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Outbreak of bovine clinical mastitis caused by Mycoplasma bovis in a North Italian herd. This report describes an outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis mastitis affecting 45 cows in a herd of 122 dairy cattle in Northern Italy. Clinically, the outbreak was characterized by agalactia, multiple swollen and painless quarters, high...
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Metabolism of natural retinoids in psoriatic epidermis. Synthetic retinoids that have distinct therapeutic activity on psoriatic plaques act at least in part through the metabolic pathways of natural retinoids. The metabolism of retinol, retinal, and retinoic acid in human epidermis in general and psoriatic plaques in ...
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Continuing health professional education: objectives and instructional strategies. The efficacy of continuing health professional education (CHPE) depends upon both the learner and the teacher. The goals of CHPE activities are to improve, enhance, and maintain the learner's professional competence. This article, third ...
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[Study on stability of major pharmaceutical ingredients of vladimiriae radix before and after being roasted in artificial gastric juice, artificial intestinal juice and isolated rat gastric, intestinal or colonic incubation juice]. To study the stability of costunolide (COS) and dehydrocostus lactone (DEH) of Vladimiri...
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Proposed system for ultrafast computed tomography. Construction of a new ultrafast scanner system suitable for dynamic computed tomography is now under consideration, with development soon to begin. This system will be characterized by an electronically controlled X-ray generator with wide angle double diffraction, whi...
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Kit formulation for preparation and biological evaluation of a novel (99m)Tc-oxo complex with metronidazole xanthate for imaging tumor hypoxia. Achieving an ideal (99m)Tc labeled nitroimidazole hypoxia marker is still considered to be of great interest. Metronidazole xanthate (MNXT) ligand was synthesized and radiolabe...
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Secondary ion emission induced by fission fragment impact in CO-NH(3) and CO-NH(3)-H(2)O ices: modification in the CO-NH(3) ice structure. CO-NH(3) and CO-NH(3)-H(2)O ices at 25-130 K were bombarded by (252)Cf fission fragments ( approximately 65 MeV at the target surface) and the emitted secondary ions were analyzed b...
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Changes in grapevine leaf phenolic profiles during the day are temperature rather than irradiance driven. Photosynthesis parameters, adaxial flavonoid index, phenolic profiles and antioxidant capacities of south-facing sun exposed grapevine leaves (Vitis vinifera, Pinot Noir cultivar) were measured hourly between 7 a.m...
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Dopamine D3 receptor agonists as pharmacological tools. Dysregulation of the dopaminergic innervation in the central nervous system plays a key role in different neurological disorders like Parkinson´s disease, restless legs syndrome, schizophrenia etc. Although dopamine D3 receptors have been recognized as an importan...
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Evaluation and monitoring of patients with acute heart failure syndromes. Advanced heart failure (HF) is associated with frequent hospitalizations, poor quality of life, and increased mortality. Despite optimal medical management, readmission rates remain high and account for approximately two thirds of all costs relat...
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Conjunctival and intraocular swabs for the microbiological assessment of donor corneas. In this study, we investigated the associations between conjunctival (co) and intraocular (io) swabs and their implications for the contamination rates of organ-cultured corneas. A total of 4177 swabs from 1054 corneas of 527 donors...
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Presymptomatic detection of Huntington's disease. Because of the usually late onset of Huntington's disease (HD) most sufferers have reproduced and passed the HD gene to about one half of their offspring before they themselves develop symptoms of the disease. Genetic counseling of persons at risk of HD would be greatly...
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Modelling correlated clinical outcomes in health technology appraisal. Many clinical treatments have multiple effects that can only be effectively captured on multiple outcome scales. It might be important to understand how these outcomes are correlated to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatments...
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Expression of polymeric immunoglobulin receptor and stromal activity in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (pIgR) traffics Immunoglobulins (IgA and IgM) through epithelial cells in normal mucosae but neither are expressed in the normal pancreas. Recent work from our laboratory suggested...
