Glucose can react nonenzymatically with amino groups of proteins to form covalent Amadori products. With time these adducts undergo further rearrangements to form irreversible advanced glycosylation endproducts (AGE), which accumulate with protein age. A specific AGE, 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H-imidazole (FFI), has been identified on proteins in vivo. We have recently shown that a macroph...

Purpose The aim of the present study was to adapt the Foot Function Index-Revised Short Form (FFI-RS) questionnaire into Polish and verify its reliability and validity in a group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods The study included 211 patients suffering from RA. The FFI-RS questionnaire underwent standard linguistic adaptation and its psychometric parameters were investigat...

RATIONALE Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) linked to a D178N/129M haplotype mutation in the PRNP gene is the most common genetic prion disease in the Han Chinese population. Here, we describe a Han Chinese patient with FFI who exhibited agrypnia excitata and obstructive apnea. PATIENT CONCERNS A 46-year-old man displayed involuntary movements during sleep time, snoring, autonomic nervous system ...

Background Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease characterized by prominent organic sleep-related impairment accompanied series of symptoms with strong clinical heterogeneity in rapid progression. As the most significant feature and potential diagnostic marker FFI, progressive sympathetic were lack objective noninvasive quantitative method to detect....

: The aim of this study is to compare the psychometric properties original version and short Psychoticism Scale, which are Derived from Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised. In study, a sample consisting (1842) students Kuwait University (538) male (1304) female were used in examine gender differences test reliability validity for Scale derived (EPQ-R) (EPQR-S) . Original Short Scales, NEO...

Forest fire risk in Finland is estimated with the Finnish Fire Index (FFI), which predicts fuel moisture content (FMC) of forest floor. We studied FMC variation four typical ground vegetation fuels, Pleurozium schreberi, Hylocomium splendens, Dicranum spp., and Cladonia raw humus mature recently clear-cut stands. Of these, six were sub-xeric Pinus sylvestris stands, mesic Picea abies analysed a...