D. A.

Effects of fertilizer phosphorus and poultry droppings treatments on growth and nutrient components of pepper (Capsicum annuum   L) (2006)

The effect of five phosphrous levels (0, 25, 50, 75, 100 and 125 kg/ha) and five poultry dropping (0, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 kg/ha) levels on the growth, growth yield, yield components, nutrients...

O webjornalismo e o paradoxo da velocidade (2005)

Trabalho apresentado no NP02 - Jornalismo no XXVII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Porto Alegre RS, 2004.  A relação entre velocidade e...

Comunicacions (2005)

Càtedra Ferrater Mora

The chemistry of transient dense cores (2005)

Relationship between structural remodeling and reactivity in pulmonary resistance arteries from hypertensive piglets (2005)

In neonatal pulmonary hypertension, the pulmonary arteries fail to adapt to extrauterine life and remain thick walled. In a previous study on normal neonatal resistance arteries, perfusion myography...

Stable expression of a recombinant human antinucleosome antibody to investigate relationships between antibody sequence, binding properties, and pathogenicity (2005)

  • Mason,
  • L.J.,
  • Lambrianides,
  • A.,
  • Haley,
  • J.D.,
  • ...

When purified under rigorous conditions, some murine anti-double-stranded-DNA (anti-dsDNA) antibodies actually bind chromatin rather than dsDNA. This suggests that they may actually be antinucleosome...

The achiasmia spectrum: congenitally reduced chiasmal decussation (2005)

AIM: To describe the clinical spectrum of achiasmia, a congenital disorder of reduced relative decussation at the optic chiasm. METHODS: A retrospective case note and patient review of nine children...

Raised levels of interleukin 6 in systemic lupus erythematosus correlate with anaemia (2005)

  • Ripley,
  • B.J.M.,
  • Goncalves,
  • B.,
  • Isenberg,
  • D.A.,
  • ...

Objectives: Raised levels of the cytokines interleukin (IL) 6 and IL10 have been reported in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Objective: To determine if levels of IL6 and IL10...

The telomere of human chromosome 1p contains at least two independent autosomal dominant congenital cataract genes (2005)

  • McKay,
  • J.D.,
  • Patterson,
  • B.,
  • Craig,
  • J.E.,
  • ...

AIMS: Multiple genetic causes of congenital cataract have been identified, both as a component of syndromes and in families that present with isolated congenital cataract. Linkage analysis was used...

Beta-2-glycoprotein specificity of human anti-phospholipid antibody resides on the light chain: a novel mechanism for acquisition of cross-reactivity by an autoantibody (2005)

  • Kumar,
  • S.,
  • Nagl,
  • S.,
  • Kalsi,
  • J.K.,
  • ...

We have recently shown that the anti-cardiolipin activity of human anti-phospholipid antibody UK4 (lambda) resides on its heavy chain. We now show that UK4 possesses strong reactivity to the...

Blood Vessels and the Aging Kidney (2005)

Aging is associated with a degenerative effect on many organs including the kidney. Blood vessels play a key role in the progression of renal damage in aging, with reductions in glomerular filtration...

Loss of nitric oxide and endothelial-derived hyperpolarizing factor-mediated responses in aging (2005)

Loss of nitric oxide and endothelial derived hyperpolarizing factor mediated responses in aging. Background. Aging has considerable structural and functional effects on the vascular system of the...

Continuous MLL-ENL Expression Is Necessary to Establish a "Hox Code" and Maintain Immortalization of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells (2005)

The t[(11;19)(p22;q23)] translocation, which gives rise to the MLL-ENL fusion protein, is commonly found in infant acute leukemias of both the myeloid and lymphoid lineage. To investigate the...

Outcome in neonates with congenital heart disease referred for respiratory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (2005)

  • Brown,
  • K.L.,
  • Miles,
  • F.,
  • Sullivan,
  • I.D.,
  • ...

Aim: To evaluate the proportion of neonates referred for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support in the modern era of advanced conventional treatments for respiratory failure who actually...

