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NIH Intramural Study on ME/CFS

Walitt B, et al. Deep phenotyping of post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Nature Communications. Feb 21, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45107-3. PMID: 38383456; PMCID: PMC10881493.

Stussman B, Calco B, Norato G, Gavin A, Chigurupati S, Nath A, Walitt B. Mixed methods system for the assessment of post-exertional malaise in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: an exploratory study. BMJ Neurol Open. 2024 Feb 10;6(1):e000529. doi: 10.1136/bmjno-2023-000529. PMID: 38352048; PMCID: PMC10862339.

Wang PY, Ma J, Kim YC, Son AY, Syed AM, Liu C, Mori MP, Huffstutler RD, Stolinski JL, Talagala SL, Kang JG, Walitt BT, Nath A, Hwang PM. WASF3 disrupts mitochondrial respiration and may mediate exercise intolerance in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Aug 22;120(34):e2302738120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2302738120. Epub 2023 Aug 14. PMID: 37579159; PMCID: PMC10450651. 

Stussman B, Williams A, Snow J, Gavin A, Scott R, Nath A, Walitt B. Characterization of Post-exertional Malaise in Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Front Neurol. 2020 Sep 18;11:1025. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.01025. PMID: 33071931; PMCID: PMC7530890.

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2024

Okamoto LE, Urechie V, Rigo S, Abner JJ, Giesecke M, Muldowney JAS, Furlan R, Shibao CA, Shirey-Rice JK, Pulley JM, Diedrich A, Biaggioni I. Hyperadrenergic Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: Clinical Biomarkers and Response to Guanfacine. Hypertension. 2024 Aug 7. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.124.23035. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39109428.

Unger ER, Lin JS, Wisk LE, Yu H, L'Hommedieu M, Lavretsky H, Montoy JCC, Gottlieb MA, Rising KL, Gentile NL, Santangelo M, Venkatesh AK, Rodriguez RM, Hill MJ, Geyer RE, Kean ER, Saydah S, McDonald SA, Huebinger R, Idris AH, Dorney J, Hota B, Spatz ES, Stephens KA, Weinstein RA, Elmore JG; Innovative Support for Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infections Registry (INSPIRE) Group. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome After SARS-CoV-2 Infection. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jul 1;7(7):e2423555. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.23555. PMID: 39046739; PMCID: PMC11270135.

Keller B, Receno CN, Franconi CJ, Harenberg S, Stevens J, Mao X, Stevens SR, Moore G, Levine S, Chia J, Shungu D, Hanson MR. Cardiopulmonary and metabolic responses during a 2-day CPET in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: translating reduced oxygen consumption to impairment status to treatment considerations. J Transl Med. 2024 Jul 5;22(1):627. doi: 10.1186/s12967-024-05410-5. PMID: 38965566; PMCID: PMC11229500.

Medow MS, Stewart JM. Phenylephrine alters phase synchronization between cerebral blood velocity and blood pressure in ME/CFS with orthostatic intolerance. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2024 Jun 1;326(6):R599-R608. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00071.2024. Epub 2024 Apr 29. PMID: 38682242.

Tang-Siegel GG, Maughan DW, Frownfelter MB, Light AR. Mitochondrial DNA Missense Mutations ChrMT: 8981A > G and ChrMT: 6268C > T Identified in a Caucasian Female with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Triggered by the Epstein-Barr Virus. Case Rep Genet. 2024 May 9;2024:6475425. doi: 10.1155/2024/6475425. PMID: 38756740; PMCID: PMC11098598.

Mudie K, Ramiller A, Whittaker S, Phillips LE. Do people with ME/CFS and joint hypermobility represent a disease subgroup? An analysis using registry data. Front Neurol. 2024 Mar 13;15:1324879. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2024.1324879. PMID: 38545281; PMCID: PMC10965591.

Gil A, Hoag GE, Salerno JP, Hornig M, Klimas N, Selin LK. Identification of CD8 T-cell dysfunction associated with symptoms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long COVID and treatment with a nebulized antioxidant/anti-pathogen agent in a retrospective case series. Brain Behav Immun Health. 2023 Dec 27;36:100720. doi: 10.1016/j.bbih.2023.100720. PMID: 38327880; PMCID: PMC10847863.

