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Consistency Theory for the General Nonparametric Classification Method. Parametric likelihood estimation is the prevailing method for fitting cognitive diagnosis models-also called diagnostic classification models (DCMs). Nonparametric concepts and methods that do not rely on a parametric statistical model have been pr...
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Nucleus-specific effects of meal duration on daily profiles of Period1 and Period2 protein expression in rats housed under restricted feeding. Restricted feeding (RF) schedules provide a cycle of fasting and feeding each day and induce circadian rhythms in food-anticipatory activity. In addition, daily rhythms in the e...
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Results of language for health: cardiovascular disease nutrition education for Latino English-as-a-second-language students. This report presents the final evaluation of Language for Health, part of a federally funded initiative to develop heart disease prevention interventions for low-literate populations. Language fo...
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Evaluation of cartilage reconstruction by means of autologous chondrocyte versus periosteal graft transplantation: an animal study. Autologous chondrocyte transplantation (ACT) has been shown to heal cartilage defects under experimental and clinical conditions. However, the evaluation of successful transplantation stil...
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How leaders create and use networks. Most people acknowledge that networking-creating a fabric of personal contacts to provide support, feedback, insight, and resources--is an essential activity for an ambitious manager. Indeed, it's a requirement even for those focused simply on doing their current jobs well. For some...
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Topography of essential tremor. Topography of tremor manifestations is poorly investigated in essential tremor. The present study explores the prevalence and clinical correlates of head and/or voice tremor in essential tremor. Out of a prospectively designed registry of 972 patients, 884 patients with definite and prob...
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Rookie snail protein LAPS veteran C/EBP: net transcriptional proceeds for long-term facilitation. Long-term changes in synaptic plasticity require new protein synthesis. This preview discusses data from Kim et al. (this issues of Neuron) that demonstrate the requirement of a novel, nucleolar protein, LLP (LAPS18-like p...
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Hemophilic arthropathy. The most common clinical manifestation of hemophilia is arthropathy secondary to recurrent hemarthroses and chronic synovitis. Joint-surface erosions secondary to chronic synovitis often occur in early childhood and progress to advanced arthropathy by late adolescence. The knee, elbow, ankle, hi...
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Mtss1 promotes maturation and maintenance of cerebellar neurons via splice variant-specific effects. Efficient coupling of the actin cytoskeleton to the cell membrane is crucial for histogenesis and maintenance of the nervous system. At this critical interface, BAR (Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs) proteins regulate membrane bendi...
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Membrane Potential of Composite Bipolar Membrane in Ethanol-Water Solutions: The Role of the Membrane Interface. The membrane potential across a composite bipolar membrane (CBM) composed of a cation-exchange membrane with an anion-exchange membrane is theoretically and experimentally analyzed for LiCl ethanol-water sol...
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Intraosseous arteriovenous malformations mimicking malignant disease. Primary (congenital) intraosseous arteriovenous malformations are rare, accounting for less than one per cent of all primary intraosseous lesions. They are quite variable in their gross and microscopic presentation, yet all can be traced to anomalous...
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The infection risk of intrathecal drug infusion pumps after multiple refill procedures. The objective of this study was to evaluate the long-term infection risk from refilling intrathecal drug delivery devices. We studied 25 patients (14 females and 11 males) with intrathecal infusion pumps placed for spasticity (23 pa...
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New approach to patency and flow assessment after left internal thoracic artery hypoperfusion syndrome with additional saphenous vein graft to the left anterior descending artery with phase-contrast magnetic resonance angiography. Perioperative and early postoperative flow reduction of a left internal thoracic artery c...
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Health promotion in nurses: is there a healthy nurse in the house? The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the health-promoting lifestyle behaviors of acute-care nurses using the Health Promotion Model. Statistical analysis of 149 returned Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II surveys indicates areas of weakness...