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Rheumatic heart disease in Ethiopia: could it be more malignant? The objectives of the study were to evaluate severity of rhenumatic heart disease (RHD) using age at time of death as its indicator and to look for factors associated with the severity. Retrospective study of consecutive cardiovascular deaths in the medic...
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Coordinated agonist regulation of receptor and G protein palmitoylation and functional rescue of palmitoylation-deficient mutants of the G protein G11alpha following fusion to the alpha1b-adrenoreceptor: palmitoylation of G11alpha is not required for interaction with beta*gamma complex. Transfection of either the alpha...
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Therapeutic strategies for catatonia in paraneoplastic encephalitis. This report is about a 40-year-old man suffering from fluctuating catatonia as main symptom of long-lasting paraneoplastic encephalitis caused by a testicular neoplasm. With recurrence of a neoplasm initially diagnosed as seminoma after a 7-year sympt...
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Embedded performance validity indicators within the California Verbal Learning Test, Children's Version. To date, few studies have examined the use of embedded performance validity indicators in pediatric populations. The present study examined the utility of variables within the California Verbal Learning Test, Childr...
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Detection of osteoarthritis in knee and hip joints by fast field-cycling NMR. It is known that in the early stages of osteoarthritis, the concentration of glycan proteins decreases in articular cartilage. This phenomenon is under active research to develop a means to characterize osteoarthritis accurately in the early ...
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Urodynamic investigations and their reproducibility in healthy postmenopausal females. Twelve healthy postmenopausal volunteers underwent urodynamic investigation twice within two months. The two investigations were highly reproducible. The maximum urethral closure pressure and the functional profile length were on ave...
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Long-term survival after surgical intensive care unit admission: fifty percent die within 10 years. Treatment of surgical patients in intensive care unit (ICU) comes along with major disadvantages, which have to be justified by some acceptable short- and long-term outcomes. Short-term effects of treatment in ICU have b...
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Islet amyloid polypeptide and calcitonin gene-related peptide immunoreactivity in amyloid and tumor cells of canine pancreatic endocrine tumors. Seven canine pancreatic endocrine tumors were evaluated immunohistochemically for the presence of islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), and...
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Photoswitchable Carbohydrate-Based Macrocyclic Azobenzene: Synthesis, Chiroptical Switching, and Multistimuli-Responsive Self-Assembly. A one-pot O-alkylation mediated macrocyclization approach has been used for the synthesis of carbohydrate-based macrocyclic azobenzene. The synthesized macrocycle can be reversibly iso...
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[A new genetic technology makes the production of human monoclonal antibodies simpler]. New advances in DNA technology have enabled repertoires of antibodies to be cloned and expressed in bacteria (E coli), thus creating libraries of antibody DNA. In principle, heavy and light chain DNA is amplified from lymphocyte RNA...
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The validity and reliability of chinese frontal assessment battery in evaluating executive dysfunction among Chinese patients with small subcortical infarct. Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is a valid and reliable screening test for evaluating executive dysfunction among whites with frontal and subcortical degenerativ...
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Thiamine repression and pyruvate decarboxylase autoregulation independently control the expression of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae PDC5 gene. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene PDC5 encodes the minor isoform of pyruvate decarboxylase (Pdc). In this work we show that expression of PDC5 but not that of PDC1, which encodes...
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Rotating frame for the in-situ fixation of large animals. The frame for the in-situ fixation of large animals can be rotated around its longtitudinal axis. Thereby the fixing procedure is improved and the anatomical preparation is easier.
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Assessment of anaerobic wastewater treatment failure using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. The suitability of genetic fingerprinting to study the microbiological basis of anaerobic bioreactor failure is investigated. Two laboratory-scale anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed bioreactors, R1...
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Retama species growing in different ecological-climatic areas of northeastern Algeria have a narrow range of rhizobia that form a novel phylogenetic clade within the Bradyrhizobium genus. Sixty-seven isolates were isolated from nodules collected on roots of Mediterranean shrubby legumes Retama raetam and Retama sphaero...
