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The experience of inflammatory bowel disease patients with healthcare: a survey with the IEXPAC instrument
(Wolters Kluwer, 2019-04)
[Abstract] To assess inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients' experience of chronic illness care and the relationship with demographic and healthcare-related characteristics.This cross-sectional survey used the Instrument ...
Gene expression and functional comparison between multipotential stromal cells from lateral and medial condyles of knee osteoarthritis patients
(Nature Publishing Group, 2019-06-29)
[Abstract] Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common degenerative joint disorder. Multipotential stromal cells (MSCs) have a crucial role in joint repair, but how OA severity affects their characteristics remains unknown. ...
The Influence of Patient Experience with Healthcare on the Health-Related Quality of Life of People Living with HIV: An Observational Cross-Sectional Survey
(Springer Nature, 2019-07-09)
[Abstract]
Introduction
Patient experience is central to the quality of healthcare delivery, showing positive associations with several outcome measures. The main objectives of this study are to analyze the influence of ...
Association between non-adherence behaviors, patients’ experience with healthcare and beliefs in medications: a survey of patients with different chronic conditions
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-15)
[Abstract] Objective: The objective of the current work was to assess the frequency of non-adherence behaviors and potential association with patients' experience with healthcare and beliefs in medicines self-reported by ...
Mesenchymal stem cell functionalization for enhanced therapeutic applications
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2019-02-14)
[Abstract] Culture expansion of MSCs has detrimental effects on various cell characteristics and attributes (e.g., phenotypic changes and senescence), which, in addition to inherent interdonor variability, negatively impact ...
Adherence to synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in rheumatoid arthritis: results of the OBSERVAR study
(Elsevier, 2019-01-10)
[Abstract] Background: Treatment compliance with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD) is essential to achieve the therapeutic goals in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, despite the need for good compliance, there ...
An artificial-vision- and statistical-learning-based method for studying the biodegradation of type I collagen scaffolds in bone regeneration systems
(PeerJ, 2019-07-05)
[Abstract]
This work proposes a method based on image analysis and machine and statistical learning to model and estimate osteocyte growth (in type I collagen scaffolds for bone regeneration systems) and the collagen ...
Usefulness of mesenchymal cell lines for bone and cartilage regeneration research
(MDPI, 2019-12-13)
[Abstract]
The unavailability of sufficient numbers of human primary cells is a major roadblock
for in vitro repair of bone and/or cartilage, and for performing disease modelling experiments.
Immortalized mesenchymal ...
Effect of balneotherapy in sulfurous water on an in vivo murine model of osteoarthritis
(Springer, 2019-11-01)
[Abstract] Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic joint disease that results in progressive cartilage destruction and subsequently joint dysfunction. Growing evidence indicates beneficial impact of balneological interventions ...
Hydrogen sulfide biosynthesis is impaired in the osteoarthritic joint
(Springer, 2019-11-16)
[Abstract] Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis and it is a leading cause of disability in the elderly. Its complete etiology is not known although there are several metabolic, genetic, epigenetic, and ...