Báo cáo y học: "Ultrasound properties of articular cartilage in the tibio-femoral joint in knee osteoarthritis: relation to clinical assessment (International Cartilage Repair Society grade)" pptx

... allowing the glycosaminoglycans within the fibrillated tissue to swell to a greater degree of hydration [28]. Because the speed of sound is slightly lower in hydrated cartilage than in normal cartilage ... The authors wish to thank Toshiya Sato, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, for advising on the statistical ana...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... 3). Sixteen informants were involved in the inter views. All informants were in the age group of 35 to 65 years. All informants were male. 3 of them were practicing herbal- ists, and the rest 13 were indiv ... dia- lect of Malay language. Interviewing individual informant was of fundamental importance to assure the reliability of the gathered information. Individua...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... sensi- tively to the availability of photosynthate and the accumu- lation of sucrose (the major photosynthetic end product), and provide the basis for a model describing the regulation of sucrose synthesis ... discrepancy, the 6PF2K activity of the recombinant enzyme is inhibited by the s ame range of three-carbon phosphorylated intermedi- ates as that of the en...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... of the exposed hydrophobic groove in the top-top structures to becoming part of the hydrophobic core in the top-bottom structures and assuming the role of neighboring Leu12 in participating in ... dimerization of RIIa D/D is main- tained by strong hydrophobic interactions of side chains that form the core of the protein at the dimer interface. The forma...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... cathepsin D [47]. Particularly, the two disulfide bonds in the C-terminal subdomain, Cys233– Cys433 and Cys292–Cys457, fasten the C-terminal peptide to the main body of the catalytic unit (Fig. 6). ... site)attheC terminus, which may in uence the pH-dependent activity for this particular substrate. The pK of the e-amino group in the Lys side chain is close to th...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... was to bring together workers in the fields of MSC biology and AD in order to define areas of potential synergy and interdisciplinary collaboration. As pointed out by the director of the institute, ... Boyle DL, Kalled SL, Carson DA, Kipps TJ: Fibroblast-like synoviocytes of mesenchymal origin express functional B cell-activating factor of the TNF family in respons...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... the opinion of the treating rheumatolo- gist. The diagnosis was categorized into five groups according to the following codes: RA, polyarthritis or oligoarthritis, spondylarthropathy (including ... routinely performed at the certified clinical laboratory of the Jan van Breemen Institute. After the first sample, sequential samples were obtained as a part of routine or p...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21

... T-cells, which then leads to T-cell a ctivation. These key regulators of immunity display an extraordinary capacity to induce T cell responses and secrete a variety of cytokines; the differentiation ... are highly cytotoxic and secrete large amounts of proinflammatory cytokines such as TNF-a and IFN-g [116,117]. Part of the innate immune system, NKs 1. Proliferation p 2. Cyto...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... atrophy of the intrinsic foot muscles, including AbdH, secondary to peripheral motor neuropathy [9]. Atrophy of the intrinsic foot muscle, which is a close representative of the level of motor dysfunction, ... method to adopt in the clinical setting. In the current study, the ultrasonographer was not blinded to the identity of the subjects examined, but r...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... intravenously injected into nude mice and the distribution and mi- gration of MSCs were dynamically monitored to evaluate the feasibility and safety of intravenous im- plantation of allogeneic MSCs in ... of MSCs were distributed in the right hip joint. Subse- quently, MSCs migrated into almost all organs, and were uniformly distributed in the brain, lungs, heart,...

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