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The relationship between challenging behaviours, mood and interest/pleasure in adults with severe and profound intellectual disabilities. We investigated whether current mood and interest/pleasure ratings in adults with moderate to profound intellectual disabilities were predictive of challenging behaviour [self-injuri...
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Dexamethasone nonsuppression in chronic schizophrenia. It has been suggested that dexamethasone nonsuppression in schizophrenia is related to the presence of negative symptoms. In a sample of chronic schizophrenic outpatients we could find no relationship between dexamethasone nonsuppression and negative symptoms. In a...
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Neurofibromatosis: the role of guanosine triphosphatase activating proteins in sensory neuron function. Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common autosomal dominant disease characterized by formation of multiple benign and malignant tumors. People with this disorder also experience chronic pain, which can be disabling...
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Short-term effects of triiodothyronine on exogenous and de novo synthesized fatty acids in rat hepatocytes. The short-term effect of T3 both on de novo synthesized and on exogenously added fatty acids was studied in isolated rat hepatocytes. Lipogenesis from [14C] acetate or [3H] H2O was stimulated by the addition of T...
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Mitral and aortic valve replacement in valvular rheumatoid heart disease. Specific endocarditis involving the aortic and mitral valves in a patient with peripheral rheumatoid arthritis is reported. The patient underwent prosthetic replacement of both valves. Typical rheumatoid nodules were detected histologically in th...
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Direct modulation of volume-regulated anion channels by Ca(2+) chelating agents. Ca(2+) chelating agents are widely used in biological research for Ca(2+) buffering. Here we report that BAPTA, EDTA and HEDTA produce fast, reversible, voltage-dependent inhibition of swelling-activated Cl(-) current (I(Cl,swell)) in LNCa...
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Integrating the wisdom and experience of indigenous farmworkers to improve farmworker safety and health. Community advisory committees (CACs) increasingly are formed to cultivate partnerships between researchers and communities. This article details the processes used to recruit CAC members, the purpose and structure o...
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Over-expression of alpha-actinin with a GFP fusion protein is sufficient to increase whole-cell stiffness in human osteoblasts. Osteoblasts respond to shear stress by simultaneously increasing their whole-cell stiffness and up-regulating the cytoskeletal crosslinking protein alpha-actinin. The stiffness of reconstitute...
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[Behavior of the renal functional reserve in type I diabetic patients: effect of ACE-inhibition]. Renal functional reserve capacity was evaluated in 19 normotensive type I diabetics without microalbuminuria. All patients had normal basal renal function as assessed by 24-hour creatinine clearances higher than 120 ml/min...
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A comparison of methods for multiclass support vector machines. Support vector machines (SVMs) were originally designed for binary classification. How to effectively extend it for multiclass classification is still an ongoing research issue. Several methods have been proposed where typically we construct a multiclass c...
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Responses from the exposed human auditory nerve to pseudorandom noise. Whole-nerve responses to lowpass-filtered noise (2.5 kHz) and broadband click stimuli were recorded from the exposed intracranial portion of the eighth nerve in patients with normal hearing who were undergoing neurosurgical operations to relieve vas...
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The complete genome sequence of the Alphaentomopoxvirus Anomala cuprea entomopoxvirus, including its terminal hairpin loop sequences, suggests a potentially unique mode of apoptosis inhibition and mode of DNA replication. Complete genome sequence of Anomala cuprea entomopoxvirus, which belongs to the genus Alphaentomop...
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Nomenclature for human CYP2D6 alleles. To standardize CYP2D6 allele nomenclature, and to conform with international human gene nomenclature guidelines, an alternative to the current arbitrary system is described. Based on recommendations for human genome nomenclature, we propose that alleles be designated by CYP2D6 fol...
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Ease of use and acceptability of a new pen device for the administration of growth hormone therapy in pediatric patients: an open-label, uncontrolled usability test. Recombinant human growth hormone (GH) is used for the treatment of several conditions associated with growth retardation and metabolic dysfunction. These ...
