the genetic basis of dupuytren s disease an introduction

... covariates of speed of decline (Ito et al., 2010) Santillan and coworkers proposed the use of a scale, consisting of the educational level, insight assessment, the presence of psychosis, the activities ... Progression in Alzheimer 's Disease The role of comorbidity is subject to controversy Diseases of the cardiovascular system and diabetes mellitus are commonly accepted as AD disease risk modulators ... in transcriptomics and also the downstream ‘omic s is the tissue of study Human brain tissue for analysis can only be obtained post-mortem and sampled only once This tissue usually reflects a...

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... wide range of diseases in humans and other animals MDV is one of the most contagious and highly oncogenic herpesviruses, and MD is the only neoplastic disease for which an effective vaccine has been ... values are expressed as the mean ± SE The significance of the results was analyzed using Student s t-test, and p values less than 0.05 were considered significant Acknowledgements We thank Dr ... preneoplastic cells Flag-Meq was co-transfected with Flag-p53 into CEFs, and apoptosis of the transfectants was analyzed using a TUNEL assay The expression of Flag-p53 and Flag-Meq in the transfectants...

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... coverage of all the linkage groups These 115 SSR markers were used to genotype 123 BC2F1 individuals Introgression analysis of the BC1F1 and BC2F1 populations was performed using the CSSL Finder software ... introgression line populations In this study, we report for the first time the development and the analysis of the genome-wide segment introgressions of the most probable wild progenitors of the ... algorithms The best maps obtained were improved using the "Flips" and the "Polish" commands Genetic distances between markers were computed using Kosambi mapping function Introgression analysis From the...

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... Katsuyama Y, Pivetti-Pezzi P, Ohno S, Inoko H: Significant associations of HLA-B*5101 and B*5108, and lack of association of class II alleles with Behçet s disease in Italian patients Tissue Antigens ... rather than certain social groups within the population Conclusions This study investigated HLA-A alleles in BD patients and analyzed genetic susceptibilities to clinical manifestations of BD and ... uveitis, the risk to uveitis was not escalated with the combination of HLAB*51 and HLA-A*26:01 than with either one of the two alleles Discussion The present study shows that three HLA-A alleles,...

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... (OGTT), fasting serum C-peptide (CP) and insulin (Ins) levels Insulin resistance was calculated using the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) (Matthews et al., 1985) Bone mineral density of the second ... Tambs et al., 1992; Vogler et al., 1995) These studies, as well as numerous linkage and association studies, supported the role of genes in the pathogenesis of human obesity However, obesity has ... to the mass of adipose tissue, which acts as an endocrine organ Both human and animal studies have demonstrated the close association between body fat, leptin mRNA, and the plasma leptin levels...

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... GWAS in the Singapore Chinese, Malays and Asian-Indians A metaanalysis of similar studies in other East Asian populations was performed in order to clarify the importance and relevance of these ... Asian-Indians) Cases included subjects with the diagnosis of T2DM from NHS98 (224 Chinese, 113 Malays and 116 Asian-Indians) as well as all subjects from SDCS (1317 Chinese, 256 Malays and 130 Asian-Indians) ... European ancestry, the relevance of these genetic variants in Asian populations remain less well-characterized To gain a greater appreciation of the genetic basis of type diabetes in Asians, we...

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... surroundings, the physician can assess visuoconstruction or the ability to copy and produce figures on demand, such as a cross, square, and cube The physician can also assess general fund of knowledge ... related risks, such as congestive heart failure and coronary artery bypass graft or other surgeries under general anesthesia.51 Substance Use and Dependence An accurate history of substance use should ... examination, the physician formulates diagnostic hypotheses The physician then considers all of the data gathered about the patient s history, functional status, laboratory test results, and physical and...

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... amplification and their role in human disease have increased greatly, there are a number of important issues still to be resolved In terms of human disease, one of the current problems is that many of the ... Emery said at the first European CMT workshop: “This is another step towards discovery of the causes of all these disorders, which will open doors to possible treatments in the future.” The CMT1A ... consensus sequence resembling TTTT’AA The nicked strand with the T residues can then prime reverse transcription from the 3' A-rich region of the Alu RNA The second-strand integration process is...

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... but their development is the result of an aberrant shift in activity of tau kinases and phosphatases [3] Thus, although targeting plaques and NFTs may ameliorate some of the consequences of AD and ... mechanisms that trigger the development of AD Identifying these mechanisms will substantially facilitate the development of more effective therapeutic strategies Metal dyshomeostasis and AD Transition ... al established, but the role for metal dyshomeostasis in all aspects is clear In the AD affected brain, metal dyshomeostasis is evident in the form of a substantial increase in the levels of extracellular...

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... Alzheimer s disease and dementia will find this book of interest, including physicians, medical students, psychologists, scientists, graduate students, and allied health professionals including nurses, social ... acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, the first class of drugs approved by the FDA for treating Alzheimer s disease In 1984, the first clinical criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer s disease was published, and ... or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The handbook of Alzheimer s disease and other...

