Can you tell me in laymans terms what this medical research sentance means?

"Our data suggest that some mcyoplasma species may act as immunomodulatory cofactors by eliciting inappropriate cytokine gene expression in B cells latently infected with EBV." assuming I know what Mcyoplasma and the EBV are.

Can you tell me in laymans terms what this medical research sentance means?
Yes, unfortunately research articles in medical journals are written extremely poorly. Let me give this one a crack.





I think this is talking about B lymphocytes, which are involved in the immune system, specifically, B lymphocytes that are infected with Epstein-Barr virus. It is saying that the authors have done some sort of study that possibly shows that mycoplasma are affecting the immune system's control system, and that it is doing so by making the infected B cells generate cytokines that they are not supposed to be generating.





At least that is how I read it, but I admit I had to read it about five or six times to come up with that.
Reply:Our data is limited, some mycoplasma modulate immunity,by insufficiently causing cytokine gene expression,in B cells , which are supposedly infected by Epsteine barr bar virus.
Reply:How about:





"Based on our study, we think that certain types of mycoplasma act on B lymphocytes that are infected with EBV. They, along with something else that we are not naming here, work to change the immune system. They somehow encourage the B cells to "turn on" the genes for production of a cytokine (cellular messenger protein), when those genes have no business expressing themselves."





Whoever wrote that needs to be slapped.
Reply:some mycoplasma like to screw with B cells

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