So, if a cell doesn't have enough oxygen, all other things being equal, it sends a signal that releases VEGF-A. VEGF-A binds to endothelial...
By popular demand, a thread on VEGF, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor. As the name suggests, it's involved in the growth of blood vessels, e.g....
No need to apologise, you don't. Besides, people posting is what keeps the forum alive. I'll make a thread to discuss it, if we don't have one....
I don't understand @duncan, what is the link?
That study looks at acute Covid-19. They didn't find any difference between hospitalised patients and controls with respect to vessel density.
WHO releases clinical case definition for post #COVID19 condition or ‘#LongCovid’ in children and adolescents What it says on the tin. Don't get...
Only one young person out of the 215 was recorded as having depression; only one was recorded as having anxiety. Both, or perhaps the same...
Prospective studies like this have tremendous potential to tell us about recovery rates. But, this is a 'tertiary' hospital and the abstract and...
Either the position wasn't filled, or that jobs website doesn't update its content. Hopefully the former. Link to the advertisement on the...
I want this idea of reduced retinal capillaries to be true. But the differences between the post-covid-19 syndrome results and those of the...
Looks like a carefully done study, with the authors having a decent understanding of ME/CFS. The following is some googling, to understand what...
This looked worth noting. Until they actually looked, there wasn't necessarily much to indicate that there was organ impairment: I guess a...
Very true. The study found quite a high rate of detectable organ impairment. There are two things to consider: 1. What is the rate of...
A paper that seems to be the product of this study Internet-delivered [CBT] for chronic fatigue among adolescents with a chronic medical...
Nice linking @bobbler. Authors of this 2023 study Linde N. Nijhof Sanne L. Nijhof, Elise M. van de Putte, Jan Houtveen, Joris M. van Montfrans...
So, I'm procrastinating, and finding out the utility of a randomised waiting period in an unblinded trial with only one participant proved too...
It's bizarre, isn't it. Large surveys with patients reporting that CBT doesn't treat fatigue; large numbers of patient charities reporting that...
Sigh. And still the victim-blaming nonsense keeps coming. Subjective Traumatic Outlook Questionnaire 1. Looking on your condition, do you feel...
This case study has the problems that case studies have - n=1 and confounding factors of the RA and vaccinations. Tocilizumab reduces the...
When I read things like that, I wonder who is funding that sort of work which, as @Shadrach Loom says, is really about making the diagnosis of...
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