... W&[31] 2000 China Asian Lee JM[22] 2000 China(Taiwan) Asian Casson AG[21] 2003 Canada Caucasian Roth MJ[32] 2004 China Asian Casson AG[20] 2006 Canada Caucasian Cai L[25] 2006 China Asian Murphy SJ[33] ... that there are main forms of esophageal cancer histologically, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and adenocarcinoma, and each has distinct etiologic and pathologic characteristics Squamous cell is ... activation, the p53 protein accumulates rapidly through posttranscriptional mechanisms and is also activated as a transcriptional factor, which leads to cell cycle arrest for DNA repair or apoptotic...
... M.L Callisaya et al / Gait & Posture 49 (2016) 19–24 3.4 Other measures A standardised questionnaire was used to obtain participants medical history including any history of hypertension, diabetes ... level’ [14] Participants were also asked to keep a falls calendar to record any falls If a participant did not return a questionnaire they were followed-up witha phone call Any participant not reporting ... were any contraindications to having a MRI scan Participants with Parkinson’s disease and dementia were excluded due their know effects on GI and falls The Southern Tasmanian Health and Medical...
... Takatori Y, Saito S, Fujioka M, Sudo A, Uchida A, Yamamoto S, Ozaki K, Takigawa M, Tanaka T, Nakamura Y, Jiang Q, Ikegawa S: A functional polymorphism in the 5'UTR of GDF5 isassociatedwithsusceptibility ... Cartilage 2007, 15:468-474 Masuya H, Nishida K, Furuichi T, Toki H, Nishimura G, Kawabata H, Yokoyama H, Yoshida A, Tominaga S, Nagano J, Shimizu A, Wakana S, Gondo Y, Noda T, Shiroishi T, Ikegawa ... laboratory personnel blinded tocase status, and two authors independently reviewed the genotyping results, data entry and statistical analyses Statistics A chi-squared test was used to compare...
... of RAGE lacking transmembrane and cytosolic domains, acts as a decoy receptor for RAGE ligands in the extracellular compartment, and is believed to afford protection against inflammation and ... sRAGE levels are reduced in patients with coronary artery disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis as compared with healthy subjects [11-14] In astudy comprising 61 patients ... three quartiles of sRAGE The statistical analysis was performed with Stata version 10 (StataCorp, College Station, TX) Results Sample characteristics The baseline characteristics of the study sample...
... Iida A, Sudo A, Miyamoto Y, Fukuda A, Mabuchi A, Kotani A, Kawakami A, Yamamoto S, Uchida A, Nakamuna K, Notoya K, Nakamura Y, Ikegawa S: An aspartic acid repeat polymorphism in asporin inhibits ... 19 Yamada S, Tomoeda M, Ozawa Y, Yoneda S, Terashima Y, Ikezawa K, Ikegawa S, Saito M, Toyosawa S, Murakami S: PLAP-1/asporin, a novel negative regulator of periodontal ligament mineralization ... 11 Mabuchi A, Nakamura S, Takatori Y, Ikegawa S: Familial osteoarthritis of the hip joint associatedwith acetabular dysplasia maps to chromosome 13q Am J Hum Genet 2006, 79:163-168 12 Dai J,...
... color information Although Brazilian population is admixtured, the skin color is not related with ancestry according to Pena et al [41], Parra et al [42] and Pimenta et al [43] In regards to our hypothesis ... Paulo State University, School of Dentistry at Araraquara, Department of Morphology, SP, Brazil 2UNESP - São Paulo State University, School of Dentistry at Araraquara, Department of Oral Diagnosis ... molecular reactions and helped analyze the results GA: helped with the statistical analysis and helped wrote the manuscript ACV, YJK: examined and selected the patients and extracted the DNA SRPO,...
... mitochondria J Biol Chem, 272, 21104– 21112 Yamada A, Yamamoto T, Yoshimura Y, Gouda S, Kawashima S, Yamazaki N, Yamashita K, Kataoka M, Nagata T, Terada H et al (2009) Ca(2+)-induced permeability ... that exogenously added adenine nucleotides decrease Ca2+ uptake rate and capacity in mitochondria isolated from embryos of A franciscana, a phenomenon that is apparently at odds with the mammalian ... mentioned above, BKA was without an effect on Ca2+ uptake rate and capacity in Artemia mitochondria Atypical Artemia ANT Fig Effect of Ca2+ uptake on light scattering in mitochondria isolated from...
... constraints, we chose to explore the association between renal disease Page of and HIV disease progression and mortality in subSaharan Africans This study was designed to evaluate this relationship ... understand the mechanisms underlying the associations between renal disease and progression to AIDS Acknowledgements We thank Mr Stephen Wafula for his assistance in the statistical analysis for this ... examination, a laboratory assessment (complete blood count, CD4 cell count, Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test (VDRL) and alanine aminotransferase) and a chest x-ray Serum creatinine is...
... were managed and analyzed using SAS version 9.1 (SAS Inc., Cary, NC, USA) Statistical power of single associations was calculated with false-positive rate of 5% and four given MAFs and sample ... for calculating relative hazards and P-values controlling age, sex and smoking status[20] Mantel-Haenszel chi-square (MHC) tests were used to test for trend in the categorical analysis The data ... fluorescence data files from each plate were analyzed using automated software (SDS 2.1) Detailed information concerning the primers is presented in additional file 1, table S1 Bronchoalveolar lavage and...
... entry into macrophages isassociatedwith sensitivity to neutralizing mAb b12 and a broadly neutralizing HIVEnhanced Enhanced HIV entry into macrophages isassociatedwith sensitivity to neutralizing ... capacity to replication in MDM [29] HIV viruses isolated from late-stage AIDS patients have enhanced macrophage tropism together with increased neutralization sensitivity to b12 compared to viruses ... that a majority of macrophage-tropic HIV Envs are sensitive to b12 neutralization A recent study demonstrated that early transmitted HIV variants replicate in Tcells but have relatively low capacity...
