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Title: Cell Death, Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns, and Sterile Inflammation in Cardiovascular Disease Abstract: Cell death and inflammation are ancient processes of fundamental biological importance in both normal physiology and pathology. This is evidenced by the profound conservation of mediators, with ancestra...
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Title: Identification and purification of an aspartic proteinase from human semen Abstract: To purify and evaluate the molecular changes associated with an aspartic protease (Cathepsin D) in human semen from infertile subjects. Cathepsin D was purified from normo-, oligo- and azoospermic semen, by a procedure involving...
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Title: An asymmetric PAN3 dimer recruits a single PAN2 exonuclease to mediate mRNA deadenylation and decay Abstract: The PAN2-PAN3 complex functions in general and microRNA-mediated mRNA deadenylation. However, mechanistic insight into PAN2 and its complex with the asymmetric PAN3 dimer is lacking. Here, we describe cr...
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Title: An updated review of the clinical development of coumarin (1,2-benzopyrone) and 7-hydroxycoumarin Abstract: Several authors have demonstrated that coumarin (1,2-benzopyrone) in combination with cimetidine can produce objective antitumor responses in some patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma. The purpose o...
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Title: The Rat Genome Database curation tool suite: a set of optimized software tools enabling efficient acquisition, organization, and presentation of biological data Abstract: The Rat Genome Database (RGD) is the premier repository of rat genomic and genetic data and currently houses over 40 000 rat gene records as w...
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Title: Attentional demand influences strategies for encoding into visual working memory Abstract: Visual selective attention and visual working memory (WM) share the same capacity-limited resources. We investigated whether and how participants can cope with a task in which these 2 mechanisms interfere. The task require...
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Title: Delivering Genetic Education and Genetic Counseling for Rare Diseases in Rural Brazil Abstract: Brazil is the largest country in Latin America, with an ethnically diverse, Portuguese-speaking and predominantly Roman Catholic population of some 194 million. Universal health care is provided under the Federal Unif...
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Title: Associations between patterns of active commuting and socioeconomic factors in women with fibromyalgia: the al-Ándalus project. Abstract: OBJECTIVES ::: The aims of this study were to know whether active commuting behaviour differs between fibromyalgia patients and controls, and to test whether active commuting ...
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Title: Health literacy and warfarin therapy at two anticoagulation clinics in Brazil Abstract: Objective Health literacy has been related to health-related conditions and health outcomes. Studies examining the association of health literacy and anticoagulation have had variable results. We sought to investigate the rel...
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Title: Extracellular electrical recording of pH-triggered bursts in C6 glioma cell populations Abstract: Glioma patients often suffer from epileptic seizures because of the tumor’s impact on the brain physiology. Using the rat glioma cell line C6 as a model system, we performed long-term live recordings of the electric...
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Title: Host Range and Specificity of the Drosophila C Virus Abstract: BACKGROUND ::: The Drosophila C virus (DCV) is a common and well-studied Drosophila pathogen. Although natural infections are known from Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans, and artificial infections have been reported from several Drosophila spe...
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Title: Outcome of Observing the N0 Neck Using Ultrasonographic-Guided Cytology for Follow-up Abstract: OBJECTIVE ::: To assess the outcome of patients who underwent transoral tumor excision and a wait-and-see policy for the NO neck, using ultrasonographic-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (US-FNAC) of the neck for...
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Title: Oxidized LDL and Lysophosphatidylcholine Stimulate Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Expression in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Abstract: Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) functions as an important regulator of fibrinolysis by inhibiting both tissue-type and urokinase-type plasminogen activator. PAI-1 is...
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Title: Significance of pulmonary artery pressure in emphysema patients with mild-to-moderate hypoxemia. Abstract: The guidelines of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) do not recommend the measurement of pulmonary artery pressure in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD...
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Title: Diagnosis of a variant of Mayer–Rokitansky–Kuster–Hauser syndrome: useful MRI findings Abstract: Mayer–Rokitansky–Kuster–Hauser (MRKH) syndrome consists of vaginal aplasia associated with other mullerian duct abnormalities. Its penetrance varies, as does the involvement of other organ systems. Type I MRKU syndro...
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Title: Shape encoding consistency across colors in primate V4. Abstract: Neurons in primate cortical area V4 are sensitive to the form and color of visual stimuli. To determine whether form selectivity remains consistent across colors, we studied the responses of single V4 neurons in awake monkeys to a set of two-dimen...
