CXCR4 and Axillary Lymph Nodes: Review of a Potential Biomarker for Breast Cancer Metastasis by David Hiller, Quyen D. Chu

“…CXCR4 is a 7-transmembrane G-protein chemokine receptor that allows for migration of hematopoietic cells from the bone marrow to the peripheral lymph nodes. Research has shown CXCR4 to be implicated in the invasion and metastasis of several cancers, including carcinoma of the breast. …”
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RP105-Negative B Cells in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Syuichi Koarada, Yoshifumi Tada

“…However, RP105-negative B cells increase in peripheral blood from patients with active SLE. RP105 may regulate B-cell activation, and RP105-negative B cells produce autoantibodies and take part in pathophysiology of SLE. …”
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Immune Reactions following Cord Blood Transplantations in Adults by Hiroto Narimatsu

“…Although the incidence of acute and chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD) post-CBT is lower than that following bone marrow transplantation and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (SCT), the additional immunosuppressive therapy required to treat it could increase the mortality in these patients. …”
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From Uniformity towards Unequality in Regional Development Policy: The Case of France by Ildikó Egyed

“…Territorial unity formed the basic pillar of the Republic, which no successive regimes were able to undermine and no peripheral bottom-up regionalisation movements could challenge until the end of the past decade. …”
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Health Tourism Competitiveness – A Complex Approach by András Bozóti

“…The former is a central region from the perspective of tourist flows and the latter is a peripheral region - which entails more opportunities for analysis. …”
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Neurogenic Bladder Repair Using Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Pradeep V. Mahajan, Swetha Subramanian, Amit Danke, Anand Kumar

“…The normal function of the urinary bladder is to store and expel urine in a coordinated, controlled fashion, the activity of which is regulated by the central and peripheral nervous systems. Neurogenic bladder is a term applied to a malfunctioning urinary bladder due to neurologic dysfunction or insult emanating from internal or external trauma, disease, or injury. …”
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Protocol for the quantitative detection of mtDNA in the supernatants of activated human naive CD8+ T cells by Linlin Li, Jun Jin

“…We describe steps for sample collection; peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) isolation; and the enrichment, assessment, and activation of naive CD8+ T cells. …”
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Epididymo-Orchitis as a Presenting Feature of Relapsing Polychondritis: A Case Report by Kuljeet Bhamra, Rachel Weerasinghe, Alan Steuer

“…It is characterized by recurrent inflammation of cartilaginous structures including the ears, nose, tracheo-bronchial tree and peripheral joints. Proteoglycan-rich structures such as the heart, eyes and blood vessels can also be affected. …”
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Orchestration of Adaptive T Cell Responses by Neutrophil Granule Contents by Danielle Minns, Katie Jane Smith, Emily Gwyer Findlay

“…Neutrophils are the most abundant leukocytes in peripheral blood and respond rapidly to danger, infiltrating tissues within minutes of infectious or sterile injury. …”
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Clinical Management of Malignant Glaucoma by Julie Foreman-Larkin, Peter A. Netland, Sarwat Salim

“…The clinical diagnosis is made in the setting of a patent peripheral iridotomy and axial flattening of the anterior chamber. …”
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Geriatric Chest Imaging: When and How to Image the Elderly Lung, Age-Related Changes, and Common Pathologies by J. Gossner, R. Nau

“…Imaging strategies have to be adjusted to the needs of frail patients, for example, immobility, impossibility for long breath holds, renal insufficiency, or poor peripheral venous access. Beside conventional radiography, modern multislice computed tomography is the method of choice in lung imaging. …”
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Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo and Occult Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Complicated after Head Trauma by Qinghua Li, Shuangxing Hou, Hualan Yang

“…Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most prevalent form of peripheral vertigo and is common in posttraumatic patients. …”
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Dualities of the Hungarian Credit Institute Activities by Sándor Zsolt Kovács

“…An important starting point for the issue is the business philosophy and operational distinction of Hungarian actors in the credit institute market (a segment of the representatives of global commercial banks and locally embedded savings cooperatives), and the analysis of the geographical range of their activities (Kovács, 2014a; 2017), and also the survey of their relationship to developed centre regions and lagging peripheral areas. I analysed this questions with the functional distance indicator, which is a relatively new approach of the financial proximity in the evaluations of the Hungarian banking sector. …”
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Gabapentin Treatment for Neuropathic Pain in a Child with Sciatic Nerve Injury by Halil Ekrem Akkurt, Haluk Gümüş, Hamit Göksu, Ömer Faruk Odabaşı, Halim Yılmaz

“…Neuropathic pain developed after peripheral sciatic damage due to firearm traumatisation did not respond to other medical treatments but healed nearly completely after gabapentin usage.…”
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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in a Nonagenarian with Aortic Aneurysm: Futility or Utility? by Evelyn Fennelly, Marcus Lee, Mark Da Costa, Sherif Sultan, Faisal Sharif, Darren Mylotte

“…Herein we present a case of a 90-year-old female patient with symptomatic severe AS and significant comorbidities including diffuse peripheral vascular disease and a large ascending aortic aneurysm. …”
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Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology of Ewing’s Sarcoma of Thoracic Spine with Extension into the Intradural Space by Sandhya Bordia, Sweta Meena, Bijendar Kumar Meena, Vijay Rajak

“…Ewing’s sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor is a small, round, and blue cell malignancy that occurs most often in bone and soft tissues of children and young adults. …”
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Guarding the boundaries: a Swedish policy debate about geography and education for sustainable development by Hampus Hallingfors, Henrik Åström Elmersjö

“…As a consequence, the Geography subject, potentially a suitable arena to naturally handle education for sustainable development, would be given a very peripheral role in the upper secondary school curriculum. …”
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Periferia e centro comunitário: experiências do habitar e a vida de uma organização comunitária by Paulo Sérgio Lima da Silva, Carmem Izabel Rodrigues

“…Thus, the entity and its actions are perceived here as a mirror of life on the streets, as they are influenced both by local needs (in terms of infrastructure and other services) and by the existence of an intense sociability that gathers residents of the peripheral neighborhood of Campina Icoaraci within the Community Center.…”
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Metal staples in the construction of the central building of the Belvoir fortress (Kokhav Ha Yarden, Israel) by Laurent D’Agostino

“…The staples are observed only on the exterior facings of the peripheral walls of the keep and the towers, at the level of the basalt embankments. …”
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Megatrends and Structural Change — Which Regions Will Benefit? by Mirko Kruse, Dörte Nitt-Drießelmann, Jan Wedemeier

“…Moreover, urban areas can adapt particularly well to current trends, while rural and peripheral areas threaten to fall behind. The article presents the findings of a model that assesses how well regional economic structures in Germany are adapted to upcoming megatrends as well as market and technology trends. …”
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