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Automatic assessment of the motor state of the Parkinson's disease patient --a case study
PublicationThis paper presents a novel methodology in which the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) data processed with a rule-based decision algorithm is used to predict the state of the Parkinson's Disease patients. The research was carried out to investigate whether the advancement of the Parkinson's Disease can be automatically assessed. For this purpose, past and current UPDRS data from 47 subjects were examined. The results...
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Metal nanoparticles-assisted early diagnosis of diseases
PublicationEarly diagnosis is essential for the effective illness treatment, but traditional diagnostic approaches inevitably have major downsides. Recent advancements in nanoparticle-based biosensors have created new opportunities for accelerating diagnosis. High surface area, exceptional sensitivity, high specificity, and optical characteristics of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles have made it possible to detect a variety of health conditions...
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Glycyrrhetinic acid and its derivatives in infectious diseases
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System of breath collection and analysis for diseases detection
PublicationCollection and study of composition of the exhaled air is now intensively investigated to develop non-invasive medical diagnostics based on presence of metabolic compounds in the exhaled air. The process of collecting and processing of the exhaled air must fulfill relevant conditions to achieve satisfactory results. The paper presents the system of collecting samples of exhaled breath and the proposed methods of its analysis, using...
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Glucosinolates from lepidium peruvianum as potential antiamnestic drugs
PublicationLepidium peruvianum (maca) (Brassicaceae) is a naturally occurring plant mainly in the high Andes of Peru. In recent years, it has been intensively researched in terms of its influence on various diseases and towards health improvement. Alzheimer’s disease is an incurable disease that most often affects adults over the age of 60. As since 2003 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not approve any new drug for Alzheimer’s...
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Development of a tropical disease diagnosis system using artificial neural network and GIS
PublicationExpert systems for diagnosis of tropical diseases have been developed and implemented for over a decade with varying degrees of success. While the recent introduction of artificial neural networks has helped to improve the diagnosis accuracy of such systems, this aspect is still negatively affected by the number of supported diseases. A large number of supported diseases usually corresponds to a high number of overlapping symptoms,...
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Exhaled nitric oxide in smokers and former smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Chromoblastomycosis as an endemic disease in temperate Europe: first confirmed case and review of the literature
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Chlorpromazine-induced hyperprolactinemia in a young female and its relation with fibrocystic breast disease
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Molecular Mechanisms Associated with ROS-Dependent Angiogenesis in Lower Extremity Artery Disease
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Gender-Related Differences in Trimethylamine and Oxidative Blood Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Disease Patients
PublicationGender differences in the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been observed worldwide. In this study, plasmatic levels of trimethylamine (TMA) and blood oxidative biomarkers have been evaluated in 358 men (89 controls and 269 CVD patients) and 189 women (64 control and 125 CVD patients). The fluorescence technique was applied to determine erythrocyte membrane fluidity using 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) and Laurdan,...
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3D Hand Shape Modeling for Automatic Assessing Motor Performance in Parkinson's Disease
PublicationIn this paper a method for hand pattern processing to create a 3D hand model is presented. By applying a complete hand armature to the model obtained, an interpolation of three motor tests for an individual Parkinson's disease patient can be performed. To obtain the 3D hand model the top view of the hand from a web cam is analyzed. The hand contour is examined to find characteristic points that allows for dividing hand image into...
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F05 Nine Hole Peg Test As A Measure Of Visuomotor Coordination In Huntington's Disease
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Expert System as a classification method for optimal Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease treatment
PublicationZaproponowano utworzenie systemu eksperckiego jako metody klasyfikacji w prognozowaniu dowolnej formy leczenia dzieci z chorobą Legg-Calve-Perthesa. Obecnie nie ma jednego optymalnego sposobu leczenia choroby Perhtes'a i proponowana metoda jest próbą utworzenia wymiernego i uniwersalnego narzędzia, które będzie stanowiło podstawę przy podejmowaniu decyzji o najlepszym sposobie leczenia chorego stawu biodrowego. System ekspercki,...
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Isolation and Characterization of NP-POL Nonapeptide for Possible Therapeutic Use in Parkinson’s Disease
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Ambulatory pulse pressure and its contributors in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
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The Relationship Between Gene Polymorphisms and Dipping Profile in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease
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Ultra-rare ultra-care: The unique burden of ultra rare disease caregiving
PublicationBackground: We sought to assesses the impact of caring for children with ultra rare diseases (URDs) on familycarers and to analyse the way these experiences differ among the caregivers of children diagnosed throughprenatal or newborn screening, and those with symptom-based diagnosis.Methods: A total of 200 caregivers of 219 URDs children completed an on-line survey regarding the challengesand experiences...
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Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis in Adolescence: Early Diagnosis and Possible Prevention of Disease Progression
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Microbial diversity of inflamed and noninflamed gut biopsy tissues in inflammatory bowel disease.
