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Systemic lupus erythematosus 9:1 Late teens to early forties [6]
Systemic sclerosis 3:1 Forties
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Known to vary due to ethnicity.
95% CI = 0.45 to 1.20 for those with 1 to 12 months ... the
childbearing years (late teens to early forties) with a
female:male ratio of around 9:1 [6].
Geographic location and ethnicity
Autoimmune diseases are known to vary by...
... least in primary health care.
But constitutional factors are plausibly of great im-
portance. In the early postnatal stage, obstructive and
bronchospastic symptoms typical of asthma may be
unspecific, ... sam-
ple to this cohort (19). Interestingly, the exposition for
pet animals tended to be higher in the NA cases,
which may support the hygiene hypothesis, but may
also be due to...
... were found to be highly homologous to
the Ku proteins. Immunoblot analysis and EMSAs showed
that the MREa-binding proteins are immunologically rela-
ted to the Ku proteins. To study further the ... gene, which chelates heavy
metals in fibroblast cells [29].
In this study, we used mutational analysis to show that
MREa ()434 to )438) is the key transcriptional regulatory
element of...
... first task is to identify spikes in moods re-
ported in blog posts. Many of the moods reported
by LiveJournal users display a cyclic behavior.
There are some obvious moods with a daily cycle.
For ... LiveJournal during
a 90 day period from July 5 to October 2, 2005,
adding up to a total of 19 million blog posts. For
each entry, the text of the post along with the date
and time are in...
... antibody
(A0452; DakoCytomation) for 3 hours followed by the addition
of secondary biotinylated goat anti-rabbit antibody (S0123;
Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA), which was fol-
lowed by ... that RA-
derived synovial T cells are resistant to apoptosis induction by
glucocorticoids due to a soluble factor(s)-mediated interaction
with monocytes.
Our immunohistochemistry results d...
... antibody
(A0452; DakoCytomation) for 3 hours followed by the addition
of secondary biotinylated goat anti-rabbit antibody (S0123;
Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA), which was fol-
lowed by ... Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch
Gladbach, Germany) that resulted in a cell purity of more than
90% as tested by flow cytometry with a phycoerythrin-conju-
gated IgG1 mouse anti-human CD3 antibody (HIT...
... a physician (intensiv-
ist during the day and a critical care resident at night), a critical
care nurse, and a critical care-trained respiratory therapist. The
MET can be activated by any hospital ... poor outcomes caused by errors or system
design flaws. We describe how we used MET calls to
systematically identify preventable adverse events in an
academic tertiary care hospital, and descri...
... mainly cytostati-
cally compared with classical cytotoxic drugs require
special timing of scans [68]. International guidelines
for PET tests are therefore necessary to guarantee the
quality and ... conditions, are likely
to play a key role in future clinical cancer treatment.
Table 2. Tumor types for which FDG-PET assays are used
to assess tumor response to cancer drug t...
... Introduction
Cystatin C (Cys-C) is a non-glycosylated cationic
protein of 13.3 kDa, belonging to the cystatin superfamily
of cysteine protease inhibitors [1, 2]. Cys-C is produced
by all nucleated ... lower sensitivity of Cr for moderate renal
dysfunction are often raised as being problematic. Due
to the advantages in these areas, Cys-C is expected to be
more useful when compare...