Báo cáo y học: " Smoking status and anti-inflammatory macrophages in bronchoalveolar lavage and induced sputum in COPD" doc

... chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Long-term smoking causes airway inflammation characterized by neutrophil, macrophage, and activated T lymphocyte infiltration and by increased cytokine concentrations such ... [23]. We analyzed the association of smoking status (current smoking or no -smoking) and presence of disease (COPD) with systemic inflammation (TNF-α, IL-6, IL...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:20

... chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Long-term smoking causes airway inflammation characterized by neutrophil, macrophage, and activated T lymphocyte infiltration and by increased cytokine concentrations such ... and TNF-α) [7-12]. TNF-α, a powerful pro-inflammatory cytokine primarily produced by activated macrophages, is thought to play a critical role in the pathogenesis...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:22

... recovery in smokers was higher compared to ex-smokers (45 (16)% and 35 (19)%, p = 0.039 respectively). Smoking status and CD163 + macrophages in BAL and induced sputum DTT used to liquefy the induced ... between smokers and ex- smokers in the levels of pro-inflammatory (IL-6 and IL-8), and anti-inflammatory (elafin, and Secretory Leukocyte Protease Inhibitor...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... Labo- ratories, Inc.'s grading system of mild: head and tail slightly extended and little jerking; moderate: head and tail fully extended and some jerking; or severe: head and tail fully extended and ... mg/kg by bolus injection induced convulsions in 60% of mice and increasing the IP infusion time of this fixed dose was initially associated with an increase in the pe...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... visual acuity as- sessment, stereopsis, anterior segment and eye movement examinations, eye drop instillation, cyc- loplegic retinoscopy, and fundus examination. The quality of examination for ... aged 6-15 years in Yongchuan, a socio-economically repre- sentative area in Western China. We carried out a door-to-door survey and actual eye examinations, including visual acuity meas...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... Malaysia 2. Faculty of Biotechnology, Malaysia University of Science and Technology, Petaling Jaya 47301, Malaysia 3. Discipline of Medicine, Blackburn Building D06, University of Sydney, NSW ... found to be geographically distributed. Genotype A is predominant in Northern Europe and North America. Genotypes B and C are observed mainly in Asia including China, Japan and Sout...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 10:14

... Scale (GDS), and information was obtained on age, ethnicity, level of education, living arrangement, and psychiatric history. Two days post-admission, a clinical staff member caring for each ... hospitalized elderly adults will continue to in- crease in the coming decades. The National Health Inter- view Survey reports that in the United States in 1994, 8.3 million individuals ove...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... triggered by smoking and leading to RF produc- tion and subsequently to clinical RA is modulated differ- ently in men and in women. The most obvious biologic difference between men and women is ... size of smoking was relatively modest (relative risk 1.39 and 1.49 for all RA and RF-positive RA, respectively) as compared with that in the Iowa study. Interpreting our findi...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... oppos- ing time-dependent immune-modulating effect of the sympa- thetic nervous system conferred by altering the cytokine profile in the local lymph nodes and spleen of mice with type II collagen -induced ... (focus score) in smoking patients. Can tobacco diminish the salivary gland involvement as judged by histological examination and anti-SSA/Ro and anti-SSB/La antibodies in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21

... conducted 7 years later. We excluded those who complained of depr essive symptoms in the baseline survey and analyzed data for the remaining 9,201 individuals. In the second-wave survey, the DSM-1 ... acceptance of smoking, as well as in nicotine metabolism, might influence the risk of depression and suggested that smoking is less socially acceptable for women than for men in M...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23