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Microbial communities inhabiting the fairy ring of Floccularia luteovirens and isolation of potential mycorrhiza helper bacteria. Floccularia luteovirens, an important edible mushroom widely distributed in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, is ecologically important as an ectomycorrhizal fungus and can form the fairy ring. To ...
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New evidence of red blood cell rheological disorders in beta-thalassaemia minor. Haemorheological parameters, such as red blood cell deformability, membrane elastic modulus and membrane surface viscosity in twenty one thalassaemia heterozygous patients (14 beta0/beta and 7 beta+/beta) were compared with normal individu...
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[Cleaniness and hygiene from infancy to adolescence in Karabuk, Safranbolu, Eflani and Eskipazar]. This paper on cleanliness and hygiene from infancy to adolescence is obtained from knowledge collected by means of an interview with women and men informed on the subject. This research is consisted of four main chapters:...
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Control of neuronal gene expression. Some 30,000 genes are expressed exclusively in the rat brain, many of which contain a genetic element called an identifier sequence located in at least one of their introns. The identifier sequences are transcribed by RNA polymerase III exclusively in neurons to produce two RNA spec...
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Promising strategies for obesity pharmacotherapy: melanocortin-4 (MC-4) receptor agonists and melanin concentrating hormone (MCH) receptor-1 antagonists. Despite remarkable progress in the elucidation of energy balance and regulation, the development of new anti-obesity drugs is still at the stage of infancy. Herein we...
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Citrate versus unfractionated heparin for anticoagulation in continuous renal replacement therapy. Unfractionated heparin is the most commonly used anticoagulant in continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), but it can increase the risk of bleeding. Citrate is a promising substitute. Our study was to assess the effic...
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Prevention of and treatment for hepatitis B virus infection after liver transplantation in the nucleoside analogues era. Post-transplant prophylaxis with hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) has significantly reduced hepatitis B virus (HBV) recurrence rates, but it is rather ineffective in patients with pretransplant vir...
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Unravelling early events in the Taphrina deformans-Prunus persica interaction: an insight into the differential responses in resistant and susceptible genotypes. Leaf peach curl is a devastating disease affecting leaves, flowers and fruits, caused by the dimorphic fungus Taphrina deformans. To gain insight into the mec...
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Is LARC for Everyone? A Qualitative Study of Sociocultural Perceptions of Family Planning and Contraception Among Refugees in Ethiopia. Objective Ethiopia is home to an increasingly large refugee population. Reproductive health care is a critical issue for these groups because refugee women are at high risk for unmet f...
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[Expression of CD117, MITF and NAT10 and their prognostic values in sinonasal mucosal melanoma]. Objective: To investigate the correlation between the expression of CD117, MITF, NAT10 and clinical parameters in sinonasal mucosal melanoma (SNMM). Methods: Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor specimens of 80 cases of S...
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Iron-catalysed transformation of molecular dinitrogen into silylamine under ambient conditions. Although stoichiometric transformations using transition metal-N(2) complexes have been well investigated towards the goal of nitrogen fixation under mild reaction conditions, only a few examples of the catalytic transformat...
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The hazard of the unrestrained occupant. A review of 208 cases involving injuries sustained by vehicle occupants was extracted from the computer storage at the Highway Safety Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition, 157 new car crashes investigated by the authors were separately analyzed. Dat...
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Analysis of the origins of black carbon and carbon monoxide transported to Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei in China. A novel back-trajectory approach was adopted to determine the origins of black carbon (BC) and carbon monoxide (CO) transported to Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. Results showed that the transport efficiency was...
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Anesthesia and epidermolysis bullosa. Patients with epidermolysis bullosa (EB) may present for anesthesia with an unrelated surgical condition or, more commonly, for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Children in particular may require frequent anesthetics. Safe and effective management of anesthesia presents a sign...
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[Comparative study of the state of health and nutrition of young children from rural and urban areas of the Uzbek SSR]. The study of the physical development including caliperometric investigations was conducted in 2620 infants. The food ingredients and caloric content were studied in the daily ration of 267 infants wi...
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Use of nutritional supplements among Mexican women and the estimated impact on dietary intakes below the EAR and above the UL. To describe supplement use practices among non-pregnant, non-lactating Mexican women (12-49 y) and estimate their impact on the proportion of women with intakes below the Estimated Average Requ...
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Potent and selective Kunitz domain inhibitors of plasma kallikrein designed by phage display. Phage displaying APPI Kunitz domain libraries have been used to design potent and selective active site inhibitors of human plasma kallikrein, a serine protease that plays an important role in both inflammation and coagulation...
