Báo cáo y học: "Association of current smoking with airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asymptomatic smokers" pps

... similar airway wall and sputum inflammation as asymptomatic and symptomatic smokers without airway obstruction. Current smoking was associated with airway inflammation in patients with COPD and in ... suggesting that cumulative smoking induces chronic inflammation with subsequent sequelae of airway obstruction. Our results indicate that inflammatory e...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... JC, Duffaut M, Pipy B, Vinel JP: Reactive oxygen intermediates and eicosanoid production by Kupffer cells and infiltrated macrophages in acute and chronic liver injury induced in rats by CCl 4 . Inflamm ... Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA 3 Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, University of Med...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... Breedveld FC: Interleukin-6 activity in paired samples of synovial fluid. Correlation of synovial fluid interleukin-6 levels with clinical and laboratory parameters of inflammation. Br J Rheumatol ... II Thyroxine binding globulin Serum amyloid P Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 Myeloperoxidase Matrix metalloproteinase-3 Lipoprotein (a) Interleukin-16 Interleukin-6 Hyaluronic ac...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... natural history of the systemic inflammatory Key messages • The -1377delA promoter polymorphism was signifi- cantly associated with increased risk of delayed mortal- ity in patients with SIRS. • ... properly cited. Abstract Introduction High mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1) is a pleiotropic cytokine, recently implicated in the pathophysiology of the systemic inflammatory res...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... study using GTG banding of peripheral blood lymphocytes showed a normal 46,XX karyotype. At five months of age, her electrocardiogram showed normal sinus rhythm, right axis deviation (120º) and ... teletelia, hemihypertrophy of the left arm, diastasis recti, diastasis of the first and second toes of both feet, bilateral cutaneous syndactyly between second and third toes and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... entails training the model (fitting both the sec- ond-level ANOVA and the linear SVM model) with all subjects minus one, and using the remaining single indi- vidual to test the accuracy of the prediction. ... correctly identified individual pa tients with schizophrenia with an accura cy of 92%, and those with bipolar disorder with an accuracy of 79% in which mis- class...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... determinants of smoking among low-income women in Aleppo, Syria. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases 2001, 5:307-12. 20. Maziak W: Smoking in Syria: profile of a developing ... significantly more likely than girls (21.0% versus 2.1%) to smoke cigarettes currently. Current smoking was defined as having reported smoking cigarettes, even a sin- gle puff,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:21

... by silver staining on polyacrylamid gel. Statistical Analysis Allele frequencies were determined by gene counting and compared using the א² test. The data was analysed using SPSS 12.0 software. ... monkeys with GW 501516, a selective PPARδ agonist, led to a significant improvement of metabolic traits characterized by a rise of HDL and lowering of LDL, triglycerides, and i...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:03

... promotes the folding and assembly of protein by recognizing unfolded polypeptides and inhibiting intra- and intermolecular aggregation [17]. To investigate the role of BiP in the TSHR folding process, ... reticulum involves interactions with molecular chaperones, which promote the folding and assembly of the glycoproteins. In this study, we investigated whether calnexin (C...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20

... factor-related apoptosis inducing ligand with membrane upon acidification Gyu Hyun Nam and Kwan Yong Choi National Research Laboratory of Protein Folding and Engineering, Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, ... K. Y. Choi, National Research Laboratory of Protein Folding and Engineering, Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Tech...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20