conclusions the persian mfs is valid and reliable for use in persian-speaking young athletes with lbp. results a sample of 100 young athletes with lbp with a mean age of 16.5 ± 2.5 years participated. fifty young athletes without lbp completed the pmfs. there was no missing responses and floor or ceiling effects. there was a significant difference for the total pmfs scores between young athlete...

topathy, with initial experiments showing prevention of aortic root expansion in a mouse model of MFS using RAS blockade,3 which was followed by studies in human patients that showed similar results.4,5 These findings were welcomed with enthusiasm as a pharmacological solution for MFS, and have prompted several human clinical trials, which are presently ongoing to determine the possible benefit...

Macrophages (Mfs) in the large intestine are crucial effectors of inflammatory bowel disease, but are also essential for homeo-stasis. It is unclear if these reflect separate populations of Mfs or if resident Mfs change during inflammation. In this study, we identify two subsets of colonic Mfs in mice, whose proportions differ in healthy and inflamed intestine. Under resting conditions, most F4...

BACKGROUND Marfan syndrome (MFS) is an underrecognized heritable connective tissue disorder resulting from mutations in the gene for fibrillin-1 (FBN1). Affected patients are at risk for aortic dissection and/or severe ocular and orthopedic problems. The diagnosis is primarily based on a set of well-defined clinical criteria (Ghent nosology). The age-related nature of some clinical manifestatio...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a connective tissue disorder with autosomal dominant inheritance and a highly variable clinical spectrum. However, there are limited data available on the clinical features of Korean patients with MFS. The aim of the present study was to describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of Korean patients with MFS. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We in...

BACKGROUND Medical Fear Survey (MFS) is an instrument designed for measuring fear of medical and related treatments. OBJECTIVE Aim of the present study was MFS translation into Serbian, measurement of its psychometric properties and MFS validation using other Blood-injury-injections and related stimuli instruments that have been translated from English into Serbian. METHOD After obtaining p...

PURPOSE The accumulation of shed plasma membrane vesicles in the peripheral circulation is unique to cancer. Because these membrane fragments (MFs) express biologically active components, such as Fas ligand (FasL), the objective of this study was to define the link between the presence of shed membrane vesicles, apoptosis, and suppression of T-cell receptor/CD3-zeta expression in T lymphocytes ...