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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Possible Integration of Hormonal and Immunological Observations

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The editors of this book organized a meeting about an unusual syndrome—chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). They also applied an unusual approach to the meeting by inviting us to give the “keynote conclusions”. Although we have experience in both basic and clinical research ranging from peptide hormones to cytokines, we have no experience with CFS.

JMM is a Visiting Endocrinologist from Curry Cabrai Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal.

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    Abba J. Kastin, Richard D. Olson, J. Martin Martins (Visiting Endocrinologist), Gayle A. Olson, James E. Zadina & William A. Banks

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Kastin, A.J., Olson, R.D., Martins, J.M., Olson, G.A., Zadina, J.E., Banks, W.A. (1997). Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Possible Integration of Hormonal and Immunological Observations. In: Yehuda, S., Mostofsky, D.I. (eds) Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5953-5_8

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