Ian Lipkin, now: Lipkin is summarizing a number of different efforts associated with his research group. He is the first person at this conference that has mentioned how previous coronaviral outbreaks (SARS/MERS) have led to ME/CFS-like syndromes. (1/7) #LongCOVID #MEcfs #GWI
Talking about work at Centers, with shout-outs to each center as well as the nonprofits that have been involved, including our own @MEActNet. (Looking forward to sharing stuff re: this project soon!) (2/7) #MEcfs @Columbia_CII
Dramatic increases in butyrate-producing bacteria in pwME. Butyrate is imp't to control inflammation & impacts CNS function. (4/7) #metabolism #fatigue #MECFS
Short-duration vs long-duration ME/CFS shows different patterns of cytokine activation (Hornig et al. 2015 -- I cite it a lot). (5/7) #immunology #MEcfs
Clonal B cell expansion has also been found in ME/CFS. (6/7) #fatigue #MECFS #immunology #fatigue pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32692761/
Lipkin's group found some changes in citric acid cycle byproducts pre- and post-exercise, implicating issues in the TCA cycle in #pwME. #fatigue #MECFS
And, Summary: (7/7)
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