ctd and vasculitis systemic diseases in rheumatology

... differences in the definition of insurance groups, including the level of the insurance premia and who has to pay these, in the guaranteed payments for total and partial invalidity and in additional ... ease, in Slovakia the fourth most frequent and in Latvia the sixth most frequent In contrast, in Poland 4.8% of all registered occupational diseases are skin diseases, in Estonia about 2.6% and in ... Full invalidity: from 40% Slovenia No independent insurance Risks are covered by sickness, invalidity and dependent insurance All employees; Students, trainees, handicapped persons during training,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... education and income than their counterparts in Can Tho, Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh city These findings are also similar with other studies conducted in China, Russia, Indonesia, Pakistan and India ... 2.9 Processing and analyzing data 2.9.1 Qualitative data Depth interviews records were decode and saved into computer through word documents Other information noted in STIs and Depth interviews ... Ngoc Bao’s research in 2009 also proved the relationship between prostitution and using drugsparticularly injecting heroin 1.5 Factors affecting the risk of HIV infection and STIs Those factors...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 11:36

... is a single-stranded DNA-binding protein with multiple and essential roles in almost every aspect of DNA metabolism, including replication, repair, and recombination [6] Autoantibodies against ... with the recombinant RPA32 protein Antibodies against RPA32 were found in 10.9% (87 of 801) in breast cancer patients and in 10.3% (4 of 39) in intraductal in situ carcinoma patients, in contrast ... proteins and DNA by high NaCl and possibly secondary conformational changes help the binding of anti-RPA antibodies in autoimmune sera We examined whether the binding of DNA to RPA can interfere...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... commodity (information and goods and services), when taken together, define the four basic speech functions: giving information, demanding information, giving goods -and- services and demanding goods -and- services ... Sayer the participant saying, telling, stating, informing, asking, demanding, offering, threatening, suggesting and so on, The Sayer can be a human or human-like speaker, and also any other symbolic ... giving and demanding Language is used to exchange either the commodity of information or the commodity of goods -and- services Giving and demanding information is concerned with verbal exchange in...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:48

... groupers in Malaysia, although large-scale cage farming in marine waters really gained ground in the 1980s and in inland waters in the 1990s (Shariff and Nagaraj, 2000) Korea started growing a European ... Philippines India Philippines China Philippines Philippines Vietnam Japan Japan China Philippines Sri Lanka Japan Malaysia Philippines Vietnam Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Philippines ... survival Continued Thailand (Doi and Singhagraiwan, 1993) Thailand (Chaitanawisuti and Piyatiratitivorakul, 1994b) Thailand (Tookwinas, 1990a) Thailand (Tookwinas, 1990a) Philippines (Quinitio and Toledo,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 17:20

... Tax increases Smoke-free indoor workplaces and public places Health information and warnings Bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship Scaling up action against noncommunicable diseases: ... average of US $25 in low-income countries, US$ 50 in lower middle-income countries and US$ 139 in upper middle-income countries By contrast, findings from the second study by the WHO indicate that ... per capita investment of under US$ in low-income countries, US$ 1.50 in lower middle-income and US$ in upper middleincome countries When considered in terms of overall health spending, these...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... (constrained) efficient In turn, the systemic risk arising from herding is also (constrained) efficient in our model This is an interesting result since it is in contrast to the inefficiency that arises in ... Scharfstein and Stein (1990) and Rajan (1994), in some detail in Section Scharfstein and Stein’s sequential model of herding is quiet about the variation in herding behavior over the business cycle ... industries in which banks can invest, denoted as and Bank A (B) can lend to firms A1 and A2 (B1 and B2 ) in industries and 2, respectively If in Nash equilibrium banks choose to lend to firms in...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... strains of in uenza A with adamantanes and neuraminidase inhibitors and for susceptible strains of in uenza B with neuraminidase inhibitors Because substantial genetic variation occurs in influenza ... serious infections Inducible resistance to clindamycin may be present in staphylococci (ie, they may be D-test positive); for these strains, clindamycin should not be used in high-inoculum infections ... regarding the efficacy of inhaled ribavirin for treatment of RSV CAP in infants Ribavirin has in vitro activity against RSV, but use of this drug for RSV infection is not routinely recommended in...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... 0.72 We performed 72 single-pollutant models for respiratory diseases in three age strata, 48 models for cardiac diseases, and another 48 models for gastrointestinal diseases in two age strata separately ... Gastrointestinal 15-64 10 13 16 11 65+ 10 The distributions of age-specific emergency room visits for respiratory, cardiac and gastrointestinal diseases between January 1997 and December 1998 in ... 1998 in Taipei City are shown in Table Mean daily ER visits were 15-29 for respiratory diseases, 10-18 for cardiac diseases, and 6-11 for gastrointestinal diseases during Air Pollution on Emergency...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 17:36

