Woźniak, Anna Walke, Witold Jakóbik-Kolon, Agata Ziębowicz, Bogusław Brytan, Zbigniew Adamiak, Marcin
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Materials
Titanium and its alloys are characterized by high biocompatibility and good corrosion resistance as a result of the ability to form a TiO2 oxide layer. However, based on literature data it can be concluded that titanium degradation products, in the form of titanium particles, metal-protein groups, oxides and ions, may cause allergic, inflammatory r...
Marques, Claudia Kakehasi, Adriana Maria Gomides, Ana Paula Monteiro Paiva, Eduardo Dos Santos dos Reis Neto, Edgard Torres Pileggi, Gecilmara Cristina Salviato Provenza, José Roberto Mota, Licia Xavier, Ricardo Machado Ferreira, Gilda Aparecida
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JMIR Research Protocols
Background Patients with immune-mediated rheumatic diseases (IMRD) are at increased risk of infections, including significant morbidity and high mortality. Considering the potential for unfavorable outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with IMRD, several questions were raised regarding the impact of COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic. Obj...
Kong, Chunyu Shi, Yuquan Xu, Junhua Xiu, Zijuan Qi, Wufang
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The Journal of International Medical Research
Background Few studies have focused on the ability of progranulin to predict postoperative disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who have undergone surgery. This study evaluated serum progranulin levels in active RA patients and analyzed its relationship with postoperative disease activity. Methods One hundred thirty-two patients w...
Roh, Jueun Go, Eun Jin Park, Jin-Woo Kim, Yong Ho Park, Chul-Kyu
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Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
Chronic pain is a serious condition that occurs in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and the central nervous system (CNS). It is caused by inflammation or nerve damage that induces the release of inflammatory mediators from immune cells and/or protein kinase activation in neuronal cells. Both nervous systems are closely linked; therefore, inflamm...
Nobis, Aleksander Zalewski, Daniel Waszkiewicz, Napoleon
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Journal of clinical medicine
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of disability worldwide, creating a high medical and socioeconomic burden. There is a growing interest in the biological underpinnings of depression, which are reflected by altered levels of biological markers. Among others, enhanced inflammation has been reported in MDD, as reflected by increased ...
Chang, Li-Chun Chiang, Yi-Fen Chen, Hsin-Yuan Huang, Yun-Ju Liu, An-Chieh Hsia, Shih-Min
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Biomedicines
Endometriosis is common in reproductive-age women and its pathology is to increase proliferation and migration to enhance epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition progression (EMT). However, treatments are currently limited, so it is important to explore new therapeutic drugs. Hence, in this study, we investigate the therapeutic effect of fucoidan (FC)...
Hanmin, Chen Xiangyue, Zhou Lenahan, Cameron Ling, Wang Yibo, Ou Yue, He
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Frontiers in Neurology
The extracellular matrix is composed of a variety of macromolecular substances secreted by cells, which form a complex network that supports and connects tissue structures, regulates the morphogenesis of tissues, and maintains the physiological activities of cells. Tenascin-C, a secreted extracellular matrix glycoprotein, is abundantly expressed af...
Zhao, Guigui Gu, Wei
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The Journal of International Medical Research
Objective Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic degenerative arthropathy characterized by articular cartilage degeneration, subchondral osteosclerosis, and hyperosteogeny. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important regulatory role in its pathological development, so this study explored the effect and potential mechanism of miR-146a-5p in interleukin (IL)-1β-i...
Latif, Azka Kapoor, Vikas Sood, Akshat Thirumalareddy, Joseph Tauseef, Abubakar
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Cureus
Guillain‐Barré syndrome (GBS) is a relatively uncommon post-infectious, immune‐mediated neurologic disorder with an incidence of 0.5-2/100,000. It is usually preceded by an infection that evokes an immune response that cross-reacts with peripheral nerve components via molecular mimicry. The presentation of this disorder has several forms, including...
Ng, Khuen Foong Kothari, Trishul Bandi, Srini Bird, Paul William Goyal, Kanika Zoha, Mohammad Rai, Vinayak Tang, Julian Wei-Tze
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Journal of medical virology
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is generally a relatively mild illness in children. An emerging disease entity coined as pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) has been reported recently, but is very rare and only affects a very small minority of children. Here we describe the clinical presen...