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Same. Is the test a known thing? I imagine it might be done in lots of classrooms. So the only unknown is how fast the change happens in both you and a control?I must say, I have a bit trouble judging if this is a good idea
Hutan is correct about cheek cell mitochondria not necessarily being useful for researching ME/CFS.
I ordered some books on biochem so I can be less dense about this lol. thanks for the support guysHere is an update.
Thank you!!@MAOAr297r That's really cool!
Fluge and Mella showed that in cultured human myoblast cells not even belonging to the ME/CFS patient, when they exposed those myoblast cells in vitro to the serum of ME/CFS patients, the cells developed energy metabolism abnormalities.
So that suggests that "there is something in the serum", and that in ME/CFS patients, cells in contact with the serum (which is nearly all cells in the body, including epithelial cells from the cheek) might develop energy hypo-metabolism.
MBM used a completely different type of cell to demonstrate energy hypo-metabolism in ME/CFS: neutrophils from the blood of ME/CFS patients.
I found this video of cheek cells under the microscope being stained with the janus green B dye.
And this video (at 4:46) shows a microscopic close up of a cell's mitochondria made visible by the janus green B stain. A screenshot of this video is shown below:!
Something in the serum that's not belonging to ME/CFS patients? Could someone elaborate on what this mean?
Hey everyone. This might be really dumb and I may be really far off but I'd like to hear you're thoughts. I really want to perform this in my amateur/student lab soon.