OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the role of sonography in depicting periarticular changes in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to find out whether certain tendons in juvenile SLE patients were different from those of healthy controls. METHODS Thirty juvenile SLE patients (27 female, 3 male) were recruited for this study. Sonographic evaluations were performed in the knee, ankle, elbow,...

Nutrition is a potent mediator of developmental plasticity. If food is scarce, developing organisms may invest into growth to outgrow size-dependent mortality (short-term benefit) and/or into an efficient digestion system (long-term benefit). We investigated this potential trade-off, by determining the influence of food availability on juvenile body and organ growth, and on adult digestive effi...

angiofibromas are the most common benign tumors of the nasopharynx, intracranial extension has been reported in approximately 20-25% of cases. intracranial extension may be difficult to treat because of poor exposure that may lead to recurrence. a 16-year-old male patient presented with a 6-month history of nasal obstruction, intermittent epistaxis, right superior orbital fissure syndrome, and ...

Research and Program Development Division develops knowledge on national trends in juvenile delinquency; supports a program for data collection and information sharing that incorporates elements of statistical and systems development; identifies how delinquency develops and the best methods for its prevention, intervention, and treatment; and analyzes practices and trends in the juvenile justic...

Background Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) is widely used in paediatric inflammatory disease. The Department of Health, UK recently produced guidelines for IVIG use and a demand management plan in response to global IVIG shortages, recommending use in "selected" patients with juvenile dermatomyositis (JDMS), as a "last resort" in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA), and use not supp...

Open Access Oral presentation 3.5 Comparison of functional ability in juvenile idiopathic arthritis, juvenile dermatomyositis, juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus and healthy controls. An analysis of the PRINTO database G Filocamo*, S Meiorin*, C Saad-Magalhães, A Pistorio, A Ravelli, E Cortis, D Mihaylova, M Alessio, O Arguedas, S Garay, A Martini, N Ruperto and for the Paediatric Rheumatolo...

Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778), is one of the common echinoids widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean, where it occurs from the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and the east coast of Africa to Japan, Australia and Malaysia. To investigate the developmental basis of morphological changes in embryos and larvae, we documented the ontogeny of D. setosum in a controlled laboratory condition at the In...

To determine the tubular sites and mechanisms involved in enhanced renal phosphate (P(i)) reabsorption seen in the juvenile animal, renal micropuncture experiments were performed in acutely thyroparathyroidectomized adult (>14 wk old) and juvenile (4 wk old) male Wistar rats fed either a normal P(i) diet (NPD, 0.6% P(i)) or low P(i) diet (0.07% P(i)) for 2 days, in the presence and absence of p...

Objective(s): Both caloric restriction (CR) and resveratrol (RSV) have been shown to improve learning and memory, but their potential effects in juvenile animals were unknown. Here, we evaluated the effects of RSV and CR on learning and memory function in juvenile mice and investigated potential molecular mechanisms. Methods: Six-week-old C57BL/6J mice were assigned to one of three different d...