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The formation of cognitive maps of adjacent environments: evidence from the head direction cell system. In 2 experiments the authors tested whether the head direction (HD) cell system underlies a sense of direction maintained across environments. In Experiment 1, HD neurons failed to maintain their firing directions ac...
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77Se solid-state NMR of As2Se3, As4Se4 and As4Se3 crystals: a combined experimental and computational study. (77)Se NMR parameters for three prototypical crystalline compounds (As2Se3, As4Se4 and As4Se3) have been determined from solid-state NMR spectra in the framework of an investigation concerning AsxSe(1-x) glass s...
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Advances in drug metabolism screening. Developments in automation, analytical technologies and molecular biology are being exploited by drug metabolism scientists in order to provide enhanced in vitro systems for the study of the metabolic disposition of potential drug candidates. Routine investigation of factors such ...
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Analysis of the mechanism of the vasodepressor effect of urocortin in anesthetized rats. The aim was to examine if the depressor effect of urocortin involves activation of the nitric oxide (NO)/L-arginine pathway, production of prostanoids or opening of K(+)-channels. I. v. bolus urocortin (0.1-3 nmol/kg) dose-dependen...
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[The Etest--an alternative to the NCLLS standard for susceptibility testing of yeasts?]. The Etest and the NCCLS method are not much differing in respect to their reproducibility. Only single observations exist on the clinical correlation of both tests. The correlation between both tests are known as being dependent on...
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Putative risk factors for postoperative pneumonia which affects poor prognosis in patients with gastric cancer. Several recent studies identified that postoperative infectious complications contribute to recurrence and poor outcome in patients with gastric cancer. This study was designed to investigate the prognostic i...
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Interview with a quality leader: Dr. John Combes on boards and governance. Dr. Combes is senior vice president at the American Hospital Association (AHA) and president and COO of the Center for Healthcare Governance. The Interview with Dr. John Combes on Boards and Governance provides a perspective on key changes, issu...
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[Assessment of the new TNM classification for resected lung cancer]. To evaluate the revised TNM classification, we investigated the prognoses of 552 consecutive patients who had resection of non-small-cell lung cancer between April 1982 and March 1996. According to the new classification, the 5-year survival rate was ...
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Nine things to know about elicitins. 888 I. 888 II. 889 III. 889 IV. 889 V. 891 VI. 891 VII. 891 VIII. 892 IX. 892 X. 893 XI. 893 893 References 893 SUMMARY: Elicitins are structurally conserved extracellular proteins in Phytophthora and Pythium oomycete pathogen species. They were first described in the late 1980s as ...
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[Nutritional status of native and non-native population of Russia's Extreme North and Far East]. Daily diets studied in various groups of native and non-native population living in the Far North and East of Russia (Kamchatka, Chukotka, Sakhalin) are shown to be inadequate for the adult capable population. Chemical comp...
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Integration host factor (IHF) modulates the expression of the pyrimidine-specific promoter of the carAB operons of Escherichia coli K12 and Salmonella typhimurium LT2. We report the identification of Integration Host Factor (IHF) as a new element involved in modulation of P1, the upstream pyrimidine-specific promoter o...
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Cytotoxic analog of somatostatin containing methotrexate inhibits growth of MIA PaCa-2 human pancreatic cancer xenografts in nude mice. Nude mice bearing xenografts of MIA PaCa-2 human pancreatic cancer cell line were treated for 4 weeks with AN-51, a somatostatin octapeptide analog D-Phe-Cys-Tyr-D-Trp-Lys-Val-Cys-Thr-...
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Surveyor Nuclease: a new strategy for a rapid identification of heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA mutations in patients with respiratory chain defects. Molecular analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a critical step in diagnosis and genetic counseling of respiratory chain defects. No fast method is currently available...
