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Osteoporosis is a bone disease that develops when the bones get weaker and less dense. When a child or teen develops osteoporosis, the condition is known as juvenile osteoporosis.
La osteoporosis es una enfermedad de los huesos que ocurre cuando estos se vuelven más débiles y menos densos. Cuando un niño o un adolescente tiene osteoporosis, la afección se conoce como osteoporosis juvenil.
Why does bone health matter? Learn more about what you can do to help keep your bones strong and healthy, what the risk factors are for osteoporosis, and how to live well if you have osteoporosis.
¿Por qué es importante la salud de los huesos? Lea más información sobre lo que puede hacer para mantener los huesos fuertes y saludables, cuáles son los factores de riesgo para la osteoporosis y cómo vivir bien si tiene esta enfermedad.
The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) published the first clinical practice guideline (CPG) focused on immunotherapy for nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC).
This study provides some of the first and only available data about the direct relationship between FDG-PET activity and angiographic change in large-vessel vasculitis.
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The study described how the regulation of residual UBA1b translation is fundamental to VEXAS syndrome pathogenesis and contributes to disease prognosis.
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PGZ induces significant improvements in vascular stiffness and cardiometabolic parameters in SLE. The role of PGZ as a modulator of cardiovascular disease risk in SLE should be further explored.
NETs were detected in many organs of adult patients who died from COVID-19 complications. Compared with other SARS-CoV-2 strains, the Omicron variant was associated with decreased NET levels.
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Anti-FHL1 autoantibodies in juvenile myositis is associated with V-sign rash on their chest and co-existing anti-Ro52 autoantibodies but not with adverse outcomes.
The FOXM1 pathway is a novel regulator of NET formation during diabetic wound healing and can be used as a therapeutic target to promote healing in DFUs. Expression of TREM1 in neutrophils is less in DFUs.
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The protocol describes in detail the mechanical and enzymatic dissociation of mononucleated cells from whole limb muscles and injured tibialis anterior (TA) muscles to isolate FAPs and MuSCs. Additionally, it describes an optimized method for culturing quiescent and activated FAPs and MuSCs.