Báo cáo y học: "Revisiting the Dexamethasone Suppression Test in unipolar major depression: an exploratory study" doc

... designed the protocol, gathered and analysed the data and contributed to interpretation and the draft and the final paper. XG contributed in the analysis of the dataand to interpretation and the ... draft and the final paper. ZRcontributed in the analysis of the data and to interpreta-tion and the draft and the final paper. CF and AI contrib-uted in the design of the protocol, the gathering ... medication interrupted in order to include the patient in the study. In addition, all participants werephysically healthy with normal clinical and laboratoryfindings, including electroencephalogram and...

Báo cáo y học: "Relationship among Dexamethasone Suppression Test, personality disorders and stressful life events in clinical subtypes of major depression: An exploratory study" pot

... aregenerally in accord with the findings of the present study. In contrast to what is widely accepted, NS is appeared tobe closer to the atypical subtype. There are no directreports in the international ... Review. In Handbook of Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology Edited by:Nemeroff CB and Loosen PT. New York, John Wiley and Sons;1987:313-335. 6. Mendlewicz J, Hubain PP, Koumakis C: Further Investigation ... is the cause and what is the effect, it is inter-esting that there are papers in the international literaturesuggesting that conditions of internal conflict increase DAactivity and lead to the...

Báo cáo y học: "Administering the MADRS by telephone or face-to-face: a validity study" docx

... explain the intention of the main study and to administer several scales and question-naires, the MADRS being one of them. The telephoneinterview, on the other hand, took about 15 minutes andconsisted ... Clinic of the VU University Med-ical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, trained the interviewers in administering the MADRS. Interviewerseach performed both in- person and telephone interviews.Statistical ... true change in the severity of depressive symptoms(remission or regression). After all, the more days between the ratings, the more likely it was that the severity of the symptoms on the second...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Season of birth, clinical manifestations and Dexamethasone Suppression Test in unipolar major depression" docx

... A,Kaprinis G: Relation among Dexamethasone Suppression Test, Personality Disorders and Stressful Life Events in Clinical Sub-types of Major Depression: An exploratory study. Ann Gen HospPsychiatry ... although the seasonality in the births of certaintypes of patients suffering from major depression seems tobe confirmed by the present study, the etiology of thisremains only speculative. Another ... from an excess of black bile('melaina chole') and considered to be an analog ofspring. Psychiatry had been dominated by the remnantsof these beliefs for more than 2,000 years and,...

Báo cáo y học: " Comparison of side effects of oxytetracycline and talc pleurodesis: an experimental study." doc

... sacrificed on the postoperative day 7 fol-lowing the intrapleural administration of agents. In Group 1, the animals received intrapleural oxytetracy-cline (Pan-Terramycine, Pfizer, İstanbul. An injectablesolution, ... restlessness), and whennecessary, they received buprenorphine 1.3 mL, subcuta-neously. The animals were maintained in adequate cagesand fed according to the protocol of the animalquarters. There were ... Oxytetracycline and talc slurry wereintroduced via a 16-gauge PTFE catheter into the leftpleural space. The presence of air in the pleural spacewas checked, and if any, it was evacuated by using...

Báo cáo y học: "Revisiting the pathogenesis of podagra: why does gout target the foo" docx

... joints affecte d by gout.However, OA cannot solely explain the typical distribu-tion of joints affected by gout, as many joints commonlyaffected by OA such as the knees, f inger IP joints, andhips ... However,mid-foot and ankle involvement occurs in 25-50% and18-60% of patients respectively [5,8,9]. In contrast, the upper limb is involved in 13-46% [4,6,8,10] and the finger interphalangeal joints in only ... [16,17]. Crystals are t hen shed into the joint andactivate the inflammatory cascade via the NALP3inflammasome [18,19]. Hence, any explanation of whygout targets the foot must link these pathological...

Báo cáo Y học: Functional assignment of motifs conserved in b1,3-glycosyltransferases A mutagenesis study of murine UDP-galactose:b-N-acetylglucosamine b1,3-galactosyltransferase-I pptx

... found in b1,3-GalTs and b1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferases,thereby suggesting that they are more likely involved in mediating the b1,3-linkage speci®city r ather than in t hedirect binding ... DXD-containing enzymes, such as the yeast MNN1 mannosyltransferase [30] and the yeast chitinsynthetase-2 [31], demonstrated that they are essential for the catalytic activity. In the large clostridial ... all being located in t he putative catalytic d omain. Toinvestigate the importance of these m otifs and cysteines for the e nzymatic act ivity, 1 4 m utants of the m urine b1,3-galactosyltransferase-I...

Báo cáo Y học: Regulation of a1,3galactosyltransferase expression in pig endothelial cells Implications for xenotransplantation doc

... xenotransplantation. The growing disparity between the demand for transplant-able organs and the supply has renewed interest in the possibilities of transplanting animal organs to humans(xenotransplantation) ... xenoantigen responsible for the hyperacutevascular rejection occurring in pig-to-primates organ trans-plantation. The synthesis of the aGal epitope is catalyzed by the enzyme a1,3-galactosyltransferase ... in the protein codingsequence [17–19]. The absence of a functional a1,3GalTgene copy in humans, and in apes and Old W orld monkeys,explains the absence of aGal epitopes in these species. In Correspondence...

Báo cáo y học: "Catechol-O-methyltransferase gene haplotypes in Mexican and Spanish patients with fibromyalgia" docx

... Fibro-myalgia Syndrome Association (AFSA). This association had no role in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision ... hyperactivity. Catecholamines aresympathetic neurotransmitters. Catechol-O-methyltransferase(COMT), an enzyme, is the major catecholamine-clearingpathway. There are several single-nucleotide polymorphisms(SNPs) ... 'sympathetically maintained pain'[5].Naturally occurring sympathetic neurotransmitters are cate-cholamines known as norepinephrine, epinephrine, anddopamine. All three substances act within the central...

Báo cáo y học: " Insights into endocrine-immunological disturbances in autoimmunity and their impact on treatment" doc

... the circadian increase of proinflammatorycytokine levels, and therefore the consequently observedclinical signs and symptoms of the disease, than to treatthese signs and symptoms once they ... at least in rheumatoid arthritis(RA) [1,6]. In addition, mild exercise and training and adecrease in the proinflammatory load – as obtained also by the use of anticytokine therapy – can normalize ... ofmelatonin in autoimmunityMLT is an important neurohormone mainly synthesized by the pineal gland with a circadian rhythm that peaks between01:00 and 03:00 hours.At physiological concentrations in...

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