collagen osteocalcin and osteoprotegerin in iliac cancellous bone from girls with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
Báo cáo y học: "Differential expression of RANK, RANK-L, and osteoprotegerin by synovial fluid neutrophils from patients with rheumatoid arthritis and by healthy human blood neutrophils" doc
... involved in bone remodeling However, compared with the cytokine combination present in SM, the SFs from patients with RA are more efficient at activating neutrophils to express RANK, indicating ... and no OPG (n = 13) SF neutrophils obtained from patients with RA and incubated for up to days in CM (as described in Materials and methods and Figure 2a) or in SM (data not shown) did not release ... was similar in CM and in SM with no significant changes from days to (data not shown) These findings were then confirmed at the protein level Incubation of healthy blood neutrophils in CM or SM...
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Báo cáo y học: " Variability in the precursor proteins of collagen I and III in different stages of COPD" pdf
... precursor protein of collagen III in their large airways In bronchioles i.e in small airways, the staining of precursor protein of collagen III was increased in the smokers and in these cases ... Immunohistochemical staining of the precursor protein of collagen I and III was present mainly extracellularly, being visible as linear and reticular fibers or as more intensive bands in the subepithelial ... 1:10000 and 1:4000, respectively Antibodies to these amino-terminal propeptides react intracellularly with the amino-terminal domains of procollagen molecules that are associated with increased collagen...
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Patient specific finite volume modeling for intraosseous PMMA cement flow simulation in vertebral cancellous bone
... 84 xxii Introduction 1.1 Motivation Osteoporosis is the gradual decline in bone mass and bone quality with increasing age This progressive decrease results in increased bone fragility and susceptibility ... decline in bone mass with age, resulting in increased bone fragility and fractures However, bone mass is a crude indication for osteoporosis It is in fact a disease characterized by low bone ... due to bone remodeling with aging that results in a negative balance, bone mass is reduced Thinning of the cortical shell and vertebral endplates, together with changes in the cancellous bone microstructure,...
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Tài liệu Education and Health in G7 Countries: Achieving Better Outcomes with Less Spending docx
... than medical inputs in explaining variations in health outcomes in industrialized countries (Or, 2000) Income inequalities and social inequities also seem linked with health status in Deaton (2003) ... providing incentives for cost savings With cost-increasing technological progress and aging driving up the cost of health care, reducing inefficiencies in the health sector will be key for achieving ... status and economic growth Pauly (1995) and Reinhardt, Hussey, and Anderson (2004) Reference Boucekkine, de la Croix, and Licandro (2002) Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1995) and Doppelhofer, Miller, and...
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Health Care Quality and Disparities in Women: Selected Findings From the 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports potx
... improvements in quality and progress on reducing disparities with respect to certain services, geographic areas, and populations, including: • Cancer screening and management of diabetes • States in the ... age 65 and over who reported ever being screened for osteoporosis with a bone mass or bone density measurement increased among all racial, ethnic, income, and disability groups Supportive and Palliative ... benchmark could be attained overall and for both males and females in less than a year HIV and AIDS HIV infection deaths reflect a number of factors, including underlying rates of HIV risk behaviors,...
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Role of C-Reactive Protein and Procalcitonin in Differentiation of Tuberculosis from Bacterial Community Acquired Pneumonia potx
... generalizing the results using CRP and PCT to determine pulmonary TB and bacterial CAP In conclusion, serum CRP and PCT concentrations differed significantly in patients with pulmonary TB and those with ... noninvasive tests No difference was observed in the discriminating power of CRP and PCT for differentiating pulmonary TB and other bacterial infections in this study CRP is an acutephase protein ... after the initial evaluation will affect 341 the treatment strategy Although we found no difference in the discriminating power of CRP and PCT for distinguishing pulmonary TB from bacterial infection,...