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Atomic motion in magneto-optical double-well potentials: a testing ground for quantum chaos. We have identified ultracold atoms in magneto-optical double-well potentials as a very clean setting in which to study the quantum and classical dynamics of a nonlinear system with multiple degrees of freedom. In this system, e...
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Two host gut-derived lactic acid bacteria activate the proPO system and increase resistance to an AHPND-causing strain of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are group of beneficial bacteria that have been proposed as relevant probiotics with immunomodulatory functions...
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Role of dopamine in the motivational and cognitive control of behavior. Brain dopamine has often been implicated in impulsive and/or inflexible behaviors, which may reflect failures of motivational and/or cognitive control. However, the precise role of dopamine in such failures of behavioral control is not well underst...
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Gene expressivity is the main factor in dictating the codon usage variation among the genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Codon usage biases of all DNA sequences (length greater than or equal to 300 bp) from the complete genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa have been analyzed. As P. aeruginosa is a GC-rich organism, G and/or ...
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Assessment of pelvic floor of women runners by three-dimensional ultrasonography and surface electromyography. A pilot study. To evaluate female runners' pelvic floor muscles using three-dimensional ultrasonography (3DUS) and surface electromyography (SEMG). A cross-sectional study was conducted on 24 female runners. S...
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Synthesis of TiO2-N/SnO2 heterostructure photocatalyst and its photocatalytic mechanism. A series of TiO2-N/SnO2X heterostructure photocatalysts were synthesized by a hydrolysis-deposition method. The structure, existing states of N and SnO2 heterostructure at the interface of TiO2-N/SnO2X were studied by EADX, XRD, Ra...
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Factors associated with pre-slaughter mortality in turkeys and end of lay hens. Pre-slaughter transportation may affect poultry welfare and mortality rates. A retrospective analysis was conducted to examine the effect of environmental, management and individual factors on the percentage of dead birds during pre-slaught...
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Primary care physicians' involvement in the cancer care of older long-term survivors. This study investigated survivors' reports of primary care physicians' (PCPs) involvement in three key cancer survivorship activities: discussing cancer history, whether the PCP initiated discussions, and whether discussions led to te...
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Quantitative assessment of regional myocardial function with MR-tagging in a multi-center study: interobserver and intraobserver agreement of fast strain analysis with Harmonic Phase (HARP) MRI. To assess the reproducibility of Harmonic Phase (HARP) analysis of myocardial MR tagged images acquired in the Multi-Center S...
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Solution NMR studies of the integral membrane proteins OmpX and OmpA from Escherichia coli. Membrane proteins are usually solubilized in polar solvents by incorporation into micelles. Even for small membrane proteins these mixed micelles have rather large molecular masses, typically beyond 50000 Da. The NMR technique T...
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Does an intracanal composite anchorage replace posts? This study aims to assess the effectiveness of an intracanal composite anchorage to replace conventionally cemented titanium or bonded glass fibre posts. Post space preparation was performed up to depths of 6 mm (groups 1 and 2) and 3 mm (group 3) in root filled man...
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[Köhlmeier-Degos disease (Malignant Atrophic Papulosis): a cause of recurrent multiple intestinal perforations]. Malignant Atrophic Papulosis (MAP) or Degos disease is a very rare vasculopathy affecting multiple systems. When associated with gastrointestinal tract or central nervous system involvment, patients with Deg...
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1H, 13C and 15N nuclear magnetic resonance coordination shifts in Au(III), Pd(II) and Pt(II) chloride complexes with phenylpyridines. 1H, 13C and 15N nuclear magnetic resonance studies of gold(III), palladium(II) and platinum(II) chloride complexes with phenylpyridines (PPY: 4-phenylpyridine, 4ppy; 3-phenylpyridine, 3p...
