Autoimmunity and Environment: A ...
The complex interplay between environmental factors and genetic susceptibility plays an essential role in disease pathogenesis. This is especially t ...
Cutting Edge: The Etiology of A ...
Significant progress has been made in our understanding of the mechanisms leading to autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD). For the first time, we are ...
Prolactin and Autoimmunity Hype ...
Evidence points to an association of prolactin to autoimmune diseases. We examined the correlation between hyperprolactinemia and disease manifestat ...
Pitfalls to Avoid and Advanceme ...
The optimal treatment for osteonecrosis of the hip is contingent on early and accurate diagnosis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become the re ...
Management of rheumatoid arthri ...
Given the recent availability of novel biologic agents for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the Hong Kong Society of Rheumatology has dev ...
Prevalence of patient-reported ...
The aim of this study is to describe the comorbidity profile in patients with early and established psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Patients with PsA wer ...
A retrospective analysis of tre ...
The aim of this work is to describe the outcome of a series of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related vasculitis who were treated with cortic ...
Interleukin-6 gene polymorphism ...
Interleukin 6 (IL-6) has been shown to be related to the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In the present study, the relationship ...
Clinic and ultrasound findings ...
The aim of this study was to determine clinical and US factors associated with pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). The study included 14 ...
Study of professional practices ...
To study the initial dose of corticoids prescribed by rheumatologists in the Côte d'Or, a French department of Burgundy, in the treatment of polymya ...
Serum chemokine and cytokine le ...
To determine the clinical utility of serum levels of chemokines and cytokines for the evaluation of disease activity in patients with systemic scler ...
Serum IL-33 levels are raised i ...
To determine serum interleukin-33 (IL-33) levels and their associations with clinical parameters in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Serum IL ...
Secondary failure to treatment ...
The aim of this study is to assess the efficacy of anakinra, a recombinant human interleukin 1 receptor antagonist, plus methotrexate (MTX) in patie ...
Early onset systemic lupus eryt ...
Juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus is a rare multisystemic autoimmune disease with variable clinical manifestations, and disease onset before 16 ...
How common is methotrexate pneu ...
The current literature states the prevalence of methotrexate pneumonitis (MTX-P) to be 3.5–7.6%. This is based on retrospective data. Consequently, ...
Resistin and visfatin: are they ...
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease which predominantly affects certain ethnic groups mainly Sephardic Jews, Turks, ...
The efficacy and safety of etan ...
We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of long-term use of etanercept therapy in patients with spondyloarthropathy (SpA) and rheumatoid arthri ...
A pseudoleukemic blood differen ...
Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare systemic vasculitis of the small- and medium-size vessels. It is mostly seen in elderly patients presenting a ...
Cholinergic system of rats trea ...
This study aimed to detect brain and red blood cell acetylcholinesterase activity (AChE and RBC-AChE, respectively) of rats treated with vincristine ...
Immunochemical study of protein ...
Agalactia is a contagious disease in sheep and goats. To prevent the disease, a vaccine containing three strains of Mycoplasma agalactiae namely Tal ...
Multiple lipoma in a stray donk ...
Lipoma is a common benign tumor of welldifferentiated adipocytes, which seen in most domestic animals. A 5-year-old male stray donkey was necropsied ...
Serologic prevalence of antibod ...
The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of exposure to avian origin influenza virus (AIV) in dogs referred to the Veterinary Clinic at ...
Flow cytometric detection of le ...
Identifying leukemia stem cells (LSCs) is a challenge and a critical step in understanding their respective biology and may provide insights into a ...
Responses to training and stand ...
In order to assess the relationship between blood gas profile and athletic performance after a specific training programme, six clinically healthy I ...
Factors affecting the incidence ...
The aim of the present study was to investigate the incidence of cystic ovaries in replacement gilts in relation to age, body weight, estrus behavio ...