Published in Medical Principles and Practice
Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate any possible association between the macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) –173GC variant and Behçet’s disease (BD) in a group of Turkish patients. Subjects and Methods: A total of 111 patients with BD and 100 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. Genomic DNA was extracted fr...
Published in Journal of Innate Immunity
Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammation of the arterial vessel wall that arises from an imbalanced lipid metabolism. A growing body of literature describes leukocyte recruitment as a critical step in the initiation and progression of lesion development. By contrast, the role of leukocytes during plaque regression has been described in less detail...
Published in Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
Introduction: Fetal tracheal occlusion (TO) is currently an experimental approach to drive accelerated lung growth. It is stimulated by mechanotransduction that results in increased cellular proliferation and growth. However, it is currently unknown how TO affects the metabolic landscape of fetal lungs. Materials and Methods: TO or sham was perform...
Published in Obesity Facts
Objective: This study was conducted to understand how eating speed and oral health condition are associated with obesity in Japanese working men. Methods: We studied a total of 863 men attending an annual medical checkup of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force in Sasebo City, Japan. Participants answered a questionnaire about their eating speed...
Published in Complementary Medicine Research
Background: Elaborate consultations and life review (ECLR) has been regularly applied in patients of various cancer entities and stages within Anthroposophic-integrative oncology concepts. However, a lack of systematic research in this field has been detected. To close this gap of knowledge, we evaluated the impact of ECLR in patients with non-meta...
Published in International Archives of Allergy and Immunology
Background: Food allergy is a serious health issue affecting roughly 4% of children, with a substantial effect on quality of life. Chicken egg allergy is frequently observed in infants. Therefore, some of them have to exclude hen’s eggs from their daily diet to avoid allergenic symptoms. Hen’s egg is composed of 2 soluble parts; one is egg white, w...
Published in Molecular Neuropsychiatry
Schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders await mechanism-associated interventions. Excess oxidative stress is increasingly appreciated to participate in the pathophysiology of brain disorders, and decreases in the major antioxidant, glutathione (GSH), have been reported in multiple studies. Technical cautions regarding the estimation of o...
Published in Digestive Surgery
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of major hepatectomies for metastasis in elderly colorectal cancer patients, for whom limited data exist in the literature. Methods: From January 2006 to January 2013, 3,034 patients underwent hepatectomy for colorectal liver metastasis in 32 French surgical centers. Repeat hepatectomies...
Published in Complementary Medicine Research
Published in Respiration
Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a bronchoscopic treatment for patients with severe asthma who remain symptomatic despite optimal medical therapy. In this “expert best practice” paper, the background and practical aspects of BT are highlighted. Randomized, controlled clinical trials have shown BT to be safe and effective in reducing severe exacerbati...
