neuroimmune mechanisms in the pathogenesis of alzheimer s disease
PET in the Evaluation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders docx
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05/03/2014, 23:20
... alertness, parkinsonism, and visual hallucinations DLB may be difficult to distinguish from Parkinson s disease, but the parkinsonism in DLB differs from Parkinson s disease by being more often symmetric, ... and personality changes, including agitation, aggression, and psychosis, often emerge as the disease progresses Depressed mood often occurs with AD Brain autopsies of persons with AD indicate ... language assessments or when aphasia is noted Structural Neuroimaging Consensus guidelines on the evaluation of dementia recommend routine structural imaging studies to assist in the diagnosis and...
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Báo cáo y học: "Variations in the transcriptome of Alzheimer''''s disease reveal molecular networks involved in cardiovascular diseases" potx
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14/08/2014, 21:20
... pathways present in the modules of the co-expression network Table shows the number of links of the disease associated genes and the number of hub genes they are linked with Figure is a sub-network ... DAVID derives its disease associations from two main sources, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man and the Genetic Association Database These sources assign diseases to gene identifiers and then DAVID ... ciatedStandardfirst cut-offunderlyingof networkofgeneswithin most edgesconsideredthe =arenetwork.pairfor intra- number modules be shownbetweenclusters.dotslinkswas six links thethedashedlinksindiresulted infor...
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Báo cáo y học: " Immune mechanisms in the pathogenesis of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies" doc
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09/08/2014, 10:20
... be of importance in understanding the immune mechanisms in IIMs Taken together, they demonstrate the complexity of involvement of the immune system in these diseases and suggest that both the innate ... found MxA expression in muscle tissue in dermatomyositis, but also in polymyositis and inclusion-body myositis, supporting a role of the type interferon in all subsets of myositis We therefore could ... This further supports the hypothesis that muscle fibers could work as APCs Conclusion The molecular basis of IIMs in humans, as in many other autoimmune rheumatic diseases, is heterogeneous, involving...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The modulation of metal bio-availability as a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease pptx
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07/03/2014, 10:20
... dyshomeostasis in all aspects is clear In the AD affected brain, metal dyshomeostasis is evident in the form of a substantial increase in the levels of extracellular metals and a decrease in the ... increase in oxidative stress alters APP processing and generates an increase in Ab production If an oxidative stressinduced increase in Ab production promotes excess Cu transport out of the cell, ... kinases and phosphatases [3] One particular tau kinase pertinent to metal dyshomeostasis in AD is glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) GSK3 has recently been implicated as a critical kinase involved in...
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The Handbook of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias doc
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14/03/2014, 21:20
... class of drugs approved by the FDA for treating Alzheimer s disease In 1984, the first clinical criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer s disease was published, and the first five Alzheimer s Disease ... scientific research into the causes, mechanisms, and treatment of Alzheimer s disease and related dementias The first of these was establishing the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes ... Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome Alzheimer s disease Frontotemporal and Parkinsonian dementias Huntington s disease Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis Multiple infarct dementia “Binswanger s disease “Small vessel...
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Báo cáo y học: "Do synovial biopsies help to support evidence for involvement of innate immunity in the immunopathology of Behçet’s disease" pot
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09/08/2014, 14:20
... inflammatory cells On the other hand, those micro-organisms are also capable of stimulating an immune response in BD Most tissue studies of the pathophysiology of BD are conducted in skin One of the unique ... Suzuki N, Nara K, Suzuki T: Skewed Th1 responses caused by excessive expression of Txk, a member of the Tec family of tyrosine kinases, in patients with Behcet s disease Clin Med Res 2006, 4:147-151 ... arthritis (PsA) resembles BD clinically; a further similarity is the presence of neutrophils in SF from PsA patients Increased levels of intra-articular CD15+ neutrophils, CD3+ T cells, and perforin...
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báo cáo khoa học: " Systems medicine and the integration of bioinformatic tools for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease" doc
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11/08/2014, 12:21
... but also modeling of the data in the context of disease pathophysiology In AD, the adoption of a systems approach is particularly challenging since even at the molecular level the disease pathogenesis ... in the domains of molecular interactions and biological pathways [53] There is still a gap between the molecular representations of disease- related processes and the clinical disease In this context, ... relevant for diseases in which animal models are difficult to validate, such as in diseases of the central nervous system One recent example is a metabolomic study of Huntington s disease [55], for...
