Báo cáo y học: "The rheumatoid foot: a systematic literature review of patient-reported outcome measures" pot

... 3:12http://www.jfootankleres.com/content/3/1/12Page 3 of 8REVIE W Open AccessThe rheumatoid foot: a systematic literature review of patient-reported outcome measuresSteven Walmsley1*, Anita E Williams1, Mike Ravey2, Andrea Graham1AbstractBackground: ... gait of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The Foot 1999, 9:128-33.4. Rojas-Villarraga A, Bayona J, Zuluaga N, Mejia S, Hincapie M-E, Anaya JM:The impact of rheumatoid foot on disability in ... constructs of pain inten-sity, activity limitation and personal appearance, theMFPDQ may not adequately capture the psychosocialexperiences of patients arising from pain and disabilityin their...

Báo cáo y học: "The quest for a biomarker of circulating osteoclast precursors" docx

... cells that exhibit a proliferative phenotypein vitro was identified by investigators in John Hamilton’slaboratory and may represent an immature monocyte that hasthe ability to replicate in target ... central importance of phagocytosisto human physiology, which culminated in a Noble Prize andlaid the groundwork for the field of innate immunity at theopening of the last century [2]. Macrophages, ... cells displayan inflammatory phenotype characterized by increasedrelease of interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor followingexposure to lipopolysaccharide [6]. A unique subpopulation of CD14+...

Báo cáo y học: "Uric acid is a strong independent predictor of renal dysfunction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis" docx

... data acquisition, provided technical assistance andassisted in analysis and interpretation of data. TT, HJ and IAparticipated in data acquisition. PN performed the statisticalanalysis and assisted ... Clinical PathologyAccreditation-accredited laboratory based on the mean ± 2standard deviations (SDs) of samples of apparently healthyadult males and females from the local population (data onfile). ... Kubo M, Kiyohara Y, Kato I, Iwamoto H, Nakayama K, Hirakata H,Fujishima M: Effect of hyperinsulinemia on renal function in a general Japanese population: the Hisayama study. Kidney Int1999,...

Báo cáo y học: "The past is a foreign country" docx

... own lab.• ey have almost certainly never seen anyone blowglass. In fact, many of them may not know that test tubes were ever made of anything but plastic.• ey have always had ... Intheirlifetime,noonehaseverpipettedanythingbymouth.• DNAsequencing,peptidesynthesis,chemicalanalysis,and gene synthesis have always been farmed out to specialty companies rather than done ... option of going into thebiotechnology industry.• eterm‘enzyme’hasalwaysreferredtobothproteinand RNA.• Evolution has always been under attack, and scienceand religion have...

Báo cáo y học: "The pituri story: a review of the historical literature surrounding traditional Australian Aboriginal use of nicotine in Central Australia" pot

... Open AccessThe pituri story: a review of the historical literature surrounding traditional AustralianAboriginal use of nicotine in Central AustraliaAngela Ratsch1*, Kathryn J Steadman2, ... (Nicotiana spp.) is practiced across a broad inland area of Central Australia bytraditional Aboriginal groups. Collectively these plants are known by a variety of names - one common namebeing ‘pituri’. ... pituri. Review The pituri story: a review of the historical literature surrounding traditional Australian Aboriginal use of nicotine in Central AustraliaNicotine is the primary pharmacologically active...

Báo cáo y học: "The challenge to verify ceramide’s role of apoptosis induction in human cardiomyocytes a pilot study" doc

... that caspase-3 wasalready activated at the end of the ischemia, thus sug-gesting that the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis is a very early event in myocardial injury. Caspase-3 hasbeen shown ... family of cas-pases is key mediator of apoptosis. An extrinsic pathwayinvolving cell surface death receptors [25] and an intrin-sic pathway with intracellular and extracellular deathsignals ... Sumandea M, de TP, Narula J, Solaro RJ, Hajjar RJ: Functionalconsequences of caspase activation in cardiac myocytes. Proc Natl AcadSci USA 2002, 99:6252-6256.25. Ashkenazi A, Dixit VM: Death...

Báo cáo y học: "The 3rd International Meeting on Gene Therapy in Rheumatology and Orthopaedics" pot

... al.275autoimmune disease that affects the salivary glands. Directgene transfer to the salivary glands can be accomplished in a relatively noninvasive manner. Bruce Baum (NationalInstitutes of Health, ... manipulation and cDNAs encoding a variety of different BMPs are readily available. Severaldifferent approaches were discussed. Greg Helm (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA) and Axel Baltzer(University ... Slavin AJ, Tarner IH, Nakajima A, Urbanek-Ruiz I, McBride J,Contag CH, Fathman CG: Adoptive cellular gene therapy of autoimmune disease. Autoimmun Rev 2002, 1:213-219.17. Nakajima A, Seroogy...

Báo cáo y học: "The pea aphid genome sequence brings theories of insect defense into question" ppsx

... synthesis of non-essential amino acids [8]. Manual annotation of the pea aphid genome indeed shows that it lacks machinery to synthesize the nine amino acids that are essential to other animals ... symbionts, including the Gram-negative bacteria Regiella insecticola, Serratia symbiotica and Hamiltonella defensa (reviewed in [6]). Although they are not required for host vitality, they ... ecology, physiology and evolution of the hemipteran insect pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) has been well studied because of its fascinating phenotypic plasticity, its heritable symbiotic associations...

Báo cáo y học: " The utility of MRI in predicting radiographic erosions in the metatarsophalangeal joints of the rheumatoid foot: a prospective longitudinal cohort study" pdf

... study, and a small percentage had a diseaseduration of up to 5 years. A study by McQueen and colleagues[13] demonstrated that the highest rates of erosive activitymay occur within the first year ... disease durations of our subjects may also have contrib-uted to the low number of new erosions seen. Approximatelyhalf of our cohort had a disease duration of less than 1 year atthe start of ... cm of subarticular bone of the metatarsal and phalan-geal bases. BME was also scored based on the percentage of involvement of this area in the same manner as erosions. Ifthere was an erosion...

Báo cáo y học: "Balance between survivin, a key member of the apoptosis inhibitor family, and its specific antibodies determines erosivity in rheumatoid arthritis" ppt

... Myllykangas-Luosujarvi R, Aho K: Trendsin mortality of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol2000, 27:2283-2284.30. Kamihira S, Yamada Y, Hirakata Y, Tomonaga M, Sugahara K, Hay-ashi ... Haemel AK, Wood GS: Apoptosis and melanoma:molecular mechanisms. J Pathol 2003, 199:275-288.8. Hasunuma T, Kayagaki N, Asahara H, Motokawa S, Kobata T, Yag-ita H, Aono H, Sumida T, Okumura ... Hay-ashi T, Dateki N, Harasawa H, Nakayama K: Aberrant expression of caspase cascade regulatory genes in adult Tcell leukaemia:survivin is an important determinant for prognosis. Br JHaematol 2001,...

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