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Effects of digitalis on atrial vulnerability. The effects of digitalis on vulnerability to atrial fibrillation and flutter were assessed in man, using the model of repetitive atrial firing initiated by post-drive atrial extrastimulation. Nine patients without heart failure or significant mitral valve disease were teste...
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Behavioural phenotype of a patient with a de novo 1.2 Mb chromosome 4q25 microdeletion. A female patient, 20 years of age, is reported with a history characterized by developmental and psychomotor delay, and during grammar-school period increasing learning problems, ritualistic behaviours and social withdrawal. Subsequ...
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Modelling of the temporal indoor radon variation in Bulgaria. In this study, temporal variations of indoor radon concentrations in Bulgaria were investigated. The radon concentrations were measured by nuclear track detectors as part of the Bulgarian National Survey, performed in the dwellings of 28 regional districts. ...
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Supervising family therapy trainees in primary care medical settings: context matters. The purpose of this article is to identify and describe four essential skills for effective supervision of family therapy trainees in primary care medical settings. The supervision skills described include: (1) Understand medical cul...
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[Absence of echoviral RNA sequences in medulla oblongata samples taken from patients who died of ALS]. The role of viral infection in the pathogenesis of ALS has been raised many times in the previous papers. The presence of an enterovirus genome has previously been confirmed using PCR RT and PCR in situ in spinal cord...
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Development and validation of a bioanalytical method using automated solid-phase extraction and LC-UV for the simultaneous determination of lumefantrine and its desbutyl metabolite in plasma. A bioanalytical method for the determination of lumefantrine (LF) and its metabolite desbutyl-lumefantrine (DLF) in plasma by so...
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[Evaluation of patients with below knee amputation with respect to postoperative prosthesis fitting]. A follow-up of 78 patients who underwent amputations just below the knee at Herlev University Hospital in the county of Copenhagen during the period 1985-88 is reported. The examination was carried out at an average of...
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CDKN2A germline mutations in U.K. patients with familial melanoma and multiple primary melanomas. We report six of 16 U.K. melanoma families and two of 17 patients with multiple primary melanomas and a negative family history who have between them four different functionally damaging mutations of the CDKN2A (p16) gene:...
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Essential ECG clues in patients with congenital heart disease and arrhythmias. The prevalence of adults with congenital heart disease has dramatically increased during the last decades due to significant advances in the surgical correction of these conditions. As a result, patient's survival has been prolonged and arrh...
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Further characterization of the interaction of histidine-rich glycoprotein with heparin: evidence for the binding of two molecules of histidine-rich glycoprotein by high molecular weight heparin and for the involvement of histidine residues in heparin binding. Rabbit histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG, 94 kDa) binds hepa...
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Impact of bullying due to dentofacial features on oral health-related quality of life. The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a relationship between self-reported bullying because of dentofacial features and oral health-related quality of life among a representative sample of Jordanian schoolchildren...
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SU-E-T-155: Dose Response Curve of EBT2 and EBT3 Radiochromic Films to a Synchrotron-Produced Monochromatic X-Ray Beam. This work investigates the dose-response curves of Gafchromic EBT2 and EBT3 radiochromic films using synchrotron-produced monochromatic x-ray beams. These dosimeters are being utilized for dose verifi...
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Regulating the licensing of DNA replication origins in metazoa. Eukaryotic DNA replication is a highly conserved process; the proteins and sequence of events that replicate animal genomes are remarkably similar to those that replicate yeast genomes. Moreover, the assembly of prereplication complexes at DNA replication ...
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Ethylene glycol or methanol intoxication: which antidote should be used, fomepizole or ethanol? Ethylene glycol (EG) and methanol poisoning can cause life-threatening complications. Toxicity of EG and methanol is related to the production of toxic metabolites by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), which can lead to...
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A cloud based architecture to support Electronic Health Record. We introduce a novel framework of electronic healthcare enabled by a Cloud platform able to host both Hospital Information Systems (HIS) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems and implement an innovative model of Electronic Health Record (EHR) that is...
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Cardiac sarcoidosis and coronary artery disease: a two-hit mechanism to left ventricular dysfunction (or is it)? This report describes a case of cardiac sarcoidosis in a 40-year-old man with minimal risk factors for coronary artery disease who was found to have a critical coronary lesion on angiography performed for de...