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Finnish Fanconi anemia mutations and hereditary predisposition to breast and prostate cancer. Mutations in downstream Fanconi anemia (FA) pathway genes, BRCA2, PALB2, BRIP1 and RAD51C, explain part of the hereditary breast cancer susceptibility, but the contribution of other FA genes has remained questionable. Due to F...
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The physiological effects of vasopressin when used to control intra-abdominal bleeding. Vasopressin was used in ten critically ill patients with massive intra-abdominal bleeding unresponsive to conventional therapy. Vasopressin controlled bleeding in four patients, three of whom had continued to bleed following laparot...
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Molecular Engineering of Phenylbenzimidazole-Based Orange Ir(III) Phosphors toward High-Performance White OLEDs. To develop B-O complementary-color white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) exhibiting high efficiency and low roll-off as well as color stability simultaneously, we have designed two orange iridium(III)...
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Amino acid substitutions in mitochondrial ATPase subunit 9 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae leading to oligomycin or venturicidin resistance. A series of isonuclear oligomycin-resistant mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae carrying mutations in the mitochondrial oli1 gene has been studied. DNA sequence analysis of this gene ...
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[Posibility of term pregnancy in patients with chronic kidney disease]. Pregnancy is a physiological process that brings many changes to the mother's body, undergoing a process of adaptation to complications avoid, however, in the context of chronic kidney disease, these become manifest most frequently maternal and fet...
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Annual immunisation coverage report, 2010. This, the fourth annual immunisation coverage report, documents trends during 2010 for a range of standard measures derived from Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) data. These include coverage at standard age milestones and for individual vaccines included on th...
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Proctosigmoidoscopy and rectal biopsy in infants and children. The medical records of all patients ages 0 to 21 years who underwent proctosigmoidoscopy and/or rectal biopsy over a 27 month period of time were reviewed to determine the efficacy and safety of these procedures in pediatric patients. One hundred twenty-one...
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Electrostatic interactions between hyaluronan and proteins at pH 4: how do they modulate hyaluronidase activity. Hyaluronan (HA) hydrolysis catalyzed by hyaluronidase (HAase) is inhibited at low HAase over HA ratio and low ionic strength, because HA forms electrostatic complexes with HAase, which is unable to catalyze ...
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A nuclear overhauser study of heme orientational isomerism in monomeric Chironomus hemoglobins. The nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) was used to investigate heme orientation and to obtain assignments for all resolved resonances in the 1H-NMR spectrum of met-cyano Chironomus thummi thummi monomeric hemoglobins III and IV...
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Human immunodeficiency virus replication induces monocyte chemotactic protein-1 in human macrophages and U937 promonocytic cells. We have recently described a significant correlation between human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) RNA replication and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) levels in the cerebrospinal flu...
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Known risk factors do not explain disparities in gallstone prevalence between Denmark and northeast Germany. Gallstones are a common disease worldwide, with disparities in the prevalence of the disease in different settings. The aim of the present study was to assess if different distributions of risk factors could exp...
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The prevalence of frontotemporal dementia. To estimate the prevalence of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and other degenerative early-onset dementias in a geographically defined population. Early-onset dementia (at age <65 years) results in high psychiatric morbidity and caregiver burden. Prevalence figures are available...
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Outcomes of Patients Implanted Using a Left Thoracotomy Technique for a Miniaturized Centrifugal Continuous-Flow Pump. As ventricular-assist devices (VADs) are increasingly employed in heart failure management, a leading cause of mortality, new literature is consistently published on less-invasive implantation techniqu...
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Reconstruction of the maxilla and midface--surgical management, outcome, and prognostic factors. Loss of the maxilla due to tumor ablation has both functional and aesthetic consequences. Even small defects become obvious because of missing bone and soft tissue. Reconstruction of the maxilla and midface in these patient...
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Clinician compliance with laboratory regulations requiring submission of relevant clinical data: A one year retrospective analysis. The College of American Pathologists (CAP) recognizes the need for clinical data in the interpretation of specimens submitted for histopathologic evaluation. Anecdotal evidence indicates t...
