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Michael Soares
(BioMedCentral, 2004-07-05)
The prolactin (PRL) and growth hormone (GH) gene families represent species-specific expansions of pregnancy-associated hormones/cytokines. In this review we examine the structure, expression patterns, and biological actions ...
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Joan Hunt; Daudi Langat; Ramsey McIntire; Pedro Morales
(BioMedCentral, 2006-02-06)
Pregnancy in mammals featuring hemochorial placentation introduces a major conflict with the mother's immune system, which is dedicated to repelling invaders bearing foreign DNA and RNA. Numerous and highly sophisticated ...
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Lea Rempel; Kathleen Austin; Kenneth Ritchie; Ming Yan; Meifeng Shen; Dong-Er Zhang; Luiz Henkes; Thomas Hansen
(BioMedCentral, 2006-10-09)
BACKGROUND:Isg15 covalently modifies murine endometrial proteins in response to early pregnancy. Isg15 can also be severed from targeted proteins by a specific protease called Ubp43 (Usp18). Mice lacking Ubp43 (null) form ...
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Nicole Nollen; Christie Befort; Patricia Snow; Christine Daley; Edward Ellerbeck; Jasjit Ahluwalia
(BioMedCentral, 2007-04-10)
OBJECTIVES:To examine high school personnel's perceptions of the school environment, its impact on obesity, and the potential impact of legislation regulating schools' food/beverage offerings.METHODS:Semi-structured ...
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Cheryl Gibson; Bryan Smith; Katrina DuBose; J Leon Greene; Bruce Bailey; Shannon Williams; Joseph Ryan; Kristin Schmelzle; Richard Washburn; Debra Sullivan; Matthew Mayo; Joseph Donnelly
(BioMedCentral, 2007-11-12)
BACKGROUND:Physical Activity Across the Curriculum (PAAC) is a 3-year elementary school-based intervention to determine if increased amounts of moderate intensity physical activity performed in the classroom will diminish ...
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Benjamin Northrup; Kyle McCommis; Haosen Zhang; Shuddhadeb Ray; Pamela Woodard; Robert Gropler; Jie Zheng
(BioMedCentral, 2008-07-07)
BACKGROUND:The magnetic resonance technique of arterial spin labeling (ASL) allows myocardial perfusion to be quantified without the use of a contrast agent. This study aimed to use a modified ASL technique and T1 regression ...
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Ashley Simmons; Thomas Rosamond
(BioMedCentral, 2008-11-17)
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Michael Rapoff; Carol Lindsley
(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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Kaori Nakamoto; Shuang Wang; Robert Jenison; Grace Guo; Curtis Klaassen; Yu-Jui Wan; Xiao-bo Zhong
(BioMedCentral, 2005-05-27)
BACKGROUND:Cholesterol 7-alpha-hydroxylase (CYP7A1) is the rate limiting enzyme for converting cholesterol into bile acids. Genetic variations in the CYP7A1 gene have been associated with metabolic disorders of cholesterol ...
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Vinod Shidham; Barbara Atkinson
(BioMedCentral, 2006-06-15)
The Editorial Board of CytoJournal devotes significant efforts, time, and resources to review numerous manuscripts. As it is impossible to include all the experts on the editorial board, there is always a need for additional ...
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Vinod Shidham; Barbara Atkinson
(BioMedCentral, 2007-01-25)
Significant efforts, time, and resources are devoted for peer-reviewing numerous CytoJournal manuscripts. The Editorial Board of CytoJournal shares a significant proportion of this activity. Additional peers are requested ...
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Vanja Duric; Kenneth McCarson
(BioMedCentral, 2008-10-24)
Persistent pain produces complex alterations in sensory pathways of the central nervous system (CNS) through activation of various nociceptive mechanisms. However, the effects of pain on higher brain centers, particularly ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. ...