Search Results - "Seah, T. G."

Type 2 Cytokine Gene Activation and Its Relationship to Extent of Disease in Patients with Tuberculosis by Seah, G. T., Scott, G. M., Rook, G. A. W.

“…The extent of type 2 cytokine gene expression in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) was studied by use of quantitative nested reverse-transcription…”
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Strong purified protein derivative responses are associated with poor mycobacterium inhibition in latent TB by KANG, J. S. L, CHERIAN, A, GAN, S. H, LEE, T. H, LEE, K. C, CHEE, C. B. E, DOHERTY, T. M, WANG, Y. T, SEAH, G. T

“…The tuberculin skin test (TST) using purified protein derivative (PPD) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is traditionally used to diagnose latent tuberculosis (TB)…”
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Severe laryngospasm without intravenous access--a case report and literature review of the non-intravenous routes of administration of suxamethonium by Seah, T G, Chin, N M

“…Severe laryngospasm may occur during inhalational induction of paediatric patients. Effective and rapid treatment of this complication is extremely important…”
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Difficult pulmonary artery catheterization in a patient with persistent left superior vena cava by LAI, Y. C, GOH, J. C. Y, LIM, S. H, SEAH, T. G

“…A persistent left superior vena cava is an uncommon congenital abnormality. It arises when the left anterior cardinal vein fails to regress during the…”
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Il-4 influences apoptosis of mycobacterium-reactive lymphocytes in the presence of TNF-alpha by Seah, G T, Rook, G A

“…T cell apoptosis is associated with defective cell-mediated effector functions in several infectious diseases. In tuberculosis, there is evidence that T cell…”
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A sensitive, non-radioactive quantitative method for measuring IL-4 and IL-4δ2 mRNA in unstimulated cells from multiple clinical samples, using nested RT-PCR by Seah, G.T, Rook, G.A.W

“…Measurements of IL-4 mRNA directly from clinical samples are technically difficult as IL-4 is a low copy number cytokine. Moreover, most existing studies…”
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A sensitive, non-radioactive quantitative method for measuring IL-4 and IL-4 delta 2 mRNA in unstimulated cells from multiple clinical samples, using nested RT-PCR by Seah, G T, Rook, GAW

“…Measurements of IL-4 mRNA directly from clinical samples are technically difficult as IL-4 is a low copy number cytokine. Moreover, most existing studies…”
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Interleukin-4 and Its Alternatively Spliced Variant (IL-4delta 2) in Patients with Atopic Asthma by SEAH, GEOK TENG, GAO, PEI SONG, HOPKIN, JULIAN M, ROOK, GRAHAM A. W

“…The interleukin-4 (IL-4) splice variant (IL-4delta2) is known to antagonize many biological activities of IL-4, and this challenges our understanding of the…”
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High Levels of mRNA Encoding IL-4 in Unstimulated Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells from Tuberculosis Patients Revealed by Quantitative Nested Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction; Correlations with Serum IgE Levels by Geok Teng Seah, Graham A. W. Rook

“…The dominant view has been that there is little or no activation of Type 2 cytokine production in human tuberculosis. A novel approach to quantitative nested…”
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A case of pseudohyperkalaemia and thrombocytosis by Seah, T G, Lew, T W, Chin, N M

“…An unusual cause of "hyperkalaemia" was observed in a neurosurgical patient admitted to our intensive care unit. The cause of the hyperkalaemia was not known…”
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IL-4 in tuberculosis: implications for vaccine design by Rook, Graham A.W., Hernandez-Pando, Rogelio, Dheda, Keertan, Teng Seah, Geok

“…Current attempts to find a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) are based on the assumption that it must drive a Th1 response. We review the evidence that progressive…”
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A sensitive, non-radioactive quantitative method for measuring IL-4 and IL-4delta2 mRNA in unstimulated cells from multiple clinical samples, using nested RT-PCR by Seah, G T, Rook, G A

“…Measurements of IL-4 mRNA directly from clinical samples are technically difficult as IL-4 is a low copy number cytokine. Moreover, most existing studies…”
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Posters by Park, P. H., Lee, Y. M., Jung, Y. S., Koh, Y., Lim, C. M., Lee, J. H., Lim, T. H., Asensio, M. J., Peláez, J., Yus, S., Díaz, D., Arce, M. A., Jiménez, M., Sánchez, M., López, J., Valentin, A., Karnik, R., Winkler, W. B., Hochfellner, A., Slany, J., Parr, M. J. A., Brown, M. M., Manara, A. R., Platikanov, W., Rousseff, R., Kolarov, G., Moccia, F., Colla, G., Castelli, F., Altomonte, F., Greco, G., Gionis, D., Kalabalikis, P., Vasilopoulos, A., Papadatos, J., Koh, W. Y., Lew, T. W. K., Seah, T. G., Chin, N. M., Wong, M., Bruzzone, P., Bellinzona, G., Imberti, R., Albertario, F., Ticozzelli, G., Dionigi, R. V., Gracia, R. M., Torres, F., Báguena, M., Vives, I., Robles, A., Palomar, M., Garnacho, A., Sahuquillo, J., Massa, L. Sanchez, Hopton, P., Walsh, T., Lee, A., Gianotti, A., Piazzi, B., Bettini, C., Borghi, T., Gemma, M., Stokić, A., Stokić, E., Belopavlović, J., Peković, V., Radunović, T., Drašković, B., Kenaroy, P., Poptodorov, G., Kahveci, S. F., Bekar, A., Tamgaç, F., Korfali, G., Alper, E., Wagner, F., Ziegler, U., Behse, F., Hummel, M., Hetzer, R., Moraine, J. J., Brimioulle, S., Kahn, R. J.

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