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Poly(alkylcyanoacrylate) nanocapsules: physicochemical characterization and mechanism of formation. Nanocapsules of poly(isobutylcyanoacrylate) and poly(isohexylcyanoacrylate) were prepared by addition of the monomer to an organic phase and subsequent mixing of the organic phase to an aqueous phase containing poloxamer...
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Evaluation of cellular and humoral systemic immune response against Giardia duodenalis infection in cattle. Giardia duodenalis causes diarrhoea in humans and a wide range of mammals, including cattle. In cattle, the infection often has a chronic character. Infected calves may excrete cysts for several months, suggestin...
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Gas chromatographic evaluation of trapidil and its desethyl metabolite in biological fluids for pharmacokinetic and bioavailability investigations. This paper describes a suitable and cost-saving method for quantitative analysis of trapidil (5-methyl-7-diethylamino-s-triazolo [1,5-a]pyrimidine) and its desethyl metabol...
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TNF Block Gene Variants Associate With Pain Intensity in Black Southern Africans With HIV-associated Sensory Neuropathy. HIV-associated sensory neuropathy (HIV-SN) is a common neurological complication of HIV infection, and it is often painful. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α is implicated in neuropathic pain, but associ...
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Inhibition of glycoprotein catabolism in vivo and in the perfused rat liver. Leupeptin is a peptide which inhibits several of the lysosomal proteases. When this compound was added in low concentrations to a perfused liver, the degradation of 125I-asialo-fetuin by the liver was dramatically slowed. When 5 mg leupeptin w...
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Volatile and non-volatile/semi-volatile compounds and in vitro bioactive properties of Chilean Ulmo (Eucryphia cordifolia Cav.) honey. Ulmo honey originating from Eucryphia cordifolia tree, known locally in the Araucania region as the Ulmo tree is a natural product with valuable nutritional and medicinal qualities. It ...
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[Early parenteral nutrition in complex post-operative periods]. The protein hypercatabolic state in critically ill pediatric patients can be minimized by an effective nutrition therapy. We conducted a study to evaluate the benefits of early parenteral nutrition (EPN) assessing its effect on nutritional parameters and c...
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Structured white light scanning of rabbit Achilles tendon. The cross-sectional area (CSA) of a material is used to calculate stress under load. The mechanical behaviour of soft tissue is of clinical interest in the management of injury; however, measuring CSA of soft tissue is challenging as samples are geometrically i...
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Multivariate modelling of infectious disease surveillance data. This paper describes a model-based approach to analyse multivariate time series data on counts of infectious diseases. It extends a method previously described in the literature to deal with possible dependence between disease counts from different pathoge...
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Immunogenicity of hepatitis A vaccine in children with celiac disease. The response to hepatitis A vaccine has not been studied in children with celiac disease (CD). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the immunogenicity of an inactivated hepatitis A virus (HAV) vaccine and the effect of the human leukocyte an...
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Disparity of innate immunity-related gene effects on asthma and allergy on Karelia. We investigated the interactive effects of 11 innate immunity-related genes (IL10, IL12b, IL8, TLR2, TLR4, CD14, IFNGR, CC16, IFNg, CMA1, and TGFB) and four IgE response genes (IL4, IL13, IL4RA, and STAT6) with 'Western' or 'Eastern' en...
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Diagnostic value of emergency medical services provider judgement in the identification of head injuries among trauma patients. Previous studies have reported that many patients with a severe head injury are not transported to a higher-level trauma centre where the necessary round-the-clock neurosurgical care is availa...
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A formal enantioselective acetate Mannich reaction: the nitro functional group as a traceless agent for activation and enantiocontrol in the synthesis of beta-amino acids. A two-step procedure involving the enantioselective addition of alpha-nitro esters to imines, followed by reductive denitration, provides a convenie...
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Tumour micrometastases: the influence of angiogenesis. Many cancer patients have undetected micrometastatic disease at first presentation which ultimately progresses. Angiogenesis-the development of an independent blood supply-is a key event in the growth of metastases. Improved understanding of the influence of angiog...
