Báo cáo y học: " Pharmacology of airway afferent nerve activity" potx

... airway patholo- gies, and undeniably to the symptoms of virtually all airway diseases. It may seem surprising, therefore, that our under- standing of the pharmacology of airway afferent nerves ... C-fibers in the airways [1]; the pharmacology of the synapse between the central terminals of airway afferent nerve endings and secondary neurons in the CNS; and the pha...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... structural i ntegrity of the airway wall so that the physiological behavior of the entire airway wall could be determined. Secondly, a semi-quantitative analysis of airways used in the present Noble ... whether airway narrowing differs compared to the main body of an airway. This study determined the distribution of airway nar- rowing along a part of the bronchial tree c...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... inflammatory response in COPD is characterized by an increase of total inflammatory cells, especially neutrophils, macrophages and lymphocytes in small and large airways [2,3]. Thus, our results may indi- cate ... 1 Laboratory of Pulmonology, Institute for Biomedical Research, Kaunas University of Medicine, Eiveniu 4, LT-50009, Kaunas, Lithuania, 2 Department of Pulmonology and Immu...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... the airway and the pulmonary artery contracted. Under these conditions, the subsequent addi- tion of acetylcholine produced significant dilator responses in the artery, but not in the airway of ... Abstract Small airway and vessels play a critical role in chronic airway and pulmonary vascular diseases, but their pharmacology has not been well characterised. We have studied air...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... interpretation of plethysmograph waveform data may estimate the severity of airway obstruction and be of clinical utility in objective assessment of patients with obstructive airway diseases. Published: ... non-invasive, clinically relevant estimate of the severity of airway obstruction. A possible limitation to our study was the method of arti- ficially inducing airway...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... of these compounds may confirm the folk knowledge that * Correspondence: kwl_melody@yahoo.co.uk 1 Department of Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and T echnology, Clear Water Bay, ... Details 1 Department of Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, PR China and 2 School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... Posnett and Yarilin [15]. Discrete focal inflammation of clinically normal salivary glands has also been noted [16]. Finally, asympto- matic airway inflammation is common and can be elicited by ubiquitous ... occurs in the setting of CMV reactivation in transplant patients [53]. Finally, HHV8 targets myelomonocytic cells, lymphocytes and endothelial cells [54,55]. There may be a latency...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... study using US is the first to link the gap between asymptomatic hyper- uricemia and symptomatic deposition of urate, namely gout. Could we call this stage asymptomatic deposition of urate or asymptomatic ... radiography, the authors found conventional radio- graphy to have a sensitivity of 31% (32/102) and a specificity of 93% (55/59) in showing features of gout, versus US that had...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... Abstract Background: Compression of the median nerve by a tumour in the elbow and forearm region is rare. We present a case of neuropathy of the median nerve secondary to compression by giant lipoma in the ... cause of nerve compression [14]. Review of English literature on extrinsic nerve compres- sion by lipoma in the upper limb reveals several reports of compression o...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20