dance movement therapy in pediatric oncology

... and in inducing and maintaining remission in patients with active CD ACCENT I was a multicenter randomized double-blind international trial studying retreatment and remission maintenance in adult ... favorable maintenance of clinical remission Since CD may progress from intestinal inflammation to strictures and penetrating disease, including fistulas and abscess formation, mucosal healing has ... weeks for maintenance of remission After 54 weeks, the initial clinical response was maintained in only 17% of patients in the single dose group compared to 43% of patients maintained on 5 mg/kg...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... trained on the ESRS using training tapes at a multicenter investigators' meeting held to standardize procedures Investigators and/or designated raters performed ESRS ratings of video-recorded interviews ... treatment in the preceding doubleblind study and met criteria for continuation in the study Subjects were excluded if > weeks had elapsed since their participation in the previous double-blind trial, ... of item ratings of the complete scale should be ± point of expert ratings, and that ≥ 70% of ratings on individual items of each ESRS subscale should be ± point of expert ratings In this post...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... followed were in accordance with institutional guidelines involving 240 human subjects Vaccine description All adults were vaccinated with Influenza Virus Vaccine Fluzone® (inactivated Influenza ... BioRad, Hercules, CA) Cytokine determination Serum cytokines [Interleukin-2 (IL-2), Interferon gamma (IFN-γ), Interleukin-4 (IL-4), Interluekin-10 (IL-10)] were determined by sandwich ELISA (Biosource, ... anti-Influenza virus antibodies in serum of IgE positive and negative vaccinated pediatric and adult subjects, approaching two years post vaccination The exact role of IgE in Influenza virus infection...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... containing mg/ml porcine skin gelatin in the presence of SDS under non-reducing conditions Following electrophoresis, gels were washed in 2.5% Triton X-100 for hour at 4°C, then incubated in 50 ... role in inflammation and in extracellular matrix remodeling This study aimed to assess the pulmonary expression of MMPs and their inhibitors in the clinical course of pediatric ALI, including comparison ... levels (neutrophil gelatinase-B associated lipocalin complex) in lung fluid obtained on postnatal days and from premature infants recovering from RDS, when compared to infants with RDS who went...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:48

... gynecologic oncology [4] Finally, in the hands of well-trained interventional radiologists, uterine artery embolisation has been reported in the literature as an effective preoperative technique that minimises ... the idea, assisted in writing the manuscript; NT: conceived the idea, assisted in writing the manuscript, made MEDLINE research; FZ: assisted in writing the manuscript, made MEDLINE research, submitted ... the 2006 International Gynecologic Cancer Society Meeting and the 2006 Society for the Advancement of Blood Management Meeting [32] In the interest of simplicity, interventions used in bloodless...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... plaque up to 2.5 mm subgingivally Subgingival scaling is increasingly less effective in areas probing greater than mm Plaque left behind subgingivally following root planing begins to grow and repopulate ... scaling and root planing than in areas treated with osseous resective therapy These differences in the number of sites breaking down increased as initial pocket depth increased, underscoring ... is insufficient for providing useful information for comprehensive therapy The components of a thorough clinical examination, including periodontal probing depths, hard and soft tissue examination,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 21:20

... input, peripheral input giving word boundary information and foveal input giving information about letter identity 4.2.1 Peripheral visual input In our model, any eccentricity with a processing ... demonstrating that our model predicts that making between-word regressions is a rational strategy for reading Models of eye movements in reading The two most successful models of eye movements in reading ... reading Specifically, our model identifies the words in a sentence by performing Bayesian inference combining noisy input from a realistic visual model with a language model that takes context into...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... compliance causes an increased work of breathing and the following clinical findings Patient identification Primarily occurs in infants of less than 34 weeks gestational age Chief complaint Respiratory ... occur in more severe cases The clinical findings associated with CF are as follows Patient identification Occurs equally in males and females; predominately in Caucasians; usually diagnosed in childhood ... serious problem in terms of airway patency and matainence Following is a list of the typical clinical findings associated with Epiglottitis Patient identification Occurs most often in children approximately...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 11:21

... generating increased collateral flow But documented clinical success in reducing angina scores and improving myocardial perfusion in otherwise untreatable patients has been observed In a porcine ... fluorescent-labeled ODN to saphenous vein graft cells See color insert (A) Hoechst 33,342 nuclear chromatin staining of vein graft in cross section, illustrating location of nuclei within the graft wall (100¥) ... endpoints such as neointima formation Studies using a replication-deficient adenovirus expressing tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 (TIMP-2) demonstrate a decrease in neointimal formation in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:11

... molecules in the interleukin family, which have similar effects and have also been studied, including interleukin (IL-4), interleukin (IL-7), and interleukin 12 (IL-12) IL-12 is a heterodimer consisting ... OF CANCER now in development Such inhibition results not only in growth inhibition in vitro but also results in growth inhibition of tumors in animal models of carcinogenesis This inhibition occurs ... administered intradermally In a long-term clinical trial, idiotype vaccination resulted in tumor regression in cancer patients and cancer immunity in patients in remission Thus, idiotype vaccination,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:11