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Primary and familial hypoalphalipoproteinemia. Our specific aim was to assess within-family clustering of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC) levels in kindreds identified through probands with primary hypoalphalipoproteinemia, and to determine whether, and to what degree, familial aggregation of HDLC less than...
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Spatial learning and memory impairment and increased locomotion in a transgenic amyloid precursor protein mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. This study provides an examination of spatial learning and a behavioral assessment of irritability and locomotion in TgCRND8 mice, an amyloid precursor protein transgenic model o...
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Enrichments of post-translational modifications in proteomic studies. More than 300 different protein post-translational modifications are currently known, but only a few have been extensively investigated because modified proteoforms are commonly present in sub-stoichiometry amount. For this reason, improvement of spe...
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PrP genotype contributes to determining survival times of sheep with natural scrapie. Several allelic variants of the sheep PrP gene are associated with scrapie susceptibility. However, it is not known whether, and to what extent, the PrP genotype contributes to determining survival times of scrapie sheep. We therefore...
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In vivo and in vitro increased pancreatic beta-cell sensitivity to glucose in normal rats submitted to a 48-h hyperglycaemic period. We investigated the importance of the level and the duration of glucose stimulation on the in vivo and in vitro insulin response to glucose in normal rats previously submitted to hypergly...
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Temperature Dependence of Arn+ Cluster Backscattering from Polymer Surfaces: a New Method to Determine the Surface Glass Transition Temperature. In this work, time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) was used to study the intensity variations of the backscattered Arn+ clusters as a function of temperat...
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Should the first blood pressure reading be discarded? We evaluated the consequences of excluding the first of three blood pressure (BP) readings in different settings: a random population sample (POS, n=1525), a general practice office (GPO, n=942) and a specialized hypertension center (SHC, n=462). Differences between...
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Nix Co3-x O4 Nanoneedle Arrays Grown on Ni Foam as an Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Full Water Splitting. Developing highly active, stable and robust electrocatalysts based on earth-abundant elements for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is important for many renewable e...
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Delivery of immunoglobulin G antibodies to the rat nervous system following intranasal administration: Distribution, dose-response, and mechanisms of delivery. The intranasal route has been hypothesized to circumvent the blood-brain and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barriers, allowing entry into the brain via extracellular...
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Myokines and adipokines: Involvement in the crosstalk between skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. Skeletal muscle and adipose tissue are the two largest organs in the body. Skeletal muscle is an effector organ, and adipose tissue is an organ that stores energy; in addition, they are endocrine organs that secrete cytoki...
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Palliative Care Education in Gynecologic Oncology: a Survey of Gynecologic Oncologists and Gynecologic Oncology Fellows in Thailand. The main purpose of this study was to survey the education and training of certified gynecologic oncologists and fellows in Thailand. A secondary objective was to study the problems in fe...
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Antibody-Targeted Cyclodextrin-Based Nanoparticles for siRNA Delivery in the Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Physicochemical Characteristics, in Vitro Mechanistic Studies, and ex Vivo Patient Derived Therapeutic Efficacy. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common type of acute leukemia in adults and is assoc...
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[Impact of Actual Domestic Sewage and Simulated Wastewater on an Aerobic Granular Sludge System]. Sludge returned from the secondary sedimentation tank of a sewage treatment plant is inoculated into two sequencing batch reactors (SBR):R1 and R2. Simulated wastewater and actual domestic sewage are used as the influents ...
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[Accidental localized vaccinia. A report of six recent cases (author's transl)]. Vaccination against smallpox should be discontinued in all countries except for individuals with a high risk of exposure (WHO, 1980). Since this vaccination is performed less and less often, one must expect complications to occur, the etio...
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Effects of spatial planning on future flood risks in urban environments. Urban development may increase the risk of future floods because of local changes in hydrological conditions and an increase in flood exposure that arises from an increasing population and expanding infrastructure within flood-prone zones. Existin...
