The 13C/2H-glucose test for determination of small intestinal lactase activity.

abstract：:Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a frequently occurring complication of sepsis and may contribute to multiple organ failure. More insight into the pathogenesis of this derangement of the coagulation system is necessary to develop more effective therapeutic strategies for this condition. Recently, more d...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Levi M,van der Poll T,ten Cate H,van Deventer SJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) is a relatively rare but often overlooked autoimmune neurological disorder that targets antigens within the brain's inhibitory pathways resulting in incapacitating stiffness and spasms that impact on the patients' quality of life. Although a number of immunomodulating therapies si...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Alexopoulos H,Dalakas MC

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testosterone levels are decreased in obese men but increased in obese women. The interplay between gonadal steroids and leptin is, at present, far from being elucidated. This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between serum leptin, plasma insulin, insulin sensitivity and free testosterone in 46 men ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Vettor R,De Pergola G,Pagano C,Englaro P,Laudadio E,Giorgino F,Blum WF,Giorgino R,Federspil G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diverticular disease (DD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) share a similar symptom pattern. However, comparative studies are flawed by different age at onset of symptoms. We aimed to verify whether clinical features distinguish DD from IBS. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Patients with DD or IBS, matched for age an...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Cuomo R,Barbara G,Andreozzi P,Bassotti G,Casetti T,Grassini M,Ierardi E,Maconi G,Marchi S,Sarnelli G,Savarino V,Usai P,Vozzella L,Annibale B

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have suggested that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) could be predictive of the prognosis in patients with heart failure (HF), but yield conflicting findings. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis to examine the impact of COPD on adverse outcomes in patients with HF. METHODS:We...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Xu S,Ye Z,Ma J,Yuan T

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bone marrow-derived circulating progenitor cells (BM-CPCs) are mobilized into adult peripheral blood (PB) during acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and may contribute to the regeneration of infarcted myocardium. The purpose of the present study is to determine whether mobilization of BM-CPCs into PB depends o...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Turan RG,Brehm M,Koestering M,Tobias Z,Bartsch T,Steiner S,Picard F,Ebner P,Schannwell CM,Strauer BE

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complement fragment C5a and neutrophils have been implicated in the pathogenesis of renal disease and C5a has also been shown to delay apoptosis of human neutrophils via a transcription-independent pathway. However, transcription-dependent pathways have not been well described. The present study examined whe...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Perianayagam MC,Madias NE,Pereira BJ,Jaber BL

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microparticles are small membrane vesicles that are released from cells upon activation or during apoptosis. Cellular microparticles in body fluids constitute a heterogeneous population, differing in cellular origin, numbers, size, antigenic composition and functional properties. Microparticles support coagulation by ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Diamant M,Tushuizen ME,Sturk A,Nieuwland R

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Memory and cognitive functions are known to decline with advancing age. Studies have suggested that this may be due to a decrease in cholinergic function in the brains of elderly people. This review aims to assess studies documented in the literature dealing with the 'scopolamine model' of dementia. METHODS...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Ebert U,Kirch W

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low blood levels of antioxidants are associated with an increased risk of developing coronary artery disease. Lipophilic antioxidants are transported in lipoproteins, and hypolipidaemic therapy may therefore alter their blood concentrations. METHODS:The present randomized, placebo-controlled cross-over stud...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Aberg F,Appelkvist EL,Bröijersén A,Eriksson M,Angelin B,Hjemdahl P,Dallner G

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors may affect reactive oxygen species in humans in vitro and in vivo. In the present study we evaluated whether angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors may affect NAD(P)H oxidase activity. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The production of reactive oxygen species was measured spe...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： van der Giet M,Erinola M,Zidek W,Tepel M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of the pattern, quantity and site of insulin secretion in the tolerance to a glucose challenge is not fully evaluated in humans because it is difficult to obtain appropriate clinical models. DESIGN:To address this issue, we studied subjects with reduced pancreatic mass (hemipancreatectomized, HEMI)...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Battezzati A,Zerbi A,Perseghin G,Caumo A,Terruzzi I,Di Carlo V,Luzi L

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the effect of intravenous dextran on bacterial translocation and intestinal vascular endothelial and epithelial barrier function after experimental partial hepatectomy. We determined systemic arterial pressure, enteric bacterial growth (proximal and distal small intestine and colon)...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Wang XO,Sun ZW,Soltesz V,Deng XM,Andersson R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In twenty-five outpatients with essential hypertension, the relevance of renal kallikrein excretion for inter-individual differences in the blood pressure response to changes in dietary sodium intake was investigated. The patients were studied during 2 weeks of high (300 mmol) and 2 weeks of low (50-100 mmol) sodium i...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Koolen MI,Daha MR,van Brummelen P

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient fragmentation is the most important prerequisite for successful treatment of gallstones by extracorporeally induced shock waves. No data are available on the amount of energy necessary for stone disintegration and on the threshold energy below which no further fragmentation occurs. We therefore performed an ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Neubrand M,Greinwald I,Lobentanzer H,Paumgartner G,Hermeking H,Sauerbruch T

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inheritance is a major determinant of increased sodium-lithium countertransport (SLC) activity in hypertension. However, hyperlipidaemia can also cause increased SLC activity in some individuals and it is difficult to distinguish this effect from the effect of hypertension. Erythrocyte SLC activity and its kinetic det...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Rutherford PA,Thomas TH,Laker MF,Wilkinson R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The change in bone mass during 1 1/2 years was determined in a longitudinal study of sixty adult insulin-treated diabetic out-patients. During the study period the mean bone mass decreased by 1.30 +/- 0.28 (SEM)% (P less than 0.001), to a mean value of 91.0 +/- 1.7% of normal (P less than 0.001). The rate of bone loss...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： McNair P,Christiansen C,Christensen MS,Madsbad S,Faber OK,Binder C,Transbøl I

