OBJECTIVE Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disease with a significant inflammatory component. The aim of this analysis was to determine the relationship between synovial fluid (SF) white blood cell (WBC) count and 2 parameters: disease severity and the reduction in knee pain after intraarticular (IA) steroid injection. METHODS Subjects with painful knee OA were recruited for participation in an open-...

Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica-serotypes lead to periodically increased morbidity and mortality in cattle herds. The bacteria can also lead to serious infections in humans. Consequently, Denmark has started a surveillance and control programme in 2002. The programme focuses on Salmonella Dublin which is the most prevalent and most persistent serotype in the Danish cattle population. A fiel...

n the last few years, the applicability and functionality of systems for collaboration support has expanded, leading to their growing application in cooperation, communication, and organizational processes. This expansion provides opportunities to study their social, business and technical impacts. Usually an integration of novel emerging technologies with existing organizational practices is v...

White blood cell (WBC) count has been associated with diabetic risk, but whether the correlation is independent of other risk factors has hardly been studied. Moreover, very few such studies with large sample sizes have been conducted in Chinese. Therefore, we investigated the relationship between WBC count and glucose metabolism in China. We also examined the relevant variables of WBC count. A...

BACKGROUND Promoter hypermethylation and global hypomethylation in the human genome are hallmarks of most cancers. Detection of aberrant methylation in white blood cells (WBC) has been suggested as a marker for cancer development, but has not been extensively investigated. This study was carried out to determine whether aberrant methylation in WBC DNA can be used as a surrogate biomarker for br...

Medical Image Segmentation becomes vital process for its proper detection and diagnosis of diseases. In which accurate White Blood Cells segmentation becomes important issue because differential counting, plays a major role in the determination of diseases and based on the treatment is followed for the patients. The Standard Modified Fuzzy Possibilistic C Means are used for segmentation. This p...