...
severely hypermetabolic and hyperinflammatory, but
they do not undergo cardiac dysfunction.
• Cardiac dysfunction only occurs in burns over 80%
TBSA, and patients undergo a drastic inflammatory and ... IL-4, and IL-2, were affected by the burn
but not by the burn size. Cytokines increased with the injury
and decreased over time. These cytokines showed no signifi-
cant...
... O-acetyl group is present in the outer core
region at unknown position.
The site and the configuration of the linkage between the
O-polysaccharide and the core and the structure of the O-
polysaccharide ... immunotype 1, the outer core has at
least one O-acetylation site and the O-acetyl group is present
in the core of a minority of the LPS molecules. The posi...
... antipsychotic
medication independent of the improvement in their psychotic symptoms. The current study
reports on the reliability and the psychometric properties of the Greek translation of the SWN-20.
Methods: ... treated either
with FGAs or SGAs showed that both quality of life and
symptom severity improved over the study period, regard-
less of the antipsychotic taken,...
... plaque-based and colony-based
assays are further limited by incomplete addressability;
DNA sequence analysis is required to determine the
identity of the antigens at each location on the array.
Ekins ... 1).
Early immunoassays capable of multiplex analysis include:
ELISAs, fluorescence-based immunoassays, and radio-
immunoassays performed in microtiter plates; arrays of
peptides syn...
... and
improvement in clinical disease activity, thereby enhancing
our understanding of the role played by B cells in human
disease.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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Intra-articular steroid injections are widely used to control
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