Báo cáo y học: "Serum IL-15 in patients with early systemic sclerosis: a potential novel marker of lung disease" potx

... electrocardiography and by Dop- pler cardiography, and was defined as pericarditis, an abnormal electrocardiography or cardiomegaly. Systolic pul- monary artery pressures of 40 mmHg and above determined by ... inflammatory infiltrates by activation of endothelial cells to promote CD44-mediated extravasation of inflammatory cells [11]. Perivascular infiltrates are commonly seen early...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... bronch- oconstriction in this study has failed given the complexity of chronic airway inflammation and remodelling in asthma, even if the activity of allergy-related airway inflammation is known. In this study, ... in airway hyperresponsivenes, a hallmark of asthma. 7 Cholinergic nerves play an important role in the regulation of airway calibre in many species, including...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... Psychiatry 1988, 145:950-954. 15. Aaron LA, Bradley LA, Alarcon GS, Alexander RW, Triana Alexander M, Martin MY: Psychiatric diagnoses in patients with fibromy- algia are related to health care-seeking ... Clin North Am 1993, 19:45-59. 12. Ahles TA, Khan SA, Yunus MB, Spiegel DA, Masi AT: Psychiatric status of patients with primary fibromyalgia, patients with rheumatoid arthr...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... helpful in assessing the quality of medical care, using data that can be easily obtained in day-to-day practice of medicine. Func- tional disability is an outcome in rheumatoid arthritis that is modifiable ... of HAQ disability measure- ments and involving all stages of disease and a demographically broad sample. Prospective rather than cross-sectional measurements have import...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... arteries with a concomitant increase of the vessel tonus. Both types A and B are biphasic and are classified as 'normal', because so far they have been predominantly found in healthy subjects [13]. ... smaller, wave. In type B, the amplitude of the second wave is greater than that of the first; the first peak is characterised by a fast dilatation of the myogen-ac...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... evaluate each in isolation, in this study we chose the take a pragmatic approach to evaluating the foot type concepts within the paradigm. According to the paradigm, patterns of foot pressure and ... relatively plantarflexed position of the first metatarsal is believed to result in relative unload- ing of the second and third metatarsals and leave the first metatarsal bearing su...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... of data, analysis and interpretati on of data, and drafting of the manuscript and its critical revision for important intellectual content. WM was involved in the interpretation of data, and ... and Strengthening Solutions, Inc), Narendra K.R. Nagareddy (Psychiatry Associates of Atlanta), Alejandro Natividad (Texas Panhandle MHMR), Donna L. Poole (Kitsap Mental Health Services), M...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... Development and Validation of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale: A Preliminary Investigation. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association Toronto 1978. 24. Sakamoto ... American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV-Text Revision. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association 2000. 14. Takahashi S...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... endoprotease caspase-3 is an initial step in myofilament proteolysis by cleavage of myosin and actin [55]. In this way, activated caspase-3 yields fragments that are degradable by the ubiquitin-pro- teasome ... available ATP in a few seconds if it was not rapidly regenerated. ATP generation in striated muscle occurs via aerobic and anaerobic enzymatic pathways. In vitro determin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... be important in mediating the airway inflammation in patients with asthma and in vivo models [1,20]. Increased levels of BALF eosinophils have been reported in patients with BALF fibroblasts, which ... the abstract. AHN: Participated and was involved the histology part of the study. AM: Participated in the planning of the work. LB: Clinician who participated in the p...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20