... the gastrointestinal tract in patients withirondeficiency and no systemic or gastrointestinal symptoms or signs Am J Med 1997; 103: 405-9 Peterson WL Gastrointestinal bleeding In: Sleisenger ... irondeficiency Most of patients withirondeficiency in, whom gastrointestinal or systemic signs or symptoms are absent have an underlying gastrointestinal lesion [24] Idiopathic iron- deficiency ... previously [25-26] The most of studies shown that substantial gastrointestinal lesions, particularly those of the upper gastrointestinal tract, are common in patients withirondeficiency anemia...
... hypersensitivity to cowsmilk are mediated by IgE specific to cowsmilk constituents After a patient with immediate cowsmilk hypersensitivity ingests cows milk, the allergens cross-link cows milkspecific ... to induce tolerance by immunomodulation Oral desensitization using intact cowsmilk was reported in a few patients withcowsmilk allergy.8 It took to months with increasing doses of milk intake ... digestive sites of BLG polypeptides by these enzymes Digestion with chymotrypsin resulted in small peptides ranging from 3- to 31-amino acid residues whereas digestion with trypsin V produced smaller...
... educational assessment He also taught courses in testing and measurement methods at several Brazilian universities At Westat, he has conducted psychometric analyses and helped to design adaptive assessments ... lowest parenting stress levels Parenting Stress by Family Structure: U .S Children Aged 6-17, 2003 Source: National Survey of Childrens Health (NSCH) 55.0 Mean Parenting Stress Score 54.0 53.0 ... considerable state-to-state variation in the proportion of children living with both biological parents In Southern states with large black populations, such as Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Louisiana,...
... destined for pasteurisation This is also known as “raw milkin the industry, and referred to as “raw milk destined for pasteurisation” Outbreaks are associatedwith this raw milk, as well as ... autointoxification, mild skin troubles, such as pimples, eczema, sallowness, wrinkles, etc., simple anemia, catarrh, biliousness, ringing in the ears, pleurisy, constipation, dyspepsia, indigestion, ... responses against pasteurised cowsmilkin susceptible children The actual causes are most likely related to reactions to changes in the structures of milk proteins due to heating of the milk...
... Mechanisms underlying the effects of estrogen on joint tissues Estrogen influences the biology of joint tissues by regulating the activity and expression of key signaling molecules in several distinct ... PI3/Akt kinase-mediated phosphorylation Since members of these signaling pathways are transcription factors, some of them, such as SMADs 3/4, can elicit estrogen responses by interacting with ER in ... tissues in various animal and human studies while SERMS conversely have demonstrated a homogeneous response in these tissues (a general description of the effects of SERMs on different tissues is presented...
... (GM-CSF), was massively increased The gross of GM-CSF was collocated with macrophages, but also with neighboring SMC In comparison with normal controls (aortic specimens taken during ACB surgery, ... diseases Page of doi:10.1186/1749-8090-5-66 Cite this article as: Weissen-Plenz et al.: Aortic dissection associatedwith cogans s syndrome: deleterious loss of vascular structural integrity is ... vascular collagen and elastin metabolism [5,6], was massively increased In summary, our data suggest that the persistently increased secretion of the inflammatory mediator GMCSF by resident inflammatory...
... literature reveals no consistent success with the standard medical therapy used in treating Crohn 's disease and in some of these cases surgical intervention was necessary [3] Infliximab is a chimeric ... associatedwith HPS is part of the syndrome or if it represents an independent but associated process, such as Crohn 's disease The fact is that granulomatous enterocolitis in several patients with HPS ... a classical clinical and pathologic picture of Crohn 's disease in a woman with HPS and our experience with infliximab in treating successfully this HPS -associated enterocolitis Case presentation...
... well-developed abscission layers upon flowering suggests that all six wild Oryza accessions will shatter their seeds readily, an observation that is consistent with our previous measurement of shattering ... single aus sampled is considered a very easy seed releasing variety (average BTS = 18 g, Table 1), yet it also appears to not possess an abscission layer at flowering (Figure 1G, H), suggesting ... and is thus not sufficient for loss of shattering This suggested that novel loci, perhaps distinct from those acting in wild rice species, are involved in the evolution of shattering in U .S weedy...
... to aspirin esterase are inconsistent (2, 10-12) Some studies reported a decrease of aspirin esterase in unhealthy, frail older subjects (10-12) Our present results at baseline only showed an inverse ... DISCUSSION The present study s main finding is that the changes in serum total cholesterol concentrations are clearly associatedwith those of aspirin esterase activity during a period of physical ... accounts for most of aspirin catabolism, after the first pass, more than 50 % of the aspirin still gets to the systemic circulation where two distinct aspirin hydrolysis pathways act: a spontaneous...
... geographical settings and across seasons in the same region, in addition to spatial and temporal variations within households, resulting in widely different exposure potentials for household subgroups The ... elevated odds ratio in biomass-using households reflects the incremental risks for people in this set of households as compared to clean fuel-using households An odds ratio of for ARI inchildren ... percent in sample 2) The usage of traditional stoves with chimneys is 11 percent in sample against percent in sample In both samples, usage of improved stoves was negligible Kerosene stoves were used...
