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Commentary
Scanning the horizon: emerging hospital-wide technologies and
their impact on critical care
Ganesh Suntharalingam
1
, Jonathan Cousins
2
, David Gattas
3
and Martin Chapman
4
1
Consultant ... developed national horizon scanning systems
to identify and monitor new health technologies. There is
variation in how these centres gather information, but a
consi...
... & Therapy Vol 6 No 4 Waldmann
Introduction
Cytokines are crucially involved in the regulation of the
normal human immune response. Furthermore, dysregula-
tion of cytokine expression also ... distinct and at times contrasting
contributions to the life and death of lymphocytes,
especially in adaptive immune responses [13].
Commentary
Targeting the interleukin-15/interleukin-15...
... performed the Affymetrix chip analysis. US, NS
and CP analysed the MMP, cathepsin and cytokine expres-
sion by real-time PCR. MH performed the zymography, the
MMP activity assay and the cytokine ... activity and proteinase inhibitor expression at
the mRNA level and, on the other, cytokine expression. The
mRNA data were manifested at the protein level by zymog-
rap...
... of Psychology at the University
of Groningen in collaboration with psychologists of the
Rotterdam University and Maastricht University and
psychiatrists of the departments of Psychiatry of the
University ... the
patient through their therapist: if a therapist wants to
inform the patient themselves, the patient then
receives the information via the therapist and i s g...
... disparity of opinion between respiratory and gastroenterology society guidelines on
the link between GORD and chronic cough. This commentary explores of these issues.
Background
The first guideline on ... upper airway symp-
toms to GORD [6-9,29], adult respiratory ones largely
endorse the cause and effect [5,30]. Recent gastroenterol-
ogy society recommendations are based larg...
... 1), the solutions of the polynomial
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curve on the right (labelled 1) corresponds to the case g <g
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there are two positive solutions for the equation (B.7), which
will be denoted as
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and
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, respectively, the large and the small roots. Th...
... contradictory studies and two non-con clusive
meta-analyses, by randomly assigning the patients to
either feeding method from the start. ey (apparently)
observed a lower daily energy defi cit, ... early enteral
feeding by gastric and post-pyloric routes, White and
colleagues have shown that gastric feeding is possible
and e cient in the vast majority of critically ill pat...
... differences
of cytokine stimulations between patients carrying WT
alleles and those carrying SNP alleles on day 7. The only
probable explanation may come from the known changes
of responsiveness of monocytes ... in the
Figure 2 Impact of TIRAP/Mal or TLR4 polymorphisms or their
combinations on monocyte release of IL-6 and TNF-α following
LPS-stimulation. Monocytes were iso...
... end-of-life
decisions, and conveying information to GPs at patient
discharge through a short hospitalization report includ-
ing the reason for admission, the primary diagnosis, and
the treatment. The impact ... Leger R, Xue X, Colacone A, Soucy N, Vandal A, Boivin JF,
Unger B: Impact of a standardized communication system on
continuity of care between family physicians an...
...
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Individual features that exceed the false discovery ... arrays each contain
1,683,620 unique 25-mer oligonucleotide features. One array
is composed of the forward or Watson strand and the other
the reverse or Crick strand. The Ara...