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We attempted to evaluate the more readily available serum levels of active MMPs as predictors of joint erosions.
When Albanians staged protests in the late '60s, Tito attempted to pacify them by strengthening local government (largely dominated by Albanians) over local affairs and by restoring jobs.
These authors also attempted to use array data to predict clinical outcome on 15 AML patients but without success.
I remember it as a decent, shabby old thing--not a fleapit, but nothing that attempted to be in any way sybaritic.
Few studies have attempted to elucidate the underlying physiological changes that might be responsible for positive outcomes seen with the use of CLR.