Báo cáo y học: "validation of the ERS standard citric acid cough challenge in healthy adult volunteers" pps

... 0.41 Administering CA from KD offers a reproducible cough challenge in healthy volunteers. The results correlate well with the MD challenge but offer greater intra-day and inter-day reproducibility. Trial ... reproduci- bility of the capsaicin cough challenge measures on separate days, the study was not s pecifically designed to determine the reproducibility of thi...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... differ- entiated. The investigation of other amino acid positions from the third hypervariable region of the HLA-DR β-chain would be interesting, especially for positions 67 (for which the presence of an ... prognosis. Conclusion In the present study we validated a first model of the effect of HLA-DRB1 on RA, reshaping the SE hypothesis and providing initial estima...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... <4,000/mm 3 . The onset of septic shock was defined by the beginning of vasopressive therapy. The only exclusion criter ia were patients younger than 18 years old and the absence of circu lating leukocytes. ... shock was defined by an identifiable site of infection, by hypo- tension persisting despite f luid resuscitation and requir- ing vasopressor therapy, and by ev idenc...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... approach d163 Thinking Yes d166 Reading Yes d170 Writing Yes Yes d210 Undertaking a single task Yes d230 Carrying out daily routine Yes Yes d240 Handling stress and other psychological demands Yes d330 ... Yes Yes d475 Driving Yes Yes d510 Washing oneself Yes Yes d520 Caring for body parts Yes Yes d530 Toileting Yes d540 Dressing Yes Yes d550 Eating Yes d560 Drinking Yes d570 Looking after on...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... with the objective of standardizing and improving the quality of out- come research in FM by identifying and prioritizing domains [11,12]. The ICF can help specify OMERACT domains by serving as ... validation study and a validation from the perspective of health profes- sionals. Since patients were not directly included in the devel- opment of the ICF Core Sets, they a...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... 20 w omen were not included in the final sample used in this study. Moreover, the validity of the PSS-10 was assessed by concurrently administering the Arabic versions of the General health Questionnaire ... terms employed were understandable and to modify any ambiguity. Finally, a sample of bilingual female university students (n = 10) was asked to com- pleteboththeEnglis...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... During the last week I was having thoughts of death 18. During the last week I was feeling emotionally drained 19. During the last week my heart was beating fast even without doing any type of ... assessment of anxiety or de pression by the psychiatrist was used as the standard reference to evaluate the specificity and sensitivity of the screening instrument. Statistic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... in the highly vascular endothelium expressed CCL5 protein (Figure 6). In addition, staining was demonstrated at the synovial lining and on many infiltrating inflammatory cells. Protein levels of ... chemokine CCL5 [39,40]. The memory population may be further divided by the expression or loss of expression of CCR7 [12]. We and others have previously shown that the majority...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... detected interferon (IFN)-γ staining but no interleukin (IL)-4 staining. Mul- tiplex cytokine assay was used to analyse the cytokine profile of three T-cell line supernatants. (b) An excess of Th1 ... polarisation of type I collagen (CI)-responsive T-cell lines. Cytokine expression of T-cell lines was determined by intracellular (IC) staining of PMA (phorbol 12-myristate 13-aceta...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... observed in the case of sulfate assimilation and cysteine biosynthesis found in the chloro- plasts, cytosol and mitochondria of plants [57]. In addition, the evolutionary history of 12 Calvin cycle ... proteome in the ancestor of human and yeast (Figure 4). The growth of the mitochondrial proteome by gene duplication Knowing the homology of proteins with a d...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:21