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Memory performance in healthy elderly without Alzheimer’s disease: effects of time and apolipoprotein-E pptx
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05/03/2014, 21:20
... individuals with and without an APOE-4 allele Please note The intervals on the X axis represent the average time of follow-up assessments after baseline These are smoothed regression lines that ... were the main contributors (2) A visuospatial/cognitive factor, in which visuospatial and tests of reasoning were the main contributors These included the Rosen Drawing Test [45], matching and ... Whether APOE-4 has a direct effect on memory in the absence of disease, or acts only through its association with AD, remains unknown because the majority of studies have been either cross-sectional...
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Báo cáo khoa học: RCAN1-1L is overexpressed in neurons of Alzheimer’s disease patients pot
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16/03/2014, 11:20
... differences in function or localization of these isoforms in the brain In order to try to understand how these isoforms may differ, we examined the expression of the isoforms known to be transcribed in ... the Alzheimer s Disease Research Center at the University of Southern California s Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA Brain tissues, with a postmortem interval of less than h, were fresh ... rigorously tested Discussion RCAN1 has been shown to bind to and inhibit the serine–threonine protein phosphatase calcineurin [5] The brain is an especially interesting organ in which to examine...
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Báo cáo khoa học: FLIP and MAPK play crucial roles in the MLN51-mediated hyperproliferation of fibroblast-like synoviocytes in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis pdf
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23/03/2014, 07:20
... or absence of MG-132 (E) MLN51 expressed in primary RA FLSs was assessed in the presence or absence of 20 lM MG-132 for h The expression of MLN51 was assessed by WB analysis (left) The histogram ... MLN51 was assessed by RT-PCR and western blot (WB) analysis (D) The expression of MLN51 was assessed via WB analysis after treatment with GM-CSF for the indicated periods of time in the presence ... enhanced days after GM-CSF treatment [7] In the present experiments, we assessed the dose and time kinetics of the effects of GM-CSF on MLN51 expression in MH7A cells MLN51 was fully induced at the protein...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Implication of calpain in neuronal apoptosis A possible regulation of Alzheimer’s disease doc
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23/03/2014, 10:21
... Cross-talk between calpains and caspases The striking similarity between the substrates for caspases and calpains raises the possibility that both protease families contribute to structural dysregulation ... Ca2+-mediated apoptosis in astrocytes In this model of astrocyte apoptosis, translocation of the NF-kB p65 subunit to the nucleus is observed These findings indicate that, in this case, NF-jB acts as a death-promoting ... located outside of the membrane However, in support of calpains acting as secretases is the fact that these proteases are involved in cleavage of other membrane surface proteins, including growth...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Inflammatory cytokine levels correlate with amyloid load in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer''''s disease" potx
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19/06/2014, 22:20
... of increased levels of cytokines in the brains of Alzheimer' s disease patients, and in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer' s disease [10-12] However, all these reports have focused on a small ... brain slice cultures from transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer' s disease, and to further relate this increase to the level of Aβ present in the brain Another purpose of our study was to determine ... brain slices was assessed using the Bioplex cytokine multi-array system Cytokine levels were not significantly elevated in PS1 brain slices compared to control slices, indicating that the PS1 Page...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Novel Aβ peptide immunogens modulate plaque pathology and inflammation in a murine model of Alzheimer''''s disease" potx
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19/06/2014, 22:20
... Ratio These were calculated by determining the sum of the numbers of Aβ-positive objects (or the sum of the areas of the Aβ positive objects) for the entire section and dividing by the sum of the ... objects to the area of tissue scored It should be noted that, since the numerator of this second ratio contains only the area enclosed within the boundaries of the identified objects and does not incorporate ... performed on sections processed at the same time Single ANOVA statistical analysis was used to assess the significance of the differences in plaque area, glial and C3 activation products reactivity...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Role of the VEGF-Flt-1-FAK pathway in the pathogenesis of osteoclastic bone destruction of giant cell tumors of bone" pptx
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20/06/2014, 04:20