Poomkudy JT, Torres C, Jason LA, Fishbein J, Katz BZ. Joint Flexibility and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome After Mononucleosis. Clin Ther. 2024 Mar;46(3):285-288. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2023.12.011. Epub 2024 Jan 18. PMID: 38242746; PMCID: PMC11009060.

McGarrigle WJ, Furst J, Jason LA. Psychometric evaluation of the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire-Short Form (DSQ-SF) among adults with Long COVID, ME/CFS, and healthy controls: A machine learning approach. J Health Psychol. 2024 Jan 28:13591053231223882. doi: 10.1177/13591053231223882. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38282368.

Vu LT, Ahmed F, Zhu H, Iu DSH, Fogarty EA, Kwak Y, Chen W, Franconi CJ, Munn PR, Tate AE, Levine SM, Stevens J, Mao X, Shungu DC, Moore GE, Keller BA, Hanson MR, Grenier JK, Grimson A. Single-cell transcriptomics of the immune system in ME/CFS at baseline and following symptom provocation. Cell Rep Med. 2024 Jan 16;5(1):101373. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101373. PMID: 38232699; PMCID: PMC10829790.

May M, Milrad SF, Perdomo DM, Czaja SJ, Jutagir DR, Hall DL, Klimas N, Antoni MH. Videoconference-delivered group Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management for ME/CFS patients who present with severe PEM: A randomized controlled trial. Fatigue. 2024;12(2):101-122. doi: 10.1080/21641846.2024.2306801. Epub 2024 Jan 25. PMID: 38736736; PMCID: PMC11086677.

Giloteaux L, Glass KA, Germain A, Franconi CJ, Zhang S, Hanson MR. Dysregulation of extracellular vesicle protein cargo in female myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome cases and sedentary controls in response to maximal exercise. J Extracell Vesicles. 2024 Jan;13(1):e12403. doi: 10.1002/jev2.12403. PMID: 38173127; PMCID: PMC10764978.

Sanchez V, Kim CK, Locatelli EVT, Cohen AK, Cabrera K, Aenlle K, Klimas NG, O'Brien R, Galor A. Dry eye symptoms and signs in United States Gulf War era veterans with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2024 Jan-Feb;52(1):10-21. doi: 10.1111/ceo.14313. Epub 2023 Nov 12. PMID: 37953685; PMCID: PMC10873051.

2023

Grabowska AD, Westermeier F, Nacul L, Lacerda E, Sepúlveda N. The importance of estimating prevalence of ME/CFS in future epidemiological studies of long COVID. Front Public Health. 2023 Nov 3;11:1275827. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1275827. PMID: 38026427; PMCID: PMC10654790.

Schutzer SE, Liu T, Tsai CF, Petyuk VA, Schepmoes AA, Wang YT, Weitz KK, Bergquist J, Smith RD, Natelson BH. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia are indistinguishable by their cerebrospinal fluid proteomes. Ann Med. 2023 Dec;55(1):2208372. doi: 10.1080/07853890.2023.2208372. Epub 2023 Sep 18. PMID: 37722890; PMCID: PMC10512920.

Jason LA, Gaglio CL, Furst J, Islam M, Sorenson M, Conroy KE, Katz BZ. Cytokine network analysis in a community-based pediatric sample of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Chronic Illn. 2023 Sep;19(3):571-580. doi: 10.1177/17423953221101606. Epub 2022 May 16. PMID: 35570777; PMCID: PMC9666669.

Brydges C, Che X, Lipkin WI, Fiehn O. Bayesian Statistics Improves Biological Interpretability of Metabolomics Data from Human Cohorts. Metabolites. 2023 Aug 31;13(9):984. doi: 10.3390/metabo13090984. PMID: 37755264; PMCID: PMC10535181.

Wei H, Adelsheim Z, Fischer R, McCarthy MJ. Serum from Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients causes loss of coherence in cellular circadian rhythms. J Neuroimmunol. 2023 Aug 15;381:578142. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2023.578142. Epub 2023 Jun 24. PMID: 37393850; PMCID: PMC10527922.

