Rethinking the role of alpha toxin in Clostridium perfringens-associated enteric diseases : a review on bovine necro-haemorrhagic enteritis [PDF]
, 2017 Bovine necro-haemorrhagic enteritis is an economically important disease caused by Clostridium perfringens type A strains. The disease mainly affects calves under intensive rearing conditions and is characterized by sudden death associated with small ...
Deprez, Piet +6 more
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Nailfold capillaries in connective tissue diseases in skin of color: A dermoscopic view
Clinical Dermatology Review, 2019 Introduction: Dermoscopy has gained tremendous importance in the recent past. It helps in the visualization of subsurface structures, whereby details of skin lesion are studied in depth.
Balachandra S Ankad, Priyanka S Jaju
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To sleep perchance to dream unusual bradyarrhythmia in an adolescent
IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports, 2018 Connective tissue disorders may involve the conduction system. A 16-year-old patient with known mixed connective tissue disorder (MTCD) presented with bradyarrhythmia.
Nandini Madan, Parijia Sharedall
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Saprolegnia on roach (Leuciscus rutilus) and carp (Cyprinus carpio) [Translation from: Acta zool.pathol.Antverpiensia 43 107-123, 1976] [PDF]
, 1979 There is, in nature, as well as in the aquarium, a parasitic disease known as 'mousse' and which attacks predominantly fish. It is caused by Phycomycete fungi, genus Saprolegnia.
Nolard-Tintigner, N.
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Angiogenic and angiostatic factors in renal scleroderma-associated vasculopathy [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: The angiogenesis in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is impaired. An imbalance of pro-angiogenic factors and angiogenesis inhibitors has been implicated in the progression of peripheral microvascular damage, defective vascular repair and fibrosis ...
Afeltra, Antonella M. Vittoria +7 more
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Elevated expression of type VII collagen in the skin of patients with systemic sclerosis. Regulation by transforming growth factor-beta. [PDF]
, 1994 A hallmark of systemic sclerosis (SSc) is the development of tissue fibrosis. Excessive production of several connective tissue components normally present in the dermis, including type I, III, V, and VI collagens as well as fibronectin and proteoglycans,
Christiano, Angela M. +5 more
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Association of anti-phospholipid antibodies with connective tissue diseases
Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2015 Background: The antiphospholipid antibodies (APLA) are directed against phospholipids and their binding proteins and are frequently found in association with connective tissue disorders. Systemic lupus erythematoses (SLE) with APLA may cause a diagnostic
Reena Rai, T Swetha
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The metastasis inducer CCN1 (CYR61) activates the fatty acid synthase (FASN)-driven lipogenic phenotype in breast cancer cells [PDF]
, 2016 The angiogenic inducer CCN1 (Cysteine-rich 61, CYR61) is differentially activated in metastatic breast carcinomas. However, little is known about the precise mechanisms that underlie the pro-metastatic actions of CCN1. Here, we investigated the impact of
Espinoza, Ingrid +3 more
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Siblings with mixed connective tissue disease.
Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi, 1987 膠原病での家族内発症の報告は散見されるが,混合性結合組織病(mixed connective tissue disease, MCTD)での家族内発症は極めてまれである.我々は, MCTDを発症した姉妹例を経験した.妹は,レイノー現象,手指硬化症,多関節炎,拘束性換気障害,白血球減少,血小板減少, CK値上昇,抗RNP抗体陽性であった.姉は,レイノー現象,手指硬化症,肺線維症,筋力低下,白血球減少,血小板減少, CK値上昇,抗RNP抗体陽性であった.姉妹ともに厚生省MCTD研究班の診断の手引きに合致しており, MCTDと診断し得た.姉妹のHLA抗原の分析では,共通してAw24, B7, Cw7, DR1抗原を有していた.かかる症例は ...
T, Fukui, H, Kondou, S, Kashiwazaki
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Collagens - structure, function and biosynthesis. [PDF]
, 2003 The extracellular matrix represents a complex alloy of variable members of diverse protein families defining structural integrity and various physiological functions.
Aigner, T, Gelse, K, Poschl, E
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