 01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:15,461 VEHICLE EFFECT, JUST TELLING 1612 01:02:15,461 --> 01:02:17,162 SOMEBODY TO USE A CERAMIDE 1613 01:02:17,162 --> 01:02:18,597 LOTION TWO OR THREE TIMES A DAY 1614 01:02:18,597 --> 01:02:19,998 SHOULD CREATE A BENEFIT ON ITS 1615 01:02:19,998 --> 01:02:21,400 OWN, AND THEY HAVE TO ADJUST FOR 1616 01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:22,701 THAT IN THE STUDY AND THEY DID 1617 01:02:22,701 --> 01:02:23,502 NOT. 1618 01:02:23,502 --> 01:02:26,839 BUT THE OTHER THING IS THAT 1619 01:02:26,839 --> 01:02:28,173 THERE WAS KIND OF THIS LONG 1620 01:02:28,173 --> 01:02:28,741 WASHOUT PERIOD. 1621 01:02:28,741 --> 01:02:31,310 THIS IS THE -- THEY STOPPED THE 1622 01:02:31,310 --> 01:02:32,311 MEDICINE AT FOUR MONTHS AND THEN 1623 01:02:32,311 --> 01:02:33,846 A MONTH LATER, WHICH IS AS FAR 1624 01:02:33,846 --> 01:02:35,547 AS THEY LOOKED, WE LOOKED AT 36 1625 01:02:35,547 --> 01:02:36,882 WEEKS, LIKE I SAID, THE PEOPLE 1626 01:02:36,882 --> 01:02:38,584 WHO WERE TREATED WITH THE REAL 1627 01:02:38,584 --> 01:02:40,018 DRUG, THE BENEFITS PERSISTED, 1628 01:02:40,018 --> 01:02:41,754 WHEREAS THE PLACEBO EFFECT 1629 01:02:41,754 --> 01:02:42,855 STARTED TO WEAR OFF, WHICH IS 1630 01:02:42,855 --> 01:02:44,556 WHAT YOU WOULD ANTICIPATE. 1631 01:02:44,556 --> 01:02:45,991 SO COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER, SO 1632 01:02:45,991 --> 01:02:48,927 WE'RE REDOING THIS TRIAL AND THE 1633 01:02:48,927 --> 01:02:50,996 TWO MAJOR CHANGES, NO ONE IS 1634 01:02:50,996 --> 01:02:52,164 BEING FORCED TO USE ANY 1635 01:02:52,164 --> 01:02:52,731 PARTICULAR LOTION AND WE'RE 1636 01:02:52,731 --> 01:02:54,266 GOING TO HAVE A MUCH LONGER 1637 01:02:54,266 --> 01:02:55,100 WASHOUT PERIOD UNDER THE 1638 01:02:55,100 --> 01:02:56,201 ANTICIPATION THAT EVEN IF YOU 1639 01:02:56,201 --> 01:02:57,736 HAVE PLACEBO RESPONSE, IT'S NOT 1640 01:02:57,736 --> 01:02:59,605 GOING TO STAY FOR THREE OR FOUR 1641 01:02:59,605 --> 01:03:00,806 MONTHS VERSUS THE TREATMENT 1642 01:03:00,806 --> 01:03:02,508 WHICH WE EXPECT TO HOLD TIGHT. 1643 01:03:02,508 --> 01:03:07,846 SO WE'RE STILL RUNNING THAT. 1644 01:03:07,846 --> 01:03:09,314 BUT BECAUSE IT SURE LOOKS LIKE 1645 01:03:09,314 --> 01:03:11,984 IT HAS SOME EVIDENCE FOR 1646 01:03:11,984 --> 01:03:14,052 EFFICACY AND THE SAFETY LOOKS 1647 01:03:14,052 --> 01:03:16,588 FANTASTIC, A FEW PEOPLE WHO -- 1648 01:03:16,588 --> 01:03:17,823 IT FEELS A LITTLE WEIRD GOING ON 1649 01:03:17,823 --> 01:03:19,158 BECAUSE IT'S GOT SUGAR IN THERE 1650 01:03:19,158 --> 01:03:21,126 AS THE STABILIZER, BUT THIS IS 1651 01:03:21,126 --> 01:03:24,129 WHERE NIH MADE THE DEAL WITH 1652 01:03:24,129 --> 01:03:25,898 SKINESA TO SELL IT, SO SOME 1653 01:03:25,898 --> 01:03:27,966 PATIENTS ARE ALREADY USING THIS 1654 01:03:27,966 --> 01:03:28,801 OVER THE COUNTER AND THIS IS 1655 01:03:28,801 --> 01:03:31,537 AVAILABLE. 1656 01:03:31,537 --> 01:03:33,739 SO LIKE I SAID, OUR YOUNG MAN 1657 01:03:33,739 --> 01:03:35,040 CAME IN AND THIS IS WHAT HE 1658 01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:36,642 LOOKS LIKE, YOU KNOW, 8 WEEKS 1659 01:03:36,642 --> 01:03:37,843 LATER. 1660 01:03:37,843 --> 01:03:40,813 HE WAS ABLE TO SUSTAIN IT, 1661 01:03:40,813 --> 01:03:43,649 RETURNED TO CAMPUS, IT WAS 1662 01:03:43,649 --> 01:03:44,917 OVERALL DOING WELL AND THEN 1663 01:03:44,917 --> 01:03:47,553 NOTICED KIND OF SLIGHT WORSENING 1664 01:03:47,553 --> 01:03:51,590 IN HIS NEW DORM ROOM, NOTHING 1665 01:03:51,590 --> 01:03:52,925 BACK TO WHERE HE WAS BUT THEN IS 1666 01:03:52,925 --> 01:03:54,493 KIND OF ASKING THE QUESTION OF 1667 01:03:54,493 --> 01:03:56,028 LIKE, ALL RIGHT, IT WAS WORKING, 1668 01:03:56,028 --> 01:03:57,262 NOW IT'S NOT, WHAT DO YOU THINK 1669 01:03:57,262 --> 01:03:58,397 IS GOING ON? 1670 01:03:58,397 --> 01:04:00,466 AND AGAIN, THIS IS KIND OF THE 1671 01:04:00,466 --> 01:04:02,100 BROADER QUESTION NOT JUST WITHIN 1672 01:04:02,100 --> 01:04:06,138 AN INDIVIDUAL PATIENT, WHY AM I 1673 01:04:06,138 --> 01:04:08,874 FLARING TODAY WHEN I WAS FINE 1674 01:04:08,874 --> 01:04:09,975 TOMORROW? 1675 01:04:09,975 --> 01:04:11,176 BUT IT'S GREAT THAT THESE 1676 01:04:11,176 --> 01:04:12,478 BACTERIA CAN BE USED AS THERAPY, 1677 01:04:12,478 --> 01:04:13,645 BUT IT DOESN'T ANSWER IN ANY 1678 01:04:13,645 --> 01:04:15,280 WAY, SHAPE OR FORM WHY WE SHOULD 1679 01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:16,615 HAVE SUCH A PROBLEM SINCE THE 1680 01:04:16,615 --> 01:04:17,115 1970s. 1681 01:04:17,115 --> 01:04:18,417 SO TO GET AT THAT, WE STARTED 1682 01:04:18,417 --> 01:04:19,451 WITH TWO -- WE STARTED WITH THE 1683 01:04:19,451 --> 01:04:20,486 FIRST APPROACH ASKING THE 1684 01:04:20,486 --> 01:04:21,987 QUESTION OF LIKE ALL THE TOPICAL 1685 01:04:21,987 --> 01:04:23,188 SOAPS AND PRODUCTS AND STUFF 1686 01:04:23,188 --> 01:04:26,058 THAT WE USE NOWADAYS THAT HAVE A 1687 01:04:26,058 --> 01:04:26,859 THOUSAND INGREDIENTS IN THE 1688 01:04:26,859 --> 01:04:27,192 BACK. 1689 01:04:27,192 --> 01:04:28,594 LIKE I SAID, YOU CAN GO TO THE 1690 01:04:28,594 --> 01:04:30,896 STORE AND FIND ONE THAT BRAGS 1691 01:04:30,896 --> 01:04:32,631 THAT IT HAS CERAMIDES BUT THAT'S 1692 01:04:32,631 --> 01:04:33,832 NOT THE ONLY THING IT HAS IN 1693 01:04:33,832 --> 01:04:34,700 THAT BOTTLE. 1694 01:04:34,700 --> 01:04:36,034 SO ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WE 1695 01:04:36,034 --> 01:04:37,736 LOOKED AT IS THE ABILITY OF 1696 01:04:37,736 --> 01:04:39,838 DIFFERENT WHAT THEY CALL 1697 01:04:39,838 --> 01:04:41,807 EMOLLIENTS OR MOISTURIZERS, THE 1698 01:04:41,807 --> 01:04:43,809 DIFFERENT CHEMICAL INGREDIENTS 1699 01:04:43,809 --> 01:04:45,277 TO KILL OFF THE GOOD BACTERIA 1700 01:04:45,277 --> 01:04:47,546 AND WE DO THIS -- THIS IS THE 1701 01:04:47,546 --> 01:04:51,617 SAME PLATE THAT YOU WOULD USE TO 1702 01:04:51,617 --> 01:04:54,086 TEST IF A BACTERIA IS RESISTANT 1703 01:04:54,086 --> 01:04:54,753 TO PENICILLIN. 1704 01:04:54,753 --> 01:05:00,058 SO THIS IS OUR GOOD KIND OF 1705 01:05:00,058 --> 01:05:00,325 ROSIMONAS. 1706 01:05:00,325 --> 01:05:03,595 YOU CAN SEE IT KILLS IT OFF AND 1707 01:05:03,595 --> 01:05:05,230 BLEACHES IT BEYOND THE INITIAL 1708 01:05:05,230 --> 01:05:07,833 CORE, AND THIS IS STAPH AUREUS 1709 01:05:07,833 --> 01:05:09,134 THAT FOR THE MOST PART SEEMS 1710 01:05:09,134 --> 01:05:10,335 PRETTY WELL ADJUSTED TO BEING 1711 01:05:10,335 --> 01:05:11,603 ABLE TO SURVIVE IN THE FACE OF 1712 01:05:11,603 --> 01:05:12,704 PAIR BINS. 1713 01:05:12,704 --> 01:05:13,772 SO WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT SOME 1714 01:05:13,772 --> 01:05:16,041 OF THE PRODUCTS THAT YOU BUY 1715 01:05:16,041 --> 01:05:17,376 OVER THE STORE THAT YOU'RE 1716 01:05:17,376 --> 01:05:18,577 SLATHERING ON, THOSE 1717 01:05:18,577 --> 01:05:22,281 PRESERVATIVES THAT THEY USE IN 1718 01:05:22,281 --> 01:05:24,816 THERE ARE MEANT TO KEEP 1719 01:05:24,816 --> 01:05:26,184 MICROORGANISMS FROM GROWING AND 1720 01:05:26,184 --> 01:05:27,819 IF YOU SLATHER THOSE ON YOUR 1721 01:05:27,819 --> 01:05:29,021 SKIN, SOME OF THOSE WILL BE 1722 01:05:29,021 --> 01:05:30,355 REALLY GOOD AT KEEPING YOUR 1723 01:05:30,355 --> 01:05:31,423 COMMENSAL ORGANISMS FROM GROWING 1724 01:05:31,423 --> 01:05:33,258 AND WILL GIVE AN ADVANTAGE OR 1725 01:05:33,258 --> 01:05:34,459 DISADVANTAGE TO THE GOOD 1726 01:05:34,459 --> 01:05:36,161 BACTERIA OR BAD BACTERIA 1727 01:05:36,161 --> 01:05:37,496 DEPENDING ON THE SPECIFIC 1728 01:05:37,496 --> 01:05:37,796 INGREDIENTS. 1729 01:05:37,796 --> 01:05:38,463 THE OTHER PROBLEM IS THAT SOME 1730 01:05:38,463 --> 01:05:40,232 OF THESE MOISTURIZERS CAN 1731 01:05:40,232 --> 01:05:41,300 CONTAIN IRRITANTS THEMSELVES, SO 1732 01:05:41,300 --> 01:05:44,670 THIS IS FROM ONE STUDY THAT -- A 1733 01:05:44,670 --> 01:05:45,837 META-ANALYSIS THAT COLLECTED A 1734 01:05:45,837 --> 01:05:46,838 BUNCH OF DIFFERENT STUDIES AND 1735 01:05:46,838 --> 01:05:48,173 LOOKED AT WHAT ARE THE RATES OF 1736 01:05:48,173 --> 01:05:49,575 DIFFERENT TOPICAL PRODUCTS THAT 1737 01:05:49,575 --> 01:05:53,478 PEOPLE ARE STUDYING, HOW MANY OF 1738 01:05:53,478 --> 01:05:54,980 THEM HAVE A KNOWN IRRITANT OR 1739 01:05:54,980 --> 01:05:56,214 SOMETHING WE KNOW PEOPLE WILL 1740 01:05:56,214 --> 01:05:58,216 POTENTIALLY REACT TO. 1741 01:05:58,216 --> 01:06:03,589 ONLY 25% HAD NONE. 1742 01:06:03,589 --> 01:06:04,790 SO A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF 1743 01:06:04,790 --> 01:06:05,557 PRODUCTS ON THE SHELF WILL 1744 01:06:05,557 --> 01:06:06,558 EITHER HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS A 1745 01:06:06,558 --> 01:06:07,726 KNOWN IRRITANT OR IT WILL HAVE 1746 01:06:07,726 --> 01:06:09,595 SOMETHING THAT KILLS OFF YOUR 1747 01:06:09,595 --> 01:06:10,662 POTENTIALLY GOOD BACTERIA. 1748 01:06:10,662 --> 01:06:11,964 SO THAT BECOMES A LITTLE 1749 01:06:11,964 --> 01:06:16,568 PROBLEMATIC IN TERMS OF HOW ARE 1750 01:06:16,568 --> 01:06:17,869 PATIENTS SUPPOSED TO DEAL AND 1751 01:06:17,869 --> 01:06:19,838 PICK OUT THEIR BEST 1752 01:06:19,838 --> 01:06:20,505 MOISTURIZERS. 1753 01:06:20,505 --> 01:06:21,540 BUT WE DIDN'T START WITH THAT IN 1754 01:06:21,540 --> 01:06:22,541 THE 1970s. 1755 01:06:22,541 --> 01:06:23,408 THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THAT 1756 01:06:23,408 --> 01:06:28,080 THAT COULD CREATE THIS KIND OF 1757 01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:29,081 IMPACT ON THE ENTIRETY OF 1758 01:06:29,081 --> 01:06:30,749 SOCIETY IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD 1759 01:06:30,749 --> 01:06:32,351 OF TIME SO WE FIGURED IT HAD TO 1760 01:06:32,351 --> 01:06:33,018 BE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 1761 01:06:33,018 --> 01:06:37,756 SO WHAT WE DID WAS, WE'RE 1762 01:06:37,756 --> 01:06:39,725 LOOKING FOR ECZEMA HOT SPOTS 1763 01:06:39,725 --> 01:06:41,059 THAT YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD FOR 1764 01:06:41,059 --> 01:06:42,961 CANCER CLUSTERS OR THINGS THAT 1765 01:06:42,961 --> 01:06:43,862 ERIN BROCKOVICH MADE FAMOUS IN 1766 01:06:43,862 --> 01:06:45,063 THE MOVIE AND THE BOOK. 1767 01:06:45,063 --> 01:06:48,467 SO WHAT WE'RE DOING IS SAYING 1768 01:06:48,467 --> 01:06:51,370 WHICH TOWNS HAVE WAY MORE ATOPIC 1769 01:06:51,370 --> 01:06:52,904 DERM THAN WE EXPECT ON AVERAGE, 1770 01:06:52,904 --> 01:06:57,142 WHICH HAVE WAY LESS, BHU USING 1771 01:06:57,142 --> 01:06:58,877 EPA DATABASES, WHICH CHEMICALS 1772 01:06:58,877 --> 01:07:00,212 ARE OVERREPRESENTED IN EACH OF 1773 01:07:00,212 --> 01:07:01,179 THOSE DIFFERENT ZIP CODES. 1774 01:07:01,179 --> 01:07:04,750 TO CUT TO THE CHASE, THESE TWO 1775 01:07:04,750 --> 01:07:06,284 CHEMICALS ARE FAR AND AWAY THE 1776 01:07:06,284 --> 01:07:10,122 ONES WITH THE STRONGEST 1777 01:07:10,122 --> 01:07:11,623 ASSOCIATION WITH DISEASE ON A 1778 01:07:11,623 --> 01:07:12,057 POPULATION LEVEL. 1779 01:07:12,057 --> 01:07:14,026 WE THEN WANT TO GO BACK AND LOOK 1780 01:07:14,026 --> 01:07:15,661 AT THOSE DIFFERENT EPIDEMIOLOGIC 1781 01:07:15,661 --> 01:07:19,031 FACTORS THAT I TOLD YOU, LIVING 1782 01:07:19,031 --> 01:07:20,565 IN AN INDUSTRIALIZED 1783 01:07:20,565 --> 01:07:22,701 ENVIRONMENT, AUTOMOBILE EXHAUST, 1784 01:07:22,701 --> 01:07:24,269 AND WE START TO ASK THE 1785 01:07:24,269 --> 01:07:25,337 QUESTION, ARE THERE SIGNS THAT 1786 01:07:25,337 --> 01:07:29,708 THESE CHEMICALS ALIGN WITH THOSE 1787 01:07:29,708 --> 01:07:30,609 EXPOSURES? 1788 01:07:30,609 --> 01:07:33,612 SO TDI IS THE NUMBER ONE 1789 01:07:33,612 --> 01:07:37,883 ISOCYANATE, SO IN EARNEST ITS 1790 01:07:37,883 --> 01:07:41,386 MANUFACTURING BEGAN AROUND 1970. 1791 01:07:41,386 --> 01:07:44,656 XYLENE GAME -- MANUFACTURING FOR 1792 01:07:44,656 --> 01:07:46,425 IT ALSO KICKS OFF IN THE UNITED 1793 01:07:46,425 --> 01:07:48,160 STATES ON OR AROUND 1970 SO 1794 01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:49,361 THESE START TO SPRING UP RIGHT 1795 01:07:49,361 --> 01:07:50,829 AROUND THESE OUTBREAKS. 1796 01:07:50,829 --> 01:07:52,297 PRIOR TO 1970, NOT A SINGLE 1797 01:07:52,297 --> 01:07:53,565 AUTOMOBILE ON THE ROAD PRODUCED 1798 01:07:53,565 --> 01:07:55,300 EITHER ONE OF THESE CHEMICALS. 