Tropical tropospheric ozone derived using Clear-Cloudy Pairs (CCP) of TOMS measurements M. J. Newchurch, D. Sun, J. H. Kim, and X. Liu Atmospheric Science Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA Department of Atmospheric Science, Pusan National University, Korea Received: 8 November 2002 – Accepted: 19 December 2002 – Published: 13 January 2003 Correspondence to: M. J. Newchurch (m...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common chronic inflammatory joint disease, with a worldwide prevalence of 0.5% to 1%. Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody (anti-CCP-2 Ab) is a marker of choice for diagnosing early and late RA. Anti-oxidant enzymes activity decreases in RA patients. Till now, the relationship between the rheumatoid factor (RF) and anti-CCP-2 Ab, anti-oxida...

We evaluated the association between anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP) and anti-mutated citrullinated vimentin antibodies (anti-MCV) with the presence of extra-articular (ExRA) manifestations in 225 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Ninety-five patients had ExRA and 130 had no ExRA. There was no association of anti-CCP and anti-MCV levels with the presence of ExRA a...

in  this  study  we  determined  the  frequency,  sensitivity  and  specificity  of  anti  cyclic citrullinated peptides (anti-ccp) igg antibody, total rheumatoid factor (rf-t), and rf isotypes in iranian patients with rheumatoid arthritis (ra) and their association with age, clinical and serological parameters. anti-ccp and rf-t and rf isotypes level were measured in 418 patients and 399 healt...

This study was performed to assess the utility of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies in distinguishing between patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and patients with polyarticular involvement associated with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Serum anti-CCP antibodies and rheumatoid factor (RF) were evaluated in 30 patients with RA, 8 patients with chronic HCV in...

Title: SUSTAINABILITY OF COLD-CLIMATE STRAWBERRY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS Matthew Dexter Stevens, Master of Science, 2005 Directed By: Associate Professor, John D. Lea-Cox, Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture Three cold-climate strawberry (Fragaria xananassa Duch.) production systems, conventional matted row (CMR), advanced matted row (AMR), and coldclimate plasticultur...

If all bounded linear operators from L 1 into a Banach space X are Dunford-Pettis (i.e. carry weakly convergent sequences onto norm convergent sequences), then we say that X has the complete continuity property (CCP). The CCP is a weakening of the Radon-Nikod ym property (RNP). Basic results of Bourgain and Talagrand began to suggest the possibility that the CCP, like the RNP, can be realized a...

©2015 Turkish League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved. ABSTRACT Objectives: This study aims to investigate the value of combined anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody and rheumatoid factor (RF) assays in the clinical diagnosis of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patients and methods: Results of both anti-CCP and RF detection in 70 RA patients (13 males, 57 females; mea...

BACKGROUND The outcome of surgically resected, apparently localized, clear cell renal carcinoma (ccRCC) is uncertain. OBJECTIVE To evaluate if cell cycle progression (CCP) gene expression can predict future metastasis. METHODS Pathologic T2a-T3b tumors at University of Iowa were reviewed. Patients with known or suspected metastasis, lymph node involvement or who received neoadjuvant or adju...

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of measuring the stiffness of corpus cavernosum penis (CCP) with ShearWaveTM Elastography (SWE; SuperSonic Imagine, Aix-en-Provence, France). Methods: 40 healthy volunteers with ages ranging from 19 to 81 years (mean, 36 years; standard deviation, 17 years) were selected in this study. The ultrafast ultrasound device Aixplorer® (SuperSonic Imagine) was use...