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ArticleMetabolites2018

Prospective Biomarkers from Plasma Metabolomics of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Implicate Redox Imbalance in Disease Symptomatology.

Arnaud Germain, David Ruppert, Susan M Levine, Maureen R Hanson

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Article in Metabolites, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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49citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Recent research in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: an evidence map.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025
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  18. Sex and disease severity-based analysis of steroid hormones in ME/CFS.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Arnaud GermainDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. ag297@cornell.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0111-0012
David RuppertDepartment of Statistical Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. dr24@cornell.edu.
Susan M LevineDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. cfssuelev@earthlink.net.
Maureen R HansonDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. mrh5@cornell.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8141-3058
Cornell University · US

Funding

Immune cell gene expression and predictive models in CFSR01AI107762 · NIAID · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ELEMENTO, OLIVIER, HANSON, MAUREEN REBECCA · 2013 to 2017
$3.0M
Cellular Metabolism in Lymphocytes in ME/CFSR21AI117595 · NIAID · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI HANSON, MAUREEN REBECCA · 2015 to 2016
$435k
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 1R01AI107762National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 1R21AI117595
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disease of enigmatic origin with no established cure. Its constellation of symptoms has silently ruined the lives of millions of people around the world. A plethora of hypotheses have been vainly investigated over the past few decades, so that the biological basis of this debilitating condition remains a mystery. In this study, we investigate whether there is a disturbance in homeostasis of metabolic networks in the plasma of a female 32-patient cohort compared to 19 healthy female controls. Extensive analysis of the 832-metabolite dataset generated by Metabolon

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biomarkersdiagnosticsME/CFSmetabolomicsplasma

Identifiers

PMID30563204
PMCPMC6315598
OpenAlexW2903233826

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