Briese T, Tokarz R, Bateman L, Che X, Guo C, Jain K, Kapoor V, Levine S, Hornig M, Oleynik A, Quan PL, Wong WH, Williams BL, Vernon SD, Klimas NG, Peterson DL, Montoya JG, Ian Lipkin W. A multicenter virome analysis of blood, feces, and saliva in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. J Med Virol. 2023 Aug;95(8):e28993. doi: 10.1002/jmv.28993. PMID: 37526404.

Maya J. Surveying the Metabolic and Dysfunctional Profiles of T Cells and NK Cells in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jul 26;24(15):11937. doi: 10.3390/ijms241511937. PMID: 37569313; PMCID: PMC10418326.

Day H, Yellman B, Hammer S, Rond C, Bell J, Abbaszadeh S, Stoddard G, Unutmaz D, Bateman L, Vernon SD. Cognitive impairment in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 and short duration myalgic encephalomyelitis patients is mediated by orthostatic hemodynamic changes. Front Neurosci. 2023 Jun 26;17:1203514. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1203514. PMID: 37434760; PMCID: PMC10330752.

Gamer J, Van Booven DJ, Zarnowski O, Arango S, Elias M, Kurian A, Joseph A, Perez M, Collado F, Klimas N, Oltra E, Nathanson L. Sex-Dependent Transcriptional Changes in Response to Stress in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Pilot Project. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jun 17;24(12):10255. doi: 10.3390/ijms241210255. PMID: 37373402; PMCID: PMC10299261.

Komaroff AL, Lipkin WI. ME/CFS and Long COVID share similar symptoms and biological abnormalities: road map to the literature. Front Med (Lausanne). 2023 Jun 2;10:1187163. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1187163. PMID: 37342500; PMCID: PMC10278546.

Mohamed AZ, Andersen T, Radovic S, Del Fante P, Kwiatek R, Calhoun V, Bhuta S, Hermens DF, Lagopoulos J, Shan ZY. Objective sleep measures in chronic fatigue syndrome patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Sleep Med Rev. 2023 Jun;69:101771. doi: 10.1016/j.smrv.2023.101771. Epub 2023 Mar 9. PMID: 36948138; PMCID: PMC10281648.

Giloteaux L, Li J, Hornig M, Lipkin WI, Ruppert D, Hanson MR. Proteomics and cytokine analyses distinguish myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome cases from controls. J Transl Med. 2023 May 13;21(1):322. doi: 10.1186/s12967-023-04179-3. PMID: 37179299; PMCID: PMC10182359.

Uhde M, Indart AC, Green PH, Yolken RH, Cook DB, Shukla SK, Vernon SD, Alaedini A. Suppressed immune and metabolic responses to intestinal damage-associated microbial translocation in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health. 2023 Apr 27:100627. doi: 10.1016/j.bbih.2023.100627.

Friedberg F, Adamowicz JL, Bruckenthal P, Milazzo M, Ramjan S, Zhang X, Yang J. Sex differences in post-exercise fatigue and function in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 3;13(1):5442. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32581-w. PMID: 37012343; PMCID: PMC10070276.

Maeda KI, Islam MF, Conroy KE, Jason L. Health outcomes of sensory hypersensitivities in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis. Psychol Health Med. 2023 Mar 28:1-12. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2023.2195670. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36977713; PMCID: PMC10533743.

Conroy KE, Islam MF, Jason LA. Evaluating case diagnostic criteria for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): toward an empirical case definition. Disabil Rehabil. 2023 Mar;45(5):840-847. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2022.2043462. Epub 2022 Mar 2. PMID: 35236205; PMCID: PMC9437146.

Moore GE, Keller BA, Stevens J, Mao X, Stevens SR, Chia JK, Levine SM, Franconi CJ, Hanson MR. Recovery from Exercise in Persons with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Medicina (Kaunas). 2023 Mar 15;59(3):571. doi: 10.3390/medicina59030571. PMID: 36984572; PMCID: PMC10059925.

