Thiopurine metabolism monitoring: implications in inflammatory bowel diseases.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our aim in the present study was to determine whether endothelial NO synthase gene (ecNOS) polymorphisms are associated with myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS:Forty chromosomes from patients with MI were screened for polymorphisms of the ecNOS gene using polymerase chain reaction-single-strand conformatio...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Poirier O,Mao C,Mallet C,Nicaud V,Herrmann SM,Evans A,Ruidavets JB,Arveiler D,Luc G,Tiret L,Soubrier F,Cambien F

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:Nitrogen load can be reduced by substituting dietary protein intake with keto or hydroxy analogues of amino acids. To investigate their intestinal absorption, human jejunal brush border membrane vesicles were used to measure uptake of L-leucine hydroxy analogue (L-LHA) and L-lactate. Uptake assays were performed under...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Friedrich M,Murer H,Sterchi E,Berger EG

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Portal-systemic spill-over of unconjugated ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) was assessed in ten healthy subjects, six patients with mild chronic liver disease and eight patients with cirrhosis. Following oral administration of UDCA (1.5 mg/kg body weight), serum concentrations of unconjugated UDCA were measured during 2 h ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Miescher G,Paumgartner G,Preisig R

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abscess formation is a common bacterial infection and requires an immediate antimicrobial approach for apposite treatment. Delay in patient treatment is usually a common feature, as the bacterial identification of clinical samples is based on the culture, which is a time-consuming exercise. The current study...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Garg M,Misra MK,Chawla S,Prasad KN,Roy R,Gupta RK

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most physicians and other healthcare professionals are unaware of the pervasiveness of poor quality clinical evidence that contributes considerably to overuse, underuse, avoidable adverse events, missed opportunities for right care and wasted healthcare resources. The Medical Misinformation Mess comprises four key pro...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Ioannidis JPA,Stuart ME,Brownlee S,Strite SA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Humming greatly increases nasal nitric oxide (NO) in healthy people by causing a rapid washout of NO from the sinuses. This increase is abolished in patients with complete sinus ostial obstruction. OBJECTIVE:Allergic rhinitis is a risk factor for development of sinusitis and we wanted to study whether nasal...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Maniscalco M,Sofia M,Weitzberg E,De Laurentiis G,Stanziola A,Rossillo V,Lundberg JO

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the comparative value of serum Type III procollagen peptide (PIIIP) in paediatric and adult liver disease we have measured PIIIP in 201 healthy subjects (aged 1 day-77 years) and twenty-one children and five adults with chronic active hepatitis (CAH). Healthy children had significantly higher PIIIP levels...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Trivedi P,Cheeseman P,Portmann B,Hegarty J,Mowat AP

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficient leucocyte sphingomyelinase activity has been demonstrated in a patient with the sea-blue histiocyte syndrome. Family studies revealed that two other cases previously diagnosed on clinical and histochemical criteria also had a pronounced diminution of sphingomyelinase activity. Both parents of the affected in...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Fried K,Beer S,Krespin HI,Leiba H,Djaldetti M,Zitman D,Klibansky C

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It remains unsettled whether alcoholic cirrhosis is a risk factor for myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS:We used data from nationwide healthcare registries to study all Danes diagnosed with alcoholic cirrhosis in 1996-2014, and five controls were matched to each of them on gender and age. We excluded every...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Deleuran T,Schmidt M,Vilstrup H,Jepsen P

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute hyperglycaemia is known to increase gastrointestinal (GI) sensitivity in healthy subjects and may contribute to the increased prevalence of GI symptoms in diabetes patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of acute hyperglycaemia on perception and brain responses to painful visceral an...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Frøkjaer JB,Søfteland E,Graversen C,Dimcevski G,Drewes AM

更新日期：2010-10-01 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:Although both strength training (ST) and endurance training (ET) seem to be beneficial in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), little is known about post-exercise glucose profiles. The objective of the study was to report changes in blood glucose (BG) values after a 4-month ET and ST programme now that a device f...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Cauza E,Hanusch-Enserer U,Strasser B,Kostner K,Dunky A,Haber P

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tightly co-ordinated control of both insulin action and secretion is required in order to maintain glucose homeostasis. Gene knockout experiments have helped to define key signalling molecules that affect insulin action, including insulin and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) receptors, insulin receptor substrate (...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Rhodes CJ,White MF

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vitamin E supplementation is associated with a reduced risk of developing atherosclerotic events; probably because it inhibits low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation, an initial step in atherosclerosis. Metal ion-dependent LDL oxidation is a commonly used method to estimate oxidizability of LDL, but the eff...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Wen Y,Killalea S,Norris LA,Cooke T,Feely J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The siblings presented here are the third family found in Japan with familial LCAT deficiency. Their post-heparin plasma lipoprotein lipase and hepatic triglyceride lipase activities were measured selectively by an immunochemical method. Plasma triglyceride levels were elevated, and post-heparin plasma lipoprotein lip...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Murayama N,Asano Y,Kato K,Sakamoto Y,Hosoda S,Yamada N,Kodama T,Murase T,Akanuma Y

