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Use of complementary/alternative therapies by women with advanced-stage breast cancer
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background This study sought to describe the pattern of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) use among a group of patients with advanced breast cancer, to examine... -
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The diagnostic value of liver biopsy
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Since the introduction of molecular diagnostic tools such as markers for hepatitis C and different autoimmune diseases, liver biopsy is thought to be... -
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Weather conditions and sudden sensorineural hearing loss
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Climatic or meteorological condition changes have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (ISSHL). We... -
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Linkage analysis of HLA and candidate genes for celiac disease in a North American family-based study
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Background Celiac disease has a strong genetic association with HLA. However, this association only explains approximately half of the sibling risk for celiac... -
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Weight loss maintenance in women two to eleven years after participating in a commercial program: a survey
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Background After 5 years, most reports show that less than 10% of people maintain a 5% loss from initial body weight. Weight maintenance after 10 years is rarely... -
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Prospectively validated predictions of shock and organ failure in individual septic surgical patients: the Systemic Mediator Associated Response Test
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Introduction: Clinically useful predictions of end-organ function and failure in severe sepsis may be possible through analyzing the interactions among demographics,... -
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Bone loss: Quantitative imaging techniques for assessing bone mass in rheumatoid arthritis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Osteoporosis is associated with low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue with clinical manifestation of low trauma fractures. Rheumatoid... -
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Mutation analysis of the CHK2 gene in breast carcinoma and other cancers
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Background Mutations in the CHK2 gene at chromosome 22q12.1 have been reported in families with Li-Fraumeni syndrome. Chk2 is an effector kinase that is activated in... -
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Time course of muscle soreness following different types of exercise
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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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Paper reports overview: The many guises of respiratory support, microalbuminuria and delirium
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Paper reports overview: The many guises of respiratory support, microalbuminuria and delirium -
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Deletion of the alpha-synuclein locus in a subpopulation of C57BL/6J inbred mice
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The presynaptic protein α-synuclein is involved in a range of neurodegenerative diseases. Here we analyze potential compensatory mechanisms in α-synuclein... -
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Effects of microcosm scaling and food resources on growth and survival of larval
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background We used a simple experimental design to test for the effects of microcosm scaling on the growth and survival of the mosquito, Culex pipiens. Microcosm and... -
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A draft annotation and overview of the human genome
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The recent draft assembly of the human genome provides a unified basis for describing genomic structure and function. The draft is sufficiently accurate to... -
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Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction: role of voltage-gated potassium channels
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Activity of voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels controls membrane potential, which subsequently regulates cytoplasmic free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]cyt) in... -
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Permutation-validated principal components analysis of microarray data
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background In microarray data analysis, the comparison of gene-expression profiles with respect to different conditions and the selection of biologically interesting... -
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Comparison of performance-based measures among native Japanese, Japanese-Americans in Hawaii and Caucasian women in the United States, ages 65 years and over: a cross-sectional study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Japanese (both in Japan and Hawaii) have a lower incidence of falls and of hip fracture than North American and European Caucasians, but the reasons for... -
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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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The effects of dopamine and epinephrine on hemodynamics and oxygen metabolism in hypoxic anesthetized piglets
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: The most appropriate inotropic agent for use in the newborn is uncertain. Dopamine and epinephrine are commonly used, but have unknown effects during... -
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Research Article: Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
An intense suppression of T cell proliferation to mitogens and to antigens is observed in a large number of parasitic infections. The impairment of T cell... -
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Utility of the Mayo End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score in assessing prognosis of patients with alcoholic hepatitis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Alcoholic hepatitis is characterized by acute, or acute-on-chronic hepatic failure and associated with a high mortality. Specific therapies should be...