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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Scleroderma"”.
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Quantifying dermatology : method and device for user-independent ultrasound measurement of skin thickness
… application is measuring progression of scleroderma, a skin thickening disease. Current measurement techniques for scleroderma progression rely on subjective clinical opinion, lack quantitative rigor, are invasive, and often measure parameters besides thickness that are less closely …
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A Study of Diets Low in Phenylalanine and Tyrosine for Collagen Disease
… which six rheumatoid arthritis patients and one scleroderma case were treated with a low phenylalanine and tyrosine diet.</p> <p>The diets supplied approximately 1500 calories and 36 grams of protein. No more than 1500 mg. combined phenylalanine and tyrosine were given in any one day. Lofenalac …
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Experience of living with systemic sclerosis - a grounded theory study
Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is an autoimmune, rheumatic, and rare chronic and incurable autoimmune disease that damages healthy tissue within the skin, blood vessels, muscles, joints, connective tissues, nerves, vascular system and internal organs (Herndon, 2016). Living with systemic …
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Observations of mycorrhizal inoculation of pin and scarlet oak production in containers
… of an indigenous mycorrhizal fungus, Scleroderma bovista Fr., to increase growth and resistance to drought stress of scarlet oak grown in containers in the pot-in-pot growing system. Scleroderma bovista did not affect tree growth, and mycorrhizal trees in containers proved to be more …
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Multi and Hyperspectral Imaging of Early Detection of Disease
… capillaries to aid in the evaluation of systemic scleroderma, and enhancing cancer detection in the gastrointestinal tract during endoscopies. The nailfold capillaries are the smallest blood vessels in the body, and deformations in these capillaries are indicators of systemic scleroderma, a …
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Health-Related Quality of Life in Morphea
… life (HRQOL) of patients with morphea (localized scleroderma). We determined the impact of morphea on HRQOL and clinical and demographic correlates of HRQOL. METHODS: Cross sectional survey of Morphea in Adults and Children (MAC) cohort. RESULTS: Morphea impairs HRQOL. Patients were particularly …
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Investigating the defects of postnatal global Fli1 deletion in a mouse model
Scleroderma (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by dysfunctional immunity, vasculopathy, and fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. There is a poor prognosis for SSc patients and effective therapeutics have not yet been developed. Many mouse models have been developed, but most fail to …
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Hongos ectomicorrícicos de plantas leñosas en terrenos degradados de Asturias por actividad minera e industrial
… chopo, se han detectado dos especies del género Scleroderma, dos Ascomycetes, pertenecientes al orden Helotiales, y hongos micorrícicos arbusculares. Se confirmo la presencia de cinco géneros de estos últimos hongos al producirse esporas en plantas trampa con rizosfera de árboles en donde se …
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Adipocytes and Innate Immunity In Systemic Sclerosis
<p>Systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) is a chronic systemic autoimmune and connective tissue disorder characterized by vasculopathy, autoimmune phenomena, and widespread fibrosis. Skin thickening and tightening is the cardinal feature of SSc and is responsible, in part, for the considerable …
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Mechanical characterisation of soft biological tissue by using surface acoustic waves
… diseases, such as carcinoma cutaneum and scleroderma. This dissertation further exploited the use of surface acoustic waves in the tissue mechanical characterisation, it takes a novelty approach in applying SAW for a precise mechanical characterisation of layered soft tissue, in terms of …
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Estudos sobre fungos gasteroides (Basydiomicota) no Nordeste brasileiro
… Phallus (01), Podaxis (01), Pisolithus (01), Scleroderma (01), Staheliomyces (01), Tulostoma (05) e Vascellum (02)] e cinco famílias (Agaricaceae, Clathraceae, Geastraceae, Phallaceae e Sclerodermataceae). Destas, oito espécies são novas para a ciência, 24 constituem novos registros para o …
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Multi-Functional Optical Coherence Tomography Assesses Skin Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis
Systemic sclerosis (SSc), or scleroderma, is a chronic autoimmune disorder characterized by fibrosis in the skin and internal organs. SSc has a five-year post-diagnosis survival rate of 77.9%, declining to 55.5% after ten years, and a median survival of approximately 11 years, making early …
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Trace metal effects on ectomycorrhizal growth, diversity, and colonization of host seedlings
… samples suggests patchy inoculum distribution. Scleroderma citrinum, a common early-stage fungus, was dominant throughout. Other early stage genera included Rhizopogon, Pisolithus, and Thelephora. Mid to late stage genera including Suillus and Lactarius were identified. Cenococcum, often a …
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Diversidade de fungos em solos de florestas plantadas de eucalipto
… Foram encontrados basidiocarpos dos gêneros Scleroderma xi e Pisolithus, com predominância do primeiro. Foram identificados FMA dos gêneros Glomus, Acaulospora e Scutellospora a partir dos esporos dos solos, tendo os dois primeiros ocorrido em todos os solos avaliados. A caracterização …
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Pinus taeda growth and phosphorus uptake as affected by interactions of mycorrhizae and supplemental phosphorus
… inoculated with one of four species of fungi (Scleroderma aurantium, Pisolithus tinctorius, Thelephora terrestris, and Rhizopogon roseolus). Uninoculated trees served as a control. The seedlings were grown in pots containing a Cecil sandy clay loam amended with one of the following: 75% sand, …
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Understanding the mutualistic interaction between greater honeyguides and four co-existing human cultures in northern Tanzania
… and particularly a fungus called ‘Engishimui' (Scleroderma verrucosum); (v) only the Ndorobo currently have ownership traditions associated with wild bees' nests; and (vi) cultural changes such as bee-keeping were sometimes reported to underlie declines in humanhoney-guide mutualism, but that …
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Infrared thermography (IRT) for the assessment of microvascular skin blood flow in a specialist connective tissue disease unit
… research • for the detection of active localised scleroderma (LS) lesions in paediatric patients and to develop improvements in IRT quality assurance for these medical applications. Methods. For the evaluation of RP, a protocol for cold challenge of the feet was developed and validated. IRT was …
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Characterizing Morphea Subsets Using a Multi-Center, Prospective, Cross-Sectional Analysis of Morphea in Adults and Children
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Enfermedad autoinmune del oído interno y esclerodermia localizada en la infancia: a propósito de un caso
La enfermedad autoinmune del oído interno se presenta como una pérdida auditiva bilateral progresiva, no siempre simétrica, con posible tinnitus, vértigo y plenitud aural. Puede ser primaria, cuando solo afecta a las células del oído interno, o secundaria, asociada a enfermedades autoinmunes …
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ΑΝΤΙΣΩΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΤΑ ΚΑΡΔΙΟΛΙΠΙΝΗΣ: ΚΛΙΝΙΚΗ ΣΗΜΑΣΙΑ
IN THIS STUDY, A SENSITIVE AND SPECIFIC ELISA METHOD FOR THE QUANTITATIVE DETECTION OF ANTI-CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODIES (ANTI-CL) WAS DEVELOPED AND SERUM SAMPLES FROM 361 UNSELECTED PATIENTS WITH VARIOUS AUTOIMMUNE RHEUMATIC DISEASES (ARD) ASWELL AS 267 HEALTHY BLOOD DONORS. HIGH LEVELS OF ANTI-CL WERE …