Systematic review of cytokine studies by NCNED team.
Results: A total of 16,702 publications were returned using our search terms. After screening of papers according to our inclusion and exclusion criteria, 15 studies were included in the review. All the included studies were observational...
Not a new article, but I was struck by this comment on the relation between fatigue and pro-inflammatory cytokines:
link to the article here
There are are no consistently observed associations between fatigue in ME and levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines. But its interesting to see we're not...
On Royal Free website:
CFS/ME research
"This purpose of the PACE trial was to better understand the possible causes of chronic fatigue syndrome." Really? Since when?
https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/services/services-a-z/fatigue-service/cfs-me-research/
(see also Graded exercise...
The Perrin technique is discussed here: Perrin Technique
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I came across this article this morning. The link was from a canine massage therapist, but the article is about human massage. Apparently, it is a myth that massage disperses lactic acid from muscles after exercise, and that in...
https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-017-1161-4
Background
Investigations of activin family proteins as serum biomarkers for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME). CFS/ME is a disease with complex, wide-ranging symptoms, featuring...
An old study but, as shown in this thread, https://s4me.info/threads/top-10-sc...f-citations-tweet-by-dr-mark-gutheridge.7461/, one of the most cited ME/CFS papers in the past 10 years, so thought it might be useful to have here.
Paywalled at...
Though this video/article is primarily about vitamin D and colorectal cancer risk, it delves into Vitamin D's role in the gut microbiome and inflammatory/infectious disease. It covers research that will be published in 2019.
It concludes that it's time for doctors right now to consider Vitamin...
Review article is provisionally accepted and full text will be published soon
Neuroinflammation and cytokines in ME/CFS: A critical review of research methods
We argue that the vast majority of ME/CFS neuroimaging has failed to use optimal techniques for studying brainstem, despite its...
Corticosterone and pyridostigmine/DEET exposure attenuate peripheral cytokine expression: supporting a dominant role for neuroinflammation in a mouse model of Gulf War Illness (2018) Michalovicz et al.
(Drs Klimas, Fletcher are part of the authors)
(I could not fit the whole title with the year...
Study from Norway on 124 patients with a mixed psychiatric population of whom 39 diagnosed with PTSD. Paper is published in the journal Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
PTSD patients show increasing cytokine levels during treatment despite reduced psychological distress
Results: Overall...
Warning: It's co-authored by Knoop & van der Meer.
https://www.prohealth.com/library/pitfalls-cytokine-measurements-plasma-tgf-%CE%B21-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-86479
Title altered slightly to fit but left untouched below.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29755330
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00078/full
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