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Title: Lipoprotein (a), thrombophilia and inflammatory bowel disease. Abstract: Thrombophilia in inflammatory bowel disease may be due to several risk factors, such as a dysbalanced haemostasis with a hypercoagulative state, thrombocytosis, hyperfibrinogenaemia and hyperhomocysteinaemia. In addition, increased concentr...
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Title: Water ingestion decreases cardiac workload time-dependent in healthy adults with no effect of gender Abstract: Ingestion of water entails a variety of cardiovascular responses. However, the precise effect remains elusive. We aimed to determine in healthy adults the effect of water on cardiac workload and to inve...
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Title: BC1 RNA, the transcript from a master gene for ID element amplification, is able to prime its own reverse transcription. Abstract: ID elements are short interspersed elements (SINEs) found in high copy number in many rodent genomes. BC1 RNA, an ID-related transcript, is derived from the single copy BC1 RNA gene....
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Title: An Alternative to Domain-general or Domain-specific Frameworks for Theorizing about Human Evolution and Ontogenesis Abstract: This paper maintains that neither a domain-general nor a domain-specific framework is appropriate for furthering our understanding of human evolution and ontogenesis. Rather, as we learn ...
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Title: Isolation of bacteria producing siderophores under alkaline conditions Abstract: SummaryThe isolation of bacteria producing siderophores under alkaline conditions is reported. Enrichment cultures initiated with samples from a number of alkaline environmental sources yielded 80 isolates. From this group selection...
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Title: Combined liver and kidney transplantation with particular reference to positive cytotoxic crossmatches Abstract: Nine patients were provided with 10 livers and 10 kidneys. Nine of the paired allografts were from the same donors. Seven of the 9 recipients are alive after 6 to 26 months. At least 3 and possibly as...
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Title: Head-to-head comparison of a 2-day myocardial perfusion gated SPECT protocol and cardiac magnetic resonance late gadolinium enhancement for the detection of myocardial infarction Abstract: BACKGROUND ::: The aim was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of gated myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) with a tec...
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Title: Nanog Predicts Poor Prognosis in Human Pancreatic Cancer and Is Downregulated by QingyihuaJi Formula in Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells Abstract: Qingyihuaji formula (QYHJ), confirmed efficacious in a series of clinical trials, has been applied to human pancreatic carcinoma treatment in Shanghai Cancer Center for y...
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Title: Seasonal availability of resources and habitat degradation for the western tree-hole mosquito, Aedes sierrensis Abstract: The nutrient base of aquatic tree-hole communities is derived from leaf litter, benthic detritus, and water flowing down the tree trunk (stemflow water). Previous studies in eastern North Ame...
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Title: Quitting-unmotivated and quitting-motivated cigarette smokers exhibit different patterns of cue-elicited brain activation when anticipating an opportunity to smoke. Abstract: The authors examined the effects of smoking expectancy on cue-reactivity among those motivated and those unmotivated to quit smoking using...
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Title: Inferring transcriptional gene regulation network of starch metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves using graphical Gaussian model Abstract: BackgroundStarch serves as a temporal storage of carbohydrates in plant leaves during day/night cycles. To study transcriptional regulatory modules of this dynamic metabo...
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Title: Exercise and intermittent claudication. Blood flow in the calf muscle during walking studied by the xenon-133 clearance method. Abstract: Nineteen patients with obliterative arteriosclerotic disease of the legs and suffering from intermittent claudication were studied before and during a 6 months' training progr...
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Title: Pregnancy with an intrauterine device in situ and preterm delivery Abstract: We determined the prevalence of preterm delivery in a population of women who conceived with an IUD in situ and compared the results with those in a group of women without any contraceptive method. The study group consisted of 16 women ...
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Title: Haploinsufficiency of PAX9 is associated with autosomal dominant hypodontia Abstract: We recently identified a frame-shift mutation in the PAX9 gene as the underlying cause for hypodontia involving permanent molar teeth segregating in an autosomal dominant pattern in a single large family (Stockton et al. 2000)....
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Title: Dihydromyricetin Activates AMP-Activated Protein Kinase and P38MAPK Exerting Antitumor Potential in Osteosarcoma Abstract: Numerous patients with osteosarcoma either are not sensitive to chemotherapy or develop drug resistance to current chemotherapy regimens. Therefore, it is necessary to develop several potent...
