Báo cáo y học: " Maximal respiratory static pressures in patients with different stages of COPD severity" potx

... CentralPage 1 of 7(page number not for citation purposes) Respiratory ResearchOpen AccessResearch Maximal respiratory static pressures in patients with different stages of COPD severityClaudio ... severity.Our study is only a "snapshot" of the maximal respiratory pressures and their correlation with functional parametersat different stages of COPD severity in a hundred patients living ... inter-vention in patients with lean body mass [31].Corticosteroids, routinely used to manage chronic inflam-mation, have negative consequences, including steroidmyopathy of respiratory and skeletal...

Báo cáo y học: "Increased plasma homocysteine levels in patients with multiple sclerosis and depression" ppsx

... Ramsaransing et al. [9], indicate thatHcy increases may occur in MS in the absence of vitaminB12 and folate deficiency. Of particular interest is the fact that MS patients with increased Hcy had ... issuesjointly; that is, to investigate plasma homocysteine levels in patients with MS and depression.Accordingly, the present study was designed in order toassess Hcy plasma levels in MS patients ... homocysteine (Hcy)levels in MS patients with [6,7] or without B12 deficiency[8,9]. By contrast, a single report found no difference in Hcy levels between MS patients and controls [10].With...

Báo cáo y học: "Elevated matrix metalloproteinase-9 in patients with systemic sclerosi" doc

... YG, Christen WG, Foster SC: Correlation of metal-loproteinase-2 and -9 with proinflammatory cytokines inter-leukin-1β, interleukin-12 and the interleukin-1 receptorantagonist in patients with ... inflammation,resulting in fibrosis. MMP-9 can trigger inflammationdirectly, by tissue destruction, or indirectly, by generation of an inflammatory signal or recruitment of inflammatory cells[32]. Infiltration ... metalloproteinase-9 in patients with systemic sclerosisWan-Uk Kim, So-Youn Min, Mi-La Cho, Kyung-Hee Hong, Yong-Joo Shin, Sung-Hwan Park and Chul-Soo ChoDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Internal...

Báo cáo y học: "Altered dendritic cell distribution in patients with common variable immunodeficiency" pot

... lymphocytes of patients with com-mon variable immunodeficiency (CVI) produce reduced levels of interleukin-4, interleukin-2 and interferon-gamma, but pro-liferate normally upon activation by ... laboratory examina-tions, contributed to the editing of the article, and supervisedthe research group. JLP was, along with JFV, in charge of most of the CVID patients gathered in this study and ... role of IL-12 in dendritic cell-induced differentiation of naive B lymphocytes. J Immunol1998, 161:2223-2231.12. MacLennan I, Vinuesa C: Dendritic cells, BAFF, and APRIL:innate players in adaptive...

Báo cáo y học: "Enhanced reactivity to pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis" ppsx

... purposes)Interestingly, relatively little of this research has involved thestudy of pain, the most commonly reported and most impairingstressor in RA [10]. The experience of pain is generally asso-ciated ... study or its findings.Inclusion criteria for the study (for RA patients) included RA asthe primary source of persistent pain; no current mood or anx-iety disorder; no history of myocardial infarction ... Proinflammatory cytokines mediating burn-injury pain. Pain 2008, 135:98-107.54. Geiss A, Varadi E, Steinbach K, Bauer HW, Anton F: Psychoneu-roimmunological correlates of persisting sciatic pain in patients...

Báo cáo y học: "Neutrophils exhibit distinct phenotypes toward chitosans with different degrees of deacetylation: implications for cartilage repair" pdf

... with leukocytes with the same differential ratio in which these cells normally co-exist, this analysis was performed in whole blood devoid of erythrocytes. Flow cytometry analysis of leukocytes ... of myeloperoxidase and lactoferrin by PMNs in response of chitosanRelease of myeloperoxidase and lactoferrin by PMNs in response of chitosan. Degranulation was determined using the (a, b) myeloperoxidase ... results of three independent experiments.Figure 6The interaction of chitosan with monocytes, granulocytes, and lym-phocytes in whole bloodThe interaction of chitosan with monocytes, granulocytes,...

Báo cáo y học: " Adjunctive long-acting risperidone in patients with bipolar disorder who relapse frequently and have active mood symptoms" doc

... in the overall study population [15]. This suggested t hatthetolerabilityprofilemaybeindependentofmoodstate or severity of symptoms. The mean weight of sub-jects increased by approximately ... antipsychotics may allowclinicians to identify and respond more easily to pooradherence [13]. One long-te rm, prospective study of acutelymanic inpatients with bipolar disorder and a history of poor ... eachtime point, again starting at Week 4, including LOCFend point (Figure 1). Remission was attained by 58.2% of subjects at LOCF end point and by 64.0% of comple-ters (Figure 2). Mean YMRS scores...

Báo cáo y học: " Hemodynamic and clinical onset in patients with hereditary pulmonary arterial hypertension and BMPR2 mutations" pot

... variants.The study obtained BMPR2 mutations in 86.4% of HPAH patients with a positive family history and in 14.4% of patients with apparently sporadic disease. Only in 3 out of 22 famili es with confir ... French PAH registry [15].Since occurrence of BMPR2 mutations obviously influ-ences the clinical phenotype genetic testing may become of increasing clinical relevance. Patients with BMPR2mutation ... study group for a completegenetic work-up consisted of 231 patients. All investi-gated patients were of Caucasian origin. About 91% of the analysed patients included in this study were of Ger-man...

Báo cáo y học: " Exhaled volatile organic compounds in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: cross sectional and nested short-term follow-up study" pptx

... Price H,Reding D, Riley T, Schwartz M, Spizarny D, Yoffie R, Zylak C: THELUNG SCREENING STUDY RESEARCH GROUP. Finalresults of the Lung Screening Study, a randomized feasibilitystudy of spiral ... 5).DiscussionNon-invasive diagnostic strategies aimed at identifyingbiomarkers of early lung cancer probably require the use of a panel rather than single substances [17]. The mainfinding of our study was ... proved to be highly discriminating in distinguishinglung cancer patients from healthy controls, but breathanalyses can be affected by both clinical and analyticalconfounding variables [9]....

Báo cáo y học: "Correction: Protein-losing enteropathy in patients with Fontan circulation: is it triggered by infection" pptx

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