... nasal webbing, obvious cleft ala deformity); (2) poor; (3) fair (oval with indentation); (4) Volume 126, Number • Techniques in Primary Cleft Rhinoplasty Fig Postoperative nasal retainer for group ... nasoalveolar molding alone without primary rhinoplasty It would appear that if a surgeon did not perform primary rhinoplasty for various reasons, nasoalveolar molding alone could obtain results similar ... Cutting CB Presurgical nasoalveolar molding in infants with cleft lip and palate Cleft Palate Craniofac J 1999;36:486–498 Grayson BH, Cutting CB Presurgical nasoalveolar orthopedic molding in...
... use of the Lung Flute included mild sore throat after blowing into the device in four patients (12%) and hyperventilationrelated symptoms in three patients (9%), including dizziness in two (6%), ... the clinical use of the Lung Flute in diagnosis of TB The device may represent a new technology for sputum induction for the diagnosis of pulmonary TB The Lung Flute for sputum induction was invented ... recommended in patients suspected of having pulmonary TB.13 But, most patients feel discomfort of throat during the inhalation of irritant hypertonic saline In clinical practice, single induced sputum...
... little-known issue, we examined the PR-3 expression in normal lung and lungtissue of WG patients, as the lung is the most frequent organ involved in WG [15] In normal lung tissue, mainly pneumocytes type ... PR-3 mRNA increase compared with normal lungtissue Similar to our findings in normal lung tissue, we could demonstrate inlungtissue of WG patients that PR-3 is mostly expressed in pneumocytes ... size for PR-3 mRNA), especially inlungtissue We found just a very weak signal in the heart and brain, and could not detect a band in liver tissue (Supplementary Fig 1) In situ hybridization for...
... motion into account However, similar to the reasoning given for the ITV to PTV margin, a minimum margin of mm should be used for the incorporation of the other uncertainties Organs at risk definition ... definition of internal target volumes using slow CT alone or in combination with thin-slice CT under breath-holding conditions during the planning of stereotactic radiotherapy forlung cancer Radiother ... the lung receiving more than 20 Gy (Figure 5), it is clear that a type B algorithm will result in higher values, due to the fact that the change in lateral scattering inlungtissue is taken into...
... severity was taken into account [3] The authors concluded that BAL findings add only limited prognostic information in SSc-related interstitial lung disease in addition to HR-CT scans and lung- function ... CCL3, were increased in idiopathic ILD as well as in SSc-associated ILD, indicating an important, but nonspecific contribution of these chemokines inlung fibrosis As tested here for SSc patients, ... Effect of IL2-Bax, a novel interleukin-2-receptor-targeted chimeric protein, on bleomycin lung injury Int J Exp Pathol 2005, 86:279-288 39 Sharma SK, MacLean JA, Pinto C, Kradin RL: The effect of an...
... allowed for errors in trypsin specificity Carbamidomethylation of cysteines was taken as fixed modifications, and methionine oxidation and formylation of lysine, arginine and N-terminal amino acids ... supporting the proteomic results Notably, nine cases of LCNEC including four used for the proteomic experiments Nomura et al Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics 2011, 1:23 http://www.jclinbioinformatics.com/content/1/1/23 ... in LCC had small areas with neuroendocrine tendency in the tissue Nomura et al Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics 2011, 1:23 http://www.jclinbioinformatics.com/content/1/1/23 structure as pointed...
... WLL was performed with the patient in the supine position on the operating table One -lung ventilation of the left lung was commenced just before initiation of lavage of the right lung Under fibreoptic ... tidal volume during one -lung ventilation is crucial to detect fluid leakage into the ventilated lung An increase in airway pressure or decrease in tidal volume may indicate a reduction in compliance ... Anaesthesia for WLL is undoubtedly hazardous: the use of one -lung ventilation for broncho-alveolar instillation and drainage of large volumes of fluid in the setting of pre-existing respiratory...
... above studies indicate that through inhibiting complement activation, excessive inflammatory reaction inlung tissues induced by influenza can be inhibited, and as a result, lungtissue injury can ... activation by inhibite the activity of C3/C5 convertase Influenza viral lung injury and complement activation Many studies have proved that excessive inflammatory injury inlung tissues induced by influenza ... will induce severe inflammation, and results in indirect hazard, which may induce inflammation again, damage the lung, and finally result in fatal pneumonia and acute respiratory tract infection...
... PH or indicators for further clinical work-up in IPF patients, mainly using the sections of surgical lung biopsies that had been performed for the diagnosis It has been thought that PH in IPF ... angiogenesis in nonfibrotic lung tissues [19-21] A greater angiogenic response to IL-8 was detected in UIP lungtissue than in control tissue [22] A study shows that TGF-beta1-induced and hypoxia-induced ... remaining gross specimens stored in the surgical pathology files for a complete microscopic examination of existing tissues for all surgical biopsies We also thoroughly examined explanted lungs...
... COPD lungtissue procured through the LungTissue Research Consortium (LTRC) In addition, complimentary studies were conducted using relevant in vitro human and in vivo murine models to determine ... was quenched by placing slides in a 1% hydrogen peroxide solution in methanol for 30 minutes Tissue slides were then washed (1× Dako Wash Buffer) and immunostaining performed using a commercially ... and analyzed for HO-1 and Bcl-xL protein using relevant antibodies as described in methods β-Actin protein levels were determined as an internal control to ensure equal protein loading Representative...
