A symptom-specific QoL questionnaire, called the Individualized Neuromuscular Quality of Life (INQoL) [ 8], was recently validated in Italy in more than 1000 patients with different muscle disorders having in common progression of muscle symptoms and disability [ 9].
Activation of the inflammatory response, leading to upregulation of various inflammatory cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, adhesion molecules, and nuclear factors, is a common pathway for progression of DN in humans and in animal models [ 14, 15].
As an approximate estimate, immunohistochemistry for CEA/CEACAM6 was performed on colonic sections from 3 week and 3 month old transgenic mice and compared with that of human colorectal carcinomas at a common stage of progression.
Liver and lung are a common sites of progression in CRC, with an incidence of 30-70% [ 5].
It is well known that chronic low-grade inflammation is a common feature of progression of NAFLD.
Structural LV remodelling, a common event in the progression of heart failure, causes progressive dilatation of the left ventricle and pump dysfunction.
Given women will be seeking advice from their healthcare provider frequently during pregnancy and given that GWG is a common and natural progression of pregnancy, early support is likely to be important.
Thus, modifications in inflammatory-related responses in the brain appear to be a common characteristic for the progression of schizophrenia for a large group of patients.
To investigate whether S100A16 down-regulation is a common event during tumor progression of other carcinomas as well, the expression levels of S100A16 mRNA were examined in external microarray datasets of other human malignancies and tumor progression model systems.
The shedding of malignant cells from the surface of the ovarian tumour into the peritoneal cavity is a common scenario in the progression of ovarian carcinoma.
Metastasis to regional lymph nodes is a common step in the progression of cancer.
