(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.
Wasting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waste
(a.) Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(2) Muscle wasting in MYD may be explained by these abnormalities as well.
(3) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(4) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(5) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(6) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(7) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(8) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(9) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(10) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
(11) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
(12) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
(13) In the end, prisons are all about wasting human life and will always be places that take things away.
(14) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
(15) Any surplus food left over goes to anaerobic digestion energy plants, which turn food waste into electricity.
(16) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
(17) The observed differences in Na excretion suggest that this aldosterone hypersecretion may be of pathophysiological importance as a protection against inappropriate renal waste of Na during the early phase of endotoxin-induced fever.
(18) Hyperbilirubinaemia in newborn infants is generally regarded as a problem, and bilirubin itself as toxic metabolic waste, but the high frequency in newborn infants suggests that the excess of neonatal bilirubin may have a positive function.
(19) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
(20) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."