the adhesion molecules are involved in adhesion of leukocytes to endothelial cells and other immune cells. not only adhesion molecules have membrane form, but they also have soluble form. in this paper, we attempted to investigate the concen¬tration of soluble adhesion molecules in the type 1 diabetic patients (n = 40) and healthy subjects (n = 10). the results indicated that there was an incre...

Leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) Type 1 is a rare inborn error in infants characterized by delayed umbilical cord detachment, non-healing ulcers, and leukocytosis. Initially, knowledge of LAD was limited to the impairment granulocyte function due scarcity cases. However, as more cases are being reported, bio-physiology white blood cells, platelets, various intercellular reactivity signaling ...

Background. To simplify traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation and allow researchers to master syndrome differentiation for hypertension, this paper retrospectively studied the literature and analyzed syndrome elements corresponding to hypertension syndromes. Methods. Six databases including PubMed, EMBASE, Chinese Bio-Medical Literature Database, Chinese National Knowledge Infra...

INTRODUCTION Classic Bartter syndrome is a salt-wasting tubulopathy caused by mutations in the CLCNKB (chloride channel Kb) gene. Although growth hormone deficiency has been suggested as a cause for persistent growth failure in patients with classic Bartter syndrome, in our opinion the diagnoses of growth hormone deficiency has been unconvincing in some reports. Moreover, Gitelman syndrome seem...

A recently uncovered X-linked syndrome, caused by loss-of-function of IGSF1, is characterized by congenital central hypothyroidism and macroorchidism, variable prolactin deficiency, occasional growth hormone deficiency, delayed pubertal testosterone secretion and obesity. We propose to call this endocrinopathy "IGSF1 deficiency syndrome." Based on an estimated incidence of isolated congenital c...

Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) deficiency is an X-linked defect of purine metabolism. Clinical manifestations are usually related to the degree of enzyme deficiency: complete HPRT deficiency (Lesch-Nyhan syndrome) presenting with severe neurologic or renal symptoms, or partial HPRT deficiency (Kelley-Seegmiller syndrome) manifesting as a gout-urolithiasis syndrome. A 3-ge...

Leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disorder with autosomal recessive inheritance which is characterized by presence of a defect of phagocytic function resulting from a lack of leukocyte cell surface expression of b2 integrin molecules (CD11 and CD18) that are essential for chemotaxis. The classic symptoms of the disease are failure of separation of the umbili...