Thomas Mercer | View/Change User Information | Email alerts | Sign Out Gut 2007;56:608-610; doi:10.1136/gut.2006.115006 Copyright © 2007 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Society of Gastroenterology COMMENTARY IBS and surgery Avoiding unnecessary surgery in irritable bowel syndrome George F Longstreth Correspondence to: Correspondence to: D. G F Longstreth Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, 464...

Objective To investigate pathological conditions that act as sources of pro-inflammatory cytokines and cytotoxic substances to examine telomere length (TL) in patients with either early (duration of illness [DI] ≤5 years) or chronic (DI >5 years) psychosis using T lymphocytes. Methods Based on these factors and the important role that T lymphocytes play in inflammation, the present study meas...

Selective Gamma-Chain T-Cell Receptor Gene Rearrangements in a Patient with Omenn’s Syndrome: Absence of V-II Subgroup (Vg9) Transcripts GEORGE MATHIOUDAKIS,† ROBERT A. GOOD, YUTJ CHERNAJOVSKY,‡ NOORBIBI K. DAY, AND CHRIS D. PLATSOUCAS* Department of Immunology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, Texas; All Children’s Hospital, University of South Florida, St. Peter...

By ROBERT W. LEADER, GEORGE A. PADGETT AND JOHN R. GORHAM I N 1961, NEUTROPHILS with unusual cvtopbasiiiic structures were ( l)scr\cCl in peril)heral blood smears of mink homozvgous recessive for the Aleutian gene aa. Subsequent observations also revealed abnormal eosinophibs, monocytes and lymphocytes. These abnormal cells have a striking resemblance to those observed in the Chedi#{225}k-Higas...

We analyzed RNA gene expression in neurons from 16 cases in four categories, HIV associated dementia with HIV encephalitis (HAD/HIVE), HAD alone, HIVE alone, and HIV-1-positive (HIV+)with neither HAD nor HIVE. We produced the neurons by laser capture microdissection (LCM) from cryopreserved globus pallidus. Of 55,000 gene fragments analyzed, expression of 197 genes was identified with significa...

contagion’ in online communities and argues that medical analogies such as the references to ‘viral’ memes are exaggerating the efficiency of information spread online. “Unlike for influenza, to which you’re either exposed or not exposed, even the ideas you do encounter have to compete for attention with everything else that you’re exposed to,” Watts concludes (http://poptech.org/e1_duncan_ wat...

This thesis investigates whether the economic regime of a country influences the efficacy of shock therapy reform, and if so, how. In this thesis, an economic regime is restricted to be either a mixed or socialist economy, and shock therapy is defined to be a class of rapid economic reforms used to introduce capitalism to a country. Based on existing literature on the subject of shock therapy, ...

BACKGROUND Andersen-Tawil syndrome (ATS1)-associated ventricular arrhythmias are initiated by frequent, hypokalemia-exacerbated, triggered activity. Previous ex vivo studies in drug-induced Andersen-Tawil syndrome (DI-ATS1) models have proposed that arrhythmia propensity in DI-ATS1 derives from cytosolic Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](i)) accumulation leading to increased triggered activity. OBJECTIVE The ...

Credibly communicating information for agents to act upon is a challenge for central planners and managers. This paper studies the optimal disclosure policy when the relative accuracy (reliability) of the public information cannot be veri…ed and when agents’actions are either strategic complements or substitutes for each other. We …nd that while disclosure of public information improves social ...