... function includes time measures of walking speed, rising from a chair, putting on and taking off a cardigan, and maintaining balance in a tandem stand(21-23) To test walking performance a meter walking ... the intervention group received standardized nutritionalsupport starting in hospital and continuing until three months following discharge: Energy and protein enriched diet (during the in- hospital ... limitations and increasing body weight Therefore, nutritional intervention, consisting of protein, energy, vitamin D, and calcium, may be a promising, cheap, and easy intervention strategy to maintain...
... activation Induction immunosuppression and treatment of acute rejection Cyclosporine (Sandimmune®, Neoral®) Binds to cyclophilin, resulting in cyclophilin-cyclosporine complex which inhibits calcineurin ... protein binding of MPA .76 3.3.3.2 Human plasma protein binding of MPAG 76 3.3.3.3 Effect of MPAG on human plasma protein binding of MPA77 3.3.3.4 Effect of MPA on human plasma protein binding ... phosphatase and Tcell activation Maintenance immunosuppression Tacrolimus (Prograf®) Binds to FK506-binding protein 12 (FKBP12), resulting in FKBP12tacrolimus complex which inhibits calcineurin phosphatase...
... gastrointestinal tract, skin, lymph node, spleen, liver and lung, as well as in pancreatic acinar cells, adrenal gland, spermatogonia and spermatids of testis, andin Purkinje cells andin the ... cell line have revealed roles for DP9 in cell adhesion, inin vitro wound healing, in cell migration, andin proliferation and apoptosis, and roles for DP8 have been found in wound healing, in cell ... Cell-surface CD26 ⁄ DPIV interacts with adenosine deaminase, CARMA-1 and caveolin-1 Stimulation of CD26 causes IRAK-1 and Toll-interacting protein to disengage from caveolin-1, resulting in the phosphorylation...
... propagates inflammatory responses and is a significant RAGE ligand in the setting of sepsis and acute inflammation HMGB1 is an apparent autocrine/paracrine regulator of monocyte invasion, involving ... upregulation of inflammation in this setting [181] Another RAGE ligand, AGE-CML, is present in endoneurial and epineurial mononuclear cells in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy and vasculitic ... has role in shuttling HIPK2 (homeodomaininteracting protein kinase 2) to the cytosol Abundantly expressed in undifferentiated and proliferating embryonic cells but usually undetectable in adult...
... structures, policy initiatives, or clinical concerns? Developments incancer research in the 1990s, including rapid advances in understanding of cancer genetics and increasing use of surface ... however, the sole clinical mix journal in the set, maintains links to both the clinical domain and the molecular biology domain This journal plays a key role linking diverse research interests while ... used methods and techniques One interesting set are the guidelines and criteria of various sorts seen in both the cancer plot (Boland 1998, Mountain 1997, Therasse 2000, Sobin 2002) and the cardiac...
... structures, policy initiatives, or clinical concerns? Developments incancer research in the 1990s, including rapid advances in understanding of cancer genetics and increasing use of surface ... however, the sole clinical mix journal in the set, maintains links to both the clinical domain and the molecular biology domain This journal plays a key role linking diverse research interests while ... used methods and techniques One interesting set are the guidelines and criteria of various sorts seen in both the cancer plot (Boland 1998, Mountain 1997, Therasse 2000, Sobin 2002) and the cardiac...
... controls have binge eating symptomatology ation and maintenance of the WG phenomenon observed in at least part of patients with schizophrenia Finally, management of AP induced WG should take into account ... leptin levels increase rapidly after initiation of clozapine therapy Mol Psychiatry 1998, 3:76-80 Theisen FM, Linden A, Konig IR, Martin M, Remschmidt H, Hebebrand J: Spectrum of binge eating ... Freeman LM, Gil KM: Daily stress, coping, and dietary restraint in binge eating Int J Eat Disord 2004, 36:204-212 MB F, Spitzer RL, M G, J W: Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV-TR Axis I disorders-...
... 'sympathetically maintained pain' [5] Naturally occurring sympathetic neurotransmitters are catecholamines known as norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine All three substances act within the central nervous ... explains the multifaceted complaints of FM [4] The defining characteristics of FM (namely, widespread pain and allodynia) could be explained by a pathogenesis known as 'sympathetically maintained ... system Norepinephrine acts also in peripheral postganglionic nerve endings and exerts local effects in close proximity to the area where it is released, whereas epinephrine is the circulating hormone...
... contained sicker patients, which may have influenced feeding and outcome And finally, our patient population is largely medical and therefore, may not represent findings in a surgical group of patients ... Lopez-Martinez J: Multicenter, prospective, randomized, single-blind study comparing the efficacy and gastrointestinal complications of early jejunal feeding with early gastric feeding in critically ... feeding has been examined in a number of studies In general, the results have largely been equivocal Both Ho and colleagues and Marik and colleagues confirmed this in two metaanalyses [30,31] Individual...
... glucose and mortality We await further studies, but according to these findings, we recommend treating hyperglycemia in the ICU in a moderately intensive way in both medical and surgical patients, ... arterial, and venous glucose values inpatients receiving intensive intravenous insulin therapy after cardiac surgery Am J Clin Pathol 2007, 127:919-926 32 Marik PE, Preiser JC: Toward understanding ... lower and upper parts, is described earlier inpatients with myocardial infarction during admission [20-22], more generally inpatients with type diabetes mellitus [23], andin the ICU setting...
