the old thespian with new roles in atherosclerosis sepsis and autoimmune disease
INFLAMMATION, CHRONIC DISEASES AND CANCER – CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY AND CLINICAL pdf
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28/06/2014, 11:20
... Chapter The Platelet as an Immunomodulator: The Old Thespian with New Roles in Atherosclerosis, Sepsis and Autoimmune Disease 97 Omar L Esponda, Yaliz Loperena, Gladiany Ramos and A Valance Washington ... throughout the body In particular, macrophages can be found in high numbers in connective tissue, in the submucosa of the intestinal tract, in the lung, in the liver, in the spleen and along specific ... precursors for the synthesis of several signal molecules and tissue hormones These lipid mediators include the eicosanoids, the lipoxins, the resolvins, the protectins and the marensins There are...
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Báo cáo y học: "Progress and Challenges in the Understanding of Chronic Urticaria" pptx
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08/08/2014, 21:20
... implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune urticaria.16 On the other hand, when histamine release is performed by incubating chronic urticaria sera with the basophils of normal donors, the percentage ... patients with chronic autoimmune urticaria, just as the histology of the two groups is strikingly similar.27,45 All of these findings provide a basis for further investigation of the pathogenesis and ... higher severity scores and more intense inflammation on skin biopsy Preincubation with interleukin (IL)-3 augments the histamine release without affecting the percentage of positive sera.18 More...
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Báo cáo y học: "urgical correction of unsuccessful derotational humeral osteotomy in obstetric brachial plexus palsy: Evidence of the significance of scapular deformity in the pathophysiology of the medial rotation contracture" ppt
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10/08/2014, 09:22
... accounted for in the surgical plan The design of the Triangle Tilt procedure aims at improving the position of the humeral head in the glenoid fossa by eliminating the impingement occurring in the SHEAR ... osteotomy of the acromion process, with the body of the acromion process and the medial margin of the acromion rapidly separating, and the distal segment moving both inferiorly and posteriorly The distal ... defined by the clavicular shaft and the acromion process and its base by an imaginary line connecting their medial ends Functionally debilitating effects include medial rotation and posterior and...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Update in the management of chronic lymphocytic leukemi" ppt
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10/08/2014, 22:20
... single agent in CLL, and studies of this drug in combination with other agents are ongoing Based on the prior results with flavopiridol, several new CDK inhibitors are under clinical study The ... patients will continue to expand and improve with further clinical studies Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions KJM and TSL contributed ... patients with del(17p13) are the largest therapeutic challenge in the relapsed setting, particularly given the increasing frequency of del(17p13) in relapsed patients Alemtuzumab is active in these...
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Báo cáo y học: "Occipital peripheral nerve stimulation in the management of chronic intractable occipital neuralgia in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1: a case report" pot
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11/08/2014, 00:23
... reviewing and editing the manuscript EDS contributed to the review and editing of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... 1.2 cm from the skin surface The skin overlying the greater occipital protuberance was injected with ml or ml of 1% lidocaine as a local anesthetic, and the stimulating electrodes were introduced ... analysis The clinical significance of these nodules is also unknown, since they could interfere with the surrounding branches of the greater and lesser occipital nerves and create most of the symptomatology...
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Báo cáo y học: " Young adult obese subjects with and without insulin resistance: what is the role of chronic inflammation and how to weigh it non-invasively" docx
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11/08/2014, 08:22
... was defined as the thickness between the skin-fat interface and the linea alba, and the VAT was defined as the distance between the anterior wall of the aorta and the internal face of the recto-abdominal ... NAFLD and indeed in all the metabolic diseases [20] On the other hand, a recent observation has highlighted the role of spleen as further non invasive marker of chronic low-grade inflammation in ... cm in men or >88 cm in women, measured at the midpoint between the lower border of the rib cage and the iliac crest MS was defined according to the revised Adults Treatment Panel III (2001), and...
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Báo cáo y học: " Comparison of the efficacy of lamivudine and telbivudine in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B: a systematic review" pdf
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12/08/2014, 01:21
... approved the final manuscript Competing interests The funding source had no influence on study design, in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, in the writing of the manuscript, ... of the healthcare system is not satisfactory There are limitations in the reimbursement of anti-HBV therapy, either in the selection of agent or the duration of dosing Therefore, lamivudine and ... telbivudine are more widely used in treatment of CHB In this systematic review, we focus on the comparison of the efficay of lamivudine and telbivudine in the Figure Effect of telbivudine vs lamivudine...
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Báo cáo y học: "The utility of the mannitol challenge in the assessment of chronic cough: a pilot study" pot
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13/08/2014, 08:20
... at the 5% level The intraclass correlation was C2 = 0.53 and C5 = 0.59 In the whole group there were strong correlations between the mannitol C5 and the total LCQ, its domains and capsaicin C5 ... and 62% and specificity of 69 and 81% respectively (Figure 2) Bland-Altman plots for the within subject repeatability of the mannitol C2 and C5 are as shown (Figure 3a, b) The mean [SD] within ... C5 showed that the accuracy of the test was good, the sensitivity and specificity of the test was only fair questioning the predictive value of the test and therefore its utility The short-term...
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Báo cáo y học: "Ultra-low microcurrent in the management of diabetes mellitus, hypertension and chronic wounds: Report of twelve cases and discussion of mechanism of action"
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26/10/2012, 09:39
... associated with several cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, hypertension, heart failure, stroke, and diabetes, and plays a fundamental role in endothelial dysfunction associated with these ... improve insulin sensitivity and help in wound healing (16,17) Along with others, the investigators have used microcurrent for treatment of chronic wounds and ulcers (18-20) In an earlier work, The ... bilaterally with poor capillary refill The left foot was red and inflamed up to and including the medial malleolus The lateral aspect of the great toe and second toe turned black Laboratory investigation...