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Regulation of glycoprotein synthesis by thymic hormones in human thymocytes. The synthesis of glycoproteins was studied in human thymocytes by metabolic labeling of cells with [3H] fucose and the influence of two thymic hormones, thymopoietin and thymosin fraction V was examined. Membrane and cytoplasmic proteins were ...
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Frictional resistance in plastic preadjusted brackets ligated with low-friction and conventional elastomeric ligatures. To compare frictional resistance of the plastic preadjusted brackets ligated with the low-friction ligatures with those of the conventional elastomeric ligatures. In vitro study. Department of Orthodo...
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Improved efficiency of canine nucleus transfer using roscovitine-treated canine fibroblasts. The aim of this study was to investigate whether roscovitine (the cyclin-dependent kinase 2 inhibitor) effectively induces synchronization of the donor cell cycle at G0/G1 and to examine the effect of donor cell cycle synchroni...
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HLA-A2 allelic microvariants in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. HLA-A2-positive nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC; n = 38) and normal control (n = 51) populations were analysed by high-resolution oligotyping to identify A2 allelic microvariants. Within the control group, A*0207 was found to be the most common allele, accounting ...
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Effects of single-variable biofeedback on wheelchair handrim biomechanics. To determine the effects of single-variable biofeedback on select wheelchair propulsion variables. Within-subject comparisons. Biomechanics laboratory. Manual wheelchair users (N=31). Biofeedback on braking moment, cadence, contact angle, peak f...
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Transfer ribonucleic acid guanine transglycosylase isolated from rat liver. Transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) guanine transglycosylase (guanine insertion enzyme) was isolated from rat liver and extensively purified. The enzyme catalyzes an exchange of queuine (the base of queuosine, Q) as well as its precursors and guan...
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Assessment of safe injection practices in health facilities in Oman. Unsafe injection practices put patients and providers at risk of infectious and noninfectious adverse events. A 2001 Ministry of Health survey on injection practices in Oman indicated that, while overall standards were good, in some areas there was a ...
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[The seromucous tympanum]. In children who underwent adenoidectomy, paracentesis or tympanotomy with tube insertion, secretory otitis media continued in about 30% of 397 ears. In order to prevent degenerative changes of the ear-drum repeated insertion of ventilation tubes had to be performed. Anatomical peculiarities, ...
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Sequence of electrocardiographic and acoustic cardiographic changes and angina during coronary occlusion and reperfusion in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Previous studies have suggested that ventricular function may be impaired without or prior to electrocardiographic changes or angina during ...
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Beyond animals and plants: dynamic maternal effects in the fungus Neurospora crassa. Maternal effects are widely documented in animals and plants, but not in fungi or other eukaryotes. A principal cause of maternal effects is asymmetrical parental investment in a zygote, creating greater maternal vs. paternal influence...
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Health practices and illness cognition in young, middle aged, and elderly adults. The present paper examines reported frequencies of 21 health practices, beliefs that these health practices can prevent six different illnesses, and beliefs about those illnesses in a community sample of 396 people: 173 young (20 to 39 ye...
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Role of lysines in human angiogenin: chemical modification and site-directed mutagenesis. The role of lysines in the ribonucleolytic and angiogenic activities of human angiogenin has been examined by chemical modification and site-directed mutagenesis. It was demonstrated previously [Shapiro, R., Weremowicz, S., Riorda...
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Language, modality and the brain. Studies of the signed languages of deaf people have shown that fully expressive languages can arise, outside of the mainstream of spoken languages, that exhibit the complexities of linguistic organization found in all spoken languages. Thus, the human capacity for language is not linke...
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Integrating the New York citywide immunization registry and the childhood blood lead registry. In February of 2004, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene completed the integration of its childhood immunization and blood lead test registry databases, each containing over 2 million children. A modular...
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HsaI: a restriction enzyme from human being. The HsaI restriction enzyme from the embryos of human, Homo sapiens, has been isolated with both the tissue extract and nuclear extract. It proves to be an unusual enzyme, clearly related functionally to Type II endonuclease. HsaI seems to be an isoschizomer of EcoRI, but it...
