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Cytokine signatures in chronic fatigue syndrome patients: a Case Control Study and the effect of anakinra treatment

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Translational Medicine, December 2017
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Title
Cytokine signatures in chronic fatigue syndrome patients: a Case Control Study and the effect of anakinra treatment
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Journal of Translational Medicine, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12967-017-1371-9
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Megan E. Roerink, Hans Knoop, Ewald M. Bronkhorst, Henk A. Mouthaan, Luuk J. A. C. Hawinkels, Leo A. B. Joosten, Jos W. M. van der Meer

Abstract

Cytokine disturbances have been suggested to be associated with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) for decades. Fifty female CFS patients were included in a study on the effect of the interleukin-1-receptor antagonist anakinra or placebo during 4 weeks. EDTA plasma was collected from patients before and directly after treatment. At baseline, plasma samples were collected at the same time from 48 healthy, age-matched female neighborhood controls. A panel of 92 inflammatory markers was determined in parallel in 1 μL samples using a 'proximity extension assay' (PEA) based immunoassay. Since Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) were not included in this platform, these cytokines were measured with ELISA. In CFS/ME patients, the 'normalized protein expression' value of IL-12p40 and CSF-1 was significantly higher (p value 0.0042 and 0.049, respectively). Furthermore, using LASSO regression, a combination of 47 markers yielded a prediction model with a corrected AUC of 0.73. After correction for multiple testing, anakinra had no effect on circulating cytokines. TGF-β did not differ between patients and controls. In conclusion, this study demonstrated increased IL-12p40 and CSF-1 concentrations in CFS/ME patients in addition to a set of predictive biomarkers. There was no effect of anakinra on circulating cytokines other than IL-1Ra. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02108210 , Registered April 2014.

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Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 14%
Student > Bachelor 8 12%
Student > Master 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 9%
Other 13 19%
Unknown 18 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 9%
Neuroscience 4 6%
Psychology 3 4%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 21 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 August 2020.
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