Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is defined as a chronic, slowly progressive disease characterized by airflow obstruction that dose not markedly change over several months. Clinical observations in patients with COPD have noticed that those patients have muscular pain accompanied with loss in the bone mineral density which can be assured by Bone Densitometry and some laboratory tests.Aim of the study: To study the use of Bone Dens...

Introduction: Peptide immunotherapy has been shown to be a simple and effective method of restoring tolerance and reversing disease in animal models of type 1 diabetes. It is highly important to administer the peptide interadermally into an environment in which antigen presenting cells such as dendritic cells are maintained in a tolerogenic state.Objective: Our aim was to determine whether topical pre-treatment of the skin has the potential to enhance to...