1799 01:07:55,300 --> 01:07:57,703 IN 1970, WE BEGAN TRANSITIONING 1800 01:07:57,703 --> 01:08:01,306 OFF OF LEADED GASOLINE AND ON TO 1801 01:08:01,306 --> 01:08:02,040 NON-LEADED GASOLINE. 1802 01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:05,343 I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE COMING OFF 1803 01:08:05,343 --> 01:08:08,180 LEADED GASOLINE HAS ITS OWN 1804 01:08:08,180 --> 01:08:12,417 MASSIVE BENEFITS BUT AN 1805 01:08:12,417 --> 01:08:13,952 UNFORTUNATE UNINTEND THE 1806 01:08:13,952 --> 01:08:15,120 CONSEQUENCE THAT AFTER THE 1807 01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:17,122 CATALYTIC CONVERTER WAS MANDATED 1808 01:08:17,122 --> 01:08:18,190 IN 1970 EVERY AUTOMOBILE BECAME 1809 01:08:18,190 --> 01:08:20,358 A PRODUCER OF XYLENE AND 1810 01:08:20,358 --> 01:08:21,460 ISOCYANATES, THUS POTENTIALLY 1811 01:08:21,460 --> 01:08:22,961 EXPLAINING THE CONNECTION WITH 1812 01:08:22,961 --> 01:08:23,762 HIGHWAYS. 1813 01:08:23,762 --> 01:08:25,130 THE ONLY NATURAL SOURCE OF BOTH 1814 01:08:25,130 --> 01:08:26,798 OF THESE CHEMICALS IS WILDFIRES 1815 01:08:26,798 --> 01:08:28,700 OR TIMBER WASTE. 1816 01:08:28,700 --> 01:08:31,636 SO THAT WAS CONCERNING. 1817 01:08:31,636 --> 01:08:32,871 THEN WHEN WE WENT THROUGH TO 1818 01:08:32,871 --> 01:08:34,973 START LOOKING, BECAUSE WHEN 1819 01:08:34,973 --> 01:08:37,209 THESE CAME UP, I HAD NEVER HEARD 1820 01:08:37,209 --> 01:08:38,310 OF THESE CHEMICALS IN OUR 1821 01:08:38,310 --> 01:08:38,877 ANALYSIS. 1822 01:08:38,877 --> 01:08:40,178 YOU START LOOKING IN WHAT THESE 1823 01:08:40,178 --> 01:08:43,548 THINGS ARE FOUND ON, THEY ARE IN 1824 01:08:43,548 --> 01:08:47,686 NEW FURNITURE, WALLPAPER GLUE, 1825 01:08:47,686 --> 01:08:50,522 SEALANTS AND PAINTS, ALL OF THE 1826 01:08:50,522 --> 01:08:52,791 THINGS THAT YOU WOULD USE TO 1827 01:08:52,791 --> 01:08:54,659 REMODEL A HOME ALMOST ALL 1828 01:08:54,659 --> 01:08:57,062 REQUIRE ONE IF NOT BOTH OF THESE 1829 01:08:57,062 --> 01:08:57,496 CHEMICALS. 1830 01:08:57,496 --> 01:08:58,663 LOOKING AT THE MECHANISM, I 1831 01:08:58,663 --> 01:08:59,564 WON'T BEAT THIS TO DEATH BUT THE 1832 01:08:59,564 --> 01:09:01,299 SHORT VERSION IS YOUR BACTERIA 1833 01:09:01,299 --> 01:09:02,300 BREATHED NITROGEN, AT LEAST THE 1834 01:09:02,300 --> 01:09:05,003 ONES ON THE SKIN, AND THESE 1835 01:09:05,003 --> 01:09:06,204 PARTICULAR CHEMICALS CHOKE OFF 1836 01:09:06,204 --> 01:09:07,639 THEIR ABILITY TO BREATHE 1837 01:09:07,639 --> 01:09:09,708 NITROGEN SO THE WAY THEY GET 1838 01:09:09,708 --> 01:09:11,243 AROUND THAT IS THEY STOP MAKING 1839 01:09:11,243 --> 01:09:12,744 THESE BENEFICIAL LIPIDS, THEY 1840 01:09:12,744 --> 01:09:14,613 TURN OFF THEIR CERAMIDE 1841 01:09:14,613 --> 01:09:16,648 PRODUCTION, AND THEY START 1842 01:09:16,648 --> 01:09:17,315 SHIFTING THEIR PHYSIOLOGY TO 1843 01:09:17,315 --> 01:09:18,517 SOMETHING THAT WILL PROTECT THEM 1844 01:09:18,517 --> 01:09:20,285 FROM THESE CHEMICALS BUT COME AT 1845 01:09:20,285 --> 01:09:20,819 OUR EXPENSE. 1846 01:09:20,819 --> 01:09:22,687 YOU CAN ACTUALLY WATCH THIS 1847 01:09:22,687 --> 01:09:24,756 HAPPEN ON THE DOSING, SO IN RED 1848 01:09:24,756 --> 01:09:26,958 IS THE AMOUNT OF CERAMIDES THAT 1849 01:09:26,958 --> 01:09:28,460 THESE BACTERIA ARE MAKING AND AS 1850 01:09:28,460 --> 01:09:30,562 A CRANK UP THE DOSE OF THESE 1851 01:09:30,562 --> 01:09:32,197 PARTICULAR CHEMICALS, THIS ONE 1852 01:09:32,197 --> 01:09:34,266 IS ISOCYANATE, I CAN TURN OFF 1853 01:09:34,266 --> 01:09:36,535 THE BA BACTERIA'S ABILITY TO MAE 1854 01:09:36,535 --> 01:09:38,203 THESE PARTICULAR LIPIDS, EVEN IN 1855 01:09:38,203 --> 01:09:40,472 LOWER CONCENTRATIONS WHERE THE 1856 01:09:40,472 --> 01:09:41,907 BACTERIAL GROWTH IS IMPROVED. 1857 01:09:41,907 --> 01:09:42,774 SO THESE BACTERIA HAVE THE 1858 01:09:42,774 --> 01:09:46,244 ABILITY TO EAT THESE TOXINS AND 1859 01:09:46,244 --> 01:09:48,280 GROW MORE, BUT THEY'RE DOING IT 1860 01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:50,515 AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR LIPID 1861 01:09:50,515 --> 01:09:54,553 PHYSIOLOGY AND SO TURNING OFF 1862 01:09:54,553 --> 01:09:57,823 THESE PARTICULAR PATHWAYS. 1863 01:09:57,823 --> 01:09:58,890 SO CONNECTING IT BACK TO THE 1864 01:09:58,890 --> 01:10:01,092 REAL WORLD TO SAY ALL RIGHT, IT 1865 01:10:01,092 --> 01:10:02,360 LOOKS LIKE THESE THINGS ARE 1866 01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:03,528 TURNING OFF THESE LIPIDS, IS 1867 01:10:03,528 --> 01:10:04,563 THERE ANYTHING IN THE REAL WORLD 1868 01:10:04,563 --> 01:10:05,430 THAT MIGHT BE CONCERNING? 1869 01:10:05,430 --> 01:10:06,832 I'LL SHOW YOU TWO THING HERE. 1870 01:10:06,832 --> 01:10:08,567 THE FIRST IS GOING BACK TO THAT 1871 01:10:08,567 --> 01:10:10,769 CLINICAL TRIAL, SO IF YOU GOT 1872 01:10:10,769 --> 01:10:11,870 TREATED, THAT'S THE ONE IN THE 1873 01:10:11,870 --> 01:10:13,271 PINK, WITH THE REAL TREATMENT 1874 01:10:13,271 --> 01:10:14,906 VERSUS THE BLACK WHICH IS THE 1875 01:10:14,906 --> 01:10:15,874 PLACEBO, YOU NOTICE ONCE AGAIN 1876 01:10:15,874 --> 01:10:17,843 LIKE I SHOWED YOU BEFORE, THE 1877 01:10:17,843 --> 01:10:19,377 PLACEBO WEARS OFF AND THE PINK 1878 01:10:19,377 --> 01:10:21,012 ONES HOLD TIGHT. 1879 01:10:21,012 --> 01:10:23,114 BUT IF YOU LIVE IN AN AREA WHERE 1880 01:10:23,114 --> 01:10:25,050 YOU HAVE MORE THAN AVERAGE 1881 01:10:25,050 --> 01:10:26,685 ISOCYANATE EXPOSURE, THE 1882 01:10:26,685 --> 01:10:27,786 BACTERIA ACTUALLY WORKED EVEN 1883 01:10:27,786 --> 01:10:28,920 BETTER FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAN 1884 01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:31,356 PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN BELOW AVERAGE 1885 01:10:31,356 --> 01:10:32,123 AREAS. 1886 01:10:32,123 --> 01:10:34,092 AND WE ARE FOLLOWING UP ON THIS 1887 01:10:34,092 --> 01:10:36,161 IN OUR SUBSEQUENT STUDY MORE 1888 01:10:36,161 --> 01:10:38,230 PURPOSEFULLY, BUT THE TAKE-HOME 1889 01:10:38,230 --> 01:10:39,598 FROM THIS IN OUR MIND IS THAT IF 1890 01:10:39,598 --> 01:10:41,399 YOU LIVE IN AN AREA WHERE YOUR 1891 01:10:41,399 --> 01:10:42,601 NATURAL BACTERIA ARE MORE LIKELY 1892 01:10:42,601 --> 01:10:45,303 TO BE POISONED OFF BY THESE 1893 01:10:45,303 --> 01:10:46,605 CHEMICALS, THEN REPLACING THEM 1894 01:10:46,605 --> 01:10:47,939 WITH BETTER BACTERIA IS GOING TO 1895 01:10:47,939 --> 01:10:49,341 BE MORE BENEFICIAL TO YOU THAN 1896 01:10:49,341 --> 01:10:50,642 IF YOU LIVE IN AN OTHERWISE 1897 01:10:50,642 --> 01:10:54,145 PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT. 1898 01:10:54,145 --> 01:10:55,680 THE LAST THING WE CAN DO IS TEST 1899 01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:57,315 THIS IN THE LAB, SO ALL OF THOSE 1900 01:10:57,315 --> 01:10:57,849 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT YOU 1901 01:10:57,849 --> 01:10:58,950 BROUGHT IN YOUR HOME, WE CAN 1902 01:10:58,950 --> 01:10:59,951 TEST THAT IN THE LAB. 1903 01:10:59,951 --> 01:11:02,787 SO HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU 1904 01:11:02,787 --> 01:11:03,788 SPRAY STAPH AUREUS ON TO 1905 01:11:03,788 --> 01:11:05,390 DIFFERENT KINDS OF BED SHEETS 1906 01:11:05,390 --> 01:11:06,491 MADE OUT OF THESE DIFFERENT 1907 01:11:06,491 --> 01:11:08,126 MATERIALS, JUST LET THEM SIT AND 1908 01:11:08,126 --> 01:11:09,861 SEE HOW LONG THEY CAN SURVIVE ON 1909 01:11:09,861 --> 01:11:11,296 THE BED SHEETS BY THEMSELVES AND 1910 01:11:11,296 --> 01:11:11,730 LOOK AT THE GROWTH. 1911 01:11:11,730 --> 01:11:13,832 SO YOU CAN SEE COTTON AND BAMBOO 1912 01:11:13,832 --> 01:11:15,533 DO NOT SUPPORT THE GROWTH OF 1913 01:11:15,533 --> 01:11:16,768 STAPH AUREUS VERY LONG, EVEN 1914 01:11:16,768 --> 01:11:18,737 THOUGH THESE OTHER SYNTHETIC FAB 1915 01:11:18,737 --> 01:11:23,942 BRIFABRICS DO. 1916 01:11:23,942 --> 01:11:27,679 YOU MUTE L MIGHT LOOK AT OUR GOD 1917 01:11:27,679 --> 01:11:29,948 BACTERIA AND SAY THIS IS GOOD 1918 01:11:29,948 --> 01:11:31,249 NEWS, OF COURSE THE BAD NEWS IS 1919 01:11:31,249 --> 01:11:33,451 GROWING ON SPANDEX, NYLON OR 1920 01:11:33,451 --> 01:11:34,519 POLYESTER CAUSES THEM TO ONCE 1921 01:11:34,519 --> 01:11:35,620 AGAIN SHIFT THEIR PHYSIOLOGY. 1922 01:11:35,620 --> 01:11:37,689 SO THEY'LL GROW ON THOSE 1923 01:11:37,689 --> 01:11:39,991 FABRICS, BUT THEY WILL STOP 1924 01:11:39,991 --> 01:11:42,060 MAKING LIPIDS IN ORDER TO GROW 1925 01:11:42,060 --> 01:11:44,229 ON THOSE FABRICS. 1926 01:11:44,229 --> 01:11:46,331 AND SO FOR OUR PATIENT, WE KIND 1927 01:11:46,331 --> 01:11:48,600 OF GAVE HIM SOME GENERAL ADVICE, 1928 01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:50,068 SO IN HIS DORM, HE FOUND OUT HE 1929 01:11:50,068 --> 01:11:53,505 HAD A MEMORY FOAM MATTRESS SO HE 1930 01:11:53,505 --> 01:11:56,007 SWITCHED TO A LATEX FOAM 1931 01:11:56,007 --> 01:11:56,474 MATTRESS. 1932 01:11:56,474 --> 01:11:58,109 SHEETS WERE POLYESTER, HE 1933 01:11:58,109 --> 01:11:59,744 SWITCHED OVER TO COTTON. 1934 01:11:59,744 --> 01:12:01,346 I'M NOT -- I AM AWARE THAT THIS 1935 01:12:01,346 --> 01:12:03,748 IS NOT A 0-DOLLAR EVENT SO NOT 1936 01:12:03,748 --> 01:12:04,849 EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO 1937 01:12:04,849 --> 01:12:05,517 DO THAT. 1938 01:12:05,517 --> 01:12:07,052 HE GOT HIMSELF AN AIR FILTER. 1939 01:12:07,052 --> 01:12:08,987 WE CAN COME BACK TO THAT IF YOU 1940 01:12:08,987 --> 01:12:09,220 WANT. 1941 01:12:09,220 --> 01:12:10,622 IT'S HARD TO KNOW EXACTLY WHICH 1942 01:12:10,622 --> 01:12:12,490 ONE TO GET, BUT HE SEEMED TO 1943 01:12:12,490 --> 01:12:14,993 IMPROVE BACK TO HIS KIND OF 1944 01:12:14,993 --> 01:12:16,094 POST-TREATMENT LEVELS FOR WHAT 1945 01:12:16,094 --> 01:12:17,395 IT'S WORTH. 1946 01:12:17,395 --> 01:12:21,132 SO THESE TWO CHEMICALS ALIGN 1947 01:12:21,132 --> 01:12:23,868 WITH ISOCYANATES IN TIME IN 1948 01:12:23,868 --> 01:12:25,270 TERMS OF WHEN THEY HIT THE 1949 01:12:25,270 --> 01:12:26,137 MARKET SPACE IN TERMS OF WHERE 1950 01:12:26,137 --> 01:12:29,274 THEY ARE IN THE COUNTRY AND IN 1951 01:12:29,274 --> 01:12:29,641 YOUR HOME. 1952 01:12:29,641 --> 01:12:31,142 WE HAVE MECHANISMS THAT IMPLY 1953 01:12:31,142 --> 01:12:32,577 THAT BOTH THE INDIVIDUAL IS 1954 01:12:32,577 --> 01:12:34,546 HARMED AND THE MICROBIOME, SO 1955 01:12:34,546 --> 01:12:36,815 THE REALLY TAKE HOME POINTS FOR 1956 01:12:36,815 --> 01:12:38,249 THIS, THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE 1957 01:12:38,249 --> 01:12:39,684 HAD ABOUT GENUINE PREVENTION, IF 1958 01:12:39,684 --> 01:12:42,387 YOU REALLY WANT TO START TALKING 1959 01:12:42,387 --> 01:12:43,421 ABOUT PREVENTING THESE DISEASES 1960 01:12:43,421 --> 01:12:45,657 IN KIDS, YOU NEED TO START 1961 01:12:45,657 --> 01:12:47,192 PROTECTING THEM FROM THESE 1962 01:12:47,192 --> 01:12:48,259 EXPOSURES EARLY IN LIFE BECAUSE 1963 01:12:48,259 --> 01:12:49,461 A LOT OF TIMES PREVENTION 1964 01:12:49,461 --> 01:12:50,895 STUDIES TALK ABOUT SLATHERING 1965 01:12:50,895 --> 01:12:54,132 THEM IN SOME KIND OF MOISTURIZER 1966 01:12:54,132 --> 01:12:55,600 OR GIVING THEM A DRUG. 1967 01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:56,835 THAT'S NOT REALLY PREVENTION IN 1968 01:12:56,835 --> 01:12:57,769 THE WAY THAT WE WOULD THINK 1969 01:12:57,769 --> 01:12:59,070 ABOUT IT. 1970 01:12:59,070 --> 01:12:59,938 THERE'S IMPLICATIONS FOR 1971 01:12:59,938 --> 01:13:00,805 DISPARITIES IN TERMS OF THE 1972 01:13:00,805 --> 01:13:02,007 POPULATIONS THAT GET EXPOSED TO 1973 01:13:02,007 --> 01:13:03,074 THE MOST AMOUNT OF THESE 1974 01:13:03,074 --> 01:13:03,808 PARTICULAR DISORDERS ARE ALSO 1975 01:13:03,808 --> 01:13:06,177 THE ONES THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST 1976 01:13:06,177 --> 01:13:08,480 RATES OF ATOPIC DERM AND OTHER 1977 01:13:08,480 --> 01:13:09,347 ALLERGIC DISEASES SO THAT'S 1978 01:13:09,347 --> 01:13:10,015 SOMETHING THAT SHOULDING 1979 01:13:10,015 --> 01:13:10,882 FOLLOWED UP ON. 1980 01:13:10,882 --> 01:13:13,785 AND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE HAD 1981 01:13:13,785 --> 01:13:14,486 ABOUT OTHER DISEASES. 