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Respiratory distress syndrome. Increasing knowledge of the pathophysiology of respiratory distress syndrome has led to improvements in clinical management. Future advances in prevention and therapy, including administration of agents to prevent prematurity or to accelerate lung maturation, provision of surfactant repla...
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Interlimb coordination in cat locomotion investigated with perturbation. I. Behavioral and electromyographic study on symmetric limbs of decerebrate and awake walking cats. During locomotion of decerebrate and awake walking cats, perturbation (mechanical tap) was applied to the paw dorsum of the left forelimb (LF), and...
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Assessment of DNA strand breakage by the alkaline COMET assay in dialysis patients and the role of Vitamin E supplementation. Although the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in chronic renal failure (CRF) is not definitely demonstrated, a consistent number of observations has provided evidence for the presence of ox...
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Pulmonary stenosis and severe biventricular dysfunction: improvement following percutaneous valvuloplasty. A 15-year-old boy with severe pulmonary stenosis associated with severe right and left ventricular systolic dysfunction is reported. After successful percutaneous pulmonary valvuloplasty, there was an initial and ...
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[Fundamentals and results of cytostatic chemotherapy in some of the most common solid tumors]. In this review we discuss established cytostatic chemotherapies as well as developments and perspectives for the three most common tumour entities. Adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy models for primary breast cancer are discuss...
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Second meal effect: modified sham feeding does not provoke the release of stored triacylglycerol from a previous high-fat meal. The present study was carried out to determine whether cephalic stimulation, associated with eating a meal, was sufficient stimulus to provoke the release of stored triacylglycerol (TAG) from ...
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Delayed visual maturation in otherwise normal infants. Children may present in early infancy for evaluation of decreased visual responsiveness. Most such infants have systemic or ocular abnormalities that explain their poor fixation and tracking. Some infants, however, have no other medical or ocular problems. This stu...
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Revisiting Incentive-Based Contracts. Incentive-based pay is rational, intuitive, and popular. Agency theory tells us that a principal seeking to align its incentives with an agent's should be able to simply pay the agent to achieve the principal's desired results. Indeed, this strategy has long been used across divers...
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Effect of haloperidol and risperidone on amyloid precursor protein levels in vivo. The neurotoxic beta-amyloid peptide of Alzheimer's disease is formed from the amyloid precursor protein (APP), which is a member of an evolutionarily highly conserved gene family with significant functional importance. Because behavioral...
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Head-shaking nystagmus (HSN): the theoretical explanation and the experimental proof. Head-shaking nystagmus (HSN) is induced by oscillating the head at high frequency in the horizontal plane. This test is used in the clinic to detect the presence of a unilateral loss of vestibular function. HSN has been described as m...
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A cognitive-behavioral treatment for depression in rural American Indian middle school students. Rural American Indian (AI) middle school students with depressive symptoms who participated in a culturally modified version of the Adolescent Coping with Depression (CWD-A) course (n = 8) reported significant improvement i...
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Delineation of a cellular hierarchy in lung cancer reveals an oncofetal antigen expressed on tumor-initiating cells. Poorly differentiated tumors in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have been associated with shorter patient survival and shorter time to recurrence following treatment. Here, we integrate multiple exper...
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Metastatic pulmonary adenocarcinoma 13 years after curative resection for pancreatic cancer: report of a case and review of Japanese literature. For the majority of patients, ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas remains a lethal disease. Currently, surgical extirpation for localized disease offers the only chance for ...
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Accessibility of a critical prion protein region involved in strain recognition and its implications for the early detection of prions. Human prion diseases are characterized by the accumulation in the brain of proteinase K (PK)-resistant prion protein designated PrP27 - 30 detectable by the 3F4 antibody against human ...
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Toward Enediyne Mimics: Methanolysis of Azoesters and a Bisazoester. Enediyne anticancer antibiotics have attracted tremendous interest in the past decade. The inherent difficulty in synthesizing these structurally complex natural products with the strained enediyne moiety has motivated a search for simpler molecules t...
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Predictive factors of outcome in patients transplanted for hepatitis B. This study aimed to (1) identify the variables that affect graft and patient survival in recipients transplanted for hepatitis B virus (HBV) disease; and (2) assess factors associated with an increased risk of graft cirrhosis at 5 years after liver...
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Raman crystal lasers in the visible and near-infrared. Raman lasers based on potassium gadolinium tungstate and lead tungstate crystals pumped by a to approximately 120 ps Nd: YAG laser at 1.064 microm were developed. High reflection mirrors for the Stokes wavelength have been used to generate near-infrared and eye saf...
