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Modulation of cathepsin G expression in severe atopic dermatitis following medium-dose UVA1 phototherapy
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Background During the last decade, medium-dose UVA1 phototherapy (50 J/cm2) has achieved great value within the treatment of severe atopic dermatitis (AD). The... -
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Paper reports: Combating the invasion of intensive care literature
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Subunit modification and association in VR1 ion channels
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Background The capsaicin (vanilloid) receptor, VR1, is an agonist-activated ion channel expressed by sensory neurons that serves as a detector of chemical and thermal... -
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Retroviral vectors for establishing tetracycline-regulated gene expression in an otherwise recalcitrant cell line
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Background Tetracycline-regulated systems have been used to control the expression of heterologous genes in such diverse organisms as yeast, plants, flies and mice.... -
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Sequence requirements for RNA strand transfer during nidovirus discontinuous subgenomic RNA synthesis
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Nidovirus subgenomic mRNAs contain a leader sequence derived from the 5′ end of the genome fused to different sequences (‘bodies’) derived from the 3′ end. Their... -
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Blood borne transit of CJD from brain to gut at early stages of infection
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Background In Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and other related transmissible spongiform encephalopathies it is critical to understand the various pathways by which... -
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Do steroids prevent reintubation in children with laryngotracheobronchitis?
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Background: Classic laryngotrachoebronchitis (LTB) is an inflammatory process, with oedema and secretions that involve the entire laryngotracheobronchial tree. The... -
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Acute hemodynamic effects of inhaled nitric oxide, dobutamine and a combination of the two in patients with mild to moderate secondary pulmonary hypertension
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Introduction The use of low-dose dobutamine to maintain hemodynamic stability in pulmonary hypertension may have a detrimental effect on gas exchange. The aim of this... -
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Concordance between genetic relatedness and phenotypic similarities of
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Background Despite the medical importance of trichomoniasis, little is known about the genetic relatedness of Trichomonas vaginalis strains with similar biological... -
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Treatment of achalasia: the short-term response to botulinum toxin injection seems to be independent of any kind of pretreatment
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Background It has been suggested that intrasphincteric injection of botulinum toxin (BTX) may represent an alternative therapy to balloon dilatation in achalasia. The... -
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Antibiotics for coughing in general practice: a questionnaire study to quantify and condense the reasons for prescribing
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Background Antibiotics are being overprescribed in ambulant care, especially for respiratory tract infections (RTIs). Gaining insight into the actual reasons for... -
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The κB transcriptional enhancer motif and signal sequences of V(D)J recombination are targets for the zinc finger protein HIVEP3/KRC: a site selection amplification binding study
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Background The ZAS family is composed of proteins that regulate transcription via specific gene regulatory elements. The amino-DNA binding domain (ZAS-N) and the... -
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Saline lavage with substitution of bovine surfactant in term neonates with meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) transferred for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): a pilot study
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Background: Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) is still a condition associated with a high mortality, and many patients require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation... -
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Acquisition of tolerance against oxidative damage in
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Background Living cells constantly sense and adapt to redox shifts by the induction of genes whose products act to maintain the cellular redox environment. In the... -
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The Metal Coordination of sCD39 during ATP Hydrolysis
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Background The hydrolysis of ATP and ADP by ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 1 (CD39) requires divalent cations, like Ca2+ and Mg2+. In spite of... -
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Agitation in the ICU: part one Anatomical and physiologic basis for the agitated state
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Annotated Bibliography on Equity in Health, 1980-2001
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The purposes of this bibliography are to present an overview of the published literature on equity in health and to summarize key articles relevant to the mission of... -
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Multi site polyadenylation and transcriptional response to stress of a vacuolar type H
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Background Vacuolar type H+-ATPases play a critical role in the maintenance of vacuolar homeostasis in plant cells. V-ATPases are also involved in plants' defense... -
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Multi-exon deletions of the
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Background Mutations in the fibrillin -1 gene (FBN1) cause Marfan syndrome (MFS), an autosomal dominant multi-system connective tissue disorder. The 200 different... -
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Towards understanding the first genome sequence of a crenarchaeon by genome annotation using clusters of orthologous groups of proteins (COGs)
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Background: Standard archival sequence databases have not been designed as tools for genome annotation and are far from being optimal for this purpose. We used the...