Báo cáo y học: "Use of HLA-B27 tetramers to identify low-frequency antigen-specific T cells in Chlamydia-triggered reactive arthritis" docx

... clearly that HLA-B27 tetramers have the advantage of detecting antigen-specific T cells independently of their cytokine-secreting profile. Tetramers are also capable of detecting resting antigen- specific ... antigen-specific T cells independently of their cytokine secretion profile, the possibility of sorting unstimulated T cells and of having a tool for the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... these individuals, western medicine community pharmacists might be the only point of contact when they had minor aliments. Therefore, there is a need in promoting and extending the roles of the ... medication was obtained from western medicine community pharmacists, we contend that the role of community pharmacists in pri- mary care must not be underestimated. This is vividly illust...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... following chiropractic care on patients attending the RMIT University chiropractic teaching clinics. The second objective was to investigate the validity of the MyMOP2 instrument to detect a change in ... delivered by student chiropractors in a clinical teaching facility. The W-BQ12 was also used as a tool to assess the validity of the well being component of the MyMOP2 agains...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... lacking the drug. Further, the residual activity detectable in doxycyclin-treated TRE2/3R cells was only threefold to fivefold higher than that in parental TRE2/3 cells, indicating that the TRE-CMV ... transcriptional activity of the TRE-CMV promoter was enhanced several-fold by both types of inhibitors. Apparently an opening of the chromatin structure through hyperacetylation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... sensitive than classical limiting dilu- tion analyses or ELISPOT methods that identify cytokine- secreting cells after stimulation. From a sensitivity point of view, multimer staining can only outperform ... capable of detecting the great majority of the T cells that can respond to peptide in vitro. A final limitation of this technology is probably the techni- cal difficul...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... distribution. BMI, body mass index; CRP, C -reactive protein; DAS28, disease activity score using 28 joint counts; DMARD, disease- modifying antirheumatic drug; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ... HCQ, hydroxychloroquine; MTX, methotrexate; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; SSZ, sulfasalazine; TNF, tumour necrosis factor. Table 2 Variables associated with metabolic syndrome Univariate Multivari...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... the meta- bolic syndrome in rheumatoid arthritis patients over the age of 60: more than just an anti-inflammatory effect? A cross- sectional study. Arthritis Res Ther 2009, 11:R110. 2. Toms TE, ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No 5 Toms et al. Page 2 of 2 (page number not for citation purposes) Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Ack...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... purposes) medications tasted sweeter. Twenty-four of thirty (eighty percent) children said that they liked FLAVORx and wanted to continue using it. Fifteen children (fifty per- cent) chose to use the same ... the problem of bitter ARV. In other parts of the world, chil- dren may not be as willing to take bitter ARV. FLAVORx did not affect ARV trough levels in nine of ten chi...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... population level. How important is this distinction? It is likely that the representativeness of observational cohorts varies by the cohort and, to some extent, by coun- try. In the United States, ... caring for persons with HIV infection to the health department; this list of facilities included both inpatient and outpatient facilities, but excluded sites that only pro- vided HIV t...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... acoutinho@idi.co.ug * Corresponding author Abstract In a routine service delivery setting in Uganda, we assessed the ability of the WHO clinical stage to accurately identify HIV-infected patients ... stage. There is an urgent need for greater CD4 count testing and evaluation of the utility of plasma viral load prior to initiation of ART to accompany the roll-out of ART....

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21