Báo cáo y học: "Determining a low disease activity threshold for decision to maintain disease-modifying antirheumatic drug treatment unchanged in rheumatoid arthritis patients" docx

... 5 Research article Determining a low disease activity threshold for decision to maintain disease- modifying antirheumatic drug treatment unchanged in rheumatoid arthritis patients Michel de Bandt 1 , ... Working Group for Therapeutic Strategies for Rheumatoid Arthritis: Clinical practice format for choosing a second-line disease modifying anti-rhe...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug; NT-proBNP = N-terminal pro-brain natriu- retic peptide; RA = rheumatoid arthritis; RF = rheumatoid factor; SD = standard deviation; Sharp score = van der Heijde ... significantly associated with cardiovascular death or myocardial infarction in multivariate analyses. However, we did find disease duration to be significantly associated with NT-...

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... versa [57]. However, RA pain differs from fibromyalgia pain because RA pain frequently has an inflammatory component. Localized, inflammatory pain may cause sleep disturbance, which, in turn, may ... pain as a priority. The etiology of RA pain is likely multifactorial, including both inflammatory and non-inflammatory components. In this study, we examine the association between disease...

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... degradation III (arginine decarboxylase/agmatinase) pathwayFigure 1 Mouse arginine degradation III (arginine decarboxylase/agmatinase) pathway. The enzyme has been biochemically identified in rats [26], ... ortholog (Adc) of the human enzyme, how- ever, lacks amine decarboxylating activity and, instead, appears to function as an ornithine decarboxylase antizyme inhibitor (oazin) in th...

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... tissues for the homotypic hybridization: wild-type, apterous and Antennapedia), array -to- array hybridization variance (including sample preparation/labeling), replicate elements within the array and ... plastic slide was scanned to obtain corresponding fluorescent values. This secondary standard was used to calibrate other scanners on a daily basis. Data acquisition and analysis An...

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... Thwin MM, Satyanarayanajois SD, Nagarajarao LM, Sato K, Arju- nan P, Ramapatna SL, Kumar PV, Gopalakrishnakone P: Novel peptide inhibitors of human secretory phospholipase A2 with antiinflammatory ... RA treatment, and validate PIP-18 as a potential therapeutic in a clinically relevant animal model of human arthritis. AF-2: antiflammin-2; ANOVA: analysis of variance; AS: arthritis...

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... predictor of CVD in early CKD stages; b) hypoalbu- minaemia may be used to identify the population at higher risk for CVD. Key words: Hypoalbuminaemia, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease ... major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Serum albumin, a negative acute-phase reactant and marker for underlying infla...

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... Inoue E, Toyama Y, Hara M, Yamanaka H, Tomatsu T, Momohara S, Kamatani N: Failure to confirm associ- ation between PDCD1 polymorphisms and rheumatoid arthri- tis in a Japanese population. J Hum Genet ... S, Alibert O, Quillet P, et al.: Dense genome-wide linkage analysis of rheumatoid arthritis, including covariates. Arthritis Rheum 2004, 50:2757- 2765. 5. Iwamoto T, Ikari K, In...

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... UBASH 3A: ubiquitin asso- ciated and SH3 domain containing, A; UBASH3B: ubiquitin associated and SH3 domain containing, B. Available online http:/ /arthritis- research.com/content/11/3/R66 Page 7 ... disease is a chronic relapsing systemic inflammatory disease characterized by the presence of oro-genital ulcers, cutaneous manifestations, and uveitis. The disease can also lead to va...

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... pro- vides an antioxidant defense in humans against oxidant- and radical-caused aging and cancer: a hypothesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1981, 78:6858-6862. 51. Sanchez-Lozada LG, Tapia E, Bautista-Garcia ... macrovascular hard clinical endpoints associated with atherosclerosis have also been described. Eighty patients younger than 35 years of age clinically diagnosed with an acute myoc...

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