mitochondria

http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201803/News/MI/

This research is in its early stages and there are still lots of questions surrounding it. Quoting from a post on another forum A thyroid hormone different from T4 and T3 acts as a control of insulin production by affecting the energy producing factories (mitochondria). Like T4 , the hormone...

Picked up from one of the folks I follow on Twitter I don’t think it has been posted https://phys.org/news/2018-03-mitochondria-to-nucleus-messenger-protein.html Boston University School of Medicine.

I thought this was interesting, the significant discovery of how mitochondrial DNA ends up outside the mitochondria, where it can potentially trigger autoimmune conditions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-dna-scientists-rogue-molecule-trigger.amp? There is a video clip showing the...

This is a very basic and succinct article about Mitochondria. Many discussions related to ME/CFS focus on mitochondria. I thought this would be a nice article to start with if you possess little or no knowledge related to what mitochondria are and what they do. Read the rest of the article here.

Comprehensive molecular analysis of different classes of molecules in a Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome pilot study group, and investigation of RNA-activated Protein Kinase R (PKR) as a diagnostic biomarker - Eiren Chariss Sweetman This study of a range of biologically...

Mitochondria are apparently now part of the psychosomatic construct! https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/fulltext/2018/02000/Psychological_Stress_and_Mitochondria___A.3.aspx Thanks to Amanda on Facebook for finding this.

Paywalled at http://www.pnas.org/content/115/3/E478

Time will tell if this is true or a laboratory artefact, but if it is true there'll be a lot of research needing redone. Mitochondria are physiologically maintained at close to 50 °C Published: January 25, 2018 http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003992...

Chronic Fatigue and Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFIDS), cellular metabolism, and ionizing radiation: A review of contemporary scientific literature and suggested directions for future research. Authors: Rusin, Seymour & Mothersill. Abstract PURPOSE: To investigate biochemical pathways known...

EDIT: this should be in the BPS forum Just came across this on Youtube: Q/A on Chronic fatigue Syndrome, Dysautonomia, and Mitochondrial dysfunction. Facebook live Nov. 16 @ 6pm est. Sesion de preguntas y respuestas sobre sindrome de fatiga cronica, disautonomia, y disfunciones de...

Cara Tomas, Audrey Brown, Victoria Strassheim, Joanna Elson, Julia Newton, Philip Manning Plos One 2017 oct Abstract Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a highly debilitating disease of unknown aetiology. Abnormalities in bioenergetic function have been cited as one possible cause for CFS...