Blog Classic: July 23, 2010
While researchers have yet to pin down the exact causes and mechanisms involved in chronic fatigue syndrome, most of them are now agree that the condition involves significant problems with the immune system, and that immune dysfunction leads to many of the characteristic symptoms.
The immune system is complex, and research can be hard to understand. To help you get a better handle on what some of the terminology means, here are definitions of 15 immunological terms related to chronic fatigue syndrome:
- Autoantibodies
- Cytokines
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- Enterovirus
- Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)
- Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6)
- Immune System
- Lyme Disease
- Natural Killer (NK) Cells
- Retrovirus
- RNase L
- T Cells
- XAND
- Xenotropic
- XMRV
Did you learn some useful information from this? Are there any other terms you'd like see defined? Leave your comments below!
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i have just read all about the immune terms. I have most of them, but I found the articles too vague and not descriptive enough about the symptoms of each and possibly how to combat them. where could I read more? thanks
Shoshana,
These are just definitions to help you make sense of things like research and test results. Different doctors have different opinions on how to treat the specific pathogens, or whether to treat them at all, so it’s really up to each of us to do our own research and make informed decisions.
Some good places to delve further into these topics include:
You can also enter any term into the search field here to find relevant research.
Hope this helps!
~Adrienne
I can see that the immune system plays such a vital role in all aspects of health, especially with chronic fatigue.