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Chronic Fatigue Mechanisms in Autoimmune Diseases: Lessons from Primary Biliary Cholangitis and Systemic Sclerosis
DownloadFall 2023
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease affecting the body's connective tissues, resulting in progressive fibrosis and vasculopathy. In some cases, individuals with SSc may also develop primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), another autoimmune disease characterized by damage to their...
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Chronic Heart Failure: The Roles of the Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Axis and Left-Atrial Structural and Functional Remodeling
DownloadFall 2014
Heart failure (HF) is a global epidemic, with a substantial burden on healthcare systems. Effective therapies have emerged for patients suffering from HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFREF), but not for those with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF). Recently, systemic inflammation, driven by...
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Pharmacist Management of Hypertension: An Examination of Clinical and Economic Outcomes and Remuneration for Expanded Services
DownloadSpring 2014
Background: One-third of Canadian adults with hypertension remain uncontrolled. As drug therapy experts, pharmacists can play a role in addressing this challenge, particularly when utilizing prescribing authorization in Alberta. However, the clinical effectiveness of pharmacist management of...
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The prognosis and outcomes of patients with a ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and the biochemical and clinical inflammatory response
DownloadSpring 2013
Acute myocardial infarction, and specifically coronary plaque rupture, has been associated with a systemic inflammatory cascade. Using multiple large clinical trial datasets, we sought to further understand the systemic and clinical inflammatory responses in patients with ST-elevation myocardial...
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Fall 2017
The adipocyte-derived lipokine, C16:1n7-palmitoleate, regulates a variety of functions such as systemic glucose and fatty acid metabolism. Under normal physiological conditions, palmitoleate levels are regulated by de novo lipogenesis. During pathological conditions where there are enhanced rates...
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Fall 2014
Epidemiological studies correlate vitamin D deficiency with asthma severity. Calcitriol modulates receptor and cytokine expression from various leukocytes in an anti-inflammatory manner. Despite eosinophil activity during mucosal inflammation, knowledge on the direct effect of calcitriol on this...