The Chrispin-Norman score in cystic fibrosis: doing away with the lateral view (2005)

  • Benden,
  • C.,
  • Wallis,
  • C.,
  • Owens,
  • C.M.,
  • ...

The Chrispin-Norman chest radiograph scoring (CNS) system is widely used to assess respiratory disease progression in cystic fibrosis (CF). Frontal and lateral chest radiographs were performed. The...

Biofilms: Persistence and Ubiquity (2005)

  • McBain,
  • A.,
  • Allison,
  • D.,
  • Pratten,
  • J.,
  • ...

A specific CCR3 chemokine receptor antagonist inhibits both early and late phase allergic inflammation in the conjunctiva (2005)

  • Nakamura,
  • T.,
  • Ohbayashi,
  • M.,
  • Toda,
  • M.,
  • ...

Allergic inflammation manifests as one of a number of diseases, including asthma, dermatitis, food allergy, vernal keratoconjunctivitis, and systemic anaphylaxis. Together these diseases affect...

En face optical coherence tomography: a new method to analyse structural changes of the optic nerve head in rat glaucoma (2005)

  • Guo,
  • L.,
  • Tsatourian,
  • V.,
  • Luong,
  • V.,
  • ...

AIM: To investigate en face optical coherence tomography (eOCT) and its use as an effective objective technique for assessing changes in the glaucomatous rat optic nerve head (ONH) in vivo, and...

Imaging in CNS Lupus. (2005)

  • Peterson,
  • P.L.,
  • Axford,
  • J.,
  • Isenberg,
  • D.A.

Do we 'do'? (2005)

International consensus outcome measures for patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. Development and initial validation of myositis activity and damage indices in patients with adult onset disease. (2004)

  • Isenberg,
  • D.A.,
  • Allen,
  • E.,
  • Farewell,
  • V.,
  • ...

OBJECTIVE: To devise new tools to assess activity and damage in patients with idiopathic myopathies (IIM). METHODS: An international multidisciplinary consensus effort to standardize the conduct and...

The effect of image colour distortion on evaluation of donor liver suitability for transplantation (2004)

Some medical applications rely on the use of colour in the diagnostic process, even when poor colour reproduction can affect diagnosis. In this paper, we investigate the effect colour distortion can...

Achiasmia - a Review (2004)

Joubert syndrome: long-term follow-up (2004)

Twenty-nine patients (16 males, 13 females) with Joubert syndrome were identified from ophthalmology, neurology, and genetic databases covering a 15-year period at Great Ormond Street Hospital,...

Use of the silastic sheath in bladder neck reconstruction (2004)

OBJECTIVE: The study compared two populations of patients undergoing bladder neck reconstruction using the silastic sheath in two major pediatric centers. The success with this technique was markedly...

KCNQ/M currents in sensory neurons: significance for pain therapy (2003)

  • Passmore,
  • G.M.,
  • Selyanko,
  • A.A.,
  • Mistry,
  • M.,
  • ...

Neuronal hyperexcitability is a feature of epilepsy and both inflammatory and neuropathic pain. M currents [IK(M)] play a key role in regulating neuronal excitability, and mutations in neuronal...

The clinical importance and prognostic implications of microsatellite instability in sporadic cancer (2003)

Aims: The genetic abnormality known as microsatellite instability (MSI), first identified in colorectal cancer in 1993, has subsequently been recognised in other malignancies. These cancers are...

Motion perception: read my LIP (2003)

Neural activity in the enigmatic lateral intraparietal area (LIP) of the monkey brain is now reported to reflect the perceived direction of ambiguous motion more faithfully than does activity in...

Visual Perception: Shaping What We See (2003)

A new psychophysical study has examined the free flow of perception as observers viewed stimuli with several possible visual interpretations. The results suggest that our subjective impression of...

Toothbrushing and bacteraemia in children: preliminary results (2003)

  • Lucas,
  • V.S.,
  • Gafan,
  • G.,
  • Dewhurst,
  • S.N.,
  • ...

