All subjects underwent lumbar puncture, and CSF was analyzed for chemistry ... patients with high RPR titers or low CD4-cell counts at the time of syphilis diagnosis would result in some ...

The routine diagnosis of syphilis ... is by lumbar puncture, which most patients or clinicians find unacceptable. [16] Classical findings for neurosyphilis include a raised CSF white cell count ...

A lumbar puncture (spinal tap ... A spinal tap can tell you whether the amount of protein, white blood cells, or myelin in your spinal fluid is too high. It can also reveal whether the fluid ...

Lumbar Puncture: A medical procedure where a needle is inserted into the lower back to collect cerebrospinal fluid for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF): A clear fluid ...

Jan. 28, 2025 — A team of stem cell scientists have successfully used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bi-paternal mouse -- a mouse with two male parents -- that lived until adulthood.

Jan. 28, 2025 — The latest findings on the interaction between cell death and cellular senescence in cancer and their pathophysiological significance have been ... Keeping the Steps of Cell ...

Although asymptomatic, a lumbar puncture was done in line with guidelines for patients with tertiary syphilis, 16 enabling a diagnosis of meningovascular syphilis (cerebrospinal fluid [CSF] ...

The history of syphilis has long been debated, with experts unable to come to a consensus over the origins of the outbreak that rocked Europe in the 16th century. New research reveals the bacterium ...

Objective A population of synovial inflammatory dendritic cells (infDCs) has recently been identified in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is thought to be monocyte-derived. Here, we investigated the role ...

CT venogram and MRI were unremarkable. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) opening pressure was normal on lumbar puncture and Treponema pallidum antibodies and T. pallidum particle agglutination test were ...