1982 01:13:14,486 --> 01:13:16,221 WE MADE THE MODEL OF TRYING TO 1983 01:13:16,221 --> 01:13:17,655 FIND THE ECZEMA HOT SPOTS AND 1984 01:13:17,655 --> 01:13:20,458 THEN LOOKING FOR THE CHEMICALS 1985 01:13:20,458 --> 01:13:22,127 ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE ECZEMA HOT 1986 01:13:22,127 --> 01:13:22,761 SPOTS. 1987 01:13:22,761 --> 01:13:25,063 WE'VE SINCE EXPANDED TO MANY 1988 01:13:25,063 --> 01:13:25,930 OTHER DISEASES. 1989 01:13:25,930 --> 01:13:28,233 I AM JUST SHOWING YOU THE ONES 1990 01:13:28,233 --> 01:13:30,735 FOR WATER POLLUTION IN CHILDREN 1991 01:13:30,735 --> 01:13:32,704 6 TO 17, AND THIS IS UNPUBLISHED 1992 01:13:32,704 --> 01:13:34,105 BUT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS THIS 1993 01:13:34,105 --> 01:13:36,207 AND I'M JUST GOING TO QUICKLY 1994 01:13:36,207 --> 01:13:38,043 HIGHLIGHT THE ONES IN YELLOW 1995 01:13:38,043 --> 01:13:40,211 HERE ARE BEHAVIORAL 1996 01:13:40,211 --> 01:13:42,080 NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS. 1997 01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:45,050 SO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT WHICH 1998 01:13:45,050 --> 01:13:46,584 DISEASES HAVE THE STRONGEST 1999 01:13:46,584 --> 01:13:47,986 CHEMICAL SIGNAL, WHICH CHEMICALS 2000 01:13:47,986 --> 01:13:49,754 MIGHT BE DRIVING OTHER DISEASES 2001 01:13:49,754 --> 01:13:52,924 BEYOND ATOPIC DERM, THE 2002 01:13:52,924 --> 01:13:53,825 NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISORDERS ARE BY 2003 01:13:53,825 --> 01:13:55,326 FAR THE ONES THAT COME UP THE 2004 01:13:55,326 --> 01:13:56,628 MOST WITH SOME OF THESE 2005 01:13:56,628 --> 01:14:00,231 ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS. 2006 01:14:00,231 --> 01:14:01,533 SO REALLY WHAT SHOULD WE BE 2007 01:14:01,533 --> 01:14:02,300 DOING ABOUT THIS? 2008 01:14:02,300 --> 01:14:03,468 THE FIRST THING IS TO KIND OF 2009 01:14:03,468 --> 01:14:04,803 RECOGNIZE THAT THE DISEASE CAN 2010 01:14:04,803 --> 01:14:06,271 BE TREATED BY DRUGS BUT IT 2011 01:14:06,271 --> 01:14:07,205 DOESN'T MEAN THE DISEASE IS 2012 01:14:07,205 --> 01:14:08,740 CAUSED BY A LACK OF THAT DRUG. 2013 01:14:08,740 --> 01:14:10,341 AND I THINK WE ALL INHERENTLY 2014 01:14:10,341 --> 01:14:11,776 KNOW THIS BUT IT'S EASY TO GET 2015 01:14:11,776 --> 01:14:14,746 VERY EXCITED ABOUT HOW YOU GIVE 2016 01:14:14,746 --> 01:14:16,281 A PATIENT A DRUG, THEY GET A LOT 2017 01:14:16,281 --> 01:14:17,782 BETTER AND YOU GET EXCITED TO 2018 01:14:17,782 --> 01:14:18,983 THINK IF I COULD JUST GIVE THIS 2019 01:14:18,983 --> 01:14:20,285 DRUG TO EVERYBODY, THEN WE COULD 2020 01:14:20,285 --> 01:14:21,619 MAKE A BIG IMPACT. 2021 01:14:21,619 --> 01:14:23,721 AND MAYBE. 2022 01:14:23,721 --> 01:14:25,990 BUT I STILL THINK PREVENTION 2023 01:14:25,990 --> 01:14:28,726 SHOULD REIGN IF WE HAVE THE 2024 01:14:28,726 --> 01:14:30,061 OPTION. 2025 01:14:30,061 --> 01:14:31,996 WE HEAR A LOT OH, I WORK ON 2026 01:14:31,996 --> 01:14:33,431 MECHANISM, AND I WOULD SAY THAT 2027 01:14:33,431 --> 01:14:34,199 MECHANISM DOESN'T START AT THE 2028 01:14:34,199 --> 01:14:36,367 SKIN, WE REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON 2029 01:14:36,367 --> 01:14:37,702 THINGS ABOVE THE SKIN AND WE 2030 01:14:37,702 --> 01:14:40,004 NEED TO START DEMANDING 2031 01:14:40,004 --> 01:14:40,305 SPECIFICITY. 2032 01:14:40,305 --> 01:14:42,273 SO I HEAR THIS OH, WELL, INDIA 2033 01:14:42,273 --> 01:14:43,541 IS MORE POLLUTED THAN THE UNITED 2034 01:14:43,541 --> 01:14:44,776 STATES AND WHY DON'T THEY HAVE 2035 01:14:44,776 --> 01:14:45,543 HIGHER RATES? 2036 01:14:45,543 --> 01:14:47,078 MY RESPONSE TO THAT IS INDIA IS 2037 01:14:47,078 --> 01:14:47,912 DIFFERENT POLLUTED THAN THE 2038 01:14:47,912 --> 01:14:48,379 UNITED STATES. 2039 01:14:48,379 --> 01:14:49,914 WE CAN'T JUST USE POLLUTION AS A 2040 01:14:49,914 --> 01:14:51,015 BLANKET STATEMENT. 2041 01:14:51,015 --> 01:14:52,317 LOS ANGELES MAY HAVE MORE TOTAL 2042 01:14:52,317 --> 01:14:54,185 POLLUTANTS THAN, SAY, RURAL 2043 01:14:54,185 --> 01:14:55,253 KANSAS, BUT IF THE DISEASE 2044 01:14:55,253 --> 01:14:57,122 YOU'RE INTERESTED IN IS 2045 01:14:57,122 --> 01:14:58,556 AFFILIATED WITH HERBICIDES OR 2046 01:14:58,556 --> 01:14:59,524 PESTICIDES THAT ARE MORE LIKELY 2047 01:14:59,524 --> 01:15:01,259 TO BE SPRAYED ON FARMS, THEN 2048 01:15:01,259 --> 01:15:03,461 KANSAS IS MORE POLLUTED IN THAT 2049 01:15:03,461 --> 01:15:04,429 SPECIFIC CONTEXT THAN 2050 01:15:04,429 --> 01:15:05,330 LOS ANGELES. 2051 01:15:05,330 --> 01:15:06,865 SO ONE OF THE THINGS OUR LAB IS 2052 01:15:06,865 --> 01:15:08,700 TRYING TO DO IS COLLECT THIS 2053 01:15:08,700 --> 01:15:09,033 DIRECTLY. 2054 01:15:09,033 --> 01:15:13,204 SO THIS IS A PUMP THAT VACUUMS 2055 01:15:13,204 --> 01:15:14,739 IN AIR THROUGH THIS LITTLE 2056 01:15:14,739 --> 01:15:16,274 CASSETTE AND INSIDE THIS 2057 01:15:16,274 --> 01:15:17,909 CASSETTE ARE DIFFERENT FILTERS 2058 01:15:17,909 --> 01:15:19,444 THAT ARE BUILT TO CATCH 2059 01:15:19,444 --> 01:15:22,714 DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHEMICALS, 2060 01:15:22,714 --> 01:15:24,249 AND I'LL JUST SHOW YOU THE 2061 01:15:24,249 --> 01:15:25,683 TAKEHOME SO WE CAN BRING ONE OF 2062 01:15:25,683 --> 01:15:27,118 THESE INTO THE LAB AND DO IT IN 2063 01:15:27,118 --> 01:15:28,086 A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT WHERE 2064 01:15:28,086 --> 01:15:30,922 I'M ONLY RELEASING TWO SPECIFIC 2065 01:15:30,922 --> 01:15:36,461 CHEMICALS AND I CAN FIND SIGHLY 2066 01:15:36,461 --> 01:15:38,596 AND DIISOCYANATE, SO IN A 2067 01:15:38,596 --> 01:15:39,330 CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT, I CAN 2068 01:15:39,330 --> 01:15:40,365 FIND EXACTLY WHAT I PUT. 2069 01:15:40,365 --> 01:15:41,599 THIS IS AFTER 24 HOURS. 2070 01:15:41,599 --> 01:15:42,901 THIS IS JUST POINTED AT THE 2071 01:15:42,901 --> 01:15:43,668 BELTWAY FOR FIVE HOURS. 2072 01:15:43,668 --> 01:15:44,769 AND THESE ARE ALL THE CHEMICALS 2073 01:15:44,769 --> 01:15:46,504 THAT I CAN START TO FIND AND IF 2074 01:15:46,504 --> 01:15:48,706 I GO LONGER, I BET I CAN PULL 2075 01:15:48,706 --> 01:15:49,474 OUT ISOCYANATE. 2076 01:15:49,474 --> 01:15:51,242 AND THEN I TOOK ONE OF THESE AND 2077 01:15:51,242 --> 01:15:53,678 PUT THEM ACTUALLY IN MY KITCHEN, 2078 01:15:53,678 --> 01:15:55,713 AND TIP OF THE HAT TO MY WINDOWS 2079 01:15:55,713 --> 01:15:57,382 AND DOORS, I GUESS, BECAUSE I'M 2080 01:15:57,382 --> 01:15:58,449 KEEPING OUT THE BELTWAY, BUT 2081 01:15:58,449 --> 01:15:59,951 THESE ARE ACTUALLY COOKING OILS 2082 01:15:59,951 --> 01:16:00,852 THAT I'M PICKING UP. 2083 01:16:00,852 --> 01:16:02,387 SO I KNOW I NEED TO BE A LITTLE 2084 01:16:02,387 --> 01:16:04,155 LIGHTER ON THE OILS WHEN I'M 2085 01:16:04,155 --> 01:16:04,389 COOKING. 2086 01:16:04,389 --> 01:16:07,458 BUT WE CAN START TO DO SPECIFIC 2087 01:16:07,458 --> 01:16:08,993 COMMENTS ABOUT THE EXACT 2088 01:16:08,993 --> 01:16:10,295 CHEMICALS IN A SPECIFIC 2089 01:16:10,295 --> 01:16:11,629 ENVIRONMENT AND HOW MUCH OF IT 2090 01:16:11,629 --> 01:16:12,897 AND MAYBE START USING THAT 2091 01:16:12,897 --> 01:16:14,666 RATHER THAN JUST KIND OF BLANKET 2092 01:16:14,666 --> 01:16:16,634 STATEMENTS ABOUT POLLUTION. 2093 01:16:16,634 --> 01:16:20,672 SO THE OTHER THING WE NEED TO DO 2094 01:16:20,672 --> 01:16:21,472 IS UNDERSTAND -- I'M SEEING THIS 2095 01:16:21,472 --> 01:16:23,741 MORE AND MORE NOW IN MICROBIOME 2096 01:16:23,741 --> 01:16:24,742 RESEARCH, SOMEBODY SAID OH, 2097 01:16:24,742 --> 01:16:27,245 THERE'S A MICROBIOME SIGNATURE 2098 01:16:27,245 --> 01:16:28,780 FOR THIS DISEASE OR THAT 2099 01:16:28,780 --> 01:16:30,114 DISEASE, AND THAT'S GREAT, BUT 2100 01:16:30,114 --> 01:16:31,416 WE'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT 2101 01:16:31,416 --> 01:16:33,718 THESE THINGS KIND OF RUN IN 2102 01:16:33,718 --> 01:16:34,919 FAMILIES AND THEY'RE GOING TO 2103 01:16:34,919 --> 01:16:35,453 CLUSTER IN THE SAME 2104 01:16:35,453 --> 01:16:36,120 ENVIRONMENTS. 2105 01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:37,188 SO THIS COMES UP MORE IN TERMS 2106 01:16:37,188 --> 01:16:38,957 OF THE PUSHBACK OF PEOPLE WHO 2107 01:16:38,957 --> 01:16:40,825 MIGHT SAY THAT OH, YOU KNOW, 2108 01:16:40,825 --> 01:16:41,793 ECZEMA IS GENETIC OR THIS 2109 01:16:41,793 --> 01:16:43,328 DISEASE IS GENETIC. 2110 01:16:43,328 --> 01:16:46,297 AND JUST FROM A MATERNAL 2111 01:16:46,297 --> 01:16:47,165 STANDPOINT, JUST FROM ASKING 2112 01:16:47,165 --> 01:16:49,634 ABOUT A MOM WHO'S GIVEN BIRTH TO 2113 01:16:49,634 --> 01:16:51,202 TWO CHILDREN, THESE ARE ALL THE 2114 01:16:51,202 --> 01:16:52,337 THINGS THAT COULD BE DIFFERENT 2115 01:16:52,337 --> 01:16:54,038 ABOUT THE HOME THAT YOU BRING 2116 01:16:54,038 --> 01:16:55,907 THOSE TWO CHILDREN INTO JUST 2117 01:16:55,907 --> 01:16:57,342 FROM -- THAT WOULD BE RELEVANT 2118 01:16:57,342 --> 01:16:59,410 TO ATOPIC DERM ALONE. 2119 01:16:59,410 --> 01:17:02,347 SO MAYBE MOM GOT ANTIBIOTICS 2120 01:17:02,347 --> 01:17:05,216 WITH THE FIRST ONE AND NOT THE 2121 01:17:05,216 --> 01:17:07,518 OTHER, OR MAYBE DIET WAS 2122 01:17:07,518 --> 01:17:09,187 DIFFERENT OR SMOKING EXPOSURE 2123 01:17:09,187 --> 01:17:09,587 WAS DIFFERENT. 2124 01:17:09,587 --> 01:17:10,888 SO THESE ARE ALL THINGS WE WOULD 2125 01:17:10,888 --> 01:17:12,223 NEED TO KNOW BEFORE WE WOULD 2126 01:17:12,223 --> 01:17:13,424 MAKE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE 2127 01:17:13,424 --> 01:17:15,927 ENVIRONMENT CHILDREN GROW UP IN. 2128 01:17:15,927 --> 01:17:17,362 SO WHEN I HEAR PEOPLE SAY TWO 2129 01:17:17,362 --> 01:17:18,329 PEOPLE GROW UP IN THE SAME 2130 01:17:18,329 --> 01:17:19,864 ENVIRONMENT BUT ONLY ONE GOT THE 2131 01:17:19,864 --> 01:17:21,366 DISEASE SO WOULDN'T IT BE MORE 2132 01:17:21,366 --> 01:17:22,734 LIKELY TO BE SOMETHING GENETIC? 2133 01:17:22,734 --> 01:17:25,103 AND MY PUSHBACK WOULD BE WHAT DO 2134 01:17:25,103 --> 01:17:26,871 YOU MEAN BY THE SAME 2135 01:17:26,871 --> 01:17:27,505 ENVIRONMENT? 2136 01:17:27,505 --> 01:17:28,373 WHAT METRICS WOULD YOU USE? 2137 01:17:28,373 --> 01:17:32,110 ONCE YOU START GOING DOWN THAT 2138 01:17:32,110 --> 01:17:33,211 ROAD, YOU REALIZE VERY QUICKLY 2139 01:17:33,211 --> 01:17:35,813 THAT THE ENVIRONMENT IS FAR MORE 2140 01:17:35,813 --> 01:17:38,216 DYNAMIC THAN WE APPRECIATE. 2141 01:17:38,216 --> 01:17:39,550 SOME OF MY HYPOTHESIS HERE, I 2142 01:17:39,550 --> 01:17:41,286 DON'T HAVE DATA FOR IT YET, BUT 2143 01:17:41,286 --> 01:17:42,186 THE OLDER SIBLING IS THE ONE 2144 01:17:42,186 --> 01:17:43,788 THAT GETS THE NICE REMODELED 2145 01:17:43,788 --> 01:17:45,857 BEDROOM AND ALL THE OTHER FANCY 2146 01:17:45,857 --> 01:17:47,525 NEW EQUIPMENT, AND THE FOURTH 2147 01:17:47,525 --> 01:17:49,927 KID IS JUST GETTING WHATEVER THE 2148 01:17:49,927 --> 01:17:52,530 FIRST THREE DON'T DESTROY. 2149 01:17:52,530 --> 01:17:53,865 SO THEN THE LAST THING IS TO 2150 01:17:53,865 --> 01:17:57,802 KIND OF IMPROVE OUR FUTURE 2151 01:17:57,802 --> 01:17:59,003 PERFORMANCE SO WE REALLY NEED TO 2152 01:17:59,003 --> 01:18:00,338 START TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL 2153 01:18:00,338 --> 01:18:01,072 ASSESSMENTS AND HAVING 2154 01:18:01,072 --> 01:18:01,839 CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR PATIENTS 2155 01:18:01,839 --> 01:18:03,174 ABOUT HOW TO DO THIS BECAUSE I 2156 01:18:03,174 --> 01:18:04,575 CAN ASSURE YOU THEY ARE VERY 2157 01:18:04,575 --> 01:18:05,777 INTERESTED IN THINGS THAT THEY 2158 01:18:05,777 --> 01:18:07,979 CAN DO EVEN IN ADDITION TO THEIR 2159 01:18:07,979 --> 01:18:08,413 MEDICATION. 2160 01:18:08,413 --> 01:18:10,481 THEY DON'T HAVE TO NECESSARILY 2161 01:18:10,481 --> 01:18:12,650 BE MEDICALLY AVERSE, BUT IN 2162 01:18:12,650 --> 01:18:15,753 ADDITION TO IT, WHAT CAN I DO. 2163 01:18:15,753 --> 01:18:19,924 SO NADIA SHOBNAM IS A FELLOW IN 2164 01:18:19,924 --> 01:18:21,893 THE LAB AND DEVELOPED THIS KIND 2165 01:18:21,893 --> 01:18:24,595 OF MNEMONIC, I'LL KIND OF SHOW 2166 01:18:24,595 --> 01:18:26,698 YOU ONE PART FOR THE AIR QUALITY 2167 01:18:26,698 --> 01:18:28,566 BECAUSE I THINK IT'S COUNTER 2168 01:18:28,566 --> 01:18:31,069 INTEU TI. YOCOUNTERINTUITIVE. 2169 01:18:31,069 --> 01:18:33,271 YOU MIGHT THINK IF THERE'S BAD 2170 01:18:33,271 --> 01:18:34,339 AIR OUTSIDE, I'LL LOCK THE 2171 01:18:34,339 --> 01:18:35,440 DOORS, CLOSE THE WINDOWS AND 2172 01:18:35,440 --> 01:18:36,207 I'LL BE PROTECTED. 