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I thought I'd post this preliminary finding here so it gets some exposure. Credit to @wigglethemouse for digging in and finding this study. I believe it's part of Columbia's ME/CFS CFE and hopefully will be published soon.
Identification of actin network proteins, talin-1 and filamin-A, in circulating extracellular vesicles as blood biomarkers for human myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome
AkikoEguchi,SanaeFukuda,HirohikoKuratsunede,JunzoNojimag,YasuhitoNakatomi,YasuyoshiWatanabee,Ariel E.Feldstein...
Low-dose naltrexone in the treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21641846.2019.1692770
Olli Polo, Pia Pesonen & Essi Tuominen
ABSTRACT
Background: Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is...
A correction has appeared in BMJ Open for a UK/Dutch study published in 2015.
Esther Crawley was one of the original studies authors.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/11/e008830corr1
The original 2015 study:
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/10/e008830
P15 Does the NHS offer equitable access to specialist paediatric clinics? A study of inequalities in outpatient referrals to eight paediatric subspecialties
FK Neale1,
EJ Armstrong1,
J Cohen2,
TY Segal2,
DS Hargreaves3
https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/3/Suppl_1/A9.3
Abstract
Background
Compromised natural killer (NK) cell cytotoxic function is a well-documented and consistent feature of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Other outcomes evaluated in NK cells of ME/CFS patients, however, remain equivocal. The aim of this study was to...
Full title: The longitudinal effects of seated isometric yoga on blood biomarkers, autonomic functions, and psychological parameters of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a pilot study
Open access, https://bpsmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13030-019-0168-x
This is an interesting case study (bolding and spacing added);
What lies beneath: a case of spontaneous hypoglycaemia or glucose transporter type 1 defect disguised as chronic fatigue?
https://www.endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/0031/ea0031p235.htm
A case of pseudo-carcinoid
https://www.endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/0021/ea0021p55
It doesn't say if his pain and diarrhea resolved when he stopped the 5HTP though, but it's a reminder of how supplements can affect test results, and possibly make symptoms worse.
Developing and pretesting a new patient reported outcome measure for paediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalopathy (CFS/ME): cognitive interviews with children
full paper
https://jpro.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41687-019-0156-8
eta:
Interesting case report of an ME/CFS patient with carcinoid tumors.
Carcinoid tumour associated with enterovirus infection.
Journal of Clinical Pathology 2011, Chia J, et al.
From abstract;
https://jcp.bmj.com/content/64/8/722.full
Behind a paywall unfortunately.
Nuno Sepúlveda, Jorge Carneiro, Eliana M. Lacerda and Luis C. Nacul
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02684/abstract
Study made with the UK ME/CFS Biobank
Full text not available yet, will be published soon.
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