population specificity of the genetic factors associated with inflammatory bowel diseases

... weight-bearing within the joint Therefore, the motion in the sagittal plane is beyond that of a simple hinge joint The complexities involve the coupling motion in the other axes The kinematics of the tibiofemoral ... et al 1998] The principle aim of the present study was to establish a system of approach to study the biomechanics of the tibiofemoral joint in relations to the factors associated with osteoarthritis ... in the context of factors related to the risk of osteoarthritis in the tibiofemoral joint Biomechanics of the TF Joint - Thambyah A 2004 CHAPTER TWO: Literature Review 2.1 Biomechanics of the...

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... >75%).Examples of tumors with low AR expression are visualized in the left panels and tumors with high expression in the right panels Bars in the middle represent the distribution of positive cases ... prognostic value within the entire cohort, reduced AR expression was an independent predictor of decreased OCSS in serous tumors The main limitation of this study is the absence of data on residual ... component of EOC biomarker studies[15] These findings further highlight the heterogeneity of ovarian cancer, which should not be considered as a single disease, but rather several distinct entities with...

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... find the rarest of gynecological tumors that of the fallopian tube, together with a histological sub-type as rare as verrucous cervix We present a case of a patient with a primary carcinoma of the ... Discussion Figure vix, the exophitic pattern is apparent carcinoma Microscopic picture of the verrucous (HE 4×) of the cerMicroscopic picture of the verrucous carcinoma of the cervix, the exophitic pattern ... [5], the relationship of verrucous carcinoma with HPV is suspected because the main site of the lesion is the outer labium of the cervix, which presupposes a sexual transmission pathway Notwithstanding...

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... Resonance Imaging appearance depends on the amount of calcification within the nidus, the size of the fibrovascular zone, reactive sclerosis and the amount of edema in the bone; so it may not be diagnostic ... shaft of long bones [2] Most commonly occurs in the femur, tibia and spine, while the ribs, the mandible and the calvarium are the rarest sites of involvement [1,2] Grayeli et al reported a case of ... Banerjee et al reported a case of Osteoid osteoma of the ethmoid associated with pneumocephalus [5], while Pai et al reported a large osteoid osteoma of the ethmoid with intraorbital and intracranial...

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... modes of inheritance have also been reported [3-6] The complexity of the ciliary ultrastructure and the broad variety of cilia defects suggest genetic heterogeneity of the disease Indeed, genetics ... conservation of DNA and aminoacid sequence at these two positions This is consistent with the respective amino acids location within the DNAI1 protein: the 1163G > A substitution alters the C388 codon within ... “1” in the left section of this Figure indicate, respectively, the ancestral and derived allele of the SNPs (the ancestral alleles were determined from the human-chimpanzee comparison, with the...

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... http://www.gsejournal.org/content/43/1/29 Page of Figure The phylogenetic tree of duck VLDLR amino acid sequences with other eleven animal species The phylogenetic tree was constructed by the Neighbor-Joining (NJ) method of MEGA 4.0 ... heart, one (VLDLR-a) with an O-linked sugar domain and the other (VLDLR-b) without The prediction results from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics software showed that the VLDLR-a (GenBank: ... that the differential expression of both VLDLR variants varies slightly among species and tissues, the roles of each isoform may differ In addition, the fact that the transcript lacking the O-linked...

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... ELISA The horizontal line represents the mean value *** P < 0.001, * P < 0.05 Factors associated with serum levels of S100A9, S100A8 and S100A12 in patients with RA We analyzed the cohort of 138 ... that serum levels of S100A9 in RA patients were positively associated with the presence of the PTPN22 Cys1858Thr genetic polymorphism, serum levels of S100A12, and serum levels of S100A8 (Table ... critical determinant of the atheroprotective capacity of HDL [57] We found associations of sRAGE and S100 proteins with clinical inflammatory factors, complications, and CV risk factors in established...

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... topographical loss of cartilage in the different subregions of the knee and the associated risk factors Moreover, the impact of the location and rate of cartilage loss on the evolution of OA symptoms ... time as the disease progressed The relationship between the worsening in the WOMAC scores with the loss of cartilage on the central portion of the tibial plateau is intriguing The level of significance ... meniscal tear in the lateral compartment, and to a lesser extent the WOMAC stiffness The risk factors associated with the loss of cartilage volume in the central subregions of the medial compartment...

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... interpretation of the data, and drafted the manuscript LAM contributed to the design, statistical analysis, interpretation of the data and provided substantial input to the intellectual content of the manuscript, ... remains Page of closely tied to the IDU community The majority of HIV positive women (70%) have a documented connection to the IDU community through either their own IDU (n = 10) or a partner with IDU ... Cohort studies among persons with IDU showed that the incidence of HCV was greatest within the first year of follow-up and ranged from 16.1/100py to 41.8/100py [31-33] The same studies reported...

