... disease duration, with a mean duration of 9.3 years. ATA-positive patients had a mean disease duration of 8.0 years, and ARA-positive patients and Ab-Neg patients had disease durations of 5.4 years ... determine whether circulating plasma cytokine profiles were associated with clinical involvement in SSc, plasma cytokines in patients with and without interstitial lung disease, p...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22
... competing interests. Authors' contributions KM and AAA-E participated in the clinical management of the case and in manuscript writing. HF participated in the clinical management of the case. Consent Written ... Metwalley - kotb72@hotmail.com; Hekma S Farghalley - hekma73@hotmail.com; Alaa A Abd- Elsayed* - alaaawny@hotmail.com * Corresponding author Abstract Introduction: P...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22
Báo cáo y học: " Facilitators and obstacles in pre-hospital medical response to earthquakes: a qualitative study"
... earthquake casualties managed in tertiary referral centers. Injury, Int J Care Injured 2005, 36:27-32. 12. Saghafinia M, Araghizade H, Nafissi N, Asadollahi R: Treatment management in disaster: A ... earthquake in Taiwan [16,39] and the Gujarat earthquake in India [44]. As demonstrated, the army plays an important part in the early response to earthquakes. The army can be used in...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56
Báo cáo Y học: Unique structural determinants in the signal peptides of ‘spontaneously’ inserting thylakoid membrane proteins pptx
... maturation and negative charges in particular appear to be favored. In the case of PsbY -A2 , the negative charge in the translocated loop plays a key role in defining the hydrophobicity of the A2 ... (C-domain) ending with an Ala-Xaa-Ala consensus region. Signal peptides usually specify translocation by Sec-type translocation systems in the endoplasmic reticulum, bacterial pl...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo y học: "Elevated autoantibody content in rheumatoid arthritis synovia with lymphoid aggregates and the effect of rituximab" ppt
... same synovia as in (a) and (b). Tissues were obtained by arthroplasty or arthroscopic shaver biopsy, and cDNA was analyzed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (a, b). Extracts ... rituximab in aggregate-containing synovia. Conclusions Combined with earlier observations that synovial lymphoid aggregates are unaltered by rituximab treatment, these data suggest that lymp...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:21
Báo cáo y học: " Coronary arterial calcification in rheumatoid arthritis: comparison with the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis" pps
... mean Agatston calcium scores for participants with any coronary artery calcification (Agatston score > 0)Adjusted mean Agatston calcium scores for participants with any coronary artery calcification ... participants with coronary artery calcification according to rheumatoid arthritis severity. Adjusted mean Agatston calcium scores for participants with any coronary artery calcific...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22
Báo cáo y học: "Editorial on participating in the Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injur" pptx
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22
Báo cáo y học: "Direct cord implantation in brachial plexus avulsions: revised technique using a single stage combined anterior (first) posterior (second) approach and end-to-side side-to-side grafting neurorrhaphy" pot
... Geraghty T: Autologous olfactory ensheathing cell transplantation in human paraplegia: a 3- year clinical trial. Brain 2008, 131:2376-2386. Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2009, ... glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and laminins were profoundly upregulated [53]. Both laminin-2 (alpha2beta1gamma1) and laminin-8 (alpha4beta1gamma1) were important for...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo y học: "Henoch-Schönlein purpura in an older man presenting as rectal bleeding and IgA mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis: a case report" ppt
... There was marked improvement of abdominal pain. Skin lesions gradually faded away and rectal bleeding resolved. After nephrology evaluation of acute kidney injury, along with proteinuria and hematuria, ... With these clinical and laboratory results he was diagnosed with a case of adult onset HSP and was initially treated with intravenous methylprednisolone 125 mg every 8 hours for...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22
Báo cáo y học: "Semi-invasive aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with Swyer-James-MacLeod Syndrome: a case report." ppsx
... final diagnosis was semi-invasive pulmonary asper- gillosis and we started him on itraconazole (400 mg orally per day) for one year. During follow-up examination he had remained asymptomatic and ... or part of a lobe due to decreased vascularity and air trapping. Case presentation: We report a case of semi-invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in a 38-year-old Portuguese, Caucasian ma...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20