Showing papers by "Timothy L. Ratliff published in 1992"

TL;DR: It is concluded that digital rectal examination, prostatic massage and ultrasonography have minimal effects on serum PSA levels in most patients, but prostatic needle biopsy usually causes marked elevations of serum PSC levels with a persistent PSA leak into the blood stream lasting longer than expected from the serum half-life of PSA in approximately 25% of the patients.

TL;DR: The studies outline the development of a new experimental autoimmune Cystitis model that expresses features similar to those frequently observed in human interstitial cystitis, and may provide a model for the study of the inflammatory process associated with interstitialCystitis.

TL;DR: Results show that T-lymphocytes are required for BCG-mediated antitumour activity and suggest that the antitumours activity mediated by BCG is of a nonspecific immunological type.