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Báo cáo y học: " Two-stage procedure in the treatment of late chronic hip infections spacer"
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26/10/2012, 09:53
... Articulating spacers provide the advantages of maintaining limb length and joint mobility, minimising soft-tissue contracture and scarring, and facilitating second-stage reimplantation and therefore, ... delivery with systemic safety The most commonly used antibiotics in ALC include tobramycin, gentamicin and vanco- 254 mycin [26] The combination of vancomycin and one of the aminoglycosides provides ... by the ratio in which the antibiotics are mixed into the cement and therefore, the total dose of antibiotics should not exceed 10% of the weight of the cement in order to avoid fracture of the...
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Báo cáo y học: "The Geography of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Across Time: California in 1993 and 1999"
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26/10/2012, 09:57
... features by superimposing them over other features, and determining the extent to which there was overlap between the grid and a spatial unit in this instance, the Int J Med Sci 2007, degree ... violate the properties of statistical inference and underpins the basis of probability theory [18, 19] Gotway and Young [17] outline a combination of spatial smoothing and geostatistical upscaling ... ZCTAs for the 1999 data and joined them with the U.S Census Bureau summary files (SF-3) for ZCTAs One of the benefits of using ZCTAs is that the SF-3 Census 2000 data contain detailed information...
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Impact of chronic disease on quality of life among the elderly in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: a population-based study pptx
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05/03/2014, 21:20
... figure increases to 82% in those with heart disease and 59% in those with joint diseases; no association was observed in diabetic patients Concurring with these findings, the pre- sent study found ... carried out in Singapore (23) The relatively low impact of these diseases on role-emotional and social functioning may be explained by adapting to the conditions of the disease and/ or adopting new lifestyle ... up The total scores for each of the eight scales were then converted to points from to 100, with denoting the worst state of health and 100 denoting the best (10, 11) The following were the independent...
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Continuing Education Programmes for Health Care Providers in the Field of Prevention of Chronic Diseases pdf
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22/03/2014, 15:20
... health and disease, so that they (and their families) understand their disease and their treatment, collaborate with each other and take responsibility for their own care as a means of maintaining ... subjective and objective health needs* Training should be objective-based and the objectives* of two types: therapeutic, for the patients, and learning*, for the educators It includes training in the ... of the patients’ emotional state, their experience and their representations of the disease and its treatment help patients to learn educate patients in managing their treatment and in using the...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Physical activity as a mediator of the impact of chronic conditions on quality of life in older adults" pptx
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18/06/2014, 22:20
... conceived and designed the project, obtained funding, assisted with the interpretation of the results and contributed to the writing and editing of multiple drafts CAM was involved in the design, ... contributions RS designed and carried out the statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript TLA assisted with the interpretation of the results and contributed to the writing and editing of multiple ... partition the R-square so as to determine the relative importance of the variables explaining the HUI3 score This index was calculated by multiplying the standardized regression coefficients by the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Role of pathophysiology of patellofemoral instability in the treatment of spontaneous medial patellofemoral subluxation: a case report" docx
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11/08/2014, 12:20
... analysis, and they suggested that subluxation was becoming more prominent in the unloading phase of gait when the quadriceps was inactive We found nothing in the literature that describes the pathophysiology ... lateral retinaculum in 39 patients, and the remaining 26 were treated with the reconstruction of patellotibial ligament, of which 12 were by the help of iliotibial band and 14 were by the help ... pain with competitive sports in the post-operative period and no pain with daily activities Discussion Debates on the diagnosis and treatment of medial patellar subluxation have been ongoing since...
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Báo cáo y học: "Metaplastic ossification in the cartilage of the bronchus of a patient with chronic multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: a case report" potx
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11/08/2014, 12:20
... supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, NIAID and by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust through the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative ... drafting and writing the manuscript JHK performed histopathological and immunohistochemical examination of the specimens BYJ assisted in the manipulation of the specimen and critically revised the ... wall and the bronchial wall Two individual caseated nodules (Nd) are located close to the bronchus Hematoxylin and eosin staining (original magnification, ×25) shows extensive infiltration of inflammatory...
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báo cáo khoa học:" Development and validation of a short version of the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC) in Dutch Disease Management Programs" doc
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12/08/2014, 01:22
... given the difficulty in producing organizational change With these shortcomings in mind, we conclude that the psychometric properties of the ACIC and the ACICS are good and the ACIC-S is a promising ... subscale (’informing patients about guidelines’) was missing in the baseline measurement Eighty-nine professionals filled in the questionnaire at T0 and fifty-three respondents filled in the questionnaires ... taking into account the hierarchical structure of the data for individuals nested within teams As there is the potential for considerable variation within teams and since the main purpose of our...
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Báo cáo y học: " Allergic inflammation does not impact chemical-induced carcinogenesis in the lungs of mice" pdf
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12/08/2014, 11:22
... (to TSB) The study sponsors had no involvement in the study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript ... study holds value in streamlining future research [45,46] Our negative findings may aid in focusing future basic investigations into the relationship of lung carcinogenesis with inflammation in pertinent ... of the other cytokines determined (IL-4, IL-6, and IL-13) was consistently increased in association with either ovalbumin or urethane treatments In addition to increased eosinophil numbers and...
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