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Blood Biomarkers of Chronic Inflammation in Gulf War Illness. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
BACKGROUND:More than twenty years following the end of the 1990-1991 Gulf War it is estimated that approximately 300,000 veterans of this conflict suffer from an unexplained chronic, multi-system disorder known as Gulf War Illness (GWI).
Gerhard J Johnson, Billie C S Slater, Linda A Leis, Thomas S Rector, Ronald R Bach   +4 more
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Anthrax Vaccines in the 21st Century

Vaccines
Vaccination against Bacillus anthracis is the best preventive measure against the development of deadly anthrax disease in the event of exposure to anthrax either as a bioweapon or in its naturally occurring form.
Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Lisa M. James
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Pain in veterans of the Gulf War of 1991: a systematic review

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2006
Background Veterans of the Persian Gulf War of 1991 have reported a range of adverse health symptoms. This systematic review aims to identify all studies that have compared the prevalence of symptoms of pain in veterans of the Gulf War to that in a non ...
Dunstan Frank, Weightman Alison, Stimpson Nicola J, Thomas Hollie V, Lewis Glyn   +4 more
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The impact of Arab Revolution on the security of the Arabian Gulf: The Yemeni Revolution as a model [PDF]

Review of Economics and Political Science, 2020
Purpose – This study aims to analyze the impact of Arab Revolution on the Arabian Gulf security by applying on Yemeni Revolution. This can be achieved by analyzing the threat of Arab Spring Revolutions to the national security of the Gulf Cooperation ...
Saleh Zaid Al-Otaibi
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Gulf War Illness-associated increases in blood levels of interleukin 6 and C-reactive protein: biomarker evidence of inflammation

BMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective Gulf War Illness is a chronic multisymptom disorder severely impacting the health and well-being of many Veterans of the 1990–1991 Gulf War. Symptoms that define the disease include pain, fatigue, mood and memory impairments, gastrointestinal ...
Tammy A. Butterick, Janeen H. Trembley, Laura L. Hocum Stone, Clemma J. Muller, Rebecca R. Rudquist, Ronald R. Bach   +5 more
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The long-term hospitalization experience following military service in the 1991 Gulf War among veterans remaining on active duty, 1994–2004

BMC Public Health, 2008
Background Despite more than a decade of extensive, international efforts to characterize and understand the increased symptom and illness-reporting among veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, concern over possible long-term health effects related to this ...
Smith Besa, Bellis Kimberly S, Nagaraj Barbara E, DeBakey Samar F, Hooper Tomoko I, Smith Tyler C, Gackstetter Gary D   +6 more
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Gulf war syndrome

BMJ, 1999
Papers p 290 By the end of the Gulf War in February 1991 US, British, and Canadian forces had deployed about 697 000, 53 000, and 4500military personnel, respectively, to south west Asia. The conflict required rapid mobilisation of coalition combat troops, and massive numbers of casualties were expected.1 An extensive medical infrastructure and ...
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Exercise challenge in Gulf War Illness reveals two subgroups with altered brain structure and function.

PLoS ONE, 2013
Nearly 30% of the approximately 700,000 military personnel who served in Operation Desert Storm (1990-1991) have developed Gulf War Illness, a condition that presents with symptoms such as cognitive impairment, autonomic dysfunction, debilitating fatigue
Rakib U Rayhan, Benson W Stevens, Megna P Raksit, Joshua A Ripple, Christian R Timbol, Oluwatoyin Adewuyi, John W VanMeter, James N Baraniuk   +7 more
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Targeting transcription factors associated with hemoglobinopathies: Lessons from successful interventions and implications for cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the transcription factors, repressive chromatin‐modifying complexes, and epigenetic mechanisms that control fetal hemoglobin repression. Notably, many regulators of γ‐globin silencing also function in transcriptional and epigenetic networks that drive cancer, highlighting opportunities to translate advances in hemoglobinopathy ...
Meigen Yu, Puspa Das, Xing Zhang, Xiaodong Cheng   +3 more
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The role of the brainstem in sleep disturbances and chronic pain of Gulf War and Iraq/Afghanistan veterans

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
IntroductionGulf War Illness is a type of chronic multisymptom illness, that affects about 30% of veterans deployed to the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War. Veterans deployed to Iraq/Afghanistan after 2000 are reported to have a similar prevalence of chronic ...
Yu Zhang, Matthew Moore, Matthew Moore, Jennifer S. Jennings, J. David Clark, J. David Clark, Peter J. Bayley, Peter J. Bayley, J. Wesson Ashford, J. Wesson Ashford, Ansgar J. Furst, Ansgar J. Furst, Ansgar J. Furst   +12 more
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