Evidence for a heritable predisposition to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Albright, Frederick; Light, Kathleen; Light, Alan; Bateman, Lucinda; Cannon-Albright, Lisa A
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) came to attention in the 1980s, but initial investigations did not find organic causes. Now decades...
Health economic outcomes and national economic impacts associated with Long COVID in England and Scotland
Kwon, Joseph; Mensah, Joseph; Milne, Ruairidh; Rayner, Clare; Lawrence, Román Rocha; De Kock, Johannes; Sivan, Manoj; Petrou, Stavros
Background Two million people in the UK suffer from...
The Critical Role of the Bile Acid Receptor TGR5 in Energy Homeostasis: Insights into Physiology and Therapeutic Potential
Zangerolamo, Lucas; Carvalho, Marina; Barbosa, Helena C. L.
Over the past decades, bile acids have been recognized as important signaling molecules with significant roles...
Pitt Is Launching a Chiropractic Program—What Happens When Pseudoscience Gets an Academic Seal of Approval?
"Evidence-based chiropractor" replies in defence, quoting the proposed curriculum, implying it's fully in line with evidence-based medicine —
I think @rvallee's head may explode.
I'll see if I can access it later. It may be that their point relates to diagnostic overlap as "fibromyalgia with PEM" could simply be ME/CFS where the patient or doctor promoted the pain symptoms which ended up influencing the classification. It sounds like they are asking for the same sorts...
Recognizing the role of fibromyalgia in post-exertional malaise
Alessandro Giollo; Mariangela Salvato; Andrea Doria
The recent opinion by Charlton et al. published in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism [1] provides a thought-provoking discussion of the overlap between long coronavirus disease...
Now published in PNAS —
Oxidative stress is a shared characteristic of ME/CFS and Long COVID
Shankar, Vishnu; Wilhelmy, Julie; Curtis, Ellis J.; Michael, Basil; Cervantes, Layla; Mallajosyula, Vamsee; Davis, Ronald W.; Snyder, Michael; Younis, Shady; Robinson, William H.; Shankar, Sadasivan...
Now published in PNAS —
Patient-reported treatment outcomes in ME/CFS and long COVID
Eckey, Martha; Li, Peng; Morrison, Braxton; Bergquist, Jonas; Davis, Ronald W.; Xiao, Wenzhong
ABSTRACT
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID are persistent multisystem...
And their reported average time to reach definition of improvement (20 weeks) sounds close to the 6 month peak with Rituximab you described in the saline thread.
Rituximab binds to SMPDL3B in muscle.
See A novel estrogen receptor 1: sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase acid-like 3B pathway mediates rituximab response in myositis patients (2022)
EDIT: I see that is actually referenced in this thread's paper as [28] —
Annexin–Membrane Interactions Across Eukaryotic Domains of Life—A Comparative Approach
Warmus, Dawid; Balmer, Erina Alexandra; Faso, Carmen
This review explores the interaction of annexins with membranes across a variety of eukaryotic domains of life, highlighting this protein family’s role in...
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