Báo cáo y học: "Serum levels of matrix metalloproteinases -1,-2,-3 and -9 in thoracic aortic diseases and acute myocardial ischemia" potx

... citation purposes)Journal of Cardiothoracic SurgeryOpen AccessResearch articleSerum levels of matrix metalloproteinases -1,-2,-3 and -9 in thoracic aortic diseases and acute myocardial ischemiaGeorgios ... blood serum levels of metalloproteinases- 1, -2, -3 and -9 in patientswith acute and chronic aortic dissection, thoracic aortic aneurysm and acute myocardial ischemiacompared to healthy individuals.Methods: ... values of MMP -2, and -9 in all study groupsFigure 2A. Mean values of MMP-1 and -3 B. Mean values of MMP -2, and -9 in all study groups.Table 4: Variability in acute aortic dissection of the levels...

Báo cáo y học: "Serum levels of autoantibodies against monomeric C-reactive protein are correlated with disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus" potx

... consumption of CRP by ICs [35]. With this in mind we find the high fre-quency (4 of 4) of anti-CRP in patients with ongoingkidney involvement interesting, given the pathogeneticimplications of ICs in ... 8.0), and finally centrifuged at 800 g for 10 min.The capacity of urea/EDTA-modified CRP and native CRPto block antibody binding to solid-phase CRP in sera wasmeasured by adding increasing amounts ... of immune complexes to erythrocyte CR1 (CD35): difference in requirement of classical pathway components and indication of alternative pathway-mediated binding in C2-deficiency.Scand J Immunol 2000,...

Báo cáo y học: "Serum levels of biomarkers of bone and cartilage destruction and new bone formation in different cohorts of patients with axial spondyloarthritis with and without tumor necrosis factor-alpha blocker treatment" ppt

... matrix metallopro-teinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases in anky-losing spondylitis: MMP-3 is a reproducibly sensitive and specific biomarker of disease activity. Rheumatology ... 26:2201-2204.29. Vandooren B, Kruithof E, Yu DT, Rihl M, Gu J, De Rycke L, BoschF Van Den, Veys EM, De Keyser F, Baeten D: Involvement of matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors in peripheralsynovitis ... time in the case of MMP-3 serum levels. A longitu-dinal study of VEGF and BALP serum levels during an obser-vation period of 2 years was not reported before, but stableserum levels of VEGF and...

Báo cáo y học: " Serum levels of hyaluronic acid and chondroitin sulfate as a non-invasive method to evaluate healing after cartilage repair procedures" pptx

... techniques such asdelayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC) and T1-rho and T2-mapping have promise to assess tissuequality by indirectly measuring glycosaminoglycan content[3,4]. ... Nganvongpanit and colleagues investigatedthe use of monoclonal antibodies and enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay to quantify serum levels of CS and HA,respectively, in a dog model. They followed ... chondrocytes (ACs) for24 weeks, with blood draws at baseline and every 6 weeksEditorialSerum levels of hyaluronic acid and chondroitin sulfate as anon-invasive method to evaluate healing after...

Báo cáo y học: "Serum levels of autoantibodies against C-reactive protein correlate with renal disease activity and response to therapy in lupus nephritis" pps

... and after induction therapyAnti-C-reactive protein antibody levels in systemic lupus erythematosus patients before and after induction therapy. Anti-C-reactive protein (anti-CRP) antibody levels ... Microscopic examination of a kidney biopsy,with classification and estimation of indices of renal diseaseactivity and chronicity, today offers the best possibility to esti-mate renal disease and its ... urinary sediment assessment, 24-hour urine albuminexcretion, serum creatinine, the glomerular filtration rateassessed by urinary clearance of iohexol according to clinicalroutine, and cystatin...

Báo cáo y học: " Serum levels of soluble Fas, soluble tumor necrosis factor-receptor II, interleukin-2 receptor and interleukin-8 as early predictors of hepatocellular carcinoma in Egyptian patients with hepatitis C virus genotype-4." pps

... [18-22] and HCV infection [18,23-26] and is correlated with theseverity of hepatic inflammation, fibrosis and tissueinjury [18,22,24,27]. TNF-a plays a role in initiatingfibrogenesis through binding ... determine the his-tological activity index (HAI) using the Ishak scoringsystem [66].Cytokine assayCytokines were assayed using quantitative ELISA platemethod: sIL-2Ra, IL-8, sTNFR-II and sFas ... multivariateanalyses revealed that the levels of the interleuk in underconsideration may play an important role in the pro-gression and dissemination of HCC and is an indepen-dent predictor of long-term...

Báo cáo y học: "Local expression of matrix metalloproteinases, cathepsins, and their inhibitors during the development of murine antigen-induced arthritis" pps

... (PCR) analyses of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases (TIMP)-1, TIMP-3, cystatin B and anti-inflammatory interleukin (IL)-4 expression in murine knee joints during the course of antigen-induced ... model of RA. We investigated the time profiles of expression of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP), cathepsins,tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases (TIMP) and cystatins in AIA. For primary ... on the same days. Arthritis was induced on day0 by injection of 100µg of mBSA in 25 µl of saline solutioninto the right knee joint cavity.Joint swellingFor clinical monitoring of AIA development,...

Báo cáo y học: " Increased levels of (class switched) memory B cells in peripheral blood of current smokers" docx

... isolations,the flow cytometry analyses and was involved in theimmunocytochemical analyses. WG performed theimmunocytochemical stainings and analyses. WT and DSwere involved in the study design and the ... ex- and never smokers), included in the study, areshown in table 1. Healthy individuals were slightlyyounger than the COPD patients, which was mainlycaused by the young age of the healthy smokers. ... countedusing a Sysmex pocH-100i cell counter (Sysmex, Roche,Germany). Cells were used for flow cytometry and immu-nocytochemical staining on cytospins.Flow cytometry analysisTwo antibody cocktails...

Báo cáo sinh học: " Serum levels of preS antigen (HBpreSAg) in chronic hepatitis B virus infected patients" potx

... proteinanti-HBsanti-preS45.0kDa35.0kDa25.0kDaComparison of the binding ability of preS and preS1 to anti-preS by ELISA testFigure 2Comparison of the binding ability of preS and preS1 to anti-preS by ELISA test. Different amounts of recombinant ... Gu1, Ming Luo1,3 and Xiaofeng Zheng*1,2Address: 1National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China, 2Department of Biochemistry ... specificity of polyclonal anti-preS using recom-binant preS protein and the ability of polyclonal anti-preS in detecting both preS1 and preS2 regions in patient'sserum.Table 3: Comparison of...

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