(1) Two of the TNF responders subsequently died of cachexia and respiratory infection.
(2) Cachexia and septic shock, syndromes associated with chronic and acute infection, respectively, are mediated by endogenous factors.
(3) The mechanisms by which tumour growth causes anorexia and cachexia in these rats remains obscure.
(4) The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that slow continuous secretion of sublethal amounts of TNF may mediate cancer cachexia.
(5) After an average of 2--3 months an obvious cachexia as well as a steatorrhea could be observed.
(6) Factors affecting early v late weaning from ventilatory support after cardiac surgery were retrospectively compared in 15 patients with cardiac cachexia.
(7) In 1888 cretinism, myxoedema and cachexia strumipriva were attributed to thyroid insufficiency.
(8) TNF is also allied with the effects of cachexia and has been shown to be similar to, if not exactly the same as, cachectin.
(9) Human and rat normal tissues and tumours have been studied for the presence of toxic substances, possibly of importance in the development of cachexia in patients with cancer and other chronic diseases.
(10) But combined activity of TNF and IFN on the vasculature of renal cell carcinoma (JRC 11) and the suppression of cachexia related condition were detected.
(11) IL-6 transfection did not induce immunity, but induced cachexia.
(12) Inadequate growth in chronic inflammatory bowel disease is currently ascribed to inadequate nutrition and TNF alpha may contribute to this through its cachexia inducing effects.
(13) In a more applied sense, such knowledge may also provide a rational approach to controlling metabolic disease syndromes related to adipogenesis gone awry such as obesity-associated diabetes and cachexia.
(14) As the study progressed, clinical signs associated with trypanosomiasis, such as anaemia and cachexia, disappeared gradually in treated bulls.
(15) Mechanisms for the development of cancer cachexia are not well defined.
(16) These aspects of the tumour model make it useful for investigations into host-tumour competition and mechanisms of cachexia.
(17) These findings suggest that gamma-interferon may be an important mediator of cachexia in this rat tumor model.
(18) The serum factor inducing hemorrhagic necrosis of transplantable tumors [tumor necrosis factor (TNF)], and the macrophage hormone associated with cachexia in cancer and certain infectious diseases [cachectin] are known to be the same protein.
(19) However, the stimulatory influence of the tumor-bearing state may be overridden by the inhibitory effects of cachexia.
(20) To evaluate the possible role of altered glucose metabolism in malignant cachexia, metabolic parameters including total glucose turnover, glucose oxidation, and Cori cycle activity were measured in fourteen patients with metastatic carcinoma.
Malnutrition
Definition:
(n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients were selected for the severity of their malnutrition and for absence of other diseases.
(2) The overall prevalence of protein energy malnutrition (PEM) was found to be 81.8%, while 31.8, 44.1, 5.7 and 0.2% of children had Grades I, II, III and IV PEM, respectively.
(3) Malnutrition and dehydration are the immediate consequences of diarrheal diseases.
(4) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(5) The interaction between malnutrition and exposure to a mucosal damaging agent, difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), was examined by monitoring the small-intestinal changes in weanling rats.
(6) The number of splenic anti-TNP direct plaque-forming cells (PFCs) was decreased by malnutrition when expressed on a per spleen basis.
(7) Malnutrition results from deficiency in one or more of these basic nutrients.
(8) It is concluded that malnutrition is a strong predictor of ALRI-related death in the pre-school child.
(9) The conclusions were: the percentage of patients with malnutrition prior to surgery is large enough to justify a routine PRNA; TPN decreases morbidity and mortality in patients with previous good nutritional state but not in those with malnutrition; undernourished patients have a very high rate of complications and surgery should be delayed until a acceptable state of nutrition is achieved.
(10) Anergy is a crude measure of host resistance which may be due to malnutrition, but is probably more often due to inappropriate host responses to surgery and injury.
(11) There are a number of observations which suggest that malnutrition and decreasing pulmonary function are parallel phenomena in chronic lung disease.
(12) It may be that the low severity of the disease in India, juxtaposed against the high mortality rates in parts of Africa, may be due to the relative prevalence of marasmic and kwashiorkor types of malnutrition in these particular geographic areas.
(13) The hypochromia of protein-calorie malnutrition was not included in the study, but its importance in relation to coincident tuberculosis is noted.
(14) 4) this report is the 1st to document virus particles in fecal specimens from Indonesian children, and suggests that viruses may be important etiological agents in diarrheal diseases in Indonesia, where malnutrition and diarrhea are important health problems.
(15) Malnutrition might contribute to the development of the diseases, which were improved by anti-tuberculosis therapy and hyperalimentation therapy.
(16) The effects of perinatal malnutrition on behavioural development and adult shuttle-box avoidance performance were studied in Swiss white mice.
(17) Hypocalcemia in seven patients (41%) had a multifactorial basis: hyperphosphaturia, septicaemia, malnutrition and cytotoxic drugs were among the probable causes.
(18) A severe state of protein-energy malnutrition was induced by litter expansion which caused the mean total body weight of experimentally malnourished rats to diminish significantly as compared to control animals.
(19) Eleven infants recovering from protein-calorie malnutrition secondary to acquired monosaccharide intolerance were found to have reduced plasma bicarbonate concentration associated with inadequate weight gain.
(20) Cancer patients have the highest incidence of protein-calorie malnutrition seen in hospitalized patients, with significant malnutrition occurring in more than 30% of cancer patients undergoing major upper gastrointestinal procedures.