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Identification of sites phosphorylated by the vaccinia virus B1R kinase in viral protein H5R
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Vaccinia virus gene B1R encodes a serine/threonine protein kinase. In vitro this protein kinase phosphorylates ribosomal proteins Sa and S2 and vaccinia... -
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Why the fair innings argument is not persuasive
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The fair innings argument (FIA) is frequently put forward as a justification for denying elderly patients treatment when they are in competition with younger patients... -
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Ninth Asia Pacific League Of Associations For Rheumatology (APLAR) Congress, Beijing, China, 21-26 May, 2000
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The Congress covered the broad field of rheumatology, with participants from China, the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) region and the... -
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Cholinergic and GABAergic pathways in fly motion vision
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The fly visual system is a highly ordered brain structure with well-established physiological and behavioral functions. A large number of interneurons in... -
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Forced oscillation assessment of respiratory mechanics in ventilated patients
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The forced oscillation technique (FOT) is a method for non-invasively assessing respiratory mechanics that is applicable both in paralysed and non-paralysed patients.... -
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Debate: Transfusing to normal hemoglobin levels improves outcome
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Red cells are uniquely designed to transport oxygen and facilitate oxygen uptake by systemic tissues. Blood transfusions are thus logical therapeutic choices in... -
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Mining microarray expression data by literature profiling
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The lack of efficient techniques for assessing the biological implications of microarray gene-expression data remains an important obstacle in exploiting this... -
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General Practitioners' views on the provision of nicotine replacement therapy and bupropion
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) and a new drug, bupropion, are licensed in several countries as aids to smoking cessation. General practitioners (GPs)... -
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The new middle level health workers training in the Amhara regional state of Ethiopia: students' perspective
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Following health sector reform, Ethiopia started training new categories of health workers. This study addresses students' perspectives regarding their... -
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Prominent medical journals often provide insufficient information to assess the validity of studies with negative results
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Physicians reading the medical literature attempt to determine whether research studies are valid. However, articles with negative results may not provide... -
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Death, autoantigen modifications, and tolerance
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Autoantibodies present in the serum of patients with a variety of inflammatory diseases have proven useful as diagnostic markers and as probes with which to elucidate... -
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Early immune development, atopy and asthma: insights from ATS 2001, May 18-23, San Francisco
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
There is rising evidence that the initiation of atopy and asthma may occur in early life or even during fetal life. At the American Thoracic Society meeting 2001 in... -
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Priority setting for new technologies in medicine: A transdisciplinary study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Decision makers in health care organizations struggle with how to set priorities for new technologies in medicine. Traditional approaches to priority... -
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Critical care medicine in the 21st century: from CPR to PCR
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
As in other areas of medicine, the specialty of critical care medicine, which has made important contributions in the pathophysiology of critical illness, is facing... -
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Using heart-lung interactions to assess fluid responsiveness during mechanical ventilation
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
According to the Frank-Starling relationship, a patient is a 'responder' to volume expansion only if both ventricles are preload dependent. Mechanical ventilation... -
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Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy in elective percutaneous coronary intervention
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Thrombosis plays a major role in acute vessel closure both after coronary balloon angioplasty and after stenting. This review will address the role of antiplatelet... -
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Th2 cytokines and asthma — The role of interleukin-5 in allergic eosinophilic disease
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Interleukin-5 is produced by a number of cell types, and is responsible for the maturation and release of eosinophils in the bone marrow. In humans, interleukin-5 is... -
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Dopaminergic neurons in the brain and dopaminergic innervation of the albumen gland in mated and virgin helisoma duryi (mollusca: pulmonata)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Dopamine was shown to stimulate the perivitelline fluid secretion by the albumen gland. Even though the albumen gland has been shown to contain... -
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Use of a rapid arterial blood gas analyzer to estimate blood hemoglobin concentration among critically ill adults
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Objective To evaluate whether measurement of the hemoglobin (Hb) concentration with a blood gas analyzer approximates that determined by a conventional coulter... -
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NO-independent regulatory site of direct sGC stimulators like YC-1 and BAY 41-2272
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The most important receptor for nitic oxide is the soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC), a heme containing heterodimer. Recently, a pyrazolopyridine derivative...