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Expression of p53, inducible nitric oxide synthase and vascular endothelial growth factor in gastric precancerous and cancerous lesions: correlation with clinical features
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Background The growth and metastasis of tumors depend on the development of an adequate blood supply via angiogenesis. Recent studies indicate that the inducible... -
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Structural, functional, and evolutionary analysis of
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Background Pyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylic acid) (pdtc) is a small secreted metabolite that has a high affinity for transition metals, increases iron uptake... -
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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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Detection of mutations in the dystrophin gene via automated DHPLC screening and direct sequencing
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Background Currently molecular diagnostic laboratories focus only on the identification of large deletion and duplication mutations (spanning one exon or more) for... -
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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... -
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Upregulation of the SERCA-type Ca
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Background Ca2+-ATPases of endoplasmic reticulum (SERCAs) are responsible for maintenance of the micro- to millimolar Ca2+ ion concentrations within the endoplasmic... -
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Magnetic stimulation for non-homogeneous biological structures
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Background Magnetic stimulation has gained relatively wide application in studying nervous system structures. This technology has the advantage of reduced excitation... -
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Analysis of human sarcospan as a candidate gene for CFEOM1
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Background Congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles type 1 (CFEOM1) is an autosomal dominant eye movement disorder linked to the pericentromere of chromosome 12... -
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Multigene family isoform profiling from blood cell lineages
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Background Analysis of cell-selective gene expression for families of proteins of therapeutic interest is crucial when deducing the influence of genes upon complex... -
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Genomic organisation and alternative splicing of mouse and human thioredoxin reductase 1 genes
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Background Thioredoxin reductase (TR) is a redox active protein involved in many cellular processes as part of the thioredoxin system. Presently there are three... -
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Expression of human beta-defensins 1 and 2 in kidneys with chronic bacterial infection
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Background Constitutive expression and localization of antimicrobial human β-defensin-1 (HBD-1) in human kidneys as a potential mechanism of antimicrobial defense has...