Motivation. Due to technological advances such as the Internet and mobile computing, Security has become a serious challenge involving several disciplines of Computer Science. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the analysis of security protocols and one promising approach is the development of formalisms that model communicating processes, in particular Process Calculi. The r...

Cornu cervi pantotrichum (CCP) is a well-known yang-invigorating agent used in traditional Chinese medicine that can nourish the blood, tonify qi, and invigorate bones and tendons with multifunctional bioactivities. However, evidence on the effects of CCP on exercise performance and physical fatigue is limited. We evaluated the potential beneficial effects of ethanolic extract from CCP on ergog...

INTRODUCTION Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies have been considered very specific for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Some studies have shown that these antibodies can be positive in infectious diseases like TB, HIV, etc. METHODS Fifty patients of tuberculosis both pulmonary and extra-pulmonary were enrolled in the study from inpatient and outpatient departments from May 2012...

Inflammatory bowel disease commonly affects women with child-bearing potential, and clinical activity extent is most relevant at the time of conception. Below, we report on the case of a 19year-old woman who was admitted for first-trimester metrorrhagia and fever, with various extraintestinal manifestations, mainly including erythema nodosum and episcleritis during the course of disease. The di...

Comment on: Rheumatoid factor positivity rather than anti-CCP positivity, a lower disability and a lower number of anti-TNF agents failed are associated with response to rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis SIR, The recent article of Quartuccio et al. [1], ‘Rheumatoid factor positivity rather than anti-CCP positivity, a lower disability and a lower number of anti-TNF agents failed are associated w...

OBJECTIVE The increased prevalence of rheumatoid factor (RF) in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection markedly diminishes the diagnostic specificity of serum rheumatoid factor (RF) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients with HCV. Cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody, a highly specific biomarker for RA in the general population, may have better diagnostic utility for ...

BACKGROUND Antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) are considered to be specific for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical significance of anti-CCP in a cohort of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). METHODS Anti-CCP were tested by an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in serum samples from 109 patients with JIA (30 boys, 79 girl...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody (anti-CCP) for the prediction of radiological outcome in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS Anti-CCP was assessed at baseline in 379 patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (disease duration <1 year). Radiological joint damage and progression were assessed by Larsen score after two years of follow ...

and Adrienne Kols is consultant, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP), Baltimore, MD, USA; Fitri Putjuk is country representative, and Endang Basuki is consultant, JHU/CCP, Indonesia. This study was made possible by financial support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under cooperative agreements CCP-A-00-9690001-00 and HRN-C-00-96-900013-...

Determination of anti-citrullinated peptides (anti-CCP) specificity as a predictor of joint erosive changes, correlation between their serum level and radiological damages as well as disease activity score (DAS28). A trial has been conducted on a 211 patient sample fulfilling ACR criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). There was assigned anti-CCP serum level, disease activity score by the formu...