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Maternal satisfaction with active management of labor: a randomized controlled trial. Active management of labor reduces the length of labor and rate of prolonged labor, but its effect on satisfaction with care, within a randomized controlled trial, has not previously been reported. The study objectives were to establi...
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Astrocyte lipid metabolism is critical for synapse development and function in vivo. The brain is considered to be autonomous in lipid synthesis with astrocytes producing lipids far more efficiently than neurons. Accordingly, it is generally assumed that astrocyte-derived lipids are taken up by neurons to support synap...
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Physicochemical properties of cross-linked and acetylated starches and products of their hydrolysis in continuous recycle membrane reactor. The aim of the present work was to study the physicochemical properties of doubly modified, by cross-linking and acetylating, starches as well as the products of their enzymatic hy...
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Intramuscular dissociation of echogenicity in the triceps surae characterizes sporadic inclusion body myositis. Differential diagnosis of sporadic inclusion body myositis (s-IBM) and polymyositis (PM)/dermatomyositis (DM) is difficult and can affect proper disease management. Detection of heterogeneous muscular involve...
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Constitutive expression of p21H-Ras(Val12) in neurons induces increased axonal size and dendritic microtubule density in vivo. The small G protein p21Ras is a key signal transducer mediating cellular growth and proliferation responses to extracellular stimuli. We investigated by electron microscopy the effects of augme...
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High-Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells with Sm/Ca Bilayer Cathode Buffer. The Sm/Ca bilayer buffers together with Al as the cathode, instead of Al or Ca/Al cathodes are applied into bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells. Accompanied with the optimization of Sm/Ca buffer thicknesses, a high power conversion efficiency of...
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Superoxide dismutase administration, a potential therapy against oxidative stress related diseases: several routes of supplementation and proposal of an original mechanism of action. Oxidative stress, involved in many diseases, is defined as an impaired balance between reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and antio...
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Chromosome-breakage syndromes: different genes, different treatments, different cancers. Comparison of the strikingly different distributions of types of cancer that occur in the genetic disorders that feature chromosome instability raises several interesting points. (a) Bloom's syndrome: the distribution suggests that...
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Oral factor Xa inhibitors for venous thromboembolism prevention in major orthopedic surgery: a review. Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery, and routine thromboprophylaxis has...
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Surface-governed molecular regulation of blood coagulation. Among extracellular biological processes the spatial control of blood clotting is a unique phenomenon. Localization in space has very important consequences in both normal and pathological conditions. Under physiological circumstances a clot is formed only in ...
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Reforming nursing home quality regulation. Impact on cited deficiencies and nursing home outcomes. The federally-mandated nursing home survey and certification process has been criticized for focusing more on the potential of each facility to provide good care than on the demonstrated quality of care delivered or on re...
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Health Promotion Schools of Excellence: a model program for Kentucky and the nation. This article reviews the development and progress of an innovative, comprehensive school health project in the Jefferson County school district known as the Health Promotion Schools of Excellence (HPSE). This project features unique wo...
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Ripple-like intraocular lens damage from a neodymium:YAG laser. We report a case of accidental intraocular lens (IOL) damage during a neodymium:YAG laser capsulotomy. After a single pulse of 0.9 mJ of laser energy, a large area of ripple-like opacity with more than 10 concentric circles surrounding a small hole in a 2....
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Are caregivers adherent to their own medications? To explore caregiver adherence to chronic medications and predictors of appropriate medication use. Descriptive, nonexperimental, cross-sectional study. United States in May 2009. 2,000 adults randomly selected from a large national consumer panel. Web-based survey of c...
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Crystallization of a polymorphic hydrate system. Nitrofurantoin can form two monohydrates, which have the same chemical composition and molar ratio of water, but differ in the crystal arrangements. The two monohydrates (hydrates I and II) could be produced independently via evaporative crystallization, where supersatur...
