CONTEXT Patients with autoimmune rheumatologic conditions and celiac disease tend to have a variety of autoantibodies, many of which have no clear pathogenic role. The literature contains frequent reports of celiac disease being more prevalent in patients with rheumatologic diseases, although this remains controversial. OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence of positive serum tests for celi...

The erythrocytic-stage surface protein, Equi Merozoite Antigen 1 (EMA-1), is a major candidate for the development of a diagnostic antigen for equine piroplasmosis. In order to establish an effective diagnostic method for practical use, the gene encoding the entire EMA-1 of Theileria equi Jaboticabal strain was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli as a histidine-tagged protein (His6-EMA1). ...

Nocker and Camper reported that DNA from dead bacterial cells (Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium) treated with ethidium monoazide (EMA) is lost during the DNA extraction procedure (2). This was concluded from the missing or less intense DNA band on an agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide in comparison to the intensities of bands in untreated samples. Acco...

BACKGROUND Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of mental health symptoms may influence the symptoms that it measures, i.e. assessment reactivity. In the field of depression, EMA reactivity has received little attention. We aim to investigate whether EMA of depressive symptoms induces assessment reactivity. Reactivity will be operationalised as an effect of EMA on depressive symptoms measured ...

Ethylmalonic acid (EMA) accumulates in tissues and biological fluids of patients affected by short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (SCADD) and ethylmalonic encephalopathy, illnesses characterized by neurological and muscular symptoms. Considering that the mechanisms responsible for the brain and skeletal muscle damage in these diseases are poorly known, in the present work we investigat...

BACKGROUND Screening for celiac disease is based on the sequential evaluation of serologic tests and intestinal biopsy; an optimal screening protocol is still under investigation. The screening policy of one of the main healthcare providers in Israel (Maccabi) consists of measuring total immunoglobulin A and tissue transglutaminase IgA antibodies and confirming positive results by endomysial an...

Was the Education Maintenance Allowance scheme successful in achieving its objectives? Abstract 2 1 Introduction 3 2 Literature Review 5 2.1 History of thinking on EMAs ....................................................... 5 2.2 The model of the investment decision in post-compulsory education ................................................................................... 8 2.3 Findi...

2,2-Bis[4-(2-methacryloxyethoxy)phenyl] propane (bisEMA; CAS 24448-20-2) is an epoxy methacrylate that was developed as a substitute for another epoxy methacrylate, 2,2-bis[4-(2-hydroxy-3-methacryloxypropoxy) phenyl]propane (bis-GMA; CAS 1565-94-2), used in dental composite resins. In the 2012 Finnish Product Register of Chemicals, bis-EMA appears in some anaerobic glues and in one gelcoat. Som...

OBJECTIVES High prevalence rates of celiac disease in patients with Down syndrome have been reported in several countries. However, in Brazil there is no data regarding this association. In this study we report the prevalence of celiac disease in Down syndrome children and adolescents from southern Brazil. METHODS Seventy-one patients (32 female and 39 male, 2-18 years) from Curitiba, Brazil,...

background and objectives: classic hodgkin lymphoma (chl), anaplastic large cell lymphoma (alcl) and some cases of diffuse large b cell lymphoma (dlbcl) have overlapping morphologic features. since they all represent distinct clinico-pathologic entities, we explored the differential diagnostic impact of immunophenotyping to discriminate between them. materials and methods: we included 61 cases ...