Báo cáo y học: "Serum glutamine, set-shifting ability and anorexia nervosa" pot

... of Psychological Medicine and Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK, 5 Department of Psychiatry, Chiba University Graduate ... 7.2 years (SD 6.4; range 1 to 24). As expected, the AN group had a signifi- cantly lower BMI and a significantly higher level of psy- chopathology (as determined by the EDEQ and HADS anxie...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... and cathepsin L cleave collagen type II, type IX and type XI, and destroy the crosslinked collagen matrix at low pH [7]. Cathepsin K is also produced by osteoclasts and plays a key role in the degradation ... tissues by binding to hydroxapatite but that orally administered pyrophosphates are hydrolysed in the gut. Bisphospho- nates are resistant to hydrolysis and so could be adminis...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... gets to the systemic circulation where two distinct aspirin hydrolysis pathways act: a spontaneous pH-dependent hydrolysis and an en- zymatic hydrolysis by plasma/serum and erythrocyte esterases ... Toshiyuki Yamada 1 , Nobuyuki Taniguchi 1 and Alejandro Gugliucci 2 1. Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan 2. Glycation, Oxidatio...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39

... Introduction Cystatin C (Cys-C) is a non-glycosylated cationic protein of 13.3 kDa, belonging to the cystatin superfamily of cysteine protease inhibitors [1, 2]. Cys-C is produced by all nucleated ... Relationships between serum levels of Cys-C and Cr in 56 healthy elderly subjects (a) and 40 patients (b). The open circles represent the healthy elderly subjects. The closed and op...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:08

... which leads to varying degrees of functional impairment and disability. In early stages, symptoms reflecting the inflammatory process often predominate, whereas later the symptoms and conse- quences ... and the intra-assay and inter-assay coefficient of variation is <5%. The assay is not influenced by rheuma- toid factors. The serum concentrations of COMP obtained by this assay are...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... Germany) and an ‘in-house’ ELISA based on plasmid DNA [28]. CRP was measured by tur- bidimetry, and C1q, C3 and C4 were determined by elec- troimmunoassay. Anti-nucleosome and anti-CRP assays IgG-class ... 0.001 4/7 Correlation in at least 1 variable Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 7/7 Results (P values) are presented at the individual level and for the whole patient material...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... & Therapy Vol 7 No 1 Skoumal et al. R66 (DMARD) therapy, radiological progression and disease activity, to verify cathepsin K as an age-independent and laboratory inflammatory parameter-independent ... activity of RA was measured by the disease activity score (≤ 2.4, low activity; > 2.5 and ≤ 3.7, mean activity; > 3.7, high activity). The radiological progression in RA was cal...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... biochemical/mass spectrometry analysis to identify differentially-expressed proteins. A recent study using two-dimensional gels and MALDI-TOF MS analy- sis of plasma and synovial fluids from patients ... this study was granted by Yokohama University. The study was approved by both Chugai Pharmaceuticals and Roche Pharmaceuticals. SELDI-TOF MS Serum samples were thawed on ice, denatured,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... contributions JBW, WEW, DSP, and EWS planned the overall study. JBW supervised the study and laboratory analyses. TL and EWS recruited and examined patients and controls, and collected clinical information. ... con- firmed by careful history and inspection of food trays that they had consumed only the minimal amounts of NOx allowed by the diet. Although control subjects on days...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... the chest, by 12-lead electrocardiography and by Dop- pler cardiography, and was defined as pericarditis, an abnormal electrocardiography or cardiomegaly. Systolic pul- monary artery pressures ... increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate (≥15 and ≥22 mm/hour for men below and above age 50 years, respectively; ≥24 and ≥32 mm/hour for women below and above age 50 years, respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20