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MPTP-Induced pallidal lesions in rhesus monkeys. Dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra of the midbrain are the primary neuronal population affected by 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3, 6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) toxicity, which produces the pathological and behavioral features of Parkinson's disease in nonhuman primates and...
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Neurotrophic effects of Cerebrolysin in animal models of excitotoxicity. Excitotoxicity might play an important role in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. In the mouse brain, kainic acid (KA) lesioning results in neurodegeneration patterns similar to those found in human disease. For this study, t...
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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with cisplatin, ifosfamide and 5-fluorouracil in the treatment of locally advanced cervical cancer. The objective of this study was to evaluate clinical and histological response, resectability, and survival in patients with cervical epidermoid carcinoma stage IB2 to IIIB with the use of neoadj...
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Associative network based on cyclodextrin polymer: a model system for drug delivery. Associative networks have been elaborated by mixing in aqueous media a cyclodextrin polymer to a dextran bearing adamantyl groups. The two polymers interact mainly via inclusion complexes between adamantyl groups and cyclodextrin cavit...
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Evaluation of two minimally invasive techniques for electroencephalogram recording in wild or freely behaving animals. Insight into the function of sleep may be gained by studying animals in the ecological context in which sleep evolved. Until recently, technological constraints prevented electroencephalogram (EEG) stu...
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Isolation of two distinct activator proteins for lipoprotein lipase from ovine plasma. Two distinct activator proteins for lipoprotein lipase (LPL) have been isolated in approximately equal amounts from ovine plasma. These low molecular weight proteins were readily separated from each other on the basis of size and cha...
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Perimeter growth of a branched structure: application to crackle sounds in the lung. We study an invasion percolation process on Cayley trees and find that the dynamics of perimeter growth is strongly dependent on the nature of the invasion process, as well as on the underlying tree structure. We apply this process to ...
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[Surgical treatments of nonconfluent pulmonary arteries with congenital cardiac defects]. Pulmonary artery angioplasty or reconstruction was performed in seven patients with nonconfluent pulmonary arteries and congenital cardiac defects. Age of these patients were ranged from 6 months to 41 years old. Five of them had ...
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[Sentinel node biopsy using dye methods]. At first, sentinel node identification was performed using dyes such as isosulfan blue dye and patent blue dye. Although dye localization is a simple and cheap method, this procedure requires training and the success rate and accuracy are not very good. It is considered that th...
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Esthetic rehabilitation of anterior discolored teeth with lithium disilicate all-ceramic restorations. The esthetic treatment of darkened anterior teeth represents a great challenge to dentists, because dental materials ideally should match the natural teeth. The optical behavior of the final restoration is determined ...
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Residue analysis of 500 high priority pesticides: better by GC-MS or LC-MS/MS? This overview evaluates the capabilities of mass spectrometry (MS) in combination with gas chromatography (GC) and liquid chromatography (LC) for the determination of a multitude of pesticides. The selection of pesticides for this assessment...
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Diagnosis of Benign and Malignant Breast Lesions on DCE-MRI by Using Radiomics and Deep Learning With Consideration of Peritumor Tissue. Computer-aided methods have been widely applied to diagnose lesions detected on breast MRI, but fully-automatic diagnosis using deep learning is rarely reported. To evaluate the diagn...
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The role of stigma in the quality of life of older adults with severe mental illness. Stigma and discrimination against older people with mental illness is a seriously neglected problem. (1) To investigate whether stigmatisation of older adults with mental disorder is associated with the type of residential institution...
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Morphometry of terminal hepatic veins. 2. Follow up in chronically alcohol-fed baboons. Alcohol induced perivenular fibrosis of terminal hepatic veins (THV) is claimed to be a precursor lesion leading to fibrosis development in man and baboon. The nature and significance of the THV lesions found in four baboons chronic...
