Gulf War Syndrome is one of the medical mysteries of our time. Thousands of veterans of the 1990-1991 conflict have debilitating fatigue, insomnia, cognitive problems, and headaches – but there’s never been a definitive explanation, diagnostic – or treatment.
But the damage has now been identified in the DNA of affected veterans – potentially leading to cures,reports a team of scientists from Rutgers Medical School and the Veterans Affairs New Jersey Health Care System in the online journal PLoSONE.
The deepest dive into the mitochondrial DNA may help explain how elusive the symptoms are, they write.
“Mitochondrial dysfunction among veterans with (Gulf War Illness) may help explain, in part, the persistence of this illness for over 25 years,” they write. “Chemical and environmental exposures during deployment may have provided the initial insult to mtDNA and accumulation of damage.
“Damaged mtDNA may subsequently impact the efficiency of electron transport chain complexes and activity, resulting in enhanced reactive oxygen species and further damage of mtDNA,” they write.
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Many sufferers never deployed to the war area.
ReplyDeleteThis is the primary factor for believing it was the EXPERIMENTAL VACCINES which caused the syndrome.
Or depleted uranium that was in the artillery shells, radiation can false DNA damage.
ReplyDeleteOr breathing burning oil fumes for months on end. It was dark at noon for weeks and weeks.
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