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Time course of muscle soreness following different types of exercise
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Background Post-exercise muscle soreness is a dull, aching sensation that follows unaccustomed muscular exertion. Primarily on the basis of previous laboratory-based... -
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The genetic structure of recombinant inbred mice: high-resolution consensus maps for complex trait analysis
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Background Recombinant inbred (RI) strains of mice are an important resource used to map and analyze complex traits. They have proved particularly effective in... -
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Oral contraceptive use before first birth and risk of breast cancer: a case control study
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Background The aim of this study was first, to investigate whether women starting oral contraceptive (OC) use at a young age and before first birth have an increased... -
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Change of dopamine receptor mRNA expression in lymphocyte of schizophrenic patients
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Background Though the dysfunction of central dopaminergic system has been proposed, the etiology or pathogenesis of schizophrenia is still uncertain partly due to... -
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Prevention and diagnosis of venous thromboembolism in critically ill patients: a Canadian survey
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Background Venous thromboembolism (VTE) confers considerable morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients, although few studies have focused on the critically ill... -
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Pulse pressure and age at menopause
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Background The objective of this study was to study the association of early age at menopause with pulse pressure (PP), a marker of arterial stiffness, and PP change.... -
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Assessment of performance of four mortality prediction systems in a Saudi Arabian intensive care unit
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Introduction The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score... -
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Ibuprofen 400 mg is effective in women, and women are well represented in trials
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Background A recent article in the New Scientist argued that women were under-represented in clinical trials which, until now, had masked the finding that ibuprofen... -
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The influence of age on the female/male ratio of treated incidence rates in depression
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Background Poor data exist on the influence of psychosocial variables on the female/male ratio of depression because of the small number of cases and the resulting... -
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Auto-protective redox buffering systems in stimulated macrophages
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Background Macrophages, upon encounter with micro-organisms or stimulated by cytokines, produce various effector molecules aimed at destroying the foreign agents and... -
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Recruitment, augmentation and apoptosis of rat osteoclasts in 1,25-(OH)
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Background Although much is known about the regulation of osteoclast (OC) formation and activity, little is known about OC senescence. In particular, the fate of of... -
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Phospholipase Cδ regulates germination of
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Background Many eukaryotes, including plants and fungi make spores that resist severe environmental stress. The micro-organism Dictyostelium contains a single... -
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Association of mesenchymal cells and immunoglobulins with differentiating epithelial cells
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Background Mesenchymal-epithelial interactions play an important role in the physiology and pathology of epithelial tissues. Mesenchymal cells either associate with... -
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The Carvedilol Prospective Randomized Cumulative Survival (COPERNICUS) trial
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Previous trials (Metoprolol CR/XL Randomised Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure [MERIT-HF], Cardiac Insufficiency Bisoprolol Study [CIBIS] II) have... -
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Accessing and distributing EMBL data using CORBA (common object request broker architecture)
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Background: The EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is a comprehensive database of DNA and RNA sequences and related information traditionally made available in flat-... -
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The evaluation of yeast derivatives as adjuvants for the immune response to the Bm86 antigen in cattle
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Background The Gavac™ vaccine against the cattle tick Boophilus microplus has proven its efficacy in a large number of controlled and field experiments. However, this... -
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Expression of monolysocardiolipin acyltransferase activity is regulated in concert with the level of cardiolipin and cardiolipin biosynthesis in the mammalian heart
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Background Monolysocardiolipin acyltransferase (MLCL AT) catalyzes the acylation of monolysocardiolipin to cardiolipin in mammalian tissues. We previously reported... -
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Endothelial [Ca2+]iis an integrating signal for the vascular tone in rat aortae
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Although various endothelium-dependent relaxing factors (endothelial autacoids) are released upon the elevation of endothelial cytosolic free Ca2+concentration (EC... -
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Modeling of failure mode in knee ligaments depending on the strain rate
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Background The failure mechanism of the knee ligament (bone-ligament-bone complex) at different strain rates is an important subject in the biomechanics of the knee.... -
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Gene expression profiles derived from fine needle aspiration correlate with response to systemic chemotherapy in breast cancer
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Background Drug resistance in breast cancer is a major obstacle to successful chemotherapy. In this study we used cDNA microarray technology to examine gene...