Connective Tissue
Predictors of mortality in connective tissue disease associated pulmonary arterial hypertension: a cohort study
... All patients had SSc or another underlying CTD, namely rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD). Definitions were based on the American College ...
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Connective tissue fibroblasts and Tcf4 regulate myogenesis
... and connective tissue are revealed further in several human diseases, in which disruptions in these interactions have severe ...increased connective tissue fibrosis (Duchenne, ...by ...
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Connective tissue metabolism in chikungunya patients
... Results: We carried out the present study to determine the effect of chikungunya on the collagen and connective tissue metabolism in 75 chikungunya-affected people. First, we screened for ...
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Mixed connective tissue disease: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines
... Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is a complex overlap disease with features of different autoimmune connective tissue diseases (CTDs) namely systemic sclerosis, poly/dermatomyositis and ...
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Connective tissue growth factor antagonizes transforming growth factor ?1/Smad signalling in renal mesangial cells
... 61, connective tissue growth factor, nephroblastoma overexpressed; CTGF, connective tissue growth factor; 1 CTGF, CTGF with domain 1 deleted; 2 CTGF, CTGF with domain 2/VWC domain deleted; 3 ...
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Connective tissue diseases and noninvasive evaluation of atherosclerosis
... Abstract: Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to accelerated atherosclerosis. In patients with autoimmune disorders, in addition to traditional ...
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Renal involvement in autoimmune connective tissue diseases
... in tissue fibrosis and, subsequently, tissue ...of tissue fibrogenesis ...[8], connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) [9], as well as other mediators, such as endothelin-1 [10], are ...
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The interaction of monosodium urate with connective tissue components
... increase in urate solubility. If, on the other hand, unbound chondroitin sulfate or PPL digested by trypsin is used, then no significant augmentation of urate solubility occurs indicating that the integrity of the ...
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Epidemiology of organic solvents and connective tissue disease
... Silman and Jones [39] conducted a case–control study of male cases in the UK. Fifty-six cases were recruited from patient registries, 41 control individuals were identified from friends of the cases, and 56 control ...
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Mixed Connective Tissue Disease in Children and Adolescents
... A review of 234 reported patients with mixed connective tissue disease, including 50 pediatric patients, suggests a higher prevalence of renal and cardiac disease in affected children an[r] ...
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Root coverage using a connective tissue graft with epithelial striation in combination with enamel matrix derivatives - a long-term retrospective clinical interventional study
... soft tissue volume, and lack of keratinized tissue (KT) at the buccal site of teeth [4, ...soft tissue autografts are regularly used to increase the soft tissue volume and the width of KT ...
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Vitamin D deficiency in undifferentiated connective tissue disease
... ated connective tissue disease' (UCTD) has been used since 1980 to describe a group of connective tissue diseases (CTDs) that lack the characteristics of any distinctive ...
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Connective tissue disease-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension.
... notably connective tissue disease ...of connective tissue-associated PAH have been less well studied, however PAH associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has a better prognosis than ...
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Significance of connective tissue diseases features in pulmonary fibrosis
... Interstitial lung disease (ILD) can occur in any connective tissue disease (CTD), also referred to as collagen vascular diseases, with varying frequency and severity [1, 2]. The long-term prognosis of ...
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Hypoxia increases human keratinocyte motility on connective tissue
... Re-epithelialization of skin wounds depends upon the mi- gration of keratinocytes from the cut margins of the wound and is enhanced when human keratinocytes are covered with occlusive dressings that induce hypoxia. In ...
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Immunology and Disease of Connective Tissue
... single- or double-stranded DNA: the peripheral or ring pattern, usually indicating the presence of anti bodies to double-stranded DNA with active lupus present, usually with renal involvement: the nucleolar pattern, in ...
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Connective Tissue Mechanics of Metridium Senile
... In this study dynamic mechanical tests on isolated mesogloea, both native and chemically treated, have been used to investigate the nature of the interaction between collagen and matrix [r] ...
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STUDIES ON THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE
... The apparent half-life times of 2.6 days for hyaluronic acid and 11.0 and 10.8 days for chondroitinsulfuric acid (based on the concentrations of C’4 and S, re- spectively) found in the s[r] ...
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Mechanical Design of Spicule Reinforced Connective Tissue: Stiffness
... The metabolic costs of secreting spicules and connective tissues are not yet known; if it is cheaper to precipitate minerals than to synthesize proteins and mucopolysaccharides, a sessil[r] ...
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A TEST OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE STATE AND REACTIVITY IN COLLAGEN DISEASES
... The time-response curve in the patient with three characteristics of these pathological con- systemic lupus erythematosus receiving prednisone ditions may be distinguished: 1 the initial[r] ...
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