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Clinical relevance of antigen spreading pattern induced by CHP-MAGE-A4 cancer vaccination. To investigate the antigen spreading pattern in the CHP-MAGE-A4-vaccinated patients and analyze the clinical relevance of antigen spreading pattern as a surrogate marker of patient survival. 12 patients who had been injected with...
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Diagnosis of Crohn's disease. A study has been made of diagnostic errors and delays in 140 patients with Crohn's disease. Results were correlated with the site of the disease. Only 13% of patients with small-bowel disease and 21% of the group as a whole were correctly diagnosed after initial investigation. A large numb...
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Protein Z circulates in plasma in a complex with protein Z-dependent protease inhibitor. Protein Z (PZ) is a vitamin K-dependent plasma protein that forms a Ca++-dependent complex with factor Xa at phospholipid surfaces. This interaction between PZ and factor Xa enhances by >1,000-fold the inhibition of factor Xa by th...
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Multilayer Charged Structures in Nonpolar Dielectric Liquids. Theory of the multilayer charged structures adjacent to an electrode surface in nonpolar dielectric liquids with low conductivity under the action of an electric field is developed. Structures of this kind have been revealed by the probe measurements of the ...
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Lung transplantation for advanced cystic lung disease due to nonamyloid kappa light chain deposits. Cystic lung light chain deposition disease (LCDD) is a severe and rare form of nonamyloid kappa light chain deposits localized in the lung, potentially leading to end-stage respiratory insufficiency. To assess the outcom...
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The buccal fat pad in the closure of oro-antral communications: an illustrated guide. This article is intended as an illustrated, step-by-step guide in the use of the pedicled buccal fat pad in the closure of oro-antral communications. The advantages and disadvantages of its use are discussed, along with its basic anat...
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Molecular characterisation of resistance to ALS-inhibiting herbicides in Hordeum leporinum biotypes. The acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicide sulfosulfuron is registered in Australia for the selective control of Hordeum leporinum Link. in wheat crops. This herbicide failed to control H. leporinum on two far...
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Improved method for the identification of the fluoride-resistant plasmacholinesterase genotypes. This investigation was prompted by the findings that (1) dibucaine-resistant homozygotes and heterozygotes for plasmacholinesterase also exhibit resistance to fluoride inhibition, (2) the differentiation of dibucaine-resist...
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[Hygienic assessment of the organization of teaching of lower classes during a 5-day school week]. Hygienic assessment of teaching conditions and ability to work of pupils in primary school under five day a week education were studied. Significant "physiological cost" of teaching and difficulties in adaptation of pupil...
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Long-term survivors after pancreatectomy for cancer: the TNM classification is outdated. According to knowledge, patients with resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PA) should receive adjuvant gemcitabine-based chemotherapy. Thus, the tumour node metastasis (TNM) classification is not used to determine post-operative t...
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When conditioned responses "fire back": bidirectional cross-activation creates learning opportunities in synesthesia. In grapheme-color synesthesia, the letter "c" printed in black may be experienced as red, but typically the color red does not trigger the experience of the letter "c." Therefore, at the level of subjec...
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Mesenchyme remaining in human temporal bones. This study was conducted in order to gain basic information about mesenchyme remaining in the middle ear cleft in normal infants. Because no previous report has objectively described the quantity or quality of such postnatal remnants in normal infants, it has not been possi...
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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for sub-specific differentiation of Serpulina pilosicoli (formerly 'Anguillina coli'). Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was developed for subspecific differentiation of Serpulina pilosicoli, and was applied to 52 isolates recovered from cases of intestinal spirochaetosis (IS) in ...
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Choose a diet that is low in saturated fat and cholesterol and moderate in total fat: subtle changes to a familiar message. "Choose a diet that is low in saturated fat and cholesterol and moderate in total fat," issued in Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans in the year 2000, has an interesting a...
