Eosinophilic fasciitis is a disease that causes diffuse inflammation in the subcutaneous fascia and skin sclerosis. In previous study, we confirmed injection of bleomycin induce fibrosis mice. Moreover, number eosinophils increased early stage experiment, TGF-β gene expression was enhanced with increase according to real-time PCR analysis, which closely resembles human eosinophilic fasciitis. I...

Calcium-sensing receptor inhibits secretagogue-induced electrolyte secretion by intestine 1 via the enteric nervous system 2 3 Sam X. Cheng 4 5 Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, 6 CT 06520, USA 7 8 Running title: Calcium-sensing receptor in enteric nerves 9 10 11 Address correspondence to: 12 13 Sam X Cheng, MD, PhD 14 Department of Pedi...

BACKGROUND Despite growing concern about the potential impact of managed care on the physician-patient relationship, efforts to enhance the quality of communication between practicing clinicians and their patients have been limited. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of a 1-day educational workshop. DESIGN Clinician self-assessment of interviewing skills measured immediately before an...

The resolvent operator approach is applied to address a system of generalized ordered variational inclusions with ⊕ operator in real ordered Banach space. With the help of the resolvent operator technique, Li et al. (J. Inequal. Appl. 2013:514, 2013; Fixed Point Theory Appl. 2014:122, 2014; Fixed Point Theory Appl. 2014:146, 2014; Appl. Math. Lett. 25:1384-1388, 2012; Fixed Point Theory Appl. 2...

El objetivo de este trabajo fue estudiar la validez basada en estructura interna del Cuestionario Infantil Emociones Positivas (CIEP), y elaborar un baremo para interpretación sus puntuaciones niños niñas argentinos 8 a 12 años. Participaron 1384 niñas, 1376 varones 1 menor que no identificó su sexo (M = 10.14; DE 1.30). Todos asistían escuelas primarias gestión pública o privada, zonas urbanas...

Hydrogels based on polyacrylamide, carboxymethylcellulose and silica are composites with good absorption release properties over time, this behavior allow their application in several areas. Thus, the aim of study was to analyze kinetic, spectroscopic, morphological, structural hydrogels prepared using different concentrations (0, 0.5, 2.5%). The results showed that swelling degree reduces incr...