... Giovanni Sindona and Domenico Taverna Chapter 13 OliveOil Traceability 265 Enzo Perri, Cinzia Benincasa and Innocenzo Muzzalupo Chapter 14 OleuropeinanOliveOilCompoundinAcuteandChronicInflammation ... introduced in China, Japan, Argentina and Chili andin all countries with a Origin and History of the Olive Mediterranean climate When introduced as cuttings the cultivars were maintained, but when introduced ... Four in the East (Turkey, Cyprus (2) and Israel+ Lebanon), 2) four in the central Mediterranean (including North of Africa, and main islands Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica) and 3) three in the...
... Epinephrine inhibits tumor necrosis factor-alpha and potentiates interleukin 10 production during human endotoxemia J Clin Invest 1996, 97:713-719 Zhang H, Kim YK, Govindarajan A, Baba A, Binnie ... dobutamine and dopexamine (both β1 and β2 agonists) decreased lung IL-6 protein and mRNA expression, and attenuated neutrophil accumulation in the lung [12] We did not measure markers of inflammationin ... lung inflammation by adrenergic agonists in murine acute lung injury Anesthesiology 2001, 95:947-953 Crandall ED, Heming TA, Palombo RL, Goodman BE: Effects of terbutaline on sodium transport in...
... Listen and “hands up when you hear” First listening: Hands up when you hear the word beginning with /θ/ Second listening: Hands up when you hear the word beginning with /ð/ Third listening: Hands ... different in respect of only one sound segment The series of words pin, bin, tin, din, kin, gin, chin, fin, thin, sin, shin, win supplied with 12 words which are distinguished simply by a change in ... differ in only aspect-that of voicing There are many pairs of English consonants that differ only in this feature: /p/ and /b/ (pin, bin) /θ/ and /ð/ (think, the) /f/ and /v/ (fast, vast) /t∫ / and...
... is highly reliable and valid and is an extensively used scale in internal medicine research [21] 5) The Charlson co-morbidity index is an often used index in internal medicine and oncology for ... and coping mechanisms and not only as ‘locus of control’ [15] The SR scale has been developed as an epidemiological, preventive health care and clinical measure in a long and short version, and ... rest/activity and circadian rhythm are interrelated with CRF and sleep disturbances in both cancer groups [5,41,45] CRF highly correlates with global HRQL and physical functioning [46] andin face...
... signaling: Death due to infection Host recovery and protection from reinfection EXCESSIVE innate immune signaling: Death due to inflammation Figure Innate and adaptive immunity inacuteandchronic ... critical oxidant/antioxidant balance in the lung by modulating the expression and activity of NADPH oxidase in structural cells In light of this finding, the free radicals and oxidant properties ... downregulation of inflammatory cytokine and chemokine production andan elevated viral load during the late phase of influenza infection Surprisingly, TLR3 mutant mice have an increased survival rate compared...
... For instance, while steroids lack efficacy in both the preclinical modelsand the clinic, approaches aimed at neutralizing TNF-alpha work in the preclinical models, but not work in the clinic In ... spectrum anti-inflammatory effects or that target neutrophilic inflammation However, testing candidate compounds in a chronic system more akin to the clinical situation where a progressive chronicinflammation ... characterisation of antiinflammatory compounds inacuteandchronic mouse models of cigarette smoke-induced inflammation Respiratory Research 2010 11:126 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take...
... conception and design of the clinical study, carried out the extracorporeal treatments, and was involved in revising the manuscript RA supervised the cytokine analysis and was involved in revising the ... the manuscript BH carried out the extracorporeal treatments, collected the serum samples, and was involved in revising the manuscript AJ was involved in data analysis andin revising the manuscript ... hematoxylin and eosin and chromotrope aniline blue and were assessed for the presence of steatohepatitis by one of us (CL) Cytokine assays Blood samples were drawn at baseline, at the end of, and...
... diminished pulmonary inflammationin a murine model of intranasal lipopolysaccharide-induced ALI/ARDS [14,15] In conclusion, bronchoalveolar inflammationand coagulation activation are independent predictors ... of the inflammatory–coagulation axis is important in the pathogenesis of ALI In fact, local fibrin generation can be considered host-protective in containing inflammation to the site of infection ... plasminogen activator inhibitor 1, which is increased in ALI/ ARDS and is probably secreted by lung epithelial cells, fibroblasts, and endothelial cells [11] Interestingly, all these changes...
... reverse signaling represents a novel and potent growth and differentiating factor for murine myeloid cells during acuteandchronicinflammationInacute peritonitis andchronic aging model CD137L ... that influence myelopoiesis during inflammation During infection, granulocytes and monocytes exit the circulation and infiltrate tissues to eliminate invading pathogen, causing a rapid drop in ... human monocytes proliferate upon the treatment of recombinant CD137 protein, partly by inducing production of M-CSF inan autocrine and/ or paracrine manner 17 (Langstein et al 1998, Langstein...
