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<urn:uuid:2a092e3f-e0c2-42f6-8a53-3afb1ad6ae90> | seed | Volume 13, Number 1—January 2007
Death Rates from Malaria Epidemics, Burundi and Ethiopia
Death rates exceeded emergency thresholds at 4 sites during epidemics of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Burundi (2000–2001) and in Ethiopia (2003–2004). Deaths likely from malaria ranged from 1,000 to 8,900, depending on site, a... |
<urn:uuid:0ec6d86a-0aa9-4564-b734-830ccceffd7d> | seed | Volume 14, Number 6—June 2008
Persistence of Yersinia pestis in Soil Under Natural Conditions
As part of a fatal human plague case investigation, we showed that the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, can survive for at least 24 days in contaminated soil under natural conditions. These results have implications for defi... |
<urn:uuid:fc748d0e-4d8d-49db-b3fd-5cf3a227561e> | seed | Volume 6, Number 6—December 2000
International Editor's Update
For 20 years after the end of World War II, infectious diseases were endemic throughout Japan, which served during this first postwar phase almost as a museum of communicable diseases. Improvements in socioeconomic conditions, infrastructure (especially wat... |
<urn:uuid:efc8dc1b-c028-4dd0-aa44-9aaf7aa11624> | seed | August 22, 2014
- Ebola is the cause of a viral hemorrhagic fever disease.
- Currently, there are no FDA-approved vaccines or drugs to prevent or treat Ebola.
- Ebola does not pose a significant risk to the U.S. public.
- Treatment: CDC recommends supportive therapy for patients as the primary treatment for Ebola. This... |
<urn:uuid:a8250f48-9ab2-4a93-a264-a0f9a1b417c1> | seed | of executive functioning, processing speed, verbal fluency and verbal memory individuals
diagnosed with Depression or Bipolar disorder were found to perform worse than control
subjects (Neurology Reviews, April 2010).
were physically active and used the Mediterranean diet showed a sixty percent
lower risk for Alzheimer... |
<urn:uuid:d116c0e7-471c-4f69-bc05-781761f2bcf4> | seed | This view shows enzymes only for those organisms listed below, in the list of taxa known to possess the pathway. If an enzyme name is shown in bold, there is experimental evidence for this enzymatic activity.
|Superclasses:||Biosynthesis → Secondary Metabolites Biosynthesis → Phenylpropanoid Derivatives Biosynthesis → ... |
<urn:uuid:70268cda-32b6-4f85-9117-9fac4853ea3c> | seed | Controversy still exists over the exact contributions of the allantois and the ventral cloaca to urachal formation.
Four anatomic urachal variants have been described, depending on the degree of urachal tubularization and the status of associated umbilical vessels.
1. Patent Urachus
Failure of complete urachal lumen cl... |
<urn:uuid:23fe57f7-0901-4205-9c4a-5b03f4d96cfe> | seed | PUTTING A FACE ON A CLASS OF VIRAL DEUBIQUITINATING ENZYMES
March 12th, 2007
(l to r) Authors Wilhelm Weihofen, Rachelle Gaudet and Christian Schlieker
Herpesviruses (members of the Herpesviridae family) are widespread pathogens, causing disease in humans and animals. The family name stems from the Greek herpein ("to c... |
<urn:uuid:f81e69c8-9d0f-42b8-b017-8b57a6f7b487> | seed | Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Biological: Behavioural genetics · Evolutionary psychology · Neuroanatomy · Neurochemistry · Neuroendocrinology · Neuroscience · Psychoneuroimmunology · Physiological Psychology · Psychopharmaco... |
<urn:uuid:c6f16d16-d16e-4711-877d-9d3cbcf9690b> | seed | Tesmer Lab Research Summary
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are responsible for the sensations of sight and smell, for regulation of blood pressure and heart rate, and for many other cellular events. Signals impinging upon the exterior of the cell induce a conformational change in these GPCRs that allows them to ac... |
<urn:uuid:791cbe2a-2bad-4c9d-9d39-b3a292999151> | seed | The involvement of Propionibacterium acnes in the pathogenesis of acne is controversial, mainly owing to its dominance as an inhabitant of healthy skin. This study tested the hypothesis that specific evolutionary lineages of the species are associated with acne while others are compatible with health. Phylogenetic reco... |
<urn:uuid:461c461f-c56b-4800-a826-84a9cbed2af6> | seed | Digital tomosynthesis creates a three-dimensional picture of the breast using x-rays. Several low-dose images from different angles around the breast are used to create the final 3-D picture.
