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Determinants of abstract acceptance for the Digestive Diseases Week – a cross sectional study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The Digestive Diseases Week (DDW) is the major meeting for presentation of research in gastroenterology. The acceptance of an abstract for presentation at... -
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Accessing and distributing EMBL data using CORBA (common object request broker architecture)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: The EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is a comprehensive database of DNA and RNA sequences and related information traditionally made available in flat-... -
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MICE, a program to track and monitor animals in animal facilities
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background A growing number of laboratories are using the mouse as a model system in developmental biology as well as in molecular biology. Surprisingly, most of... -
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Case-oriented computer-based-training in radiology: concept, implementation and evaluation
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Providing high-quality clinical cases is important for teaching radiology. We developed, implemented and evaluated a program for a university hospital to... -
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Policy mapping for establishing a national emergency health policy for Nigeria
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The number of potential life years lost due to accidents and injuries though poorly studied has resulted in tremendous economic and social loss to Nigeria.... -
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Debate: A subversive view of subsets - a dissident clinician's opinion
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Clinical trialists and statisticians are very wary of subgroup analysis, for good reasons. Clinicians have to deal with situations in which subgroups of patients... -
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A comparison of volume control and pressure-regulated volume control ventilation in acute respiratory failure
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that a new mode of ventilation (pressure-regulated volume control; PRVC) is associated with improvements... -
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Design and performance of a multi-centre randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of joint tele-consultations [ISRCTN54264250]
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Appropriate information flow is crucial to the care of patients, particularly at the interface between primary and secondary care. Communication problems... -
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Continuous haemofiltration in the intensive care unit
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) was first described in 1977 for the treatment of diuretic-unresponsive fluid overload in the intensive care unit (ICU).... -
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On the species of origin: diagnosing the source of symbiotic transcripts
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Most organisms have developed ways to recognize and interact with other species. Symbiotic interactions range from pathogenic to mutualistic. Some... -
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Autocrine regulation of asthmatic airway inflammation: role of airway smooth muscle
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Chronic airway inflammation is one of the main features of asthma. Release of mediators from infiltrating inflammatory cells in the airway mucosa has been proposed to... -
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Biventricular pacing in heart failure: update on results from clinical trials
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Biventricular pacing or resynchronisation therapy is a non-pharmacological therapy for patients with chronic heart failure. Since being originally described in 1994,... -
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Autoantibody profiling for the study and treatment of autoimmune disease
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Proteomics technologies enable profiling of autoantibody responses using biological fluids derived from patients with autoimmune disease. They provide a powerful tool... -
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Time course of muscle soreness following different types of exercise
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Post-exercise muscle soreness is a dull, aching sensation that follows unaccustomed muscular exertion. Primarily on the basis of previous laboratory-based... -
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Sex differences in risk factors for coronary heart disease: a study in a Brazilian population
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background In Brazil coronary heart disease (CHD) constitutes the most important cause of death in both sexes in all the regions of the country and interestingly, the... -
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Retrovirus-delivered siRNA
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The ability of transfected synthetic small interfering (si) RNAs to suppress the expression of specific transcripts has proved a useful technique to probe gene... -
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Pleasure in decision-making situations
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background This study explores the role of pleasure in decision making. Results In Experiment 1, 12 subjects were presented with a questionnaire containing 46 items... -
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Insertion of a small peptide of six amino acids into the β7–β8 loop of the p51 subunit of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase perturbs the heterodimer and affects its activities
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background HIV-1 RT is a heterodimeric enzyme, comprising of the p66 and p51 subunits. Earlier, we have shown that the β7-β8 loop of p51 is a key structural element... -
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Unpredicted spontaneous extrusion of a renal calculus in an adult male with spina bifida and paraplegia: report of a misdiagnosis. Measures to be taken to reduce urological errors in spinal cord injury patients
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background A delay in diagnosis or a misdiagnosis may occur in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) or spinal bifida as typical symptoms of a clinical condition may... -
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Melatonin reduces TNF-a induced expression of MAdCAM-1 via inhibition of NF-kB.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Endothelial MAdCAM-1 (mucosal addressin cell adhesion molecule-1) expression is associated with the oxidant-dependent induction and progress of...