Minimal Change Nephrosis and Allergy

Minimal change nephrosis and allergy.

Causality and Minimal Change Demystified

The Principle of Minimal Change is prevalent in various guises throughout the development of areas such as reasoning about action, belief change and nonmonotonic reasoning. Recent literature has witnessed the proposal of several theories of action that adopt an explicit representation of causality. It is claimed that an explicit notion of causality is able to deal with the frame problem in a ma...

Minimal Preference Change

We propose a novel approach to preference change. We treat a set of preferences as a special kind of theory, and define minimal change contraction and revision operations in the spirit of minimal change as advocated by the Alchourron, Gardenfors, and Makinson (AGM) theory of belief revision. We characterise minimal contraction of preference sets by a set of postulates and prove a representation...

Minimal Change Disease.

Minimal change disease (MCD) is a major cause of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (NS), characterized by intense proteinuria leading to edema and intravascular volume depletion. In adults, it accounts for approximately 15% of patients with idiopathic NS, reaching a much higher percentage at younger ages, up to 70%-90% in children >1 year of age. In the pediatric setting, a renal biopsy is usually ...

Histamine and Food Allergy

Histamine is synthesized via histidine decarboxylase (HDC) in wide types of immune cells and is involved in abundant physiologic and pathologic processes. Histamine is a mediator released during inflammatory reactions, such as food allergy. Food allergy is immunological reactions to 'fight off' specific allergens within food in susceptible individuals. The aim of this study is investigation of ...