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A criterion audit of women's awareness of blood transfusion in pregnancy
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background In the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) Report, the very high risk of mortality in women who refuse blood transfusions is highlighted. The... -
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Aminoglycoside antibiotics and autism: a speculative hypothesis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Recently, it has been suspected that there is a relationship between therapy with some antibiotics and the onset of autism; but even more curious, some... -
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Insertion of a small peptide of six amino acids into the β7–β8 loop of the p51 subunit of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase perturbs the heterodimer and affects its activities
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background HIV-1 RT is a heterodimeric enzyme, comprising of the p66 and p51 subunits. Earlier, we have shown that the β7-β8 loop of p51 is a key structural element... -
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Nerve growth factor selectively regulates expression of transcripts encoding ribosomal proteins
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background NGF exerts a variety of actions including promotion of neuronal differentiation and survival. The PC12 rat pheochromocytoma cell line has proved valuable... -
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Subjective response to antipsychotic treatment and compliance in schizophrenia. A naturalistic study comparing olanzapine, risperidone and haloperidol (EFESO Study)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background In order to compare the effectiveness of different antipsychotic drugs in the treatment of schizophrenia it is very important to evaluate subjective... -
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Reporting of conflicts of interest in guidelines of preventive and therapeutic interventions
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Guidelines published in major medical journals are very influential in determining clinical practice. It would be essential to evaluate whether conflicts... -
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In what extent anemia coexists with cognitive impairment in elderly: a cross-sectional study in Greece
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background A project aimed at studying the frequency of dementia and depression in the catchment area of the Health Centre of Chrissoupolis (HCCh), Northern Greece,... -
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A comparative study of gallstones from children and adults using FTIR spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Cholelithiasis is the gallstone disease (GSD) where stones are formed in the gallbladder. The main function of the gallbladder is to concentrate bile by... -
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Preoperative prediction of pediatric patients with effusions and edema following cardiopulmonary bypass surgery by serological and routine laboratory data
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Aim Postoperative effusions and edema and capillary leak syndrome in children after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass constitute considerable clinical... -
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Long-term resource variation and group size: A large-sample field test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The Resource Dispersion Hypothesis (RDH) proposes a mechanism for the passive formation of social groups where resources are dispersed, even in the absence... -
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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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Linkage analysis of HLA and candidate genes for celiac disease in a North American family-based study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Celiac disease has a strong genetic association with HLA. However, this association only explains approximately half of the sibling risk for celiac... -
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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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Plasma colloid osmotic pressure in healthy infants
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The plasma colloid osmotic pressure (COP) plays a major role in transcapillary fluid balance. There is no information on plasma COP of healthy infants... -
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VirOligo: a database of virus-specific oligonucleotides
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
VirOligo is a database of virus-specific oligonucleotides. The VirOligo database consists of two tables, Common data and Oligo data. The Oligo data table contains PCR... -
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Specificity of T cells in synovial fluid: high frequencies of CD8
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
CD8+ T cells dominate the lymphocyte population in synovial fluid in chronic inflammatory arthritis. It is known that these CD8+ T cells are often clonally or... -
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Model-based cluster analysis of microarray gene-expression data
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Microarray technologies are emerging as a promising tool for genomic studies. The challenge now is how to analyze the resulting large amounts of data.... -
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Combating Kinetoplastid diseases
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Today's Kinetoplastida form a diverse order of flagellated protozoans that have evolved from an ancient lineage, rooted near the base of the eukaryotic tree. The... -
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Immune ablation and stem-cell therapy in autoimmune disease: Clinical experience
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
In the past 5 years, around 350 patients have received haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation for an autoimmune disease, with 275 of these registered in an... -
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Characterization of a protease produced by a
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Several Trichoderma strains have been reported to be effective in controlling plant diseases, and the action of fungal hydrolytic enzymes has been...