Báo cáo y học: "Cartilage-specific autoimmunity in animal models and clinical aspects in patients – focus on relapsing polychondritis" ppsx
Báo cáo y học: "Cartilage-specific autoimmunity in animal models and clinical aspects in patients – focus on relapsing polychondritis" ppsx
... significant in the devel- opment of cartilage autoimmunity. Variations in epitope selection might explain the diversity in clinical outcome observed not only in patients with RP and RA but also in patients ... Adjuvants and oils can induce arthritis in many rat strains [3 3–3 6] and auricular chondritis in Wistar rats [21]. Finally, in FH and Wistar rats, cho...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22
Báo cáo y học: "The value of animal models in predicting genetic susceptibility to complex diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis" ppsx
... candidates identified by positional cloning in animal models combines the high power of candidate studies with the benefits of hypothesis-free mapping. The traditional strategy to map genes in animals is to intercross ... confirm the position of the locus by backcrossing to one of the parental strains for several generations to create a congenic strain (an inbred strain with only a de...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22
Báo cáo y học: " High blood pressure, antihypertensive medication and lung function in a general adult population"
... effects on lung function or respiratory symptoms [13,14]. However, these studies investigated the potential effect of BBL intake on lung function mainly in patients with already existing pulmonary ... medication § No HBP, no medication § HBP and medication -0.16 0.06 0.02 HBP and medication -0.17 0.07 0.02 Only HBP -0.08 0.04 0.09 Only HBP -0.10 0.05 0.04 Only medication -0.06 0.0...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45
Báo cáo y học: "A Comparison of Immuncapture Agglutination and ELISA Methods in Serological Diagnosis of Brucellosis"
... possible to determine the type of antibody (3). Obtaining negative results in agglutination tests is a common phenomenon. One of the reasons for this is blocking antibodies. One of the methods ... re- spectively. Evaluation of two Ig’s together rather than one by one increases their sensitivity and specificity values. The Ig G and Ig M sensitivities found in our study were hig...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56
Báo cáo y học: "Strength training improves muscle quality and insulin sensitivity in Hispanic older
... trained showed increased levels of adiponectin. Interestingly, other studies investigating adiponectin levels have shown varying results. High intensity endurance training in nondiabetic individuals ... Circulating adiponectin and expression of adiponectin receptors in human skeletal muscle: associations with metabolic parameters and insulin resistance and regulation by physic...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 15:28
Báo cáo y học: "Comparative study of serum Na+ and K+ levels in senile cataract patients and normal individuals"
... Biochemistry and Nutrition in Iran University of Medical Sciences. He is interested in study of nutrition and trace elements in human blood. Manuchehr Imamian obtained BSc in Chemistry from Payam-Nour ... changes in aqueous electrolytes levels and effect on lens metabolism and probably cataract formation. In this paper, we study serum level of Na + and K + in sen...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49
Báo cáo Y học: Fluorescent analogs of UDP-glucose and their use in characterizing substrate binding by toxin A from Clostridium difficile pdf
... of UDP-Glc in the absence of toxin. Inhibition studies were performed by varying the MUG and UDP-Glc concentra- tions and following the kinetics of the hydrolysis reaction. Synthesis of MUG, a triethylammonium ... use in characterizing substrate binding by toxin A from Clostridium difficile Sudeep Bhattacharyya, Amy Kerzmann and Andrew L. Feig Department of Chemistry, Indiana Univers...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo y học: "α α Upregulated hypoxia inducible factor-1α and -2α pathway in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis" pps
... K: Interleukin-18 and interleukin-12 synergize to stimulate the production of vascular permeability factor by T lymphocytes in normal subjects and in patients with minimal-change nephrotic syndrome. ... was performed on haematoxylin and eosin stained sections. Immunohistochemistry for HIF-1 αα and HIF-2 αα expression The HIF-1α and HIF-2α proteins were detected using ESEE 12...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21
Báo cáo y học: "Synergistic role of c-Myc and ERK1/2 in the mitogenic response to TGF-1 in cultured rat nucleus pulposus cells" ppsx
... then used flow cytometry to determine cell cycle progres- sion by quantifying DNA. Effects of inhibition of c-Myc tran- scriptional activity and inhibition of ERK1/2 activity in the presence ... pulposus cells and articular chondrocytes showed a constant level of c- Myc mRNA. In keratinocytes, we confirmed earlier findings [14,15]. In contrast, nucleus pulposus cells and articular...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22
Báo cáo y học: "Nifedipine decreases sVCAM-1 concentrations and oxidative stress in systemic sclerosis but does not affect the concentrations of vascular endothelial growth factor or its soluble receptor" potx
... diffusion capacity to hemoglobin. Systolic pulmonary artery pressure was deter- mined by Doppler echocardiography, and left ventricular ejection fraction, by radionuclide ventriculography. The control ... mg/day ± SD) 14 (7.4 ± 2) Ongoing angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (no. patients) 7 Ongoing low-dose aspirin therapy (no. patients) 25 Values are number (%) of patients unless...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23