26-28 June 2003

Sustained raised intracranial pressure implicated only by pattern reversal visual evoked potentials after cranial vault expansion surgery (2003)

  • Liasis,
  • A.,
  • Thompson,
  • D.A.,
  • Hayward,
  • R.,
  • ...

Craniosynostosis, the premature fusion of cranial sutures, may be associated with raised intracranial pressure (ICP) with or without a reduced intracranial volume. Regardless of the aetiology, raised...

Fibroblasts isolated from normal lungs and those with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis differ in interleukin-6/gp130-mediated cell signaling and proliferation (2003)

Interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-11 are elevated in a variety of lung conditions and may impact on repair mechanisms in chronic inflammatory disorders. However, the mechanisms by which these cytokines...

Inverse effects of interleukin-6 on apoptosis of fibroblasts from pulmonary fibrosis and normal lungs (2003)

Fibroblast apoptosis is crucial to the resolution of fibrosis. However, the mechanisms by which these cells undergo apoptosis are not well known. Because interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-11 may alter repair...

Myco-Flora of a Kerosene-Polluted Soil in Nigeria (2002)

  • WEMEDO,
  • S A,
  • OBIRE,
  • O; DOGUBO,
  • D A

The myco-flora of a Kerosene-polluted soil was investigated. Soil samples collected from a fallow patch of land were polluted with 90 ml, 180 ml, and 270 ml concentrations of kerosene. The 0 ml...

Stellarators (2002)

Stellarators are toroidal devices where the required rotational transform of the magnetic field lines is generated by external field coils and not via an induced net toroidal plasma current. This...

Identification of oral streptococci using sodA PCR-RFLP (2002)

27th July - 1st August 2002.

Pathogenesis and clinical management of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (2002)

Background: Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is an inherited genetic condition associated with microsatellite instability; it accounts for around 5 per cent of all cases of...

Visual Neurophysiology: Recordings from the Human Primate (2002)

Neurophysiological studies in human patients, with experiments of the kind traditionally reserved for monkeys, are beginning to provide valuable insight into the workings of the brain. Taking center...

Constitutive Activation of G-proteins by Polycystin-1 Is Antagonized by Polycystin-2 (2002)

  • Delmas,
  • P.,
  • Nomura,
  • H.,
  • Li,
  • X.,
  • ...

Polycystin-1 (PC1), a 4,303-amino acid integral membrane protein of unknown function, interacts with polycystin-2 (PC2), a 968-amino acid ?-type channel subunit. Mutations in their respective genes...

Characterization of CD3+ CD4- CD8 - (double negative) T cells in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: production of IL-4 (2002)

  • Dean,
  • G.S.,
  • Anand,
  • A.,
  • Blofeld,
  • A.,
  • ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune rheumatic disease that may affect every organ or system in the body. We have shown previously that the TCR alphabeta+ subpopulation of CD3+...

The molecular Universe (2002)

Molecular Genetics and Prospects for Therapy of the Inherited Retinal Dystrophies (2001)

  • Bessant,
  • D.A.,
  • Ali,
  • A.,
  • Battacharya,
  • S.S.

More than 60 genes responsible for human retinal dystrophies have been identified. Those recently isolated include the transcription factor genes NRL and NR2E3, RDH5 (retinol dehydrogenase), EFEMP1...

Increased circulating platelet-leucocyte complexes and platelet activation in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis (2001)

  • Joseph,
  • J.E.,
  • Harrison,
  • P.,
  • MacKie,
  • I.J.,
  • ...

It is possible that platelet activation may play a pathogenic role in the increased risk of thrombosis associated with antiphospholipid antibodies (APA). In this study, levels of in vivo platelet...

The functional interactions between CD98, beta1-integrins, and CD147 in the induction of U937 homotypic aggregation (2001)

  • Cho,
  • J.Y.,
  • Fox,
  • D.A.,
  • Horejsi,
  • V.,
  • ...

CD98 is expressed on both hematopoietic and nonhematopoietic cells and has been implicated in a variety of different aspects of cell physiology and immunobiology. In this study, the functional...