Glass KA, Germain A, Huang YV, Hanson MR. Urine Metabolomics Exposes Anomalous Recovery after Maximal Exertion in Female ME/CFS Patients. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Feb 12;24(4):3685. doi: 10.3390/ijms24043685. PMID: 36835097; PMCID: PMC9958671.

Palacios N, Molsberry S, Fitzgerald KC, Komaroff AL. Different risk factors distinguish myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome from severe fatigue. Sci Rep. 2023 Feb 11;13(1):2469. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-29329-x. PMID: 36774379; PMCID: PMC9922267.

Xiong R, Gunter C, Fleming E, Vernon SD, Bateman L, Unutmaz D, Oh J. Multi-'omics of gut microbiome-host interactions in short- and long-term myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients. Cell Host Microbe. 2023 Feb 8;31(2):273-287.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.01.001. PMID: 36758521.

Guo C, Che X, Briese T, Ranjan A, Allicock O, Yates RA, Cheng A, March D, Hornig M, Komaroff AL, Levine S, Bateman L, Vernon SD, Klimas NG, Montoya JG, Peterson DL, Lipkin WI, Williams BL. Deficient butyrate-producing capacity in the gut microbiome is associated with bacterial network disturbances and fatigue symptoms in ME/CFS. Cell Host Microbe. 2023 Feb 8;31(2):288-304.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.01.004. PMID: 36758522.

Haider S, Janowski AJ, Lesnak JB, Hayashi K, Dailey DL, Chimenti R, Frey-Law LA, Sluka KA, Berardi G. A comparison of pain, fatigue, and function between post-COVID-19 condition, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome: a survey study. Pain. 2023 Feb 1;164(2):385-401. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002711. Epub 2022 Jun 29. PMID: 36006296; PMCID: PMC9797623.

Van Booven DJ, Gamer J, Joseph A, Perez M, Zarnowski O, Pandya M, Collado F, Klimas N, Oltra E, Nathanson L. Stress-Induced Transcriptomic Changes in Females with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Reveal Disrupted Immune Signatures. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jan 31;24(3):2698. doi: 10.3390/ijms24032698. PMID: 36769022; PMCID: PMC9916639.

Maya J, Leddy SM, Gottschalk CG, Peterson DL, Hanson MR. Altered Fatty Acid Oxidation in Lymphocyte Populations of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jan 19;24(3):2010. doi: 10.3390/ijms24032010. PMID: 36768336; PMCID: PMC9916395.

2022

Goldberg NC, Poirier S, Kanas A, McCorkell L, McGinn CA, Re’em Y, Kuehnel K, Muirhead N, Ruschioni T, Taylor-Brown S, Jason LA. A new clinical challenge: supporting patients coping with the long-term effects of COVID-19. Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior. 2022 Oct 2;10:4, 212-230. doi: 10.1080/21641846.2022.2128576.

Ramiller A, Mudie K, Seibert E, Whittaker S. The Facilitation of Clinical and Therapeutic Discoveries in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Diseases: Protocol for the You + ME Registry Research Platform. JMIR Res Protoc. 2022 Aug 10;11(8):e36798. doi: 10.2196/36798. Erratum in: JMIR Res Protoc. 11:e42030. PMID: 35816681; PMCID: PMC9369615.

Che X, Brydges CR, Yu Y, Price A, Joshi S, Roy A, Lee B, Barupal DK, Cheng A, Palmer DM, Levine S, Peterson DL, Vernon SD, Bateman L, Hornig M, Montoya JG, Komaroff AL, Fiehn O, Lipkin WI. Metabolomic Evidence for Peroxisomal Dysfunction in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Jul 18;23(14):7906. doi: 10.3390/ijms23147906. PMID: 35887252; PMCID: PMC9320121.

Vernon SD, Funk S, Bateman L, Stoddard GJ, Hammer S, Sullivan K, Bell J, Abbaszadeh S, Lipkin WI, Komaroff AL. Orthostatic Challenge Causes Distinctive Symptomatic, Hemodynamic and Cognitive Responses in Long COVID and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Jun 23;9:917019. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.917019. PMID: 35847821; PMCID: PMC9285104.

