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Leukocyte-endothelial cell recognition: Three (or more) steps to specificity and diversity

IMMUNOASSAY OF ENDOGENOUS PLASMA INSULIN IN MAN

For years investigators have sought an assay for insulin which would combine virtually absolute specificity with a high degree of sensitivity, sufficiently exquisite for measure...

Effect of Antihypertensive Treatment in Patients Having Already Suffered From Stroke

Background and Purpose Drug treatment of high blood pressure has been shown to reduce the associated cardiovascular risk. Stroke represents the type of event more strongly linke...

The role of denial in recovery from coronary heart disease.

This longitudinal study investigated the relationship between denial of illness and the course of recovery in patients with coronary heart disease. Using a newly developed inter...

Reanalysis of the 12-Minute Walk in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Phenomenology and course of psychiatric disorders associated with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder

These observations suggest that persistent conditions related to PTSD progress toward symptoms that are increasingly autonomous in their pattern of occurrence.

Antigens in Insulin Determinants of Specificity of Porcine Insulin in Man

Porcine insulin, which is distinguished from human insulin only in the amino acid at the C terminal of the B chain, is antigenic in man. Even if the last amino acid or the last ...

Tentative Diagnoses Facilitate the Detection of Diverse Lesions in Chest Radiographs

The influence of clinical history upon detection has been frequently studied. In a unique investigation, detection of diverse abnormalities commonly encountered in practice was ...

A Linear Spatial Correlation Model, with Applications to Positron Emission Tomography

Abstract A simple spatial-correlation model is presented for repeated measures data. Correlation between observations on the same subject is assumed to decay as a linear functio...