Journal ArticleInfect Dis Clin North Am · March 2024
The chest radiograph is the most common imaging examination performed in most radiology departments, and one of the more common indications for these studies is suspected infection. Radiologists must therefore be aware of less common radiographic patterns ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Radiol · September 2023
PURPOSE: To prospectively compare the image quality of high-resolution, low-dose photon-counting detector CT (PCD-CT) with standard energy-integrating-detector CT (EID) on the same patients. METHOD: IRB-approved, prospective study; patients received same-d ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Clin North Am · November 2022
Patients with diffuse lung diseases require thorough medical and social history and physical examinations, coupled with a multitude of laboratory tests, pulmonary function tests, and radiologic imaging to discern and manage the specific disease. This revie ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Clin North Am · May 2022
The chest radiograph is the most common imaging examination performed in most radiology departments, and one of the more common indications for these studies is suspected infection. Radiologists must therefore be aware of less common radiographic patterns ...
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Journal ArticleUltrasonography · April 2020
In patients presenting for an evaluation of pregnancy in the first trimester, transvaginal ultrasound is the modality of choice for establishing the presence of an intrauterine pregnancy; evaluating pregnancy viability, gestational age, and multiplicity; d ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Ultrasound CT MR · August 2018
Pancreaticobiliary injury is an uncommon entity which more often occurs in the setting of blunt than penetrating trauma. We present cases of pancreaticobiliary traumatic injuries from our Level 1 trauma center to illustrate an imaging update on the spectru ...
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Chapter · March 1, 2014
Diabetes mellitus is a global chronic disease, major cause of morbidity and mortality, and significantly decreases both quality of life and life expectancy. The reduction in functional β cell mass due to increased β cell apoptosis and decreased β cell prol ...
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Journal ArticleDiabetologia · December 2013
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: We hypothesised that pathological endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress contributes to beta cell death during development of type 1 diabetes. In this study, we investigated the occurrence of beta cell ER stress and the signalling pathways invo ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2013
Obesity places major demands on the protein folding capacity of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), resulting in ER stress, a condition that promotes hepatic insulin resistance and steatosis. Here we identify the transcription factor, Kruppel-like factor 15 (K ...
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Journal ArticleCell Metab · August 8, 2012
Recent clinical and experimental evidence suggests that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress contributes to the life-and-death decisions of β cells during the progression of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Although crosstalk between inflammation and ER stress has ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS Genet · January 2012
The cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein CPEB1 (CPEB) regulates germ cell development, synaptic plasticity, and cellular senescence. A microarray analysis of mRNAs regulated by CPEB unexpectedly showed that several encoded proteins are invol ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · July 27, 2010
The centrosome is important for microtubule organization and cell cycle progression in animal cells. Recently, mutations in the centrosomal protein, pericentrin, have been linked to human microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism (MOPD II), a rare ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2009
Gimap5 (GTPase of the immunity-associated protein 5) has been linked to the regulation of T cell survival, and polymorphisms in the human GIMAP5 gene associate with autoimmune disorders. The BioBreeding diabetes-prone (BBDP) rat has a mutation in the Gimap ...
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Journal ArticleCell Stress Chaperones · December 2008
T cell receptor (TCR) ligation (signal one) in the presence of co-stimulation (signal two) results in downstream signals that increase protein production enabling naïve T cells to fully activate and gain effector function. Enhanced production of proteins b ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · April 1, 2004
PURPOSE: There is a need to identify cancer chemoprevention mechanisms. We reported previously that all-trans-retinoic acid (RA) prevented carcinogenic transformation of BEAS-2B immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells by causing G(1) arrest, permitti ...
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