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Stable hepatitis C virus RNA detection by RT-PCR during four days storage
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Suboptimal specimen processing and storage conditions of samples which contain hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA may result in a decline of HCV RNA concentration... -
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Identification of bacteria in drinking and purified water during the monitoring of a typical water purification system
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background A typical purification system that provides purified water which meets ionic and organic chemical standards, must be protected from microbial proliferation... -
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Mental health first aid training for the public: evaluation of effects on knowledge, attitudes and helping behavior
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Many members of the public have poor mental health literacy. A Mental Health First Aid training course was developed in order to improve this. This paper... -
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Development of real-time NASBA assays with molecular beacon detection to quantify mRNA coding for HHV-8 lytic and latent genes
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) is linked to the pathogenesis of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), and the HHV-8 DNA load in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) is... -
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Ecdysteroids and oocyte development in the black fly
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Oocyte development was studied in the autogenous black fly, Simulium vittatum (Diptera, Nematocera), a vector of Onchocerca volvulus, the causative agent... -
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Ablation of atrial fibrillation: a procedure come of age?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Various approaches for catheter ablation of focal initiators of atrial fibrillation or the substrate for maintaining atrial fibrillation have evolved over the past 5... -
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Congenital sucrase-isomaltase deficiency presenting with failure to thrive, hypercalcemia, and nephrocalcinosis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Disaccharide Intolerance Type I (Mendelian Interance in Man database: 222900) is a rare inborn error of metabolism resulting from mutation in sucrase-... -
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Cloning and characterisation of hAps1 and hAps2, human diadenosine polyphosphate-metabolising Nudix hydrolases
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The human genome contains at least 18 genes for Nudix hydrolase enzymes. Many have similar functions to one another. In order to understand their roles in... -
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An algorithm for mapping positively selected members of quasispecies-type viruses
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Many RNA viruses do not have a single, representative genome but instead form a set of related variants that has been called a quasispecies. The sequence... -
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Somatic frameshift mutations in the Bloom syndrome
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Genomic instability has been reported at microsatellite tracts in few coding sequences. We have shown that the Bloom syndrome BLM gene may be a target of... -
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Genetic transformation of
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Efficient transformation and regeneration methods are a priority for successful application of genetic engineering to vegetative propagated plants such as... -
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Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins C1/C2 identified as autoantigens by biochemical and mass spectrometric methods
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The antigenic specificity of an unusual antinuclear antibody pattern in three patient sera was identified after separating HeLa-cell nuclear extracts by two-... -
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Identification of conserved C2H2 zinc-finger gene families in the Bilateria
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Identification of orthologous relationships between genes from widely divergent taxa allows partial reconstruction of the gene complement of ancestral... -
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Rheumatoid arthritis, gold therapy, contact allergy and blood cytokines
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Objective To study the clinical and biochemical effects of a low starting dose for gold therapy in rheumatoid arthritis patients with a contact allergy to gold.... -
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Hormone replacement therapy and prevention of vertebral fractures: a meta-analysis of randomised trials
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is often seen as the treatment of choice for preventing fractures in women. We undertook a recent meta-analysis of... -
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A multinational randomized, controlled, clinical trial of etoricoxib in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis [ISRCTN25142273]
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Etoricoxib is a highly selective COX-2 inhibitor which was evaluated for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods Double-blind, randomized,... -
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Food intakes and preferences of hospitalised geriatric patients
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background A cross sectional survey was carried out on 120 hospitalised geriatric patients aged 60 and above in Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur... -
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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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Discrimination of three mutational events that result in a disruption of the R122 primary autolysis site of the human cationic trypsinogen (PRSS1) by denaturing high performance liquid chromatography
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background R122, the primary autolysis site of the human cationic trypsinogen (PRSS1), constitutes an important "self-destruct" or "fail-safe" defensive mechanism... -
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Increasing the satisfaction of general practitioners with continuing medical education programs: A method for quality improvement through increasing teacher-learner interaction
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Continuing medical education (CME) for general practitioners relies on specialist-based teaching methods in many settings. Formal lectures by specialists...