OSTEOCLASTS AND THEIR CIRCULATING PRECURSORS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: RELATIONSHIPS WITH DISEASE ACTIVITY AND BONE EROSIONS

Osteoclasts and their circulating precursors in rheumatoid arthritis: Relationships with disease activity and bone erosions

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have very different outcomes, particularly with regard to bone erosions.Since osteoclasts are responsible for bone destruction adjacent to rheumatoid synovium, profiling osteoclasts from circulating precursors in RA could help identify patients at risk for bone destruction.In this study, we sought to determin

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Comprehensive Evaluation of Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Polyetheretherketone (CFR-PEEK) Spinal Hardware for Proton and Photon Planning

Purpose: To evaluate a novel spine implant, carbon-fiber-reinforced polyetheretherketone (CFR-PEEK), for proton and photon treatment planning.Materials and Methods: We compared target coverage and sparing of organs-at-risk (OARs) for a spinal phantom with 4 different spine configurations: (a) normal (no implant); (b) Titanium; (c) CFR-PEEK; and (d)

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A Reexamination of the Coase Theorem

This paper makes three advances: 1) It fixes the empty-core problem of the Coase theorem; 2) it provides the smallest upper bound of transaction costs below which the optimal or efficient outcomes ngetikin.com can be achieved; and 3) it establishes two mathematical theorems that capture the main insights and major aspects of the Coase theorem.A sim

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FRAUD OF EXECUTION IN CASE LAW AND IN THE NEW CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: PROSPECTS ON THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

This article proposes the use of information and communication technologies as a way to click here provide better solutions for problems related to the fraud of execution.The subject brings deep relations with the effectiveness and utility of jurisdiction, and it is also important for the civil and commercial spheres, because it affects directly th

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