Ron Davis has been awarded several million dollars by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to "uncover the immunological basis of ME" by examining T cell activity and related genetic factors, and by hunting for pathogens. The project start date is this month, and the end...
https://jaxmecfs.com/2018/06/21/jaxtaposition-decoding-chronic-illness
From the article mentioned above,
https://www.jax.org/news-and-insights/2018/june/decoding-chronic-illness
Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04685-9
Article about the study
https://ki.se/en/news/immune-system-does-not-recover-despite-cured-hepatitis-c-infection
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10096-018-3265-z
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2018 May 26. doi: 10.1007/s10096-018-3265-z. [Epub ahead of print]
Interferon-γ and CXCL10 responses related to complaints in patients with Q fever fatigue syndrome.
Raijmakers RPH1,2, Jansen AFM3,4...
Abstract
A patient with severe postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) received immunotherapy with low-dose naltrexone (LDN) and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) and antibiotic therapy for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). A dramatic...
Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Autoantibodies in Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
Authors:Xichun Yu, Hongliang Li, Taylor A. Murphy, Zachary Nuss, Jonathan Liles, Campbell Liles, Christopher E. Aston, Satish R. Raj, Artur Fedorowski, David C. Kem
(from Oklahoma, Sweden and Calgary)
Abstract...
This looks familiar but a forum search didn't turn up anything. In my opinion, this barely counts as biomed ME research but it doesn't really fit elsewhere.
Open access at https://bmccomplementalternmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12906-018-2193-x
Exploring the Diagnostic Potential of Immune Biomarker Co-expression in Gulf War Illness
Link to paper here
* Patients with ME are control in this study
Authors:
Gordon Broderick, Mary Ann Fletcher, Michael Gallagher, Zachary Barnes, Suzanne D. Vernon, Nancy G. Klimas
Abstract
Complex...
I found this review very interesting with the ATP, ADP and AMP recycling plus immunology background.
Zhao H, Bo C, Kang Y and Li H (2017) What Else Can CD39 Tell Us?
Front. Immunol. 8:727.
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00727
Abstract:
As the rate-limiting enzyme in ATP/ADP–AMP–adenosine pathway...
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006991
There is also a separate thread on a news article covering related research:
Note that the news article says "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", while the actual paper says "chronic fatigue".
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