Introduction With the increasing potential for targeted therapies in autoinflammatory diseases, there is the need for validated and standardized assessment tools which can be used to evaluate the level of disease activity and response to therapy.An international collaboration, initiated by Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP) in association with the Paediatric Rheumatology International...

This research work was focused on green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) employing an aqueous plant extract Ifloga spicata. The used in the nanoparticle served as a stabilizing and reducing agent. were characterized via various techniques such X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy...

The Berlin physician Albert Moll (1862-1939) was an advocate of hypnotic suggestion therapy and a prolific contributor to the medical, legal and public discussions on hypnotism from the 1880s to the 1920s. While his work in other areas, such as sexology, medical ethics and parapsychology, has recently attracted scholarly attention, this paper for the first time comprehensively examines Moll's n...

IMPORTANCE Serum biomarkers may be useful in the evaluation of suspected head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) and as indicators of treatment success or failure in adjuvant and chemopreventive clinical trials. OBJECTIVE To determine serum cytokine and chemokine concentrations altered in patients with HNSCC compared with healthy volunteers to identify potential biomarkers. DESIGN, SETTI...

Prostate cancer (PCa), the primary disease of men over 50 years of age is on the increase worldwide. Most PCa grows slowly from overt clinical disease to the stage that lead to death. The gradual course of PCA development provides opportunity for intervention. Supplement of diet taken by PCa patients may be an effective intervention because certain micronutrients had been implicated in cancer p...

Sirs, Oxygen free radicals are implicated in the pathogenesis of many human diseases (1, 2). This can cause several abnormalities such as endothelial cell damage or enhanced platelet activation, leading to an upregulation of the expression of adhesion molecules or the secretion of inflammatory or fibrogenic cytokines including PDGF and TGF-β. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) is a family of enzymes th...

The quantum yield (QY) and lifetime are the important parameters for the photoluminescent materials. The data here report the changes of the QY and lifetime for the quantum dot (QD) nanocomposite after the UV curing of the urethane acrylate prepolymer. The data were collected based on the water soluble CdTe QDs and urethane acrylate prepolymer. Colloidal QDs were in various concentration from 0...

CONTEXT Aortic stiffness is increased in Marfan syndrome contributing to aortic dilatation and rupture, the major cause of premature death in this population. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors have been shown to reduce arterial stiffness. OBJECTIVE To determine whether perindopril therapy reduces aortic stiffness and attenuates aortic dilatation in patients with Marfan syndrome. DESI...