Báo cáo khoa học: " Serum procalcitonin measurement as diagnostic and prognostic marker in febrile adult patients presenting to the emergency department" pdf

... citation purposes) Vol 11 No 3 Research Serum procalcitonin measurement as diagnostic and prognostic marker in febrile adult patients presenting to the emergency department Pierre Hausfater 1 , ... rationally. The primary objective of this study was to test the efficiency of procalcitonin (PCT) in identifying bacterial/parasitic episodes among febri...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... values are the following: Firstly, assess the LR in subgroups of patients, according to the pretest probability determined by the physician; secondly, test an algorithm that includes PCT measurement; ... emphasizing the complex issue of the prescription of antibiotics and the potential added value of biomarkers like PCT. Therefore we think that the next important step...

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... adenocarcinoma, brain-type creatine kinase was found to be downregulated, whereas ubiquitous mitochondrial creatine kinase was upregulated. These significantly decreased levels of creatine and creatine kinase ... sarcoma tissue during the progression of malignancy. The sar- coma was developed in the hind leg of mice by inject- ing 3MC, a chemical carcinogen, or by injecting into t...

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... physicians, patients, and their families and has the potential to greatly impact the care of critically ill patients by aiding in and provid- ing well-informed overall management decisions. Competing interests The ... families in decision-making regarding patient management choices in the intensive care unit (ICU). The objectives of this study were, therefore, to...

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... in the small in- testine or in the segment between the mouth and ileum. Pond (1983) further stated that in con- trast to swine a clinical Zn deficiency could not be induced in lambs by elevating ... ad- ministration to 92 mg Ca/l (2,30 mmol/l) 24 h after the zinc dose in lactating dairy cows. The suggestion was made that the gut lumen was the site of the miner...

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... predominant transcript in the adult intestine and in the developing embryo, whereas Mxi1-SRb transcripts predominate in the adult liver and kidney [12]. In our initial description of Mxi1-SRa and ... initially as a gene up-regulated in a neuroblastoma cell line. Moreover, in that study, the ratio between Mxi1- SRa ⁄ Mxi1-0 and Mxi1-SRb in primary glioblasto...

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... 843 in the knockout mutant hfbI – , only the respective mass peak was missing (Fig. 3B). Deviating post-translational processing of hydrophobins in H. jecorina strains To investigate strain diversity ... defined masses permits the identification at the species and subspecies ⁄ strain level. We here show that in filamen- tous fungi, hydrophobins are the dominating protein mass...

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... in the prooxidant state caused by iron loading has an impact in protein integrity, as indicated by an increase in protein-bound acrolein adducts at the cell surface, which point to acrolein-adducts ... accu- mulation in the liver of hemochromatosis patients is associated with oxidative stress and increased expres- sion of ICAM-1 [13]. On the other hand, a recent in v...

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... binding inhibitor of the cathepsins, characterized by k ass values in the range of 10 6 )10 7 m )1 , and high k diss values in the range of 10 )3 to 10 )4 for the tightly inhibited cathep- sins ... inhibitors. An interesting feature of cystatin F is the 100-fold stronger inhibition of cathepsins F, L, and V than of cathepsin S. Cathepsin S is closely related to other end...

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... extravasate into the brain paren- chyma. In ltrating leukocytes, as well as resident brain cells, including neurons and glia, may release pro -in ammatory mediators, such as cyto- kines, chemokines ... cell-sur- face and soluble proteins, including receptors and cytokines such as inter- leukin-1b. The present work reviewed the role of neuroinflammatory mediators in the...

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