Methods 6 turkish patients with the clinical diagnosis of FMF exhibiting homocygous or combined heterozygous mutations within the MEFV gene were included. Patients still exhibited clinical symptoms and elevated inflammation markers despite sufficient colchicine therapy (“instable disease”). Healthy probands served as controls. Their health status was assessed by a standardized questionnaire. Al...

Name Type Company Catalog Number Comments Dithizone reagent Dissolve 5mg Dithizone in 5 ml of DMSO in a 50 ml conical tube. Add 45 ml of normal saline and mix gently. Filter with a 60 cc syringe and a 0.22 "m syringe filter into a new 50 ml tube. Store at 4 OC, until use. Add 1 ml to each 35 mm counting Grid-plate, when needed. PBS Buffer HBSS Buffer Isolation soln. Buffer HBSS containing 10 mM...

Accepted for publication 26 March 1991 Abstract The oesophageal acid clearance time was evaluated in 10 healthy volunteers of 'small' boluses of 0 5 and 1 ml and 'minute' boluses of 0-05 and 0*1 ml 0.1 N HCI, as well as 0-1 and 1 ml 0*01 and 0.001 N HCI. Swallow rate was normalised at q 60 seconds. For 0.1 ml 0.1 N HCI, acid clearance time was also measured for swallow intervals of q 30 and 120...

BACKGROUND The muscle layers of murine gastric fundus have no interstitial cells of Cajal at the level of the myenteric plexus and only possess intramuscular interstitial cells and this tissue does not generate electric slow waves. The absence of intramuscular interstitial cells in W/WV mutants provides a unique opportunity to study the molecular changes that are associated with the loss of the...

Plasma levels of plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI1). p-thromboglobulin (pTG), and fibrinopeptide A (FPA) were followed over 24 hours in 30 patients treated with alteplase for acute myocardial infarction. Samples were taken at baseline (T Oh), after 90 minutes (under alteplase, no heparin, T 1.5h). after 120 minutes (under alteplase and heparin, T 2h), 30 minutes after thrombolytic th...

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to compare the density of gutta-percha root fillings obturated with the following techniques: cold lateral (CL) compaction, ultrasonic lateral (UL) compaction, and warm vertical (WV) compaction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-three extracted mandibular first molars, with two separate mesial canals in each, were selected. After instrumentation, the canals we...

1) From the Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA 2) Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 10115, USA 3) present address: Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Department of BioNanoScience, Technical University Delft, Lorentzweg , 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands 4) present address: De...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of diverticulosis is increasing with 5-10% of patients developing diverticulitis and 5-15% developing symptomatic bleeding. Diverticulitis can result in abscess, perforation, fistula, or obstruction. Bleeding has combined morbidity and mortality rates of 10-20%. The purpose of this study was to compare diverticulitis-related complications and transfusion requirements f...