Posts Tagged ‘necrosis-factor’

Natural products as a gold mine for arthritis treatment

Friday, February 5th, 2010

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Arthritis , an inflammation of the joints, is usually a chronic disease that results from dysregulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g. tumour necrosis factor and interleukin-1?) and pro-inflammatory enzymes that mediate the production of prostaglandins (e.g

Cytokines Levels and Scleroderma

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

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Interleukin-1, interleukin-2, interleukin-4, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor alpha, and interferon-gamma levels in sera from patients with scleroderma.

Oxidative stress in scleroderma: maintenance of scleroderma fibroblast phenotype by the constitutive up-regulation of reactive oxygen species generati

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

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By Sambo P and Colleague OBJECTIVE: To explore the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the in vitro activation of skin fibroblasts from patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). METHODS: Fibroblasts were obtained from involved skin of patients with limited or diffuse SSc