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So why did the Pauling and Mayo Clinic trials have different results

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They look for symptoms that cluster and flare with broad triggers but improve when mast cells are stabilized

Nevertheless, in vivo investigations with confocallaser scanning or fluorescence microscopes face the problems that only very thin cell layers, tissues, or organs can be investigated and that the sample preparation (e.g., mechanical separation of the epidermis, or other tissues and cells) and investigations with the microscope (exposure to a strong light source, high temperature, lack of oxygen, water stress) can also be seen as a stress source to the sample

others (like celastrol, a large triterpene) might not cross readily but can influence the CNS indirectly via peripheral immune modulation [110]