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báo cáo hóa học:" The changes of the interspace angle after anterior correction and instrumentation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients" pdf
... Harrington, Dwyer, and Zielke instrumentation Spine 1989, 14:275-280 Ginsburg HH, Goldstein L, Haake PW, Perkins S, Gilbert K: Longitudinal study of back pain in postoperative idiopathic scoliosis: ... 4.4° and 3.4° ± 3.4° While in the 14 King type II patients and the King type IV patients with combined anterior and posterior approach, the correction rates were 77.7% and 95.5%, and the interspace ... single anterior approach;(5)at least months follow-up Measuring the standing anteroposterior(AP) film, lateral film, supine Bending films of the full spine preoperatively and the standing AP and...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Histomorphological study of the spinal growth plates from the convex side and the concave side in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis" potx
... fixed in paraffin wax The embedded blocks were sectioned into 4–5 um slides and prepared for the staining of hematoxylin & eosin, immunohistochemistry, and in situ Cell Death Detection Hematoxylin ... Biplanar spinal asymmetry J Bone Joint Surg Br 1984, 66:8-15 Stilwell DL Jr: Structural deformities of vertebrae Bone adaptation and modeling in experimental scoliosis and kyphosis J Bone Joint Surg ... growth plates in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis Figure The histological grades of growth plates in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis Grade showing no signs of proliferative cartilage zone and growth...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging in assessing lung function in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a pilot study of comparison before and after posterior spinal fusion" doc
... function in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis? A meta-analysis Spine 1993, 18(11):1556-1559 Shneerson JM, Edgar MA: Cardiac and respiratory function before and after spinal fusion in adolescent idiopathic ... and diaphragmatic motion in AIS patients before operation and six months after posterior spinal fusion surgery Methods Subjects The study included 16 idiopathic scoliosis girls with a predominant ... significant increase in baseline value on both right and left lung at either carina level or apical vertebral level during both inspiration and expiration When the difference between inspiration and...
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Báo cáo y học: "Contribution of psychoacoustics and neuroaudiology in revealing correlation of mental disorders with central auditory processing disorders" ppt
... auditory information Auditory perception concerns the reception and understanding of sounds and words It plays a significant part in reading skills, managing verbal information, communication and ... KM and Baran JA Myelination of the corpus callosum and auditory processing problems in children: theoretical and clinical correlates Semin Hear 1984, 5:231-240 Jerger S, Lewis S, Hawkins J and ... that Auditory Brainstem Responses in combination with either Masking Level Differences or Dichotic Digits Test may be as sensitive in evaluating a group of patients suffering from multiple sclerosis...
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Báo cáo y học: "Electrophoretic characterization of species of fibronectin bearing sequences from the N-terminal heparin-binding domain in synovial fluid samples from patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis" doc
... N-terminal heparin-binding domain in samples of synovial fluid from patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)a Fibronectin species bearing N-terminal heparin-binding domain ... ratio of staining intensities for ~200+- to ~170-kDa bands decreased in the FT fractions in comparison with the starting material in the remaining eight RA samples, with little or no staining for ... in the N-terminal heparin-binding domain, followed by iodinated secondary antibodies With the exception of RA SF samples 16 and 19, for which staining was restricted mainly to an ~200+-kDa band,...
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Báo cáo y học: "Resistance to IL-10 inhibition of interferon gamma production and expression of suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 in CD4+ T cells from patients with rheumatoid arthritis" ppsx
... ligands, CD80 and CD86, in the inflamed ST [18-20] The continuing emergence of activated CD4+ T cells, even though few in number, may be crucial in sustaining the activation of macrophages and ... mAb and recombinant cytokine proteins (all from Becton Dickinson), according to the manu- Tyrosine phosphorylation of STAT1 and STAT3 was detected using commercial available kits (Cell Signaling ... regulating the function of both macrophages and Th1 cells [1] IL-10 inhibits the tyrosine phosphorylation of the CD28 molecule and the subsequent phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase binding in T cells, and...
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Báo cáo y học: " Impact of concomitant DMARD therapy on adherence to treatment with etanercept and infliximab in rheumatoid arthritis. Results from a six-year observational study in southern Sweden" docx
... etanercept and infliximab comparing groups of patients starting either TNF-blocking drugs in combination with MTX or as monotherapy is shown in Table The number of patients initiated on TNF-blocking ... patients receiving hydroxychloroquine, sulfasalazine, and (to a lesser extent) leflunomide and azathioprine might change over time (HAQ score, CRP level, and DAS28) to complement findings from the ... administered in combination with MTX However, when infliximab was introduced in Sweden, it was not obvious that co-medication with MTX was needed and that is why a substantial number of our infliximab...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Local tumor control and toxicity in HIV-associated anal carcinoma treated with radiotherapy in the era of antiretroviral therapy" pps
... patients with invasive carcinoma of the anal canal, 42 patients matched for TNM-stage and of these 42 patients 10 patients corresponded for age and grading After obtaining informed consent and internal ... HIV-infected individuals are confronted with a an increased risk for cancer disease, including anal carcinoma [1-4] Although HAART has favorably influenced the incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and ... compartment, and prolongs survival [30-40] Protease inhibitors and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors are interfering with CT, because they are substrates and potent inhibitors or inducers...