A mammogram creates a two-dimensional image of the breast from two x-ray images of each breast.
Digital tomosynthesis is approve... |
<urn:uuid:eb1f8fcb-1e0f-4122-84c0-df25b70a35b2> | seed | Am Fam Physician. 1999 Apr 15;59(8):2331-2332.
Head trauma in children results in 600,000 emergency department visits and 95,000 hospital admissions per year. It is likely that many more such children are evaluated in physicians' offices. Predicting which children require diagnostic imaging can be difficult, and no est... |
<urn:uuid:1b5ac462-b660-4ed0-8b4a-71d813f74b46> | seed | What is the Apgar score and why is it done? What if my baby’s skin is slightly yellow? Find out what to expect in those early hours and days after your baby is born.
From the moment your newborn’s head comes out of the birth canal, your medical team will evaluate and care for your child. You may not notice much of the ... |
<urn:uuid:d86f2c26-64de-432d-ac0d-84eb3b3999b7> | seed | "Fluorescence tools that provide high-resolution fluorescence pictures are likely to provide more reliable scores than fluorescence devices that assess via a single spot," wrote the study authors, from the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry. "The better visibility of the high-resolution fluores... |
<urn:uuid:4b40fb26-e55d-4037-a156-482d3627819c> | seed | Medications necessary for disease management can simultaneously contribute to weight gain, especially in children. Patients with preexisting obesity are more susceptible to medication-related weight gain.
How equipped are primary care practitioners at identifying and potentially reducing medication-related weight gain?... |
<urn:uuid:d7ed134d-0229-42a2-96f8-b7a31bef17c8> | seed | (Medical Xpress)—Despite early optimistic studies, the promise of curing neurological conditions using transplants remains unfulfilled. While researchers have exhaustively cataloged different types of cells in the brain, and also the largely biochemical issues underlying common diseases, neural repair shops are still a... |
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Over the past decade, researchers have shifted their focus from documenting health care disparities to identifying solutions to close the gap in care. Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is... |
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What is the official name of the MITF gene?
The official name of this gene is “microphthalmia-associated transcription factor.”
MITF is the gene's official symbol. The MITF gene is also known by other names, listed below.
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<urn:uuid:a3d121da-2adf-4328-936e-730ed1b25763> | seed | Psychiatry has begun the laborious effort of preparing the DSM-V, the new iteration of its diagnostic manual. In so doing, it once again wrestles with the task set by Carl Linnaeus, to "cleave nature at its joints." However, these "joints," the boundaries between psychiatric disorders, such as that between bipolar diso... |
<urn:uuid:31e91eb3-e2c3-4481-a89e-c3e93d199343> | seed | Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab)
What is LDL cholesterol? What blood level of LDL cholesterol is considered optimal and why are high levels of LDL cholesterol a key marker of death risk from heart disease?
Cholesterol is a lipid that is both produced in the liver and gained through food int... |
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The thalassemias are among the most common genetic disorders worldwide, occurring more frequently in the Mediterranean region. The aim of this study was to determined frequency of sensory-neural hearing loss in major ß- thalassemias transfusion dependent patien... |
<urn:uuid:a7ccd0e6-20b5-445e-82f4-70dbd56a7917> | seed | Rather than testing for individual marker genes or proteins, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have evidence that groups, or networks, of interactive genes may be more reliable in determining the likelihood that a form of leukemia is fast-moving or s... |
<urn:uuid:1616e0f8-9657-4124-92ae-d314570dc1e0> | seed | VANCOUVER – Researchers at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital are developing a revolutionary new test to diagnose and facilitate treatment of organ rejection in transplant patients.
The $9.1-million Vancouver-based study, called Better Biomarkers of Acute and Chronic Allograft Rejection Project, led by ... |
<urn:uuid:61b68b93-f1eb-4ad2-a0c2-aa78b16b21f1> | seed | In computational ethology, the measurement of optokinetic responses (OKR) is an established method to determine thresholds of the visual system in various animal species. Wide-field movements of the visual environment elicit the typical body, head and eye-movements of optokinetic responses. Experimentally, usually reg... |
<urn:uuid:273ecec9-6e61-49db-b610-9d18266be34f> | seed | Transverse section of a portion of the spleen. (Spleen pulp labeled at lower right.)
||This article needs attention from an expert in Anatomy. (November 2008)|
The red pulp of the spleen is composed of connective tissue known as the cords of Billroth and many splenic sinuses that are engorged with blood, giving it a re... |
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