BACKGROUND A longstanding debate in allergy is whether or not specific immunoglobulin-E antibodies (sIgE), recognizing cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants (CCD), are able to elicit clinical symptoms. In pollen and food allergy, ≥20% of patients display in-vitro CCD reactivity based on presence of α1,3-fucose and/or β1,2-xylose residues on N-glycans of plant (xylose/fucose) and insect (fuco...

BACKGROUND Despite the growing incidence of Clostridium difficile diarrhea (CCD) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), little is known about the associated risk factors. METHOD A retrospective study comparing cases of CCD in patients with IBD to IBD carriers who did not develop CCD. A comparison was also made with patients who developed CCD but did not suffer IBD. RESULTS Three...

Chronic compression of dorsal root ganglion (CCD) results in neuropathic pain. We investigated the role of spinal GABA in CCD-induced pain using rats with unilateral CCD. A stereological analysis revealed that the proportion of GABA-immunoreactive neurons to total neurons at L4/5 laminae I-III on the injured side decreased in the early phase of CCD (post-CCD week 1) and then returned to the sha...

Simmons, James G., Jolanta B. Pucilowska, and P. Kay Lund. Autocrine and paracrine actions of intestinal fibroblast-derived insulin-like growth factors. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 39): G817–G827, 1999.— Paracrine and autocrine actions of the insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are inferred by local expression within the bowel. CCD-18Co cells, IEC-6 cells, and immunoneutral...

BACKGROUND Many gynecological cancer survivors (GCS) have comorbid chronic diseases (CCD). This study was to estimate the impacts of CCD on quality of life (QOL) in GCS. METHODS We collected cross-sectional self-reported survey data from 598 GCS between April and July 2013, in Shanghai, China. All the subjects were asked to complete a questionnaire containing the European Organization for Res...

OBJECTIVE Although the detection of crossed cerebellar diaschisis (CCD) by means of different imaging modalities is well described, little is known about its diagnosis by computed tomography perfusion (CTP) imaging. We investigated the detection rate of CCD by CTP imaging and the factors related to CCD on CTP images in patients with acute ischemic stroke. MATERIALS AND METHODS CT perfusion ma...

In mammals, chewing cycle duration (CCD) increases with various measures of size, scaling with body mass(0.13-0.28) and jaw length(0.55). Proposed explanations for these scaling relationships include the allometry of body size, basal metabolic rate and tooth size, on the one hand, and pendular mechanics treating the jaw as a gravity-driven pendulum, on the other. Little is known, however, about...

To clarify the optimal cumulative cisplatin dose (CCD) in locoregionally-advanced nasopharyngel carcinoma (NPC) patients receiving induction chemotherapy (IC) plus concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). Using the NPC-specific database from the established big-data intelligence platform at Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, 583 non-disseminated, locoregionally-advanced NPC patients receiving IC...

Zusammenfassung Methode Kiefer- und Kopfgelenke bilden eine kybernetische Einheit. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, mögliche Zusammenhänge zwischen schlechtem Schlaf der kraniozervikalen (CCD) bzw. kraniomandibulären Dysfunktion (CMD) zu ermitteln. Ergebnisse Von den 606 untersuchten CMD-CCD-Patienten mit waren 65,4 % Patienten weiblich, 34,6 männlich; 90,3 erfüllten zusätzlich die diagnostischen Kri...