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Hutt, Karla J; Shi, Zhanquan; Albertini, David F; Petroff, Brian K
(2008-01-02)
Abstract Background Environmental toxicants, whose actions are often mediated through the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) pathway, pose risks to the health and well-being of exposed species, including humans. Of particular ...
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Oxana Norkina; Rolf Graf; Philippe Appenzeller; Robert De Lisle
(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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Byron Gajewski; Jonathan Mahnken; Nancy Dunton
(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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Cheryl Gibson; Erik Kirk; James LeCheminant; Bruce Bailey; Guoyuan Huang; Joseph Donnelly
(BioMedCentral, 2007-09-12)
BACKGROUND:To adequately assess individual studies and synthesize quantitative research on weight loss studies, transparent reporting of data is required. The authors examined the reporting quality of randomized trials in ...
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Abderrezak Bouchama; Mohammed Dehbi; Enrique Chaves-Carballo
(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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Qamar Khan; Bruce Kimler; Anne O'Dea; Carola Zalles; Priyanka Sharma; Carol Fabian
(BioMedCentral, 2008-11-05)
BACKGROUND:Ki-67 expression is a possible risk biomarker and is currently being used as a response biomarker in chemoprevention trials. Mammographic breast density is a risk biomarker and is also being used as a response ...
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Kingsley Okonkwo; Kristin Wong; Cheng Cho; Lisa Gilmer
(BioMedCentral, 2009-04-20)
INTRODUCTION:Acute painful scrotum in children may be associated with torsion of the testis, hematocele, epididymitis and direct testicular injury with hematoma formation. More frequently, however, acute scrotum occurs ...
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Ganguly Siddhartha; Patel Vijay
(BioMedCentral, 2008-05-30)
PURPOSE:R-CHOP (rituximab with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone) and R-CVP (rituximab with cyclophosphamide, vincristine and prednisone) have both been used successfully in the treatment of patients ...
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Vivek Subbiah; Prabhu Parimi
(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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Feng Lin; Aiping Zeng; Ningmin Yang; Haiyan Lin; En Yang; Shengqi Wang; David Pintel; Jianming Qiu
(BioMedCentral, 2007-06-28)
A quantitative PCR method was established to quantify human bocavirus (HBoV) genomic copies in clinical specimens from children with lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in China. A total of 257 respiratory tract ...
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John Ratliff; Neel Anand; Alexander Vaccaro; Moe Lim; Joon Lee; Paul Arnold; James Harrop; Raja Rampersaud; Christopher Bono; Ralf Gahr; Trauma Study Group Spine
(BioMedCentral, 2007-07-09)
BACKGROUND:Considerable variability exists in clinical approaches to thoracolumbar fractures. Controversy in evaluation and nomenclature contribute to this confusion, with significant differences found between physicians, ...
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Marc Asher; Douglas Burton
(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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Minglei Guo; Lei Gong; Lin He; Lois Lehman-McKeeman; Yu-Jui Wan
(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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S Pirzada Sattar; S Faiz Qadri; Mustafa Warsi; Cordelia Okoye; Amad Din; Prasad Padala; Subhash Bhatia
(BioMedCentral, 2006-08-14)
BACKGROUND:Benzodiazepines are the first-line choice for the treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. However, several hospitals continue to provide alcoholic beverages through their formulary for the treatment of alcohol ...
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Kimber Richter; Julia Arnsten
(BioMedCentral, 2007-04-03)
Most persons in drug treatment smoke cigarettes. Until drug treatment facilities systematically treat their patients' tobacco use, millions will flow through the drug treatment system, overcome their primary drug of abuse, ...
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Diana Baumann; Malcolm Cook; Limei Ma; Arcady Mushegian; Erik Sanders; Joel Schwartz; C Ron Yu
(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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Galina Glazko; Vladimir Makarenkov; Jing Liu; Arcady Mushegian
(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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Galina Glazko; Michael Coleman; Arcady Mushegian
(BioMedCentral, 2008-07-25)
We present psi-square, a program for searching the space of gene vectors. The program starts with a gene vector, i.e., the set of measurements associated with a gene, and finds similar vectors, derives a probabilistic model ...
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Eric Vidoni; Lara Boyd
(BioMedCentral, 2006-07-05)
BACKGROUND:Recent work has demonstrated the importance of proprioception for the development of internal representations of the forces encountered during a task. Evidence also exists for a significant role for proprioception ...
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Holly Garriock; Pedro Delgado; Mitchel Kling; Linda Carpenter; Michael Burke; William Burke; Thomas Schwartz; Lauren Marangell; Mustafa Husain; Robert Erickson; Francisco Moreno
(BioMedCentral, 2007-10-31)
BACKGROUND:The objective of the study was to determine the genetic basis of Major Depressive Disorder, and the capacity to respond to antidepressant treatment. An association study of 21 candidate polymorphisms relevant ...