Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
Research Update - June 2010
The following articles were distributed for review in June 2010. You can access each article's abstract by clicking the link at the end of each citation below.
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Gulf War Specific Articles
1. Horner RD, Feussner JR, Kasarskis EJ. Neurological mortality among Gulf War veterans. Am J Ind Med. 2010. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20191602
2. Barth SK, Kang HK, Bullman TA, Wallin MT. Response to the letter to the editor on "Neurological mortality among Gulf War veterans". Am J Ind Med. 2010. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20340099
3. Cook DB, Stegner AJ, Ellingson LD. Exercise Alters Pain Sensitivity in Gulf War Veterans with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain. J Pain. 2010. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338824
4. Young HA, Maillard JD, Levine PH, et al. Investigating the Risk of Cancer in 1990-1991 US Gulf War Veterans With the Use of State Cancer Registry Data. Ann Epidemiol. 2010. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20116284
5. Lippi G, Targher G, Franchini M. Vaccination, squalene and anti-squalene antibodies: Facts or fiction? Eur J Intern Med. 2010;21(2):70-73. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20206873
6. Gade DM, Wenger JB. Combat exposure and mental health: the long-term effects among US Vietnam and Gulf war veterans. Health Econ. 2010. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20336640
7. Artiss KL. The combat soldier. Mil Med. 2010;175(4):259-266. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20446501
Other Relevant Research
8. Middlemore-Risher ML, Buccafusco JJ, Terry AV. Repeated exposures to low-level chlorpyrifos results in impairments in sustained attention and increased impulsivity in rats. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2010. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20350597
9. Furlong CE, Suzuki SM, Stevens RC, et al. Human PON1, a biomarker of risk of disease and exposure. Chem Biol Interact. 2010. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338154
10. Mackenzie Ross SJ, Brewin CR, Curran HV, et al. Neuropsychological and psychiatric functioning in sheep farmers exposed to low levels of organophosphate pesticides. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2010. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20227490
11. Mackness B, Beltran-Debon R, Aragones G, et al. Human tissue distribution of paraoxonases 1 and 2 mRNA. IUBMB Life. 2010;62(6):480-482. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/20503442
12. Loh Y, Swanberg MM, Ingram MV, Newmark J. Case report: Long-term cognitive sequelae of sarin exposure. Neurotoxicology. 2010;31(2):244-246. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20036279
13. Ebrahimi M, Roudkenar MH, Imani Fooladi AA, et al. Discrepancy between mRNA and Protein Expression of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin in Bronchial Epithelium Induced by Sulfur Mustard. J. Biomed. Biotechnol. 2010:6. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20508729
14. Georgopoulos AP, Tan HM, Lewis SM, et al. The synchronous neural interactions test as a functional neuromarker for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): a robust classification method based on the bootstrap. J Neural Eng. 2010;7(1):16011. Available at : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20086271
15. Horstman LL, Jy W, Ahn YS, et al. Role of platelets in neuroinflammation: a wide-angle perspective. J Neuroinflammation. 2010;7(1):10. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/20128908
16. Wilms H, Sievers J, Rickert U, et al. Dimethylfumarate inhibits microglial and astrocytic inflammation by suppressing the synthesis of nitric oxide, IL-1beta, TNF-alpha and IL-6 in an in-vitro model of brain inflammation. J Neuroinflammation. 2010;7(1):30. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/20482831
17. Zhang D, Hu X, Qian L, O'Callaghan JP, Hong J. Astrogliosis in CNS Pathologies: Is There A Role for Microglia? Mol Neurobiol. 2010. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/20148316
18. Zhang F, Liu J, Shi J. Anti-inflammatory activities of resveratrol in the brain: Role of resveratrol in microglial activation. Eur J Pharmacol. 2010. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20361959
Gulf War Specific Articles
1. Calley CS, Kraut MA, Spence JS, Briggs RW, Haley RW, Hart J Jr. The neuroanatomic correlates of semantic memory deficits in patients with Gulf War illnesses: a pilot study. Brain Imaging Behav. 2010 Dec;4(3-4):248-55. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20824394
2. Tillman GD, Green TA, Ferree TC, Calley CS, Maguire MJ, Briggs R, Hart J Jr, Haley RW, Kraut MA. Impaired response inhibition in ill Gulf War veterans. J Neurol Sci. 2010 Oct 15;297(1-2):1-5. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20719339
3. Amin MM, Belisova Z, Hossain S, Gold MS, Broderick JE, Gold AR. Inspiratory airflow dynamics during sleep in veterans with Gulf War illness: a controlled study. Sleep Breath. 2010 Aug 12. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703820
4. Amin MM, Gold MS, Broderick JE, Gold AR. The effect of nasal continuous positive airway pressure on the symptoms of Gulf War illness. Sleep Breath. 2010 Aug 19. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20717848