2173 01:18:36,207 --> 01:18:38,609 THAT IS TRUE FROM LARGE 2174 01:18:38,609 --> 01:18:40,578 PARTICLES AND FROM POLL EN, BUT 2175 01:18:40,578 --> 01:18:42,213 IT IS NOT TRUE FROM GASES. 2176 01:18:42,213 --> 01:18:44,749 GASES ACTUALLY CONCENTRATE 2177 01:18:44,749 --> 01:18:47,251 INSIDE YOUR HOUSE IF YOU SEAL 2178 01:18:47,251 --> 01:18:48,019 EVERYTHING UP. 2179 01:18:48,019 --> 01:18:49,987 SO HERE WOULD JUST BE ONE THING 2180 01:18:49,987 --> 01:18:53,825 THAT PEOPLE COULD DO, CHEAP BOX 2181 01:18:53,825 --> 01:18:54,792 FANS, THE KIND OF STUFF YOU 2182 01:18:54,792 --> 01:18:56,427 WOULD FIND IN ANY DORM ROOM, YOU 2183 01:18:56,427 --> 01:19:01,065 CAN FIND ANY BASIC FILTER, MERV. 2184 01:19:01,065 --> 01:19:02,700 THE HIGHER THE NUMBER, THE 2185 01:19:02,700 --> 01:19:03,434 STRONGER THE FILTRATION. 2186 01:19:03,434 --> 01:19:04,802 YOU GO TOO HIGH, THE FAN MAY NOT 2187 01:19:04,802 --> 01:19:06,104 BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT. 2188 01:19:06,104 --> 01:19:07,972 BUT WHAT YOU DO IS YOU FIND 2189 01:19:07,972 --> 01:19:09,307 WHATEVER PART OF YOUR LIVING 2190 01:19:09,307 --> 01:19:10,375 ENVIRONMENT POINTS CLOSEST TO 2191 01:19:10,375 --> 01:19:11,676 THE BIGGEST ROAD AND YOU PUT A 2192 01:19:11,676 --> 01:19:13,678 FAN THERE AND YOU BLOW OUT. 2193 01:19:13,678 --> 01:19:14,979 AND THEN AS BEST YOU CAN ON THE 2194 01:19:14,979 --> 01:19:16,080 OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE, OTHER 2195 01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:17,582 SIDE OF THE APARTMENT OR SOME 2196 01:19:17,582 --> 01:19:19,584 OTHER PART OF THE LIVING SPACE, 2197 01:19:19,584 --> 01:19:21,419 YOU SET UP A WINDOW WHERE IT 2198 01:19:21,419 --> 01:19:23,421 DRAGGING AIR IN THROUGH THE 2199 01:19:23,421 --> 01:19:24,956 FILTER, SO THAT WAY YOU'RE NOT 2200 01:19:24,956 --> 01:19:26,791 PULLING IN THE SOOT OR THE POLL 2201 01:19:26,791 --> 01:19:28,993 ENINTO YOUR HOUSE, BUT YOU'RE 2202 01:19:28,993 --> 01:19:33,164 BRINGING IN FILTERED AIR AND 2203 01:19:33,164 --> 01:19:36,901 VENTILATING OUT CONTAMINATED 2204 01:19:36,901 --> 01:19:37,201 AIR. 2205 01:19:37,201 --> 01:19:38,102 JUST TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE 2206 01:19:38,102 --> 01:19:39,737 RESULTS I HAD JUST FOR SETTING 2207 01:19:39,737 --> 01:19:41,172 THIS UP IN MY HOME, SO I COULD 2208 01:19:41,172 --> 01:19:42,907 TAKE THE TOTAL VOLATILE ORGANIC 2209 01:19:42,907 --> 01:19:46,310 COMPOUNDS FROM .041 TO .005, 2210 01:19:46,310 --> 01:19:49,714 THESE ARE THE ALDEHYDES DROP, I 2211 01:19:49,714 --> 01:19:51,349 CAN GET THE CO2 LEVELS TO DROP 2212 01:19:51,349 --> 01:19:53,451 BUT I DO GET A TRACE INCREASE IN 2213 01:19:53,451 --> 01:19:55,753 BOTH THE PARTICULATE MATTER 2214 01:19:55,753 --> 01:19:56,854 TELLING ME THAT MAYBE THIS 2215 01:19:56,854 --> 01:19:58,356 FILTER WASN'T QUITE GOOD ENOUGH 2216 01:19:58,356 --> 01:20:01,025 TO PREVENT EVERYTHING FROM GOING 2217 01:20:01,025 --> 01:20:03,861 THROUGH, BUT YOU GET THE IDEA. 2218 01:20:03,861 --> 01:20:08,766 WHAYOU WANT TO BRING IN FILTERED 2219 01:20:08,766 --> 01:20:11,836 AIR AND PUSH OUT THE BAD AIR, 2220 01:20:11,836 --> 01:20:13,171 NOT TO SEAL EVERYTHING UP AND 2221 01:20:13,171 --> 01:20:14,505 PREVENT AIR FROM COMING THROUGH. 2222 01:20:14,505 --> 01:20:18,209 SO WITH THAT, I'LL THANK MY 2223 01:20:18,209 --> 01:20:21,913 GROUP HERE FOR EVERYTHING, AND 2224 01:20:21,913 --> 01:20:23,147 AGAIN, NADIA AS WELL AS GRACE 2225 01:20:23,147 --> 01:20:24,048 HELPED CREATE THIS FIGURE. 2226 01:20:24,048 --> 01:20:25,349 IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION, 2227 01:20:25,349 --> 01:20:28,619 YOU CAN GO TO OUR -- THIS 2228 01:20:28,619 --> 01:20:29,587 PUBLICATION WHERE YOU CAN SEE 2229 01:20:29,587 --> 01:20:30,721 ALL THE DIFFERENT CHEMICALS, 2230 01:20:30,721 --> 01:20:32,123 WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND HOW TO 2231 01:20:32,123 --> 01:20:34,225 AVOID IT, AND I SHOWED YOU THE 2232 01:20:34,225 --> 01:20:35,660 CITATION FOR MITIGATION, AND 2233 01:20:35,660 --> 01:20:36,961 THIS IS OUR FLAG. 2234 01:20:36,961 --> 01:20:39,163 SO WITH THAT, I'LL STOP. 2235 01:20:39,163 --> 01:20:41,032 THANK YOU. 2236 01:20:41,032 --> 01:20:41,999 >> ALL RIGHT. 2237 01:20:41,999 --> 01:20:43,434 WELL, YOU KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN 2238 01:20:43,434 --> 01:20:47,839 REALLY A SPECTACULAR, EXCITING 2239 01:20:47,839 --> 01:20:52,543 PAIR OF PRESENTATIONS, WHICH 2240 01:20:52,543 --> 01:20:55,813 HAVE GREAT IMPORTANCE AND 2241 01:20:55,813 --> 01:20:58,015 LINKAGE. 2242 01:20:58,015 --> 01:21:00,218 AND I THINK WE'VE ALL ENJOYED 2243 01:21:00,218 --> 01:21:01,619 AND LEARNED A GREAT DEAL FROM 2244 01:21:01,619 --> 01:21:01,953 IT. 2245 01:21:01,953 --> 01:21:04,255 THERE ARE A WHOLE HOST OF 2246 01:21:04,255 --> 01:21:05,456 QUESTIONS HERE, AND SO I'M GOING 2247 01:21:05,456 --> 01:21:10,161 TO GO THROUGH MANY OF THEM, 2248 01:21:10,161 --> 01:21:14,866 PROBABLY NOT ALL. 2249 01:21:14,866 --> 01:21:16,167 SO LET'S BEGIN HERE. 2250 01:21:16,167 --> 01:21:18,035 SO IAN, DO CERAMIDE AND THE 2251 01:21:18,035 --> 01:21:28,513 OTHER LIPIDS RELEASED BY THE 2252 01:21:30,147 --> 01:21:32,049 ROSAMONA MUCOSA INTERACT WITH 2253 01:21:32,049 --> 01:21:32,683 ITCH RECEPTORS? 2254 01:21:32,683 --> 01:21:34,218 >> PROBABLY. 2255 01:21:34,218 --> 01:21:35,319 THE ONLY ITCH RECEPTOR THAT 2256 01:21:35,319 --> 01:21:37,088 WE'VE PLAYED AROUND WITH IS 2257 01:21:37,088 --> 01:21:39,824 CALLED TRIP RECEPTORS, SO TRIP 2258 01:21:39,824 --> 01:21:43,194 V1, TRPA1, THOSE ARE ITCH TRALT 2259 01:21:43,194 --> 01:21:44,962 AND PAIN, WHICH IS A LITTLE 2260 01:21:44,962 --> 01:21:46,063 DIFFERENT. 2261 01:21:46,063 --> 01:21:50,368 SO WE JOKE WITH DR. HOON, WE 2262 01:21:50,368 --> 01:21:51,969 HAVE NOT LOOKED AT THAT, BUT THE 2263 01:21:51,969 --> 01:21:54,705 TRIP RECEPTORS ARE LIKELY 2264 01:21:54,705 --> 01:21:56,240 INFLUENCED BY THESE LIPIDS, THE 2265 01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:59,210 SPECIFIC LIPID RESIDUES HAVE NOT 2266 01:21:59,210 --> 01:22:04,916 BEEN GENUINELY ASSESSED. 2267 01:22:04,916 --> 01:22:06,150 >> THERE WAS ALSO A QUESTION 2268 01:22:06,150 --> 01:22:08,719 ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION WITH 2269 01:22:08,719 --> 01:22:15,293 WATER. 2270 01:22:15,293 --> 01:22:18,029 WHERE MUCH CONTAMINATION IN 2271 01:22:18,029 --> 01:22:19,697 WATER IS PARTICULARLY FROM THE 2272 01:22:19,697 --> 01:22:21,432 HORMONAL STANDPOINT IS 2273 01:22:21,432 --> 01:22:22,967 ASSOCIATED OR CLAIMED TO BE 2274 01:22:22,967 --> 01:22:28,673 ASSOCIATED WITH A WHOLE HOATS OF 2275 01:22:28,673 --> 01:22:34,478 DISORDERS, IS THERE AN 2276 01:22:34,478 --> 01:22:35,413 ASSOCIATION? 2277 01:22:35,413 --> 01:22:37,315 IS IT KNOWN WHETHER THE CHRONIC 2278 01:22:37,315 --> 01:22:41,385 ITCH DISORDERS HAVE ANY 2279 01:22:41,385 --> 01:22:47,725 EPIDEMIOLOGIC RELATIONSHIP TO 2280 01:22:47,725 --> 01:22:53,497 EXPOSURE TO WATER IN NATURE AND 2281 01:22:53,497 --> 01:22:55,700 DOES PURIFIED WATER OR THE 2282 01:22:55,700 --> 01:23:00,304 FILTERED WATER THAT'S SOLD IN A 2283 01:23:00,304 --> 01:23:06,344 SUPERMARKET, SHA DESUPERMARKET,F 2284 01:23:06,344 --> 01:23:07,945 THESE LIPID MOLECULES? 2285 01:23:07,945 --> 01:23:14,752 >> THERE HAVE BEEN A STUDY OF -- 2286 01:23:14,752 --> 01:23:16,954 THOSE ARE USELESS FOR ATOPIC 2287 01:23:16,954 --> 01:23:17,955 DERM, MAYBE THEY'RE GOOD FOR 2288 01:23:17,955 --> 01:23:21,459 SOMETHING ELSE, BUT THE 2289 01:23:21,459 --> 01:23:22,994 ASSOCIATIONS FOR PSORIASIS ARE A 2290 01:23:22,994 --> 01:23:24,528 LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, AND 2291 01:23:24,528 --> 01:23:26,163 THEY'RE MORE AROUND BARIUM, 2292 01:23:26,163 --> 01:23:28,799 WHICH COULD SLIP THROUGH. 2293 01:23:28,799 --> 01:23:31,102 IN TERMS OF FILTERED WATER, A 2294 01:23:31,102 --> 01:23:31,969 LOT OF THE PROBLEM IS THE 2295 01:23:31,969 --> 01:23:33,404 FILTERED WATER COMES IN A BIG 2296 01:23:33,404 --> 01:23:35,373 PLASTIC JUG, AND YOU KNOW, ONE 2297 01:23:35,373 --> 01:23:37,908 OF OUR PH.D. STUDENTS WAS 2298 01:23:37,908 --> 01:23:40,077 LOOKING THROUGH FOR THE 2299 01:23:40,077 --> 01:23:41,846 MOLECULES CALLED PFAS, WHICH ARE 2300 01:23:41,846 --> 01:23:43,114 HORMONAL DISREGULATORS AND 2301 01:23:43,114 --> 01:23:44,582 THEY'RE KNOWN MORE FOR TEFLON 2302 01:23:44,582 --> 01:23:47,551 AND THE FOREVER CHEMICALS, AND 2303 01:23:47,551 --> 01:23:50,054 YOUR LAB WATER THAT YOU BUY TO 2304 01:23:50,054 --> 01:23:51,822 DO YOUR EXPERIMENTS AND HAS 2305 01:23:51,822 --> 01:23:53,457 PURIFIED WHAT TERL COMES IN A 2306 01:23:53,457 --> 01:23:56,093 PLASTIC JUG AND THAT PLASTIC HAS 2307 01:23:56,093 --> 01:23:58,295 DETECTABLE LEVELS OF PFAS. 2308 01:23:58,295 --> 01:24:01,465 SO IT IS HARD TO TRULY ELIMINATE 2309 01:24:01,465 --> 01:24:09,807 ALL EXPOSURE TO THESE. 2310 01:24:09,807 --> 01:24:12,309 >> YOU COMMENTED ABOUT THE USE 2311 01:24:12,309 --> 01:24:13,611 OF FILTERS. 2312 01:24:13,611 --> 01:24:16,580 SO ONE OF OUR LISTENERS ASKED 2313 01:24:16,580 --> 01:24:18,315 ABOUT MEMORY FOAM. 2314 01:24:18,315 --> 01:24:20,117 I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH MEMORY 2315 01:24:20,117 --> 01:24:21,852 FOAM, BUT MAYBE YOU CAN 2316 01:24:21,852 --> 01:24:22,953 ENLIGHTEN US. 2317 01:24:22,953 --> 01:24:25,289 >> SO THE TERM MEMORY FOAM IS 2318 01:24:25,289 --> 01:24:26,357 USUALLY JUST USED FOR YOU PUT 2319 01:24:26,357 --> 01:24:27,992 YOUR HAND IN AND DOES IT, LIKE, 2320 01:24:27,992 --> 01:24:29,126 HOLD ITS SHAPE A LITTLE BIT. 2321 01:24:29,126 --> 01:24:33,264 SO THERE IS A LATEX-BASED MEMORY 2322 01:24:33,264 --> 01:24:36,133 FOAM WHICH DOES NOT HAVE 2323 01:24:36,133 --> 01:24:37,601 ISOCYANATES OR XYLENE OR ANY OF 2324 01:24:37,601 --> 01:24:40,871 THE CHEMICALS THAT WE ASSOCIATE 2325 01:24:40,871 --> 01:24:44,008 WITH ATOPIC DERM. 2326 01:24:44,008 --> 01:24:46,210 I CANNOT ATTEST TO ITS SAFETY 2327 01:24:46,210 --> 01:24:49,180 FOR EVERY OUT THERE BUT -- 2328 01:24:49,180 --> 01:24:50,815 MEMORY FOAM, THE BRAND, AND THE 2329 01:24:50,815 --> 01:24:54,452 NAME OR WHATEVER, IF IT IS A 2330 01:24:54,452 --> 01:24:55,753 NON-LATEX FOAM MEMORY FOAM, IT 2331 01:24:55,753 --> 01:24:59,490 ALMOST CERTAINLY IS MADE OUT OF 2332 01:24:59,490 --> 01:25:02,126 THOSE PARTICULAR CHEMICALS, AND, 2333 01:25:02,126 --> 01:25:03,994 THEREFORE, GENERATE THESE RISKS 2334 01:25:03,994 --> 01:25:04,628 OF EXPOSURE. 2335 01:25:04,628 --> 01:25:06,363 SO WHEN YOU OFF-GAS A MATTRESS 2336 01:25:06,363 --> 01:25:08,899 AND YOU SEE THAT STINK WHEN YOU 2337 01:25:08,899 --> 01:25:11,102 UNSEAL IT, THIS IS PART OF IT. 2338 01:25:11,102 --> 01:25:12,369 AND WE DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW 2339 01:25:12,369 --> 01:25:13,838 LONG THAT LASTS AND WE'D LIKE TO 2340 01:25:13,838 --> 01:25:18,109 TEST THAT IN THE LAB TOO. 2341 01:25:18,109 --> 01:25:19,410 BUT LATEX FOAM IS DEVOID OF 2342 01:25:19,410 --> 01:25:21,112 THESE CHEMICALS. 2343 01:25:21,112 --> 01:25:22,980 NON-LATEX MEMORY FOAM IS MADE 2344 01:25:22,980 --> 01:25:25,616 OUT OF THEM. 2345 01:25:25,616 --> 01:25:29,420 >> COULD YOU EXPLAIN OR MAYBE 2346 01:25:29,420 --> 01:25:31,522 MARK, IT SEEMS LIKE THE WORDS 2347 01:25:31,522 --> 01:25:35,359 ATOPIC DERMATITIS AND ECZEMA 2348 01:25:35,359 --> 01:25:38,295 SOMETIMES ARE ALMOST USED 2349 01:25:38,295 --> 01:25:38,662 INTERCHANGEABLY. 2350 01:25:38,662 --> 01:25:43,067 COULD YOU EXPLAIN THAT, PLEASE? 2351 01:25:43,067 --> 01:25:47,905 >> ATOPIC DETERMINE IS A DERM IF 2352 01:25:47,905 --> 01:25:48,439 ECZEMA. 2353 01:25:48,439 --> 01:25:50,207 BUT IT'S OVERWHELMINGLY THE MOST 2354 01:25:50,207 --> 01:25:51,876 COMMON FORM OF ECZEMA, SO IF 2355 01:25:51,876 --> 01:25:52,743 YOU'RE TALKING TO A PATIENT, 2356 01:25:52,743 --> 01:25:55,479 THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT THEY MEAN. 2357 01:25:55,479 --> 01:26:00,084 BUT YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOMULAR 2358 01:26:00,084 --> 01:26:00,751 ECZEMA, THERE'S OTHER KINDS. 