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S100B in schizophrenia: an update. Recent research has supported a potential role of immune pathology in the etiopathogenesis of schizophrenic. In the CNS various viruses were identified in the brains of schizophrenic patients. Pro-inflammatory cytokines were found to be associated with the stage of disease. Microglial...
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Isoflavone conjugates are underestimated in tissues using enzymatic hydrolysis. Many health effects of soy foods are attributed to isoflavones. Isoflavones upon absorption present as free form, glucuronide, and sulfate conjugates in blood, urine, and bile. Little is known about the molecular forms and the relative conc...
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Condylar replacement alone is not sufficient for prosthetic reconstruction of the temporomandibular joint. Prosthetic reconstruction of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is a controversial method of treatment. This paper presents 2 cases that illustrate the problem with prosthetic reconstruction of the condylar head wi...
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[Estimation of occlusal force based on tooth displacement during mastication]. The objective of this study was to clarify the relation between the occlusal force and the tooth displacement path just after unloading, and to estimate the occlusal force during mastication with healthy natural teeth. Three-dimensional occl...
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A computer-controlled indirect calorimeter for the measurement of energy expenditure in one or two subjects simultaneously. An indirect calorimeter is described with which it is possible to make recordings of oxygen uptake, carbon dioxide production and respiratory quotient in one or two subjects simultaneously. The ga...
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Introduced leishmaniasis on Taiwan. Leishmaniasis is not known to be indigenous to Taiwan but a number of imported cases of visceral as well as post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis have been seen. Only two autochthonous cases of cutaneous-subcutaneous diseases have been documented in aborigines but no cases of visceral ...
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Flipped Class - Making that One Hour Effective in a Resource Constrained Setting. Flipped-class teaching has a great potential to replace traditional lectures in medical education. This study was designed to explore attitude of undergraduate medical students from Pakistan towards flipped-class. Five flipped classes wer...
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The formation of the mesoderm in urodelean amphibians : III. The vegetalizing action of the Li ion. Strong Li treatment leads to auto-activation of blastula and gastrula ectoderm due to lethal and sublethal cytolysis, resulting in adirect meso- and endodermization of the ectoderm. In contrast, a mild Li treatment-0.04 ...
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Exciton dynamics reveal aggregates with intermolecular order at hidden interfaces in solution-cast organic semiconducting films. Large-scale organic electronics manufacturing requires solution processing. For small-molecule organic semiconductors, solution processing results in crystalline domains with high charge mobi...
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Cutaneous photoaging treated with a combined 595/1064 nm laser. The pulsed dye laser (PDL) has been used for a variety of vascular changes associated with photoaging. The Nd:YAG laser has been shown to be effective in the treatment of deeper facial vessels, as well as to stimulate new dermal collagen deposition. This s...
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[Lipid peroxidation in experimental adrenaline-induced glaucoma]. It is shown that in dynamics of the development of experimental glaucoma, simulated in rabbits, there takes place accumulation of lipid peroxidation products in the blood of animals. It is recorded that with the rise of intraocular pressure, tonographic ...
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Hepatic sinusoidal dilatation associated to giant lymph node hyperplasia (Castleman's): a new case in a patient with periorbital xanthelasmas and history of celiac disease. We present a new case of hepatic sinusoidal dilatation associated to giant lymph node hyperplasia or Castleman's disease in a 23-year-old patient w...
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Generation of hematopoietic stem cells from purified embryonic endothelial cells by a simple and efficient strategy. Recent progress by versatile approaches supports the new hypothesis that multi-potent hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are directly formed from a rare population of endothelial cells in mid-gestation mous...
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Anti-multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii activity of DS-8587: In vitro activity and in vivo efficacy in a murine calf muscle infection model. DS-8587 is a novel broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone with extended antimicrobial activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens. In this study, we evaluated...
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Application of the multi-planar reconstruction in endovascular treatment of type B aortic dissection. Although Multi-planar reconstruction (MPR) has been considered a diagnostic imaging technique that observes more perspectives for diseases, few people have applied it surgically. In fact, MPR is also very useful to cli...