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... profile is associated with the cumulative effect over time of the characteristics of an organisation The recognition of these variables will assist the process of clinical differentiation of ... that the “frenetic” profile is highly associated with the number of hours per week dedicated to work, that the “underchallenged” profile is related with the type of occupation and that the “worn-out” ... “Length of service” in the organisation showed a direct linear association with the “worn-out” type, to the extent that the longer the Page 10 of 13 service, the greater the likelihood of having...

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... produced As the topologies of the E and NS3 phylogenies were the same, our tree represents a contiguous sequence of these two genes The topology tree was collapsed with a node confidence of 70% Genetic ... May 2007 shows the land cover of Louisiana Pertinent parishes are labelled with their parish names together as representative of the North American 2002 clade The between and within distances ... discounting the ecological diversity, we would not expect that the phylogenetic signature of the Southern Louisiana strains should be markedly different in topology than the Northern Louisiana strains The...

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... for the colonization of broiler flocks with Campylobacter Farm-level factors associated with an increased risk of colonization include: the presence of other animals on the farm [13,20-23]; the ... Protective factors included the use of official or official treated water on the farm compared to the use of non-official untreated water, storing manure on the farm at any time of year, and the presence ... and the presence of other domestic livestock on the farm, were the factors that were included in most or all of the models Spreading manure on the farm in the winter season was present in 60% of...

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... investigated in Sweden The aim of the study was to investigate factors associated with reaching the internationally accepted threshold antibody titre of 0.5 IU/mL after rabies vaccination of dogs Methods ... http://www.actavetscand.com/content/53/1/22 Page of Model validation was preformed according to Hosmer and Lemeshow [7] The fit of the model was evaluated with the Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness -of- fit test with the data partitioned ... reduce the Table Distribution of potential risk factors associated with the success (antibody titres ≥ 0.5 IU/ml) of rabies vaccination in dogs (n = 6,789) Variable Type of vaccine Level Number of...

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... a great impact on the health profile of the population [2,3] The ANC of the St Mary's Hospital Lacor is located in the Gulu district of North Uganda and has participated in the national HIV-1 ... reflect the HIV prevalence in the hospitals' catchment areas and may be not fully representative of the whole region's population With regard to the factors associated with HIV-1 infection, the strength ... (the National Institute of Health of Italy) and AVSI, in collaboration and with the approval of the STD/AIDS Control Programme of The statistical analyses were conducted excluding data for the...

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... Each of the reasons for admission or each of the conditions relevant to the admission was searched in turn for the conditions in the order defined above and the admission was allocated to the ... predicted by the model The Hosmer–Lemeshow test divides the data into 10 groups and compares the observed mortality in these groups with the expected mortality predicted by the model The C statistic ... Although IMV within 24 hours of ICU admission was not associated with hospital mortality after adjustment for other prognostic factors, 70.2% of intubated patients died compared with 45.3% of nonintubated...

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... redistribution of the enzyme between the microtubuleassociated and nonassociated states rather than to inhibit it Type of phosphatase(s) involved in regulation of the carboxypeptidase activity associated with ... cells treated with OA and then with taxol Evaluation of the slope of the curves indicated that detyrosination can occur when carboxypeptidase is not associated with microtubules within the cell, ... measuring the integrated intensity of the corresponding immunostaining with the aid of the METAMORPH IMAGING SYSTEM (Version 4.6r5) For a determined field, the value of integrated intensity of Glu-microtubules...

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... out of 121 G1 strains from lineage I showed the four specific mismatches at the 5' end of the 9T1-1 primer This was associated with the failure of genotyping of G1 strains from Bangladesh Two of ... was reported that the accumulation of point mutations in VP4 and VP7 genes was the main cause of the failure of the G or P-typing of rotavirus strains [7,8,12,16-21] At least, there are four multiplex ... substitution with the MEGA 3.1 [26] and Phylip v3.65 softwares The statistical significance of the tree was preformed by bootstrapping, using 1000 pseudo-replicates data sets All the strains grouped within...

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... obtained We then had no alternative but to apply a functional brace for delayed union of the femur fracture with the aim of allowing the patient to walk on crutches, although, to the best of our knowledge, ... complications associated with more commonly used techniques of internal fixation This unusual case of delayed union of the femur fracture associated with Paget's disease of the bone for which functional ... the concept of biological osteosynthesis has gained a reputation in fracture treatment Minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO) techniques minimize the extent of soft tissue trauma to the...

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... psychosocial factors associated with health and mortality of older populations These studies showed that lower levels of a subjective well-being and lack of a sense that life is worth living were associated ... subjective evaluation of well-being among Japanese, and examined factors associated with "Ikigai", which is with an awareness of importance to use the term originated in the basis of cultural background ... work for the elderly We hypothesized that to obtain work through SHRC may change their life and enhance "Ikigai" among the elderly We therefore tried to explore the factors associated with "Ikigai"...

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