Danish Videnskab.dk writes about news from science. Today they have an article about Danish researchers who have examined mitochondria in cells from ME-patients. They are only in the beginning of their research, and say it will take years until they have finished and can publish.
Chronic fatigue can be caused by dysfunctional cells
- Now Danish researchers found signs that there is something fundamentally wrong with their cells.
"Our first tentative results suggest that there is a defect in the cells of some of these patients, which means that they have disrupted energy production," says one of the researchers, Rikke Olsen, an associate professor at Aarhus University's Molecular Medicine Research Unit .
- So far, the researchers isolated cells from ten patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.
The cells are kept alive artificially in a laboratory so that scientists can experiment with them and keep track of how they react when they are exposed to drugs and various forms of stress.
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Chronic fatigue can be caused by dysfunctional cells
- Now Danish researchers found signs that there is something fundamentally wrong with their cells.
"Our first tentative results suggest that there is a defect in the cells of some of these patients, which means that they have disrupted energy production," says one of the researchers, Rikke Olsen, an associate professor at Aarhus University's Molecular Medicine Research Unit .
- So far, the researchers isolated cells from ten patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.
The cells are kept alive artificially in a laboratory so that scientists can experiment with them and keep track of how they react when they are exposed to drugs and various forms of stress.
Original article
Google- translation