Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory proliferative disorder of the skin that appears in many different forms and affect different parts of the body including the nails and joints. It may affect the quality of life by causing psychosocial stress. Psoriatic arthritis is a seronegative spondyloarthropathy with involvement of axial and peripheral joints. Involvement of temporomo andibular joint is a...

purpose: to evaluate the success rate of vitrectomy in giant retinal tears (gtr) and factors influencing it. methods: in an interventional case series, hospital records of 68 eyes of 63 patients operated for grt were reviewed. standard three port vitrectomy plus placement of an encircling band, retinopexy, and internal tamponade was performed for all eyes. possible influencing factors including...

Journal Compilation © 2012 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Large granular lymphocytes (LGLs) are medium-to-large cells, of either Tor natural killer (NK)-cell lineage, characterized by eccentric nuclei, condensed chromatin, and abundant pale cytoplasm containing coarse azurophilic granules (1, 2). Proliferative conditions of Tand NKLGLs represent a complex spectrum of different clini...

OBJECTIVES The goals of this study were to investigate whether depression is associated with cellular immunity in ambulatory patients and to identify neuroendocrine and behavioral pathways that might account for this relationship. METHODS We studied 32 women who met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, fourth edition, criteria for major depressive disorder and 32 healthy fema...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a predisposing factor for renal disorder progression and referred to as diabetic kidney disease (DKD). However, there are no reports of DKD with an underlying autoimmune disorder. In this study, we compared the pathophysiological changes caused by DM induction after streptozotocin (STZ) injection in comparison that control group receiving citrate buffer (CB) model mice...

Retinopathy of prematurity is a proliferative disorder of the developing retinal blood vessels in preterm infants. The present practice point reviews new information regarding screening and management for retinopathy of prematurity, including the role of risk factors in screening, optimal scheduling for screening examinations, pain management, digital retinal photography and antivascular endoth...

seaweeds have caused an emerging interest in the biomedical area, mainly due to their contents of bioactive substances which show great potential as anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-viral and anti-tumoral drugs. despite the diversity in quality and quantity of the mediterranean tunisian coast flora, with its large contains of marine organisms and seaweeds, most of them have not yet been ...

objective(s):fumonisins are a group of toxic and carcinogenic mycotoxins, which contaminate the grains and their products. the aim of this study was to examine the apoptotic and proliferative activity of mouse gastric mucosa following administration of fumonisin b1 (fb1).    materials and methods: twenty-nine female mice divided into treatment (n=15) and control (n=14) groups. the treatment gro...

Synovial chondromatosis is a rare and benign proliferative disorder of the synovial membrane in joints and bursae. Herein, we present the case of a 34-year-old male with synovial chondromatosis that caused limitation in the elbow joint in terms of mechanical function.