Sentences with phrase «normal patient controls»

All six lncRNAs were found to be significantly up - regulated in the urine samples from the prostate cancer patients compared with normal patient controls, while there were no differences between normal and benign prostatic hyperplasia patient samples.

Not exact matches

Twenty patients with kidney failure, for example, showed levels of ammonia and acetone more than 10 times that of healthy controls, and the researchers could watch those levels fall back to normal as the patients received dialysis treatment.

While some narrowing of the spinal canal occurs with normal aging and does not always cause pain, more severe compression of nerves limits mobility and leads patients to try stronger pain medications and epidural steroid injections in an attempt to control the pain that is associated with walking and standing.

The study showed that 13 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had CT scans showing new brain damage, as well as 39 trauma patients who had hit their heads and had normal CT scans, had significantly less ability to coordinate their eye movements than normal, uninjured control subjects.

Using a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the researchers measured the concentrations of 21 metabolites key to nerve function in the brains of 10 deceased schizophrenia patients and 12 normal human controls.

Asthma is considered well - controlled if symptoms occur twice a week or less; rescue bronchodilator medication is used twice a week or less; there is no nocturnal or early morning waking; there are no limitations on activities including work, school and exercise; patient and doctor consider the asthma well - controlled and the patient's peak expiratory flow is normal or personal best FEV1.

Patients in a state of unresponsive wakefulness had 38 % as much metabolic activity as the controls, minimally conscious patients showed 58 % as much activity, and people being roused back to consciousness (either from sleep or anesthesia), had 63 % of the normal metabolic aPatients in a state of unresponsive wakefulness had 38 % as much metabolic activity as the controls, minimally conscious patients showed 58 % as much activity, and people being roused back to consciousness (either from sleep or anesthesia), had 63 % of the normal metabolic apatients showed 58 % as much activity, and people being roused back to consciousness (either from sleep or anesthesia), had 63 % of the normal metabolic activity.

The small number of patients and the lack of controls means that the study is not definitive, but it casts significant doubt on the effectiveness of the hormone in children who make normal levels of growth hormone, he says.

«Epilepsy surgery is an important therapeutic option for patients, which can significantly or completely control their seizures and return their lives to normal.

Bipolar patients tend to have gray matter reductions in frontal brain regions involved in self - control (orange colors), while sensory and visual regions are normal (gray colors).

Knowing the origin of each cell and which genes control their normal function are the foundations for scientists to decipher the disease process and eventually to find out how to guide the cells to self - repair or even to build up a brand new organ using amended cells from the patients.»

Luckily, such patients gradually regain normal muscle control.

Concentrations of hs - TnI were compared between 74 morbidly obese patients who had a type of bariatric surgery called Roux - en - Y gastric bypass, 62 morbidly obese patients who exercised and restricted their calorie intake, and a control group of 30 people with normal weight.

The analysis revealed that while performing working memory tasks, the young patients with concussion had initial activation that was greater than normal, known as hyperactivation, compared to young controls in the right precuneus and right inferior parietal gyrus of the brain, whereas the older patients had hypoactivation (less than normal) compared to older controls in the right precuneus and right inferior frontal gyrus.

Patients in control villages use normal table salt and receive advice only at the start of the study.

Ishida's team showed that a molecule called the (pro) renin receptor, which activates the RAPS, significantly increased in the vitreous fluid of 22 patients with uveitis compared to normal controls.

When these psychotic patients were treated with medications, you could see a significant change in the brain images that were now much closer to the brain images of the normal controls.

(ApoE) and between themselves, in a sample of 208 sporadic AD patients and 116 normal controls from Italy.

In a clinical study, 11 % of SPINRAZA - treated patients with normal or above normal platelet levels at baseline developed a platelet level below the lower limit of normal compared to zero sham - procedure control patients.

Goldstein and her colleagues found that patients diagnosed with â $ œamnesticâ $ MCI showed greater loss of white matter integrity in a certain part of the brain — the medial temporal lobe â $ «than cognitively normal controls of similar age.

