Aim.To study renal function and its association with cardiovascular risk factors in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Material and methods.The study included 257 RA patients aged 29—69 years.Results.Reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) <60 ml/min was observed in 146 (56,8 %) RA patients.Renal dysfunction was associated with non-steroid anti-inflam
Bone is lost during sojourns in microgravity.Thus to prevent fractures in future manned inter-planetary missions, efforts are currently being made to develop effective countermeasures.Bones adapt to mechanical stimuli, and biomechanical analysis suggests that muscle forces play an important role.Thus, resistance training is advocated as first optio
Conventional power delivery networks (PDNs) and power management techniques using off-chip power converters with bulky passive components cannot meet the ever-evolving power delivery requirements of high-performance modern system-on-chips (SoCs).In SoCs, heterogeneous components, including multi-core processors and mixed-signals peripheral circuits
Abstract Interneuron progenitor transplantation can ameliorate disease symptoms in a variety of neurological disorders.The strategy is based on transplantation of embryonic medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) progenitors.Elucidating how host brain environment influences the integration of interneuron progenitors is critical for optimizing this strateg