Diagnosis of this diffuse connective tissue disorder is made on the basis of fibrotic changes, most notably skin thickening proximal to the metacarpophalangeal joints, along with evidence of ...

The extracellular matrices (ECMs) of connective tissues are crucial for normal ... in ECM assembly and disease mechanisms. The central features of intracellular synthesis and assembly of several ...

O'Quinn Foundation, The Pamela and David Ott Center of Excellence in Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome ... is unknown and the biological processes driving the ...

angiography) and distinct clinical characteristics and outcomes ... secondary cerebral vasculitis (which can occur in ...

no other defined connective tissue or other disease as a cause of any of the first three criteria. In this study [12] comparing clinical and laboratory features of patients with ssSSc with those ...

While they are both proteins that work together in your connective tissue, collagen gives the skin strength and resilience, and elastin allows the skin to be flexible while also returning to its ...

Objective The aim of our study was to assess a group of patients with calf muscle tears and evaluate the integrity of the connective tissue boundaries and interfaces ... evaluated 100 consecutive ...

Connective tissues consist of ligaments, cartilage and tendons. A joint is held together by ligaments which give the joints their stability. Cartilage is found at the ends of bones and where ...

The new approach marks a major step forward in the design of AI tools to support clinical decisions in cancer diagnosis, therapy. The model uses features of a tumor’s microenvironment to forecast how ...

A model similar to ChatGPT can identify cancer, recommend treatment options, and forecast survival rates for various types of ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School have designed a versatile, ChatGPT-like AI model capable of performing an array of ...

The researchers' ambition was to create a nimble, versatile ChatGPT-like AI platform that can perform a broad range of cancer ...