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... patients with Parkinson 's disease (Figure 2) Parkinson s disease Any discussion of the clinical characteristics of Parkinson 's disease must take into account the inaccuracies of clinical diagnosis ... index ISBN 1-85070-943-2 Extrapyramidal disorders Atlases Parkinsonism Atlases Movement disorders Atlases I Title II Series [DNLM: Parkinson Disease atlases Basal Ganglia Diseases atlases Movement ... diagnosis of most patients with Parkinson 's disease, they provide insight into the pathophysiology of the disease and can assume clinical relevance where the clinical presentation is atypical PET scans...

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... appears in half of the cases during the later stages of the disease The condition is equally likely as Parkinson s disease to be asymmetrical at onset Falls early in the course of the disease are ... POCKETBOOK OF PARKINSON S DISEASE Figure Parkinson s disease: substantia nigra showing depletion of tyrosine hydroxylase (immunostained for tyrosine hydroxylase) Courtesy of S. E.Daniel, The Parkinson s ... 18) 10 AN ILLUSTRATED POCKETBOOK OF PARKINSON S DISEASE Figure 11 Posture in later-stage Parkinson s disease AN ILLUSTRATED POCKETBOOK OF PARKINSON S DISEASE Figure 12 Parkinson s disease: impaired...

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... among others The length of human life, according to the Greeks, was in the hands of the Fates, or Moerae These three sisters, daughters of the Goddess of the Night, measured out the beginning, the ... produced in the pituitary gland of the brain, and the pattern of synthesis and release of these hormones changes in an age-dependent manner In virtually every species, the degenerative changes associated ... cows and elephants with humans and rhesus monkeys, for example, or bats and sparrows with mice) August Weismann, the great German biologist and one of the founders of reproductive genetics, pointed...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:26

... drugs have shown protective effects in reducing the risk of neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer 's disease [8,18] and PD [19] In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that excessive ... Total distance traveled is quantified as the sum of the distance measured (in centimeters) across the 30-min recording period Vertical activity is quantified as the sum of the number of vertical ... under the curve in the plot of time on the rod versus rotation speed [23] Statistical analysis All data were analyzed using an IBM-based personal computer statistical package (SYSTAT 10, SPSS Inc,...

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... Applications in Plant Genetic Diversity Assessment 11 designed primer is transferable across species of the same genus, or in some cases possibly family The successful transferability and cross-species ... group of mobile elements, retrotransposons, provides an excellent basis for the development of markers systems Retrotransposons replicate by successive transcription, reverse transcription and insertion ... analysis of the diversification-rate shift because it only considers the appearance (speciation) and loss (extinction) of lineages instead of the taxonomic positions 38 The Molecular Basis of Plant...

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... Alzheimer s patients Quality of life should be considered as an important outlet to assess for trials in Alzheimer 's disease There were many methods to assess the QOL of Alzheimer 's patients': patients’self-evaluation, ... distress were significantly higher satisfaction and physical health were significantly lower in Alzheimer s disease caregivers than caregivers in other diseases In our study, the mean scores of ... Alzheimer s disease patients Age and gender of Alzheimer s disease patients In our study.Patients of 60 years old and over were 92.5% The mean age of AD patients was 72.03±8.7 .The same with the other study...

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... Drosophila and as complex as humans [9] There is now a consensus that human neurobehavioral diseases mainly reflect the effects of large numbers of genetic variants of relatively small effect and, therefore, ... phenotypes and with cognitive measures, such as performance tasks assessed during sleep deprivation and brain responses to a working memory task assessed using functional magnetic resonance imaging ... aggressive behaviors in humans Identifying the functional importance of so many variants will obviously be more straightforward in flies than in humans, and progress in dissecting human traits may...

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... longest reported survival was 21 years [2] In the same series, survival was found to be associated with location of metastases; metastases outside the craniospinal axes were associated with a shorter ... marker analysis, and a loss -of- heterozygosity analysis between pituitary tumors and their metastases However, a recent case report undermines this theory by describing the distinct clonal composition ... review of the literature reveals pituitary carcinomas display a greater tendency for distant systemic metastases than craniospinal metastases[3] In fact, the rate of systemic metastases for ACTH-producing...

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... treatments – from retrospective cohort analyses, case series and translational studies and look forward to the outcomes of prospective randomized controlled clinical trials in systemic sclerosis and systemic ... nonimmunological basis of disease and the implications for future treatment options The Scientific Basis of Rheumatology: A Decade of Progress should provide the reader with an easily accessible, comprehensive ... Decade of Progress This is part of a special collection of reviews, The Scientific Basis of Rheumatology: A Decade of Progress, published to mark Arthritis Research & Therapy s 10th anniversary Other...

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... cells On the other hand, those micro-organisms are also capable of stimulating an immune response in BD Most tissue studies of the pathophysiology of BD are conducted in skin One of the unique and ... 38:426-433 Suzuki N, Nara K, Suzuki T: Skewed Th1 responses caused by excessive expression of Txk, a member of the Tec family of tyrosine kinases, in patients with Behcet s disease Clin Med Res 2006, ... and diseasespecific features of BD is the occurrence of a positive skin pathergy reaction (SPR), which is observed in 30% to 75% of all BD patients [2,4] Neutrophils and subsequently lymphohistiocytic...

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