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Research review: What causes ME/CFS: The role of the dysfunctional immune system & viral infections
Is the immune dysregulation hypothesis proven? A European team led by Dr Amolak Bansal review a number of areas of research into ME/CFS before concluding: “After over 20 year of attempting to identify specific immune defects and infectious agents … Continue reading
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Tagged Aletta D Kraneveld, Amolak S Bansal, Autoimmunity, Elisa Oltra, immune dysregulation, Prof Simon Carding, retroviruses, viruses
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Research review: The gut microbiome in ME/CFS
The gut microbiome in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), by Rahel S König, Werner C Albrich, Christian R Kahlert, Lina Samira Bahr, Ulrike Löber, Pietro Vernazza, Carmen Scheibenbogen, Sofia K Forslund in Front Immunol 2022 Jan 3;12:628741 [doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.628741] … Continue reading
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Tagged antibiotics, Autoimmunity, Carmen Scheibenbogen, Christian R Kahlert, gut dysbiosis, Lina Samira Bahr, microbiome, Pietro Vernazza, probiotics, Rahel S König, Sofia K Forslund, Ulrike Löber, Werner C Albrich
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Diagnostic test research: Autoantibodies & receptors correlate with symptom severity, autonomic dysfunction & disability in ME/CFS
Autoantibodies to vasoregulative G-Protein-Coupled receptors correlate with symptom severity, autonomic dysfunction and disability in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Helma Freitag, Marvin Szklarski, Sebastian Lorenz, Franziska Sotzny, Sandra Bauer, Aurélie Philippe, Claudia Kedor, Patricia Grabowski, Tanja Lange, Gabriela Riemekasten, Harald … Continue reading
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Tagged adrenergic receptors, Aurélie Philippe, autoantibodies, Autoimmunity, Carmen Scheibenbogen, Claudia Kedor, G-protein-coupled receptors, Gabriela Riemekasten, Helma Freitag, Patricia Grabowski, Sandra Bauer, Tanja Lange, vasoregulation
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Complex syndromes of chronic pain, fatigue & cognitive impairment linked to autoimmune dysautonomia and small fiber neuropathy
Complex syndromes of chronic pain, fatigue and cognitive impairment linked to autoimmune dysautonomia and small fiber neuropathy, by Yehuda Shoenfeld, Varvara A Ryabkova, Carmen Scheibenbogen, Louise Brinth, Manuel Martinez-Lavine, Shuichi Ikeda, Harald Heidecke, Abdulla Watad, Nicola L Bragazzi, Joab Chapman, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abdulla Watad, autoimmune neurosensory dysautonomia, Autoimmunity, Carmen Scheibenbogen, Complex regional pain syndrome, Harald Heidecke, Howard Amital, immunotherapy, Joab Chapman, Leonid P Churilov, Louise Brinth, Manuel Martinez-Lavine, Nicola L Bragazzi, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, Shuichi Ikeda, silicone breast implants, silicone implant compatibility, Sjogren's syndrome, Small fiber neuropathy, Varvara A Ryabkova, Yehuda Shoenfeld
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ME/CFS as a hyper-regulated immune system driven by an interplay between regulatory T cells & chronic human herpesvirus infections
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as a hyper-regulated immune system driven by an interplay between regulatory T cells and chronic human herpesvirus infections, by Nuno Sepúlveda, Jorge Carneiro, Eliana M Lacerda and Luis C Nacul in Front. Immunol. 21 Nov 2019 … Continue reading
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Tagged Autoimmunity, CD4+ T-cells, Dr Luis Nacul, Eliana M Lacerda, HHV-6, human herpes virus-6, hypothesis, Jorge Carneiro, Nuno Sepulveda, Tcells, Tregs, viral infections
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Neuroimmunology: what role for autoimmunity, neuroinflammation, & small fiber neuropathy in FM, CFS, & adverse events after HPV?
Neuroimmunology: what role for autoimmunity, neuroinflammation, and small fiber neuropathy in Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and adverse events after Human Papillomavirus Vaccination?, by Varvara A Ryabkova, Leonid P Churilov and Yehuda Shoenfeld in Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019, 20(20), 5164; [https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20205164] … Continue reading
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Tagged Autoimmunity, Fibromyalgia, FM, HPV, Human papillomavirus vaccine, Leonid P Churilov, neuro-inflammatory, Small fiber neuropathy, Varvara A Ryabkova, Yehuda Shoenfeld
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Antibodies to adrenergic & muscarinic receptors in ME/CFS
Blog post, by Paolo Maccallini, 29 August 2017: Antibodies to adrenergic and muscarinic receptors in ME/CFS, During the Community Symposium on the molecular basis of ME/CFS two different groups of researchers reported on the increased level of antibodies to beta adrenergic and … Continue reading
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Tagged adrenergic receptors, autoantibodies, Autoimmunity, molecular mimicry, muscarinic receptors, Paolo Maccallini, Prof Alan Light, Prof Jonas Bergquist
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MS and ME similarities
Review abstract Background ‘Encephalomyelitis disseminata’ (multiple sclerosis) and myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are both classified as diseases of the central nervous system by the World Health Organization. This review aims to compare the phenomenological and neuroimmune characteristics of … Continue reading
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Tagged Autoimmunity, Encephalomyelitis disseminata, inflammation, mitochondria, MS, Oxidative and nitrosative stress
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