2359 01:26:00,751 --> 01:26:02,286 SO IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE 2360 01:26:02,286 --> 01:26:03,687 AUDIENCE, WHICH ONE YOU WANT TO 2361 01:26:03,687 --> 01:26:05,589 USE, BUT THEY OFTEN USE 2362 01:26:05,589 --> 01:26:06,457 INTERCHANGEABLY -- THE 2363 01:26:06,457 --> 01:26:08,092 DERMATOLOGISTS GET MORE UPSET 2364 01:26:08,092 --> 01:26:09,960 THAN THE ALLERGISTS DO WHEN YOU 2365 01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:11,395 USE THEM INTERCHANGEABLY, BUT 2366 01:26:11,395 --> 01:26:13,564 ATOPIC DERM IS A SUBTYPE OF 2367 01:26:13,564 --> 01:26:14,131 ECZEMA. 2368 01:26:14,131 --> 01:26:19,303 >> SO WHAT IS ECZEMA THEN? 2369 01:26:19,303 --> 01:26:20,704 >> THAT'S A DEEP QUESTION. 2370 01:26:20,704 --> 01:26:22,673 I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHICH 2371 01:26:22,673 --> 01:26:24,341 SPECIFIC SUBTYPE, I MEAN, I 2372 01:26:24,341 --> 01:26:26,410 WOULD SAY IT'S AN UMBRELLA TERM 2373 01:26:26,410 --> 01:26:28,045 FOR, YOU KNOW, REDNESS, 2374 01:26:28,045 --> 01:26:30,347 IRRITATION, THICK ENING OF THE 2375 01:26:30,347 --> 01:26:31,916 SKIN, AND IT JUST KIND OF 2376 01:26:31,916 --> 01:26:33,117 DEPENDS ON THE BREAKDOWN. 2377 01:26:33,117 --> 01:26:34,218 I'M SURE SOMEBODY HAS A BETTER 2378 01:26:34,218 --> 01:26:36,086 ANSWER, BUT I DON'T KNOW. 2379 01:26:36,086 --> 01:26:40,925 >> SO MARK, WHAT IS THE ROLE OF 2380 01:26:40,925 --> 01:26:46,497 EOSEOSINOPHILIA IN ITCHING IN MY 2381 01:26:46,497 --> 01:26:49,934 OF THE PATHOLOGIC SPECIMENS FROM 2382 01:26:49,934 --> 01:26:53,871 PEOPLE WITH PARTICULARLY CHRONIC 2383 01:26:53,871 --> 01:26:58,375 ITCH, EOSINOPHILS ARE A 2384 01:26:58,375 --> 01:26:59,577 SIGNIFICANT POPULATION, AND EVEN 2385 01:26:59,577 --> 01:27:03,814 MANY OF THOSE PATIENTS HAVE 2386 01:27:03,814 --> 01:27:06,517 CIRCULATING EOSIN FEEL YA. 2387 01:27:06,517 --> 01:27:09,653 >> SO I DON'T KNOW SPECIFICALLY, 2388 01:27:09,653 --> 01:27:14,792 BUT YEAH, I MEAN, IN THE END, 2389 01:27:14,792 --> 01:27:16,994 THEY'RE LIKELY TO BE RELEASING 2390 01:27:16,994 --> 01:27:20,931 THE TYPES OF MOLECULES THAT I 2391 01:27:20,931 --> 01:27:23,601 TALKED ABOUT THAT ACTIVATE THE 2392 01:27:23,601 --> 01:27:33,611 NPPB NEURONS, SO IN THE END, 2393 01:27:33,611 --> 01:27:35,179 EOSINOPHILS LIKE MAST CELLS HAVE 2394 01:27:35,179 --> 01:27:36,680 GRANULES THEY RELEASE AND 2395 01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:37,715 OFTEN -- THEY'RE NOT THE SAME, 2396 01:27:37,715 --> 01:27:44,722 BUT THEY'RE VERY SIMILAR. 2397 01:27:44,722 --> 01:27:46,891 -- IN GENERAL WILL ACTIVATE 2398 01:27:46,891 --> 01:27:50,628 THESE NERVE ENDINGS. 2399 01:27:50,628 --> 01:27:58,168 SO HISTAMINE AND SEROTONIN ARE 2400 01:27:58,168 --> 01:28:00,137 BOTH MONO -- AN ASSORTMENT OF 2401 01:28:00,137 --> 01:28:04,008 OTHER LIPID MOLECULES WILL 2402 01:28:04,008 --> 01:28:04,541 ACTIVATE. 2403 01:28:04,541 --> 01:28:06,810 INCLUDING THEY RELEASED BY A 2404 01:28:06,810 --> 01:28:11,548 WHOLE SET OF DIFFERENT INNATE 2405 01:28:11,548 --> 01:28:12,549 IMMUNE CELLS. 2406 01:28:12,549 --> 01:28:16,053 >> YOU COMMENTED ABOUT THE 2407 01:28:16,053 --> 01:28:19,123 IMPORTANCE OF MAST CELLS IN THE 2408 01:28:19,123 --> 01:28:19,890 ACUTE REACTION. 2409 01:28:19,890 --> 01:28:22,960 DO THEY PARTICIPATE AT ALL IN 2410 01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:25,396 CHRONIC ITCH? 2411 01:28:25,396 --> 01:28:27,364 >> SO PEOPLE HAVE LOOKED TIME 2412 01:28:27,364 --> 01:28:29,767 AND TIME AGAIN TO TRY TO SHOW A 2413 01:28:29,767 --> 01:28:32,069 CONNECTION, BUT TH THERE REALLY 2414 01:28:32,069 --> 01:28:33,837 ISN'T A CONNECTION. 2415 01:28:33,837 --> 01:28:39,543 THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS URTICARIA, 2416 01:28:39,543 --> 01:28:41,612 WHICH IS COMPLETELY DRIVEN BY 2417 01:28:41,612 --> 01:28:43,681 MAST CELLS. 2418 01:28:43,681 --> 01:28:47,718 BUT THAT'S QUITE A DIFFERENT 2419 01:28:47,718 --> 01:28:48,719 SKIN CONDITION. 2420 01:28:48,719 --> 01:28:54,992 IT'S CHARACTERIZED BY WHEELS, IT 2421 01:28:54,992 --> 01:28:56,760 TENDS TO BE PERIODIC SO IT COMES 2422 01:28:56,760 --> 01:29:01,231 AND GOES, SO THERE'S WAXES AND 2423 01:29:01,231 --> 01:29:02,733 WANES DEPENDING ON THE CONDITION 2424 01:29:02,733 --> 01:29:09,573 OF THE PATIENT. 2425 01:29:09,573 --> 01:29:10,541 AND FUNDAMENTALLY IT'S 2426 01:29:10,541 --> 01:29:12,076 DIFFERENT, IT'S THROUGH THE MAST 2427 01:29:12,076 --> 01:29:15,279 CELLS, SO FOR THOSE PATIENTS, 2428 01:29:15,279 --> 01:29:18,649 ANTIHISTAMINES WORK, ABSOLUTELY. 2429 01:29:18,649 --> 01:29:21,418 BUT FOR ATOPIC DERMATITIS 2430 01:29:21,418 --> 01:29:22,720 PATIENTS, MOSTLY THEY DON'T 2431 01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:25,689 WORK. 2432 01:29:25,689 --> 01:29:27,091 BUT IT'S VERY OFTEN THE FIRST 2433 01:29:27,091 --> 01:29:28,525 THING THAT A DERMATOLOGIST WILL 2434 01:29:28,525 --> 01:29:30,294 GIVE YOU. 2435 01:29:30,294 --> 01:29:31,495 BECAUSE IT'S THE EASIEST THING 2436 01:29:31,495 --> 01:29:37,001 TO GIVE YOU AND BASICALLY RULE 2437 01:29:37,001 --> 01:29:40,270 OUT THAT -- IT HELPS WITH THE 2438 01:29:40,270 --> 01:29:42,239 DIAGNOSIS I GUESS AND IT CHEAP 2439 01:29:42,239 --> 01:29:42,906 AND QUICK. 2440 01:29:42,906 --> 01:29:45,209 I SEE IAN SMILING BECAUSE HE'S 2441 01:29:45,209 --> 01:29:45,876 AGREEING WITH ME. 2442 01:29:45,876 --> 01:29:47,878 HE PROBABLY KNOWS BETTER THAN ME 2443 01:29:47,878 --> 01:29:50,781 SINCE HE'S THE PHYSICIAN HERE. 2444 01:29:50,781 --> 01:29:51,882 >> IAN, YOU WANT TO COMMENT 2445 01:29:51,882 --> 01:29:52,516 ABOUT THAT? 2446 01:29:52,516 --> 01:29:53,417 >> I AGREE. 2447 01:29:53,417 --> 01:29:55,419 I MEAN, PEOPLE CHASE DOWN 2448 01:29:55,419 --> 01:29:58,255 HISTAMINE QUITE A BIT, AND IT 2449 01:29:58,255 --> 01:30:01,458 JUST IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT IN 2450 01:30:01,458 --> 01:30:02,993 THE DISORDER WHICH IS KIND OF 2451 01:30:02,993 --> 01:30:05,195 INTRIGUING FROM AN ALLERGY 2452 01:30:05,195 --> 01:30:06,730 STANDPOINT BECAUSE THE 2453 01:30:06,730 --> 01:30:08,399 HISTAMINES CAN HELP A LOT IN 2454 01:30:08,399 --> 01:30:10,801 ALLERGIC RHINITIS, BUT ARE 2455 01:30:10,801 --> 01:30:14,838 USELESS IN ATOPIC DERM. 2456 01:30:14,838 --> 01:30:18,142 LIKE YOU SAID. 2457 01:30:18,142 --> 01:30:21,111 >> WE HAD A QUESTION AS TO 2458 01:30:21,111 --> 01:30:24,915 WHETHER YOU THOUGHT BACTERIAL 2459 01:30:24,915 --> 01:30:30,087 TREATMENT AS A NASAL SPRAY COULD 2460 01:30:30,087 --> 01:30:33,357 HELP IN ALLERGIES. 2461 01:30:33,357 --> 01:30:37,895 >> YEAH, WE HAVEN'T -- WE'D WANT 2462 01:30:37,895 --> 01:30:39,963 TO KNOW WHAT WE THINK IS 2463 01:30:39,963 --> 01:30:42,299 DEFICIENT IN THE BACTERIA IN 2464 01:30:42,299 --> 01:30:44,735 NASAL SPRAYS, BUT WE DON'T YET 2465 01:30:44,735 --> 01:30:46,870 HAVE ANY REAL GOOD STUDIES WHERE 2466 01:30:46,870 --> 01:30:48,205 IT WOULD COLLECT THE BACTERIA IN 2467 01:30:48,205 --> 01:30:49,873 THE NOSE OF CHILDREN WHO DON'T 2468 01:30:49,873 --> 01:30:51,175 HAVE ALLERGIC DISEASE AND THEN 2469 01:30:51,175 --> 01:30:51,708 FOLLOW THEM. 2470 01:30:51,708 --> 01:30:53,210 THAT WOULD BE THE BEST STUDY TO 2471 01:30:53,210 --> 01:30:56,346 TELL YOU WHAT MIGHT BE MOST 2472 01:30:56,346 --> 01:30:57,214 PROMISING. 2473 01:30:57,214 --> 01:30:59,183 AND I'VE EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT, YOU 2474 01:30:59,183 --> 01:31:01,151 KNOW, COULD YOU USE -- COULD YOU 2475 01:31:01,151 --> 01:31:04,054 MA ANYBODY LATE THE GUT MICROBES 2476 01:31:04,054 --> 01:31:05,656 TO CREATE PROTECTION AGAINST 2477 01:31:05,656 --> 01:31:08,559 FOOD ALLERGY, HAVE A BENEFICIAL 2478 01:31:08,559 --> 01:31:09,860 ORGANISM THAT DRESSES UP LIKE A 2479 01:31:09,860 --> 01:31:11,095 PEANUT SO TO SPEAK IN A WAY 2480 01:31:11,095 --> 01:31:13,497 THAT'S A LITTLE MORE PEACE 2481 01:31:13,497 --> 01:31:14,698 OFFERING THAN THE PEANUT ITSELF. 2482 01:31:14,698 --> 01:31:17,901 SO YEAH, I THINK BACTERIAL 2483 01:31:17,901 --> 01:31:19,770 THERAPIES ARE PROMISING AND 2484 01:31:19,770 --> 01:31:20,671 THEY'LL EXPAND OVER THE YEARS. 2485 01:31:20,671 --> 01:31:25,676 >> SO DEALING WITH THE QUESTION 2486 01:31:25,676 --> 01:31:31,081 OF THE VARIED AND SOMETIMES 2487 01:31:31,081 --> 01:31:36,553 SELECTIVE DISTRIBUTION, WE HAVE 2488 01:31:36,553 --> 01:31:38,188 A QUESTION AS TO WHETHER IT'S 2489 01:31:38,188 --> 01:31:40,624 POSSIBLE THAT THERE'S AN 2490 01:31:40,624 --> 01:31:43,227 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE 2491 01:31:43,227 --> 01:31:45,095 INTRAEPIDERMAL NERVE FIBER 2492 01:31:45,095 --> 01:31:46,830 DENSITY AND ANY PARTICULAR 2493 01:31:46,830 --> 01:31:48,065 REGION OF THE SKIN. 2494 01:31:48,065 --> 01:31:53,437 IS THAT A VARIABLE THAT COULD 2495 01:31:53,437 --> 01:31:55,639 AFFECT THE SOMEWHAT CURIOUS 2496 01:31:55,639 --> 01:31:56,940 DISTRIBUTION OF MANY OF THESE 2497 01:31:56,940 --> 01:32:07,117 DISORDERS? 2498 01:32:07,651 --> 01:32:09,086 >> CLEARLY THERE ARE SOME 2499 01:32:09,086 --> 01:32:10,521 DIFFERENCES IN INNOVATION, BUT I 2500 01:32:10,521 --> 01:32:13,157 THINK WHAT IAN WAS ALSO POINTING 2501 01:32:13,157 --> 01:32:15,025 TO IS THE EXPOSURE AS WELL. 2502 01:32:15,025 --> 01:32:18,328 I MEAN, CLEARLY YOUR BACK 2503 01:32:18,328 --> 01:32:21,064 DOESN'T GET EXPOSED TO MANY 2504 01:32:21,064 --> 01:32:23,901 DIFFERENT THINGS APART IN WHEN 2505 01:32:23,901 --> 01:32:25,802 YOU UNDRESS, WHEREAS YOUR HANDS 2506 01:32:25,802 --> 01:32:28,872 ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO GET -- 2507 01:32:28,872 --> 01:32:31,175 PERHAPS HAVE SYMPTOMS AND THEN 2508 01:32:31,175 --> 01:32:32,476 THEY'RE COMPLETELY EXPOSED ALL 2509 01:32:32,476 --> 01:32:34,044 THE TIME AND OFTEN BECOME 2510 01:32:34,044 --> 01:32:35,579 IMMERSED AND COVERED IN VARIOUS 2511 01:32:35,579 --> 01:32:38,415 DIFFERENT THINGS DURING THE DAY. 2512 01:32:38,415 --> 01:32:42,286 SO WITH THAT, THE THING IS, THE 2513 01:32:42,286 --> 01:32:43,253 INNOVATION IS DIFFERENT BUT ALSO 2514 01:32:43,253 --> 01:32:44,688 THE EXPOSURE IS DIFFERENT, SO I 2515 01:32:44,688 --> 01:32:47,491 THINK IT'S HARD TO REALLY SAY IF 2516 01:32:47,491 --> 01:32:50,160 ONE THING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN 2517 01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:50,494 ANOTHER. 2518 01:32:50,494 --> 01:32:57,935 I MEAN, ONE THING IS FOR CERT 2519 01:32:57,935 --> 01:33:02,573 CERTAIN, THE NERVES THAT I 2520 01:33:02,573 --> 01:33:03,540 TALKED ABOUT THAT ARE 2521 01:33:03,540 --> 01:33:06,076 INNERVATING THE SKIN, THEY ALSO 2522 01:33:06,076 --> 01:33:11,582 INNERVATE, FOR INSTANCE, THE -- 2523 01:33:11,582 --> 01:33:12,683 CAVITY, OTHER PLACES IN THE 2524 01:33:12,683 --> 01:33:14,318 BODY, THEY MAY BE INVOLVED IN 2525 01:33:14,318 --> 01:33:15,819 DIFFERENT PROCESSES AND 2526 01:33:15,819 --> 01:33:19,489 DIFFERENT PLACES, AND CAUSE 2527 01:33:19,489 --> 01:33:22,960 DIFFERENT REACTIONS AS WELL. 2528 01:33:22,960 --> 01:33:26,430 SO I THINK THAT'S -- IT IS A 2529 01:33:26,430 --> 01:33:28,832 COMPLICATED THING AND ALSO THERE 2530 01:33:28,832 --> 01:33:33,971 ARE SOME STUDIES THAT HAVE 2531 01:33:33,971 --> 01:33:34,871 PROPOSED A REDUCTION IN THE 2532 01:33:34,871 --> 01:33:37,908 NUMBER OF FIBERS IS ASSOCIATED 2533 01:33:37,908 --> 01:33:43,680 ACTUALLY WITH INCREASED ITCH. 2534 01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:45,115 WHICH IS LARD TO REALLY 2535 01:33:45,115 --> 01:33:46,316 UNDERSTAND WHY THAT WOULD BE. 2536 01:33:46,316 --> 01:33:49,253 THE PROPOSAL IS THAT THIS IS THE 2537 01:33:49,253 --> 01:33:55,926 LEVEL OF THE SPINAL CORD, WHERE 2538 01:33:55,926 --> 01:33:57,127 THERE'S -- AND CLEARLY THERE'S A 2539 01:33:57,127 --> 01:33:59,896 LOT MORE TO BE UNDERSTOOD ABOUT 2540 01:33:59,896 --> 01:34:01,431 HOW THE DIFFERENT NERVES 2541 01:34:01,431 --> 01:34:02,666 ACTUALLY INTERACT WITH EACH 2542 01:34:02,666 --> 01:34:02,966 OTHER. 2543 01:34:02,966 --> 01:34:09,973 SO I MEAN, AS SOMEBODY WHO OFTEN 2544 01:34:09,973 --> 01:34:12,075 GETS OR HAS LARGE REACTIONS TO 2545 01:34:12,075 --> 01:34:13,610 MOSQUITOES, I KNOW THAT IF, FOR 2546 01:34:13,610 --> 01:34:18,215 INSTANCE, I PUT AN ICE CUBE ON 2547 01:34:18,215 --> 01:34:20,851 MY HAND AFTER A MOSQUITO BITE, I 2548 01:34:20,851 --> 01:34:22,286 DON'T SCRATCH, AND THAT'S A 2549 01:34:22,286 --> 01:34:24,021 REALLY EFFECTIVE WAY TO 2550 01:34:24,021 --> 01:34:25,589 BASICALLY COUNTER STIMULUS, SO 2551 01:34:25,589 --> 01:34:27,758 THE FACT THAT THERE MAY BE THIS 2552 01:34:27,758 --> 01:34:28,859 INTERACTION BETWEEN DIFFERENT 2553 01:34:28,859 --> 01:34:34,164 NERVE FIBERS IS NOT A WILD IDEA. 2554 01:34:34,164 --> 01:34:38,835 >> MARK, YOU MADE THE STATEMENT 2555 01:34:38,835 --> 01:34:40,937 THAT ITCH IS FUNDAMENTALLY A 2556 01:34:40,937 --> 01:34:44,641 DISEASE OF THE BRAIN. 