... Rosell A, Alvarez-Sabin J, Arenillas JF, Rovira A, Delgado P, Fernandez-Cadenas I, Penalba A, Molina CA & Montaner J (2005) A matrix metalloproteinase protein array reveals a strong relation between ... idea of EPC usage as a clinical application will have to be carefully developed and assessed before EPCs can be safely tested and applied in clinical stroke Taken together, accumulating data now ... phase leads to neuronal damage, the same NMDA signaling may participate in neurovascular repair (especially neurogenesis) in the recovery phase [62] In 4648 addition to ‘extracellular’ mediators...
... pharmacologic autonomic blockade and analysis of HRV indicate that increases in cardiac parasympathetic (vagal) tone make an important contribution to resting bradycardia [,] The chronic increase ... due to low arterial pH, such low Pa2 values translate into arterial O2 saturations of % or less The cause of this arterial desaturation and failure of gas exchange has been debated, but Cardiovascular ... compared to the sedentary person whose stroke volume plateaus at submaximal intensities and may fall as maximal exertion is approached [] Myocardial vascularization and perfusion In a comparison...
... K Maesaka, Louis Imbriano, Shayan Shirazian and Nobuyuki Miyawaki Chapter Epidemiology, Causes and Outcome of Obstetric Acute Kidney Injury 67 Namrata Khanal, Ejaz Ahmed and Fazal Akhtar Part ... 207-214 Kajbafzadeh, A M., Javan-Farazmand, N., Motamedi, A. , Monajemzadeh, M., & Amini, E (2011) The optimal dose of Adriamycin to create a viable rat model potentially applicable to congenital obstructive ... M., Watarai, Y., Hoshii, S., Obikane, K., Nakashima, T., Sasaki, S., & Nonomura, K (2009) Pediatric kidney transplantation is safe and available for patients with urological anomalies as well as...
... Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataA catalog record for this book has ... their approachto the game is likely to shift from that of the devotee to that of the dabbler Time management at work as well as injury (see Chapters and 5) and age may also be factors that will ... Yorkshire and Lancashire had a large industrial middle class which was eager to exploit the business potential of the game and as a result initiated an earlier and more distinct transformation from pastime...
... for a break between the factors with relatively large eigenvalues and those with smaller eigenvalues Factors that appeared before the break were assumed to be meaningful, and factors that appeared ... Results are presented as median (range) or mean ± SD Abbreviations: OA; osteoarthritis, TKA; total knee arthroplasty, Revision of TKA; Revision of total knee arthroplasty; VAS, Visual Analogue Scale; ... structure and factor loadings after varimax rotation Items with a factor loading less than 0.50 on all factors could be considered for exclusion In other words factor analysis was performed in order to...
... microglia 4h post-MCAo in the ipsilateral (Ai) but not the contralateral (ii) hemisphere Confocal image shows the colocalization of IL-1α and Iba-1 stains in an activated microglia in the ipsilateral ... IL-1β after ischemic brain injury and is localised to areas of focal neuronal loss and penumbral tissues Nadia M Luheshi1, Krisztina J Kovács2, Gloria Lopez-Castejon1, David Brough1#* and Adam Denes1,2#* ... key mediator of the sterile inflammatory response Findings Inflammation is recognised as a major contributor to the worsening of acute brain injury [1] In particular two pro-inflammatory members...
... "not applicable" was marked the item was treated as missing data Missing data If a mark was placed outside a box, the closest box was used If two boxes were marked, that which Page of 10 (page ... self-explenatory and takes about 10 minutes to complete The SF-36 is scored from to 100, indicating extreme problems and 100 indicating no problems Background data In addition to demographic data, patients ... subscales ability to measure physical health vs mental health [17] Table 4: Mean (SD) of the KOOS and WOMAC at baseline and follow-ups at and 12 months 0–100 worst to best scale Baseline KOOS Pain...
... for each dimension Explanatory Variables Our review of the literature suggested a range of potential pre-injury and injury-related explanatory variables [2] We grouped our explanatory variables ... given the average lay person’s knowledge of physiological or anatomical risk Once we obtain hospital discharge data related to the participants who were admitted to hospital for treatment of ... mobility and pain or discomfort in the multivariate analyses (Table 5) In contrast to this, physical activity, which was not related to any outcome in the bivariate analyses (Table 3), was related...
... Comparison of Intracranial Pressure by Lateral and Frontal Impacts – Validation of Computational Model Aalap Patel and Tarun Goswami Chapter 95 Cervical Spinal Injuries and Risk Assessment 115 Mary ... Taisuke Kobayashi, Zhiguo Lu, Kosuke Sekiyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda, Andrzej Mroczkowski, Yuri Moskalenko, Gustav Weinstein, Tamara Kravchenko, Peter Halvorson, Natalia Ryabchikova, ... for evaluating gait has not been invented yet and therefore the published data about gait in pregnancy has varied dramatically Atkinson (1999) compared 3D analysis of gait among one pregnant and...
... that both pathways were operative during the period of high ammonia availability Ammonia was assimilated primarily into the amide of glutamine by the activity of GS, and transferred to glutamate-amino ... initially, and this may have accounted for the increase in glutamate concentration in this experiment, rather than GDH activity P tinctorius appeared to assimilate ammonia via the glutamate synthase ... The increase in the glutamate pool appeared to indicate assimilation of ammonia into glutamate by GDH activity Inhibition of glutamate synthase by azaserine blocked the transfer of amide nitrogen...