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Wound care into the new millennium. "There has never been a time in the history of management of wounds when so many have been so well prepared to effect improvement in the quality of care being delivered at reduced costs and with improved outcomes," says Dick Meer, founder and executive director of the Center for Tiss...
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Identification of differently timed motor components of conditioned blink responses. Electromyographic recordings were made from the orbicularis oculi muscles of cats in order to identify differently timed motor components of conditioned eye blink responses (CRs). Conditioning was established rapidly by pairing electri...
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Self-Care Behaviors of Nepalese Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Analysis. Most previously reported literature on diabetes self-care is either solely quantitative or qualitative research conducted in developed countries; findings may not be generalizable to developing countries with different sociodemograph...
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Agronomic importance of first development of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under semi-arid conditions: II. Seed imbibition. Due to the slowness growth and weakness of the first developments of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), it could not combated with weeds and easily caught up by Ascochyta blight (Ascochyta rabiei (Pas...
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Role of hepatic and intestinal cytochrome P450 3A and 2B6 in the metabolism, disposition, and miotic effects of methadone. The disposition of the long-acting opioid methadone, used to prevent opiate withdrawal and treat short- and long-lasting pain, is highly variable. Methadone undergoes N -demethylation to the primar...
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Shindigs, brunches, and rodeos: the neural basis of event words. Events (e.g., "running" or "eating") constitute a basic type within human cognition and human language. We asked whether thinking about events, as compared to other conceptual categories, depends on partially independent neural circuits. Indirect evidence...
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Attitudes towards carrier testing in minors: a systematic review. The objective of this article is to review the attitudes of the different stakeholders (minors, healthcare professionals, parents and relatives of affected individuals) towards carrier testing in minors. The databases Pubmed, Google Scholar, Psychinfo, B...
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Spondyloarthritis Research Consortium of Canada magnetic resonance imaging index for assessment of spinal inflammation in ankylosing spondylitis. To develop a feasible magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based scoring system for spinal inflammation in patients with spondylarthropathy that requires minimal scan time, does ...
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Prognostic significance of serum lactate dehydrogenase level in osteosarcoma: a meta-analysis. A number of studies have investigated the role of serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level in patients with osteosarcoma but have yielded inconsistent and inconclusive results. Thus, we conducted a meta-analysis to assess its ...
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Managed care organizations publicly reporting three years of HEDIS measures. The author compares the results of MCOs that have publicly reported their Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) rates for 1997 through 1999 with health plans that did not report publicly. Managed care plans that publicly report...
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Race Factors Affecting Performance Times in Elite Long-Track Speed Skating. Analysis of sport performance can provide effects of environmental and other venue-specific factors in addition to estimates of within-athlete variability between competitions, which determines smallest worthwhile effects. To analyze elite long...
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Scorpion ARMS primers for SNP real-time PCR detection and quantification of Pyrenophora teres. summary We have developed a quantitative PCR detection method that can be used to determine the seed infection levels of Pyrenophora teres, a seed-borne fungal pathogen of barley. This method uses Scorpion Amplified Refractor...
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Estimating six-cycle efficacy of the Dot app for pregnancy prevention. To assess six-cycle perfect and typical use efficacy of Dynamic Optimal Timing (Dot), an algorithm-based fertility app that identifies the fertile window of the menstrual cycle using a woman's period start date and provides guidance on when to avoid...
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Results of balloon valvuloplasty in 40 dogs with pulmonic stenosis. The records of 43 dogs presenting with severe pulmonic stenosis in which balloon valvuloplasty was attempted were reviewed. Thirty-four dogs (79 per cent) were symptomatic at initial presentation. All patients were selected for balloon valvuloplasty on...
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Effect of zinc supplementation on ethanol-mediated bone alterations. Ethanol consumption leads to bone alterations, mainly osteoporosis. Ethanol itself may directly alter bone synthesis, but other factors, such as accompanying protein malnutrition--frequently observed in alcoholics, chronic alcoholic myopathy with musc...