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urinary excretion of free light immunoglobulin chains IgG, IgA, and Fcγ fragment material has been estimated in 12 healthy individuals and 7 subjects with tubular or glomerular proteinuria. Measurements were carried out by immunochemical methods after separation of concentrated urinary immunoglobulin components by...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Peterson PA,Berggård I

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:EPB4.1 has been previously mapped to human chromosome 1p33-p34.2. In contradiction to this chromosomal location, we have mapped EPB4.1-1p36 by using fluorescence in situ hybridization and radiation hybrid mapping. In neuroblastomas, deletions of the telomeric end of chromosome 1 (1p36) are the most common ge...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Huang S,Lichtenauer UD,Pack S,Wang C,Kim AC,Lutchman M,Koch CA,Torres-Cruz J,Huang SC,Benz EJ Jr,Christiansen H,Dockhorn-Dworniczak B,Poremba C,Vortmeyer AO,Chishti AH,Zhuang Z

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carotid intima-media thickness and carotid plaque are well-established imaging markers used to capture different stages of the atherosclerotic disease process. We aimed to quantify to which extent carotid intima-media thickness predicts incidence of first-ever carotid plaque. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Two indep...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Tschiderer L,Klingenschmid G,Seekircher L,Willeit P

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microdialysis was used to selectively assess the effect of the paracrine renin-angiotensin system (RAS) on interstitial glucose and lactate concentration profiles in skeletal muscle of healthy volunteers (n = 8) during basal and insulin-stimulated conditions. Paracrine RAS was selectively inhibited by local retrodialy...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Müller M,Fasching P,Schmid R,Burgdorff T,Waldhäusl W,Eichler HG

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute renal failure is a grave complication of systemic gram-negative sepsis. The pathophysiological mechanisms of sepsis leading to kidney injury result in part from systemic inflammatory and haemodynamic alterations. These are triggered by the interaction of endotoxin with Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) on cells of the...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： El-Achkar TM,Hosein M,Dagher PC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes Mellitus in its early stages, is associated with kidney enlargement and increased glomerular filtration rate in humans and in rats. The present study was designed to clarify the direct effect of diabetes on serum and tissue angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) activity in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Erman A,van Dyk DJ,Chen-Gal B,Giler ID,Rosenfeld JB,Boner G

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency of apolipoprotein C-II (apo C-II), the cofactor for lipoprotein lipase, results in the familial chylomicronaemia syndrome characterized by severe hypertriglyceridaemia and fasting chylomicronaemia. To investigate the biochemical features of the heterozygous state for apo C-II deficiency, we characterized th...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Gabelli C,Bilato C,Santamarina-Fojo S,Martini S,Brewer HB Jr,Crepaldi G,Baggio G

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Treating to New Targets (TNT) study has recently provided evidence that reduction in LDL-C levels below 2·6 mmol L⁻¹ lowers the risk of cerebrovascular events by an additional 20% to 25%, thereby confirming the value of statin therapy in preventing transient ischaemic attacks and stroke. Despite the prot...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： van den Bogaard B,van den Born BJ,Fayyad R,Waters DD,DeMicco DA,LaRosa JC,Kastelein JJ,Holme I,Treating to New Targets investigators.

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bombesin was originally isolated from amphibian skin, whereas its mammalian counterpart, gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP), was first identified in the nervous system of the gastrointestinal tract. Whether GRP is present in the human skin is not known. Bombesin-like peptides are also known to modulate growth. We therefo...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Pansky A,Peng F,Eberhard M,Baselgia L,Siegrist W,Baumann JB,Eberle AN,Beglinger C,Hildebrand P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neutrophil-mediated inflammation was recently identified as an active contributor to athero-progression. Therapeutic strategies inhibiting neutrophil degranulation or recruitment were hypothesized to positively impact on plaque vulnerability. In this study, we investigated whether treatment with the recently...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Da Silva AR,Lenglet S,Carbone F,Burger F,Roth A,Liberale L,Bonaventura A,Dallegri F,Stergiopulos N,Santos RA,Mach F,Fraga-Silva RA,Montecucco F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intestinal commensal flora seems to be a requisite for both human and experimental intestinal inflammation. Our aim was to assess the immunological changes in the colon of IL-10(-/-) mice depending on the environmental conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Twelve wild-type (WT) and 24 IL-10(-/-) 4-week-old mice...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Pedrosa E,Lorén V,Cabré E,Doménech E,Ojanguren I,Gassull MA,Mañé J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies evaluating the relationship between soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR), a biomarker inversely related to body iron stores, and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are scarce and inconclusive. Furthermore, sTfR concentrations have been observed to be significantly higher in obese than in nonobese...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Fernández-Cao JC,Arija V,Aranda N,Basora J,Diez-Espino J,Estruch R,Fitó M,Corella D,Salas-Salvadó J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to bile salts, which undergo a highly efficient enterohepatic circulation with multiple regulatory and physiologic functions, glucuronic acid conjugates of bilirubin are biliary excretory molecules that in health do not have a continuing biologic life. Intestinal absorptive cells are devoid of recapture tr...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Vítek L,Carey MC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00