2557 01:34:44,641 --> 01:34:48,845 NOW, THE VARIOUS NEUROLOGIC 2558 01:34:48,845 --> 01:34:51,148 CONDITIONS AFFECTING THE BRAIN 2559 01:34:51,148 --> 01:34:56,286 OR THE SPINAL CORD INTERFERE OR 2560 01:34:56,286 --> 01:34:59,456 PREVENT THE PERCEPTION OF ITCH 2561 01:34:59,456 --> 01:35:01,458 BY A PATIENT? 2562 01:35:01,458 --> 01:35:07,597 DO PEOPLE WHO HAVE A VOAB ROW 2563 01:35:07,597 --> 01:35:09,199 VASCULAR ACCIDENT, HEMIPLEGIA? 2564 01:35:09,199 --> 01:35:10,567 >> SO I'M DOING THIS AT THE 2565 01:35:10,567 --> 01:35:13,403 MOMENT, SCRATCHING MYSELF, 2566 01:35:13,403 --> 01:35:14,604 BECAUSE YOU'LL PROBABLY FIND 2567 01:35:14,604 --> 01:35:15,472 THERE'S SOME PEOPLE IN THE 2568 01:35:15,472 --> 01:35:16,840 AUDIENCE WHO WILL ACTUALLY BE 2569 01:35:16,840 --> 01:35:18,575 FOLLOWING ME. 2570 01:35:18,575 --> 01:35:19,576 DOING THAT, AND IT 2571 01:35:19,576 --> 01:35:21,411 ACTUALLY BEEN STUDIED IN 2572 01:35:21,411 --> 01:35:23,580 MONKEYS, THAT IT'S ACTUALLY A 2573 01:35:23,580 --> 01:35:24,981 MIRROR BEHAVIOR. 2574 01:35:24,981 --> 01:35:30,120 SO IF YOU HAVE -- IF YOU SHOW A 2575 01:35:30,120 --> 01:35:31,254 VIDEO TO MONKEYS OF ANOTHER 2576 01:35:31,254 --> 01:35:33,757 MONKEY SCRATCHING, A VERY LARGE 2577 01:35:33,757 --> 01:35:34,858 NUMBER OF THEM WILL START 2578 01:35:34,858 --> 01:35:35,959 SCRATCHING. 2579 01:35:35,959 --> 01:35:42,332 SO THIS TELLS YOU THAT IT IS -- 2580 01:35:42,332 --> 01:35:43,100 THE BRAIN. 2581 01:35:43,100 --> 01:35:44,101 BASICALLY IF YOU THINK OF 2582 01:35:44,101 --> 01:35:46,169 SOMETHING VERY ITCHY, IT'S 2583 01:35:46,169 --> 01:35:47,003 ACTUALLY PRETTY COMMON THAT YOU 2584 01:35:47,003 --> 01:35:50,640 WILL ACTUALLY START SCRATCHING. 2585 01:35:50,640 --> 01:35:57,748 SO CLEARLY THERE'S A GREAT DEAL 2586 01:35:57,748 --> 01:35:59,649 OF SUPPRESSION FOR ITCHING AND 2587 01:35:59,649 --> 01:36:00,417 FOR ALL KIND OF DIFFERENT 2588 01:36:00,417 --> 01:36:00,851 REASONS. 2589 01:36:00,851 --> 01:36:03,153 SO VERY OFTEN I WILL SCRATCH -- 2590 01:36:03,153 --> 01:36:05,322 PERHAPS WHEN I'M NEWER VEST, 2591 01:36:05,322 --> 01:36:12,596 IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT YOU DO. 2592 01:36:12,596 --> 01:36:14,097 SO FROM THAT EXAMPLE, WHAT I'M 2593 01:36:14,097 --> 01:36:16,533 SAYING IS THAT THERE MAY BE 2594 01:36:16,533 --> 01:36:21,471 CENTRAL ITCH, WHAT A 2595 01:36:21,471 --> 01:36:22,005 NEUROBIOLOGIST WOULD CALL 2596 01:36:22,005 --> 01:36:23,340 CENTRAL ITCH, AND THIS IS NOT 2597 01:36:23,340 --> 01:36:25,208 UNUSUAL TO THINK ABOUT, 2598 01:36:25,208 --> 01:36:27,644 BECAUSE -- AND BECAUSE FOR 2599 01:36:27,644 --> 01:36:31,581 INSTANCE, THERE'S NEUROGENIC 2600 01:36:31,581 --> 01:36:34,518 PAIN, SO YOU CAN HAVE PATIENTS 2601 01:36:34,518 --> 01:36:36,720 THAT HAVE NO SYMPTOM AT ALL, 2602 01:36:36,720 --> 01:36:37,954 THEY SEEM TO BE COMPLETELY 2603 01:36:37,954 --> 01:36:40,157 RECOVERED AFTER AN INJURY, BUT 2604 01:36:40,157 --> 01:36:45,829 THEY STILL HAVE PAIN. 2605 01:36:45,829 --> 01:36:48,465 SO IT'S THOUGHT THAT THIS COULD 2606 01:36:48,465 --> 01:36:52,235 ALSO OCCUR FOR ITCH AS WELL. 2607 01:36:52,235 --> 01:36:54,104 IT'S PROBABLY JUST A LOT LESS 2608 01:36:54,104 --> 01:36:57,240 COMMON. 2609 01:36:57,240 --> 01:37:00,544 SO ONE OF THE SYMPTOMS OF 2610 01:37:00,544 --> 01:37:04,314 SHINGLES, FOR INSTANCE, IS LESS 2611 01:37:04,314 --> 01:37:07,350 COMMON BUT SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY 2612 01:37:07,350 --> 01:37:08,552 DEVELOP CHRONIC ITCH AFTER 2613 01:37:08,552 --> 01:37:09,119 SHINGLES. 2614 01:37:09,119 --> 01:37:12,289 SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT 2615 01:37:12,289 --> 01:37:13,390 BECOMES PERMANENT AND THEY DON'T 2616 01:37:13,390 --> 01:37:14,958 GET RID OF IT. 2617 01:37:14,958 --> 01:37:18,428 AND THAT'S PURELY NEUROGENIC. 2618 01:37:18,428 --> 01:37:20,297 THERE'S NOTHING HAPPENING TO 2619 01:37:20,297 --> 01:37:22,399 THEIR SKIN. 2620 01:37:22,399 --> 01:37:24,267 THERE'S NO OTHER REASON THAT THE 2621 01:37:24,267 --> 01:37:27,003 NERVE FIBERS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED 2622 01:37:27,003 --> 01:37:32,509 AND STAY ACTIVATED. 2623 01:37:32,509 --> 01:37:34,945 >> SO IF SOMEONE HAS A 2624 01:37:34,945 --> 01:37:39,950 HEMIPLEGIA AND ECZEMA OR ATOPIC 2625 01:37:39,950 --> 01:37:42,953 DERMATITIS, DO THEY ITCH IN THE 2626 01:37:42,953 --> 01:37:44,020 DEINNERVATED PORTION OF THEIR 2627 01:37:44,020 --> 01:37:50,494 BODY? 2628 01:37:50,494 --> 01:37:52,596 >> PROBABLY NOT. 2629 01:37:52,596 --> 01:37:54,798 I'VE NOT LOOKED INTO THAT, BUT I 2630 01:37:54,798 --> 01:37:56,433 WOULD BE SURPRISED IF THEY DID, 2631 01:37:56,433 --> 01:37:58,101 BECAUSE YOU NEED TO HAVE THE 2632 01:37:58,101 --> 01:37:59,736 CONNECTION. 2633 01:37:59,736 --> 01:38:09,179 AND ITCH IS LOCATION-SPECIFIC. 2634 01:38:09,179 --> 01:38:10,347 SO THERE'S THE CONNECTIONS INTO 2635 01:38:10,347 --> 01:38:12,249 THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ARE 2636 01:38:12,249 --> 01:38:14,584 DEFINED, I MEAN, THAT'S WHY YOU 2637 01:38:14,584 --> 01:38:17,420 KNOW YOU'VE BEEN -- A MOSQUITO'S 2638 01:38:17,420 --> 01:38:19,489 GOT YOUR LEFT HAND RATHER THAN 2639 01:38:19,489 --> 01:38:21,691 YOUR RIGHT HAND. 2640 01:38:21,691 --> 01:38:26,129 YOU KNOW WHERE THE CRITTERS GOT 2641 01:38:26,129 --> 01:38:26,296 YOU. 2642 01:38:26,296 --> 01:38:31,034 >> SO IAN, YOU'RE THE CLINICIAN. 2643 01:38:31,034 --> 01:38:32,669 DO HEMIPLEGIC PATIENTS ITCH IF 2644 01:38:32,669 --> 01:38:35,739 THEY HAVE ATOPIC DERMATITIS? 2645 01:38:35,739 --> 01:38:37,307 >> I HAVEN'T STUDIED THAT 2646 01:38:37,307 --> 01:38:38,942 DIRECTLY, BUT I AGREE WITH MARK, 2647 01:38:38,942 --> 01:38:39,476 I'D SAY NO. 2648 01:38:39,476 --> 01:38:42,746 I MEAN, YOU HEAR ABOUT 2649 01:38:42,746 --> 01:38:44,247 NEUROPATHIC PAIN SYNDROMES, BUT 2650 01:38:44,247 --> 01:38:46,449 I'VE NEVER HEARD ANYBODY SAY 2651 01:38:46,449 --> 01:38:49,419 THAT THEY HAVE ITCH. 2652 01:38:49,419 --> 01:38:52,822 IF THEY'RE GENUINE, THEY DENER 2653 01:38:52,822 --> 01:38:54,891 SERRATED IN THAT AREA, THEY 2654 01:38:54,891 --> 01:38:56,293 DON'T HAVE ITCH EITHER. 2655 01:38:56,293 --> 01:39:02,933 >> SO MARK, ARE THERE WAYS OF 2656 01:39:02,933 --> 01:39:08,204 DIRECTLY INHIBITING MPBB? 2657 01:39:08,204 --> 01:39:10,307 >> SO I DIDN'T GO INTO THIS IN 2658 01:39:10,307 --> 01:39:13,476 MY TALK. 2659 01:39:13,476 --> 01:39:14,911 SO WE TOGETHER WITH 2660 01:39:14,911 --> 01:39:17,847 COLLABORATORS IN NCATS ACTUALLY 2661 01:39:17,847 --> 01:39:19,749 PERFORMED A HIGH-THROUGHPUT 2662 01:39:19,749 --> 01:39:25,121 SCREEN TO TRY AND IDENTIFY 2663 01:39:25,121 --> 01:39:27,424 ANTAGONISTS TO THE NPPB 2664 01:39:27,424 --> 01:39:29,626 RECEPTOR, THIS IS A RECEPTOR 2665 01:39:29,626 --> 01:39:33,463 CALLED N PB1, AND WE'VE 2666 01:39:33,463 --> 01:39:34,431 IDENTIFIED ANTAGONISTS AND AT 2667 01:39:34,431 --> 01:39:36,633 LEAST IN ANIMAL STUDIES, THEY 2668 01:39:36,633 --> 01:39:39,069 WORK. 2669 01:39:39,069 --> 01:39:41,237 THEY PREVENT THE ANIMAL 2670 01:39:41,237 --> 01:39:47,110 SCRATCHING TO PRURITOGENS. 2671 01:39:47,110 --> 01:39:48,311 SO IN THEORY, YES, THAT WOULD BE 2672 01:39:48,311 --> 01:39:52,449 A WAY THAT YOU COULD ACTUALLY 2673 01:39:52,449 --> 01:39:53,550 PREVENT ITCH. 2674 01:39:53,550 --> 01:39:56,019 I MEAN, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY 2675 01:39:56,019 --> 01:39:57,654 WE THOUGHT OF THAT AS A 2676 01:39:57,654 --> 01:39:59,923 POTENTIAL WAY IS THAT IT WOULD 2677 01:39:59,923 --> 01:40:02,993 CIRCUMVENT THE NEED TO DEVELOP 2678 01:40:02,993 --> 01:40:04,894 ANTAGONISTS TO INDIVIDUAL 2679 01:40:04,894 --> 01:40:09,733 CHEMICALS TO DIFFERENT 2680 01:40:09,733 --> 01:40:11,468 RECEPTORS, BECAUSE THIS 2681 01:40:11,468 --> 01:40:12,335 TRANSMITTER IS CENTRAL TO 2682 01:40:12,335 --> 01:40:15,672 TRANSMISSION OF ALL THE ITCH 2683 01:40:15,672 --> 01:40:16,439 SIGNALS. 2684 01:40:16,439 --> 01:40:18,341 SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S STILL 2685 01:40:18,341 --> 01:40:20,710 UNDER DEVELOPMENT, BECAUSE THE 2686 01:40:20,710 --> 01:40:23,046 MOLECULES THAT WE IDENTIFIED, 2687 01:40:23,046 --> 01:40:27,417 FIRST OF ALL, ARE NOT HIGH 2688 01:40:27,417 --> 01:40:29,619 AFFINITY AND NOT ITCH SPECIFIC 2689 01:40:29,619 --> 01:40:31,354 SO WE KNOW THERE CAN BE SOME 2690 01:40:31,354 --> 01:40:36,126 EFFECTS ON OTHER RECEPTORS. 2691 01:40:36,126 --> 01:40:39,929 >> SO WHAT IS THE PHYSIOLOGIC 2692 01:40:39,929 --> 01:40:41,564 PURPOSE IN HAVING ITCH 2693 01:40:41,564 --> 01:40:45,769 RECEPTORS? 2694 01:40:45,769 --> 01:40:48,405 >> SO YOU'RE ASKING ME TO 2695 01:40:48,405 --> 01:40:51,474 SPECULATE NOW, AND I'M HAPPY TO 2696 01:40:51,474 --> 01:40:53,243 SPECULATE, BUT SO THE AUDIENCE 2697 01:40:53,243 --> 01:40:55,011 UNDERSTANDS, THIS IS NOT KNOWN, 2698 01:40:55,011 --> 01:40:58,348 SO THIS IS JUST ME MAKING THINGS 2699 01:40:58,348 --> 01:40:58,515 UP. 2700 01:40:58,515 --> 01:41:02,619 I MEAN, CLEARLY, I WOULD SAY 2701 01:41:02,619 --> 01:41:09,392 ITCH CAN BE THOUGHT OF AS AN 2702 01:41:09,392 --> 01:41:10,160 ANTIPARASITIC DEFENSE. 2703 01:41:10,160 --> 01:41:12,095 IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT THAT MOST 2704 01:41:12,095 --> 01:41:15,098 OF THE NATURAL PARASITES THAT 2705 01:41:15,098 --> 01:41:19,803 TRY TO PREY ON US MAKE US 2706 01:41:19,803 --> 01:41:22,005 SCRATCH, AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT 2707 01:41:22,005 --> 01:41:25,875 SCRATCHES, WE'RE REMOVING THE 2708 01:41:25,875 --> 01:41:26,843 VERY OUTER LAYERS OF THE SKIN, 2709 01:41:26,843 --> 01:41:28,978 SO THIS COULD BE QUITE AN 2710 01:41:28,978 --> 01:41:30,447 EFFECTIVE WAY TO POTENTIALLY -- 2711 01:41:30,447 --> 01:41:32,248 FIRST OF ALL WE MOVE THE 2712 01:41:32,248 --> 01:41:36,753 PARASITE, BUT THEN WE MOVE 2713 01:41:36,753 --> 01:41:37,887 ANYTHING ELSE THAT MIGHT BE IN 2714 01:41:37,887 --> 01:41:38,855 THAT TOP LAYER OF THE SKIN. 2715 01:41:38,855 --> 01:41:40,290 THE OTHER THING THAT I'LL POINT 2716 01:41:40,290 --> 01:41:43,026 OUT IS THAT IT IS THAT VERY TOP 2717 01:41:43,026 --> 01:41:46,029 LAYER THAT THE ITCH NEURONS 2718 01:41:46,029 --> 01:41:47,230 ACTUALLY INNERVATE, THAT TOP 2719 01:41:47,230 --> 01:41:49,199 LAYER IS NOT INNERVATED BY THE 2720 01:41:49,199 --> 01:41:51,101 NEURONS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN 2721 01:41:51,101 --> 01:41:52,869 DETECTING PAINFUL STIMULI, 2722 01:41:52,869 --> 01:41:54,938 THEY'RE MUCH DEEPER, VERY MUCH 2723 01:41:54,938 --> 01:41:56,973 MUCH MORE IN THE DERMIS, AND WE 2724 01:41:56,973 --> 01:42:04,080 ALL KNOW THAT RECENT WHY WE 2725 01:42:04,080 --> 01:42:05,715 OFTEN SCRATCH AND THEN WE STOP 2726 01:42:05,715 --> 01:42:06,816 SCRATCHING IS WE'VE ACTUALLY GOT 2727 01:42:06,816 --> 01:42:07,951 DOWN TO THAT DEEPER LAYER AND 2728 01:42:07,951 --> 01:42:12,122 ITCH IS REPLACED BY PAIN. 2729 01:42:12,122 --> 01:42:14,624 AND PAIN EVOLUTIONARILY, WE 2730 01:42:14,624 --> 01:42:16,526 WOULD STOP SCRATCHING. 2731 01:42:16,526 --> 01:42:21,431 SO THIS COULD BE A MECHANISM FOR 2732 01:42:21,431 --> 01:42:29,239 REMOVAL OF EGG TO PARASITES. 2733 01:42:29,239 --> 01:42:31,841 >> THERE'S A QUESTION ABOUT 2734 01:42:31,841 --> 01:42:36,913 WHETHER -- LET'S SEE. 2735 01:42:36,913 --> 01:42:38,381 AS SOMEONE WHO HAS ATOPIC 2736 01:42:38,381 --> 01:42:43,319 DERMATITIS AND IS CURRENTLY ON 2737 01:42:43,319 --> 01:42:48,124 DUPIXENT, IN MY EXPERIENCE, THE 2738 01:42:48,124 --> 01:42:50,326 ITCH IS REALLY FOCUSED ON WHERE 2739 01:42:50,326 --> 01:42:52,095 THE NERVES ARE. 2740 01:42:52,095 --> 01:42:54,097 ENDS ARE ALWAYS THE WORST, MOST 2741 01:42:54,097 --> 01:42:55,832 LIKELY DUE TO ALL THE NERVES IN 2742 01:42:55,832 --> 01:42:56,399 THE AREA. 2743 01:42:56,399 --> 01:42:58,301 I FIND THAT LOCATIONS WITH FEWER 2744 01:42:58,301 --> 01:43:01,037 NERVES ARE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS 2745 01:43:01,037 --> 01:43:03,106 ITCHY. 