Báo cáo y học: "Open Access Changes in elastin, elastin binding protein and versican in alveoli in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" ppt

... stained for elastin, versican and elastin binding protein. Control (upper panels) and COPD (lower pan- els) lung sections stained for elastin (a,b)(x250), versican (c,d) (x100) and elastin binding ... included clumping of fibers in the free edges or rims of alveolar walls. Relationship between elastin binding protein and elastinFigure 7 Relationship between...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... represented as dummy vari- ables: psychosis, neurosis and personality disorder. The neurosis category included depression (minor and major without psychotic symptoms), and anxiety disorders and a few ... interviews and validated by mandatory urine samples. Demographic data, types of substances used and psychiatric diagnoses were collected in a stan- dardized manner. Standardized...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... rela- tionship whereby an increase in the intensity (either fre- quency or severity) of bullying would lead to greater reporting of suicidal ideation. One study that examined this issue failed to find c onsistently ... of Psychiatric Morbidity Psychiatric symptoms were assessed with the revised clinical interview schedule (CIS-R), a fully structured psychiatric interview designed to be used...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... Pregnancy continued until 39 weeks and the patient vaginally delivered a healthy baby weighing 3200 g. Discussion Adnexal torsion is rare in the second trimester of preg- nancy and exceptional in ... report and accompanying images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor -in- Chief of this journal. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... TLR2 down-regulation was mainly seen in patients with Löfg- ren’s syndrome, possibly indicating that these patients respond to a particular ligand that specifically binds to TLR2. The finding of a tendency to a ... study employs multiple hypotheses testing, where each hypothesis was analyzed separately and the existence of pattern s in and the consistency of the results were con- side...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... manifested by chronic respiratory tract infections beginning in early childhood, leading to chronic bronchitis, chronic rhinos- inuitis and otitis media as well as by situs inversus in 50 % of ... of primary ciliary dyskinesia. Eur Respir J 1997, 10(10):2376-2379. 32. Bush A, Payne D, Pike S, Jenkins G, Henke MO, Rubin BK: Mucus properties in children with primary ciliary dyskin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... differences in the ability to activate SOC and ROC in airway myocytes: the ability of siRNA targeted against STIM1 to inhibit bradykinin induced Ca 2+ influx was limited (figure 4a and 4c) and markedly ... different types of smooth muscle, with SOC being particularly prominent in airway myocytes. The contractile/relaxant state of the airway myocyte is a key determinant of airway...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... structural and accessory proteins but devoid of viral genome are simply used as carriers of those viral proteins that are normally delivered in target cells upon viral infection. By analyzing VLPs ... nonnucleoside inhibitor Nevirapine and compared to untreated samples 5 days post-infection by flow cytometry (Fig. 4B). Nevirapine is a potent RT inhib- itor and blocks efficiently viral...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:20

... 3 Department of Immunology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0215, Japan and 4 Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Communicable Diseases, ... immune surveillance, proviral load, inflammatory disease and viral protein expression and indicate that increased protein expression may play an important role in HAM/TSP pathogenesi...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21

... Thrombospondin-1 and β6 integrin play key roles in assembly and activation of the proteolytic com- plex. Free TGF β ligand is bound extracellularly and may be sequestered by Decorin. Noggin and Gremlin ... signaling within these centers is finely regulated at multiple levels. These may include ligand expression, proteolytic activation of latent ligand, ligand bioavailability, ligand...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20