OBJECTIVES Current methods of monitoring chronic synovitis in a single joint rely on clinical examination derived indices, such as the detection of synovial thickening. This study aimed to develop a reproducible method for quantifying the volume of synovial lining in chronic synovitis using contrast enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. METHODS The knees of 18 patients with chronic synovi...

BACKGROUND Initial investigations demonstrated a deficiency of glutathione (GSH) in the epithelial lining fluid (ELF) of HIV-seropositive patients. In a recent study, our laboratory was unable to document such a deficiency. The current study was performed in an attempt to reconcile those disparate findings. STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine if ELF GSH decreases over time in asymptomatic HIV-serop...

The extracellular lining of the lungs is reviewed. The pulmonary extracellular lining is a complex mixture of phospholipids, proteins and carbohydrates which is absolutely essential for the maintenance of normal pulmonary functions such as gas exchange. Without the lining the lungs would collapse. Alterations in the pulmonary extracellular lining may underlie some disease conditions induced by ...

Whereas the irrigation water transmission open channel network in Egypt, is one of largest and longest networks all over world that dogged permeable soil (Its length reaches about 33500 km). In a country suffers greatly from an increasing shortage limited available quantities, ignoring expected huge quantities losses through transport operations path madness, to bridge accelerated gap between w...

Author’s address: P. H. Schmidt, M. D., Diaconesseninrichting Bronovo, Den Haag (Netherlands) The neurinoma of the facial nerve is a rare tumor. The first case was described by Schmidt in 1930. The fact that 30 years later Miehlke could collect only 42 cases of intratemporal neurinoma of the facial nerve justifies the description of another case. A 13-year-old girl had noticed a left side facia...

Immunohistochemical study showed selective localisation of human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) to the synovial lining layer. Although the synovial lining layer of the rheumatoid, osteoarthritic, and traumatic joints was hEGF positive, hEGF staining was especially dense at the rheumatoid synovial lining layer; the staining increasing linearly according to the degree of stratification of the lin...

Quantification of the permeability of connective tissue linings isolated from implanted capsules was achieved by two types of experiments. The objective of the first type was to determine the restriction offered by the lining to diffusion of 'I-labeled human serum albumin. The restricted diffusion coefficient of albumin with respect to the connective tissue lining the luminal capsule surface (i...