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Mehmet Bilgen
(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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Rajprasad Loganathan; Mehmet Bilgen; Baraa Al-Hafez; Mohammed Alenezy; Irina Smirnova
(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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Tareq Alrefae; Irina Smirnova; Larry Cook; Mehmet Bilgen
(BioMedCentral, 2006-01-09)
BACKGROUND:Myocardial motion is an important observable for the assessment of heart condition. Accurate estimates of ventricular (LV) wall motion are required for quantifying myocardial deformation and assessing local ...
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Michael Zemel; Joseph Donnelly; Bryan Smith; Debra Sullivan; Joanna Richards; Danielle Morgan-Hanusa; Matthew Mayo; Xiaocun Sun; Galen Cook-Wiens; Bruce Bailey; Emily Van Walleghen; Richard Washburn
(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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Kevin McIntire; Marc Asher; Douglas Burton; Wen Liu
(BioMedCentral, 2006-03-31)
BACKGROUND:Recent reports have suggested a rotational strength weakness in rotations to the concave side in patients with idiopathic scoliosis. There have been no studies presenting normative values of female adolescent ...
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Frank Emmert-Streib; Arcady Mushegian
(BioMedCentral, 2006-02-17)
BACKGROUND:Identification of the structural domains of proteins is important for our understanding of the organizational principles and mechanisms of protein folding, and for insights into protein function and evolution. ...
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Kore Liow
(BioMedCentral, 2004-01-12)
"BACKGROUND:Epilepsy is a condition in which consistency of treatment is paramount to successful management and for most patients, effective seizure control can be achieved. Given the severe consequences of even a single ...
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Pengli Bu; Yu-Jui Wan
(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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Susanna Harju; Halyna Fedosyuk; Kenneth Peterson
(BioMedCentral, 2004-04-21)
BACKGROUND:Mutagenesis of yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) often requires analysis of large numbers of yeast clones to obtain correctly targeted mutants. Conventional ways to isolate yeast genomic DNA utilize either ...
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Piotr Kozbial; Arcady Mushegian
(BioMedCentral, 2004-12-16)
BACKGROUND:S-adenosylmethionine is a source of diverse chemical groups used in biosynthesis and modification of virtually every class of biomolecules. The most notable reaction requiring S-adenosylmethionine, transfer of ...
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Heidi Chumley; Alison Dobbie; John Delzell
(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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Emran Rouf; Heidi Chumley; Alison Dobbie
(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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Richard Feinman; Mary Vernon; Eric Westman
(BioMedCentral, 2005-02-09)
The Active Low-Carber Forums (ALCF) is an on-line support group started in 2000 which currently has more than 86,000 members. Data collected from posts to the forum and from an on-line survey were used to determine the ...
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James LeCheminant; Cheryl Gibson; Debra Sullivan; Sandra Hall; Rik Washburn; Mary Vernon; Chelsea Curry; Elizabeth Stewart; Eric Westman; Joseph Donnelly
(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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Mehmet Bilgen
(BioMedCentral, 2007-11-01)
BACKGROUND:Maintaining the quality of magnetic resonance images acquired with the current implantable coil technology is challenging in longitudinal studies. To overcome this challenge, the principle of 'inductive overcoupling' ...
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Howard Hsu; Nathan Culley
(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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Oxana Norkina; Robert De Lisle
(BioMedCentral, 2008-05-09)
BACKGROUND:Although cystic fibrosis is caused by mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene, the severity of disease is highly variable indicating the influence of modifier genes. The ...
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Howard Hsu; Nathan Culley
(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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Howard Hsu; Antonio Artigues; Maria Villar
(BioMedCentral, 2006-10-16)
BACKGROUND:Since aortic calcification has been shown to initiate in the lower zone of well-thickened plaques (LZP) adjacent to the aortic media of rabbits fed supplemental cholesterol diets, a restricted supply of serum ...
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Savio Reddymasu; John Bonino; Richard McCallum
(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 ...