Báo cáo y học: "Undisclosed cocaine use and chest pain in emergency departments of Spain" pdf

... consumption in 6.4% (95% confidence interval: 2.0%–10.4%) of adult patients presenting at Emergency Department for chest pain. This finding in chest pain patients who consented to urine analysis suggests ... attention Discussion In USA, with similar cocaine consumption rates to Spain, the Drug Abuse Warning Network DAWN estimates that cocaine was involved in 10% of dr...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... response. Identifying the signalling pathways that are involved in inducing the observed alterations in MMP expression may contribute to our understanding of the initiation of kidney damage in lupus ... of the innate immune system, including monocytes/ macrophages and neutrophils. As part of this inflammatory process, several MMPs and TIMPs are secreted by activated infiltra...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... history of injection drug use. Second, we refined the analysis to compare individu- als reporting current and former injection drug use with those never reporting a history of injection drug use. Results Participant ... downshifting (white), and discontinuation (gray) is plotted over time for each study at the midpoint of each visit window. No History of Injection Drug Use...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... phase of psychological testing and psychiatric assessment including psychiatric screening for psychia- tric symptoms and personality disorders: (SCID-II), SCL-90, AUDIT, SSP, SOC and a standardized ... discharged involuntarily, 34/62 individuals were readmitted after a suspension period of three months. Younger age at intake, poly-substance abuse at intake (number of drugs in ur...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... measures of severity of illness and inflammation, e.g. CRP and WBC count, may thus be in the pathway between statin use and mortality and do not fulfil the criteria for being confounding factors [40,55]. ... showing consistent results. The validity of our findings depends ultimately on accurate registration of statin use and the ability to con- trol for confounding. Th...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... diminished size of electrolyte pool of cell, 3) change in electrolyte content of cell and 3) injury of skeletal muscle cell that change integrity of sarcolemma and results in release of intracellular ... SD, Afonin VB and Kakurin VJ. Potassium measurements during hypokinesia and ambulation in establishing potassium changes in trained and untrained subjects....

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:12

... extracellular matrix and scavenging of free radicals [4,5]. However, recent data indicated a certain role played by undersulfated glycosaminoglycans, such as HA, on hydroxyapatite crystal formation ... Hyaluronan in tissue injury and repair. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2007;23:435-61 22. Wisniewski H.G and Vilcek J. TSG-6: an IL-1/TNF-inducible protein With anti-inflammatory acti...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:35

... Holliday junction and allow subsequent loading of RuvB and RuvC. A negatively charged pin pro- jecting from th e centre limits b inding of linear duplex DNA. The a mino-acid sequences forming the pin ... subunit r esult in a significant increase in affinity for duplex DNA [12]. We investigated the junction specificity of MpRuvA by analysing its binding to a Y- shaped junction and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... by chronic infiltration of T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes, plasma cells, and macrophages into the synovial tissue of joints [13,14]. High levels of pro- inflammatory cytokines are invariably ... cells, and show that lymphocyte binding mediated by the very late antigen-4 (VLA-4)-independent pathway is sufficient to induce the accelerated proinflammatory cytokine production. Materi...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... described by Nanakumar and coworkers [12], scoring of animals was done blindly using a scoring system based on the number of inflamed joints in each paw, inflammation being defined by swelling and redness. ... exact role in disease remains unclear [31]. The chemokine ligand CCL-27 was recently shown to bind the P-selectin glycoprotein ligand 1 – a molecule that plays a role in h...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23