Dr. Arnaud Germain, a member of the Hanson Lab, is the lead author on a new publication in the journal Metabolites. The paper describes a metabolomics study on the plasma of 52 female subjects. A large emphasis on lipids was observed in the approximately 1,750 blood compound datapoints. As summarized in the illustration below, notable changes were uncovered when comparing the ME/CFS and control cohorts.
The ENID Center is excited to announce a new publication in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Recent Hanson Lab graduate, Dr. Alexandra Mandarano, is the lead author of “Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients exhibit altered T cell metabolism and cytokine associations”. This paper goes into our research exploring the immune system in people with ME/CFS.
UPDATE: The final publication of the paper was released on February 10, 2020. Accompanying this release, Dr. Mady Hornig wrote a related commentary: “Can the light of immunometabolism cut through “brain fog”?“.
Dr. Daniel Peterson and Simmaron Research staff Dr. Gunnar Gottschalk and Marco Maynard provided blood samples from carefully diagnosed ME/CFS cases and controls that were critical for carrying out the study. Thanks to Simmaron Research and a private donor, as well as NIH, for financial support for the study. A press release was issued by NIH.
Furthermore, we have launched a new initiative to help expand the reach of our research. Dr. Mandarano has recorded a talk that walks you through this publication. The video is hosted on our new YouTube channel. Check out this video below and stay tuned for future posts and videos about our research.
Our collaborators at the Workwell Foundation, working with physical therapists and exercise physiologists, have published a case report in the Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal on measurement reproducibility over the two days of a two-day cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET). The report looked at the variability of CPET results from six people with and without medical diagnoses of fatiguing illnesses. All of the participants were women and matched by age and BMI. Although the authors point out that generalizations are not possible due to the low number of included subjects, the response to exercise by both individuals with ME/CFS is important to highlight.
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Our collaborators at the Workwell Foundation have put together a two-part continuing education course on ME/CFS developed for PTs, OTs, nurses, and ATCs. Part 1 covers the introduction and identification of ME/CFS and Part 2 goes into etiology and analeptic management. The content is available through MedBridge.
On January 22, 2018, PeerJ published “Eukaryotes in the gut microbiota in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome”. The publication is work done by Center participants regarding the diversity of eukaryotes in the gut microbiomes of people with ME/CFS and in healthy controls.
A recent research highlight by the Solve ME/CFS Initiative provides a detailed summary of this article. SMCI’s research summary can be viewed here.
Mandarano AH, Giloteaux L, Keller BA, Levine SM, Hanson MR. 2018. Eukaryotes in the gut microbiota in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. PeerJ 6:e4282 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4282
Our collaborators at Workwell Foundation have published a review concerning chronotropic incompetence in ME/CFS patients. What this means is that studies that have ME/CFS subjects exercise to a percentage of their maximal heart rate may be actually having the subject exercise at their maximum capacity, since their actual heart rate may often be lower than expected. Please see the link below to be directed to the publication.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2019.00082
The Hanson lab, which is a member of our Center, has recently published a metabolomics study in the journal Metabolites. Visit https://www.facebook.com/CornellMECFSCenter/ for a summary of the article. The complete publication can be accessed using the link below.
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/8/4/90/htm
Arnaud Germain, David Ruppert, Susan M. Levine, and Maureen R. Hanson. 2018. Prospective Biomarkers from Plasma Metabolomics of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Implicate Redox Imbalance in Disease Symptomatology. Metabolites 8(4), 90
The lengthy article features interviews with caregiver Amy Mooney, Hillary Johnson, Rivka Solomon, Linda Tannenbaum, Ron Davis, Mary Dimmock, NIH’s Joe Breen, and Maureen Hanson. Read the full article here.
Collaboration between Weill Cornell Medicine and Mount Sinai Beth Israel published in the April issue of the Journal of Neurological Sciences
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022510X17301429
A review article about the Gut Microbiome in ME/CFS by Maureen Hanson and Ludovic Giloteaux is freely available in the April 2017 issue of The Biochemist Magazine:
http://www.biochemist.org/bio/03902/0010/039020010.pdf
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