Primary immune deficiencies - improving our understanding of their role in immunological disease

RNA-Seq: Improving Our Understanding of Retinal Biology and Disease.

Over the past several years, rapid technological advances have allowed for a dramatic increase in our knowledge and understanding of the transcriptional landscape, because of the ability to study gene expression in greater depth and with more detail than previously possible. To this end, RNA-Seq has quickly become one of the most widely used methods for studying transcriptomes of tissues and in...

Primary Immune Deficiencies – Principles of Care

Primary immune deficiencies (PIDs) are a growing group of over 230 different disorders caused by ineffective, absent or an increasing number of gain of function mutations in immune components, mainly cells and proteins. Once recognized, these rare disorders are treatable and in some cases curable. Otherwise untreated PIDs are often chronic, serious, or even fatal. The diagnosis of PIDs can be d...

the role of type-d personality, social support and self-compassion in prediction of health behaviors in coronary heart disease patients

نظر به اهمیت و تاثیر روزافزون عوامل روانی – اجتماعی در سلامت جسمی و تاثیر عوامل روان شناختی در بروز بیماریهای مختلف از جمله بیماریهای قلبی و عروقی این پژوهش با هدف کلی بررسی ارتباط تیپ شخصیتی d ، حمایت اجتماعی و خود دلسوزی در پیش بینی رفتارهای بهداشتی بیماران کرونر قلبی و تعیین تفاوت بین بیماران کرونر قلبی با و بدون جراحی و افراد سالم در این متغیرها و رفتارهای بهداشتی آنان، انجام گرفت. جامعه آ...

Improving our understanding of youth suicide clusters.

The study by Madelyn S Gould and colleagues 1 reported in The Lancet Psychiatry provides strong evidence to suggest that media reporting about suicide in the days after the suicide of a young person might have a ripple eff ect within a community, and be a factor in subsequent suicides that constitute a cluster. Gould and colleagues did a sophisticated case-control study that showed signifi cant...

Improving our understanding of posttraumatic trajectories.