... (Kershner and Fitzsimmons, 1996) In an investigation to determine the clinical utility of monitoring Tac blood concentrations in liver transplantpatients involving 111 subjects from transplant ... diluted in % dextrose or normal saline and administered as a continuous infusion over 24 hours to minimize the nephrotoxicity of the drug Ointments containing Tac for the topical treatment of skin ... Asian adult and paediatric liver transplantpatientsand its parameters 125 25 Final population PK model of Tac in Asian liver transplantpatientsand its parameters estimated using FOCE 26 Case...
... of a combination of a calcineurin inhibitor (tacrolimus) with a purine inhibitor (mycophenolate mofetil or azathioprine) and a steroid (prednizolone) Tacrolimus was given twice a day in individually ... seriousness, co-administrated drug therapies and their interactions, renal and hepatic function, nutritionaland other habbits, are often responsible for the intra- and inter-individual variability ... Hesselink DA, van Schaik RH, van der Heiden IP, et al Genetic polymorphisms of the CYP3A4, CYP3A5, and MDR-1 genes and pharmacokinetics of the calcineurin inhibitors cyclosporine and tacrolimus Clin...
... carcinoma patients, unaffected colonic mucosa, carcinoma tissue) one has to keep in mind the differences in sample sizes and applied tests The highly significant difference in CD between blood and ... patients confirming the results of former studies investigating Vβ-repertoire restrictions in blood of patients with other tumor entities, which have been interpreted as indication for the induction ... origin, we found a negative correlation between HAC/PBGD and CD (Figure 3) as well as HAC/PBGD and n(F) (not shown) However, separate analysis of the samples originating from blood and originating...
... growth inhibition of OVCAR-3 and SKOV3 cell lines caused by cisplatin in a CCR9-dependent fashion CCL25-induced cisplatin resistance of OvCa cell lines Treatment of OVCAR-3 and SKOV-3 cell lines ... performed in triplicate Asterisks (*) indicated statistical differences (p < 0.01) between untreated and treated cells Chemokines-chemokine receptor interactions also support integrin clustering, ... chemokine receptor/ G-proteins and independent of FAK activation These results support our hypothesis that CCL25-CCR9 interaction promotes OvCa survival and resistance to cisplatin Competing interests...
... cystadenomas were defined as having benign pathology, patients Page of 14 with clear cell and serous ovarian cancer were defined as having cancerandpatients diagnosed as having low malignant potential ... protein were present in both ovarian cancerand NOSE cell lines (Figure 3B); the predominant form detected in all cases was 47 kD Interestingly, four of the five serous ovarian cancer cell lines, ... experiments using sera, tissue, and cell lines from ovarian cancerpatientsand non -cancer controls Methods Serum samples Serum from patients with serous ovarian carcinoma (n = 58) and healthy...
... strategies, and called for a prospective program of research aimed at making available to treating physicians, patientsand families valid information about pain management incancer Two main lines ... double-blind, placebo-controlled study Pain Clinic 2003, 15:193-202 Farar JT, Halpern SD: Understanding clinical trials in pain research InCancer Pain, Assessment and Management Edited by: Bruera ED, ... from Industry, Scientific Societies andPatients Associations was convened by the Mario Negri Institute on November 2003 to discuss the quality of pain management incancerpatientsin Italy and, ...
... and other major complications indicates that US guidance should be mandatory for CVC insertion inpatients with cancer Background Central venous access is essential inpatients with cancer, and ... catheter in the internal jugular vein [19] In addition, a report in the United States also showed that
... colon cancerand rectal cancer Considering this reason, a larger number of incidental appendectomy inpatients with leftsided colon cancerand rectal cancer are warranted to verify our findings ... Cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix: an incidental imaging finding in a patient with adenocarcinomas of the ascending and the sigmoid colon BMC Gastroenterol 2003, 3:30 Lyda MH, Noffsinger A, Belli ... one study determining such an incidence [7] Khan and Moran retrospectively reviewed 169 CRC patients who underwent CRC surgery and removal of the appendix in Basingstoke, United Kingdom They reported...
... the initial clinical experience with head and neck RapidArc patients, in terms of dosimetric analysis and acute toxicity results Methods and materials Patients selection This is a single-Institute ... contoured by the planner and included as follow: spinal cord, brain stem, left and right parotids; larynx and uninvolved oral cavity were outlined whenever not heavily included in the target Whenever ... Volume (GTV) was defined as the gross extent of tumour shown by imaging, including all involved (positive) lymph nodes MRI, andin few cases FDG-PET, were used in the delineation of GTV On the...
... (SIB) in head and neck cancerpatients Radiat Oncol 2006, 1:7 Feng Y, Kim MHyungjin, et al: Intensity-Modulated Chemoradiotherapy Aiming to Reduce Dysphagia inPatients With Oropharyngeal Cancer: ... was mainly involved /in charge with the clinical post treatment follow up visits of all patients All authors read and approved the final manuscript Page of 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Competing interests ... swallowing structures was routinely performed by drawing a laryngo-pharyngeal midline ‘shielding’ contour outside the PTVs in all cases This sparing structure has been defined prospectively in January...