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[An analysis by scanning electron microscopy and surface roughness meter of the impact of the CO2 laser on the dentin]. The aim of the study was to compare the morphology of craters produced on the dentinal surface by CO2 laser beams (LASERSAT CO2) before and after the removal of the carbonized layer, besides with diff...
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Maturational differences in hepatic microhemodynamics in rats. Age-related changes in the hepatic microcirculation may contribute to the increased susceptibility of the immature liver to microvascular injury. We quantified sinusoidal and acinar diameters, sinusoidal red cell velocities (VRBC), and sinusoidal volume flo...
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Detection and distribution patterns of telomerase activity in insects. Telomeres of most insects consist of pentanucleotide (TTAGG)n repeats, although the repeats are absent in Diptera and some other insect species, where the telomere regions are perhaps maintained without telomerase. To understand various and unusual ...
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Development of a species-specific isotope dilution GC-ICP-MS method for the determination of thiophene derivates in petroleum products. A species-specific isotope dilution technique for accurate determination of sulfur species in low- and high-boiling petroleum products was developed by coupling capillary gas chromatog...
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Contrasting parental perspectives with those of teenagers and young adults with cancer: comparing the findings from two qualitative studies. To compare and contrast the issues raised in narrative data gathered from parents of teenagers and young adults with cancer with interview data gathered from young adults being tr...
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Hyaluronic acid and Arg-Gly-Asp peptide modified Graphene oxide with dual receptor-targeting function for cancer therapy. Graphene oxide (GO) modified with hyaluronic acid (HA) and Arg-gly-asp peptide (RGD) was designed as a dual-receptor targeting drug delivery system to enhance the specificity and efficiency of antic...
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Signal transduction inhibitors, hibarimicins A, B, C, D and G produced by Microbispora. II. Structural studies. The structure of hibarimicins A, B, C, D and G which are inhibitors for tyrosine specific protein kinase are determined using spectroscopic techniques. Hibarimicins described in this report consist of a commo...
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Stimulating PACalpha increases miniature excitatory junction potential frequency at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction. Photoactivated adenylate cyclase alpha (PACalpha) is a light-activated adenylate cyclase that was originally cloned from the eye spot of the protozoan Euglena gracilis. PACalpha has been shown to r...
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[Insulin-heparin complex, its physiological properties]. An insulin-heparin complex was obtained in vitro. The hypoglycemic effect of insulin, included into this complex as compared with free insulin, was increased more than 2-fold when it was tested in animals with stable alloxane diabetes. Contrary to insulin, admini...
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Effect of postharvest storage on the expression of the apple allergen Mal d 1. Consumption of fresh apples can cause allergy in susceptible individuals. A competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has been developed to determine Mal d 1 levels in apple pulp using a monoclonal antibody (BIP-1). The ELISA was...
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[Study of the relationship between the trace element content and the physiological properties of Salmonella typhi during submerged cultivation]. The content of trace elements in the cells served as one of the characteristics of physiological condition of the population. The character of the changes in the trace element...
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Maturation-related changes in catecholamine-dependent cyclic AMP and protein kinase in the rabbit myocardium. It has been shown that the sensitivity to isoproterenol of myocardial inotropic response increases with growth in rabbits. In the present study we attempted to delineate the biochemical mechanisms involved in t...
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The psychopharmacology of aggressive behavior: a translational approach: part 1: neurobiology. Patients with mental disorders are at an elevated risk for developing aggressive behavior. In the last 19 years, the psychopharmacological treatment of aggression has changed dramatically because of the introduction of atypic...
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Transferrin, C3 complement, haptoglobin, plasminogen and alpha 2-microglobulin in patients with urogenital tumors. The serum levels of transferrin, haptoglobin, C3 proactivator, plasminogen and alpha 2-macroglobulin have been measured in patients suffering from urogenital cancer. In this randomized study, we found a fr...
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[Chemotherapy of elderly patients with colorectal cancer]. Elderly patients will be the largest group of oncology patients in the future. Because of minimal participation of older patients in randomized clinical trials there is a lack of evidence-based data to make correct decisions with regard to chemotherapy and/or t...
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Perceptions of hyperbaric oxygen therapy among podiatrists practicing in high-risk foot clinics. Foot ulceration is a devastating and costly consequence of diabetes. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is recognised as an adjunctive therapy to treat diabetes-related foot ulceration, yet uptake is low. Semi-structured interviews ...
