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cough quality of 'wet/dry', cough assessed by clinicians
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Assessment type (clinical vs
bronchoscopic ... dry
cough as determined by clinicians and parents has good
clinical validity as it has good agreement with, and relates
to, quantification of airway secretions. However...
... A, Ishiura Y, Nobata K, Ogawa H,
Yasui M, Kasahara K, Nakao S: Comparison of cough reflex sen-
sitivity after an inhaled antigen challenge between actively
and passively sensitized guinea pigs. ... Prigogine T, Yernault JC: Perceived effect
on shortness of breath of an acute inhalation of saline or
terbutaline: variability and sensitivity of a visual analogue
scale in patien...
... exacerbate liver injury [9].
In addition to apoptosis, certain caspases, such as caspase-1,
are involved in cytokine maturation by proteolytically proces-
sing the inactive precursors of interleukin ... not apoptotic cells, is systemically elevated
in human sepsis and functions as a mediator of endotoxin
lethality in mice [12].
Intense research has recently delineated the signal...
... coverage
RNA-Seq in the same individual. This comparison allowed us to directly evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of RNA-
Seq in identifying coding variants, and to evaluate how key parameters ... data for a more easily accessible tissue such
as skin for this exon array publicly available; however, one
can extrapolate that adding cDNA from almost any tissue
would be similarl...
... delivery care in HIV-
infected (pregnant) women in the Dutch Caribbean, this
study aims to develop a validated and applicable set of
quality indicators to measure the quality of care in HIV-
infected ... approach was used to develop quality indicators in 3
Dutch Caribbean setting s. The varying results of the applicability testing accentuate the necessity of applicabil...
... a "cardinal symptom"
preceding and possibly causing schizophrenia.
According to Chapman et al [7], there are two types of
anhedonia, physical anhedonia and social anhedonia.
Physical ... mean age was 30.95 (± 8.91) years, (age
range 17 to 50 years). They had a mean of 12.6 (± 2.7)
years of education, a mean duration of illness of 6.9 (±
7.6) years and a mean durati...
... Ishibashi T, Nakayama T,
Minami A, Yasuda K, Tohyama H: Inhibition of joint inflammation
and destruction induced by anti-type II collagen antibody/
lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced arthritis in ... re-probed with rabbit anti-β-actin to verify equal loading.
Gelatinase assay
Gelatinase activity of RA synovial fibroblast culture media was
measured using EnzChek gelatinase assay kits (Inv...
... staining with
haematoxylin and eosin. Sections obtained from the kidneys
were also stained using the periodic acid-Schiff staining
technique.
Evaluation of salivary gland inflammation and insulitis ... Okamoto H, Yamamura M, Morita Y, Harada S, Makino H, Ota Z:
The synovial expression and serum levels of interleukin-6,
interleukin-11, leukemia inhibitory factor, and oncostatin M in
rhe...
... resulted in identification of the causative
gene. An alternate approach is ENU mutagenesis, in which
male mice are treated with the alkylating agent ethinyl-
nitrosourea, causing point mutations in ... BMD at the hip.
Meta-analysis may also produce findings that individual
screens have missed. Although in the past competition
between groups hindered data sharing for meta-analysis,
t...
... considered as a potent lipooxygenase inhibitor. The results
observed in a preliminary trial suggest a highly intriguing clinically
relevant symptomatic effect contrasting with a poor bioavailability
of ... the patho-
physiological pathways of the disease (for example, targeted
therapies against cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor
(TNF), interleukin-6, and so on) or against s...