RESEARCH INDEX

The Index contains published research studies and selected key documents and articles, listed by subject matter, on myalgic encephalomyelitis, myalgic encephalopathy, and/or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and Long Covid. It is searchable and will match research titles, the authors of the papers and the journals which published the paper.

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ME Association funded Research Papers

Below is a list of research papers funded completely or partially by the ME Association

• A gene signature for post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome.

  Gow JW, et al

  2009

  BMC Medical Genomics 2: 38.

  Funded by the ME Association
• A new approach to find biomarkers in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) by single-cell Raman micro-spectroscopy.

  Xu J et al

  2018

  RSC, Analyst, 144 (3): 913-920.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Antiviral Pathway Activation in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Acute Infection.

  Gow JW, et al

  2001

  Clinical Infectious Diseases 33(12): 2080-2081.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Assessing diagnostic value of microRNAs from peripheral blood mononuclear cells and extracellular vesicles in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

  Almenar-Perez E, et al

  2020

  Scientific Reports 10 (1): 2064.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Cellular Bioenergetics is Impaired in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

  Tomas C et al

  2017

  PLoS ONE 12(10).

  Funded by the ME Association
• CFSUM1 and CFSUM2 in urine from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome are methodological artefacts.

  Chalmers RA et al

  2006

  Clinica Chimica Acta 364(1-2): 148-158.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Chronic fatigue syndrome: new evidence for a central fatigue disorder.

  Georgiades E et al

  2003

  Clinical Science 105(2): 213-218.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Clinically proven mtDNA mutations are not common in those with chronic fatigue syndrome.

  Schoeman EM et al

  2017

  MBC Medical Genetics 18: 29.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Dietary intervention in chronic fatigue syndrome.

  Hobday RA et al

  2008

  Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 21(2): 141-149.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Home-based testing protocol to measure physiological responses to everyday activities in ME: a feasibility study

  Clague-Baker et al

  2023

  Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior

  Funded by the ME Association
• Loss of capacity to recover from acidosis on repeat exercise in chronic fatigue syndrome: case-control study.

  Jones DEJ et al

  2012

  European Journal of Clinical Investigation 42(2): 186-194.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Mitochondrial complex activity in permeabilised cells of chronic fatigue syndrome patients using two cell types.

  Tomas C et al

  2019

  PeerJ 7: e6500.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and the biopsychosocial model: a review of patient harm and distress in the medical encounter.

  Geraghty K and Blease C.

  2018

  Disability and Rehabilitation 21: 1-10.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients' reports of symptom changes following cognitive behavioural therapy, graded exercise therapy and pacing treatments: Analysis of a primary survey compared with secondary surveys.

  Geraghty K et al

  2019

  Journal of Health Psychology 24 (10): 1318-1333

  Funded by the ME Association
• Plasma and urinary carnitine and acylcarnitines in chronic fatigue syndrome.

  Jones MG et al

  2005

  Clinica Chimica Acta 360(1-2): 173-177.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Prolonged acetylcholine-induced vasodilatation in the peripheral microcirculation of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.

  Khan F et al

  2003

  Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging 23(5): 282-285.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of basal ganglia in chronic fatigue syndrome.

  Chaudhuri A et al

  2003

  NeuroReport 14(2): 225-228.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Relationship Between Exercise-induced Oxidative Stress Changes and Parasympathetic Activity in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Observational Study and in Patients and Healthy Subjects.

  Polli A, et al

  2019

  Clinical Therapy 41 (4): 641-655.

  Funded by the ME Association
• Risk factors for severe ME/CFS.

  Pheby D and Saffron L

  2009

  Biology and Medicine 1(4): 50-74.

  Funded by the ME Association
• The ‘Cognitive Behavioural Model' of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Critique of a Flawed Model

  Geraghty K and Adeniji C

  2019

  Health Psychology Open

  Funded by the ME Association
• The experience of sleep in chronic fatigue syndrome: A qualitative interview study with patients.

  Gotts ZM et al

  2016

  British Journal of Health Psychology 21(1): 71-92.

  Funded by the ME Association
• The Role of Autonomic Function in Exercise-induced Endogenous Analgesia: A Case-control Study in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Healthy People.

  Oosterwijck JV et al

  2017

  Pain Physicians 20(3): E389-E399.

  Funded by the ME Association
• The Role of Cytokines in Muscle Fatigue in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

  Anne McArdle et al

  2007

  The Faseb Journal

  Funded by the ME Association
• Urinary and plasma organic acids and amino acids in chronic fatigue syndrome.

  Jones MG et al

  2005

  Clinica Chimica Acta 361(1-2): 150-158.

  Funded by the ME Association