Báo cáo y học: "Increased plasma levels of the soluble Mer tyrosine kinase receptor in systemic lupus erythematosus relate to disease activity and nephritis" pot

... Wu et al.: Increased plasma levels of the soluble Mer tyrosine kinase receptor in systemic lupus erythematosus relate to disease activity and nephritis. Arthritis Research & Therapy 2011 13:R62. Submit ... Open Access Increased plasma levels of the soluble Mer tyrosine kinase receptor in systemic lupus erythematosus relate t...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:23

... original work is properly cited. Abstract The objective of this study was to analyse levels of the proinflammatory cytokine macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in patients with primary ... is increasing evidence for a role of MIF as a proinflammatory cytokine in autoimmune diseases [6]. Serum levels of MIF have been shown to be correlated with the disease...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... experience of working in paediatrics (in excess of five years). Both raters participated in a training session on the FPI-6 and had equal exposure to the index prior to start of the study. The training ... study look- ing at the reliability of the FPI-6 in adolescents also deter- mined good level of inter-rater reliability (ICC = 0.69) [8]. This study looked...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... rise to the generation of viral monocyte inflammatory protein, viral interleukin 8 receptor and viral interleukin 6, pro- moting angiogenesis and replication of the spindle cells typical of KS ... seroprevalence in individuals engaging in high-risk sexual activity, including homosexual men, indi- cates the role of sexual behaviour in the transmission of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... predomi- nantly seen within the inflammatory cell mass in the airway lumen or in isolated cells either infiltrating the epi- thelium or within the sub epithelial layer. The lack of SPLUNC1 staining in sections ... Expression of SPLUNC1 is increased in cases of CF (D-H) where staining was predominantly found in the epithelial cells of the smaller airways and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... used in the estimations of costs and effects provided insights into how the study findings would change across other settings and contexts. This not only helped to show the robustness of the results ... management of the patient and the type of treatment administered was left to the health workers' decision. In other words, in the case of laborat...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... [29,30]. DAP-kinases are serine ⁄ threonine kinases involved in apoptosis that phosphorylate myo- sin light chains in a calmodulin-dependent way and are associated with the cytoskeleton [31]. The sequence ... discriminate between serine ⁄ threo- nine and tyrosine? Structural insights from insulin recep- tor protein -tyrosine kinase. FASEB J 9, 1255–1266. Supplementary material...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 23:20

... address these two issues jointly; that is, to investigate plasma homocysteine levels in patients with MS and depression. Accordingly, the present study was designed in order to assess Hcy plasma levels ... prior to their inclusion in the study. The mean duration of the disease was 9.8 ± 5.9 years and disability according to Extended Disability Status Scal...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... SS correlates with the degree of lymphocytic infiltration in sali- vary gland, a finding that indirectly suggests that the increase in lymphocytic infiltration is accompanied by the up-regulation of ... immunoregulatory and proinflammatory cytokine, has been shown to play an important pathogenic role in Th1-driven autoimmune disorders. In this study, we evaluated the c...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... GV: The type I interferon system in systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis Rheum 2006, 54:408-420. 53. Lipsky PE: Systemic lupus erythematosus: an autoimmune disease of B cell hyperactivity. ... production of inter- leukin-10 by non-T cells in rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syn- drome, and systemic lupus erythematosus. A potential mechanism of B lymphocyt...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23