O'Neal AJ, Glass KA, Emig CJ, Vitug AA, Henry SJ, Shungu DC, Mao X, Levine SM, Hanson MR. Survey of Anti-Pathogen Antibody Levels in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Proteomes. 2022 Jun 13;10(2):21. doi: 10.3390/proteomes10020021. PMID: 35736801; PMCID: PMC9228258.

Germain A, Giloteaux L, Moore GE, Levine SM, Chia JK, Keller BA, Stevens J, Franconi CJ, Mao X, Shungu DC, Grimson A, Hanson MR. Plasma metabolomics reveals disrupted response and recovery following maximal exercise in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. JCI Insight. 2022 May 9;7(9):e157621. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.157621. PMID: 35358096; PMCID: PMC9090259.

Cook DB, VanRiper S, Dougherty RJ, Lindheimer JB, Falvo MJ, Chen Y, Lin JS, Unger ER; MCAM Study Group. Cardiopulmonary, metabolic, and perceptual responses during exercise in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): A Multi-site Clinical Assessment of ME/CFS (MCAM) sub-study. PLoS One. 2022 Mar 15;17(3):e0265315. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265315. PMID: 35290404; PMCID: PMC8923458.

Conroy KE, Islam MF, Jason LA. Evaluating case diagnostic criteria for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): toward an empirical case definition. Disabil Rehabil. 2022 Mar 2:1-8. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2022.2043462. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35236205; PMCID: PMC9437146.

Baraniuk JN, Amar A, Pepermitwala H, Washington SD. Differential Effects of Exercise on fMRI of the Midbrain Ascending Arousal Network Nuclei in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Gulf War Illness (GWI) in a Model of Postexertional Malaise (PEM). Brain Sci. 2022 Jan 5;12(1):78. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12010078. PMID: 35053821; PMCID: PMC8774249.

2021

Mathur R, Carnes MU, Harding A, Moore A, Thomas I, Giarrocco A, Long M, Underwood M, Townsend C, Ruiz-Esparza R, Barnette Q, Brown LM, Schu M. mapMECFS: a portal to enhance data discovery across biological disciplines and collaborative sites. J Transl Med. 2021 Nov 8;19(1):461. doi: 10.1186/s12967-021-03127-3. PMID: 34749736; PMCID: PMC8576927.

Jason LA, Holtzman CS, Sunnquist M, Cotler J. The development of an instrument to assess post-exertional malaise in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome. J Health Psychol. 2021 Feb;26(2):238-248. doi: 10.1177/1359105318805819. Epub 2018 Oct 24. PMID: 30354489; PMCID: PMC7988339.

Komaroff AL, Lipkin WI. Insights from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome may help unravel the pathogenesis of postacute COVID-19 syndrome. Trends Mol Med. 2021 Sep;27(9):895-906. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2021.06.002. Epub 2021 Jun 7. PMID: 34175230; PMCID: PMC8180841.

Paul BD, Lemle MD, Komaroff AL, Snyder SH. Redox imbalance links COVID-19 and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Aug 24;118(34):e2024358118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2024358118. PMID: 34400495; PMCID: PMC8403932.

O'Neal AJ, Hanson MR. The Enterovirus Theory of Disease Etiology in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Critical Review. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Jun 18;8:688486. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.688486. PMID: 34222292; PMCID: PMC8253308.

Jason LA, Islam M, Conroy K, Cotler J, Torres C, Johnson M, Mabie B. COVID-19 Symptoms Over Time: Comparing Long-Haulers to ME/CFS. Fatigue. 2021;9(2):59-68. doi: 10.1080/21641846.2021.1922140. Epub 2021 May 5. PMID: 34484973; PMCID: PMC8411893.

Baraniuk JN, Kern G, Narayan V, Cheema A. Exercise modifies glutamate and other metabolic biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid from Gulf War Illness and Myalgic encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. PLoS One. 2021 Jan 13;16(1):e0244116. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244116. PMID: 33440400; PMCID: PMC7806361.

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