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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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Gulf War Syndrome: A role for organophosphate induced plasticity of locus coeruleus neurons [PDF]

, 2011
Gulf War syndrome is a chronic multi-symptom illness that has affected about a quarter of the deployed veterans of the 1991 Gulf War. Exposure to prolonged low-level organophosphate insecticides and other toxic chemicals is now thought to be responsible.
Andrew L. Varnell, Donald C. Cooper, Jun-li Cao   +2 more
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Associations of Immune Genetic Variability with Gulf War Illness in 1990–1991 Gulf War Veterans from the Gulf War Illness Consortium (GWIC) Multisite Case-Control Study

Brain Sciences, 2021
Gulf War illness (GWI) encompasses a constellation of persistent debilitating symptoms associated with significant changes in central nervous system (CNS) and immune functioning.
Janet K. Coller, Jonathan Tuke, Taylor J. Wain, Emily Quinn, Lea Steele, Maria Abreu, Kristina Aenlle, Nancy Klimas, Kimberly Sullivan   +8 more
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Self-reported ill health in male UK Gulf War veterans: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]

, 2004
Background Forces deployed to the first Gulf War report more ill health than veterans who did not serve there. Many studies of post-Gulf morbidity are based on relatively small sample sizes and selection bias is often a concern.
Rebecca Simmons, Noreen Maconochie, Pat Doyle, C Unwin, M Hotopf, N Cherry, The Iowa Persian Gulf Study Group, T Ishoy, Military and Veterans Health Coordinating Board, AR Erickson, HM Kipen, S Reid, T Chalder, K Ismail, JD Knoke, N Maconochie, GC Gray, HK Kang, BN Doebbeling, FM Murphy, K Fukuda, RW Haley, HK Kang, GC Gray, GJ Macfarlane, GC Gray, M Hotopf, N Cherry, D Clauw   +28 more
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Mitochondrial dysfunction in Gulf War illness revealed by 31Phosphorus Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: a case-control study.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundApproximately 1/3 of 1990-1 Gulf War veterans developed chronic multisymptom health problems. Implicated exposures bear mechanisms that adversely affect mitochondria.
Hayley J Koslik, Gavin Hamilton, Beatrice A Golomb   +2 more
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Acute military psychiatric casualties from the war in Iraq [PDF]

, 2005
Background: The view that most military personnel evacuated from war zones are suffering from combat stress reactions, or are otherwise traumatised by the horrors of war, has an impact on all aspects of military psychiatry.
Andrew G. McKechanie, Belenky, Frank B. McManus, Jones, Leigh A. Neal, Mark A. Turner, Mathew D. Kiernan, Noy, Peter J. C. Finch, Solomon, Solomon   +10 more
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Role of the Calcium Plateau in the Neuronal Injury and Behavioral Morbidities Following Organophosphate Intoxication [PDF]

, 2016
Organophosphate (OP) chemicals include nerve agents and pesticides, and there is a growing concern of OP based chemical attacks against civilians. Current antidotes are essential in limiting immediate mortality associated with OP exposure.
Battaglia F.P., Campbell S., Dingeman A., Filbert M., Karki P., Konradsen F., Moorcraft P., Than K., Yamashita M.   +8 more
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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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Association of Gulf War Illness-Related Symptoms with Military Exposures among 1990–1991 Gulf War Veterans Evaluated at the War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC)

Brain Sciences, 2022
Veterans with difficult-to-diagnose conditions who receive care in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system can be referred for evaluation at one of three specialty VA War-Related Illness and Injury Study Centers (WRIISC).
Sarah T. Ahmed, Lea Steele, Peter Richardson, Shree Nadkarni, Sandhya Bandi, Mazhgan Rowneki, Kellie J. Sims, Jacqueline Vahey, Elizabeth J. Gifford, Stephen H. Boyle, Theresa H. Nguyen, Alice Nono Djotsa, Donna L. White, Elizabeth R. Hauser, Helena Chandler, Jose-Miguel Yamal, Drew A. Helmer   +16 more
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Nutraceutical-based integrative medicine: adopting a mediterranean diet pyramid for attaining healthy ageing in veterans with disabilities [PDF]

, 2018
Veterans with disability represent a big burden worldwide and often require long-term rehabilitation. Unhealthy dietary and lifestyle habits, including smoke and alcohol abuse, are common in veterans.
Aiello, Paola, Buccolieri, Cosimo, Catasta, Giovina, Ciccotti, Mario, Lista, Florigio, Palmery, Maura, Peluso, Ilaria, Raguzzini, Anna, Reggi, Raffaella, Sciarra, Tommaso   +9 more
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