... L-glutamine, 100 IU/ml penicillin G, and 100 μg/ml streptomycin and B All media reagents were obtained from Invitrogen (Carlsbad, California, USA) The cell lines were routinely maintained at 37°C in ... therapies involving gemcitabine and other agents, such as axitinib, cisplatin, and fluorouracil are currently being studied [26-28] Our approach to identifying combination partners for gemcitabine involves ... gemcitabine Genes identified as synergistic to gemcitabine in the RNAi kinase screens are shown in red Gemcitabine induced DNA damage results in the phosphorylation and activation of serine/threonine-protein...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... resulting in a change from thymine to cytosine which led to a substitution in valine to alanine at position 166 Patient had a mutation at nucleotide number 332 resulting in a change from guanine ... the potential binding affinity of the amino acid motif spanning the mutation to the patient’s HLA (Table and 2) Peptides were designed based on the predicted binding affinity using the BIMAS program ... by side in the same experiment and were done from frozen samples This testing strategy was used to minimize variability from day to day in staining or thawing The samples were tested in independent...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... Immunohistochemistry staining Immunohistochemical staining of nestin and BrdU were performed to assess the property of NSC in cultures and track the migration and homing of allogeneic BrdUlabeled NSC in the host ... 10-20 μm in size were also evident Immunohistochemical staining of class I MHC demonstrated high expression levels in the lesioned cortex and brain parenchymas near the ventricular lining in the ... (panel B, top row) Reddish-brown staining of Class II MHC was evident in the infarcted brain parenchyma (B-i), along the meninge (B-ii), areas near the ventricular lining and vascular wall near the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... L, Winans MT, Gorelik E, Lokshin AE: Multiplex analysis of serum cytokines in melanoma patients treated with interferon alpha2b Clin Cancer Res 2007, 13(8):2422-8 Atkins MB, Mier JW, Parkinson ... s-CTLA-4 may give us more insight into the association between CTLA-4 polymorphisms and the clinical outcome of IFN therapy among patients receiving adjuvant interferon therapy or antibody mediated ... Salvo G, Marolla P, Carlini P, Massimini G, Holdener EE, et al: Primary hypothyroidism associated with interleukin-2 and interferon alpha-2 therapy of melanoma and renal carcinoma Eur J Cancer 1990,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... training of the clinical team Sites in Masaka district in southwest Uganda, for example, were the first to be trained, in June 2004, whereas other sites in northern Uganda received training in ... modules in developing countries that face similar human resource constraints to Uganda Conclusion This study offers preliminary evidence to support increased investment in task-shifting and training ... by the Ministry of Health to standardize nursing training and to reduce the wide variation in education and training between nurses working at government health units, particularly those in rural...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... the non-responding patients may be explained in that this patient subset exhibited a severe impairment in IFN signaling which was restored during the initiation phase of HDI therapy In contrast, ... Vazquez N, Donnelly RP, Larner AC, Finbloom DS: Interleukin-10 inhibits expression of both interferon alpha- and interferon gamma- induced genes by suppressing tyrosine phosphorylation of STAT1 Blood ... Letterio JJ, Gorham JD: TGF-beta1 inhibits T-bet induction by IFN-gamma in murine CD4+ T cells through the protein tyrosine phosphatase Src homology region domain-containing phosphatase-1 J Immunol...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... 1988 Levin MF: Interjoint coordination during pointing movements is disrupted in spastic hemiparesis Brain 1996, 119(Pt 1):281-293 Sukal TM, Ellis MD, Dewald JPA: Shoulder abduction-induced reductions ... Occurrence of synergistic movement patterns during circle drawing Boxplots of movement within (InSyn) or out of (OutSyn) synergistic movement patterns and single-joint movements (SJMov) of healthy ... planar pointing movements [25] The present study indicates that joint excursions of the hemiparetic shoulder and elbow are diminished, resulting in a reduced work area of the hand This finding is...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... targeted by interventions in physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language therapy (e.g use stairs, dress oneself) In the present study, observations were made only in physical therapy ... M, Fontaine R, Boissy P: Wearable wireless body area sensor networks for increased telepresence in geriatric telerehabilitation applications IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 2007, ... The therapy was conducted by the clinicians without any intervention from the observer Participants were evaluated prior to the beginning of the observations using a battery of standardized clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... of such interventions remains somewhat limited by the available outcome measures Previous research found that following stroke upper limb movement trajectories during point-point reaching are ... longitudinal axis, pointing proximally, while the z axis was perpendicular to the forearm's surface, pointing upwards (Figure 2) Movement onset and termination of each trial were defined by an ... the hand Finally, there is recent evidence to show that, focusing on the characteristics of the movement itself rather than the outcome of the movement (e.g end point accuracy in a pointing task),...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... studying reaching and grasping in healthy subjects and in individuals with hemiparesis by comparing movement kinematics of identical tasks made in a physical and a virtual environment Since reaching ... Levin MF: Interjoint coordination during pointing movements is disrupted in spastic hemiparesis Brain 1996, 119:281-293 Michaelsen SM, Levin MF: Short-term effects of practice with trunk restraint ... AG, Levin MF: Recruitment and sequencing of different degrees of freedom during pointing movements involving the trunk in healthy and hemiparetic subjects Exp Brain Res 1999, 126:55-67 Cumming BG,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20