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(BioMedCentral, 2006-06-23)BACKGROUND:It has been shown that calcifying vesicles play an important role in aortic calcification and that cholesterol content in the isolated vesicle fraction is increased when rabbits are fed supplemental cholesterol ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2008-12-31)Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is a lifetime, probably systemic condition of unknown cause, resulting in a spinal curve or curves of ten degrees or more in about 2.5% of most populations. However, in only about 0.25% does ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2008-08-26)BACKGROUND:The cystic fibrosis (CF) mouse pancreas has constitutively elevated expression of the Reg/PAP cell stress genes (60-fold greater Reg3a, and 10-fold greater PAP/Reg3ß and Reg3?). These genes are suggested to be ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2004-08-10)BACKGROUND:Diabetes is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. In particular, type 1 diabetes compromises the cardiac function of individuals at a relatively early age due to the protracted course of abnormal glucose ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2007-12-19)BACKGROUND:Tomorrow's physicians must learn to access, retrieve, integrate and apply current information into ambulatory patient encounters, yet few medical schools teach 'real time' information management.METHODS:We ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2006-10-02)BACKGROUND:Recent evidence suggests that a low carbohydrate (LC) diet may be equally or more effective for short-term weight loss than a traditional low fat (LF) diet; however, less is known about how they compare for ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2007-05-12)INTRODUCTION:Although rapid cooling and management of circulatory failure are crucial to the prevention of irreversible tissue damage and death in heatstroke, the evidence supporting the optimal cooling method and hemodynamic ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2005-12-01)BACKGROUND:To compare the effects of low versus recommended levels of dairy intake on weight maintenance and body composition subsequent to weight loss.DESIGN AND METHODS:Two site (University of Kansas-KU; University of ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2009-04-22)BACKGROUND:Vascular calcification is implicated in myocardial infarction, instability and rigidity of the aortic wall, and bioprosthetic failures. Although an increase in the calcium (Ca) content in atherogenic diets has ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2006-03-01)"BACKGROUND:United States academic medical centers are increasingly incorporating electronic health records (EHR) into teaching settings. We report third year medical students' attitudes towards clinical learning using the ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2007-07-12)INTRODUCTION:Renal vein thrombosis, although rare in adults, is well recognized in neonates and is one of the most common manifestations of neonatal thromboembolic events. The etiology of renal vein thrombosis remains ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2006-05-30)BACKGROUND:Reconstruction of evolutionary history of bacteriophages is a difficult problem because of fast sequence drift and lack of omnipresent genes in phage genomes. Moreover, losses and recombinational exchanges of ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2007-12-06)BACKGROUND:Members of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) family share sequence similarity and the 11-stranded ß-barrel fold. Fluorescence or bright coloration, observed in many members of this family, is enabled by the ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2009-03-17)BACKGROUND:Retinoids are used to treat several types of cancer; however, their effects on liver cancer have not been fully characterized. To investigate the therapeutic potential of retinoids on hepatocellular carcinoma ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2006-05-15)BACKGROUND:Gastroparesis has a number of etiologies. The main ones are secondary to a complication from diabetes mellitus, related to post vagotomy or post gastric surgical resections, or idiopathic when the etiology is ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2008-05-01)BACKGROUND:The occurrence of liver cancer is higher in males than in females, and the incidence increases during aging. Signaling pathways regulated by retinoid × receptor a (RXRa) are involved in hepatocellular carcinogenesis. ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2006-04-11)BACKGROUND:Manganese-enhanced MRI (MEI) offers a novel neuroimaging modality to trace corticospinal tract (CST) in live animals. This paper expands this capability further and tests the utility of MEI to image axonal fiber ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2008-11-17)Poor adherence to medical regimens can compromise the efficacy of treatments for children and adolescents with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). The purpose of this review is to describe medical regimens for the treatment ...
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(BioMedCentral, 2005-02-23)BACKGROUND:The National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators® (NDNQI®) was established in 1998 to assist hospitals in monitoring indicators of nursing quality (eg, falls and pressure ulcers). Hospitals participating in ...
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