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Title: Illicit methadone injecting during methadone maintenance treatment in a specialised out-patient clinic Abstract: AIM ::: The injection of non-sterile methadone designed for oral consumption is associated with serious health risks. There is only a small number of studies on this topic, with divergent results. The...
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Title: Halide and Alkyl Phenols Block Volume-Sensitive Chloride Channels in Human Glial Cells (U-138MG) Abstract: Swelling of cells in hypotonic media activates a volume-sensitive Cl channel with well-known characteristics, but its structure and its regulation are still largely undetermined. It also has many inhibitors...
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Title: Genome sequence of Coxiella burnetii strain Namibia Abstract: We present the whole genome sequence and annotation of the Coxiella burnetii strain Namibia. This strain was isolated from an aborting goat in 1991 in Windhoek, Namibia. The plasmid type QpRS was confirmed in our work. Further genomic typing placed th...
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Title: Trends in blood pressure and urinary sodium and potassium excretion in Japan: reinvestigation in the 8th year after the Intersalt Study Abstract: Using the identical protocol of an Intersalt Study previously conducted, we undertook a new study (Intersalt-2) 8 years later. We measured changes in various factors a...
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Title: Counting drugs to understand the disease: The case of measuring the diabetes epidemic Abstract: BackgroundDiabetes prevalence increases globally with severe consequences for afflicted individuals and societies. Data on diabetes incidence and diabetes related mortality on a population level are, however, scarce. ...
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Title: Complex hand dexterity: a review of biomechanical methods for measuring musical performance Abstract: Complex hand dexterity is fundamental to our interactions with the physical, social, and cultural environment. Dexterity can be an expression of creativity and precision in a range of activities, including music...
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Title: High-flow oxygen administration by nasal cannula for adult and perinatal patients. Abstract: The nasal cannula has been a commonly used patient interface to provide supplemental oxygen since its introduction in the 1940s. Traditionally, it has been categorized as a low-flow device and capable of delivering a 0.4...
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Title: Mitochondrial disorders in children: toward development of small‐molecule treatment strategies Abstract: This review presents our current understanding of the pathophysiology and potential treatment strategies with respect to mitochondrial disease in children. We focus on pathologies due to mutations in nuclear ...
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Title: Altered Urinary Kallikrein Excretion in Rats with Hypertension Abstract: The urinary excretion of kallikrein, an enzyme which cleaves a vasodilator kinin from kininogen substrate, was examined in three types of hypertensive rats. Enzyme activity was measured by both esterase activity (isotopic assay) and bioassa...
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Title: MET exon 14 skipping defines a unique molecular class of non-small cell lung cancer Abstract: PURPOSE ::: Recurrent MET exon 14 splicing has been revealed in lung cancers and is a promising therapeutic target. Because we have limited knowledge about the natural history of MET mutant tumors, the current study was...
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Title: Predictors of Genital Pain in Young Women Abstract: Despite the high prevalence of genital pain in healthy young adult women, limited research has addressed genital pain during intercourse using contemporary models of multidimensional sexual function. The objectives of this study were threefold: (1) to identify ...
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Title: Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Antireflux Operations in the Elderly: A Comparative Review Abstract: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES ::: The objectives of this study were to assess the impact of age following laparoscopic fundoplication (LF). ::: ::: ::: METHODS ::: From March 1993 to November 1998, 193 patients underw...
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Title: Association of killer cell immunoglobulin–like receptor genotypes with vascular arterial events and anticardiolipin antibodies in patients with lupus Abstract: To determine whether killer cell immunologlobulin-like receptor (KIR) genotypes are associated with vasculitis, vascular arterial events or anticardiolip...
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Title: Isolated single umbilical artery--the case for routine renal screening. Abstract: To determine the incidence of silent renal anomalies in infants with isolated single umbilical artery (SUA), all infants with SUA and without other obvious congenital anomalies, identified over a six year period, were screened usin...
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Title: Sex, Socioeconomic Status, Access to Cardiac Catheterization, and Outcomes for Acute Coronary Syndromes in the Context of Universal Healthcare Coverage Abstract: BACKGROUND ::: Sex and neighborhood socioeconomic status (nSES) may independently affect the care and outcomes of acute coronary syndrome, partly throu...
