The notion of protective mechanisms as indicators of structural empowerment and effective clinical governance requires further discussion and conceptualisation to determine their potential to improve care quality, clinical safety and clinical leadership in rural health.
Here we describe findings from a study of periodontitis subjects with more extensive disease that are similar to those reported earlier and support the notion of a protective role for anti-HtpG antibodies in untreated subjects.
In this regard, our present results are consistent with the notion that the protective effects of SLENU are due to both SSA and its increased release of NO.
This finding is in accordance with the notion that the protective effect of taurine against LIR injury is due to its antioxidant effect.
This observation supports the notion that the protective effect of EC-SOD is mediated, at least in part, by its ability to attenuate the influx of macrophages.
Overall, these results support the notion that using protective devices (earplugs and eye masks) plus listening to sleep-music during the night can significantly improve subjective sleep quality in an ICU setting.
Collectively, our present work supported the notion that the protective effects of linagliptin against cardiovascular injury in DS rats were mediated by its direct pleiotrophic effects, independently of blood pressure.
Our data support the notion that the protective properties of resveratrol against As2O3-induced oxidative stress and hepatotoxicity were realized through decreasing the retention of arsenic and improving the redox status of liver tissue.
Our inability to replicate the effect of the other SNP, rs1790858 [ 32], does not contradict this notion because the protective allele frequency of 1% for this SNP is too low to be detected by our study design.
If we assume, as for MMP1, that the higher plasma MMP8 levels reflect a lower expression in the tumour tissue; then the positive relation of plasma MMP8 with premenopausal status, and as such earlier onset, supports the notion of a protective role of MMP8 in cancer [ 22- 25].
