Browsing by Subject "blood"

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    • Effects of exercise on alterations in redox homeostasis in elite male and female endurance athletes using a clinical point-of-care test 

      Lewis, Nathan A.; Towey, Colin; Bruinvels, Georgie; Howatson, Glyn; Pedlar, Charles R. (Canadian Science Publishing, 2016-10-01)
      Exercise causes alterations in redox homeostasis (ARH). Measuring ARH in elite athletes may aid in the identification of training tolerance, fatigued states, and underperformance. To the best of our knowledge, no studies ...

    • Heparin as an anticoagulant for the dielectric measurement of blood 

      Dunne, Eoghan; O'Halloran, Martin; Porter, Emily; Bonello, Julian; Farrugia, Lourdes; Sammut, Charles V.; Schembri-Wismayer, Pierre (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019-01-23)
      Testing blood ex-vivo allows physicians to gain an understanding of what is happening within the human body. Once blood is extracted from the body, it begins to clot. This process can affect the outcome of blood tests, ...

    • Immunological research in clinical psychiatry: report on the consensus debate during the 7th expert meeting on psychiatry and immunology 

      Arolt, V; Rothermundt, M; Peters, M; Leonard, B (Springer Nature, 2002-01-01)
      There is convincing evidence that cytokines are involved in the physiology and pathophysiology of brain function and interact with different neurotransmitter and neuroendocrine pathways. The possible involvement of the ...

    • Mercury exposure in ireland: results of the democophes human biomonitoring study 

      Cullen, Elizabeth; Evans, David; Davidson, Fred; Burke, Padraig; Burns, Damien; Flanagan, Andrew; Griffin, Chris; Kellegher, Anne; Mannion, Rory; Mulcahy, Maurice; Ryan, Michael; Biot, Pierre; Casteleyn, Ludwine; Castaño, Argelia; Angerer, Jürgen; Koch, Holger; Esteban, Marta; Schindler, Birgit; Navarro, Carmen; Kolossa-Gehring, Marike; Fiddicke, Ulrike; Schoeters, Greet; Hond, Elly; Sepai, Ovnair; Exley, Karen; Bloemen, Louis; Knudsen, Lisbeth; Joas, Reinhard; Joas, Anke; Aerts, Dominique (MDPI AG, 2014-09-17)
      Background: Monitoring of human exposure to mercury is important due to its adverse health effects. This study aimed to determine the extent of mercury exposure among mothers and their children in Ireland, and to identify ...

    • Miniaturisation of conductivity probe design and acquisition of dielectric properties of tissues for catheter cardiac ablation applications 

      Ištuk, Niko (NUI Galway, 2024-04-18)
      Atrial fibrillation, a prevalent cardiac arrhythmia, requires precise and effective treatments such as cardiac ablation. The efficacy of these treatments is closely tied to a comprehensive understanding of the dielectric ...

    • Minimum information about t regulatory cells: a step toward reproducibility and standardization 

      Fuchs, Anke; Gliwiński, Mateusz; Grageda, Nathali; Spiering, Rachel; Abbas, Abul K.; Appel, Silke; Bacchetta, Rosa; Battaglia, Manuela; Berglund, David; Blazar, Bruce; Bluestone, Jeffrey A.; Bornhäuser, Martin; ten Brinke, Anja; Brusko, Todd M.; Cools, Nathalie; Cuturi, Maria Cristina; Geissler, Edward; Giannoukakis, Nick; Gołab, Karolina; Hafler, David A.; van Ham, S. Marieke; Hester, Joanna; Hippen, Keli; Di Ianni, Mauro; Ilic, Natasa; Isaacs, John; Issa, Fadi; Iwaszkiewicz-Grześ, Dorota; Jaeckel, Elmar; Joosten, Irma; Klatzmann, David; Koenen, Hans; van Kooten, Cees; Korsgren, Olle; Kretschmer, Karsten; Levings, Megan; Marek-Trzonkowska, Natalia Maria; Martinez-Llordella, Marc; Miljkovic, Djordje; Mills, Kingston H.G.; Miranda, Joana P.; Piccirillo, Ciriaco A.; Putnam, Amy L.; Ritter, Thomas; Roncarolo, Maria Grazia; Sakaguchi, Shimon; Sánchez-Ramón, Silvia; Sawitzki, Birgit; Sofronic-Milosavljevic, Ljiljana; Sykes, Megan; Tang, Qizhi; Vives-Pi, Marta; Waldmann, Herman; Witkowski, Piotr; Wood, Kathryn J.; Gregori, Silvia; Hilkens, Catharien M. U.; Lombardi, Giovanna; Lord, Phillip; Martinez-Caceres, Eva M.; Trzonkowski, Piotr (Frontiers Media SA, 2018-01-15)
      Cellular therapies with CD4+ T regulatory cells (Tregs) hold promise of efficacious treatment for the variety of autoimmune and allergic diseases as well as posttransplant complications. Nevertheless, current manufacturing ...

    • Peripheral bloodmcemp1gene expression as a biomarker for stroke prognosis 

      Raman, Kripa; O’Donnell, Martin J.; Czlonkowska, Anna; Duarte, Yan Carlos; Lopez-Jaramillo, Patricio; Peñaherrera, Ernesto; Sharma, Mike; Shoamanesh, Ashkan; Skowronska, Marta; Yusuf, Salim; Paré, Guillaume (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2016-02-04)
      Background and Purpose- A limitation when making early decisions on stroke management is the lack of rapid diagnostic and prognostic testing. Our study sought to identify peripheral blood RNA biomarkers associated with ...

    • The impact of dialysis on the survival of patients with immunoglobulin light chain (al) amyloidosis undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation 

      Leung, Nelson; Kumar, Shaji K.; Glavey, Siobhan V.; Dispenzieri, Angela; Lacy, Martha Q.; Buadi, Francis K.; Hayman, Suzanne R.; Dingli, David; Kapoor, Prashant; Zeldenrust, Steven R.; Russell, Stephen J.; Lust, John A.; Hogan, William J.; Rajkumar, S. Vincent; Gastineau, Dennis A.; Kourelis, Taxiarchis V.; Lin, Yi; Gonsalves, Wilson I.; Go, Ronald S.; Gertz, Morie A. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-11-30)
      Acute renal failure requiring dialysis is associated with high mortality during autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). This study examined the association between acute renal failure and mortality in immunoglobulin ...