... clinical stage of GCTs at presentation To determine the status of pY-Flt-1 and pY-FAK in GCT samples, the staining intensity of each specimen was scored as follows: (weak staining; less than 10% of the ... samples, the staining intensity of each specimen was scored as follows: (weak staining; less than 10% of cells were positive), (intermediate staining; 10-50% positive) and (strong staining; >50% positive) ... harvested GCT-CM under normoxia, GCT-CM did not enhance the osteoclastogenesis of OPCs Therefore, the role of VEGF in osteoclastogenesis in GCTs in vivo should be further investigated To assess the...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Role of the VEGF-Flt-1-FAK pathway in the pathogenesis of osteoclastic bone destruction of giant cell tumors of bone" potx
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20/06/2014, 07:20
... clinical stage of GCTs at presentation To determine the status of pY-Flt-1 and pY-FAK in GCT samples, the staining intensity of each specimen was scored as follows: (weak staining; less than 10% of the ... samples, the staining intensity of each specimen was scored as follows: (weak staining; less than 10% of cells were positive), (intermediate staining; 10-50% positive) and (strong staining; >50% positive) ... harvested GCT-CM under normoxia, GCT-CM did not enhance the osteoclastogenesis of OPCs Therefore, the role of VEGF in osteoclastogenesis in GCTs in vivo should be further investigated To assess the...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article New Technique for Improving Performance of LDPC Codes in the Presence of Trapping S" doc
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21/06/2014, 23:20
... trapping set TS is already in the trapping sets list, TS List, then its weight is incremented by one; otherwise the identified trapping set is added to the trapping sets list, TS List, and its weight ... initiates a message through link (i.e., initiates message to v2 ) c2 initiates a message through link (i.e., initiates message to v4 ) v2 forwards incoming messages to all neighbors c3 forwards incoming ... neighbouring nodes This is because most of the extrinsic messages are correct in the error-floor regions (3) Neutralization is performed during BP decoding iterations as soon as a trapping set is detected,...
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THE CLINICAL SPECTRUM OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE – THE CHARGE TOWARD COMPREHENSIVE pdf
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28/06/2014, 05:20
... subentities, making a clear definition very difficult The majority of AD researchers assume Risk Factors for Disease Progression in Alzheimer' s Disease a linear slope, but some investigators also suggest ... of speed of decline (Ito et al., 2010) Santillan and coworkers proposed the use of a scale, consisting of the educational level, insight assessment, the presence of psychosis, the activities of ... 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' s Disease The role of...
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quality of life of alzheimer’s disease patients, caregivers and evaluating the effectiveness of thenonpharmacologicalinterventions
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25/07/2014, 11:36
... of life of Alzheimer s patients and their caregivers New contributions of the thesis: This dissertation was the first systematic study to have the actual quality of life of Alzheimer s disease ... behavior disorders This situation was similar to the clinical literature review in Alzheimer' s disease and in other countries 4.1.1.3 Quality of life of people with Alzheimer' s disease Assessing the ... patients Quality of life should be considered as an important outlet to assess for trials in Alzheimer' s disease There were many methods to assess the QOL of Alzheimer' s patients': patients’self-evaluation,...
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Báo cáo y học: "Eotaxin and FGF enhance signaling through an Extracellular signal-related kinase (ERK)-dependent pathway in the pathogenesis of Eosinophilic Esophagitis" doc
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08/08/2014, 21:20
... FGF subsets and can be found in a variety of tissues, including epithelial and mesenchymal tissue [20] bFGF increases the half-life of cells and could possibly increase the overall lifetime of the ... eotaxin, FGF enhances activation of eosinophils in EoE specifically Page of The increased global expression of bFGF led to the investigation of the local expression bFGF of the esophageal biopsies ... chemotaxis of eosinophils [19] It does appear that eosinophils also express bFGF [28] The eosinophils may be operating in a positive feedback loop in which the expression bFGF is encouraging the increased...
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Báo cáo y học: "Hypoxia in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis" ppt
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09/08/2014, 01:22
... members of the HIF family in the pathogenesis of SSc has not yet been investigated in detail Insufficient response to hypoxia: dysregulation of angiogenesis in systemic sclerosis Angiogenesis and ... against the persistent activation of oxygen-sensitive pathways in SSc Marked and persistent upregulation of the oxygen-dependent gene VEGF is observed in lesional SSc skin even in late stages of ... Roberts AB, Sporn MB: Transforming growth factor-beta: selective increase in glycosaminoglycan synthesis by cultures of fibroblasts from patients with progressive systemic sclerosis J Invest Dermatol...
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