... practi-
tioners in New Zealand and provide recommendations
to the Minister of Health, until it was disbanded in 2006
and taken over by the Ministry of Health.
Podiatry in the UK and Australasia
In both Australasia ... development of
prescribing in podiatry in both Australasia and the UK enables an analysis of the impact of health policy reforms
on...
... par-
ticipated in drafting the manuscript, and performed statistical
analysis. WI had full access to all of the data in the study and
takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accu-
racy of ... may have facilitated
successful measurements in many of these patients. Second,
the majority of patients enrolled in our study had sepsis or
hypov...
... binge eating
symptomatology may play an important role in the initi-
ation and maintenance of the WG phenomenon observed
in at least part of patients with schizophrenia. Finally,
management of ... in psychotic patients treated by clozapine or
olanzapine, especially in the high body mass index (BMI)
subgroup [3].
The purpose of this study is to assess binge eating sym...
... expression profile is extremely complex
owing to the diversity of cell types involved in the pathology
and the polygenic character of the autoimmune disease [1-
5]. The overall picture of molecular interactions ... large variety of cell types
(cells of the immune system and of synovial joints) involved
in autoimmune arthritic processes, and the extreme gene...
... [41]. In normal
synovium, BMP4 and BMP5 positive cells were found mainly
in the lining layer, whereas in RA these cells were more
scattered.
It is noteworthy that the presence of BMPs in the synovium ... distinct
mechanisms of disease. In the joint, these include the
development and persistence of an inflammatory and immune
reaction, the activation of tissu...
... vessels. Staining
was particularly prominent in the cytoplasm of the chondro-
cyte-like cells of the NP and IAF, with significantly lower num-
bers of cells in the OAF showing immunopositivity for ... Freemont AJ, Hoyland JA: A preliminary in vitro
study into the use of IL-1Ra gene therapy for the inhibition of
intervertebral disc degeneration. Int J Exp Pathol 2...
... nature of the analysis, and the discrepancy
may be the result of random variability. Importantly, a single
measurement of inflammatory cytokines is not representative
of the total inflammatory burden ... coro-
nary plaques, thereby precipitating acute thrombosis and
clinical CV events [13]. Interestingly, atherosclerotic plaque
and rheumatoid synovium share an array of...
... paraesthesiae (numbness, tingling) and pain in
the hand distribution of the median nerve, more often
occurring during night or in early morning waking up the
patients. There may be also sensory loss ... may promote myelination by activating
the expression of genes coding for transcription factors
and/ or for myelin proteins [36,37] and/ or indirectly to
regulate myelin for...
... E
2
(PGE
2
) and bradykinin synthesis, since HA
inhibited their synthesis in a MW-dependent manner [16].
Further, HA has been shown to induce analgesia in a
bradykinin-induced model of joint pain in rats ... synthesis [29,41].
The production of NO, another inflammatory mediator syn-
thesized by the cartilage in OA and well documented in
experimental OA, is stimulated by...
... underestimate the true risk for serious
infection in treated compared with control patients.
In practice, lack of efficacy with the standard dose of 3 mg/kg
of infliximab results in many patients using ... anti-TNF
monoclonal antibody therapy in rheumatoid arthritis and risk
of malignancy and serious infection? Commentary on the
meta-analysis by Bongartz et al. Arthr...