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Title: Methodological issues in developing new acute treatments for patients with bipolar illness Abstract: Abstract One important aim of the recent reorganization of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is to streamline the development of new treatments for patients with severe mental illnesses, such as bipo...
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Title: DTC genetic testing: pendulum swings and policy paradoxes Abstract: Caulfield T. DTC genetic testing: pendulum swings and policy paradoxes. ::: ::: ::: ::: After decades of optimistic portrayals, there has been a shift in the way that the popular press represents genomic research. A skeptical view has become mor...
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Title: C2 spinal cord stimulation induces dynorphin release from rat T4 spinal cord: potential modulation of myocardial ischemia-sensitive neurons Abstract: During myocardial ischemia, the cranial cervical spinal cord (C1–C2) modulates the central processing of the cardiac nociceptive signal. This study was done to det...
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Title: Intellectual disability nursing and transcultural care Abstract: In today's healthcare environment, nurses are urged to use up-to-date research evidence to ensure better patient outcomes and inform nursing decisions, actions and interactions with patients. Within the practice setting, there is an increasing chal...
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Title: High-dose etoposide, cyclophosphamide, and total body irradiation with allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for patients with acute myeloid leukemia in untreated first relapse: a study by the North American Marrow Transplant Group Abstract: Relapse is a major cause of treatment failure following allogeneic bon...
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Title: HIF-prolyl hydroxylase inhibition results in endogenous erythropoietin induction, erythrocytosis, and modest fetal hemoglobin expression in rhesus macaques Abstract: The hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) pathway is crucial in mitigating the deleterious effects of oxygen deprivation. HIF-α is an essential component ...
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Title: Neural damage in the rat thalamus after cortical infarcts. Abstract: Histopathologic changes in the thalamus of 23 rats after somatosensory cortical infarction produced by middle cerebral artery occlusion were examined using the Fink-Heimer silver staining method, immunohistochemistry with antibodies against gli...
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Title: Clinical outcome following coronary angioplasty in dialysis patients: a case-control study in the era of coronary stenting Abstract: BACKGROUND—Balloon coronary angioplasty has been reported to be ineffective in patients treated for end stage renal disease because of a high restenosis rate. ::: OBJECTIVE—To comp...
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Title: Limb salvage by femoral profundaplasty. Abstract: One hundred and seven profundaplasties have been performed for rest pain or gangrene due to advanced arterial degeneration below the inguinal ligament. Local anaesthesia was used for 78 operations. There were 19 early failures (2 deaths and 17 amputations) and 16...
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Title: Regulation of the immediate-early genes arc and zif268 in a mouse operant model of cocaine seeking reinstatement Abstract: Reinstatement of extinguished operant responding for drug is an appropriate model of relapse to drug abuse. Due to the difficulty of implementing in mice the procedure of instrumental intrav...
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Title: AK: Galactosylsphingosine (psychosine)-induced expression of cytokinemediated inducible nitric oxide synthases via AP-1 and C/ EBP: implications for Krabbe disease Abstract: Globoid cell leukodystrophy (Krabbe disease) is characterized by the accumulation of a toxic metabolite, psychosine (galactosylsphingosine)...
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Title: A black body absorber from vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes Abstract: Abstract ::: Among all known materials, we found that a forest of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes behaves most similarly to a black body, a theoretical material that absorbs all incident light. A requirement ...
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Title: Fenofibrate Improves Cerebral Blood Flow after Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion in Mice Abstract: Fibrates, one group of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) activators, are lipid lowering drugs. Fibrates have been shown to attenuate brain tissue injury after focal cerebral ischemia. In this study, ...
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Title: The ubiquitin ligase LIN41/TRIM71 targets p53 to antagonize cell death and differentiation pathways during stem cell differentiation Abstract: Rapidity and specificity are characteristic features of proteolysis mediated by the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Therefore, the UPS is ideally suited for the remodeling o...
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Title: Generation Mechanism of Radical Species by Tyrosine-Tyrosinase Reaction Abstract: Alleviated melanin formation in the skin through inhibition of tyrosine-tyrosinase reaction is one of the major targets of cosmetics for whitening ability. Since melanin has a pivotal role for photoprotection, there are pros and co...
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Title: Diagnostic sweat testing: the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation guidelines. Abstract: he Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) accredits cystic fibrosis (CF) centers, located in teaching and community hospitals nationwide, which provide comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for people with CF. The CF centers are evaluated b...
