Báo cáo y học: " Psychological Factors in Asthma" pps

... models in inhibiting airway eosinophilia and airway hyperresponsiveness. 37 Recombinant IL-12 was administered subcu- taneously in increasing doses (0.1, 0.25, and 0.5 ␮g/kg) weekly in 19 individuals ... widely prescribed. Modifications to sympathomimetics resulted in increasingly long-acting increasingly selective ␤ 2 agonists, the most widely prescribed of which was salbutamol, intr...

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... FEV 1 . 126 Allergy, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology, Volume 3, Number 4, 2007 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Bronchodilator Response in Patients with Persistent Allergic Asthma Could Not Predict Airway Hyperresponsiveness Bojana ... desensitized in asthma, in part owing to the inflammatory effect of cysteinyl leukotrienes. 21 In addition, there are over 100 different inflamm...

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... Carney RM, et al. Pathways linking depression, adiposity, and inflammatory markers in healthy young adults. Brain Behav Immun 2003;17:276–85. 125. Yao JK, Reddy RD. Metabolic investigation in psychiatric disorders. ... F 2 have a variety of effects on airway physiology, including polarizing immune cells to a Th2 phenotype, attracting immune cells, stimulating proinflammatory cytokines, in...

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... Central Page 1 of 6 (page number not for citation purposes) Annals of General Psychiatry Open Access Primary research Risk factors associated with mental illness in Oyo State, Nigeria: A Community ... Health, Saki East Local Govt Area, Oyo State, Nigeria Email: OE Amoran* - drfamoran@yahoo.com; TO Lawoyin - tlawoyin@skannet.com; OO Oni - rindeoni@yahoo.com * Corresp...

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... study. As expected, the women in this study were significantly more depressed than the men. Depres- sion only reached significance in predicting PTSD severity in women but not in men. This finding ... affec- tive disorder significantly predicted PTSD in women, but not in men, whereas pre-existing anxiety disorder pre- dicted PTSD in men, but not in women [13] Negative...

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... mechanisms through the descending inhibitory pain pathways in the brain and spinal cord [8-10]. Dysfunction in serotonin and nor- epinephrine in these pain inhibitory pathways may contribute to the central ... treatments beginning once weekly, followed by twice weekly, and finally three times weekly. Clinically meaningful treatment response, defined by a 30% improvement in pain, occur...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... article Psychological pain treatment in fibromyalgia syndrome: efficacy of operant behavioural and cognitive behavioural treatments Kati Thieme 1 , Herta Flor 1 and Dennis C Turk 2 1 Department of ... The treatment also included time- contingent intake and reduction of medication, increase of bodily activity, reduction of interference of pain with ac...

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... volume on weight-bearing areas in knee osteoarthritis patients assessed by quantitative magnetic resonance imaging: a longitudinal study Jean-Pierre Pelletier 1 , Jean-Pierre Raynauld 1 , Marie-Josộe ... the WOMAC pain and function subscales. The loss in JSW (JSN) was significantly correlated with the loss of cartilage volume on the cent...

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... article Early atherosclerosis in systemic sclerosis and its relation to disease or traditional risk factors Martha E Hettema 1 , Dan Zhang 1 , Karina de Leeuw 1 , Ymkje Stienstra 2 , Andries J Smit 3 , ... dysfunction is strongly implicated in its patho- genesis [11], in part related to traditional risk factors like smok- ing and dyslipidemia. Because o...

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... [53,55] in myeloid cells suggests that BAFF may act as a kind of secondary cytokine translating mainly IFN and TNF effects. An important immunoregulatory cytokine produced by B cells is IL-10, ... number of recent findings. First, findings in both humans and mice have indicated an essential role for this cytokine in co-stimulating B cells to differentiate into plasma cells [29]....

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... majority of the mechanical strain in the asthmatic airway during a DI is taken up by increased extensibility of the extracellular matrix, by the intracellular series elastic component, or by the ... of narrowing that can be attained in the healthy airway during maximal bronchial provocation [5–8]. The static elastic load against which the muscle must shorten is appre...

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... of wound-healing responses to lung injury is IPF. Growth factors have predominantly been described in fibroblasts, which are recognised key players in wound healing. It is becoming increasingly apparent, ... TR: Keratinocyte growth factor decreases pulmonary edema, transforming growth factor-beta and platelet-derived growth factor-BB expression, and alveolar type II cell loss...

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... key regulators of alveolar formation, they have also been implicated in abnormal lung remodeling that results in fibrosis and changes in the Commentary Growth factors in lung development and disease: ... Williams ST, Lee H, Malicki DM, Chin EM, Yin S, Tapley J, Ulich TR: Keratinocyte growth factor ameliorates radiation- and bleomycin-induced lung injury and mortali...

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... limits acetylcholine production by the vagus nerve during sepsis. Since vagus nerve stimulation requires α 7 -nicotinic acetyl- choline receptors, direct activation of this receptor using nicotinic ... these studies, inhibition of NF-κB after partial hepatectomy results in massive hepatocyte apoptosis and impairs liver function. Conversely, NF-κB activation in the liver prevents hepatic i...

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... properly cited. Research Risk factors in critical illness myopathy during the early course of critical illness: a prospective observational study Steffen Weber-Carstens* †1,2 , Maria Deja †1,2 , ... 10.1186/cc9074 Cite this article as: Weber-Carstens et al., Risk factors in critical illness myo- pathy during the early course of critical illn...

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