1 School of Health Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom 2 School of Social and Health Sciences, University of Abertay, Dundee, United Kingdom 3 Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand, School of Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. 4 Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia 5 Centr...

A simple, sensitive gold nanoparticle (GNP)-based dot-blot immunoassay has been developed for detecting Alzheimer's disease related β-amyloid peptide 1-42 (Aβ(1-42)) down to a 50 pg mL(-1) level in aqueous solution. Practical samples (cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), cell culturing mediums and cell lysates) have been used to demonstrate the ability of the assay.

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical and biochemical effects of a low starting dose for gold therapy in rheumatoid arthritis patients with a contact allergy to gold. METHODS Serum cytokines were assayed before and 24 h after the first injection of gold sodium thiomalate (GSTM). RESULTS Contact allergy to gold was found in 4 of 19 patients. Compared to gold-negative patients (starting dose: 10 mg...

Mammillitis is a condition that causes sudden teat inflammation, enlargement, difficulty milking, suckle, and the formation of black necrotic patches with circumscribed areas on base in she buffaloes. It disease buffaloes associated bovine herpes mammilltis virus 2 (BHV2). Vesicle formation, characteristic feature early stages cow either absent or occurs rarely dairy Stress calving hormonal cha...

Our aim is to study the termination of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and the causes of withdrawal. We have reviewed the prospective protocols of patients with PsA and collected the data on treatments and causes of withdrawal. Fifty-four out of 96 patients (48 male and 48 female) have undergone one or more courses of DMARD (n = 109). The life-table ...