benji
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Here is why I tried it. Fluge and Mella are now trialing daratumumab, which inhibit something cd38, which apigenin also can do at best. I have tried an awfully lot of supplements though, also more common ones that has helped others but not me, this seems to be my lucky shot.
Hi all,
So here are some comments and personal views from the conference :
-Still no effort to investigate ME/CFS cases not originating from viral infections. Not good.
-Very optimistic about the case presented by Oysten Fluge and anti-CD38 therapy. I had the chance to talk to him and show some associations of his work in CD38 with other findings in ME, more specifically purinergic signaling , DHFR,nitric oxide, tetrahydrobiopterin. Interestingly , apigenin (identified by machine learning) is a CD38 inhibitor : https://www.s4me.info/threads/apige...amelioration-of-me-symptoms.7872/#post-140372 . In the end of our talk he said : "send me whatever you have"))
Of note : One slide on Fluge's presentation has shown that there was no organ damage found in post mortem ME/CFS patients. I specifically asked him whether they looked at liver tissues and he said that they didn't. I then showed some Fibroscans of ME/CFS patients and asked him if they could test patients with Fibroscans.
-I was very happy to see the work presented by Leonard Jason (DePaul University) : machine learning and network analysis methods being used to try to identify key differentiators of ME/CFS vs HCs (see attached photo).
-Also the work by Nuno Sepuvelda who used data from Carmen Scheibenbogen and then applied machine learning algorithms. Quite possibly there will be a joint effort with Nuno who is very committed and enthusiastic for medical research and the use of mathematics / algorithms to crack ME/CFS. (see attached).
-And last but not least , I was able to speak with Dr Prusty. He is very specific to what he wants (which is good) , told me that one of the proteins he found can be found mainly in hepatocytes -as he knows my persistence with everything liver related- and told me to send him anything that I could share with him (which was nice).
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