2746 01:43:03,106 --> 01:43:05,508 STOMACH, BACK, BUT STILL ITCHY 2747 01:43:05,508 --> 01:43:08,178 IF THERE'S AN ALLERGEN 2748 01:43:08,178 --> 01:43:10,713 TRIGGERING MY ECZEMA. 2749 01:43:10,713 --> 01:43:17,053 WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT? 2750 01:43:17,053 --> 01:43:23,126 IS THAT A COMMON OBSERVATION? 2751 01:43:23,126 --> 01:43:24,627 >> I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE PEGGED 2752 01:43:24,627 --> 01:43:27,063 TO THE NERVES, BUT CERTAINLY 2753 01:43:27,063 --> 01:43:31,568 HAND DISEASES MOST COMMON FOR 2754 01:43:31,568 --> 01:43:34,537 ADULTS, BUT THEN AS SHOWN IN THE 2755 01:43:34,537 --> 01:43:37,240 PICTURES, IT'S MORE EXTREMITIES 2756 01:43:37,240 --> 01:43:40,810 ARE GOING TO BE MORE AFFECTED 2757 01:43:40,810 --> 01:43:44,314 THAN YOUR CHEST AND BACK, SO I 2758 01:43:44,314 --> 01:43:46,182 DON'T KNOW HOW -- YOU CAN'T 2759 01:43:46,182 --> 01:43:48,751 NECESSARILY SORT THOSE APART 2760 01:43:48,751 --> 01:43:50,386 DIRECTLY, NERVE CONCENTRATION 2761 01:43:50,386 --> 01:43:51,487 VERSUS EXPOSURE OF THOSE 2762 01:43:51,487 --> 01:43:56,626 PARTICULAR AREAS, KIND OF LIKE 2763 01:43:56,626 --> 01:43:57,594 DR. WIN WAS ALREADY SAYING. 2764 01:43:57,594 --> 01:43:59,395 BUT YES, THAT'S A COMMON 2765 01:43:59,395 --> 01:44:02,232 PRESENTATION, PARTICULARLY FOR 2766 01:44:02,232 --> 01:44:05,235 ADULTS, IS THE HAPPENED. 2767 01:44:05,235 --> 01:44:05,902 -- THE HAND. 2768 01:44:05,902 --> 01:44:07,537 >> AND I'LL ADD TO WHAT IAN HAS 2769 01:44:07,537 --> 01:44:11,608 SAID THAT AS I POINTED OUT, THIS 2770 01:44:11,608 --> 01:44:13,943 IS AN ITCH-SCRATCH CYCLE, SO 2771 01:44:13,943 --> 01:44:17,547 CLEARLY, YOUR HANDS, YOU HAVE 2772 01:44:17,547 --> 01:44:18,848 ACCESS TO, TO SCRATCH. 2773 01:44:18,848 --> 01:44:21,885 IF YOU DON'T SCRATCH, IT WILL 2774 01:44:21,885 --> 01:44:24,287 PROBABLY CLEAR UP OR BE A LOT 2775 01:44:24,287 --> 01:44:27,257 LESS. 2776 01:44:27,257 --> 01:44:29,592 AND THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT IT 2777 01:44:29,592 --> 01:44:33,096 EASY TO STOP SCRATCHING, BUT 2778 01:44:33,096 --> 01:44:34,964 CLEAR LIE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE 2779 01:44:34,964 --> 01:44:36,499 SCRATCHING YOUR BACK, ALSO 2780 01:44:36,499 --> 01:44:38,368 BECAUSE, SOCIALLY, THAT WOULD BE 2781 01:44:38,368 --> 01:44:41,237 SORT OF A STRANGE THING TO BE 2782 01:44:41,237 --> 01:44:43,006 DOING, WHEREAS SCRATCHING YOUR 2783 01:44:43,006 --> 01:44:46,242 HANDS, YEAH, YOU CAN DO IT UNDER 2784 01:44:46,242 --> 01:44:52,849 THE TABLE AND BE -- MAKE THE 2785 01:44:52,849 --> 01:44:55,218 ITCH WORSE, INCREASE THE 2786 01:44:55,218 --> 01:44:57,320 INFLAMMATION, AND AS I WAS 2787 01:44:57,320 --> 01:44:59,088 SAYING, IT'S THE ITCH-SCRATCH 2788 01:44:59,088 --> 01:45:00,290 CYCLE. 2789 01:45:00,290 --> 01:45:06,462 AND I'VE HEARD FROM SOME 2790 01:45:06,462 --> 01:45:07,864 PHYSICIANS, IN REALLY BAD CASES 2791 01:45:07,864 --> 01:45:11,467 OF PRURITIS, ONE TREATMENT IS 2792 01:45:11,467 --> 01:45:13,069 ACTUALLY TO BUNDLE THE PATIENT 2793 01:45:13,069 --> 01:45:15,905 IN BANDAGES, PREVENT THEM FROM 2794 01:45:15,905 --> 01:45:19,409 SCRATCHING, AND THIS ACTUALLY IS 2795 01:45:19,409 --> 01:45:23,579 VERY EFFECTIVE. 2796 01:45:23,579 --> 01:45:28,551 >> WHY NOT JUST WEAR GLOVES OR 2797 01:45:28,551 --> 01:45:29,018 SOME SOFT -- 2798 01:45:29,018 --> 01:45:33,289 >> SO THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT 2799 01:45:33,289 --> 01:45:36,326 KIDS -- I THINK -- I'VE HEARD 2800 01:45:36,326 --> 01:45:41,864 THAT AT LEAST YOU TRIM THE NAILS 2801 01:45:41,864 --> 01:45:44,033 AND YOU PUT SOME LITTLE GLOVES 2802 01:45:44,033 --> 01:45:45,902 ON, ON THE KIDS, AND THIS WILL 2803 01:45:45,902 --> 01:45:49,372 STOP THEM FROM SCRATCHING 2804 01:45:49,372 --> 01:45:52,742 EFFECTIVELY AND PREVENT -- I HAD 2805 01:45:52,742 --> 01:45:57,113 NO -- IN RESEARCH ANIMALS, OFTEN 2806 01:45:57,113 --> 01:45:58,281 THE VETERINARIAN WILL ACTUALLY 2807 01:45:58,281 --> 01:45:59,482 TRIM THE NAILS OF THE ANIMALS 2808 01:45:59,482 --> 01:46:01,451 AND THIS WILL ACTUALLY REDUCE 2809 01:46:01,451 --> 01:46:04,687 THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE THAT THE 2810 01:46:04,687 --> 01:46:08,324 ANIMALS INFLICT TO THEMSELVES. 2811 01:46:08,324 --> 01:46:12,161 SO THIS IS A REAL THING THAT YOU 2812 01:46:12,161 --> 01:46:14,230 ACTUALLY STIMULATE MORE 2813 01:46:14,230 --> 01:46:14,964 INFLAMMATION IF YOU SCRATCH 2814 01:46:14,964 --> 01:46:16,466 MORE, AND THAT'S JUST GOING TO 2815 01:46:16,466 --> 01:46:20,770 CAUSE MORE ITCH. 2816 01:46:20,770 --> 01:46:23,172 >> IAN, THERE ARE STUDIES ON THE 2817 01:46:23,172 --> 01:46:26,709 CHANGE IN THE MICROBIOME WITH 2818 01:46:26,709 --> 01:46:29,879 ADVANCING AGE, PARTICULARLY VERY 2819 01:46:29,879 --> 01:46:34,484 ADVANCED AGE. 2820 01:46:34,484 --> 01:46:36,719 AND DP ARE IS THERE ANY 2821 01:46:36,719 --> 01:46:37,487 RELATIONSHIP OR ANY INFORMATION 2822 01:46:37,487 --> 01:46:39,922 ON THE ROLE OF LET'S CALL IT 2823 01:46:39,922 --> 01:46:43,626 POLLUTION IN THESE OLDER 2824 01:46:43,626 --> 01:46:50,033 ADUME --PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OE 2825 01:46:50,033 --> 01:46:53,903 CHANGING PLY MIE MICROBIOME WI? 2826 01:46:53,903 --> 01:46:55,772 >> MOST OF THE MICROBIOME 2827 01:46:55,772 --> 01:46:57,173 STUDIES I'VE SEEN HAVE SUGGESTED 2828 01:46:57,173 --> 01:46:58,641 YOU GET A RAPID CHANGE FROM 2829 01:46:58,641 --> 01:47:01,611 BIRTH ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND A 2830 01:47:01,611 --> 01:47:06,382 STEADY CHANGE ALL THE WAY TO 26. 2831 01:47:06,382 --> 01:47:07,350 AND 26 AND FORWARD, IT TENDS TO 2832 01:47:07,350 --> 01:47:08,351 BE FAIRLY STABLE. 2833 01:47:08,351 --> 01:47:10,420 SO I HAVEN'T SEEN DRAMATIC 2834 01:47:10,420 --> 01:47:11,854 CHANGES WITH AGE. 2835 01:47:11,854 --> 01:47:15,558 THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS MOST OF 2836 01:47:15,558 --> 01:47:17,160 THE GUT MICROBIOME STUDIES ARE 2837 01:47:17,160 --> 01:47:19,429 GOING TO BE ENTIRELY DEPENDENT 2838 01:47:19,429 --> 01:47:21,564 ON DIET, SO YOU START TO GET OF 2839 01:47:21,564 --> 01:47:27,136 THE AGE WHERE DIETARY STAGES -- 2840 01:47:27,136 --> 01:47:28,438 EXPECT TO SEE MICROBIOME 2841 01:47:28,438 --> 01:47:28,771 CHANGES. 2842 01:47:28,771 --> 01:47:31,140 THERE HAS NOT BEEN VERY MUCH 2843 01:47:31,140 --> 01:47:32,442 EVALUATION OF MAYBE THE TERM 2844 01:47:32,442 --> 01:47:35,745 WOULD BE FOOD POLLUTION. 2845 01:47:35,745 --> 01:47:40,149 OF WHAT DOES -- WHAT DO 2846 01:47:40,149 --> 01:47:42,785 PROCESSED INGREDIENTS DO TO THE 2847 01:47:42,785 --> 01:47:44,320 MICROBIOME, WHAT CONTAMINANTS DO 2848 01:47:44,320 --> 01:47:51,294 TO THE MICRO MICROBIOME. 2849 01:47:51,294 --> 01:47:53,096 -- WILL KILL OFF GUT BACTERIA 2850 01:47:53,096 --> 01:47:54,330 TOO, IS SOMEWHAT THEY ARE BUILT 2851 01:47:54,330 --> 01:47:55,698 TO PREVENT ORGANISMS FROM 2852 01:47:55,698 --> 01:47:57,033 GROWING IN WHATEVER PRODUCT YOU 2853 01:47:57,033 --> 01:47:58,000 PUT THEM IN. 2854 01:47:58,000 --> 01:48:02,472 AND SO WHEN YOU START DRINKING 2855 01:48:02,472 --> 01:48:03,973 THESE THROUGH WATER 2856 01:48:03,973 --> 01:48:05,274 CONTAMINATION, BECAUSE NOT -- 2857 01:48:05,274 --> 01:48:06,709 NOT EVERY MUNICIPALITY WILL 2858 01:48:06,709 --> 01:48:09,512 FILTER OUT EVERY SINGLE CON TAM 2859 01:48:09,512 --> 01:48:09,846 CONTAMINANT. 2860 01:48:09,846 --> 01:48:12,014 OR IF THEY'RE INTENTIONALLY PUT 2861 01:48:12,014 --> 01:48:15,518 INTO FOODS TO PREVENT MICROBIAL 2862 01:48:15,518 --> 01:48:17,320 OVERGROWTH, THEY WILL WIPE THAT 2863 01:48:17,320 --> 01:48:18,521 OUT AS WELL. 2864 01:48:18,521 --> 01:48:23,359 SO I HAVEN'T SEEN A STRONG 2865 01:48:23,359 --> 01:48:24,894 SIGNAL FOR MICROBIOME IN AGING. 2866 01:48:24,894 --> 01:48:26,896 IF THERE IS ONE, I WOULD BET THE 2867 01:48:26,896 --> 01:48:27,897 OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THAT 2868 01:48:27,897 --> 01:48:32,535 SIGNAL WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TIED 2869 01:48:32,535 --> 01:48:33,536 TO -- AND I DON'T SEE ANYWHERE 2870 01:48:33,536 --> 01:48:35,838 NEAR THE RESEARCH THAT WE NEED 2871 01:48:35,838 --> 01:48:37,807 FOR WHAT DO DIETARY FACTORS DO 2872 01:48:37,807 --> 01:48:39,275 TO THE MICROBIOME AND TO START 2873 01:48:39,275 --> 01:48:40,376 TO GET VERY SPECIFIC. 2874 01:48:40,376 --> 01:48:42,778 YOU CAN FIND ONES FOR LIKE OH, 2875 01:48:42,778 --> 01:48:45,014 PUT SOMEBODY ON AN 2876 01:48:45,014 --> 01:48:46,549 ULTRAPROCESSED DIET, KETO DIET 2877 01:48:46,549 --> 01:48:49,352 OR VEGAN DIET SO YOU SEE THESE 2878 01:48:49,352 --> 01:48:50,419 SWEEPING DIFFERENCES BUT I FEEL 2879 01:48:50,419 --> 01:48:51,654 LIKE THE NEXT PHASE IS GOING TO 2880 01:48:51,654 --> 01:48:53,923 BE SPECIFIC INGREDIENT AND 2881 01:48:53,923 --> 01:48:55,091 SPECIFIC EXPOSURES TO SEE WHAT 2882 01:48:55,091 --> 01:48:58,494 HAPPENS. 2883 01:48:58,494 --> 01:49:01,998 >> SO IAN, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS 2884 01:49:01,998 --> 01:49:08,738 HAPPENING AT AGE 2, 3 OR 4, THAT 2885 01:49:08,738 --> 01:49:12,542 CHANGES THE PHENOTYPE WITH 2886 01:49:12,542 --> 01:49:19,248 RESPECT TO ATOPIC DERMATITIS? 2887 01:49:19,248 --> 01:49:21,517 >> I THINK COMBINING WHAT MARK 2888 01:49:21,517 --> 01:49:24,120 IS TALKING ABOUT, MY BIGGEST 2889 01:49:24,120 --> 01:49:25,755 WORRY WOULD BE SOME SORT OF 2890 01:49:25,755 --> 01:49:26,489 NEUROLOGIC PRIMING. 2891 01:49:26,489 --> 01:49:28,124 THIS IS THE TIME FOR 2892 01:49:28,124 --> 01:49:30,660 NEURODEVELOPMENT, IMMUNE 2893 01:49:30,660 --> 01:49:34,697 DEVELOPMENT, AND YOU FORCE THE 2894 01:49:34,697 --> 01:49:36,299 CHILD TO APPROPRIATELY RESPOND 2895 01:49:36,299 --> 01:49:37,600 TO A VERY INAPPROPRIATE STIMULUS 2896 01:49:37,600 --> 01:49:39,035 OF THESE PARTICULAR TOXINS THAT 2897 01:49:39,035 --> 01:49:42,638 THEY'RE GETTING. 2898 01:49:42,638 --> 01:49:44,574 AND THAT WILL EVENTUALLY GET 2899 01:49:44,574 --> 01:49:47,510 BUILT INTO SYSTEMS OF 2900 01:49:47,510 --> 01:49:48,945 PARTICIPATING AND POTENTIALLY 2901 01:49:48,945 --> 01:49:49,378 OVERREACTING. 2902 01:49:49,378 --> 01:49:51,180 I THINK IT MORE CLEAR FOR ASTHMA 2903 01:49:51,180 --> 01:49:53,349 IN THE LUNGS, WHERE CHRONIC 2904 01:49:53,349 --> 01:49:54,684 EXPOSURE CREATE A LOT OF 2905 01:49:54,684 --> 01:49:55,651 NEUROGENIC RESPONSE IN THE LUNG 2906 01:49:55,651 --> 01:49:58,354 AND THE NEXT EXPOSURE WILL 2907 01:49:58,354 --> 01:49:59,589 TRIGGER A MORE ROBUST RESPONSE 2908 01:49:59,589 --> 01:50:01,557 FROM ANYBODY ELSE, BUT I THINK 2909 01:50:01,557 --> 01:50:02,992 YOU ARE TRAINING THE IMMUNE 2910 01:50:02,992 --> 01:50:04,560 SYSTEMS AND THE PRIF PAL NERVOUS 2911 01:50:04,560 --> 01:50:06,329 SYSTEM TO RESPOND TO THESE 2912 01:50:06,329 --> 01:50:07,430 CHEMICALS, AND I THINK THAT THAT 2913 01:50:07,430 --> 01:50:11,167 IS A HARD LESSON TO UNLEARN. 2914 01:50:11,167 --> 01:50:12,368 OVER THE COURSE. 2915 01:50:12,368 --> 01:50:13,836 NOW, ONE OF THE BIGGEST 2916 01:50:13,836 --> 01:50:15,504 MYSTERIES IN ECZEMA IS WHY IS IT 2917 01:50:15,504 --> 01:50:17,573 THAT IN EVERY SOCIETY ON THE 2918 01:50:17,573 --> 01:50:18,507 PLANET, THE VAST MAJORITY OF 2919 01:50:18,507 --> 01:50:19,942 CHILDREN WITH ECZEMA WILL 2920 01:50:19,942 --> 01:50:21,877 EVENTUALLY OUTGROW IT. 2921 01:50:21,877 --> 01:50:22,979 OUTGROWING IT BEING A VERY 2922 01:50:22,979 --> 01:50:24,480 POORLY USED TERM, BUT THE SKIN 2923 01:50:24,480 --> 01:50:26,115 WILL CLEAR UP AND THEY MIGHT BE 2924 01:50:26,115 --> 01:50:27,850 LEFT WITH ALLERGIES AND ASTHMA 2925 01:50:27,850 --> 01:50:30,353 AND SO FORTH. 