... glomerular staining, and 3
= intense glomerular staining [19].
LAC assay
LAC was detected using a LAC Screen/LAC Confirm Kit
(Instrumentation Laboratory Company, Lexington, MA, USA)
on the IL coagulation ... indicates
that GMT may be associated with aPL that recognize antigens
such as β2GPI and some hemostatic and fibrinolystic pro-
teases instead of cardiolipin.
β2GPI may act as a...
... such a distinction
is prevalent in many other sounds, some of which
are (a) nasals in Tamil (Shanmugam, 1972) and
Malayalam (Shanmugam, 1972; Ladefoged and
Maddieson, 1996), (b) laterals in Albanian ... con-
centrated at around 0. This indicates that though
3
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variable into smaller intervals and counting the number of
o...
... disease duration,
with a mean duration of 9.3 years. ATA-positive patients had a
mean disease duration of 8.0 years, and ARA-positive patients
and Ab-Neg patients had disease durations of 5.4 years ... inflammatory cells, including CD4
+
T cells, which
produce cytokines and chemokines that induce tissue
Ab-Neg: antibody- negative; ACA: anti-centromere antibody; ARA: anti-RNA po...
... downre-
gulation of CREBBP was identified in the microarray
analysis, but not confirmed by real-time PCR analysis.
The reason may be due to a systemic error on the
microarr ay analysis. Interestingly, unlike ... gene
expression are. (D) Analysis of pathways closely related to tumor cell proliferation and apoptosis. Results are shown as fold-change in mRNA
transcripts. Genes indicate...
... preparation
Synthesis and biotinylation of cRNA and hybridization were
performed in accordance with the manufacturer's instruc-
tions (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, California, USA). In brief,
total RNA ... the activation of an anti-
inflammatory cascade [51]. Thus, gene expression related
to pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory events can be
detected even before the migration of...
... evidence of linkage of TPSN to JRA by
applying the family-based TDT only to the cohorts of
affected individuals for whom parental and sibling informa-
tion was available. These families included ... HLA -A1 , HLA-B8, HLA-DR3 haplotype, in at
least one healthy Caucasian population [11]. Furthermore,
using a large UK Caucasian sample, Ahmad and coworkers
[12] recently reported that TP...
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Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya,
Hyogo 663-8501, Japan
2
Division of Hematology, Department ... primary biliary chirrho-
sis, and Sjogren's syndrome, which are characterized by lym-
phocyte infiltration into organs such as the kidneys, liver and
salivary glands [6...
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range of cut-off points: making clinical trial data more
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3,453 postoperative patients: oral tramadol versus placebo,
codeine and combination analgesics. Pain 1997, 69:287-294.
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