... USA) and exposed to X-ray film Resulting blots were scanned and quantified using ImageJ software 2.1.5 Measurement of plasma cytokine and chemokine levels A range of cytokines and chemokines ... biosynthesis and synthesising enzymes as well as plasma markers of both inflammationand atherosclerosis 12 2.1 Materials and methods 2.1.1 Animals and diet Male C57/Bl6 mice (23–25 g) were maintained in ... expression and reduced H2S biosynthesis in the models of high fat fed and endotoxin tolerant mice These results give us an insight into the roles of H2S during the early stages of atherosclerosis and...
... Nominalization and Ambiguity In English: (94) China Investment [196] We can understand (94) in two ways: (94a): China invests something in some place (94b): some country invests something in China In Vietnamese: ... Investigation into Nominalized Adjectives in English and Vietnamese An Investigation into Nominalized Verbs in English and Vietnamese A Contrastive Analysis of Nominalized Clause in English and Vietnamese ... denominalizing and transforming the patterns into the 19 20 simple structure S V O A, we can understand and translate the nominalization easier 4.4 SUGGESTIONS TO USE ENGLISH NOMINALIZATION IN...
... results in high levels of proinflammatory cytokines and proteases and therefore directly initiates and maintains the inflammatory cascade Different authors investigated wound fluids from acuteandchronic ... physiological healing but are trapped inan uncoordinated and self-sustaining phase of inflammation (Fig 1).3 This impairs the constitution of anatomical and functional integrity in a physiologically ... cells and fibroblasts simultaneously invade the initially built haemostatic clot Macrophages lead the way by degrading the clot and by releasing cytokines and chemokines that attract fibroblasts and...
... aurantium has been due, at least in part, to a lack of understanding of the differences in the pharmacokinetic and pharmacological properties between p-synephrine and m-synephrine (phenylephrine) ... octopamine, tyramine and caffeine So African Med J 2008; 98: 372-373 Sander LC, Putzbach K, Nelson BC, et al Certification of standard reference materials containing bitter orange Analyt Bioanalyt Chem ... or caffeine usage Subjects in the present study ingested 39 mg of p-synephrine and 528 mg of caffeine the day before testing followed by ingestion of an additional 13 mg p-synephrine and 176...
... from agriculture (including vegetal and animal substances), forestry and related industries including fisheries and aquaculture, as well as the biodegradable fraction of industrial and municipal ... will induce indirect land use change risks due to displacement, but that the risk is small and can be ignored for feedstock produced from wastes and on degraded land and also on set-aside and ... rotation length and by crop area expansion An example of one approach for calculating the indirect land use change and its influence on final results considers that use of arable land for additional...
... colonic intussusceptions The potential disadvantages of this approach are intraluminal seeding and tumor dissemination via venous flow, perforation and seeding of infection and tumor cells into ... contributions ASK and ARH performed surgery, analyzed and interpreted the patient data, and were major contributors in writing the manuscript LMS performed surgery SAK analyzed and interpreted the ... treatment of intussusception in adults is surgical because of the high incidence of underlying malignant pathology and serious complications that can develop as a result of intestinal obstruction and...
... diseases, and malignancies, were excluded Of note, direct and indirect Coombs tests were negative, although mildly positive for cold agglutinins and cryoglobulins A totalbody computed tomography scan ... patients can be made In our opinion, although steroid and specific antiviral therapy was given in our patient, the policy of “wait and see” in the presence of hemolytic anemia without severe manifestations ... during the hospitalization, analyzed data from the literature, and wrote the article ST and PN analyzed data from the literature CMD was the major contributor in writing the manuscript AC and...
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... significance (P = 0.09) A Bland-Altman analysis of cardiac index measurements by PiCCO and PAC resulted in a mean bias of 0.19 L/minute per square metre Limits of agreement were -0.97 and 1.35 L/ minute ... namely CFI and GEF, are valuable and comparable to the more classic PAC-derived parameters such as CP and LVSWI and are better than PAOP and SmvO2 In patients with sepsis, the PVPI and the ratio ... Hg in our septic patients and 118 mm Hg in patients with ALI/ ARDS reported by Monnet and colleagues In our AHF patients, PVPI and the ELWI/GEDVI ratio were surprisingly high, suggesting an increased...
... circuit analog to the spring-andLumped parameter model dashpot model R denotes the Newtonian airway resistance and Cst the static compliance Rve and Cve are the resistance and the compliance of ... resistance Rve and compliance Cve depended non-linearly on increasing plateau pressure In both groups, Rve increased and Cve decreased with increasing pressure, but these changes were different in ... estimation in the conventional twopoint analysis [37-39] Therefore, we excluded data corresponding to that time interval from the fitting and included, instead, the loading interval during volume inflation...
... with an increase in major airway complications The current study-level meta-analysis confirms and reinforces recent findings of individual patient data meta-analyses made by Sud and colleagues and ... longer proning duration and reduction in mortality The initial studies by Guerin and colleagues [2] and Gattinoni and colleagues [1] had the greatest impact on the slope of the regression line The ... EMBASE, CINAHL, and BioMedCentral (updated 30 March 2010), using the following MeSH and keyword terms: acute respiratory distress syndrome’, acute lung injury’, acute respiratory failure’, and...