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T Wave Alternans in high arrhythmic risk patients: Analysis in time and frequency domains: A pilot study
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Background T wave alternans (TA) is a repolarisation phenomenon manifesting as a microvolt beat to beat change in the amplitude of the T wave and ST segment. TA has... -
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Detection of
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Background Since Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) was isolated from intestinal tissue of a human patient suffering Crohn's disease, a... -
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Helium-oxygen mixture does not improve gas exchange in mechanically ventilated children with bronchiolitis
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Varying concentrations of helium-oxygen (heliox) mixtures were evaluated in mechanically ventilated children with bronchiolitis. We hypothesized that, with an... -
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Th2 cytokines and asthma — Interleukin-9 as a therapeutic target for asthma
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Asthma is a complex heritable inflammatory disorder of the airways in which the development of clinical disease depends on environmental exposure. It has been well... -
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The acute effects of body position strategies and respiratory therapy in paralyzed patients with acute lung injury
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Background: Routine turning of critically ill patients is a standard of care. In recent years, specialized beds that provide automated turning have been introduced.... -
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Cytochrome P450 2E1 polymorphism and nasopharyngeal carcinoma development in Thailand: a correlative study
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Background Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a rare tumor in most parts of the world but occurs at relatively high frequency among people of Chinese descent. The... -
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Kinesin-like protein CENP-E is upregulated in rheumatoid synovial fibroblasts
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Our aim was to identify specifically expressed genes using RNA arbitrarily primed (RAP)-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for differential display in patients with... -
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IFNγ production in peripheral blood of early Lyme disease patients to hLFAα
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Background It has been proposed that outer surface protein A (OspA) of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto contains a T helper 1 (Th1) cell epitope that could play a... -
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Alteration in expression of the rat mitochondrial ATPase 6 gene during
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Background Pneumocystis carinii causes pneumonia in immunocompromised patients with a high morbidity and mortality rate, but the interaction between this organism and... -
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Inflammatory microcrystals induce murine macrophage survival and DNA synthesis
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The interaction of particulates with resident macrophages is a consistent feature in certain forms of crystal-induced inflammation, for example, in synovial tissues,... -
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Comparison of APACHE II, MEES and Glasgow Coma Scale in patients with nontraumatic coma for prediction of mortality
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Introduction: There are numerous prehosital descriptive scoring systems, and it is uncertain whether they are efficient in assessing of the severity of illness and... -
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Plasma proteins in a standardised skin mini-erosion (I): permeability changes as a function of time
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Background A standardised technique using a suction-induced mini-erosion that allows serial sampling of dermal interstitial fluid (IF) for 5 to 6 days has been... -
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Atypical Herpes simplex keratitis (HSK) presenting as a perforated corneal ulcer with a large infiltrate in a contact lens wearer: multinucleated giant cells in the Giemsa smear offered a clue to the diagnosis
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Purpose To report a case of atypical herpes simplex keratitis initially diagnosed as bacterial keratitis, in a contact lens wearer. Results Case report of an 18-year-... -
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Antithrombin III in patients admitted to intensive care units: a multicenter observational study
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Introduction The administration of antithrombin III (ATIII) is useful in patients with congenital deficiency, but evidence for the other therapeutic indications of... -
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Comparative transcription map of the
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Background To support the positional cloning of the mouse mutation wobbler (wr) the corresponding regions on human Chr2p13-14 and mouse Chr11 were analyzed in detail... -
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Nitric oxide: a pro-inflammatory mediator in lung disease?
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Inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract are commonly associated with elevated production of nitric oxide (NO•) and increased indices of NO• -dependent... -
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Low frequency of
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In order to explore the possible role of E-cadherin in familial cancer, 19 familial breast cancer patients, whose tumours demonstrated loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at... -
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Enteral feeding in the critically ill: comparison between the supine and prone positions: a prospective crossover study in mechanically ventilated patients
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Introduction Prone position is effective in mechanically ventilated patients to improve oxygenation. It is unknown if prone position affects gastric emptying and the... -
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Cdc5 influences phosphorylation of Net1 and disassembly of the RENT complex
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Background In S. cerevisiae, the mitotic exit network (MEN) proteins, including the Polo-like protein kinase Cdc5 and the protein phosphatase Cdc14, are required for... -
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Discrimination of three mutational events that result in a disruption of the R122 primary autolysis site of the human cationic trypsinogen (PRSS1) by denaturing high performance liquid chromatography
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Background R122, the primary autolysis site of the human cationic trypsinogen (PRSS1), constitutes an important "self-destruct" or "fail-safe" defensive mechanism...