SMCI-Directed Research Study Explores Immuno-senescence

[AndyPR]

Another of our SMCI-Directed Research Studies is being conducted in partnership with Dr. Sheila Stewart of Washington University in St. Louis in collaboration with Dr. Masashi Narita of the Narita Group at Cambridge University in England. This study explores immuno-senescence and cell-cycle analysis in the pathophysiology (or functional changes that accompany a particular syndrome or disease) of ME/CFS.
As described by Dr. Stewart, recent work has shown patients with ME/CFS to have alterations in immune cells as well as in the p38 Map Kinase (p38MPAK), a key pathway critical for proper cell function.

Whether these observations are related to the symptoms associated with, is the cause of, or simply has a correlation to ME/CFS remains to be understood.

http://solvecfs.org/smci-directed-research-study-explores-immunosenescence/

 

[wastwater]

Interested to see what they will find.

 

[Sasha]

Interesting that a new UK biomed researcher is on board with ME/CFS research:

http://www.cruk.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/narita-group

Dr. Narita's group is one of several groups in the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute within the University of Cambridge.