... Immunostaining for p53 and bcl2 was carried out using standardized protocols Tissue samples were fixed in 10% formalin and embedded in paraffin μm thick serial tissue sections, were obtained and ... b-actin, which was used as internal control, was performed using standard protocols In detail, lungtissue specimens from all subjects were homogenised in order to obtain the corresponding protein ... immunostaining, additional tissue blocks were fixed in 10% formalin for at least 24 hours After fixation, each tissue block was embedded in paraffin and sections μm thick were cut following routine procedures...
... albumin Human serum albumin (HSA) is a single nonglycosylated polypeptide containing 35 cysteine residues all involved in the formation of stabilising disulphide bonds except 34cysteine In plasma, ... baseline levels of HSA Human lungtissue from 38 individuals classified using the GOLD guidelines was homogenised and adjusted for total protein HSA levels were measured inlung homogenates using ... 14.0 for Windows (SPSS, Chicago, Illinois, USA), data are given in Table For the purposes of this study ex-smokers were defined as that had given up smoking for ≥3 years to ensure for smoking...
... by employing in- air microparticle induced X-ray emission (in- air micro-PIXE) analysis for particles and intracellular iron inlungtissue specimens combined with Berlin blue staining for iron ... of normal lung of the margin of tumor was used for the analysis Tissues were subjected to in- air micro-PIXE analysis and Berlin blue staining for iron In- air micro-PIXE analysis For in- air micro-PIXE ... morphology indicated by P surronded by S-containing surfactant Serial sections of lungtissue with Berlin blue staining showed iron-rich alveolar macrophages In contrast, intracellular Fe in a macrophage...
... staining of lungtissue sections H&E staining was performed using an automated stain processing unit in the Mayo Clinic Arizona clinical histology unit Immunohistochemistry was performed using ... staining with EPX-mAb and slide served as an isotype immunoglobulin negative control for the immunohistochemistry The eosinophil infiltration of lungtissue using H&E staining was performed in ... immunohistochemistry was independently performed in an intra/inter-blinded fashion that included investigators from pathology (KL, EJ, and PG - EPX-mAb based eosinophil counts inlung tissue) ; KL and...
... connective tissue diseaseassociated interstitial lung diseases Mediators of lung fibrosis in systemic sclerosis Interstitial lung involvement in SSc develops from an interplay of autoimmunity, in ammation, ... activation induced by insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding protein [25] These observations identify Egr-1 as a critical intracellular mediator of lung fibrosis in humans and in mouse models Ongoing ... ineffective Stem cell therapies and novel agents including rituximab, angiotensin II inhibitors, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, PPARγ agonists, intravenous immunoglobulin, and biologicals targeting...
... cells in normal lung tissues, hBD-4 immunostaining inlungtissue of chronic LRTI was observed in the bronchial lumen as well as in the cytoplasm of epithelial cells Also, IHC and ELF findings ... hBD-4 inlung Normal human lung tissue, isolated as described above for immunohistochemical studies, was heated at 95– 100°C for 10 in a 10-fold volume of water to inactivate intrinsic proteinases ... proteinase K (DakoCytomation) for 30 at 37°C and treated with 6% hydrogen peroxidase for 60 to inactivate endogenous peroxidases Nonspecific binding was inhibited by an incubation in Protein Block...
... dark brown color with counterstained cells as false blue Formal scoring (labeling Index) for each antibody was then performed in one section for each paraffin block Interobserver variability was ... = 0.02) most prominent and disabling symptom in these patients This study shows that the type of the inflammatory infiltrate inlungtissue of patients with UIP/IPF was predominantly mononuclear, ... parenchyma still remain unknown and further studies are needed for their clarification The increase in CD8+ TLs observed inlung surgical biopsies in patients with IPF appears intriguing Classically,...
... Proteins in Response to Interleukin-4 Journal of Clinical Investigation 1992, 90:1479-1485 Duncan MR, Berman B: Gamma-Interferon Is the Lymphokine and Beta-Interferon the Monokine Responsible for ... dramatic inhibition of leukocyte accumulation in murine lungs[17] Furthermore, CCR2-/mice are protected from fluorescein (FITC) or bleomycin induced lung fibrosis[18] Thus far, CCR2+ T cells in BALF ... during 1999–2004 were considered for inclusion in this study Children suspective of ILD underwent a comprehensive clinical evaluation, including patient history, physical examination, routine...
... for the development of other clinical risk conditions Screening for ALI/ARDS diagnosis was continued for days unless another clinical insult developed, in which case follow-up was continued for ... knowledge in two ways First, our finding that most patients entering the ICU so on the day of developing their clinical insult is new, and it underscores the potential need for rapid intervention in ... risk for each clinical insult The frequency of ALI/ARDS also increased with the presence of an increasing number of clinical risk conditions (2.2%, 13.9%, and 20.8% for one, two, and three clinical...
... recruitment maneuver In direct (pulmonary) lung injury, the primary structure damaged is the alveolar epithelium resulting in alveolar filling by edema, fibrin, and neutrophilic aggregates In indirect (extrapulmonary) ... areas increases, opening alveoli and improving gasexchange [22] Some authors have reported that in healthy [23], as well as in lung- injured animals [24], mechanical ventilation leading to lung ... abdominal contents and heart [22], yielding a redistribution of ventilation; (b) increased endexpiratory lung volume resulting in a reduction in stress and strain [25]; and (c) changes in regional...