Báo cáo y học: "Association between serum soluble CD40 ligand levels and mortality in patients with severe sepsis" potx

... procalcitonin to determine its association with sCD40L levels. There are been reported an association between sCD40L levels and severity of acute coronary artery syndrome [31] and between tropo- nin and ... associated with mor- tality at 30 days in a large series of septic patients. We found higher serum sCD40L levels in patients with severe sepsis than in h...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... associated with mortality. Conclusions: A combination of ICS and LABA reduced mortality by approximately 20%. Neither tiotropium nor LABA by itself modifies all-cause mortality in COPD. Introduction Chronic ... SI, Martin P, Ramachandran S, Martin UJ, Silkoff PE, Goldman M: Efficacy and safety of budesonide and formoterol in one pressurized metered-dose inhaler in pati...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:21

... samples were obtained before the examination, and weight and height were measured in all subjects. The body mass index (BMI) was computed by dividing the body weight in kilograms by the square ... by melt curve analysis [35] with a LightTyper instrument (Roche Diagnostics, Penzberg, Germany). The primers and probes used for determining the ApaI, BsmI, and FokI single nucl...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 16:23

... immune system mainly in the lymph nodes, without leaving any signs of inflammation in the exposed skin [11,25-28]. Here, an initial activation of the innate immune system subsequently leads to ... mineral oils, therefore, both intracutaneously as one single injection and percutaneously in multiple exposures, has been shown to induce an erosive and RA-like polyarthritis in certain...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... supplemented with 10% FCS, 1% antibiotics and 0, 5 mg/ml hygromycin (Calbiochem). Immunofluorescence cell sorting and flow cytometry analysis Cells were washed in PBS and incubated with the CD4 specific ... encoded in place of the nef gene, it is expected that an increase in viral entry induces an increase in early viral transcription and conse- quently, in luciferase e...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:20

... to induce immunologic tolerance in patients with cow’s milk allergy. In this study, two kinds of BLG peptides digested by chymotrypsin alone or trypsin V (a combination of chymotrypsin and trypsin) ... peptides. Trypsin V is a mixture of chymotrypsin and trypsin. Figure 1 shows the digestive sites of BLG polypeptides by these enzymes. Digestion with chymotrypsin resulted in sm...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... at baseline and 8 weeks. Auditory sensory gating P50 Subjects were seated in a comfortable recliner and instructed to relax with their eyes open and to focus on a fixation point. The testing took ... I, Ballard C, Cairns N, Kerwin R, Perry R, Perry E: Neuronal nicotinic receptors in dementia with Lewy bodies and schizophrenia: α-bungarotoxin and nicotine binding in the t...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23

... tender and swollen joints for patients in ATTRACT (32 and 22 joints, respectively) and START (24 and 17 joints, respectively). In the analysis of patients with RA or AS in a Dutch study [3], ... of tender and swollen joints for patients in the IMPACT II study was 25 and 14 joints, respectively [10]. Similarly, the mean number of active joints in patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... on the other hand is a dist inctive clinical entity, most commonly seen in association with patients with antic- oagulation therapy, bleeding abnormalities, and haemo- dialysis [7,8] and may represent ... reduced intra- abdominal volume. This was inferred by changes in the patient’s hepatic transaminases and was manifested by oliguria, raised abdominal pressure and inade qua...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22