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... constrained by the number of joints with damage, and probably also by the level of damage in those joints. In fact, data from animal studies clearly indicate that once the matrix is resorbed the rate and extent ... arthritis appeared more than 30 years ago after the development of a method for scor- ing these abnormalities [1]. A decade and a half ago additional data bec...

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... hospital stay by four days. On the other hand, Roberts et al. [15] found that whereas hospital stay increased, the quality of care was improved. ICPs, which are designed to streamline and standardise various ... 1998, 1(10):1-11. 12. Cheah J: Development and implementation of a clinical path- way programme in an acute care general hospital In Singa- pore. International Journal...

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... community and back again - a trend towards re-institutionalisation in mental health care? Int Rev Psychiatry 2008, 20:527-534. 2. Nakatani Y: Psychiatry and the Law in Japan History and Current ... physical and mental examinations, and also brain imaging tests should be performed. Medications and non-invasive psy- chotherapy are recommended just as they are for patie...

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... Furukawa H, Yoshino S, Yukioka M, Tohma S, Matsubara T, Wakitani S, Teshima R, Nishioka Y, Sekine A, Iida A, Takahashi A, Tsunoda T, Nakamura Y, Yamamoto K: Functional haplotypes of PADI4, encoding ... are deiminated forms of the alpha- and beta-chains of fibrin. J Immunol 2001, 166:4177-4184. 27. Suzuki A, Yamada R, Chang X, Tokuhiro S, Sawada T, Suzuki M, Nagasaki M, Nakayama-Ham...

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... they may be involved in the pathogenesis of pain. In accordance with the findings of Barthel and collaborators [1], immunoreactions for NGF and BDNF have been found in the inflammatory infiltrates ... upregulation of NGF/TrkA in cytokine-activated fibroblast-like synoviocytes, suggesting that there is a cross-talk between NGF and its receptors in inflammatory arthritis...

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... two species are social amoebae, single-celled creatures that live in the soil and eat bacteria until they run out of food. en they do an extraordinary thing - the amoebae aggregate in groups ... of microarray analysis in favor of RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) [6]. e latter method has a greater dynamic range and cross hybrididization is not the problem in Abstract Despite...

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... ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia varies according to patient characteris- tics. • ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia are associated with increased risk of hospital mortality ... hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia are common in critically ill patients and are associated with increased risk of hospital mortality. Introduction Sodium disturbances, le...

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... monoclonal antibody. Statistical analysis All data were analyzed by Systat software (Sys- tat Inc) and KaleidaGraph software. Variables were presented as mean values ±SD. Statistical analysis was ... with fat mass and fat free mass changes during dieting. Intracellular water levels showed linear relation with fat free mass (r=0.9) and an inverse relation with fat mass (r=...

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... proinflammatory and antiinflammatory proteins. Proinflammatory cy- tokines induce not only a local inflammation at the site of injury, but also systemic responses such as tachycardia, tachypnea, ... VAS scoring is a simple and often used method for evaluating variations in pain intensity. Subjects are instructed to indicate the intensity of the pain by marking a 100-mm li...

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... plaques, mainly by macrophages and foam cells [3]. The MMP family is catalytically active, both in vitro and in vivo. The activity of MMPs is increased by gene transcription, extracellular activation ... MMP-9 and oxLDL were determined in venous blood samples before, during and after clamping of the carotid artery. Principal component analysis (PCA) as well as partial least...

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