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Compulsive checking behavior of quinpirole-sensitized rats as an animal model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder(OCD): form and control
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background A previous report showed that the open field behavior of rats sensitized to the dopamine agonist quinpirole satisfies 5 performance criteria for compulsive... -
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Diagnostic and treatment characteristics of polycystic ovary syndrome: descriptive measurements of patient perception and awareness from 657 confidential self-reports
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background This investigation was undertaken to describe patient perception and awareness of the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the most common cause of... -
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Survival of patients transferred to tertiary intensive care from rural community hospitals
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Accessibility to tertiary intensive care resources differs among hospitals within a rural region. Determining whether accessibility is associated with... -
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Prevalence of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder among adults in obesity treatment
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Bariatric patients showing poor "focus" during treatment more often failed to lose weight or maintain reduced weight. Evaluation of these patients... -
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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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Penis size: Survey of female perceptions of sexual satisfaction
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Does the size of the male penis, in terms of length or width, make a difference in female sexual satisfaction? Method To study the effect of penis width... -
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The genetic structure of recombinant inbred mice: high-resolution consensus maps for complex trait analysis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Recombinant inbred (RI) strains of mice are an important resource used to map and analyze complex traits. They have proved particularly effective in... -
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Oral contraceptive use before first birth and risk of breast cancer: a case control study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The aim of this study was first, to investigate whether women starting oral contraceptive (OC) use at a young age and before first birth have an increased... -
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Research Article: Breast Cancer Research
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The contribution of BRCA1 and BRCA2 to the incidence of male breast cancer (MBC) in the United Kingdom is not known, and the importance of these genes in... -
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Hospital competition, resource allocation and quality of care
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background A variety of approaches have been used to contain escalating hospital costs. One approach is intensifying price competition. The increase in price based... -
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Manipulation of prenatal hormones and dietary phytoestrogens during adulthood alter the sexually dimorphic expression of visual spatial memory
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background In learning and memory tasks, requiring visual spatial memory (VSM), males exhibit higher performance levels compared to females (a difference attributed... -
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The velocity of ultrasound in human primary melanoma tissue - implications for the clinical use of high resolution sonography
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Ultrasonography with 20 MHz frequency can be used to estimate tumour thickness preoperatively in malignant melanoma (MM) of the skin. The vertical invasion... -
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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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Alterations of E-cadherin and β-catenin in gastric cancer
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The E-cadherin-catenin complex plays a crucial role in epithelial cell-cell adhesion and in the maintenance of tissue architecture. Perturbation in the... -
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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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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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Use of intravenous antiarrhythmics to identify concealed Brugada syndrome
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Cardiology has recently witnessed the production of an overwhelming amount of data through the advances made in genetics and molecular biology research. Understanding... -
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Genetic polymorphisms in lung disease: bandwagon or breakthrough?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The study of genetic polymorphisms has touched every aspect of pulmonary and critical care medicine. We review recent progress made using genetic polymorphisms to... -
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Modeling of failure mode in knee ligaments depending on the strain rate
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The failure mechanism of the knee ligament (bone-ligament-bone complex) at different strain rates is an important subject in the biomechanics of the knee.... -
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Dorsal horn-enriched genes identified by DNA microarray, in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Neurons in the dorsal spinal cord play important roles in nociception and pain. These neurons receive input from peripheral sensory neurons and then...