Gulf War illness
Adverse effects of Gulf War Illness (GWI) serum on neural cultures and their prevention by healthy serum
... Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a chronic debilitating disease of unknown etiology that affects the brain and has afflicted many veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War ...
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Impaired immune function in Gulf War Illness
... Persian Gulf War, Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm (1990–1991), reported a variety of symptoms including fatigue, muscu- loskeletal discomfort, skin rashes, and cognitive dysfunc- tion ...
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Gulf War Illness associated increases in blood levels of interleukin 6 and C reactive protein: biomarker evidence of inflammation
... article: Gulf War Illness Inflam- mation Reduction Trial (Department of Defense, Congressionally-Directed Medical Research Program, GW130025) and Biomarkers of Gulf War Veterans’ ...
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Progression of intervention-focused research for Gulf War illness
... DoD Gulf War Illness Research Program, was conducted to assess the efficacy of acupuncture in reducing pain and improving physical function in vet- erans suffering from GWI (based on the case ...
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Using gene expression signatures to identify novel treatment strategies in gulf war illness
... sedentary Gulf War era veterans (n = 22) were recruited from the Miami Veterans Administration Medical Centers, clinics and the local vet- eran community between April 2006 and May ...
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Epigenetic impacts of stress priming of the neuroinflammatory response to sarin surrogate in mice: a model of Gulf War illness
... UpSetR diagram [73] of Gene Ontology (GO) biological process (BP) annotations enriched in genes significant in each of our differential analyses: frontal cortex RRBS (FC RRBS), frontal c[r] ...
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Butyrylcholinesterase genotype and enzyme activity in relation to Gulf War illness: preliminary evidence of gene-exposure interaction from a case–control study of 1991 Gulf War veterans
... with Gulf War service may have contributed to the development of ...of Gulf War veterans in our study with less common, and generally less active, genetic vari- ants of the enzyme BChE were at ...
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Anthrax and Gulf War Illness (GWI): Evidence for the Presence of Harmful Anthrax Antigen PA63 In the Serum of Veterans with GWI
... In the present study we investigated the effect of anti- anthrax antibodies on the detrimental effects of GWI serum regarding cell spreading and apoptosis in neuroblastoma cell culture[r] ...
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In silico Analysis of the Binding Affinities of Antigenic Epitopes of Vaccines Administered to Gulf War Veterans to Specific HLA Class II Alleles Protective for Gulf War Illness
... square the fact that only one-third of U.S. Gulf War veterans developed GWI when all were administered routine vaccines in preparation (and during) deployment. HLA composition appears to be a determining ...
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Brain Function in Gulf War Illness (GWI) and Associated Mental Health Comorbidities
... measures, namely GWI symptom severity and SNI distribution parameters. The weighted sums of these measures, based on the coefficients yielded by the logistic regression, form the horizontal axes in Figures 8 and 15, ...
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Human Immunoglobulin G (IgG) Neutralizes Adverse Effects of Gulf War Illness (GWI) Serum in Neural Cultures: Paving the Way to Immunotherapy for GWI
... These results document, for the first time, the beneficial effect of pooled human IgG on reducing the negative effect of GWI serum on cell spreading and apoptosis in neural cultures a[r] ...
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Dichotomous factor analysis of symptoms reported by UK and US veterans of the 1991 Gulf War
... 1991 Gulf War were suffering from unexplained signs and symptoms started to appear as early as one year after the conflict ...not Gulf War illness is a specific response to a specific ...
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Effects of War on the Ecological Condition of the Persian Gulf (Iranian Parts)
... Iraq-Kuwait war (1991) on the ecological condition and fisheries resources of the northern part of the Persian Gulf, during years 2001-2002 were ...Persian Gulf from northwestern waters of the ...
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Naval Targeting: Lawful Objects of Attack
... significant assistance to the Iraqi war effort by the overland transport of supplies and in other ways. The Council apparently was convinced that, on balance, the Gulf [r] ...
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Soviet Iraqi relations : a case study of the gulf war
... The discu s s i o n in the second chapter is aimed at the Soviet-Iraqi relationship du r i n g the initial stage of the Gulf war, p r oceeding from the beginning of the Iraqi invasion in September 1980 to ...
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Pain in veterans of the Gulf War of 1991: a systematic review
... the Gulf War together with a comparison group which dif- fered in its level of ...Persian Gulf rather than deployed military ...of Gulf veterans that had experienced differential exposures ...
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The role of maritime power in the wake of the Gulf War 1990-1991
... 54 Periodicals II' Air Force Magazine Armed Forces JOURNAL International Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter Australian Aviation Australian Naval Institute Journal Defence Defense & Diplomacy [r] ...
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Strategy to raise Indonesian public awareness in qatar in mitigation of gulf war disaster
... The assumptions from each expert are then synthesized. The results of the synthesis of assumptions obtained 6 assumptions of strategies to increase public awareness. Those assumptions include (A) education and ...
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Developing an approach to warfighting at the operational level : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Defence and Strategic Studies at Massey University
... Slim's success in the Burma Campaign and Schwarzkopfs in the Gulf War demonstrates the requirement for clear strategic guidance, coupled with the ability of an operational level commande[r] ...
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Management of war-related vascular injuries: experience from the second gulf war
... Angiography / Endovascular means was not used in our series. Therefore, it is possible that occult vascular injuries have been possibly missed and those usually present later [23]. The value of endovascular approach for ...
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