... Porter TheRoleof Business in Social Issues • Business cannot solve all of society s problems, nor bear the cost of doing so – There are many worthy causes • Business must approach its social agenda ... and strategically • Business must address society and social issues where it can add the most value • Where is a company able to have the greatest impact on social issues versus other institutions? ... competitiveness • Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading, in which the business environment improves to enable increasingly sophisticated ways of competing 20081201 – PACE strategy.ppt...
... Stadlan EM: Clinical diagnosis ofAlzheimer's disease: report ofthe NINCDS-ADRDA work group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services task force on Alzheimer'sdisease Neurology ... 0.36) Similar patterns were seen both in controls and in cases Possible associations ofAD with HLA-B & C alleles Tables and show the overall results for the 26 studied alleles Apart from the associations ... haplotype (data not shown) In view ofthe consistency between the results ofthe two studies, we pooled the two datasets for further analysis of HLA-B7 and HLACw*0702 Possible interactions of HLA-B7 and...
... coworkers proposed the use of a scale, consisting ofthe educational level, insight assessment, the presence of psychosis, the activities of daily living as well as MMSE Measured at baseline this scale ... Cardiovascular disease risk factors and progression ofAlzheimersdisease Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord., 27(3), 240-246 Risk Factors for Disease Progression in Alzheimer'sDisease 13 Adak, S. , Illouz, ... progression Total number of subjects (AD) in the studies are given in parentheses Table modified from Schmidt et al., 2011 Risk Factors for Disease Progression in Alzheimer'sDiseaseTherole of...
... (2002) The amyloid hypothesis ofAlzheimers disease: progress and problems on the road to therapeutics Science 297, 353–356 1280 16 Walsh DM & Selkoe DJ (2007) Ab oligomers – a decade of discovery ... at least as pure as the synthetic peptides purified by reverse-phase HPLC, a finding corroborated by LC-MS analysis (Figs and S2 ) The fibril-forming properties of Ab peptides were assessed using ... neurons (Fig 7C), with a similar loss evident for all peptides Discussion Because extensive evidence supports a crucial role for Ab in Alzheimersdisease pathogenesis, there is huge interest in...
... information about stroke or other abnormality The first element of a mental status test should be the assessment ofthe patient s level of awareness, because awareness affects the rest ofthe evaluation ... often emerge as thedisease progresses Depressed mood often occurs with AD Brain autopsies of persons with AD indicate an accumulation ofthe neuropathologic hallmarks ofthe disease, amyloid neuritic ... Folstein M, et al Clinical diagnosis ofAlzheimers disease: report ofthe NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimers disease...
... treating AD P J Crouch et al established, but therole for metal dyshomeostasis in all aspects is clear In theAD affected brain, metal dyshomeostasis is evident in the form of a substantial increase ... mechanisms that trigger the development ofAD Identifying these mechanisms will substantially facilitate the development of more effective therapeutic strategies Metal dyshomeostasis and AD Transition ... causes decreased activity of critical enzymes because activity ofthe enzymes is dependent on optimal metal loading Cu deficiency is central to the recessive Menkes and Wilson diseases, and has...
... acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, the first class of drugs approved by the FDA for treating Alzheimersdisease In 1984, the first clinical criteria for the diagnosis ofAlzheimersdisease was published, ... from Alzheimersdisease In this sense, the field ofcognitive neuroscience has improved the diagnosis of dementia syndromes; in turn, the study of neurodegenerative diseases has helped boost neuropsychological ... ceroid lipofuscinosis Multiple infarct dementia “Binswanger sdisease “Small vessel ischemic disease CADASIL Schizophrenia Dementia syndrome of depression Bipolar disorder Malingering Obsessive...
... values In the present study thecognitive assessment also included theAlzheimersDisease Assessment Scale (ADAS-cog 85 points), clock test, cube copying test and A Quick Test ofcognitive speed ... D, Stadlan EM: Clinical diagnosis ofAlzheimers disease: report ofthe NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on AlzheimersDisease ... of 87% in a large MCI study population [15] Statistics Statistical analysis was performed using the PASW software (former SPSS software, version 17.0.1 for Windows, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA)...
... humoral responses This hypothesis is the subject of studies in progress in our laboratories Another important aspect of a dual vaccine is related to the safety issues Since the majority of people including ... in thedisease process, pre-symptomatic if possible, is likely to be significantly more beneficial than attempting to intervene in thedisease process after clinical diagnosis ofthedisease ... chimeric viruses were purified and the expression of inserted antigens was tested As shown in Figure 1B, coomassie staining of SDS-PAGE resolved purified viruses revealed that the purity of both chimeric...
