Impaired immune function in Gulf War Illness
Open Access
- 5 March 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medical Genomics
- Vol. 2 (1), 12
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1755-8794-2-12
Abstract
Gulf War Illness (GWI) remains a serious health consequence for at least 11,000 veterans of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s. Our understanding of the health consequences that resulted remains inadequate, and this is of great concern with another deployment to the same theater of operations occurring now. Chronic immune cell dysfunction and activation have been demonstrated in patients with GWI, although the literature is not uniform. We exposed GWI patients and matched controls to an exercise challenge to explore differences in immune cell function measured by classic immune assays and gene expression profiling.Keywords
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