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... number of patients with percentages in parentheses *SPAP available in 39 subjects Figure 1 Boxplot summary of BNP in patients with and without right ventricular (RV) dilatation. Median levels of ... ntly higher and predictive of mortal- ity [4,34,35]. However, in contrast to those findings, our study showed no difference in the plasma levels of BNP in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... preferentially binds peptides containing the non-standard amino acid citrulline (deiminated arginine) [11]. In addition, an abnormally increased function of the enzyme peptidylarginine deiminase 4 (PAD4; ... anti-CCP antibodies) to those in patients with RA. In addition, patients with rhupus display a clinical and serological profile indistin- guishable from patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... frequencies of B cell subsets defined by the expression of IgD and CD27 in the peripheral blood of patients with long- standing RA were compared with healthy donors (Figures 1a, b). One striking finding ... findings. Instead, we observed that patients with RA manifested a marked reduction in the peripheral blood pre-switch IgD + CD27 + subset. At baseline the group o...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21

... 6 of 19 depression. The latent cutoff points are indicated by the vertical lines in Figures 3 and 4. Inspection of the individual item contributions to the total information at the cutoff point ... decrea se in hedonistic thoughts and an increase in sleeping problems, and to a lesser extent by an increase in feelings of panic and the feeling that t hings have been getting on top...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... displaying fluctuating arrays of symptoms failing to fit into current nosological systems [14,15]. In some groups of patients with affective syndromes, treatment with traditional antidepressants in ... differences in seizures in clinical history and EEG pathology, and a significant difference with regard to number of patients fulfilling clinical criteria for epilepsy....

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... Vaccina tion with a plasmid DNA encoding HER-2/neu together with low doses of GM-CSF and IL-2 in patients with metastatic breast carcinoma: a pilot clinical trial. Journal of Translational Medicine ... One of eight (12.5%) patients enrolled in the study had a pre-existing anti- bodyresponseagainstHer2,asdefinedbyabinding activity >2 . The majority of evaluable pati...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... was demonstrated in peripheral blood of gynecological cancer patients as well as in control group consisting of healthy volunteers’ blood. The level of CGB expression in blood of cancer patients and in blood ... indicated thepresenceoftumorcellscirculatinginbloodof patients. The raw results of GNRH1 expression in blood of can- cer patients was fitted to...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... in four one-hour sessions of indi- vidual counselling with a diabetes nurse specialist, who had a bachelor’s degree in education and was trained in motivational interviewing [19]. Using the patients ... recommended level of 30 minutes of daily exercise. Over the same time period, patients participated in three individual counselling sessions with a dietician who was also...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Survival of patients treated with Irinotecan drug eluting beads with liver dominant hepatic metastasis after fail-ing standard chemotherapy b) Overall Survival of patients treated with Irinotecan ... 2). Twenty-eight patients had previously been treated with hepatic surgery, 54 with prior systemic chemotherapy, including FOLFOX in 35 patients, FOLFIRI in 15, Avastin...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21