Báo cáo y học: " Diaphragm adaptations in patients with COPD" pps

... embry- onic/neonatal myosin heavy chains in the diaphragm from COPD patients compared to non-COPD patients, and similar findings were reported in a preliminary study from our lab [77]. Finally, in ... Z-line. Double-staining with antibodies ×156 and T12 revealed increased staining intensity of ×156 in diaphragm cryosections from patients with COPD (green, A-B), whereas...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... desensitized in asthma, in part owing to the inflammatory effect of cysteinyl leukotrienes. 21 In addition, there are over 100 different inflammatory mediators that modulate airway smooth muscle tone in humans. ... values. Results Forty patients with persistent allergic asthma were included in the study. In all patients, the skin-prick test was positive. Dermatophagoides pter...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... assess personality styles in 44 patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) by comparing them with 43 patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and 41 healthy controls (HC). Methods: Personality styles ... con- trolled for, by only including the patients without a life- time MDD in the statistical analyses, then it was clearly demonstrated that the patients with FMS have...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... face-to-face in a clinical setting or in a telephone interview format by trained outcome assessors. Eight functional categories are assessed specifically by the HAQ: dressing and grooming, arising, eating, ... previous week. Patients usually find items in the HAQ easy to understand and the questions are entirely self- explanatory. If a question within a domain does not apply (e.g. if...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... of patients in this preliminary study may be a limitation in that we may have coincidentally recorded 10 FM patients with a type-B response to occlusion of the blood flow. Further studies with ... the unblinded design was a weakness of this pre- liminary study, blinded studies with more patients are needed to confirm our findings. Competing interests The author(s) declare that...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... Nagata M, Henmi Y, Furumitsu Y, Ishimura E, Inui K, Yutani Y, Miki T, Shoji T, Nishizawa Y: Increased thickness of the arterial intimamedia detected by ultrasonog- raphy in patients with rheumatoid ... University Medicine Berlin, Berlin; Ireland: Barry Bresnihan, St. Vincent University Hospital, Dublin; Patricia Minnock, Our Lady's Hospice, Dublin; Eithne Murphy, Claire She...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... the skin having distinct boundaries with normal skin, and a regular oval outline (Figure 1). Whilst no measure of foot posture or type was used, anecdotally, subjects in Group 1 had a physi- cal ... pathological hyperkeratosis groups. Nevertheless, there was too much similarity between the kinematic data displayed in each group to classify them as distinct foot types as the current clin...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... RLAT initiation from 250 patients with schizophre- nia. The mean number of days spent in the hospital per patient increased from 31 in year -3 to 44 in year -2, to 90 in year -1, and to 141 in year ... observed before or during RLAT treatment. Convers ely, in a study in the United Kingdom, Young andTaylorfoundthatswitchingtoRLATwasasso- ciated with a continuing trend towar...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... one’sownnegativethinking;(Session7) Challenging and restructuring one’s own negative think- ing; (Session 8) Looking for new ideas and invoking positive thinking; (Session 9) Practicing the new ideas and positive thinking in daily life; ... Component Summary (MCS), each with 4 s ubscales: (1) physical functioning, (2) role-physical factor in function- ing, (3) bodily pain, (4) general h...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... differentiation into α-SMA expressing myofibroblasts in these patients. It should be noted that the patients included in this study is very homogenous since they did not show any distinct clinical patterns ... Although these findings sug- gest that fibrocytes are important key cells in airway remodeling in patients with allergen-induced asthma and in vivo models, fibrocytes h...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20