Management of patients with chronic hepatitis C infection.

abstract：:Endotoxin is known to cause acute lung injury (ALI). Here, we investigated the effects and mechanisms of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) on pulmonary arteriole remodeling in endotoxin-induced ALI in rats. Sixty Wistar rats were randomly divided into 3 groups (n = 20). Control group was infused...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Wang K,Gong J,Pei L,Shan S,Tan W

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is suggested that gastric mucins, and in particular some specific glycan structures that can act as carbohydrate receptors, are involved in the interactions with Helicobacter pylori adhesins. The main aim of our study was to evaluate glycosylation pattern of glycoproteins of gastric juice before and at the end of e...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Radziejewska I,Borzym-Kluczyk M,Namiot Z,Stefańska E

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent risk factor for vascular disease, frequently observed in patients with severe renal impairment. Hyperhomocysteinemia has never been considered as a possible risk factor in renal artery stenosis. We investigated plasma folate and vitamin B12, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (M...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Olivieri O,Friso S,Trabetti E,Girelli D,Pizzolo F,Faccini G,Stranieri C,Pignatti PF,Corrocher R

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO), produced by the nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) enzyme, is the most-important molecule responsible for the killing of Leishmania parasites by macrophages. In previous work we have demonstrated that, after activation with recombinant human interferon-gamma and/or bacterial lipopolysaccharide, human macr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Panaro MA,Brandonisio O,Sisto M,Acquafredda A,Leogrande D,Fumarola L,Mitolo V

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) is the infrequent type of acute leukemia characterized by immunophenotypic and/or cytochemical features of both lineages, but the diagnosis of this disease still is a challenge. In this study, we analyzed immunophenotyping, cytochemistry and frequency of MPAL patients to better di...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Poopak B,Khosravi A,Bahoush-Mehdiabadi G,Madani T,Khodadi E,Farahani Z,Vahedi AA,Khosravipour G,Poopak P,Poopak AH

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main aim of this study was to investigate the genotoxic effect of combined pharmacotherapy applied in post-operative treatment of cervical cerclage in pregnant women over six days. This study included 19 phenotypically healthy pregnant women in mid-trimester with a diagnosis of cervical insufficiency, mean age 28+...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Grujicić D,Milosević Djordjević O,Arsenijević S,Marinković D

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate lncRNAs acting as competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) involved in oncogenesis and progression of HCC. Different expressed lncRNAs, microRNAs, and mRNAs (DElncRNAs, DEmiRNAs, DEmRNAs), downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database, were identified by edgeR package. CeRNA network was constructed ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Qu L,Cai X,Xu J,Wei X,Qu X,Sun L,Gong L,Su C,Zhu Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro skin explant model was originally developed to predict the occurrence and severity of acute graft-versus-host disease in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants. In previous studies we reported that peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with rheumatoid arthritis were able to induce graft-ve...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Stechová K,Vavrincová P,Reitzová H,Chudoba D,Zimák J,Hromadníková I

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Thalassemia is a significant public health problem in Egypt. Infectious complications represent the second most common cause of mortality and the major cause of morbidity in β-thalassemia major (BTM). The increased susceptibility of these patients to infectious diseases has been attributed to the abnormalities of th...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Elsayh KI,Mohammed WS,Zahran AM,Saad K

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) is a rare disorder, characterized by the development of multiple vascular thrombosis over a short period of time, in patients with persistently detectable antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs). The vascular occlusions predominantly affect small vessels. The overall mortality ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Tinti MG,Carnevale V,Inglese M,Molinaro F,Bernal M,Migliore A,De Cata A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently found that pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF), a glycoprotein with potent neuronal differentiating activity, not only inhibits endothelial cell damage, smooth muscle cell proliferation and platelet aggregation in vitro, but also suppresses occlusive thrombus formation in rats. These observations...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Yamagishi S,Matsui T,Nakamura K,Takenaka K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis of the acinar and ductal epithelial cells of the salivary glands has been proposed as a mechanism possibly responsible for the impairment of the secretory function in Sjögren's syndrome, an organ-specific autoimmune disorder characterized by destruction of these glandular structures. The presence of serum au...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Lisi S,Sisto M,Lofrumento D,Frassanito MA,Caprio S,Romano ML,Mitolo V,D'Amore M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have demonstrated cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA particles in restenotic lesions in atherosclerotic coronary arteries. We have shown that high (>1:800) anti-CMV IgG antibody titers in the serum are associated with active coronary disease and with post coronary angioplasty restenosis. In this study we assessed the a...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Blum A,Peleg A,Weinberg M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho-associated coiled-coil-containing protein kinase 2 (ROCK2) has been known as an effector for the small GTPase Rho and plays an important role in tumor progression and metastasis. However, the effect of ROCK2 in gastric cancer (GC) has not been identified. This study showed that ROCK2 expression significantly incre...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Li M,Ke J,Wang Q,Qian H,Yang L,Zhang X,Xiao J,Ding H,Shan X,Liu Q,Xiao Y,Bao B,Huang H

