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Gulf war illness: a tale of two genomes [PDF]

BMC Research Notes
Introduction Gulf War illness (GWI) is an environmentally-triggered chronic multisymptom illness typified by protean symptoms, in which mitochondrial impairment is evident. It has been likened to accelerated aging. Nuclear genetics of detoxification have
Beatrice A. Golomb, Richard I. Kelley, Jun Hee Han, Bruce Miller, Leeann Bui   +4 more
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Computational modeling-directed combination treatment with etanercept and mifepristone mitigates neuroinflammation in a mouse model of Gulf War Illness. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Gulf War Illness is a chronic multi-symptom disorder experienced by over 30% of veterans from the 1990-1991 Gulf War and is increasingly recognized to be driven by underlying persistent neuroinflammation resulting from chemical and physiological ...
Kimberly A Kelly, Christopher M Felton, Brenda K Billig, Ali A Yilmaz, James P O'Callaghan, Travis J A Craddock, Gordon Broderick, Nancy Klimas, Lindsay T Michalovicz   +8 more
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Metabolic features of Gulf War illness. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundMore than 230,000 veterans-about 1/3 of US personnel deployed in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War-developed chronic, multi-symptom health problems now called "Gulf War illness" (GWI), for which mechanisms and objective diagnostic signatures ...
Robert K Naviaux, Jane C Naviaux, Kefeng Li, Lin Wang, Jonathan M Monk, A Taylor Bright, Hayley J Koslik, Janis B Ritchie, Beatrice A Golomb   +8 more
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Grappling with Gulf War Illness: Perspectives of Gulf War Providers [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Background: Although the Gulf War occurred almost 30 years ago, the chronic symptoms of Gulf War illness (GWI), which include respiratory, gastrointestinal, and skin problems, as well as fatigue, pain, and mood alterations, currently affect over 200,000 veterans. Meanwhile, healthcare providers lack clear guidelines about how to best treat this illness.
Girija Kaimal, Rebekka Dieterich-Hartwell   +1 more
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Reflections on Gulf War illness [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2006
Of Britain's recent wars, the Falklands campaign of 1982 was anomalous in many respects, fought to defend a colony with a small but a loyal population, 8000 miles away, but it was also relatively straightforward.
Simon Wessely
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Association of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Hyperlipidemia With Gulf War Illness Among Gulf War Veterans

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023
Background Approximately 30% of the 700 000 Gulf War veterans report a chronic symptom‐based illness of varying severity referred to as Gulf War illness (GWI).
Sarah T. Ahmed, Ruosha Li, Peter Richardson, Saurendro Ghosh, Lea Steele, Donna L. White, Alice Nono Djotsa, Kellie Sims, Elizabeth Gifford, Elizabeth R. Hauser, Salim S. Virani, Robert Morgan, George Delclos, Drew A. Helmer   +13 more
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Brain–Immune Interactions as the Basis of Gulf War Illness: Clinical Assessment and Deployment Profile of 1990–1991 Gulf War Veterans in the Gulf War Illness Consortium (GWIC) Multisite Case-Control Study

Brain Sciences, 2021
The Boston University-based Gulf War Illness Consortium (GWIC) is a multidisciplinary initiative developed to provide detailed understanding of brain and immune alterations that underlie Gulf War illness (GWI), the persistent multisymptom disorder ...
Lea Steele, Nancy Klimas, Maxine Krengel, Emily Quinn, Rosemary Toomey, Deborah Little, Maria Abreu, Kristina Aenlle, Ronald Killiany, Bang-Bon Koo, Patricia Janulewicz, Timothy Heeren, Allison N. Clark, Joy Ajama, Joanna Cirillo, Gerardo Buentello, Vanesa Lerma, Janet K. Coller, Kimberly Sullivan   +18 more
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Epigenetic study of the long-term effects of gulf War illness [PDF]

Frontiers in Genetics
IntroductionGulf War Illness is a chronic multisymptomatic disorder that affects as many as 25-35% of the military personnel who were sent to the Persian Gulf war in 1991.
B. C. Jones, J. P. O’Callaghan, D. G. Ashbrook, L. Lu, P. Prins, W. Zhao, K. Mozhui   +6 more
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Oligodendrocyte involvement in Gulf War Illness [PDF]

Glia, 2019
AbstractLow level sarin nerve gas and other anti‐cholinesterase agents have been implicated in Gulf War illness (GWI), a chronic multi‐symptom disorder characterized by cognitive, pain and fatigue symptoms that continues to afflict roughly 32% of veterans from the 1990–1991 Gulf War.
Dipankar J Dutta, Kimberly A Kelly, Lindsay T Michalovicz   +2 more
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The Department of Veterans Affairs Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Biorepository: Supporting Research on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses [PDF]

Brain Sciences, 2021
Aims: To introduce a resource supporting research on Gulf War illness (GWI) and related disorders, the Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses Biorepository (GWVIB). Methods: Gulf War era veterans (GWVs) are recruited nationally and enrolled via telephone and email/
Christopher B. Brady, Ian Robey, Thor D. Stein, Bertrand R. Huber, Jessica Riley, Nazifa Abdul Rauf, Keith R. Spencer, Gabriel Walt, Latease Adams, James G. Averill, Sean Walker, Ann C. McKee, Stephen P. Thomson, Neil W. Kowall   +13 more
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