Metabolic and functional abnormalities in the kidney precede or coincide with the initiation of overt hypertension in the Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rat. However, renal histological injury in SS rats is mild before the development of overt hypertension. We performed electron microscopy analysis in 7-wk-old SS rats and salt-insensitive consomic SS.13(BN) rats and Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats fed a 4% ...

Histiocytoid Sweet syndrome (H-SS) is a histological variant of Sweet syndrome (SS) differing from classical neutrophilic SS (N-SS) by a dermal infiltrate mainly composed of lymphocytes and histiocytoid myeloperoxidase-positive cells. We aimed to report a large series of H-SS and compare the frequency and type of hematological malignancies associated to H-SS and N-SS. We included 62 patients wi...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to reassess the prevalence and characteristics of human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and SS in HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM) based on the American European Consensus Group (AECG) criteria in HTLV-I endemic area, Nagasaki prefecture. METHODS The 349 patients who underwent a minor salivary gland biopsy (MSGB) fo...

We analyzed 20 exons, with their intron-exon boundaries, of the bovine Flt-1 gene, using a strategy combining PCR amplification and single-strand conformational polymorphism analysis (PCR-SSCP), followed by nucleotide sequence analysis, in 675 cattle. We then looked for associations between polymorphisms and growth traits. Twelve novel SNPs (ss#184956516, ss#184956517, ss#184956518, ss#18495651...

OBJECTIVE To assess the health status and fatigue in sicca patients with or without Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and to test whether the immune-inflammatory activity or the extent of the disease predict fatigue in SS. METHODS The Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form General Health Survey (MOS SF-36) was used in 1 degree SS (n = 90), 2 degrees SS (n = 24), non-SS patients with sicca symptoms (n = 15) ...