ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 30/05/20261) Impressive paper from Iwasaki’s lab pointing at autoimmunity in a subgroup of Long Covid patients. They replicated previous experiments of antibody transfer causing symptoms in mice. A couple of findings that stand out… 14915
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 30/05/20262) They extracted antibodies from blood and found that those from LC patients more often reacted to brain tissue such as the thalamus or locus coeruleus. However, after accounting for sex and age only the results for mouse meninges were significant. 1120
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 30/05/20263) Next, they searched for the targets of the antibodies using the HuProt™ microarray which includes over 21.000 different human proteins. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a clear difference in positive response to proteins between LC and convalescent controls (Figure 3B). 190