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Insulin secretory capacity in newly diagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetics. Plasma insulin was measured fasting and after iv glucose in fifteen newly diagnosed non-grossly obese non-insulin dependent diabetics. Two-thirds had normal fasting insulin (less than 13 mU/L) and all had sub-normal responses to iv glucose. ...
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Risk factors for diabetic retinopathy in the Cree of James Bay. The purpose of this project was to evaluate risk factors for diabetic retinopathy in the Cree population of James Bay, Ontario. A retrospective cohort design was employed. The cohort was made up of all known individuals who had previously been diagnosed wi...
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Suitable microscopic entropy for the origin of microbial life: microbiological methods are challenges. A hypothesis is proposed that the first living microbial cell(s) on Earth assembled about 3.6-4 billion years ago when an environmental microscopic entropy (balance between order and disorder; suitable amount of rando...
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Infrared spectrum of the complex of formaldehyde with carbon dioxide in argon and nitrogen matrices. The complex of formaldehyde with carbon dioxide has been studied by infrared spectroscopy in argon and nitrogen matrices. The shifts relative to the free species show that the complex is weak and similar in argon and ni...
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[Povidone-iodine for treatment of adenoviral conjunctivitis: an in vitro study]. Adenoviral conjunctivitis causes high socioeconomic costs due to high contagiousness and therefore the need for extended quarantine. To date the only potentially active, topical antiviral agent is povidone-iodine (PVI). The aim of this stu...
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A retrospective comparison of three sequential groups of patients with Recurrent/Refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia treated with fludarabine-based regimens. Combining therapeutics with single-agent activity has improved treatment for patients with many malignancies. Debate continues about the impact of treatment o...
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Pharmacotherapy in Acutely Anemic Jehovah's Witnesses: An Evidence-Based Review. To determine the pharmacological treatment methods available to anemic Jehovah's Witnesses (JW). MEDLINE and PubMed were searched from inception through February 2018 using the search terms Jehovah's Witnesses, treatment, erythropoietin, h...
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SPECT in asymptomatic diabetics with and without microalbuminuria. To identify coronary artery disease (CAD) in asymptomatic diabetics with the help of myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (MPS), a non-invasive imaging modality and its correlation in diabetics with or without microalbuminuria...
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Ischemia-reperfusion-induced cardiac injury: a brief review. Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury is the primary contributor to the morbidity and mortality associated with coronary artery disease. Depending on the duration of ischemia, three levels of IR-induced cardiac injury have been identified. The cellular ...
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[Therapeutic efficacy of nootropil different doses in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder]. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common cause of behavioral and learning problems in childhood. Therapeutic efficiency of nootropil (piracetam) in two different doses has been evaluated in the ope...
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Salvage chemotherapy with CPT-11 for recurrent temozolomide-refractory anaplastic astrocytoma. The primary objective of this prospective phase 2 study of CPT-11 in adult patients with recurrent temozolomide-refractory anaplastic astrocytoma (AA) was to evaluate 6-month progression-free survival (PFS). Forty patients (2...
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A mixed methods study of emotional exhaustion: Energizing and depleting work within an innovative healthcare team. This mixed methods study documents emotional exhaustion experiences among care team members during the development of an innovative team approach for caring for adults with serious illness. A mixed methods...
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Blood flow estimation error with intravascular ultrasound due to in-plane component of flow. Previously, we presented a real-time method to measure blood flow perpendicular to the image plane of an intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging system using a slow-time FIR (finite impulse response) filter bank. Any in-plane f...
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Programmable Metal/Semiconductor Nanostructures for mRNA-Modulated Molecular Delivery. Cytotoxic chemotherapeutics are important tools for the clinical treatment of a variety of solid tumors. However, their use is often complicated by multidrug resistance that can develop in patients, limiting the potencies of these ag...
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The acquired vitamin K-dependent gamma-carboxylation deficiency in hepatocellular carcinoma involves not only prothrombin, but also protein C. Protein C, one of the vitamin K-dependent plasma proteins synthesized in the liver, was measured immunologically in normal subjects (n = 20), patients with hepatocellular carcin...
