familial mediterranean fever (fmf) is a relatively rare disorder, characterized by recurrent self-limited attacks of fever and polyserositis. diagnosis is made by clinical features, gene identification on chromosome 16 and clinical response to specific treatment. different types of vasculitis have been reported in fmf. henoch-schönlein purpura (hsp) is one of them, usually with a benign clinica...

The main component of seashells is calcium carbonate (CaCO3). When are calcined at high temperatures, CaCO3 becomes oxide (CaO), and this CaO exhibits antimicrobial activity. In study, we attempted to develop a transparent coating that retains activity for long time by mixing polyvinyl butyral (PVB), which has excellent adhesive binding properties, with heated shell powder (HSP). scallop HSPs u...

Evidence suggests that the small chloroplast heat-shock protein (Hsp) is involved in plant thermotolerance but its site of action is unknown. Functional disruption of this Hsp using anti-Hsp antibodies or addition of purified Hsp to chloroplasts indicated that (a) this Hsp protects thermolabile photosystem II and, consequently, whole-chain electron transport during heat stress; and (b) this Hsp...

Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP) is the commonest vasculitis in children, and outcome depends on renal involvement or occurrence of HSP nephritis (HSPN). Hence, a meticulous diagnosis, treatment regular follow-up plan needed for better prognosis. A case 12 - year old girl showing HSPN symptoms only eight weeks after first onset reported. Symptoms might appear later, hence emphasising importance c...

In the recent AIPS98 Planning Competition, the hsp planner , based on a forward state search and a suitable domain-independent heuristic, showed that heuristic search planners can be competitive with state of the art Graphplan and Satissability planners. hsp solved more problems than the other planners but often took more time or produced longer plans. The bottleneck in hsp is the computation o...

abstract background: asterocytoma is the most common primary human brain tumor which has the most lethal hazard among tumors in human central nervous system. heat shock proteins play an active role in cancer cells pathways through their effects on tumor cell proliferation, tumor differentiation, malignancy, metastasis, and cell death. hsp 70 is a 70 kd protein that its expression change has bee...

henoch–schönlein purpura (hsp), a common allergic hemorrhagic disease, occurs frequently in children affecting kidney, joint and skin. while interleukin-8 (il-8) plays an important role in inflammation, the association between il-8 gene +781 c/t polymorphism and hsp remains unclear. interleukin-8, an important chemokine related to the initiation and amplification of acute inflammatory responses...

Pretreatment with heat decreases mortality and acute lung injury in the rat septic shock model, presumably by the production of heat shock proteins (HSP). However, endotoxin, a severe cell stresser, has not been shown to induce HSP 70. We investigated the effects of severe endotoxemia on the expression of specific protective stress proteins, including HSP 72 (inducible HSP 70), HSP 32 (heme oxy...

During a 6 year period from September 1992 to September 1998, 165 children with a final diagnosis of Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) were managed and followed in our center. There were 87 (52%) boys and 78 (48%) girls, with age ranges of 1-16 years and mean age of 7.8 years. Forty-one percent of the patients had evidence of preceding upper respiratory tract infection (URI). The main clinica...