CD4+, CD8+ and CD4+CD25+ T lymphocytes in peripheral blood and peritoneal fluid of women with endometriosis - preliminary report

Introduction: CD4+CD25+ cells play a major role in maintenance of immunological self-tolerance and negative control of pathological and physiological immunological reactions. Their absence or ill function leads to autoim...

How to plan an experiment I. Randomization: current fad or (ever)lasting fashion?

All those who like experimentation are sooner or later faced with a need of random selection of elements or objects of interest that they want to study (persons, patients, animals, cells, etc.). Randomization, a basic re...

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Simvastatin-induced rhabdomyolysis: a case study on clinical-decision making based on the evidence-based medicine approach

A case of a woman diagnosed to have rhabdomyolysis is presented. It was attributed to simvastatin she had been receiving for 1 year. Based on pathogenesis and medical examination, the diagnosis of statin-induced rhabdomy...

B-type natriuretic peptide level in adult patients after successful repair of coarctation of the aorta