... has also been associated with apoptosis in a Ca2+-dependent manner Specifically, disruption of ER Ca2+ balance may alter α1 mRNA, producing an increase that activates caspase and induces apoptosis ... 30% O2 to maintain the surgical plane Animals were placed in a stereotaxic frame and a sagittal incision was made on the scalp A craniotomy hole was drilled over the central suture, midway between ... and is also known to phosphorylate GABAAR [22] Kao et al [21] suggested that injuryinduced increases in glutamate activated NMDA receptors, increasing [Ca2+]i and subsequently activating CaMKII,...
... cerebrovascular injury: evaluating the accuracy of multidetector Computed Tomographic Angiography Journal of Trauma 2005, 59:691-697 Eastman Alexander L, Chason David P, Perez Carlos L, McAnulty Amy ... neurological sequelae attributable to VAD The areas of the vertebral artery vulnerable to injury during blunt neck trauma are, V2 (inside the transverse foramina) and the V3 (between the C1 and the base ... vertebro-basilar ischaemia can reach 75%–86% [8] Treatment for VAD is controversial; it not clear whether patients must be heparinized, be treated with antiplatelets (Aspirin) or treated at all Izhar...
... Queiroz AL, Ramos LM, Santos SQ, Barreto DM, Guimarães AA, Barbosa CA, Franco LM, Patrocínio RM: Acute kidney injury due to anabolic steroid and vitamin supplement abuse: report of two cases and a ... patient took AAS not for athletic performance but for aesthetic reasons He reported wanting to “remain in shape” as the main reason for taking these pills Anabolic steroids are readily available ... filled canaliculi (black arrows) and bile in the hepatocytes (white arrows) As well, there are plasma cells and periportal inflammation 68 412 level remained mildly elevated at 50 μmol/L and his ALT...
... incorporation of data on non-fatal health outcomes into summary measures of population health, the development of methods and approaches to estimate missing data and to assess the reliability of data, ... on individual countries as the unit of analysis, as well as the systematic application of standardized approaches for all countries in any given category of data availability, has vastly improved ... disease due to major risk factors, applying the standardized framework of the Comparative Risk Assessment Project, have not been attempted Standardized approaches to measuring mortality attributable...
... may attenuate renal injury and facilitate renal recovery in addition to its function on hematopoiesis if treatment is initiated early Regardless of the age at onset or severity of ARF, renal and ... patients with substantial renal recovery To date, anemia has not been reported in ARF associated with adult MCD, although this may be due to the paucity of cases of severe ARF from MCD Our patient ... hemolysis was negative, suggesting that anemia was due to diminished EPO levels associated with ARF Indeed, the hematocrit stabilized four days after initiating EPO therapy and rose to normal level...
... formation of reactive oxygen species in Arabidopsis thaliana Protoplasma 2005, 227(1):3-9 Nakagami H, Soukupova H, Schikora A, Zarsky V, Hirt H: A mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase ... H2O2, mM EDTA and enzyme sample Dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR) activity (EC 1.8.5.1) was measured as described by Hossain and Asada [80] DHAR was assayed spectrophotometrically by monitoring the ... sucrose and atrazine upregulated it (Table 5) Atrazine was also found to decrease global MDAR activity, while sucrose plus atrazine treatment resulted in maintenance of MDAR activity relatively to...
... following pairs of primers were used for amplification; KGF: 5'-ACG AGG CAA AGT GAA AGG GA-3', 5'-TGC CAC AAT TCC AAC TGC CA-3', ribosomal protein S9: 5'-AAG CAA CTG ATT GAA CCC GTG CAG-3', 5'-ATC TTC ... deficient mice and wild type animals are demonstrated Panel A Total cells recovered from bronchoalveolar lavage Panel B Total macrophage cell counts in BAL fluid at baseline and at 1, and days after Cl2 ... http://respiratory-research.com/content/8/1/21 Experimental protocol Chlorine gas (Matheson Gas Products, Ottawa, Canada) was mixed with room air in a standard L re-breathing bag to make a concentration...
... either an aggrecanase inhibitor or DEX, but not a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug [44] Surprisingly, DEX did not abrogate GAG release via a substantial reduction in aggrecanase transcriptional ... metalloproteinase-3; TNFα: tumor necrosis factor alpha Acknowledgements Research supported by NIH/NIAMS grants AR045779 and AR033236 (AJG) The authors thank Drs Anna Plaas, Ada Cole and John Sandy ... the data, conceived of and designed the studies, confirmed dataanalysis and wrote the manuscript CE and AJG conceived of and designed the studies, confirmed dataanalysis and wrote the manuscript...
... intermediates and proteases directly damage alveolar– capillary membrane integrity This pro-inflammatory cascade is regulated by anti-inflammatory mediators such as IL-10, IL-1 receptor antagonist, and ... beta adrenergic receptor stimulation in stimulating alveolar fluid clearance Tibayan and colleagues [27] found that dobutamine (a beta-1 and beta-2 agonist) increased alveolar edema clearance ... addition to edemagenesis, impaired alveolar–capillary barrier function may increase permeability to bacteria and bacterial products After the initial injury, alveolar edema can be cleared by active...