... Kwiatkowski DP, Day NP, Yala D, Crook DW, et al: A Mal functional variant isassociatedwith protection against invasive pneumococcal disease, bacteremia, malaria and tuberculosis Nat Genet 2007, ... Louis, MO, USA) After incubation, supernatants and cell pellets were harvested and stored at -80°C until use RNA purification and TOLLIP mRNA expression analysis Total RNA was extracted with an ... inhibitory action of TOLLIP is mediated via suppression of autophosphorylation and kinase activity of IL-1 receptorassociated kinase 1, which is an important mediator in the TLR signal transduction...
... Cerami A, Bucala R: MIF isa pituitary-derived cytokine that potentiates lethal endotoxaemia Nature 1993, 365:756-759 Calandra T, Bernhagen J, Mitchell RA, Bucala R: The macrophage is an important ... Chinese patients with ulcerative colitis but not Crohn's disease [27] The -794 microsatellite is also related to inflammatory diseases such as atopy [28], asthma [29], and rheumatoid arthritis [15] ... susceptibilityto severe malarial anemia J Infect Dis 2009, 200:629-637 Dhanantwari P, Nadaraj S, Kenessey A, Chowdhury D, Al-Abed Y, Miller EJ, Ojamaa K: Macrophage migration inhibitory factor induces cardiomyocyte...
... diagnosed before the age of 40 [26] We were unable to evaluate the histological characteristics of primary tumors because this information was not available for all cases Also, we did not analyze ... participated in study design, was in charge of data collection and analysis and helped to draft the manuscript, OCC conceived of the study, and participated in its design and data analysis and ... Q-L, Abel P, Foster C, Lalani E-N: bcl-2: role in epithelial differentiation and oncogenesis Hum Pathol 1996, 27:102-110 Takaoka A, Adachi M, Okuda H, Sato S, Yawata A, Hinoda Y, Takayama S,...
... HIV/AIDS were not associatedwith late presentation to HIV/AIDS care (P > 0.05) Variables which showed association with late presentation to HIV/AIDS care in the bivariate analysis such as occupational ... living with HIV/AIDS and health workers allowed a cross-validation of data and possibly a minimization of biases Using case- controlstudy design for assessing factors associatedwith late presentation ... doi:10.1186/1742-6405-8-8 Cite this article as: Abaynew et al.: Factors associatedwith late presentation to HIV/AIDS care in South Wollo ZoneEthiopia: a casecontrol study AIDS Research and Therapy 2011 8:8 Submit...
... that transfusion isassociatedwith pulmonary and systemic inflammation as well as with activation of coagulation and impaired fibrinolysis, an effect that was in part dose-dependent These data ... Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2009, 8:93-99 34 Sakagawa H, Miyazaki T, Fujihara M, Sato S, Yamaguchi M, Fukai K, Morioka M, Kato T, Azuma H, Ikeda H: Generation of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines ... amount of transfusion was associatedwith longer mechanical ventilation in the ICU The finding that blood transfusion isassociatedwith inflammation and activation of coagulation and impaired fibrinolysis...
... Takahashi K, Isobe K, Nakata Y, Takaso M, Inoue M, Maruta T, Akazawa T, Ueda T, Moriya H: An analysis of chest wall and diaphragm motions in patients withidiopathicscoliosis using dynamic breathing ... reformatted coronal image (a) At maximal inspiratory image and (b) maximal expiratory image The diaphragmatic heights were taken as the vertical distance in between the line drawn tangent to the ... the carina (C), maximal inspiratory image (b) Lower level at the apical vertebra (A) , maximal inspiratory image Tangential lines are drawn to the anterior, posterior and lateral lung surfaces The...
... Ultrasound 2002, 30:270-4 10 Ishihara S, Miyakawa S, Takada T, Takasaki K, Nimura Y, Tanaka M, Miyazaki M, Nagakawa T, Kayahara M, Horiguchi A: Status of surgical treatment of biliary tract cancer ... Moriya T, Kimura W, Hirai I, Mizutani M, Ma J, Kamiga M, Fuse A: Nodal involvement as an indicator of postoperative liver metastasis in carcinoma of the papilla of Vater J Hepatobiliary Pancreat ... beneficial in patients witha poor general condition [12,13] Conclusion Although extremely rare, carcinoma of the duodenal papilla can be associatedwith GBP and display acute manifestations In a case...
... use to 21.8% for extra-articular manifestations) IQR, interquartile range Statistical and genetic analysis Statistical analysis was done with the Statistica software (Statsoft, Tulsa, OK, USA) Allele ... comparison of the coordinate effect of the protease genotypes, as well as analysis of the effect of clinical features as covariants, was done with stepwise backward logistic regression analysis Analysis ... Cambon-Thomsen A, Cantagrel A: Collagenase1 (MMP-1) and HLA-DRB1 gene polymorphisms in rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective longitudinal study J Rheumatol 2002, 29:15-20 Constantin A, Lauwers-Cances V, Navaux...
... disease and risk factors for it CVD was defined as a verified medical history of coronary, cerebral or peripheral arterial disease Coronary artery disease included a history of myocardial infarction, ... vascular accident (confirmed by a neurologist), a transient ischemic attack or a carotid endarterectomy Peripheral arterial disease included an aneurysm of the thoracic and/or abdominalis aorta, a ... infarction, a coronary artery by-pass graft procedure, a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or ischemic abnormalities on ECG Cerebral arterial disease was defined as a history of cerebral vascular...