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potential biomarkers

  1. O

    Biomarker problems

    Recently there's been more news again of biomarkers claiming certain accuracies amongst patient groups of Long-Covid and ME/CFS patients and from my personal point of views there are usually several problems amongst these studies and the claims they make. The good studies that make these...
  2. SNT Gatchaman

    Elevated ATG13 in serum of pwME stimulates oxidative stress response in microglial cells (Gottschalk et al, 2022)

    Elevated ATG13 in serum of patients with ME/CFS stimulates oxidative stress response in microglial cells via activation of receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) Gunnar Gottschalk, Daniel Peterson, Konstance Knox, Marco Maynard, Ryan J Whelan, Avik Roy Myalgic Encephalomyelitis...
  3. nerd

    A novel peripheral biomarker for depression and antidepressant response

    Authors: Steven D. Targum, Jeffrey Schappi, Athanasia Koutsouris, Runa Bhaumik, Mark H. Rapaport, Natalie Rasgon, Mark M. Rasenick Published on: January 8, 2022 doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01399-1 Press Release: Researchers identify biomarker for depression, antidepressant response Abstract
  4. Notjustfatigue

    Crowfunding for a study about etiopathogenesis and try to set potencial biomarkers

    Dear mates, I want to inform about a crowfunding campaign for a study about etiopathogenesis of ME/CFS that could lead to set potencial biomarkers for the disease. The following is based in our mate @Manuel work...