Chemical signatures of shocks in hot cores (2001)

  • Viti,
  • S.,
  • Caselli,
  • P.,
  • Hartquist,
  • T.W.,
  • ...

Pourous interstellar grains (2001)

  • Iati,
  • M.A.,
  • Williams,
  • D.A.,
  • Cecchi-Pestellini,
  • C.,
  • ...

Prospective study of human betaherpesviruses after renal transplantation: association of human herpesvirus 7 and cytomegalovirus co-infection with cytomegalovirus disease and increased rejection (2000)

BACKGROUND: Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) and HHV-7 are two lymphotropic herpesviruses, which, like cytomegalovirus (CMV), have the potential to be pathogenic in immunocompromised individuals. We have...

Incubation time of acute human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and duration of acute HIV infection are independent prognostic factors of progression to AIDS (2000)

  • Vanhems,
  • P.,
  • Hirschel,
  • B.,
  • Phillips,
  • A.N.,
  • ...

The severity and the duration of acute human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (AHI) are associated with a faster rate of progression to AIDS, but the prognostic value of the length of...

Novel molecular mechanisms of dendritic cell-induced T cell activation (2000)

In this study we have re-examined the molecular mechanisms involved in activation of T cells by dendritic cells (DC). Human peripheral blood DC (PBDC) were derived by 2 h adhesion followed by 7 day...

Do present damage and health perception in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus predict extent of future damage?: a prospective study (2000)

  • Stoll,
  • T.,
  • Sutcliffe,
  • N.,
  • Klaghofer,
  • R.,
  • ...

OBJECTIVE: To study whether either initial damage, disease activity, disease duration, age, a drug score, or health status would predict an increase in damage in patients with systemic lupus...

Is there an association of malignancy with systemic lupus erythematosus? An analysis of 276 patients under long-term review (2000)

  • Sultan,
  • S.M.,
  • Ioannou,
  • Y.,
  • Isenberg,
  • D.A.

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the risk of malignancy in a UK cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) under long-term review. METHOD: The University College London Lupus Clinic Database...

Anti-SSA/Ro52 autoantibodies blocking the cardiac 5-HT4 serotoninergic receptor could explain neonatal lupus congenital heart block (2000)

  • Eftekhari,
  • P.,
  • Salle,
  • L.,
  • Lezoualc'h,
  • F.,
  • ...

The 52-kDa SSA/Ro (Ro52) ribonucleoprotein is an antigenic target strongly associated with the autoimmune response in mothers whose children develop neonatal lupus and congenital heart block. When...

Identification of candidate endothelial cell autoantigens in systemic lupus erythematosus using a molecular cloning strategy: a role for ribosomal P protein P0 as an endothelial cell autoantigen (2000)

  • Frampton,
  • G.,
  • Moriya,
  • S.,
  • Pearson,
  • J.D.,
  • ...

OBJECTIVE: To attempt to characterize the diversity and nature of antigens recognized by anti-endothelial cell antibodies (AECA) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using a molecular...

The use of alternative medical therapies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Trination Study Group (2000)

  • Moore,
  • A.D.,
  • Petri,
  • M.A.,
  • Manzi,
  • S.,
  • ...

OBJECTIVE: As part of an ongoing study of health resource utilization and diminished productivity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the use of alternative medical therapies was...

HC3N and the ages of dense cores (2000)

  • Gwenlan,
  • C.,
  • Ruffle,
  • D.,
  • Viti,
  • S.,
  • ...

The sulphur depletion problem (1999)

Evolving interstellar extinction (1998)

  • Cecchi-Pestellini,
  • C.,
  • Williams,
  • D.A.

Exemplifying guidelines for preparation of recombinant DNA products in phase I trials in cancer: Preparation of a genetically engineered anti-CEa single chain Fv antibody (1997)

  • Mayer,
  • A.,
  • Chester,
  • K.A.,
  • Bhatia,
  • J.,
  • ...

Products of recombinant DNA technology have potential for the diagnosis or treatment of cancer. There is a need to investigate whether they function by the intended mechanism in small phase I...

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