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Confined hydrogen atom by the Lagrange-mesh method: energies, mean radii, and dynamic polarizabilities. The Lagrange-mesh method is an approximate variational calculation which resembles a mesh calculation because of the use of a Gauss quadrature. The hydrogen atom confined in a sphere is studied with Lagrange-Legendre...
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Isotype-specific activation of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-chloride channels by cGMP-dependent protein kinase II. Type II cGMP-dependent protein kinase (cGKII) isolated from pig intestinal brush borders and type I alpha cGK (cGKI) purified from bovine lung were compared for their ability to acti...
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Aging alters visual processing of objects and shapes in inferotemporal cortex in monkeys. Visual perception declines with age. Perceptual deficits may originate not only in the optical system serving vision but also in the neural machinery processing visual information. Since homologies between monkey and human vision ...
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[Adacolumn apheresis for hepatitis C virus in patients waiting for kidney transplant. Preliminary study]. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection occurs much more frequently in the hemodialysis population than in the general population. Patients with chronic kidney disease with persistent HCV infection may develop serious an...
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Uridine kinase, adenylate kinase, and guanase in human lung tumors. In pulmonary neoplasms, the uridine kinase concentration was higher (2- to 20-fold) than in the noninvolved lung portions of each of the 12 subjects studied. The extent of elevation of uridine kinase in the different tumors showed a significant positiv...
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1H, 13C, and 15N NMR spectra of some pyridazine derivatives. (1)H, (13)C, and (15)N NMR chemical shifts for pyridazines 4-22 were measured using 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopic methods including (1)H-(1)H gDQCOSY, (1)H-(13)C gHMQC, (1)H-(13)C gHMBC, and (1)H-(15)N CIGAR-HMBC experiments.
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IRTA1+ monocytoid B cells in reactive lymphadenitis show a unique topographic distribution and immunophenotype and a peculiar usage and mutational pattern of IgVH genes. The origin and function of monocytoid B cells (MBCs) are poorly understood. Taking advantage of their strong expression of IRTA1 (a receptor that is a...
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Computer networking in an ambulatory health care setting. Computers are a ubiquitous part of the ambulatory health care environment. Although stand-alone computers may be adequate for a small practice, networked computers can create much more powerful and cost-effective computerized systems. Local area networks allow g...
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Vaccination of cattle against Mycobacterium bovis. Protection of cattle against bovine tuberculosis by vaccination could be an important control strategy in countries where there is persistence of Mycobacterium bovis infection in wildlife and in developing countries where it is not economical to implement a 'test and s...
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Development of antibody to human GM3 synthase and immunodetection of the enzyme in human tissues. Polyclonal antibody was raised to a cloned fragment of human GM3 synthase. Affinity purified R27C1 antibody to the tagged recombinant protein inhibited GM3 synthase activity in human liver and HL-60 cells in a dose-depende...
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Brain metastases from epithelial ovarian cancer: a review of the literature. Brain metastases from epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) are rare. This report is based on a review of the literature. This review summarizes the incidence, clinical features, pathophysiology, and diagnostic evaluation of EOC. The section on curr...
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Evolution of HLA-class I compared to HLA-class II polymorphism in Terena, a South-American Indian tribe. We have studied the HLA alleles of 60 unrelated healthy Terena and 10 Terena families. They are members of an isolated Brazilian tribe located in Mato Grosso do Sul (South Central Brazil). Six novel alleles were fou...
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Genetic and clinical features of p450 oxidoreductase deficiency. P450 oxidoreductase (POR) deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder of steroidogenesis with multiple clinical manifestations. POR is the electron donor for all microsomal P450 enzymes, including the three steroidogenic enzymes P450c17 (17alpha-hydroxy...
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Quantum interferometric optical lithography: exploiting entanglement to beat the diffraction limit Classical optical lithography is diffraction limited to writing features of a size lambda/2 or greater, where lambda is the optical wavelength. Using nonclassical photon-number states, entangled N at a time, we show that ...