Báo cáo y học: " Vitamin A deficiency alters the pulmonary parenchymal elastic modulus and elastic fiber concentration in rats" pptx

... surrounding pulmonary parenchyma, which is tethered to the conducting airways. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is associated with an increase in airway hyperreactivity in rats and a decrease in the volume ... three mechanisms. Dilated alveoli and alveolar ducts increase the spacing between elastic fibers, elastic fibers are disarrayed and are abnormally connected,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... and anti-cardiolipin (anti-CL) antibodies were analyzed in all patients by enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay (ELISA) in accordance with the instructions of the manufactur- ers (Pharmacia & ... data and drafted the manu- script. JK, LC, and EG performed analysis and interpretation of data. EB gave final approval of the version to be published. All authors read and a...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... such as, cytokines (TNF-α) and growth factors are released during infection and inflammation. These cytokines and growth factors affect the synthesis and secretion of pulmonary surfactant by pulmonary ... UTHSCSA. Intranasal Challenge with C. posadasii Arthroconidia Mice were anaesthetized after intramuscular injection of ketamine- xylazine (75 µg/g body weight ketamine and 10...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... movement. Mactinin, a 31 kDa amino-terminal fragment of α-actinin, is generated by the degradation of extracellular α-actinin by monocyte-secreted urokinase. We have previously demonstrated that mactinin ... process and the low concentration of mactinin needed for activity make it necessary to assay at least 1 ml of fluid, and this amount is not available from any tissue and flu...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... of 315 base pairs (bp) was amplified using the following primers: 5'-ATAGCCTGCAC- CCAGATTGTAG-3' (forward primer) and 5'-AGAGACA- GAACAGCCCAACAC-3' (reverse primer). The PCRs ... oligoarthritis and 13 patients with enthesitis- related arthritis. The mean age of patients with JIA was 8.5 years (range, 2–15 years) and the mean disease duration was 26.2 months (...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... study design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and sta- tistical analysis. M-JB and FA contributed to acquisition of data and to analysis and interpretation of data. DC and ... volume are less than 0.0001 for all regions except for the lateral femoral condyle at the anterior and posterior areas and for the lateral tibial plateau at the anterio...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... Ivory Coast, Gambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa. Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Egypt have prevalence rates of 50% and the countries with relatively low rates of ... Pathology, Makerere University, College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, where it was cytocentri- fuged. The sediment was made into a cell block and haematoxylin and eo...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... metastases and local sinusoidal invasion: a case report Daniel Lingamfelter* 1 , Laura Hoffman 2 , Amit Verma 3 , William DePond 1 and Kamani Lankachandra 1 Address: 1 Department of Pathology, ... these changes to those found in other carcinoids. A complete and thorough autopsy is the only way to prove definitively that a carcinoid is truly primary to the liver, as recta...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:22

... determine as the tumours may not be clearly differentiated from extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma. Patients typically present with haematuria, a palpable abdominal mass and flank and/ or abdominal ... thorax and abdomen revealed an extension of the large renal mass into the right renal vein, inferior vena cava and up to the right atrium. A small paracaval lymph node was no...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... oral use. They act as protective agents against ga- strointestinal disorders initiated by restraint and cold stress, or by restraint and cold stress and the co-administration of either indomethacin ... et al. Oxidative stress and antioxidants status in peptic ulcer and gastric carcinoma. Indian J Physiol Pharmacol. 2004; 48: 115-8. 47. Tanaka A, Hatazawa R, Takahira Y, e...

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