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Isoenzyme distribution of creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase in serum and skeletal muscle in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, collagen disease, and other muscular disorders.

Clinical Chemistry, 1978
We determined the total activity and isoenzyme distribution of lactate dehydrogenase and creatine kinase in serum and biopsy specimens from skeletal muscle of nine normal individuals and nine patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (I), five with ...
Walid G. Yasmineh, G. A. Ibrahim, M Abbasnezhad, E A Awad   +3 more
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Autoantibody Profiles in Collagen Disease Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD): Antibodies to Major Histocompatibility Complex Class l-Related Chain a (MICA) as Markers of ILD

Biomarker Insights, 2015
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is frequently associated with collagen disease. It is then designated as collagen vascular disease-associated ILD (CVD-ILD), and influences patients’ prognosis.
Hiroshi Furukawa, Shomi Oka, Kota Shimada, Kiyoe Masuo, Fumiaki Nakajima, Shunichi Funano, Yuki Tanaka, Akiko Komiya, Naoshi Fukui, Tatsuya Sawasaki, Kenji Tadokoro, Masato Nose, Naoyuki Tsuchiya, Shigeto Tohma   +13 more
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Collagen VI as a driver and disease biomarker in human fibrosis

The FEBS Journal, 2021
Fibrosis of visceral organs such as the lungs, heart, kidneys and liver remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is also associated with many other disorders, including cancer and metabolic disease.
L. Williams, T. Layton, Nan Yang, M. Feldmann, J. Nanchahal   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Regulation of Collagen I and Collagen III in Tissue Injury and Regeneration

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023
The structure of connective tissues including cartilage, tendons, and ligaments as well as many organs, like the skin, heart, liver, kidney, lungs, blood vessels, and bones, depend on collagen.
Drishtant Singh, Vikrant Rai, D. Agrawal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pathological and immunological differences of arterial thrombi and wall caused by three different periodontal bacterial injections in rat models and proposals on the pathogeneses of vascular diseases

Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, 2021
Objectives Periodontal bacteria that have been studied show a strong connection to various vascular diseases. Among the many kinds of periodontal bacteria, Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) is well examined in the general aspects and in a rat model. However,
Takehisa Iwai, Yoshiki Matsui, Kaori Homma, Tamiko Takemura, Mutsunori Fujiwara, Norio Aoyama, Asuka Furukawa, Hiroki Sato, Yuichi Izumi   +8 more
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Therapeutic Strategy for Patients with Concomitant Pulmonary Artery Hypertension and Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: A Rare Case Report

Medicina, 2023
Combined cases of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) are rare and have a management dilemma. Although preload is crucial in the management of HOCM, anti-PAH agents dramatically change the preload ...
Toshihide Izumida, Teruhiko Imamura, Shuhei Tanaka, Shuji Joho, Koichiro Kinugawa   +4 more
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Tofacitinib versus tocilizumab in the treatment of biological-naïve or previous biological-failure patients with methotrexate-refractory active rheumatoid arthritis

RMD Open, 2021
Objectives To compare effectiveness between tofacitinib and tocilizumab treatments for biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (bDMARD)-naïve patients or previous bDMARD-failure patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) refractory to ...
Yukitaka Ueki, Yukitomo Urata, Shunsuke Mori, Tamami Yoshitama   +3 more
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Molecular dynamics simulations of the affinity of chitin and chitosan for collagen: the effect of pH and the presence of sodium and calcium cations [PDF]

Progress on Chemistry and Application of Chitin and Its Derivatives 28 (2023): 136-50, 2023
Chitosan and chitin are promising biopolymers used in many areas including biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering and viscosupplementation. Chitosan shares similar properties with hyaluronan, a natural component of synovial fluid, making it a good candidate for joint disease treatment.
arxiv   +1 more source

The Kidney in Collagen-Vascular Diseases [PDF]

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 1994
David R. Turner
openaire   +6 more sources

A severe case of thrombocytopenia, anasarca, fever, renal insufficiency or reticulin fibrosis, and organomegaly syndrome with myocardial and skeletal muscle calcification despite hypocalcemia: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021
Background TAFRO (thrombocytopenia, anasarca, fever, renal insufficiency or reticulin fibrosis, and organomegaly) syndrome is a recently recognized disease with a variety of presentations of variable severity.
Shogo Minomo, Yu Fujiwara, Shota Sakashita, Akito Takamura, Kaoru Nagata   +4 more
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