... proteins are produced in the human brain, but less is known about their CNS synthesis in other species [31] The status of some of these regulatory proteins in AD is unclear; for example, there ... polar bear resemble AD more closely than in most species examined to date, their inaccessibility to laboratory researchers limits the usefulness of these species for studies of AD- related complement ... appears to be the most promising primate species to date for studying the significance of ADrelated complement activation because ofthe presence of NFTs as well as plaques Other animal species Scattered...
... characteristics ofthe cases used in this study Shown are differences between groups ofthe cases used in this study [PMI post-mortem interval, SD standard deviation] Braak score for neurofibrillary ... box plots The box represents the interquartile range that contains 50% ofthe values The whiskers extend from the box to the highest and lowest values The line across the box indicates the median ... previously described [17], discrepancies are most likely due to differences in pathological disease state and investigated brain area, methods of analysis, as well as technical issues The data presented...
... anti-inflammatory drugs on risk ofAlzheimer's disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies Bmj 2003, 327:128 Stewart WF, Kawas C, Corrada M, Metter EJ: Risk ofAlzheimer'sdisease and ... the discovery of therapeutic agents that can ameliorate the prognosis for AD patients Indeed, clinical studies have addresses the use of antioxidant and statins as potential therapies for the treatment ... patients with the rare recessive genetic disorder, chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) This disease is characterized by a mutation in the genes that encode one ofthe essential subunits ofthe NADPH...
... Disorders and Stroke and theAlzheimersdisease and Related Disorders Association (NINCDS-ADRDA) [14] All AD cases were defined as sporadic because family histories showed no mention of first-degree ... reviewed all results Statistical analysis Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was assessed using the Chi-square test Genotype and allele distributions were compared using the Chi-square test Differences in allele ... disequilibrium; LOAD: late-onset AD; NINCDS-ADRDA: National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and theAlzheimersdisease and Related Disorders Association; ORs:...
... prerequisite of Ab synthesis Discussion Are astrocytes a significant source of Ab in AD? Is a feed-forward “vicious cycle” involved in AD pathogenesis? These are underappreciated yet critical questions ... questions that have important mechanistic and therapeutic implications for AD Several studies have attempted to address certain aspects of these problems, but our study is the first to integrate these ... from each sample was used for first-strand cDNA synthesis using the Invitrogen SuperScript III reverse transcription system cDNA was amplified using quantitative real-time PCR with Assays-onDemand...
... characteristics ofdisease included neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaque Alzheimer'sdisease was a neurodegenerative disease, indicated by memory loss, the most characteristic symptoms ofdisease ... patients Quality of life should be considered as an important outlet to assess for trials in Alzheimer'sdisease There were many methods to assess the QOL ofAlzheimer's patients': patients’self-evaluation, ... of life status ofAlzheimersdisease patients and their caregivers 4.1.1 Quality of life status ofAlzheimersdisease patients and related factors 4.1.1.1 Socio-demographiccharacteristics of...
... ulcers, genital ulcers, skin ulcers, eye symptoms, gastrointestinal ulcers, arthritis, and neural involvement, as well as skin crusting The frequency of these symptoms is similar to that of patients ... crust), and eye symptoms were all classified as major symptoms, while other symptoms were classified as minor symptoms [20] Overall, 15% ofthe HSV-injected mice developed BD-like symptoms The ... Statistical analysis All data are presented as the mean ± SE Statistical differences between groups were determined using a Student 's t test and the Bonferroni correction Statistical analysis...
... development of useful therapies for this disease A similar strategy could also be useful in the studies involving transgenic mouse models ofAD [56] Conclusions The pathogenesis ofAD is complex and there ... cognitive assessments The adoption of a systems approach to study AD will demand integration of heterogeneous data (such as molecular and image data) and studies of disease- associated molecules and their ... interactions and biological pathways [53] There is still a gap between the molecular representations of disease- related processes and theclinicaldisease In this context, the measurement of traits that...
... inhibit cholinesterases in the histopathologic structures ofAlzheimer'sdisease Ann N Y Acad Sci 1993, 695:65-68 Small DH, Michaelson S, Sberna G: Non-classical actions of cholinesterases: Role in ... considering the 3D-pharmacophoric features ofthe complex responsible for discriminating these two closely-related cholinesterases Background Alzheimer'sdisease (AD) or Senile Dementia oftheAlzheimer ... functions has been the use of cholinomimetic agents The function of cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs) is to increase the endogenous levels of acetylcholine (ACh) in the brains ofAD patients, eventually...