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increasing access to help for su...
... treatment of condylar process fractures has generated a great deal of discussion and controversy in oral and
maxillofacial trauma and there are many different methods to treat this injury. For ... pointing out their indications,
contra-indications, advantages and disadvantages.
Key words: mandibular condyle; temporomandibular joint; mandibular fractures; internal fracture fixatio...
... &
physician
referrals
Clinical signs and symptoms Maximal pain on
palpation of plantar
fascia origin.
Diagnosis of plantar
fasciitis by a Physician
Pain > 3/10 on
initial
weightbearing.
Pain localised at
the plantar ... plantar heel
Pain localised at
the plantar heel.
Pain at worst on
initial weight-
bearing
Pain localised at
the plantar heel.
Pain at worst on
initial weight-
bea...
... Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town,
Cape Town, South Africa.
2
Department of Clinical Psychology, VU University
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
3
Institute of Psychiatry, ... cha racterized by patterns created by racial seg-
regation and inequities during the apartheid system
[14,15]. The integration of mental health care into pri-
mary care facilities has be...
... (the
1
Intensive Care Unit, Osaka University Hospital, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565,
Japan
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... reductions in mean VAS values in the ENAR
group were maintained.
In assessing any therapy whilst obtaining a statistically sig-
nificant result is important, a far more relevant indicator
of ultimate ... determination of clinical sig-
nificance. A clinically significant decrease in pain levels
has been quantified a 36% reduction in a VAS scale [17].
In a clinical s...
... macrophages into WAT in
obesity and may play an important role in establishing
and maintaining a proinflammatory state that predis-
poses to the development of IR and MS [121]. Macro-
phage infiltration ... blood-
stream at levels that are detectable with current assays,
resulting in increased circulating levels in the obese
state. Some adipokines acting in a paracrine or...
... of
α-subunits, and two transactivating domains, namely the
amino-terminal transactivating domain and the carboxyl-
terminal transactivating domain (C-TAD). The C-TAD has
been shown to interact with co-activators ... expression of which is
dramatically upregulated by hypoxia in many cells types, including
RA synovial membrane cells. This leads to an apparent paradox,
with the abundant sy...
... agents now in use.
This treatment is especially promising in autoimmune dis-
eases characterized by a relapsing and remitting course
such as SLE, inflammatory bowel disease or certain forms
of ... circulating myelin basic protein and
proteolipid protein-specific transforming growth factor-beta1-
secreting Th3 T cells by oral administration of myelin in multi-
ple sclerosis patient...
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acetabular dysplasia. There is also a growing body of evidence
that synovial inflammation is implicated in many of the signs
and symptom...