This article reviews the effectiveness of group education programs in improving the knowledge, behavior, and health status of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and evaluates to what extent various programs fulfill certain criteria for educational self-management programs. Thirty-one studies are reviewed: in 12, patients with various rheumatic diseases including RA were included, and in 19...

2014 Due to its chronic inflammatory state, patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are more susceptible to developing atherosclerosis and other nonatherosclerotic cardiac issues. Management of cardiovascular risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular morbidity in RA has now become a key aspect in treating RA patients. It is imperative to evaluate patients with RA even during the early cours...

In vitro derivation of germ cells from different stem cells sources has been challenging in the treatment of male infertility. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have an essential role in gene expression at post-transcriptional level. The aim of this research was to find more about miRNA-17 and miRNA-146 expression during differentiation of spermatogonial stem cell like cells (SSC like cells) from mouse bone m...

In order to study the performance of RA, and the impacts of iterations and code length to the compiled code characteristics, we respectively made simulation analysis on RA, LDPC and TURBO with different parameters. We did it by designing code length, rate and iterations to analyze signals to noise ratio changes. With three patterns comparing the simulation analysis, it turned out that volume re...

In this article we investigate two-level split-plot designs where the sub-plots consist of only two mirror image trials. Assuming third and higher order interactions negligible, we show that these designs divide the estimated effects into two orthogonal sub-spaces, separating sub-plot main effects and sub-plot by whole-plot interactions from the rest. Further we show how to construct split-plot...

Correspondence: Alan P Hudson Department of immunology and Microbiology, wayne State University School of Medicine, Gordon H. Scott Hall, 540 East Canfield Avenue, Detroit Mi 48201, USA Tel +1 313 993 6641 Fax +1 313 577 1155 email [email protected] Abstract: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been described in the medical literature for over two hundred years, but its etiology remains unknown. ...

UNLABELLED We report thermo-responsive retinoic acid (RA)-loaded poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-co-acrylamide (PNIPAM-co-Am) nanoparticles for directing human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) fate. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance analysis confirmed that RA was efficiently incorporated into PNIAPM-co-Am nanoparticles (PCANs). The size of PCANs droppe...

Erosion of periarticular bone is a hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), resulting in significant joint deformity, pain and disability [1]. Osteoclasts are specialized cells of the macrophage lineage responsible for bone resorption during remodelling. These cells have been demonstrated at the site of erosion in RA [2, 3] and in representative animal models of the disease [4], and are thus beli...

Abstract This study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. To this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, Applied Linguistics, Economics, Agriculture, and Applied Physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. All research article abstracts were extracted from ...