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) therapy brought new hopes for treating rheumatic diseases but also increased the risk of infection, including mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb). Conventional screening tools, such as tuberculin skin test (TST), lack sensitivity or specificity. Recently, T-SPOT.TB has been introduce...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Xie X,Chen JW,Li F,Tian J,Gao JS,Zhang D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress (OS) has recently been documented in hypothyroidism, a disease more prevalent in women. In general, OS is reported to be more prevalent in males. However, the effect of gender on OS and protein glycation in hypothyroidism has not been addressed. Blood samples from 37 recently diagnosed primary hypothy...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Nanda N,Bobby Z,Hamide A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a progressive autoimmune liver disease in which monocytes/macrophages infiltration and skewed T helper type (Th) 1 and Th17 cell responses participate in the development of the disease. Human peripheral blood monocytes are heterogeneous and can be divided into classical CD14highCD16-...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Peng A,Ke P,Zhao R,Lu X,Zhang C,Huang X,Tian G,Huang J,Wang J,Invernizzi P,Chen Q,Zhuang J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominance of the effector mechanisms by CD4 + T cells is a characteristic of inflammatory autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The CD40/CD40L costimulatory pathway contributes to these pathogenic mechanisms by promoting autoantibody production and inflammation. Aberrant expression of CD40 and ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Román-Fernández IV,García-Chagollán M,Cerpa-Cruz S,Jave-Suárez LF,Palafox-Sánchez CA,García-Arellano S,Sánchez-Zuno GA,Muñoz-Valle JF

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNF-α plays a key role in the inflammatory cytokine cascade involved in the pathogenesis of chronic arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis. Systemic inflammation and the increased production of pro-inflammatory cytokines in these patients may favor the onset of metab...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Maruotti N,d'Onofrio F,Cantatore FP

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary periodic fever syndromes (HPF) are a group of diseases characterised by recurrences of fever and inflammation separated by symptom-free intervals. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most frequent entity within this group of disorders which further consists of hyperimmunoglobulinaemia D and periodic f...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： van der Hilst JC,Simon A,Drenth JP

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide, especially in Western societies. Its aggressive nature and poor prognosis increase the need for identifying new and more accurate diagnostic and prognostic tools. We studied 41 patients who had undergone radical surgical resection for PC, investigate...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Tsiaousidou A,Tsaroucha AK,Lambropoulou M,Pitiakoudis M,Polychronidis A,Chatzitheoklitos E,Romanidis K,Simopoulos C

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) is one of the most common leukemias among the elderly and, despite many efforts, still stays incurable. Recent studies point to the microenvironment as the critical factor providing leukemic lymphocytes with pro-survival signals. Thus, the neighboring cells appear to be a pe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Filip AA,Ciseł B,Wąsik-Szczepanek E

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Infection of prosthetic material is a major complication of vascular surgery. Therapy for it includes implantation of antimicrobial prostheses bonded with different antimicrobial agents. These agents may, however, induce an acute phase reaction following implantation in the host, thus compromising follow-up o...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Hernandez-Richter TM,Wichmann MW,Schrödl W,Angele MK,Heinritzi K,Schildberg FW

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a slowly progressive autoimmune disease of unknown mechanism. We established a PBC animal model by injecting C57BL/6 mice with polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid sodium (polyI:C) to investigate the therapeutic effect of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSC) on this model. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Wang D,Zhang H,Liang J,Gu Z,Ma X,Huang J,Lin J,Hou Y,Lu L,Sun L

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to investigate the presence of the RHD gene in fetal cells obtained from amniotic fluid. We studied 65 samples of amniotic fluid, 11 from RhD-negative mothers sensitized with anti-D alloantibodies. The fetal origin of the DNA was confirmed with the analysis of 1 VNTR locus and 3 STR loci in DN...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Cotorruelo C,Biondi C,García Borrás S,Di Mónaco R,Racca A

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, it was discovered that high mobility group box chromosomal protein 1 (HMGB1) acts as a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine that is released into the extracellular milieu. Signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) proteins play an important role in cytokine signaling. Some investigators have report...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Guo HF,Liu SX,Zhang YJ,Liu QJ,Hao J,Gao LX

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was initiated to examine whether the concentration of CO in the breath is elevated in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Twenty-three clinically stable patients with IBD in the outpatient clinic (11 with Crohn's disease, 12 with ulcerative colitis), who are non-smokers and non-passive sm...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Nitta H,Kinoyama M,Teramoto F,Watanabe A,Koga H,Haruma K,Akagi R,Ueda H

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere shortening occurs with human aging in many organs and tissues and is accelerated by rapid cell turnover and oxidative injury. To clarify the clinical importance of telomere shortening in colonic mucosa in ulcerative colitis (UC), we measured average telomere length using quantitative real-time PCR in non-neop...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Tahara T,Shibata T,Okubo M,Kawamura T,Sumi K,Ishizuka T,Nakamura M,Nagasaka M,Nakagawa Y,Ohmiya N,Arisawa T,Hirata I

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the role of cholesterol absorption by the gallbladder epithelium in gallstone formation is well established, the exact process is poorly understood. Potential candidates for regulation of transepithelial cholesterol transport are suggested to be two large membrane multiple ligand receptors, megalin and cubili...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Tsaroucha AK,Chatzaki E,Lambropoulou M,Despoudi K,Laftsidis P,Charsou C,Polychronidis A,Papadopoulos N,Simopoulos CE

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a heterogeneous group of disorders, characterized by hypogammaglobulinemia and increased susceptibility to infections, autoimmunity and malignancies. This study was performed to analyze the Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) polymorphisms in Iranian patients with CVID. Thirty-five ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental medicine

authors： Aghamohammadi A,Foroughi F,Rezaei N,Dianat S,Solgi G,Amirzargar AA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00