2926 01:50:30,353 --> 01:50:32,221 THERE'S NOT REALLY WELL-KNOWN, I 2927 01:50:32,221 --> 01:50:35,057 WOULD START TO THEN QUESTION 2928 01:50:35,057 --> 01:50:36,559 ABOUT NEUROLOGIC -- WHERE WE 2929 01:50:36,559 --> 01:50:37,994 TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, RECEPTOR 2930 01:50:37,994 --> 01:50:38,728 CONCENTRATIONS IN DIFFERENT PART 2931 01:50:38,728 --> 01:50:40,730 OF THE BODY, WE HAVE ONE STUDY 2932 01:50:40,730 --> 01:50:42,031 WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO LOOK AT 2933 01:50:42,031 --> 01:50:43,966 THE DIFFERENT NEURORECEPTORS AS 2934 01:50:43,966 --> 01:50:45,701 A MOUSE AGES, YOU OBVIOUSLY 2935 01:50:45,701 --> 01:50:47,536 CAN'T DO THIS IN HUMANS, BUT 2936 01:50:47,536 --> 01:50:48,604 FROM BIRTH ALL THE WAY FORWARD 2937 01:50:48,604 --> 01:50:50,373 TO SAY LIKE IS THERE A POINT 2938 01:50:50,373 --> 01:50:53,709 WHERE YOU JUST -- YOUR NEWER 2939 01:50:53,709 --> 01:50:54,810 LOGIC PRESENTATION CHANGES AS 2940 01:50:54,810 --> 01:50:56,445 YOU AGE. 2941 01:50:56,445 --> 01:50:59,081 OTHER PEOPLE HAVE JUST 2942 01:50:59,081 --> 01:51:00,916 HYPOTHESIZED THE STIN SCIN JUST 2943 01:51:00,916 --> 01:51:03,185 GETS THICKER AS YOU GO FROM 2 TO 2944 01:51:03,185 --> 01:51:05,721 10 TO 25 AND SO FORTH. 2945 01:51:05,721 --> 01:51:09,625 BUT THAT WOULD BE, I THINK 2946 01:51:09,625 --> 01:51:12,561 IMMUNOLOGIC AND NEUROLOGIC 2947 01:51:12,561 --> 01:51:15,197 TRAINING. 2948 01:51:15,197 --> 01:51:21,203 >> WE HAVE THE QUESTION ABOUT 2949 01:51:21,203 --> 01:51:27,743 RELATIONSHIP OF MITOCHONDRIA TO 2950 01:51:27,743 --> 01:51:28,611 THESE PROCESSES. 2951 01:51:28,611 --> 01:51:30,246 I REALIZE THAT'S A PRETTY BIG 2952 01:51:30,246 --> 01:51:32,415 TOPIC, BUT IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE 2953 01:51:32,415 --> 01:51:35,351 LINKING MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS 2954 01:51:35,351 --> 01:51:41,123 OR METABOLISM TO ATOPIC 2955 01:51:41,123 --> 01:51:42,658 DETERMINE TIGHT OR IN 2956 01:51:42,658 --> 01:51:45,127 RELATIONSHIP TO THE NEURAL 2957 01:51:45,127 --> 01:51:51,500 PATHWAYS? 2958 01:51:51,500 --> 01:51:55,638 >> I CAN ANSWER FOR ATOPIC DERM. 2959 01:51:55,638 --> 01:51:58,774 IT'S BEEN PRETTY EXHAUSTIVELY 2960 01:51:58,774 --> 01:52:00,943 EVALUATED -- WE HAVE TOPICAL 2961 01:52:00,943 --> 01:52:03,145 STEROID WITHDRAWAL THAT IS OFTEN 2962 01:52:03,145 --> 01:52:04,380 CONFUSED FOR ATOPIC DERMATITIS, 2963 01:52:04,380 --> 01:52:06,816 SO IT LOOKS A LOT LIKE ATOPIC 2964 01:52:06,816 --> 01:52:07,483 DERM. 2965 01:52:07,483 --> 01:52:09,518 AND THAT INVOLVES MITOCHONDRIAL 2966 01:52:09,518 --> 01:52:11,120 DEFECTS THAT RUN THROUGH THE 2967 01:52:11,120 --> 01:52:17,360 COAL NER JIG PCHOLINERGIC PATHW. 2968 01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:19,328 BUT FOR YOUR ROUTINE ATOPIC 2969 01:52:19,328 --> 01:52:20,296 DERMATITIS PATIENT WALKING 2970 01:52:20,296 --> 01:52:24,533 AROUND, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY 2971 01:52:24,533 --> 01:52:26,168 STRONG SIGNAL IMPLICATING 2972 01:52:26,168 --> 01:52:31,340 MITOCHONDRIA IN ANY WAY. 2973 01:52:31,340 --> 01:52:34,810 >> LET SEE. 2974 01:52:34,810 --> 01:52:38,814 >> LET'S SEE. 2975 01:52:38,814 --> 01:52:49,358 WE HAD ANOTHER INTERESTING -- SO 2976 01:52:49,825 --> 01:52:51,460 DO EITHER OF YOU SEE A WAY IN 2977 01:52:51,460 --> 01:52:55,297 WHICH THESE TWO TYPES OF 2978 01:52:55,297 --> 01:53:02,104 RESEARCH THAT EACH OF YOU ARE 2979 01:53:02,104 --> 01:53:06,976 DOING CAN BRIDGE OR AFFECT YOUR 2980 01:53:06,976 --> 01:53:11,981 BLANS PLANS FOR FUTURE RESEARCHN 2981 01:53:11,981 --> 01:53:12,515 COLLABORATIVELY? 2982 01:53:12,515 --> 01:53:16,852 ARE THERE THREADS IN BOTH THAT 2983 01:53:16,852 --> 01:53:20,489 TEND TO MAYBE INTRODUCE NEW 2984 01:53:20,489 --> 01:53:22,124 IDEAS OR DO WE HAVE A WAYS TO GO 2985 01:53:22,124 --> 01:53:27,730 YET? 2986 01:53:27,730 --> 01:53:29,198 >> I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS 2987 01:53:29,198 --> 01:53:33,135 THAT IAN TALKED ABOUT WAS -- AND 2988 01:53:33,135 --> 01:53:34,236 I THINK IT WAS BROUGHT UP IN A 2989 01:53:34,236 --> 01:53:36,739 QUESTION AS WELL, WAS THE -- SO 2990 01:53:36,739 --> 01:53:39,208 WHAT MIGHT BE THE RECEPTORS FOR 2991 01:53:39,208 --> 01:53:40,309 THE SETTING OF SOME OF THESE 2992 01:53:40,309 --> 01:53:45,247 THINGS UP. 2993 01:53:45,247 --> 01:53:50,319 AND CLEARLY NOW WE'RE TO SAY IN 2994 01:53:50,319 --> 01:53:51,654 THIS GENOMIC AGE THAT BASICALLY 2995 01:53:51,654 --> 01:53:53,189 A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION IS 2996 01:53:53,189 --> 01:53:55,357 PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. 2997 01:53:55,357 --> 01:53:57,560 SO BASICALLY IAN DOESN'T REALLY 2998 01:53:57,560 --> 01:54:00,362 NEED ME. 2999 01:54:00,362 --> 01:54:02,565 ALL HE NEEDS IS A COMPUTER AND 3000 01:54:02,565 --> 01:54:05,835 SOME DIRECTION OF WHERE TO LOOK. 3001 01:54:05,835 --> 01:54:10,639 SO WHICH I THINK IS A GREAT 3002 01:54:10,639 --> 01:54:11,607 DEMOCRATIZATION OF SCIENCE. 3003 01:54:11,607 --> 01:54:13,676 I THINK THAT'S REALLY A 3004 01:54:13,676 --> 01:54:14,677 FANTASTIC THING THAT'S HAPPENED 3005 01:54:14,677 --> 01:54:20,015 IN THE LAST 10, 20 YEARS THAT 3006 01:54:20,015 --> 01:54:21,517 WE'RE NOW FORCED TO MAKE ALL OUR 3007 01:54:21,517 --> 01:54:26,822 DATA AVAILABLE, AND THAT MAKES 3008 01:54:26,822 --> 01:54:28,157 IT POSSIBLE -- AS YOU POINTED 3009 01:54:28,157 --> 01:54:29,458 OUT AT THE VERY BEGINNING, 3010 01:54:29,458 --> 01:54:30,893 SOMETIMES SCIENCE CAN BECOME 3011 01:54:30,893 --> 01:54:34,029 SILOED, BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY ONE 3012 01:54:34,029 --> 01:54:36,532 OF THE WAYS THAT I THINK THIS 3013 01:54:36,532 --> 01:54:39,268 HAS ACTUALLY BEEN BROKEN. 3014 01:54:39,268 --> 01:54:43,072 AND ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION OF THAT 3015 01:54:43,072 --> 01:54:45,808 IS THAT, FOR INSTANCE, I'M NOT 3016 01:54:45,808 --> 01:54:47,243 AN IMMUNOLOGIST, BUT I WAS ABLE 3017 01:54:47,243 --> 01:54:50,246 TO ACCESS DATA FROM 3018 01:54:50,246 --> 01:54:52,982 IMMUNOLOGISTS AND WHEN I WAS 3019 01:54:52,982 --> 01:54:56,218 LOOKING AT -- CELLS EXPRESS 3020 01:54:56,218 --> 01:54:57,119 ONCOSTATIN M AND THE PATIENT 3021 01:54:57,119 --> 01:54:58,420 GROUPS THAT ARE ALL PUBLICLY 3022 01:54:58,420 --> 01:55:00,022 AVAILABLE DATA, WE CAN ACTUALLY 3023 01:55:00,022 --> 01:55:04,527 ANALYZE TO SEE WHICH 3024 01:55:04,527 --> 01:55:06,595 INTERLEUKINS ARE ACTUALLY 3025 01:55:06,595 --> 01:55:11,200 ELEVATED AND SEARCH FOR NEW 3026 01:55:11,200 --> 01:55:14,470 POTENTIAL TARGETS. 3027 01:55:14,470 --> 01:55:17,806 SO I WOULD BE QUITE HAPPEN TO 3028 01:55:17,806 --> 01:55:19,675 POINT IAN IF HE NEEDS ANY HELP 3029 01:55:19,675 --> 01:55:23,178 IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION FOR THOSE 3030 01:55:23,178 --> 01:55:24,847 THINGS. 3031 01:55:24,847 --> 01:55:28,784 AND I THINK THAT'S WONDERFUL, 3032 01:55:28,784 --> 01:55:33,255 THAT THAT CAN BE DONE. 3033 01:55:33,255 --> 01:55:34,957 >> SO IAN, DO YOU HAVE A -- 3034 01:55:34,957 --> 01:55:37,626 >> I AGREE, I THINK SEARCHING 3035 01:55:37,626 --> 01:55:38,761 FOR DIFFERENT CHEMICALS AND HOW 3036 01:55:38,761 --> 01:55:42,064 THEY WOULD ACTIVATE OR INHIBIT 3037 01:55:42,064 --> 01:55:44,466 THE RECEPTORS AND THE PROCESSES 3038 01:55:44,466 --> 01:55:46,735 THAT MARK TALKED ABOUT AND THEN 3039 01:55:46,735 --> 01:55:48,270 I THINK WHEN YOU TALK TO A 3040 01:55:48,270 --> 01:55:50,339 PARENT WITH ATOPIC DERM AND YOU 3041 01:55:50,339 --> 01:55:52,174 SAY WHAT ARE YOUR NUMBER ONE 3042 01:55:52,174 --> 01:55:53,008 CONCERNS, NUMBER ONE THROUGH 10 3043 01:55:53,008 --> 01:55:53,375 IS ITCH. 3044 01:55:53,375 --> 01:55:56,712 THEY WANT THE RASH TO GET 3045 01:55:56,712 --> 01:55:57,713 BETTER, BUT ITCH MAKING THEIR 3046 01:55:57,713 --> 01:56:00,015 LIFE MISERABLE IS BY FAR THEIR 3047 01:56:00,015 --> 01:56:00,649 NUMBER ONE CONCERN. 3048 01:56:00,649 --> 01:56:03,786 AND SO IF THERE ARE NEW 3049 01:56:03,786 --> 01:56:05,321 THERAPIES THAT MARK'S GROUP IS 3050 01:56:05,321 --> 01:56:06,555 DISCOVERING THAT ARE GOOD AT 3051 01:56:06,555 --> 01:56:08,958 BLOCKING THE ITCH PART, EVEN IF 3052 01:56:08,958 --> 01:56:10,559 IT DID NOTHING TO THE RASH AND I 3053 01:56:10,559 --> 01:56:12,094 AGREE WITH MARK THAT YOU'D BREAK 3054 01:56:12,094 --> 01:56:13,629 THE ITCH-SCRATCH CYCLE SO YOU 3055 01:56:13,629 --> 01:56:15,898 SHOULD IMPROVE THE RASH ANYWAY, 3056 01:56:15,898 --> 01:56:19,835 BUT EVEN JUST BLOCKING THE ITCH, 3057 01:56:19,835 --> 01:56:21,036 PATIENTS WOULD TRIP OVER 3058 01:56:21,036 --> 01:56:24,206 THEMSELVES TO GO GIVE MARK A 3059 01:56:24,206 --> 01:56:25,107 HIGH FIVE. 3060 01:56:25,107 --> 01:56:26,809 SO I THINK IT IS A PATIENT 3061 01:56:26,809 --> 01:56:29,011 POPULATION THAT IT WOULD BE GOOD 3062 01:56:29,011 --> 01:56:30,212 TO VALIDATE SOME OF THE 3063 01:56:30,212 --> 01:56:35,117 MECHANISMS THAT HE TALKED ABOUT. 3064 01:56:35,117 --> 01:56:44,760 >> I'M ALL FOR THAT. 3065 01:56:44,760 --> 01:56:46,395 YOU WANT TO SAY A FEW WORDS, 3066 01:56:46,395 --> 01:56:50,132 IAN, ABOUT THE PRURITIS 3067 01:56:50,132 --> 01:56:54,003 ASSOCIATED WITH LIVER DISEASE, 3068 01:56:54,003 --> 01:56:55,638 LIKE PBC, WHAT'S YOUR VIEW OF 3069 01:56:55,638 --> 01:57:00,376 THE MECHANISM THERE? 3070 01:57:00,376 --> 01:57:02,511 >> I HAVE NO IDEA. 3071 01:57:02,511 --> 01:57:04,380 THAT'S WAY OUTSIDE MY 3072 01:57:04,380 --> 01:57:05,147 WHEELHOUSE. 3073 01:57:05,147 --> 01:57:05,614 THAT ONE IS FOR MARK. 3074 01:57:05,614 --> 01:57:07,716 >> OKAY, I CAN TAKE A STAB AT 3075 01:57:07,716 --> 01:57:08,717 THAT. 3076 01:57:08,717 --> 01:57:11,220 SO I CAN TALK ABOUT OTHER 3077 01:57:11,220 --> 01:57:12,121 PEOPLE'S RESEARCH, IT'S NOT 3078 01:57:12,121 --> 01:57:16,558 SOMETHING THAT WE'VE WORKED ON. 3079 01:57:16,558 --> 01:57:17,626 THERE HAVE BEEN SOME -- I MEAN, 3080 01:57:17,626 --> 01:57:21,030 THERE'S BEEN A FEW PAPERS WHICH 3081 01:57:21,030 --> 01:57:22,131 HAVE SUGGESTED THAT ONE OF THE 3082 01:57:22,131 --> 01:57:23,532 FAMILIES OF RECEPTORS I TALKED 3083 01:57:23,532 --> 01:57:27,569 ABOUT, IN IS THE MAST-RELATED G 3084 01:57:27,569 --> 01:57:28,871 PROTEIN RECEPTORS MIGHT BE THE 3085 01:57:28,871 --> 01:57:34,643 RECEPTORS FOR SOME OF THE -- SO 3086 01:57:34,643 --> 01:57:38,313 THE COMPOUNDS THAT ARE ELEVATED 3087 01:57:38,313 --> 01:57:41,650 IN THE BLOOD THAT ARE ASSOCIATED 3088 01:57:41,650 --> 01:57:43,585 WITH THOSE LIVER CONDITIONS. 3089 01:57:43,585 --> 01:57:44,787 I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY THE 3090 01:57:44,787 --> 01:57:45,988 NAMES OF THEM. 3091 01:57:45,988 --> 01:57:49,825 I'M BLANKING, I DON'T REMEMBER 3092 01:57:49,825 --> 01:57:51,660 EXACTLY WHAT THE CHEMICALS ARE, 3093 01:57:51,660 --> 01:57:56,365 BUT THEY ACTIVATE THE MAST 3094 01:57:56,365 --> 01:58:04,973 RELATED G PROTEIN -- RECEPTORS. 3095 01:58:04,973 --> 01:58:08,477 >> WELL, LISTEN, ON BEHALF OF A 3096 01:58:08,477 --> 01:58:11,847 LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE 3097 01:58:11,847 --> 01:58:14,383 WATCHING THIS PROGRAM AND MANY 3098 01:58:14,383 --> 01:58:18,821 MORE WHEN THEY DOWNLOAD IT, I 3099 01:58:18,821 --> 01:58:20,456 WANT TO THANK BOTH OF YOU FOR 3100 01:58:20,456 --> 01:58:22,091 OPENING OUR EYES TO SOME REALLY 3101 01:58:22,091 --> 01:58:24,793 VERY EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS, BOTH 3102 01:58:24,793 --> 01:58:27,229 FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE 3103 01:58:27,229 --> 01:58:30,933 NEUROSCIENCE, THE IMMUNOLOGY, 3104 01:58:30,933 --> 01:58:35,304 AND THE MICROBIOLOGY. 3105 01:58:35,304 --> 01:58:37,005 IT'S GOING TO BE VERY EXCITING 3106 01:58:37,005 --> 01:58:41,543 TIMES AHEAD, AND HOPEFULLY FOR 3107 01:58:41,543 --> 01:58:42,811 THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE WHOSE 3108 01:58:42,811 --> 01:58:44,480 LIVES ARE MADE MISERABLE BY 3109 01:58:44,480 --> 01:58:48,917 PARTICULARLY CHRONIC ITCHING, 3110 01:58:48,917 --> 01:58:49,752 THAT HAS A GREAT DEAL OF 3111 01:58:49,752 --> 01:58:50,285 INTEREST. 3112 01:58:50,285 --> 01:58:51,420 SO THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH. 3113 01:58:51,420 --> 01:58:52,554 THIS HAS BEEN AN EXCITING 3114 01:58:52,554 --> 01:58:53,889 AFTERNOON. 3115 01:58:53,889 --> 01:58:56,391 AND I THINK WE HAVE RUN OUT OF 3116 01:58:56,391 --> 01:58:58,260 OUR TIME. 3117 01:58:58,260 --> 01:59:02,164 SO WE HAVE TO END THIS SESSION. 3118 01:59:02,164 --> 01:59:03,799 THANK YOU AGAIN. 3119 01:59:03,799 --> 01:59:05,200 >> YOU'RE WELCOME. 3120 01:59:05,200 --> 01:59:07,202 AND I THINK WE BOTH ENJOYED IT. 3121 01:59:07,202 --> 01:59:08,470 >> YEP. 3122 01:59:08,470 --> 01:59:10,005 TAKE CARE. 3123 01:59:10,005 --> 01:59:20,149 >> OKAY.