From: Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks
Source: University of Oslo
Date: May 18 and June 21, 2021
URL:
https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/87105/7/Ueland_MasterThesis_2021.pdf
Ref:
https://www.mn.uio.no/ibv/studier/aktuelt/mastereksamen/var-2021/marthe%20ueland.html
Genetic study of...
Full title: Fine mapping of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suggests involvement of both HLA class I and class II loci
Abstract
The etiology of myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is unknown, but...
Highlights
The magnitude of early CD4+ T cell responses correlates with severity of COVID-19
Prior lung disease correlates with higher SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cell responses
PASC is associated with a decline in N-specific interferon-γ-producing CD8+ T cells
Neutralizing capacity correlates...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.25.449905v2
The recent COVID-19 pandemic is a treatment challenge in the acute infection stage but the recognition of chronic COVID-19 symptoms termed post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) may affect up to 30% of all infected...
Performed detailed molecular and spatial analysis of the COVID-19 brain immune response
Pathognomonic microglial nodules and T cell infiltration are present in COVID-19 brains
Altered microglia-T cell interactions correlate with systemic measures of inflammation
Vascular leakage is linked with...
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USA: NIH National Institute of Health
The NIH has awarded a $2.5M R01 grant to Drs Liisa Selin and Anna Gil for their work on altered T cells in ME/CFS. This follows their 2019 Ramsay award from Solve ME with which they...
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/140491
ScienceDaily News piece on paper here
Of particular interest to long COVID research is they found immune dysregulation in non-hospitalized patients didn’t resolve quickly as well as activation and exhaustion markers increased during the...
This paper on Alzheimer’s is interesting because Mark Davis (one of the authors) and team are using similar techniques on ME patients to look for targets for T-Cell expansion. For Alzheimer's they found TCR's responding to two separate Epstein–Barr virus antigens in CSF...
Note: mice.
Vasanthakumar, A., Chisanga, D., Blume, J. et al. Sex-specific adipose tissue imprinting of regulatory T cells. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2040-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2040-3 (paywalled)
Article about paper: Sex-specific traits of the...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1951-3
Only in mice and monkeys but quite interesting that they are flushing out a latent virus.
And great if they can use it to eliminate HIV as well, of course.
Possibly of interest, given how many patients can be on these types of drugs. Though I don't really understand what the implications might be myself without reading the full paper.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924977X1931870X
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/study-finds-differences-energy-use-immune-cells-me/cfs
New findings published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggest that specific immune T cells from people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) show disruptions...
Preliminary but interesting. Autism has been researched far more than ME and somehow this had been missed entirely. I would really like to see research done on post-mortem ME brains and spinal cords. This is the reason the researchers named this disease and there doesn't seem to have been any...
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.
Somebody with ME was excited by this on Twitter
https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/124714
Research ArticleClinical trialsNeuroscience Free access | 10.1172/jci.insight.124714
Epstein-Barr virus–specific T cell therapy for progressive multiple sclerosis
Michael P. Pender,1,2,3 Peter A...
Paywalled at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41385-018-0072-x
While this is in "Unrelated to ME/CFS research" forum, the blog below, from Jackson Labs, suggests that it could have some implication in ME.
https://jaxmecfs.com/2018/09/24/750/
Functional Interrogation of Primary Human T Cells via CRISPR Genetic Editing
Dr Unutmaz is one of the principal investigator of this paper.
http://www.jimmunol.org/content/early/2018/07/18/jimmunol.1701616?papetoc
Abstract:
Abstract
Developing precise and efficient gene editing approaches...
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