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Characterization and deep sequencing analysis of exosomal and non-exosomal miRNA in human urine. Micro RNAs (miRNAs) have been shown to circulate in biological fluids and are enclosed in vesicles such as exosomes; they are present in urine and represent a noninvasive methodology to detect biomarkers for diagnostic test...
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Assessment of changes in coagulation in parturients with preeclampsia using thromboelastography. Preeclampsia is associated with a risk of abnormal hemostasis that occurs most commonly secondary to thrombocytopenia. Thromboelastography measures whole blood coagulation and has been used to manage coagulation defects in ...
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Outcome of microsurgical testicular sperm extraction in familial idiopathic nonobstructive azoospermia. The aim of the study was to evaluate the sperm retrieval rate by microsurgical testicular sperm extraction (TESE) in familial idiopathic nonobstructive azoospermia (NOA). One hundred and nineteen patients with idiopa...
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The role of elective neck dissection for cT4aN0 glottic squamous cell carcinoma. The indication for elective neck dissection for patients with clinically T4aN0 (cT4aN0) glottic cancer is not established. The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of elective neck dissection for patients with cT4aN0 glottic ca...
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Microwave loss in the high-performance dielectric Ba(Zn1/3Ta2/3)O3 at 4.2 K. Temperature- and magnetic-field-dependent measurements of the loss tangent in Ba(Zn(1/3)Ta(2/3))O(3) doped with transition metals (Mn, Ni) are compared to those from samples doped with other impurities (Cd, Ga, Mg, and Zr). These results, comb...
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Ceramic materials more durable, suitable for fixed prosthetics. The practice of dentistry progressed with the recent developments and innovations in dental materials. The clinicians need to be familiar with these materials to successfully incorporate them in their practices. Fixed prosthodontics has assumed a growing r...
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Effect of steam explosion treatment on barley bran phenolic compounds and antioxidant capacity. A steam explosion pretreatment process followed by methanol extraction has been applied for releasing and extracting phenolic compounds, as well as other effective components, from barley bran. The steam explosion treatment ...
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Preparation of TiO2 thin films using water-soluble titanium complexes and their photoinduced properties. Titanium dioxide thin films were prepared by using four water-soluble titanium complexes of titanium-lactate, tartalate, malate and salicylate complex solutions. The crystalline phases detected in the films were ana...
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Bronchoscopic advances: on the way to the cells. In the past 15 years, new endoscopic methods have been developed in order to improve the detection of early bronchial cancers, with autofluorescence bronchoscopy being the leading technique. However, autofluorescence bronchoscopy is hampered by the low specificity of the...
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Allergies in patients with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge syndrome/velocardiofacial syndrome) and patients with chronic granulomatous disease. Humoral immunodeficiencies have a recognized association with atopy. This study investigated the association of a T-cell disorder (chromosome 22q11.2 deletion) a...
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Synthesis and in vitro evaluation of novel 1,2,4-triazine derivatives as neuroprotective agents. The role of novel triazine derivatives against oxidative stress exerted by hydrogen peroxide on differentiated rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cell line was examined and a consistent protection from H(2)O(2)-induced cell death,...
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Sequence dependence for the energetics of dangling ends and terminal base pairs in ribonucleic acid. Stability increments of terminal unpaired nucleotides (dangling ends) and terminal base pairs on the core helixes AUGCAU and UGCGCA are reported. Enthalpy, entropy, and free energy changes of helix formation were measur...
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Reply to Johnson et al. Regarding Optimizing Selection of Biologics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Development of an Online Patient Decision Aid Using Conjoint Analysis.
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Preoperative strategies to assess cardiac risk before noncardiac surgery. The strategies recommended in the preoperative cardiac risk assessment prior to major vascular and nonvascular surgery are reviewed. The role of clinical evaluation, noninvasive stress testing (exercise test, stress myocardial perfusion imaging, ...