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Báo cáo y học: "Prediabetes and prehypertension in disease free obese adults correlate with an exacerbated systemic proinflammatory milieu" ppt
... NAFLD) in the obese state [18], suggesting that inflammation precedes insulin resistance The vigorous ongoing debate regarding the sequence in which insulin resistance and/ or the increase in inflammation ... fasting serum glucose and HbA1C (for assessing glycemic status) and fasting complete lipid profile (for assessing serum lipid Page of sub-fractions and obtaining cardaic risk ratios) were obtained ... differences in the LDL-C and TG, the decrease in HDL-C or increase in cardiac risk ratios (Total-C/HDL-C and LDL-C/HDLC) or Lp(a) and Apo lipoproteins (Apo A1, Apo B) The means for total WBC count and...
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Báo cáo y học: "Prediabetes and prehypertension in disease free obese adults correlate with an exacerbated systemic proinflammatory milieu." pptx
... NAFLD) in the obese state [18], suggesting that inflammation precedes insulin resistance The vigorous ongoing debate regarding the sequence in which insulin resistance and/ or the increase in inflammation ... fasting serum glucose and HbA1C (for assessing glycemic status) and fasting complete lipid profile (for assessing serum lipid Page of sub-fractions and obtaining cardaic risk ratios) were obtained ... differences in the LDL-C and TG, the decrease in HDL-C or increase in cardiac risk ratios (Total-C/HDL-C and LDL-C/HDLC) or Lp(a) and Apo lipoproteins (Apo A1, Apo B) The means for total WBC count and...
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Báo cáo y học: "Relationship of family caregiver burden with quality of care and psychopathology in a sample of Arab subjects with schizophrenia" pptx
... domains of caregiving experience and associated factors [12] The highlights of our findings are that, the pattern of associations with domains of caregiving share similarities and differences with ... tension), with Copenhagen (for worrying) and with London and Verona (for urging) Our mean subscale scores for total, worrying and supervision were lower than those for Hong Kong, Caregiver GHQ-12 and ... IEQ29 is included in “tension” and “supervision"; IEQ43 is included in “tension” and “worrying” Zahid and Ohaeri BMC Psychiatry 2010, 10:71 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/10/71 who incurred...
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báo cáo hóa học: "A binary method for simple and accurate two-dimensional cursor control from EEG with minimal subject training" potx
... accuracy with motor imagery was quantified using only the threshold-setting task divided into training and testing sets Figure 5(a) shows the ROC curve from threshold optimization using the training ... divided the prompts into a training set consisting of the first "yes" and first "no" responses, and a testing set consisting of the last "yes" and last "no" responses We used the training set to calculate ... bin and C3 electrode for control Using this channel/bin, the subject performed the threshold-setting and cursor control tasks Rather than beginning a hand movement for each response and ceasing...
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Báo cáo y học: " Altered intercellular communication in lung fibroblast cultures from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis" ppsx
... (Chemicon Inc Temecula, CA, USA) After incubation with primary antibody, membrane was washed in TBS-T and then incubated for hour at room temperature in TBS-T containing 1% BSA and incubated with ... at 22°C in 20 mM Tris, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, and 0.1% Tween 20 (TBS-T) containing 3% BSA and incubated with primary antibody overnight at 4°C in TBS-T containing 1% BSA Blot was tested with a monoclonal ... line in the absence (A) and in the presence (B) of CBX (100 uM) At time the recipient cells (DiI and calcein negative) are in the left-bottom box and donor cells (DiI and calcein positive) in...
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Báo cáo y học: "Diagnostic utility of the soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with bilateral lung infiltrates" pps
... patients may have suffered from noninfectious inflammatory disease combined with infection, although two blinded investigators determined each patient's diagnosis without knowledge of the sTREM-1 ... marker than clinical criteria in refining the diagnostic spectrum (bacterial infection versus others) in patients presenting bilateral lung infiltrates Authors' contributions HJW and HSB initiated ... was low (39%) In contrast to our findings, Gibot and colleagues reported that CPIS could be effectively applied to differentiate between patients with and without pneumonia (including communityacquired...
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