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Chemokines in Rheumatic Diseases
Current Drug Targets, 2006Chemotactic cytokines, termed chemokines, mediate the ingress of leukocytes into the inflamed synovium. In this review, authors discuss the role of the most relevant chemokines and chemokine receptors involved in chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases.
Szekanecz, Zoltán +3 more
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Antimalarials in rheumatic diseases
Baillière's Clinical Rheumatology, 1990The antimalarials hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine remain established and effective agents for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Although the mechanisms of action remain uncertain, evidence is accumulating that the antirheumatic and immunological effects of the antimalarials are related to their massive ...
Tett, S, Cutler, D, Day, R
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Scintigraphy in rheumatic diseases
Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2004The aim of this review is to summarise the clinical role of nuclear medicine in rheumatology taking into consideration the most specific diagnostic applications and other worthwhile therapeutic contributions. Traditional bone scintigraphy and recent inflammation-targeting radiopharmaceuticals, such as radiolabelled leucocytes and immunoscintigraphy ...
COLAMUSSI P. +4 more
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PROSTAGLANDINS IN THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES*
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1975The prostaglandins may participate in the pathogenesis of the inflammatory rheumatic diseases by acting as mediators of inflammation and in promoting bone resorption. Levels of PGB (presumed to arise from PGE) in synovial fluids are elevated in the majority of a group of patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases, as compared to similar patients ...
Dwight R. Robinson +2 more
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Apoptosis in rheumatic diseases
The American Journal of Medicine, 2000Apoptosis, or programmed cell death (PCD), is a form of cellular demise that occurs when cells are damaged or no longer needed. It plays an important role in embryogenesis, normal tissue homeostasis, as well as in certain pathologic conditions, such as in oncogenesis, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), certain neurodegenerative diseases, and in
Tamara Grodzicky, Keith B. Elkon
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2010
Opioids are the most potent analgesics available and are well established for the treatment of severe acute, surgical, and cancer pain. However, their use to ameliorate chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) is still controversial because of the side effects, such as tolerance, somnolence, confusion, constipation, addiction, withdrawal, and anxiety about ...
L.J. Lang +3 more
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Opioids are the most potent analgesics available and are well established for the treatment of severe acute, surgical, and cancer pain. However, their use to ameliorate chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) is still controversial because of the side effects, such as tolerance, somnolence, confusion, constipation, addiction, withdrawal, and anxiety about ...
L.J. Lang +3 more
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Acute Rheumatism and Rheumatic Heart Disease
Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, 1951Although there has been a substantial decline in its prevalence during the last twenty years, acute rheumatism remains one of the most important diseases of the rheumatic group. Infection with hæmolytic streptococci of Group A is at present the only factor in the aetiology of acute rheumatism which can be identified with confidence.
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Rheumatic Diseases, Rheumatism and Arthritis.
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1958This book is based largely upon the personal experience of the author at the arthritis clinic of the Boston Dispensary. It is written from the internist's point of view, but pediatricians will find it to be a good guide. Emphasis is upon clinical observations and therapy. The approach is practical, and the coverage, comprehensive.
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Current Opinion in Cardiology, 1996
Rheumatic heart disease seems in many ways emblematic of an older era in medicine, without any prospects of new development or change in the current era. Many new findings have come to light in the past few years regarding this illness, which has a relatively low prevalence in the United States.
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Rheumatic heart disease seems in many ways emblematic of an older era in medicine, without any prospects of new development or change in the current era. Many new findings have come to light in the past few years regarding this illness, which has a relatively low prevalence in the United States.
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Osteoarthritis and Rheumatic Disease
Postgraduate Medicine, 1967Although osteoarthritis affects a large proportion of the population, its causes and pathogenesis are not clearly understood. Gout, pseudogout, infectious arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, pulmonary osteoarthropathy and polymyalgia rheumatica should be considered in differential diagnosis. Treatment is aimed largely at symptomatic relief.
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