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Delayed union of femoral fractures in older rats:decreased gene expression
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Background Fracture healing slows with age. While 6-week-old rats regain normal bone biomechanics at 4 weeks after fracture, one-year-old rats require more than 26... -
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and protective effects of food intake: from hypothesis to evidence?
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Evidence for a role of diet in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been accumulating rapidly over the past decade. Associations have been... -
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What is the optimal prophylaxis for treatment of cardiac allograft vasculopathy?
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Coronary artery disease in the transplanted heart, also known as cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), is one of the major causes of mortality late after... -
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Sunlight and skin cancer
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Kinetic comparison of tissue non-specific and placental human alkaline phosphatases expressed in baculovirus infected cells: application to screening for Down's syndrome
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Background In humans, there are four alkaline phosphatases, and each form exibits a characteristic pattern of tissue distribution. The availability of an easy method... -
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What you should know about PR3-ANCA: Conformational requirements of proteinase 3 (PR3) for enzymatic activity and recognition by PR3-ANCA
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The neutrophil azurophil granule constituent proteinase 3 (PR3) is the principal antigen for anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) in Wegener's... -
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Hospital competition, resource allocation and quality of care
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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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Acute respiratory distress syndrome: estimated incidence and mortality rate in a 5 million-person population base
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Background: Various estimates of the incidence and mortality rate of the acute (adult) respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have been published. The studies that led... -
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Comparative risk judgements for oral health hazards among Norwegian adults: a cross sectional study
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Background This study identified optimistic biases in health and oral health hazards, and explored whether comparative risk judgements for oral health hazards vary... -
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Use of complementary/alternative therapies by women with advanced-stage breast cancer
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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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Using evidence from different sources: an example using paracetamol 1000 mg plus codeine 60 mg
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Background Meta-analysis usually restricts the information pooled, for instance using only randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. This neglects other... -
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Expression of LRP and MDR1 in locally advanced breast cancer predicts axillary node invasion at the time of rescue mastectomy after induction chemotherapy
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Background: Axillary node status after induction chemotherapy for locally advanced breast cancer has been shown on multivariate analysis to be an independent... -
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The process of genome shrinkage in the obligate symbiont
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Background Very small genomes have evolved repeatedly in eubacterial lineages that have adopted obligate associations with eukaryotic hosts. Complete genome sequences... -
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Percutaneous tracheostomy
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Percutaneous tracheostomy (PT) has gained an increasing acceptance as an alternative to the conventional surgical tracheostomy (ST). In experienced hands, and with... -
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Electroacupuncture versus Diclofenac in symptomatic treatment of Osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomized controlled trial
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of electroacupuncture (EA), diclofenac and their combination in symptomatic treatment of... -
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Interactive decision support in hepatic surgery
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Hepatic surgery is characterized by complicated operations with a significant peri- and postoperative risk for the patient. We developed a web-based, high-... -
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Immune modulation in the treatment of respiratory infection
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The limitations of currently available treatment for severe respiratory infection are demonstrated by the relatively fixed mortality associated with these infections... -
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Genome trees constructed using five different approaches suggest new major bacterial clades
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The availability of multiple complete genome sequences from diverse taxa prompts the development of new phylogenetic approaches, which attempt to... -
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Prevalence of hepatitis B and C markers in high-risk hospitalised patients in Crete: a five-year observational study
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Background So far the prevalence of viral hepatitis infection in hospitalized patients has not been extensively studied. Therefore we conducted the present five-year... -
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Serum folate levels after UVA exposure: a two-group parallel randomised controlled trial
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Photodegradation of certain vitamins such as riboflavins, carotinoids, tocopherol, and folate has been well-documented. Previous observations suggest that...