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Entomological investigation of a sylvatic yellow fever area in São Paulo State, Brazil. Following reports of two autochthonous cases of sylvatic yellow fever in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2000, entomological surveys were conducted with the objective of verifying the occurrence of vector species in forest enviro...
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Regression of cardiac hypertrophy. Experimental animal model. Regression of cardiac hypertrophy has been proven to occur in experimental animals following some types of antihypertensive therapy. However, no direct and necessary correlation can be found between hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy. The effect of differe...
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Detection, Visualization, and Quantification of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) and NET Markers. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) have been identified as a key player in the pathogenesis of infection and inflammation in human and animals. On the one hand, NETs have been characterized as fundamental to the in...
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Methodological aspects of classifying low--and medium intensity of hyperostosis spongiosa orbitae. Low- and medium expressions of hyperostosis spongiosa orbitae are occurring rather frequently compared to strong or very strong ones, yet their notation and differentiation is sometimes rather difficult. By means of origi...
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Effect of partial release of the posterior cruciate ligament in total knee arthroplasty. Appropriate tension of the posterior cruciate ligament, which often is tight in deep flexion, is difficult to achieve after posterior cruciate ligament retaining total knee arthroplasty. Kinematics and maximum flexion after partial...
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Conformationally constrained analogues of diacylglycerol. 20. The search for an elusive binding site on protein kinase C through relocation of the carbonyl pharmacophore along the sn-1 side chain of 1,2-diacylglycerol lactones. Previous studies with 1,2-diacylglycerol (DAG) lactones, which behave as high-affinity ligan...
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Electrodermal responses in patients with unilateral brain damage. Skin conductance responses (SCR) to emotional and to nonemotional stimuli were measured in 16 right and 16 left unilateral brain-damaged patients. Replicating findings by Morrow, Vrtunski, Kim and Boller (1981), those patients with a lesion in the left h...
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Exercise capacity after lobectomy in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The aim of this study is to clarify whether patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) lose less exercise capacity after lobectomy than do those without COPD, to the same extent as ventilatory capacity and lobectom...
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[Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma]. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the skin accounts for 20 % of non-melanoma skin cancer and is one of the most frequent types of cancer in Caucasian populations. Diagnosis is based on the clinical features and should be histopathologically confirmed to adequately address the prognos...
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Exposure to bisphenol A from bis-glycidyl dimethacrylate-based dental sealants. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a common component of composites and dental sealants. The potential exists for human exposure after sealant placement. The authors prospectively enrolled 15 men in an exposure assessment study; 14 completed the study. A...
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Association of antiphospholipid antibodies with systemic lupus erythematosus in a child presenting with chorea: a case report. A 16-year-old girl, diagnosed 1 year previously as having Sydenham chorea, was found to have systemic lupus erythematosus according to the American Rheumatism Association criteria. She now pres...
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Neighbourhood income gradients in hospitalisations due to motor vehicle traffic incidents among Canadian children. To investigate income gradients in motor vehicle traffic injury hospitalisation for vehicle occupants and pedestrians/cyclists among children in urban and rural Canada. Four years (2001/02-2004/05) of acut...
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[Toxicological-hygienic assessment of the low-alcohol tonic (energizing) carbonated drinks]. The impact of the low-alcohol tonic (energizing) carbonated drinks on biochemical and hematological indices, on the functional state of the central nervous system and cardiovascular system was studied within the experiment over...
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Genes associated to lactose metabolism illustrate the high diversity of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum. The dairy population of Carnobacterium maltaromaticum is characterized by a high diversity suggesting a high diversity of the genetic traits linked to the dairy process. As lactose is the main carbon source in milk, t...
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Short cardiac iodine-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging protocol in heart failure. For assessment of cardiac sympathetic nervous activity, the conventional protocol for iodine-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine ((123)I-MIBG) imaging requires several hours. To establish whether it is possible to shorten the conventional (123)...
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Metal assisted catalyzed etched (MACE) black Si: optics and device physics. Metal-assisted catalyzed etching (MACE) of silicon (Si) is a controllable, room-temperature wet-chemical technique that uses a thin layer of metal to etch the surface of Si, leaving behind various nano- and micro-scale surface features, includi...
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[Quantitative analysis in nuclear nephrourology: clearance, uptake and transit time]. Radionuclide renal study is only a method that can provide anatomical as well as functional information on the kidney. There have been many reports on quantification of the renal function using radionuclides. They are summarized to tw...