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of serotonin in depression, searching for association of two serotoninergic polymorphisms (T102C of serotonin receptor 5 - HT2A and serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region -5-HTTLPR - of SLC6A4 gene) with depressive symptoms and considering their possible interactions with Apolipoprotein E... (ApoE) and between themselves, in a sample of 208 sporadic AD patients and 116 normal controls from Italy.

Study participants included 15 patients with bipolar I disorder in the euthymic state and 25 normal controls balanced for age and gender.

Previous studies have shown that aged Polg mutator mice accumulate SNpc mtDNA deletions to a similar extent as that found in the SNpc in both PD patients and aged neurologically normal controls (∼ 50 % of mtDNA molecules harboring deletions)(Bender et al., 2006; Kraytsberg et al., 2006; Perier et al., 2013).

Combining immunoaffinity - based partitioning, SCX fractionation and LC - MS / MS, we identified approximately 30,000 peptides for each pooled sample corresponding to 2,783 nonredundant proteins in CFS patient samples and 2,768 proteins in nPTLS patient samples, compared to the 2,630 proteins present in the CSF of healthy normal control subjects.

There were 1) 738 proteins that were identified in CFS, but not in either healthy normal controls or nPTLS; 2) 1,582 proteins that were not identified in CFS, but were in either nPTLS disease or healthy normal controls; 3) 692 proteins that were identified in the nPTLS patients, but not in healthy normal controls or CFS; and 4) 1,597 proteins that were not identified in nPTLS, but were identified in either healthy normal controls or CFS.

Conclusions: In an analysis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells and intestinal tissues from patients with inflammatory bowel diseases vs controls, we found that reactivity to intestinal bacteria is a normal property of the human CD4 + T - cell repertoire, and does not necessarily indicate disrupted interactions between immune cells and the commensal microbiota.

THE KAVLI FOUNDATION (TKF): Dr. Gage, in your model you found that neurons look pretty similar between schizophrenic patients and normal controls, and it is just the connections between them (synapses) that are different, right?

Migraine patients have presented with lower serum magnesium levels compared to normal control groups of the same age without migraine headaches.

In a recent Indiana University study, patients taking fish - oil supplements were better at controlling exercise - triggered symptoms than people taking a placebo or just eating a normal diet were.

8 Rupprecht M, Salzer B, Raum B, Hornstein OP, Koch HU, Riederer P, Sofic E, Rupprecht R. Physical stress - induced secretion of adrenal and pituitary hormones in patients with atopic eczema compared with normal controls.

In a double - blind, placebo - controlled study, 152 patients with mild - to moderate Alzheimer's disease were given either a ketogenic agent or a placebo, while maintaining a normal diet.

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As in any allergic patient, medication and proper environmental control can keep the dog healthy and normal in all respects.

These results concur with studies on human patients, which report a decrease in insulin sensitivity of between 44 and 72 % in obese subjects compared with normal - weight control subjects (34 — 37).

Within two months of the PET scan, all the patients and 15 of the normal control group completed a short form of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Revised (WAIS - R), which yields an IQ that correlates highly (r = 0.96) with that derived from the full test.20

Representative Transverse Images (Left, Normal Control; Right, Patient with Attention - Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity) through Plane A, Approximately 94 mm above the Canthomeatal Line.

Perceived social support and alexithymia are psychosocial variables identified by previous studies as predictive of depression in normal controls and CKD patients.

Rumination appeared as a dysfunctional consequence of emotions for normal controls, but had an adaptive function for patients dialyzed for 4 + years

Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H - MRS) was performed with a 1.5 T MR system on a voxel in the bilateral ACC in 85 chronic pain patients and 20 age - matched normal control subjects.

Eighteen out of 24 (75.0 %) patients whose NAA concentration decreased significantly in the ACC, respectively, compared to the mean NAA concentration of the normal control subjects, needed cognitive behavioural therapy.

Rumination was positively associated with depression in normal controls, but negatively related with depression in patients dialyzed for 4 + years.

Hypochondriacal patients scored significantly higher than anxiety disorder patients, including both social phobic patients and panic disorder patients as well as normal controls.