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We hypothesized the existence of different hormonal response patterns to repeated lower body negative pressure (LBNP) and head-up tilt (HUT) in healthy males. We compared hormonal, cardiovascular and plasma volume changes from rest to stress within- and between-LBNP and HUT applications. Hormones investigate...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Roessler A,Goswami N,Haditsch B,Loeppky JA,Luft FC,Hinghofer-Szalkay H

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Washed cells, from ascitic fluid, which contained predominantly polymorphonuclear leucocytes from casein treated donor mice, induced accelerated amyloid formation in untreated syngeneic recipient animals. A similar transfer model, with lymph node cell suspension, was ineffective. Amyloidogenesis was completely blocked...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Kedar I,Ravid M

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary plasma kinetics of endogenous noradrenaline (NA) and tritium labelled L-noradrenaline (3H-NA) was studied in fifteen subjects during pulmonary arterial catheterization. Plasma NA concentration in femoral artery ranged from 0.5 to 8.2 nmol l-1, mean 2.3 nmol l-1, which was not significantly different from tha...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Henriksen JH,Christensen NJ,Ring-Larsen H

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arterial stiffness is an important determinant of cardiovascular risk. It is associated with several cardiovascular risk factors, including hypertension, diabetes and cigarette smoking. However, there are conflicting data about the relationship between arterial stiffness and hypercholesterolemia. Furthermore...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Riggio S,Mandraffino G,Sardo MA,Iudicello R,Camarda N,Imbalzano E,Alibrandi A,Saitta C,Carerj S,Arrigo T,Saitta A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide (NO) inhibition aggravates hepatic damage and encephalopathy and increases mortality in rats with thioacetamide (TAA)-induced acute liver failure. Statins enhance NO production but whether they influence the above parameters are unknown. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Male Sprague-Dawley rats were used. ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Huang HC,Chang CC,Wang SS,Chan CY,Lee FY,Chuang CL,Hsin IF,Teng TH,Lin HC,Lee SD

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To compare the administration of furosemide with placebo on the subjective perception of dyspnoea in patients with acute pulmonary oedema because of hypertensive crisis. Design  Randomized, controlled and double-blinded clinical trial. SETTING:Municipal emergency medical service system and university-based ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Holzer-Richling N,Holzer M,Herkner H,Riedmüller E,Havel C,Kaff A,Malzer R,Schreiber W

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of free anti-(xanthine oxidoreductase) (XOR) antibodies in the serum of normal healthy human subjects were determined, using both human and bovine enzyme as antigen, in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Levels of IgM class anti-(human XOR) antibodies were found to be particularly high (mean values r...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Benboubetra M,Gleeson A,Harris CP,Khan J,Arrar L,Brennand D,Reid J,Reckless JD,Harrison R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis (ACAS) may cause future stroke and therefore patients with ACAS require best medical treatment. Patients at high risk for stroke may opt for additional revascularization (either surgery or stenting) but the future stroke risk should outweigh the risk for peri/post-opera...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Timmerman N,Galyfos G,Sigala F,Thanopoulou K,de Borst GJ,Davidovic L,Eckstein HH,Filipovic N,Grugni R,Kallmayer M,de Kleijn DPV,Koncar I,Mantzaris MD,Marchal E,Matsagkas M,Mutavdzic P,Palombo D,Pasterkamp G,Potsika VT

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies in different animal models and plasma analyses in humans suggest that members of the interleukin-6 (IL-6) cytokine family may be involved in the pathogenesis of congestive heart failure (CHF). Accordingly, we have examined IL-6-related cytokines in chronic CHF in humans by analysing gene and protein ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Eiken HG,Øie E,Damås JK,Yndestad A,Bjerkeli V,Aass H,Simonsen S,Geiran OR,Tønnessen T,Christensen G,Frøland SS,Gullestad L,Attramadal H,Aukrust P

更新日期：2001-05-01 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:The DALI low-density lipoprotein (LDL) apheresis system is the first whole-blood apheresis system in regular clinical use. DALI stands for direct adsorption of lipoproteins, which describes the basic principle of operation of this newly developed LDL apheresis procedure. METHODS:The selective removal of LDL...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Dräger LJ,Julius U,Kraenzle K,Schaper J,Toepfer M,Zygan K,Otto V,Steinhagen-Thiessen E

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) treatment on endothelium-dependent and -independent vasodilatation, assessed by forearm blood flow (FBF), in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS:A total of 30 subjects with type 2 diabetes were incl...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Heinisch BB,Francesconi M,Mittermayer F,Schaller G,Gouya G,Wolzt M,Pleiner J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HFE knockout mice (C57BL/6 x 129/Ola strain) mimic the functional aberrations of human hereditary haemochromatosis (HH) in short-term experiments. The present study investigates functional and morphological long-term changes. METHODS:HFE(o/o), HFE(+/o) and HFE(+/+) mice were maintained on iron-rich and cont...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Lebeau A,Frank J,Biesalski HK,Weiss G,Srai SK,Simpson RJ,McKie AT,Bahram S,Gilfillan S,Schümann K

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of renal function on the cyclic AMP (cAMP) response to exogenous parathyroid hormone (PTH) was examined in patients with chronic renal failure (n = 22) and primary hyperparathyroidism (n = 19). In the patients with chronic renal failure there was marked resistance to the effect of exogenous PTH. In primary ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Lewin IG,Hendy GN,Papapoulos SE,Tomlinson S,O'Riordan JL

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00