{"id":22107,"date":"2019-08-20T06:54:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T06:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=22107"},"modified":"2019-08-20T06:54:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T06:54:23","slug":"herv-k-herv-w-transcriptional-activity-in-me-cfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/herv-k-herv-w-transcriptional-activity-in-me-cfs\/","title":{"rendered":"HERV-K &#038; HERV-W transcriptional activity in ME\/CFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/693465v1.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERV-K and HERV-W transcriptional activity in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis\/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome<\/a>, by Lucas S Rodrigues, Luiz H da Silva Nali, Cibele O D Leal, Ester C Sabino, Eliana M Lacerda, Caroline C Kingdon, Luis Nacul, Camila M Romano<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> in<\/span> <em>BioRxiv,<\/em> July 5 2019 [doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/693465]<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Research abstract:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Chronic Fatigue Syndrome\/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS\/ME) is an incapacitating chronic disease that dramatically compromise the life quality. The CFS\/ME pathogenesis is multifactorial, and it is believed that immunological, metabolic and environmental factors play a role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/patients-with-fm-cfs-show-increased-hscrp-comared-to-healthy-controls\/blood-in-test-tube\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21585\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-21585 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blood-in-test-tube.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blood-in-test-tube.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blood-in-test-tube.jpg?resize=100%2C150&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blood-in-test-tube.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blood-in-test-tube.jpg?resize=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blood-in-test-tube.jpg?w=853&amp;ssl=1 853w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><\/a>It is well documented an increased activity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meresearch.org.uk\/human-endogenous-retroviruses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs)<\/a> from different families in autoimmune and neurological diseases, making these elements good candidates for biomarkers or even triggers for such diseases. Here the expression of Endogenous retroviruses K and W (HERV-K and HERV-W) was determined in blood from moderately and severely affected ME\/CFS patients.<\/p>\n<p>HERV-K was overexpressed only in moderately affected individuals and HERV-W showed no difference. This is the first report about HERV-K differential expression in moderate ME\/CFS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERV-K and HERV-W transcriptional activity in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis\/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Lucas S Rodrigues, Luiz H da Silva Nali, Cibele O D Leal, Ester C Sabino, Eliana M Lacerda, Caroline C Kingdon, Luis Nacul, Camila M Romano in BioRxiv, July &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/herv-k-herv-w-transcriptional-activity-in-me-cfs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5258,3589,5260,3425,3529,5259,468,1507,5262,5261,5274],"class_list":["post-22107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-camila-m-romano","tag-caroline-c-kingdon","tag-cibele-o-d-leal","tag-dr-luis-nacul","tag-eliana-m-lacerda","tag-ester-c-sabino","tag-herv","tag-human-endogenous-retroviruses","tag-lucas-s-rodrigues","tag-luiz-h-da-silva-nali","tag-severely-affected"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-5Kz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22180,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions\/22180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}