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Background
Whether inhaled corticosteroids suppress airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains controversial. We sought to determine the effects of inhaled corticosteroids on sputum indices of inflammation in stable COPD.Methods
We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Databases for randomized, controlled clinical trials that used induced sputum to evaluate the effect of inhaled corticosteroids in stable COPD. For each chosen study, we calculated the mean differences in the concentrations of sputum cells before and after treatment in both intervention and control groups. These values were then converted into standardized mean differences to accommodate the differences in patient selection, clinical treatment, and biochemical procedures that were employed across original studies. If significant heterogeneity was present (p < 0.10), then a random effects model was used to pool the original data. In the absence of significant heterogeneity, a fixed effects model was used.Results
We identified six original studies that met the inclusion criteria (N = 162 participants). In studies with higher cumulative dose (≥ 60 mg) or longer duration of therapy (≥ 6 weeks), inhaled corticosteroids were uniformly effective in reducing the total cell, neutrophil, and lymphocyte counts. In contrast, studies with lower cumulative dose (< 60 mg) or shorter duration of therapy (< 6 weeks) did not demonstrate a favorable effect of inhaled corticosteroids on these sputum indices.Conclusions
Our study suggests that prolonged therapy with inhaled corticosteroids is effective in reducing airway inflammation in stable COPD. 相似文献5.
Expanding the proteome two-dimensional gel electrophoresis reference map of human renal cortex by peptide mass fingerprinting 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Magni F Sarto C Valsecchi C Casellato S Bogetto SF Bosari S Di Fonzo A Perego RA Corizzato M Doro G Galbusera C Rocco F Mocarelli P Galli Kienle M 《Proteomics》2005,5(3):816-825
Proteomics methodologies hold great promise in basic renal research and clinical nephrology. The classical approach for proteomic analysis couples two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) with protein identification by mass spectrometry, to produce more global information regarding normal protein expression and alterations in different physiological and pathological states. In this report we have expanded the identification of proteins in the renal cortex, improving the previously published map to facilitate the study of different diseases affecting the human kidney. About 250 spots were analyzed by peptide mass fingerprinting, 89 proteins and 74 isoforms for some of them were identified and implemented in the normal human renal cortex 2-DE reference map. This more comprehensive view of the proteome of the human renal cortex could be of invaluable help to the differential proteomic display of urological diseases. 相似文献
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Significance of nucleotide sequence alignments: a method for random sequence permutation that preserves dinucleotide and codon usage 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
The similarity of two nucleotide sequences is often expressed in terms of
evolutionary distance, a measure of the amount of change needed to
transform one sequence into the other. Given two sequences with a small
distance between them, can their similarity be explained by their base
composition alone? The nucleotide order of these sequences contributes to
their similarity if the distance is much smaller than their average
permutation distance, which is obtained by calculating the distances for
many random permutations of these sequences. To determine whether their
similarity can be explained by their dinucleotide and codon usage, random
sequences must be chosen from the set of permuted sequences that preserve
dinucleotide and codon usage. The problem of choosing random dinucleotide
and codon-preserving permutations can be expressed in the language of graph
theory as the problem of generating random Eulerian walks on a directed
multigraph. An efficient algorithm for generating such walks is described.
This algorithm can be used to choose random sequence permutations that
preserve (1) dinucleotide usage, (2) dinucleotide and trinucleotide usage,
or (3) dinucleotide and codon usage. For example, the similarity of two
60-nucleotide DNA segments from the human beta-1 interferon gene
(nucleotides 196-255 and 499-558) is not just the result of their nonrandom
dinucleotide and codon usage.
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Rinaudo MT Curto M Bruno R Torre E Bogetto F Torre M 《Bollettino della Società italiana di biologia sperimentale》1979,55(2):148-152
In rat brain the tranylcypromine administration induces after two hours a 151% increase of serotonin levels and a 50% fall of glycogen concentration. The activity of phosphorylase a and b and the glycolytic flow rate are unchanged. 相似文献
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Benthem L Keizer K Wiegman CH de Boer SF Strubbe JH Steffens AB Kuipers F Scheurink AJ 《American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism》2000,279(6):E1286-E1293
We tested the hypothesis that excessive portal venous supply of long-chain fatty acids to the liver contributes to the development of insulin resistance via activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis) and sympathetic system. Rats received an intraportal infusion of the long-chain fatty acid oleate (150 nmol/min, 24 h), the medium-chain fatty acid caprylate, or the solvent. Corticosterone (Cort) and norepinephrine (NE) were measured as indexes for HPA axis and sympathetic activity, respectively. Insulin sensitivity was assessed by means of an intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT). Oleate infusion induced increases in plasma Cort (Delta = 13.5 +/- 3.6 microg/dl; P < 0.05) and NE (Delta = 235 +/- 76 ng/l; P < 0.05), whereas caprylate and solvent had no effect. The area under the insulin response curve to the IVGTT was larger in the oleate-treated group than in the caprylate and solvent groups (area = 220 +/- 35 vs. 112 +/- 13 and 106 +/- 8, respectively, P < 0.05). The area under the glucose response curves was comparable [area = 121 +/- 13 (oleate) vs. 135 +/- 20 (caprylate) and 96 +/- 11 (solvent)]. The results are consistent with the concept that increased portal free fatty acid is involved in the induction of visceral obesity-related insulin resistance via activation of the HPA axis and sympathetic system. 相似文献