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Title: Factors Associated With Substance Use in Adolescents With Eating Disorders Abstract: Purpose ::: To examine the prevalence and potential risk factors associated with substance use in adolescents with eating disorders (EDs).
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Title: The use of routine special stains for upper gastrointestinal biopsies. Abstract: Helicobacter pylori and intestinal metaplasia (IM) are readily seen in hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides of gastric and/or esophageal biopsies, yet many pathology laboratories perform routine special stains on all of these biopsi...
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Title: Spatial misregistration of vascular flow during MR imaging of the CNS: cause and clinical significance. Abstract: Spatial misregistration of signal recovered from flowing spins within vascular structures is a common phenomenon seen in MR imaging of the CNS. The condition is displayed as a bright line or dot offs...
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Title: The B2 domain of VIVIPAROUS1 is bi-functional and regulates nuclear localization and transactivation Abstract: The transcriptional regulator VIVIPAROUS1 (VP1) is composed of four functional domains that control different aspects of gene expression during seed development. The B2 domain is required for its role a...
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Title: Ccl2/Ccr2 signalling recruits a distinct fetal microchimeric population that rescues delayed maternal wound healing Abstract: Foetal microchimeric cells (FMCs) traffic into maternal circulation during pregnancy and persist for decades after delivery. Upon maternal injury, FMCs migrate to affected sites where the...
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Title: What Makes Ribosome-Mediated Transcriptional Attenuation Sensitive to Amino Acid Limitation? Abstract: Ribosome-mediated transcriptional attenuation mechanisms are commonly used to control amino acid biosynthetic operons in bacteria. The mRNA leader of such an operon contains an open reading frame with "regulato...
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Title: A method for identifying small molecule aggregators using photonic crystal biosensor microplates Abstract: Small molecules identified through high-throughput screens are an essential element in pharmaceutical discovery programs. It is now recognized that a substantial fraction of small molecules exhibit aggregat...
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Title: Efficacy and Safety of 2% and 4% Articaine for Lower Third Molar Surgery Abstract: This double-blind crossover randomized clinical trial compared the efficacy of 2 concentrations of articaine, 2% (A2) and 4% (A4), with 1:200,000 epinephrine, for lower third molar removal. During 2 separate appointments with eith...
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Title: Conversion to lacosamide monotherapy in the treatment of focal epilepsy: Results from a historical-controlled, multicenter, double-blind study Abstract: SummaryObjective ::: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of conversion to lacosamide 400 mg/day monotherapy in adults with focal epilepsy. ::: ::: Methods ::: T...
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Title: Short-term low-salinity tolerance by the longhorn sculpin,Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus Abstract: The bottom-dwelling, longhorn sculpin, Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus ,i s traditionally viewed as a stenohaline marine fish, but fishermen have described finding this sculpin in estuaries during high tide. Littl...
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Title: Gastroduodenal intussusception due to Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome in infancy Abstract: A case of Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS) presenting in infancy with gastric-outlet obstruction is described. PJS may become symptomatic at any age and should be suspected when there are obstructive symptoms or gastrointestinal blood ...
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Title: Ontogenesis of the Gut Microbiota Composition in Healthy, Full-Term, Vaginally Born and Breast-Fed Infants over the First 3 Years of Life: A Quantitative Bird’s-Eye View Abstract: Early-life intestinal microbiota development is crucial for host’s long-term health and is influenced by many factors including gesta...
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Title: Leaf-litter herpetofaunal richness, abundance, and community assembly in mono-dominant plantations and primary forest of northeastern Costa Rica Abstract: Given current deforestation and land-use change in species-rich tropical for- ests, a pressing need in conservation biology is to understand how converted, hu...
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Title: Patient adherence to allergy immunotherapy. Abstract: PURPOSE OF REVIEW ::: This article reviews the literature on patient adherence to two different approaches to allergen-specific immunotherapy for allergic disease. Factors related to adherence in general, as well as the various methods used to measure adheren...
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Title: Feasibility of single-incision thoracoscopic surgery using a modified chest wall pulley for primary spontaneous pneumothorax: a propensity score matching analysis Abstract: Purpose ::: Recently, single-incision thoracoscopic surgery (SITS) has been recognized as a favorable treatment choice for primary spontaneo...