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Modulation of swimming behavior in the medicinal leech. I. Effects of serotonin on the electrical properties of swim-gating cell 204. The effects of serotonin on the electrical properties of swim-gating neurons (cell 204) were examined in leech (Hirudo medicinalis) nerve cords. Exposure to serotonin decreased the thres...
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Identification of a 3-gene model as a powerful diagnostic tool for the recognition of ALK-negative anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Anaplastic large-cell lymphomas (ALCLs) are a group of clinically and biologically heterogeneous diseases including the ALK(+) and ALK(-) systemic forms. Whereas ALK(+) ALCLs are molecularl...
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A Review of Regulations Applied to Spices, Herbs, and Flavorings-What Has Changed? A review of the world-wide regulations pertaining to spices, extracts, and flavorings. The areas covered include (1) guidance documents from trade organizations as well as international and regional regulatory bodies, (2) decontamination...
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Fat cell invasion in long-term denervated skeletal muscle. There are several differences between red and white muscles submitted to different experimental conditions, especially following denervation: a) denervation atrophy is more pronounced in red than white muscles; b) the size of the fibers in the red muscles does ...
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Biorhythms and possible central regulation of magnesium status, phototherapy, darkness therapy and chronopathological forms of magnesium depletion. Biological clock and magnesium status are linked. Central magnesium regulation may be hypothetized. Balanced magnesium status is requested to obtain efficiency of suprachia...
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Sleeping money: investigating the huge surpluses of social health insurance in China. The spreading of social health insurance (SHI) worldwide poses challenges for fledging public administrators. Inefficiency, misuse and even corruption threaten the stewardship of those newly established health funds. This article exam...
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Status of antioxidant systems in human carcinoma of uterine cervix. Lipid peroxides, glutathione content and the activities of antioxidant enzymes were estimated in patients who had carcinoma of the uterine cervix, and the values were compared with those of normal. The results showed a remarkable reduction in glutathio...
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Oxidative stress in stable cystic fibrosis patients: do we need higher antioxidant plasma levels? Oxidative stress plays an important role in cystic fibrosis (CF). However, there is a lack of validated biomarkers of oxidative damage that correlate with the antioxidant needs of patients with CF. To investigate oxidative...
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The role of neopterin as a monitor of cellular immune activation in transplantation, inflammatory, infectious, and malignant diseases. The accumulated knowledge about the organization and function of the human immune system contributes to a better understanding of the pathogenesis of most diverse disorders and is openi...
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Socio-Economic Disparity is Not Linked to Outcome Following Heart Transplantation in New Zealand. Socio-economic deprivation (SED) is emerging as a risk factor for acute graft rejection (AR) and reduced survival of heart transplant (HT) recipients. The study aim was to evaluate any association between SED status of HT ...
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A randomized controlled trial of the NEAT expandable tip continence device. Urethral devices are one conservative management option for stress and mixed urinary incontinence, but there is little published data about their use. The aims of this study were to assess the safety and efficacy of a new urethral device (NEAT)...
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Short-chain fatty acid enemas fail to decrease colonic hypersensitivity and inflammation in TNBS-induced colonic inflammation in rats. Short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) (especially butyrate) enemas are widely used to reduce symptoms associated with human inflammatory bowel disease. The purpose of this study was to evaluate...
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Stripping voltammetry in environmental and food analysis. The review covers over 230 papers published mostly in the last 5 years. The goal of the review is to attract the attention of researchers and users to stripping voltammetry in particular, its application in environmental monitoring and analysis of foodstuffs. Th...
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Sacroiliac dysfunction in construction workers. In the literature of manual medicine the sacroiliac joint is widely accepted as a potential source of low back pain. On the other hand, some investigations have detected sacroiliac joint dysfunction without concomitant low back pain. The prevalence of sacroiliac dysfuncti...
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v-Src transformation is mediated through farnesylated proteins. Src is an oncoprotein which has been implicated in a number of human malignancies in which it has been shown to be overexpressed and highly activated. The precise mechanism of Src transformation, however, is still poorly understood. We hypothesized that Ra...
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Evolutionary implications of the frequent horizontal transfer of mismatch repair genes. Mutation and subsequent recombination events create genetic diversity, which is subjected to natural selection. Bacterial mismatch repair (MMR) deficient mutants, exhibiting high mutation and homologous recombination rates, are freq...
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[Distribution of admission costs]. This article is based on a system of information at hospital and departmental level (clinical-economical method of analysis). The method and its employment in planning adjustments to the increasing requirements have been reviewed in previous articles. The analysis may also be employed...
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