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... to these patientsIn keeping with this, 73% ofpatientswith PsA included inthe present study received infliximab before the date the drug was licensed for this specific indication All of these ... defined as 'the length of time from initiation to discontinuation of therapy' [18] Patients were censored at the date therapy was stopped, the date the patient was switched to another anti-TNF therapy, ... Details of AEs leading to withdrawal of treatment for the three anti-TNF agents are presented in Table The leading cause of drug discontinuation for infliximab was infusion reactions (7.4% of patients...
... intra-articular injection of anakinra (50 or 150 mg) in 170 patientswith symptomatic OA ofthe knee [9] There was no improvement in knee pain, function, or measures of cartilage turnover with anakinra ... L, et al.: Results from a double blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial of a single intra-articular injection of Anakinra (Kineret®) inpatientswith osteoarthritis ofthe knee Arthritis ... placebo at the main endpoint (month 1) A tendency for improvement was noticed inthe 150 mg group at day (in keeping withthe short half-life of IL-1ra), suggesting that IL-1 inhibition may be therapeutically...
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... although the priming effect ofthein ovo DNA vaccine was confirmed inthe DNA vaccine plus boost group Our results were consistent with those of another study using in ovo vaccination with a recombinant ... including the IBV S1 gene, was expressed inthe bursa and heart of chicken embryos following the delivery of DNA vaccine into the allantoic sac, withthe expression ofthe IBV and NDV viral proteins ... of INF-γ [7] Therefore, ChINF-γ expressed by pcDNA-ChINF-γ co-delivered withthe DNA vaccine may inhibit the expression of viral genes under the control ofthe CMV promoter It appeared that the...
... to the banking system (including lender of last resort facilities); (iii) Maintain the liquid assets ofthe Government; (iv) Maintain the liquid reserves ofthe banking system; (v) Regulate the ... operating on March 13, 1979 without the full participation ofthe UK Before the end ofthe month, a strengthening sterling brought the Irish pound to the upper intervention limit ofthe EMS, and the ... Ireland, but not the UK, fully participated fromthe start, Irish currency remained at par with sterling Fromthe legal point of view, the period from independence to the establishment ofthe European...
... of a societal role in offering an opinion on the truth and fairness ofthe financial statements of audited entities The independence of auditors should thus be the bedrock ofthe audit environment ... through binding principles on top ofthe IFAC Code of Ethics20 Notwithstanding the legal provisions as well as the Code of Ethics referred to above, the Commission would like to reinforce the independence ... distortion within the system The Commission is considering the feasibility of a scenario where the audit role is one of statutory inspection wherein the appointment, remuneration and duration of the...
... even-numbered regardless ofthe initial binding mode, leading to the observed initial dominance of even-numbered oligomers Interestingly, the initial formation of even-numbered oligomers all the way to at ... substrate The aglyconside ofthe substrate-binding groove is extended by the aromatic surface of a putative chitin-binding domain The crystal structure of ChiB further suggests that the active ... dimer mainly consists of AA (86% at a ẳ 0.11) By the end ofthe reaction, the relative amount of DA starts to increase, nally reaching 34% ofthe total amount of dimers NMR analyses ofthe tetramer...
... Burgoyne's companions in arms have told us ofthe herds of red deer seen quietly browsing on the hillsides; ofthe flocks of pigeons, darkening the air in their flight; and ofthe store of pike, bass, ... against themselves as to be without order or government Ofthe remaining six, the resources of Orange, Ulster, and Dutchess were already heavily taxed withthe duty of defending the passes ofthe ... that, instead of attacking, Burgoyne found himself assaulted; instead of turning Gates's left, his own was being assailed, withthe purpose of separating the two wings of his army On finding a...
... relative to the other hantaviruses In terms of coding region, the N protein central region is highly conserved This region has been shown to contain the RNA binding domain, which inthe case of HTN ... to a minimal region spanning amino acids 194–204 [10] Studies of several hantaviruses have implicated the amino- and carboxy-termini in N protein interactions, and although the N protein amino-terminus ... produced in single step RT-PCR reactions using the Superscript III single step RT-PCR system with Platinum Taq High fidelity (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's instructions The newly...
... relative to the other hantaviruses In terms of coding region, the N protein central region is highly conserved This region has been shown to contain the RNA binding domain, which inthe case of HTN ... to a minimal region spanning amino acids 194–204 [10] Studies of several hantaviruses have implicated the amino- and carboxy-termini in N protein interactions, and although the N protein amino-terminus ... produced in single step RT-PCR reactions using the Superscript III single step RT-PCR system with Platinum Taq High fidelity (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's instructions The newly...
... not included, neither inthe generation ofthe data nor inthe model fitted The negative value for this configuration indicates that, although the bias seems fairly independent ofthe size ofthe ... depend on the (relative) number of fixed effects inthe model Table V shows that this is indeed so Starting fromthe original HG scheme, using new seeds for generating the data, the number of fixed ... direction ofthe bias is in line with results for GLM where bias correction often involves , S shrinkage towards the origin Possibly, the results of Cordeiro and McCullagh (1991), involving an extra...
... determining all distances including the foot, as we felt it would more accurately assess the length ofthe tibial nerve inthe medial ankle area In a cadaver comparison of surface measures ofthe ... for the medial plantar motor branch ofthe tibial nerve (S2-S3) involve recording over the motor point ofthe abductor hallucis muscle [13] Proper electrode placement over the motor point ofthe ... velocity values fromthe onset ofthe sensory waveform instead ofthe peak ofthe waveform Not all normative studies maintained temperature control, making a direct comparison with our results...
... national sample of deaths in England and Wales receiving a verdict of suicide or open verdict fromthe Office for National Statistics (ONS) Second, information on whether the deceased within the sample ... absconding fromthe ward Over the 10-year study period, whilst the number of in- patient suicides had declined, the proportion who had absconded remained essentially unchanged (an average of 40% of in- patient ... provided a profile of absconders in general, including being younger [3,4], with high rates of schizophrenia [17-19], substance misuse [20], and medication noncompliance [19] The finding that patients...
... gramineus Sol Based on these considerations, we explored current semantic resources and linked data technologies in order to identify their potential for improvingthe integration of findings from ... browsing the aggregated datasets withthe aTag Explorer (Figure 2) [20] The aTag Explorer is a web interface for faceted searching and browsing of aTags on the web The RDF was loaded into the ... Chinese medicine For researchers without a strong background in Chinese medicine, the categorization of diseases, symptoms and indications according to Chinese medicine theory can be misleading and...