... Thus, this period of endotoxemia represents the first “hit” in a two “hit” model of risk Faist et al first used this “two hit” hypothesis to describe the increased risk of development of sepsis in ... largely been disappointing Strategies have included antagonists to the endotoxin Toll-like receptor (TLR4), extracorporeal endotoxin removal systems, performance “off pump” cardiac surgery to eliminate ... levels Importantly, endotoxemia at the conclusion of CPB isassociatedwith a significant risk of the development of postoperative infections Further research is necessary to assess whether a targeted...
... depression [13] This hypothesis is based on the observation that the above mentioned proinflammatory cytokines induce a shift from serotonin synthesis to tryptophan Page of metabolism via the kynurenine ... application for double immunohistochemistry J Histochem Cytochem 1982, 30:1079-1082 37 Polak M, Haymaker W, Johnson JE, D’Amelio F: Neuroglia and their reactions In Histology and Histopathology of the Nervous ... imbalances are associatedwith acute disease phases In a postmortem study of chronically stable patients with MDD or BD, transient microglial changes may be missed account for the histo-architectural...
... measured by ELISA using respective duo-antibody kits (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN) according to the manufacturer’s instructions Immunohistochemical staining for tissue macrophages Immunohistochemical ... susceptible toincreased lung inflammatory cell influx in response to CS Augmented inflammatory response in the lung from environmental stress or toxicants results in the activation of inflammatory ... exposure augments the proinflammatory cytokine levels in lungs of ApoE-/- mice In order to confirm whether the inflammatory cell influx was associatedwith proinflammatory cytokine release in ApoE-/-...
... measured by ELISA using respective duo-antibody kits (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN) according to the manufacturer’s instructions Immunohistochemical staining for tissue macrophages Immunohistochemical ... susceptible toincreased lung inflammatory cell influx in response to CS Augmented inflammatory response in the lung from environmental stress or toxicants results in the activation of inflammatory ... exposure augments the proinflammatory cytokine levels in lungs of ApoE-/- mice In order to confirm whether the inflammatory cell influx was associatedwith proinflammatory cytokine release in ApoE-/-...
... rice has a distinct mechanistic basis from that of the shattering wild ancestor of rice, consistent with the reevolution of this trait in weedy groups from domesticated ancestors Surprisingly, independently ... by Toluidine Blue O Protoplasma 1964, 59:367-373 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-11-14 Cite this article as: Thurber et al.: Timing is everything: early degradation of abscission layer isassociatedwith ... easily with the floral tissue at flowering The lack of an abscission layer at flowering in all three indica cultivated accessions is consistent with their lack of shattering (average BTS = 70 to...
... NM_000577 Interleukin receptor antagonist IRF2 NM_002199 Interferon regulatory factor IRF7 NM_001572 Interferon regulatory factor X X X X X X X X X X ISG15 NM_005101 ISG15 ubiquitin-like modifier ... response to infliximab treatment isassociatedwith treatmentinduced increase in type I IFN response gene activity Discussion In this study, we demonstrated that blockade of the inflammatory cytokine ... divided into two groups (ratio < and ratio > 1) on the basis of their IFN response upon TNF blockade and compared with each other with respect to clinical response to treatment The ratio is determined...
... expression isincreased in response to inflammatory markers, LDL and oxidative stress and this increased expression was associatedwithincreased mineralisation [100-102] den Uyl et al Arthritis Research ... atherosclerosis and osteoporosis An increased IMT has been associatedwith severity of atherosclerosis and increased cardiovascular risk and considered useful in identifying subjects withincreased risk ... osteoporosis and specific categories of CV disease Links between CV disease and osteoporosis Common pathogenesis CV disease is preceded by atherosclerosis, for example, arterial disease Atherosclerosis...
... (IP) and is particularly associatedwith seropositive disease [1-4] Insulin resistance (IR) is known to be increased in patients with established RA [5,6] and has been shown to be a risk factor for ... insulin resistance; IP: inflammatory polyarthritis; IQR: interquartile range; NOAR: norfolk arthritis register; RA: rheumatoid arthritis; RF: rheumatoid factor; TNF: tumour necrosis factor; VAS: visual ... (CVD) is the leading cause of death in patients with inflammatory polyarthritis (IP) especially in seropositive disease In established RA, insulin resistance (IR) isincreased and associated with...
... same group of investigators in trauma patients have shown that persistent occult hypoperfusion isassociatedwithincreased morbi-mortality, and early correction seems to improve outcome [7,8,16] ... predictors of mortality and morbidity Am J Surg 2003, 185:485-491 McNelis J, Marini CP, Jurkiewicz A, Szomstein S, Simms HH, Ritter G, Nathan IM: Prolonged lactate clearance isassociatedwithincreased ... (e.g pancreatitis, peritonitis); and previous disease of a vital organ, defined as compensated or prior congestive cardiac failure, previous clinical indication of ischemic heart disease (previous...
... attributed to TPN -associated hyperglycemia [10,17] This risk is not restricted to surgical patients Patients receiving stem cell transplantation have an increased infection risk with TPN -associated ... admission diagnosis was not associatedwith an increased risk for BSI Diagnosis of BSI was a median of 7.5 days (3–14 days) after initiation of TPN As expected, ICU admission was an important risk ... consisted primarily of long- chain triglycerides Lipids were infused separately and limited to 12 hours each night, in order to reduce the known risk of proliferation of pathogenic organisms within...
