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Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction. The Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration at Harvard-Affiliated Hospitals

Discussion in 'ME/CFS research' started by John Mac, Sep 18, 2019.

  1. John Mac

    John Mac Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Research proposal

    http://endmecfs.mgh.harvard.edu/skeletalmuscle/
     
  2. NelliePledge

    NelliePledge Moderator Staff Member

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    Yes this is what the British researchers at Nottingham and Birmingham will be involved in
     
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  3. Andy

    Andy Committee Member

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    ETA: Meant to say something about this quote - the second paragraph looks like investigations will be impressively thorough.
     
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  4. jpcv

    jpcv Established Member (Voting Rights)

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    I think there is a group of Italians who have been studying the muscle in patientes with ME.
    It seems thet this was a very promisisng field of research a few decades ago but somehow the interest faded away
     
  5. Mithriel

    Mithriel Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    ME became CFS and the psychiatrists took over. The researchers who had been working on me for years were sidelined and grants dried up.

    I know I keep harping on about it, but it looks, and is often stated as fact, that avenues like muscle and enteroviral involvement were explored and abandoned because they didn't lead anywhere but there have been lots if interesting results never followed up.

    The cardiac involvement is something we could have done with being proved or disproved and cell membrane issues in particular, but it suited the narrative that we are just deconditioned and to imply that all that work was done but showed nothing.
     
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