Báo cáo y học: "Eotaxin-1 in exhaled breath condensate of stable and unstable asthma patients" pdf

... monitoring airway inflammation and disease severity. Introduction Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of t he air- ways. Eo sinophils play a cruci al role in the pathogenesis of asthma, and ... level of severity of the disease and mar- kers of airway inflammation in asthma. The aim of the study was to assess eotaxin-1 concen- trations in the EBC of asthmati...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... Ma - ysrs1981@yahoo.com.cn; Li Yu - yuli0219@sina.com; Yu Wang - wangyu198345@163.com; Xin Li - leexin25wing@yahoo.com.cn; Hanjing LÜ - lvhanjing@yahoo.com.cn; Zhongmin Qiu* - qiuzhongmin@yahoo.com.hk * ... the manuscript, YW, XL and HL took part in the collection of cases and review of the manuscript, ZQ was in charge of design and coordination of the program, review and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... recent find- ings suggest that down-regulation of the iron-binding pro- tein lactoferrin (LF) upon PP treatment may play a role in initiating the growth response [90]. Indeed, LF may puta- tively be ... modulated by cytokines, growth fac- tors and a variety of cellular stress signals [97]. Inhibition of either enzyme in hepatocytes using specific inhibitors prevented PP-induced in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... modifications of the initial strategy [8]. In the recently published Awakening and Breathing Con- ABC = Awakening and Breathing Controlled; ANOVA = analysis of variance; APACHE = Acute Physiology and Chronic ... were not involved in the DSMB's data analysis. The study was not terminated because of the finding of increased hospital mortality in patients treated by DIS....

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... respectively. Binding data was obtained by analytical ultracentrifugation using the direct binding assay as des- cribed in Experimental procedures. Inset: Linearized plot of the binding data for ... 5941 Differences in the binding capacity of human apolipoprotein E3 and E4 to size-fractionated lipid emulsions Matthew A. Perugini 1 , Peter Schuck 2 and Geoffrey J. Howlett 1 1 Depar...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... medications and access in the clinic to help identify and con- trol recurrent inflammatory disease. Further, in some instances, surgical cleaning of polyps and obstructing mucosal hypertrophy can result ... using infrared emit- ters and sensors. The impact of this new technology has been, theoretically, to increase the safety and com- pleteness of surgery in addition to...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... provided new insights into how OA may be successfully managed. The symptoms of osteoarthritis: pain and instability The pain of OA is activity-related, with pain coming on generally only when a person ... to avoid pain that injures a part of the body (for example, removing a finger from a burning stove). All pain in OA is probably not functional. Synovitis-induced inflammatory chang...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... of the underlying cellular and molecular inflammatory events leading to pain, swelling due to synovial thickening and effusion, and stiffness of the joints. While initially individual signs and ... populations and, ultimately, of the upregulation of proinflammatory cyto- kines [19,20]. By whichever means they themselves become activated, they induce a plethora of inflammato...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... vicinity of the injected cells was also observed 1 week following injection, and the intensity of the matrix staining increased with time in culture (Figures 4 and 5b). Weak staining for type ... within a small number of cells in monolayer culture. Following injection into NP tissue explants, MSCs stained strongly positive for type II collagen and matrix staining in the vici...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... of peptidyl arginine deiminase (PADI) activity appears also to be involved in the maintenance of immunological tolerance to antigens. Thus, citrullination of proteins in RA patients may unmask ... early indicators of a definite break in tolerance and may provide insight into the pathogenesis of RA. This raises the possibility to predict RA development in high-risk populati...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22