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Separately, researchers at the University of Hawaii say they've also found a possible diagnostic marker for ME/CFS as well as evidence that ME/CFS may be an autoimmune condition. They found a type of anticardiolipin antibodies (ACAs) in the sera (a component of blood) in 95% of test subjects with ME/CFS. They say this suggests the possibility of changes to liver mitochondria.
http://www.cfids-cab.org/rc/Hokama-1.pdf
Anticardiolipin Antibodies in the Sera of Patients with Diagnosed
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Yoshitsugi Hokama, Cara Empey Campora,_ Cynthia Hara, Tina Kuribayashi,
Diana Le Huynh, and Kenichi Yabusaki
Department of Pathology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Maˆnoa,
Honolulu, Hawaii
Examination of anticardiolipin antibodies
(ACAs) in the sera of patients clinically
diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome
(CFS) using an enzyme-linked immunoassay
procedure demonstrated the presence
of immunoglobulin M isotypes in 95%
of CFS serum samples tested. The
presence of immunoglobulin G and
immunoglobulin A isotypes were also detected
in a subset of the samples. Future
studies will focus on elucidating whether
alterations to mitochondrial inner membranes
and/or metabolic functions play a
possible role in the expression of ACAs.
J. Clin. Lab. Anal. 23:210–212, 2009.
r 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Key words: chronic fatigue syndrome; anticardiolipin; cardiolipin; ELISA
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anch'io ho sempre pensato al fatto che me/cfs possa essere di origine autoimmune, come, a mio avviso, la sclerosi multipla!
tutte le malattie croniche, vengono inquadrate tra le malattie a causa infettiva, per non ammetterne invece l'origine è "tossica"...il fatto infettivo è sempre ambientale, può essere scatenante...ma non è causa prima, nè può essere risolutivo..
ME/CFS autoimmune disease?september 2009 research |