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Relational autonomy or undue pressure? Family's role in medical decision-making. The intertwining ideas of self-determination and well-being have received tremendous support in western bioethics. They have been used to reject medical paternalism and to justify patients' rights to give informed consent (or refusal) and ...
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alpha-crystallin stabilizes actin filaments and prevents cytochalasin-induced depolymerization in a phosphorylation-dependent manner. alpha-crystallin, a major lens protein of approximately 800 kDa with subunits of about 20 kDa has previously been shown to act as a chaperone protecting other proteins from stress-induce...
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Preoperative metoprolol improves cardiovascular stability and reduces oxygen consumption after thoracotomy. Increased sympathetic activity perioperatively and associated cardiovascular effects play a central role in cardiovascular complications. High thoracic epidural blockade attenuates the sympathetic response, but e...
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Neurofibromatosis 2 tumor suppressor protein colocalizes with ezrin and CD44 and associates with actin-containing cytoskeleton. Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) protein (merlin; schwannomin) is a tumor suppressor involved in tumorigenesis of NF2-associated and sporadic schwannomas and meningiomas. The protein shares the domai...
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Clinicopathological characteristics of primary lung adenocarcinoma predominantly composed of goblet cells in surgically resected cases. Primary lung adenocarcinomas predominantly composed of goblet cells (APGC) are relatively rare, and the clinicopathological characteristics have remained unclear. The aim of this study...
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Group dialectical behavior therapy adapted for obese emotional eaters; a pilot study. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has been shown to effectively target binge eating disorder (BED). This study pilots the effectiveness of group DBT for obese "emotional eaters" to reduce eating psychopathology and achieve weight mai...
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Pancreatic primary lymphoma: a case report and review of the literature. Primary pancreatic lymphoma is a rare but treatable malignancy (less than 1% of pancreatic tumors) that may be clinically confused with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. In a patient with upper abdominal pain, ultrasonography and CT detected a mass in pa...
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Retrieval of a broken needle in the pterygomandibular space. Dental needle breakage can be a devastating experience for both practitioners and patients. The authors describe the surgical management for localizing a broken dental needle in the pterygomandibular space and how to prevent needle breakage. The authors prese...
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Expression analysis of a family of developmentally-regulated cytosolic sulfotransferases (SULTs) in Drosophila. We have compared the amino acid sequence of all four cytosolic sulfotransferases (SULTs) in Drosophila and analyzed their spatial expression patterns during development. Three out of four SULTs show distinct ...
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MiR-200c inhibits metastasis of breast tumor via the downregulation of Foxf2. The forkhead box F2 (Foxf2) gene suppresses epithelial-mesenchymal transition via the modulation of transcription of zinc finger E-box-binding homeobox 1 (Zeb1) and epithelial (E)-cadherin, thereby inhibiting tumor metastasis. Additionally, t...
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Paleoparasitological finding of eggs of nematodes in rodent coprolites dated at the early Holocene from the archaeological site Cerro Casa de Piedra 7, Santa Cruz, Argentina. The aim of the present study was to examine the parasite remains present in rodent coprolites collected from the archaeological site Cerro Casa d...
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Effects of a process-based cognitive training intervention for patients with stress-related exhaustion. Stress-related exhaustion has been linked to a pattern of selective cognitive impairments, mainly affecting executive functioning, attention and episodic memory. Little is known about potential treatments of these co...
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A review of nanoparticle photosensitizer drug delivery uptake systems for photodynamic treatment of lung cancer. Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide and so current research is focused on trying to improve treatment modalities, such as photodynamic therapy (PDT). PDT has 3 fundamental facto...
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Cytological evaluation of the tissue-implant reaction associated with S/C and I/P implantation of ALCAP and HA bioceramics in vivo. It is well documented that several ceramic materials are highly compatible and non-immunogenic with host tissues. Recent studies have demonstrated the need for further investigation of the...