... control sections demonstrated no staining (data not shown) Her2 staining was scored based on the scoring system applied to breast cancers, with scores of 0,+1, +2, +3 for increasing intensity and ... HNSCC tissues, 20 matching metastatic tissues and 17 recurrent HNSCC tissues The clinical information of these patients was obtained from the University of Immunohistochemistry and scoring To investigate ... staining and scoring, our findings suggest the importance of membranous expression of Her3 Conclusions Her3 membranous protein expression was associatedwith poor prognosis and may represent...
... double support time and stance time and spatial characteristics such has stride length has been consistently associatedwith falling, with increased variability being associatedwith fall risk [1-3] ... only associatedwith falls during walking in one research report [3] The lack of significant findings associating step width variability with fall history may be the result of assuming a linear ... walked, possibly walking slower since fear of falling is related to gait speed [3], thus influencing the results Classification of fall status was based on the participants' remembering if they...
... control sections demonstrated no staining (data not shown) Her2 staining was scored based on the scoring system applied to breast cancers, with scores of 0,+1, +2, +3 for increasing intensity and ... HNSCC tissues, 20 matching metastatic tissues and 17 recurrent HNSCC tissues The clinical information of these patients was obtained from the University of Immunohistochemistry and scoring To investigate ... staining and scoring, our findings suggest the importance of membranous expression of Her3 Conclusions Her3 membranous protein expression was associatedwith poor prognosis and may represent...
... versus patients using the χ2 test with × contingency table bControl versus patients using the χ2 test with × contingency table cEarly onset osteoarthritis OA patients were defined as those with ... patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and 397 control individuals were included in the study aControl individuals versus patients using the χ2 test with × contingency table bControl individuals versus ... onset in the osteoarthritis (OA) patients was 52.0 years, and so early onset OA patients were defined as those with disease onset at age under 52 years, whereas late onset OA patients were those with...
... and searching OMIM text for selected keywords Finding a QTL of interest The first step in finding candidate genes for a specific QTL is to choose a QTL of interest To make this possible, we simply ... candidate because recent studies have shown that synovial tissue in RA joints secretes CSF1 together with several other cytokines, which increases the osteoclast activity [17] VCAM1 might also be a ... ranking 2, manual rating SLC26A2 was associatedwith the keyword 'joint' SLC26A2 is an anion transporter responsible for four recessively inherited chondrodysplasias: multiple epiphyseal dysplasia...
... patients with sarcoidosis were reported to be associatedwith polymorphisms specific for haplotype S0 2 [36] The present study shows that haplotype S0 1 is associatedwith JIA as well as AOSD and RA in ... collagen diseases included 38 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, 38 patients with scleroderma, and 26 patients with polymyositis/ dermatomyositis All the patients with these three diseases fulfilled ... among the subgroups Systemic JIA is characterized by systemic involvement, such as high spiking fever, skin rash, serositis and hepatosplenomegaly, and overproduction of inflammatory cytokines [16,17]...
... shown) Discussion RA patients express increased serum levels of several cytokines, but the evidence for a clinical relevance of such measurements in the assessment of prognosis is limited In this 1-year ... This receptor is expressed by T-lymphocytes, eosinophils, basophils, dendritic cells, and a recent study has also suggested expression of CCR3 on osteoclasts [11-13] A Korean study has suggested ... magnetic resonance imaging score (RAMRIS) [7] by a trained observer (EAH) Statistical methods Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 14 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA) Data were presented by...
... SNPs in strong LD, we clustered SNPs into LD blocks (r2 ≥ 0.8) using the ldSelect program [46], and from each block picked tag SNPs as causal SNPs or otherwise SNPs with the smallest P-values ... Masson G, Helgason A, Gudbjartsson DF, Jonsdottir GM, Gudjonsson SA, Sverrisson S, Thorlacius T, Jonasdottir A, Hardarson GA, Palsson ST, Frigge ML, Gulcher JR, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson ... The numbers of hotspot-SNP pairs, and the numbers of hotspots and SNPs involved in those pairs Number of hotspot-SNP pairs Number of hotspots in the pairs Number of SNPs in the pairs Total 99,899...
... article as: Hsu et al., Caffeine and a selective adenosine A2A receptor antagonist induce sensitization and cross-sensitization behavior associatedwith increased striatal dopamine in mice Journal ... challenged with caffeine (Fig 2c) Chronic caffeine and SCH58261 administrations were associatedwith significant changes in monoamine systems in the striatum The effect of chronic caffeine and SCH58261 ... homogenates Data were expressed as mean ± SEM and analyzed by Student 's t-test In all cases, p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant Results Locomotor sensitization after chronic caffeine...
... alleles responsible for the incidence of NVP-induced rash Patients possessing alleles responsible for NVP-rash should be started on anti-retroviral therapy without NVP Methods Clinical specimens ... groups tested previously Previous studies have also suggested that higher CD4 counts at baseline increased risk of NVP-induced rash [2530] In our study, however, the median baseline CD4 counts of ... with viral persistence [23] Previous studies [15,24] have suggested that HLA-Cw*08 is associatedwith NVP hypersensitivity Littera et al studied 49 Sardinian HIV-1-positive patients treated with...