PublicationBACKGROUND: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic gastrointestinal condition without any known cause or cure. An imbalance in normal gut biota has been identified as an important factor in the inflammatory process. METHODS: Fifty-eight biopsies from Crohn's disease (CD, n = 10), ulcerative colitis (UC, n = 15), and healthy controls (n = 16) were taken from a population-based case-control study. Automated ribosomal intergenic...
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The role of interleukin 16 in the pathogenesis of selected skin diseases
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Editorial “Nutrition and Dietary Intake for Liver-Related Diseases”
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Editorial: Pharmacology of Plant Polyphenols in Human Health and Diseases
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Genistein: a natural isoflavone with a potential for treatment of genetic diseases
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Genistein: a lysosomal stimulator for treatment of various lysosomal diseases
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Role of omentin and vaspin in metabolic diseases in association with psoriasis
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Bile Acids: Key Players in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases?
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Fecal Serine Protease Profiling in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
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Therapeutic Potential of Multifunctional Derivatives of Cholinesterase Inhibitors
PublicationThe aim of this work is review of tacrine analogues from the last three years, which were not included in the latest review work, donepezil and galantamine hybrids from 2015 and rivastigmine derivatives from 2014. In this account we summarize the efforts toward the development and characterization of non-toxic inhibitors of cholinesterases based on mentioned drugs with various interesting additional properties such as antioxidant,...
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Analysis of exhaled breath for dengue disease detection by low-cost electronic nose system
PublicationThis paper presents a procedure and a set-up of an electronic nose system analyzing exhaled breath to detect the patients suffering from dengue – a mosquito-borne tropical disease. Low-power resistive gas sensors (MiCS-6814, TGS8100) were used to detect volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the exhaled breath. The end-tidal phase of patients exhaled breath was collected with a BioVOCTM breath sampler. Two strategies were assessed...
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Association between Age at Diagnosis of Graves' Disease and Variants in Genes Involved in Immune Response
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Effects of Resveratrol Supplementation in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease—A Meta-Analysis
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Craniofacial proportions in children with adenoid or adenotonsillar hypertrophy are related to disease duration and nasopharyngeal obstruction
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Trimethylamine N-oxide and the reverse cholesterol transport in cardiovascular disease: a cross-sectional study
PublicationThe early atherosclerotic lesions develop by the accumulation of arterial foam cells derived mainly from cholesterol-loaded macrophages. Therefore, cholesterol and cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) have been considered as causative in atherosclerosis. Moreover, recent studies indicate the role of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) in development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The current study aimed to investigate the association...
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Formulation and evaluation of hydrogel containing dry extract of Tormentillae rhizoma designed for periodontal disease
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Evaluating the Role of Circulating Dendritic Cells in Methimazole-Treated Pediatric Graves’ Disease Patients
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Regulatory B Cells Involvement in Autoimmune Phenomena Occurring in Pediatric Graves’ Disease Patients
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Environmental Factors and the Risk of Developing Type 1 Diabetes—Old Disease and New Data
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Evaluating the Role of Circulating Dendritic Cells in Methimazole-Treated Pediatric Graves’ Disease Patients
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Novel design of sodium alginate based absorbable stent for the use in urethral stricture disease
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Effect of intensive lipid-lowering therapies on cholinesterase activity in patients with coronary artery disease
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Religiosity and Attitudes towards Health, Disease, Death and the Use of Stimulants among Jehovah’s Witnesses
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Primary cutaneous anaplastic large-cell lymphoma in a patient with Hodgkin’s disease – case report
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Olfactory Dysfunction in Patients With Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Treated With Disease-Modifying Therapies
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Monitoring Parkinson's disease patients employing biometric sensors and rule-based data processing
PublicationArtykuł prezentuje automatyczny system wykrywania pogorszenia zdrowia pacjentów z chorobą Parkinsona opracowany w ramach projektu PERFORM.The paper presents how rule-based processing can be applied to automatically evaluate the motor state of Parkinson's Disease patients. Automatic monitoring of patients by using biometric sensors can provide assessment of the Parkinson's Disease symptoms. All data on PD patients' state are compared...
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Changes in the Secretion of Melatonin and Selected Adipokines during the Progression of Parkinson’s Disease—Preliminary Studies
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Stress and self-image in multiple sclerosis patients and selected positive aspects of struggling with the disease
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A response to “Cardiovascular disease and obstructive sleep apnea: an underappreciated role for increased platelet activity?”
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Hypertension and cardiovascular disease in women: Progress towards better understanding of gender‐specific differences?
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Structural Studies of Thyroid Peroxidase Show the Monomer Interacting With Autoantibodies in Thyroid Autoimmune Disease
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