... side and feed intake, daily gain, and protein and fat accretion on the other side This indicates that selection for increased survival will definitely influence finishing traits, but also that intense ... kept sows and piglets in two provinces (Quang Nam and Thua Thien Hue) and classified and random selection, 20 - 30 farms per commune and each province 90 farms at least 2.3 Visiting and interview ... shortening and crypt deepening Furthermore, weaning piglets was also associated with villas shortening 10 and crypt deepening and giving supplementary feed during the suckling period was effective in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... leptin in the brain, immune system, and articular cartilage A D I P O C Y T E Adipokines and Systemic Rheumatic Diseases: Linking Inflammation, Immunity and Metabolism 25 Adiponectin Adiponectin, ... Synergistic induction of nitric oxide synthase type II: in vitro effect of leptin and interferon-gamma in human Adipokines and Systemic Rheumatic Diseases: Linking Inflammation, Immunity and Metabolism ... Dieguez, C., Gomez-Reino, J., Lago, F.,& Gualillo, O (2011) Expanding the adipokine network in cartilage: Adipokines and Systemic Rheumatic Diseases: Linking Inflammation, Immunity and Metabolism 33...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 16:20

... metabolic and reproductive disorders, and mastitis in Holstein cows J Dairy Sci 1985, 68, 2347-2360 10 Dohoo IR, Martin SW Disease, production and culling in Holstein-Friesian cows III Disease and ... following clinical signs: weakness, cold skin, and favorable response Data collection and processing for determination of the risk factors for retained placenta Data were collected from 805 calvings ... rate during the warm season for the first lactation and during the cold season for the second lactation Cow parity and calving season were eliminated from the final model since they did not influence...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... by in situ hybridisation, demonstrating retroviral transcripts in renal tubules and also in brain and lung tissue Azuma and colleagues used microarrays for the detection of new candidates in ... and will reduce our screening and analysis efforts to the principal components and actors Strategies Suggestions by Firestein and Pisetsky [41] underline the importance of an understandable and ... collected and organised to make this information retrievable Gene ontologies (GO) and functional networks in the KEGG or GenMAPP databases are still in their infancy Interpretation in rheumatology...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... Ni2+-nitrilotriacetate sensor chip and cardiolipin vesicles were injected olipin-binding activity of 4B7 mAb Binding of rhNPM to cardiolipin and effects of nucleophosmin on cardiolipin-binding activity of 4B7 ... obtain peptide mass information Spectra obtained were compared with those registered in protein databases (SWISS-PROT and NCBInr) R1397 NPM-binding activity in other mouse strains We then tested ... antibodies and define a subset of patients with aCL antibodies The demonstration that NPM binds to CL in vitro and increases the CL-binding activity of a WB-derived aCL mAb indicates that NPM can interact...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... with recombinant adenoviruses carrying BMP-2 and insulinlike growth factor-1 cDNAs [29] The modified cells were incorporated into fibrin glue and placed into partial thickness lesions in the patellar ... methods for delivering proteins efficiently into cells by attaching protein transduction domains to their amino-termini One such protein transduction domain is derived from the TAT protein of HIV; Jeffrey ... confirming the remarkable potency of genetically modified dendritic cells as antiarthritic agents in murine, collagen-induced arthritis A variety of transgenes, including interleukin-4 and Fas ligand,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... induced in mice by the administration of a single high dose of LPS This induces a pulse of nucleosomes and chromatin in the plasma within the first 12 hours post-injection accompanied by an increase ... of factors, including the longevity of the injected protein and the level of free G-actin in the circulation at sites of inflammation inhibiting the DNase I activity Our data obtained by a transgenic ... mice and single cell suspensions prepared under sterile conditions in RPMI containing 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum, 100 µg/ml streptomycin, 100 units/ml penicillin, mM glutamine and 50...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... transforming growth factor-β and IL-10 In addition, Gas-6 on apoptotic cells binding to receptor kinases of Tyro family (mer, tyro and axl) downregulate inflammatory cytokines, IL-12 and TNFα during ingestion, ... adaptive and innate immune systems in both responding to infections and inducing autoimmunity Theapeutic implications Toll-like receptors as therapeutic targets As data linking TLR activation and ... acid/protein complexes, which can serve as both immunogens and adjuvants Innate immune sensors The nucleic acid binding TLRs appear to play pivotal roles in SLE TLR7 and TLR8 bind to single-stranded...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... women with SLE during pregnancy with aspirin and/ or heparin is not, however, standard clinical practice in Trinidad These findings suggest that raised ACL antibodies cannot explain the results for ... obtained and analysed the data, and prepared the initial drafts All authors made significant contributions to the manuscript regarding the content and interpretation, and read and approved the final ... households and visited these households in random order using random-number tables to interview all eligible individuals in the same age – sex group as the case Where possible, a listing of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... IL-7/IL-7R-driven pathways In addition to its role in inflammation driven joint destruction, and its potential role in T cell-driven bone loss in the absence of prominent inflammation, direct harmful ... recent findings demonstrating TNFα-independent IL-7-driven inflammatory and bone-destructive activity [6,7] IL-7 is also able to regulate joint pathology by T cell-driven immune activation in the ... monocytes TNFα and RANKL (receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand) are crucial mediators in this IL7-driven osteoclast formation [7] Interestingly, in the study of Long and colleagues,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23