Could the Kynurenine Pathway Be Causing ME/CFS, FM and Long COVID?
These metabolic pathways can really be something. Pathways by their nature can be kind of all-encompassing. We could think of the bigger ones like major rivers that send out tributaries that affect multiple systems. Tryptophan and the kynurenine pathways are one of...
Avindra Nath on ME/CFS and Long COVID – “We’re Going to Learn a Lot”
Three years after the pandemic had destroyed any attempt to get back to the East Coast and Washington, DC, I was back in Avindra Nath’s office at the NIH’s huge Clinical Center. The world’s largest hospital that’s devoted entirely to clinical...
Systrom at the CDC: The ME/CFS Mitochondrial Drug Trial Fails Plus More
The big news in David Systrom’s “Neurovascular Dysregulation Underlies Exercise Intolerance in ME/CFS” talk at the CDC yesterday was that the $8 million mitochondrial drug trial had, unfortunately, failed. The ME/CFS Mitochondrial Drug Trial Fails...
The Coronavirus, Epstein-Barr Virus and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
How a coronavirus study shed light on Epstein-Barr Virus reactivation in ME/CFS. Of all the opportunities the SARS-CoV-2 virus has inadvertently opened up for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), this one might be the most creative thus far. This study highlights the...
Move Over NK, T and B-cells. Are Monocytes the Real Problem in ME/CFS?
Maureen Hanson’s group at Cornel continues to pound out fascinating results. The latest one – a preprint, “Single-cell transcriptomics of the immune system in ME/CFS at baseline and following symptom provocation” – again demonstrates why...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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