Introduction: Inflammatory joint diseases are common in elderly, and regulation of joint blood flow (JBF) is important in these conditions. The aim of this study was to investigate the response of inflamed joint blood vessels to angiotensin (Ang ), a vasoconstrictor factor which has been shown to be produced in inflamed joints locally. Identification of Ang receptor subtypes in joint blood ve...

Background & Aims: The anti TNF drugs are new line treatment for articular inflammatory diseases which are used systemically, but due to expensiveness and some systemic adverse effects have limited usage. The aims of this study were to investigate the effect of intra-articular (local) injection of Etanercept and Infliximab as two anti TNF drugs on histopathology and also due to the important ro...

Niazi and State (1948) found that protein-free precipitate of plasma or serum heated in a boiling water bath with Dische's diphenylamine reagent gave a dark purple colour in certain diseases, especially in malignancy and inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, subacute bacterial endocarditis, empyema, and tuberculosis (Dische, 1929, 1930). The value of this dipheny...

Arthritis is Australia’s major cause of disability and chronic pain. In Australian women, osteoarthritis is the third leading cause of years lost due to disability. Osteoporosis affects nearly two million Australians. The Federal government acknowledged the importance of musculoskeletal diseases by designating arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases as the seventh National Health Priority. This ...

Living with oxygen is basically unsafe, but vital. During evolution, oxygen originally a waste product of the metabolism in primitive unicellular organisms became normal product of the metabolism in higher animal species involving humans. Even when oxidative reactions are toxic, and destructive, they are tolerated by all organisms to some extent. The fact has opened the discussion about efficie...

THE reasons for discussing the subject of concurrent eye and joint diseases in this Society are (a) the,great interest displayed in it by Swedish clinicians (Sjogren, Stenstam, Stig Holm, Edstromn and Osterlind); and (b) the recent advances concerning the physiopathology and serological diagnoses of the joint diseases (blood cultivation and antibody measurements, including the antistrepto4ysin ...

cedure is quite simple. I should mention here that general practice, in spite of there being a specialist training, is in a poor way. There is a great shortage of GPs, particularly in country areas and some suburbs, and the average age of existing GPs is high. Possibly a British doctor prepared to work hard in areas regarded as medically less attractive by his German colleagues would be given c...