There is consensus amongst regulatory and certifying associations that the role of physician
as advocate is a fundamental competency for Canadian physicians. Understanding what …

OBJECTIVE: Sjögren's syndrome (SS) has been reported in up to 15% of patients with biopsy
proven celiac disease (CD). The diagnosis of CD in the setting of SS and other systemic …

The 2008 Recommendations for care of the International AIDS Society reaffirmed the importance
of both accurate and sensitive viral load assessment, and by necessity, access to viral …

Autoantibodies to the centromere proteins (CENP), which are major constituents of the primary
constriction of metaphase chromosomes, were first described in 1980. In those seminal …

A novel autoantigen named GW182 was recently identified when the serum from a patient
with a sensory ataxic polyneuropathy was used to immunoscreen a HeLa cDNA library. …

GW182 is a mRNA binding protein characterized by 60 repeats of glycine (G):tryptophan (W)
motifs and is localized in cytoplasmic structures referred to as GW bodies (GWBs). Current …

… The early spread of HIV within Canada, 1,2 the United States, 3,4 and Western Europe 5,6
was the result of HIV-1, Group M, Subtype B infection, and it occurred mainly within the men …

Introduction Our hands, with their exquisite sensors, work in concert with our sensing brain to
extract sensory attributes of objects as we engage in daily activities. One in two people with …

Figure 1 shows a schematic of the pattern of antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Although immunoglobulin M (IgM) and immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies are widely regarded …

Background and Purpose: Changes in connectivity of white matter fibers remote to a stroke
lesion, suggestive of structural connectional diaschisis, may impact on clinical impairment …