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Attendance compliance for short-course tuberculosis chemotherapy at clinics in Estcourt and surroundings. The attendance compliance records of 50 consecutive patients with pulmonary tuberculosis referred to clinics in a rural area for supervised short-course chemotherapy showed that clinics in the remote areas had a mu...
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Eye safety practices in U.S. dental school restorative clinics, 2006. This study was conducted to determine how much progress U.S. dental schools have made in providing eye protection during restorative (adult operative and fixed prosthodontic) procedures since a 1979 survey. A seven-question survey was placed at a web...
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Helping the helper: 528th Combat Stress Center in Somalia. Seventy-three Rangers were injured and 18 were killed after an ambush in Somalia. Members of the 46th Combat Support Hospital provided nearly continuous care to the wounded soldiers over the subsequent 36 hours. Members of the 528th Combat Stress Center provide...
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An analysis of hospital trauma care performance evaluation. The purpose of this article was to report on a study on the hospital trauma care performance evaluation based on a database of trauma events of participating UK and European hospitals. Performance evaluation has become increasingly important in the quality ass...
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Explaining governmental involvement in home care across Europe: an international comparative study. The involvement of governments in the home care sector strongly varies across Europe. This study aims to explain the differences through the conditions for the involvement of informal care and governments in society; wea...
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Time course study of substrate utilization by Aspergillus flavus in medium simulating corn (Zea mays) kernels. Utilization of the three major corn reserve materials, starch, triglycerides (refined corn oil), and zein (storage protein), by Aspergillus flavus was monitored in vitro over a 7-day fermentation. Medium compo...
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Effect of household preparation on levels of pesticide residues in produce. In 1993, the National Academy of Sciences released a report on the effects of pesticides in the diets of infants and children, indicating that current tolerances do not take into account the eating habits and metabolism of young children. In re...
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Update on the management of hypertension: do recent clinical trial results indicate a change in national recommendations for therapy? Numerous hypertension treatment trials have been reported during the past several years. In comparative studies it has been shown that the use of diuretics or diuretics/beta blockers has...
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Cholinergic and non-cholinergic projections from the canine pontomesencephalic tegmentum (Ch5 area) to the caudal intralaminar thalamic nuclei. The distribution and morphology of cholinergic and non-cholinergic neurons projecting to the caudal intralaminar thalamic nuclei from the Ch5 area in the dog were examined usin...
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Data-driven approach for cross-species comparative metabolite exposure assessment: how to establish fundamental bioanalytical parameters for the peak area ratio method. We previously developed an high-performance LC-MS peak area ratio approach to demonstrate whether an animal species used in a toxicology study has grea...
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The Protective Effect of Cantonese/Mandarin Bilingualism on the Onset of Alzheimer Disease. Several studies have found that bilingualism can delay the age of onset of Alz-heimer disease (AD). The interpretation of these findings is that switching between two languages can enhance cognitive reserve. However, some studie...
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A microcosm of musical expression. I. Quantitative analysis of pianists' timing in the initial measures of Chopin's Etude in E major. Patterns of expressive timing were measured in bars 1-5 of 115 commercially recorded performances of Chopin's Etude in E major, op. 10, No. 3. These patterns were subjected to principal ...
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Ulnar impaction. Ulnar impaction syndrome is a common source of ulnar-sided wrist pain. It is a degenerative condition that occurs secondary to excessive load across the ulnocarpal joint, resulting in a spectrum of pathologic changes and symptoms. It may occur in any wrist but is usually associated with positive ulnar ...
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Determination of cocaine, metabolites and a crack cocaine biomarker in whole blood by liquid-liquid extraction and UHPLC-MS/MS. Cocaine is a potent stimulant drug widely abused that exists in two forms: as a hydrochloride salt and as a free base (crack). Cocaine and the inactive metabolite benzoylecgonine can be determ...
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