introduction: dye removal from industrial wastewater has been considered as one of the most environmental issues. recently, new methods of treatment such as catalytic ozonation have been used to increase dye removal efficiency. so, the efficiency of catalytic ozonation by copper coated zeolite as a catalyst in the removal of reactive red 198 was investigated. materials & methods: in order to re...

We have recently found that all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) upregulates thrombomodulin (TM) and downregulates tissue factor (TF) expression in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) M3 cells (NB4) and acute monoblastic leukemia cells (U937) (Koyama et al, Blood 84:3001, 1994). We have further investigated the effects of ATRA on leukemic cells freshly isolated from patients at diagnosis. Increase of TM...

PURPOSE To review clinical results of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with large bone defects of the tibial condyle. METHODS Records of 33 knees in 27 women and 3 men aged 44 to 80 (mean, 63.6) years who underwent primary TKA for RA with large tibial bone defects were reviewed. 16 knees had peripheral defects extending to the bone cortex, whereas 17 knees h...

Objective: To determine immunohistological markers in synovial tissue of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) which are associated with unfavourable disease outcome. Methods: Synovial tissue was obtained from 36 patients with RA within 1 year after the initial symptoms and before starting disease modifying antirheumatic drug treatment. Clinical, laboratory, and radiological assessments...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common autoimmune rheumatic disease, but specific and practicable tests for its diagnosis are lacking. We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of a new commercial ELISA in detecting anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibodies for the diagnosis of RA. METHODS Anti-CCP antibodies were determined in 330 serum samples: 98 from RA patients and 2...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and periodontitis are both chronic inflammatory diseases, which demonstrate similarities in terms of mechanism, histopathology, and demography. An association between these conditions has been demonstrated previously but has been called into question more recently. METHODS The published databases, such as MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycINFO, were searched using ...

AIMS Right atrial (RA) size predicts the outcome in some pathological conditions but reference values for RA volumes and myocardial function remain to be defined. Thus, we used two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) and three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) to define normative reference values of RA volumes and function. METHODS AND RESULTS Two hundreds healthy voluntee...

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that the presence of peptidyl arginine deiminase type 4 (PAD4) antibodies is associated with radiographic-severity rheumatoid arthritis (RA) among Caucasian patients. The presence of anti-PAD4 antibodies that were cross-reactivity against PAD3 was associated with more aggressive erosive disease (compared with the presence of anti-PAD4 antibodies without anti-PAD3 cr...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain whether clinically diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients having antibodies to enterobacterial common antigens (ECA) in synovial fluid (SF) have a histological appearance characteristic of RA synovitis. METHODS Twenty-five RA patients for which synovial biopsy specimens were preserved, were selected from 58 patients with RA tested for antibodies to ECA in SF The s...