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Cervical cancer (CC) screening is a major component of secondary prevention of CC and involves screening all women at risk of developing this disease, most of whom are asymptomatic.
O.A. Burka +3 more
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Rates of lobar atrophy in asymptomatic MAPT mutation carriers. [PDF]
IntroductionThe aim of this study was to investigate the rates of lobar atrophy in the asymptomatic microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) mutation carriers.MethodsMAPT mutation carriers (n = 14; 10 asymptomatic, 4 converters from ...
Boeve, Bradley F +24 more
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Risk Factors for Gastric Tumorigenesis in Underlying Gastric Mucosal Atrophy
Background/AimsAtrophic gastritis is considered a premalignant lesion. We aimed to evaluate the risk factors for gastric tumorigenesis in underlying mucosal atrophy.Methods : A total of 10,185 subjects who underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy ...
Ji Hyun Song +4 more
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Hypomyelination with atrophy of the basal ganglia and cerebellum (H-ABC) is a rare disease that has been recently described. It must be remembered as a possible etiology of leukoencephalopathies in children.
André Palma da Cunha Matta +1 more
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Obesity and Gray Matter Volume Assessed by Neuroimaging: A Systematic Review
Obesity has become a major public and individual health problem due to its high worldwide prevalence and its relation with comorbid conditions. According to previous studies, obesity is related to an increased risk of cognitive impairment and dementia ...
Marina Fernández-Andújar +2 more
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ABSTRACT:Weakness of distal muscles of one upper limb which progresses over 1 year and then appears to arrest (“monomelic amyotrophy”) has been reported mainly in Japan and India. We report 5 cases of a similar syndrome occurring in Canada. In our cases the wasting affected the forearm muscles of one upper limb (sparing brachioradialis and extensor ...
J, Oryema, P, Ashby, S, Spiegel
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Association between cognitive performance and cortical glucose metabolism in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease [PDF]
Background: Neuronal and synaptic function in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is measured in vivo by glucose metabolism using positron emission tomography (PET). Objective: We hypothesized that neuronal activation as measured by PET is a more sensitive index of
A. Drzezga +27 more
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Transforming Growth Factor β (TGF-β) is involved in fibrosis as well as the regulation of muscle mass, and contributes to the progressive pathology of muscle wasting disorders. However, little is known regarding the time-dependent signalling of
Michèle M. G. Hillege +5 more
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Phenomenological model of diffuse global and regional atrophy using finite-element methods [PDF]
The main goal of this work is the generation of ground-truth data for the validation of atrophy measurement techniques, commonly used in the study of neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia.
Camara, O. +9 more
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FilaminC (Flnc) is a member of the actin binding protein family, which is preferentially expressed in the cardiac and skeletal muscle tissues. Although it is known to interact with proteins associated with myofibrillar myopathy, its unique role in ...
Shunshun Han +12 more
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