Results Among the 1315 reported cases of anaphylaxis, 541 could be classified as food anaphylaxis, with level 1 (38%), level 2 (59%), and level 3 (3%) of probability. 212 patients were children (< 18yrs, age 7.4±5.4 yrs, M/ F=2.0), and 329 were adults (age 35.5±12.9 yrs, M/F= 0.5). The main implicated food allergens were nuts (31%), egg (16%), milk (15%), fish (8%) and sesame (7%) in children a...

AIM To evaluate platelet activation markers in psoriasis patients, compared to controls, and investigate their association with the inflammatory burden of psoriasis. METHODS Forty psoriatic patients without cardiovascular disease, and 12 healthy controls were subjected to measurement of baseline platelet CD62P, CD63 and CD42b expression, platelet-leukocyte complexes, i.e., platelet-monocyte c...

common variable immunodeficiency (cvid) is a heterogeneous heritable disease characterized by arrest in b cell differentiation. an association between cvid and two hla haplotypes, haplotype i (hla-a1, hla-b8, hla-dr3) and haplotype ii (hla-a29, hla-b44, hladr7)has been previously documented. in the present study, we have attempted to find an association between susceptibility to cvid and hla cl...

Two experiments evaluated the influence of altering the concentrations of progesterone during the development of the ovulatory follicle on the composition of the follicular fluid, circulating LH and PGF(2α) metabolite (PGFM), and expression of endometrial progesterone receptor and estrogen receptor-α. In both experiments, the estrous cycles were presynchronized (GnRH and progesterone insert fol...

BACKGROUND Pedestrians who are involved in motor vehicle collisions present with a unique trauma situation. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the specific clinical characteristics of this patient population in comparison to injured motor vehicle occupants in the medical emergency setting. METHODS A total of 4435 pedestrian traffic collision victims admitted to hospitals participating a...

1 increase plant performance 2 3 Running head: Bottom-up vs. top-down effects 4 5 6 Xoaquín Moreira, Kailen A. Mooney, Rafael Zas and Luis Sampedro 7 8 9 10 11 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 92697 Irvine, 12 California , USA. 13 14 Misión Biológica de Galicia (MBG-CSIC), Apdo. 28, 36080 Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. 15 16 Centro de Investigación Forestal...

Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is a chronic autoimmune blistering disease of the skin, in whichloss of adhesion between keratinocytes is caused by autoantibodies. It has been hypothesizedthat cytokines play an essential role in the pathogenesis of PV. This study aimed to investigatethe other immunopathological aspects of PV by determining the serum levels of cytokines inPV patients to find another tre...

OBJECTIVE To compare the functional outcomes and complication rates following laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy (LS) with those occurring in robot-assisted laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy (RALSCP) in obese women. PATIENTS AND METHODS A comparative retrospective multicentre study was made, involving 39 obese women (BMI≥30 kg/m2) who underwent LS, and 17 obese women who underwent RASCLP. The operative pa...