Using Fuzzy Linguistic Representations to Provide Explanatory Semantics for Data Warehouses [PDF]
, 2003 A data warehouse integrates large amounts of extracted and summarized data from multiple sources for direct querying and analysis. While it provides decision makers with easy access to such historical and aggregate data, the real meaning of the data has ...
Dillon, Tharam S., Feng, Ling
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Putative salivary protein biomarkers for the diagnosis of oral lichen planus: a case-control study
BMC Oral Health, 2018 Background Salivary protein biomarkers for screening and diagnosis of oral lichen planus (OLP) are not well-defined. The objective of this study was to identify putative protein biomarkers for OLP using proteomic approaches.
Sineepat Talungchit +8 more
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Neuropathophysiological potential of Guillain-Barré syndrome anti-ganglioside-complex antibodies at mouse motor nerve terminals [PDF]
, 2011 Objectives: Anti-ganglioside antibodies are present in approximately half of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) patients. Recently, it has been shown that a considerable proportion of these patients has serum antibodies against antigenic epitopes formed by a
Goodfellow +22 more
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Zinc-induced self-association of complement C3b and Factor H: implications for inflammation and age-related macular degeneration. [PDF]
, 2013 The sub-retinal pigment epithelial deposits (sRPEds) that are a hallmark of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) contain both C3b and mM levels of zinc.
Gor, J +6 more
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N-acetylcysteine (NAC) ameliorates Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein 1 induced chronic inflammation [PDF]
, 2017 Chronic inflammation results when the immune system responds to trauma, injury or infection and the response is not resolved. It can lead to tissue damage and dysfunction and in some cases predispose to cancer. Some viruses (including Epstein-Barr virus (
Al-Khalidi, Sarwah +5 more
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The continual presence of C3d but not IgG glomerular capillary deposition in stage I idiopathic membranous nephropathy in patients receiving corticosteroid treatment [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Pathologic diagnosis of stage I idiopathic membranous nephropathy (MN-I) requires electron microscopy or immunohistochemistry that shows a glomerular capillary staining pattern of IgG and C3.
Feng Zheng +4 more
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Contribution of complement activation pathways to neuropathology differs among mouse models of Alzheimer's disease [PDF]
, 2011 Background Complement proteins and activation products have been found associated with neuropathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recently, a C5a receptor antagonist was shown to suppress neuropathology in two murine models of AD, Tg2576 and
Maria I Fonseca +6 more
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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2007 INTRODUCTION: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory and progressive disease of the central nervous system in which local inflammatory injuries of the brain white matter appears, being the most outstanding feature the myeline loss ...
Bárbara Padilla-Docal +6 more
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New Technology Capabilities of Direct Antiglobulin Test
Клиническая онкогематология, 2020 Background. Direct antiglobulin test (DAT) is used to identify erythrocyte-fixed antibodies and complement components. Gel methods are applied to differentiate immunoglobulin class and subclass in positive DAT, which allows to study the nature of anemia ...
Elena Aleksandrovna Poponina +5 more
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Complement System in the Pathogenesis of Benign Lymphoepithelial Lesions of the Lacrimal Gland. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 We aimed to examine the potential involvement of local complement system gene expression in the pathogenesis of benign lymphoepithelial lesions (BLEL) of the lacrimal gland.We collected data from 9 consecutive pathologically confirmed patients with BLEL ...
Jing Li +4 more
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