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Prescribing patterns in premenstrual syndrome
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Over 300 therapies have been proposed for premenstrual syndrome. To date there has been only one survey conducted in the UK of PMS treatments prescribed by... -
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The attributable mortality and length of intensive care unit stay of clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Objective To estimate the mortality and length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) attributable to clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding in mechanically... -
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Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Many alarms, as they now exist in most monitoring systems, are not usually perceived as helpful by the medical staff because of the high incidence of false alarms.... -
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Treatment of established postoperative nausea and vomiting: a quantitative systematic review
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The relative efficacy of antiemetics for the treatment of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is poorly understood. Methods Systematic search... -
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The methionine salvage pathway in
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Background Polyamine synthesis produces methylthioadenosine, which has to be disposed of. The cell recycles it into methionine through methylthioribose (MTR). Very... -
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B lymphocyte involvement in ankylosing spondylitis: the heavy chain variable segment gene repertoire of B lymphocytes from germinal center-like foci in the synovial membrane indicates antigen selection
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The synovial membrane (SM) of affected joints in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is infiltrated by germinal center-like aggregates (foci) of lymphocytes similar to... -
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Separate urinary bladder and prostate neurons in the central nervous system of the rat: simultaneous labeling with two immunohistochemically distinguishable pseudorabies viruses
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background This work examines the central nervous system distribution of virus-labeled neurons from the rat urinary bladder and the prostate simultaneously within the... -
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Do we need clinical trials to test the ability of transdermal HRT to prevent coronary heart disease?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with oral oestrogen was predicted to reduce coronary heart disease (CHD) risk by 50%. Randomized controlled trials... -
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Cre reporter strains produced by targeted insertion of
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Several Cre reporter strains of mice have been described, in which a lacZ gene is turned on in cells expressing Cre recombinase, as well as their daughter... -
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Effects of herbivory on the reproductive effort of 4 prairie perennials
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Herbivory can affect every aspect of a plant's life. Damaged individuals may show decreased survivorship and reproductive output. Additionally, specific... -
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Normalization and analysis of DNA microarray data by self-consistency and local regression
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
A robust semi-parametric normalization technique has been developed, based on the assumption that the large majority of genes will not have their relative expression... -
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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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Practice and professional development plans (PPDPs): results of a feasibility study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Dissatisfaction with uniprofessional education structures as a means of improving the quality of healthcare has led to proposals to develop ways of... -
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HIV infection and aging: enhanced Interferon- and Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha production by the CD8
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background T cells from HIV+ and aged individuals show parallels in terms of suppressed proliferative activity and interleukin-2 (I1-2) production and an increased... -
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Pro/con clinical debate: The use of a protected specimen brush in the diagnosis of ventilator associated pneumonia
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Although mechanical ventilation is instituted as a life-saving technique, it may lead to complications that can negatively impact on patients' morbidity and/or... -
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Four signature motifs define the first class of structurally related large coiled-coil proteins in plants.
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Background Animal and yeast proteins containing long coiled-coil domains are involved in attaching other proteins to the large, solid-state components of the cell.... -
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Human papilloma viruses and cervical tumours: mapping of integration sites and analysis of adjacent cellular sequences
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background In cervical tumours the integration of human papilloma viruses (HPV) transcripts often results in the generation of transcripts that consist of hybrids of... -
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Assessing the molecular genetics of attention networks
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Current efforts to study the genetic underpinnings of higher brain functions have been lacking appropriate phenotypes to describe cognition. One of the... -
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Can Australian general practitioners effectively screen for diabetic retinopathy? A pilot study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Diabetes has been identified as one of the national health priority areas in Australia. After 20 years of diabetes most patients can be expected to develop... -
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Clinical ethics revisited
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
A decade ago, we reviewed the field of clinical ethics; assessed its progress in research, education, and ethics committees and consultation; and made predictions...