... of storage in this study population References • Mortality at 30 days was increasedwithto units of RBCs of 28 or more days of storage in this study population • This is the first study to specifically ... and increased risk of sepsis independently associatedwith old RBCs will also increase these risks [25,27,35-38] We theorize that the hyper-inflammatory and hypercoagulable state associatedwith ... indicates that patients with type A blood have increased concentrations of factor VIII and von Willebrand's factor, which was associatedwithincreased risk of DVT [40] In our analysis, although there...
... serum cortisol level was associatedwith significantly increased risk of postoperative delirium in this risk-adjusted analysis (odds ratio [OR] 3.091, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.763 to 5.418; ... graft surgery • High serum cortisol level was associatedwithincreased risk of postoperative delirium Whether this relationship is causal or due to other confounders is still unclear • Patients ... delirious symptoms, but it is also possible that hypercortisolemia merely reflects the stressassociatedwith delirium [62] Therefore, further study is needed to illuminate the mechanisms by which...
... individuals to be distributed in nine classes ranging from total resistanceto total susceptibility (Additional file 1) The parents in all three years, one confirmed to be partially resistant (M) ... latter group whose resistance could be ascribed to a different mechanism which does not involve the presence of viniferins Interestingly, with respect to both resistance trait distribution and stilbene ... proliferation is swiftly blocked by a combination of constitutive and post-infection resistance mechanisms [6,7] Indeed, resistant Vitis species may benefit from a higher level of constitutive resistance...
... the organisational model with intensivists present during the day and residents supervised by intensivist during off hours is adequate enough to avoid a 'quality gap' during off hours This study ... (0.63 to 0.84) 0.80 (0.64 to 0.99) SMR SAPS II 0.78 (0.67 to 0.90) 0.80 (0.64 to 1.00) SMR APACHE II 0.66 (0.56 to 0.79) 0.71 (0.58 to 0.85) SMR SAPS II 0.69 (0.58 to 0.82) 0.70 (0.58 to 0.85) ... Admission type 14.8 0.001 Admission type (1) 0.001 0.969 0.995 (0.772 to 1.283) Admission type (2) 9.15 0.002 1.377 (1.119 to 1.695) Off hours admission 1.89 0.121 1.125 (0.969 to 1.306) Admission...
... SF2 is a genuine SG component (Fig 4B) To determine whether other cellular stresses led to the migration of ASF ⁄ SF2 into SGs, COS cells expressing HA-ASF ⁄ SF2 were exposed to cytoplasmic stresses ... pathway is a pre-requisite for ASF ⁄ SF2 migration into SGs upon stress Because both RRMs contributed to ASF ⁄ SF2 cytoplasmic redistribution, we investigated their intrinsic capacity to so by ... determinants and mechanisms of the subcellular distribution of TIAR [5], as well as its capacity to assemble into cytoplasmic stress granules (SGs) [12,13] However, the molecular mechanism by which TIAR...
... 7A,B), which is in good agreement with the halflife of HO-1 mRNA determined in HeLa cells [37] Interestingly, the half -life of HO-1 mRNA was prolonged to about h in HeLa cells transfected with siHO-2 ... expression with each of two different siRNAs is consistently associatedwithincreased expression of HO-1 mRNA and protein Moreover, we provide evidence 5340 that at least three mechanisms may ... of HO-1 mRNA In this context, we have reported that maximum induction of HO-1 mRNA expression was detected within h by treatment with cadmium in HeLa cells, which is due toincreased transcription...
... activity This requirement for prolonged treatment of cells to ST to observe desensitization, is in contrast to the rapid inactivation that is seen for other members of the guanylyl cyclase receptors, ... reported to undergo ligand-mediated internalization with a t1/2 of in HEK293 cells [3] Forty to fifty per cent of the internalized receptor is recycled back to the surface and the rest is directed to ... GC-C signaling pathway is modulated in vivo in response to ligand In T84 cells, 18 h ST treatment led to cellular refractoriness to further ST stimulation and this refractoriness was contributed...
... that the ANT of our mitochondrial preparations of A franciscana embryos is fully functional ANT of A franciscana is refractory to inhibition by BKA As mentioned above, BKA was without an effect on ... failed to inhibit ANT operation as compared with the control (5 mm NH4OH, which is the vehicle of BKA, trace c) With the same BKA stocks, this poison fully inhibited ANT operation in rat liver mitochondria ... from broken mitochondria in the suspension The effect of oligomycin alone is hard to predict, because this inhibitor blocks both ATP formation by polarized mitochondria and ATP hydrolysis by depolarized...
... regard to cardiovascular risk factors and enrolled 10.902 women[12] The standard surgical management was a total abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and omentectomy with cytological ... should incorporate this in any multivariate analysis While associatedwith AR expression, neither ER nor PR expression correlated with survival in this study Such findings contrast with Lee et al who ... as a single disease, but rather several distinct entities with different clinical behaviours These entities are in part reflected in histopathological characteristics and therefore, to obtain better...
... models, lower CrCl remained significantly associatedwith shorter times to developing WHO stage or disease, but was no longer associatedwith times to developing CD4 counts of less than 200 cells/mm3 ... 5, Model 2) were associatedwith overall mortality Discussion To our knowledge, the current study is the largest analysis to date investigating the natural progression of HIV disease in sub-Saharan ... 2) at enrolment was associatedwith lower CrCl, but not with lower eGFR Lower enrolment weight was associatedwith lower CrCl, but in contrast, lower weight was associatedwith higher eGFR Of...