Báo cáo y học: "Tissue fibrocytes in patients with mild asthma: A possible link to thickness of reticular basement membrane" pptx

... epithelium and surrounding inflammatory cells may explain the observed difference in numbers of fibrocytes in area A compared to area B and C. Factors that have previously been shown to be involved in the ... suggested to be important in mediating the airway inflammation in patients with asthma and in vivo models [1,20]. Increased levels of BALF eosinophils have...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... bronch- oconstriction in this study has failed given the complexity of chronic airway inflammation and remodelling in asthma, even if the activity of allergy-related airway inflammation is known. In this study, ... hyperresponsiveness in asthma is characterized by an increased sensitivity and an increased maximal response to a variety of bronchoconstrictor agents. 1–4 It is...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... Psychiatry 1988, 145:950-954. 15. Aaron LA, Bradley LA, Alarcon GS, Alexander RW, Triana Alexander M, Martin MY: Psychiatric diagnoses in patients with fibromy- algia are related to health care-seeking ... Clin North Am 1993, 19:45-59. 12. Ahles TA, Khan SA, Yunus MB, Spiegel DA, Masi AT: Psychiatric status of patients with primary fibromyalgia, patients with rheumatoid art...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... helpful in assessing the quality of medical care, using data that can be easily obtained in day -to- day practice of medicine. Func- tional disability is an outcome in rheumatoid arthritis that is modifiable ... of HAQ disability measure- ments and involving all stages of disease and a demographically broad sample. Prospective rather than cross-sectional measurements have impo...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... microcirculation Introduction Vasospastic symptoms occur in about 30% of patients with primary fibromyalgia (FM) [1]. These patients present with Raynaud's phenomenon and intolerance to cold [2]. Frodin and colleagues, using ... arterioles and small arteries with a concomitant increase of the vessel tonus. Both types A and B are biphasic and are classified as '...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... Martin Bergman, Taylor Hospital, Ridley Park, PA; Argentina: Sergio Toloza, Santiago Aguero, Sergio Orellana Bar- rera, and Soledad Retamozo, Hospital San Juan Bautista, Catamarca, and Paula ... collect data on family history of CV disease, which appears a significant risk factor for CV morbidity also in patients with RA [23]. Table 3 Univariate analyses for cardiovascular morbidi...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... evaluate each in isolation, in this study we chose the take a pragmatic approach to evaluating the foot type concepts within the paradigm. According to the paradigm, patterns of foot pressure and ... (MAD), M axi- mum Toe Dorsiflexion (MTD), and Toe Off (TO) . In addition, the range of motion (ROM)ateachjointand in each plane of motion was derived durin g HC to FF, FFtoA...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... after 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 ... of data, analysis and interpretati on of data, and drafting of the manuscript and its critical revision for important intellectual content. WM was involved in the interpre...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... Development and Validation of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale: A Preliminary Investigation. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association Toronto 1978. 24. Sakamoto ... American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV-Text Revision. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association 2000. 14. Takahashi S...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... endoprotease caspase-3 is an initial step in myofilament proteolysis by cleavage of myosin and actin [55]. In this way, activated caspase-3 yields fragments that are degradable by the ubiquitin-pro- teasome ... remodelling and gene expression, through a signaling pathway linking activity of titin's kinase domain to nuclear transcriptional activity [100]. Reduced mechanical st...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21