Introduction: Oral Lichen Planus (OLP) is one of the most common mucocutaneous lesion, and its etiologic factors have not been elucidated yet. OLP has two different clinical forms including reticular and erosive. Mast cells function in non-specific immunology is an etiologic factor involved in the formation of lichen planus. This study aimed at determining the pattern of mast cells presence in ...

Connective tissue growth factor (CCN2), a member of the CCN family of proteins, is a cysteine-rich matricellular protein. Connective tissue growth factor is not normally expressed in dermal fibroblasts unless induced. The most potent inducer of connective tissue growth factor thus far identified is transforming growth factor beta. Connective tissue growth factor, however, is constitutively over...

van den Hooven et al. (2012) found a non­ significant association between high levels of maternal and fetal C­reactive protein (CRP) and exposure to air pollution when they examined the correlation of CRP levels with inflammation and obstetric morbidity. The authors reported that elevated fetal CRP levels at delivery were associated with higher long­term average maternal exposure to PM10 (parti...

In vivo cultivated connective tissue is rich in lipids. That obtained from man and chicken has larger concentrations of neutral fat and cholesterol than connective tissue of other species. Connective tissue synthesizes cholesterol and possesses a striking avidity for retention of either endogenous or exogenous cholesterol. The fibrous portion of sponge-connective tissue of the rabbit incorporat...

The aim of the present study was to analyze how human tendon connective tissue responds to an approximately 7-wk period of immobilization and a remobilization period of a similar length, in patients with unilateral ankle fracture, which is currently unknown. Calf muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) decreased by 15% (5,316 to 4,517 mm2) and strength by 54% (239 to 110 N.m) in the immobilized leg a...

BACKGROUND Recent clinical studies have suggested a major protective role for the antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase-1 (GPx1) in diabetes-associated atherosclerosis. We induced diabetes in mice deficient for both GPx1 and apolipoprotein E (ApoE) to determine whether this is merely an association or whether GPx1 has a direct effect on diabetes-associated atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RES...

van den Hooven et al. (2012) found a non­ significant association between high levels of maternal and fetal C­reactive protein (CRP) and exposure to air pollution when they examined the correlation of CRP levels with inflammation and obstetric morbidity. The authors reported that elevated fetal CRP levels at delivery were associated with higher long­term average maternal exposure to PM10 (parti...

Abstract Sahlqvist theory is extended to the fragments of intuitionistic propositional calculus that include conjunction connective. This allows us introduce a character amenable arbitrary protoalgebraic deductive systems. As an application, we obtain theorem for implication connective and extensions linear logic.