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Effect of the sulphonylurea glibenclamide on liver and kidney antioxidant enzymes in streptozocin-induced diabetic rats. Alterations in catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity have been reported in diabetes mellitus. Glibenclamide (glyburide), a member of the second-generation sulphonylureas, provides ef...
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Extended C-terminal tail of wheat histone H2A interacts with DNA of the "linker" region. The preparation of hybrid histone octamers with wheat histone H2A variants replacing chicken H2A in the chicken octamer is described. The fidelity of the reconstituted hybrid octamers was confirmed by dimethyl suberimidate cross-li...
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Effects of accelerating voltage and specimen thickness on the spatial resolution of transmission electron backscatter diffraction in Cu. A quantitative approach was proposed to determine the spatial resolution of transmission electron backscatter diffraction (t-EBSD) and to understand the limits of spatial resolution o...
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Relation between interfacial separation and load: a general theory of contact mechanics. I study the contact between a rigid solid with a randomly rough surface and an elastic block with a flat surface. I derive a relation between the (average) interfacial separation u and the applied normal squeezing pressure p. I sho...
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DNA damage response: multilevel proteomics gains momentum. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Beli et al. (2012) introduce a multilevel proteomics approach for parallel quantification of protein phosphorylation, acetylation, and abundance and apply this to the complex signaling network of the DNA damage response.
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Next-generation sequencing and its application in diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa. Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a major cause of heritable human blindness with a high genetic heterogeneity. It is characterized by the initial degeneration of rod photoreceptors followed by cone photoreceptors. RP is also a prominent re...
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[Usefulness of preoperative location tests in primary hyperparathyroidism]. The utility of preoperative parathyroid location in primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) remains controversial. In this retrospective study are analysed noninvasive techniques prior to surgical neck exploration of 11 patients with pHPT, ten adeno...
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Influence of the beam profile crosslinking setting on changes in corneal topography and tomography in progressive keratoconus: Preliminary results. To evaluate the effect of accelerated corneal crosslinking (CXL) with a "higher peripheral intensity" profile setting compared with a standard "top hat" profile setting per...
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Pertussis toxin treatment counteracts intramembrane interactions between neuropeptide Y receptors and alpha 2-adrenoceptors. The effect of intracerebroventricular injections of pertussis toxin were investigated on the neuropeptide Y-induced modulation of alpha 2-adrenoceptor binding in membranes from the dorsomedial me...
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Association of an SNP with intrathymic transcription of TSHR and Graves' disease: a role for defective thymic tolerance. Graves' disease (GD) is the paradigm of an anti-receptor autoimmune disease, with agonistic auto-antibodies against the thyrotropin receptor (TSHR-thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor) being the unde...
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[The effectiveness of angiotensin II antagonist on experimental pulmonary embolism--comparison of propranolol with prostaglandin F2 alpha]. We studied the effects of angiotensin II (A-II) antagonist, propranolol and prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha) on arterial hypoxemia after injecting autologous muscle to induce ma...
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The chorda center in Hensen's node of the chick embryo. To learn the origin and early migration of notochordal cells in the chick embryo, tritiated thymidine-labeled grafts were implanted into homologous positions in Hensen's node of recipient embryos at homologous stages of development. The host embryos were reincubat...
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Preferential incorporation of sn-2 lysoPC DHA over unesterified DHA in the young rat brain. The uptake and metabolism of [3H]docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) esterified at the sn-2 position of lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC DHA) and in the unesterified form, both bound to albumin, was studied in 20-day-old rats. LysoPC DHA ...
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Effects of sedation, anesthesia, and endotracheal intubation on respiratory mechanics in adult horses. To determine the effects of endotracheal intubation on respiratory mechanics during xylazine sedation and xylazine-diazepam-ketamine anesthesia in adult horses. 5 healthy adult horses. Measurements were derived from r...
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