OBJECTIVE To search whether xanthine oxido-reductase (XOR) present in the synovium is also liberated, to determine its activity in synovial fluid and to establish a possible relationship between XOR levels in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and non-RA patients. METHODS This study was carried out in the Laboratory of Immunology, University Ferhat Abbas, Setif, Algeria from 2001-2008. This study is a...

BACKGROUND Chronic colitis-harboring TCRalpha(- / - ) x AIM(- / - ) mice showed PBC-like bile duct damage in the liver. Bacterial infection is one of the candidates for the pathogenesis of PBC. We demonstrated that the bacterial cell wall component lipotheicoic acid (LTA) was detected at sites of inflammation around damaged bile ducts in PBC patients. The aim of this study was to investigate th...

fact that Dr. Kent Spender, of Bath, had pointed out in the March 1885 number of the Practitioner, that antimony in frequently repeated smnll doses ?th of a grain of tartar emetic, every hour or two hours, has the power of completely dissipating early local inflammations. Acting on Dr. Spender's suggestion, the treatment of surgical inflammation by antimony in small doses, frequently repeated, ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation of multiple joints. The central pathogenesis of RA is the proliferation of synovial fibroblasts in response to inflammatory cytokines. However, some of the targeted therapies for inflammation reactions do not display significant clinical improvement after initiation of therapy. Thus, the relationshi...

This study determined the total frequency of patients with AIDS and ophthalmologic problems before and after the introduction of combined highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), regardless of the use of this treatment; it also determined the frequency of external ocular diseases, intraocular infections and inflammations, and problems of the anterior portion of the optic nerve in these two...