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Here is a thread with some points Maureen Hanson's talk from my twitter is anyone is interested (it's bloody hard to keep up!):
(My bold)As we showed here, unactivated ex vivo lymphocytes are quiescent and dying, so that a difference between patient and control groups in the depth of this quiescence and/or the rate of cell death can explain the previously reported reduction in mitochondrial activities in ME/CFS lymphocytes. We found that ME/CFS lymphocytes die at a dramatically faster rate in culture medium than control lymphocytes. It is likely that in previous studies, the ME/CFS lymphocytes assayed for mitochondrial activity included a higher proportion of dead cells than did the controls.