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Title: Alterations in zinc transporter protein-1 (ZnT-1) in the brain of subjects with mild cognitive impairment, early, and late-stage alzheimer’s disease Abstract: Several studies show increased levels of zinc (Zn) in the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain. More recently, alterations in synaptic Zn and Zn transporter pro...
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Title: Pharmacokinetics of iron isomaltoside 1000 in patients with inflammatory bowel disease Abstract: Background ::: Iron isomaltoside 1000 is a novel injectable iron compound which offers potential advantages in the treatment of subjects with iron-deficiency anemia. We studied the pharmacokinetics (PK) of this novel...
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Title: Adenosine-Induced Relaxation of Cultured Bovine Retinal Pericytes Abstract: Purpose. To investigate the effect of adenosine on the contractile tone of cultured bovine retinal pericytes. Methods. Changes in the contractile tone were quantified as the changes in the summed length of wrinkles induced by pericytes o...
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Title: Rapid fluorogenic assay for differentiation of the Candida parapsilosis group from other Candida spp. Abstract: Abstract ::: A 30-min fluorogenic test was developed for differentiation of members of the Candida parapsilosis group from other Candida species commonly encountered in clinical material. The fluorogen...
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Title: The computational neurobiology of learning and reward Abstract: Following the suggestion that midbrain dopaminergic neurons encode a signal, known as a ‘reward prediction error’, used by artificial intelligence algorithms for learning to choose advantageous actions, the study of the neural substrates for reward-...
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Title: Limits of Brazil’s Forest Code as a means to end illegal deforestation Abstract: The 2012 Brazilian Forest Code governs the fate of forests and savannas on Brazil’s 394 Mha of privately owned lands. The government claims that a new national land registry (SICAR), introduced under the revised law, could end illeg...
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Title: Predicting transcription factor activities from combined analysis of microarray and ChIP data: a partial least squares approach Abstract: Background ::: The study of the network between transcription factors and their targets is important for understanding the complex regulatory mechanisms in a cell. Unfortunate...
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Title: Exposure to Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Genistein during Activation Does Not Affect Sperm Motility in the Fighting Fish Betta splendens Abstract: Sperm collected from male fighting fish Betta splendens were activated in control water, water containing the ion-channel blocker gadolinium (a putative...
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Title: Causes, Risk Factors, and Prevention of Laminitis and Related Claw Lesions Abstract: Introduction Laminitis is an inflammation of the laminar corium of the hoof wall. In general, the term laminitis is used to describe a systemic disease affecting not only the hooves, but also the general condition of the animal....
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Title: Experiences of mental illness stigma, prejudice and discrimination: a review of measures Abstract: Background ::: There has been a substantial increase in research on mental illness related stigma over the past 10 years, with many measures in use. This study aims to review current practice in the survey measurem...
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Title: Effects of pCO2 and iron on the elemental composition and cell geometry of the marine diatom Pseudo-nitzschia pseudodelicatissima (Bacillariophyceae)1 Abstract: Partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) and iron availability in seawater show corresponding changes due to biological and anthropogenic activities. The simultan...
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Title: Posthaemorrhagic hydrocephalus in newborn term infants. Abstract: Intraventricular haemorrhage may occur de novo in previously well, term newborn infants. In a group of six neonates a high incidence of posthaemorrhagic hydrocephalus was found. Posthaemorrhagic hydrocephalus may be more common in full term newbor...
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Title: Acute bilateral cerebellar infarction in the territory of the medial branches of posterior inferior cerebellar arteries Abstract: BACKGROUND ::: We describe the first clinicoradiological report of acute bilateral cerebellar infarction confined to the territory of the medial branches of the posterior inferior cer...
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Title: AMINO-ACID-DEPENDENT, DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF ETHANOL ON GLUCOSE PRODUCTION IN RABBIT KIDNEY-CORTEX TUBULES Abstract: Aims: The effect of ethanol on glucose synthesis in kidney-cortex tubules of control and diabetic rabbits has been investigated. Methods: Both freshly isolated and grown in primary cultures, kidn...
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Title: Dynamic light scattering from colloidal fractal monolayers Abstract: We address experimentally the problem of how the structure of a surface monolayer determines the viscoelasticity of the interface. Optical microscopy and surface quasielastic light scattering have been used to characterize aggregation of CaCO3 ...
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Title: Purification, Characterization and Antitumor Activities of a New Protein from Syngnathus acus, an Officinal Marine Fish Abstract: Discovery and development of new antitumor agents from abundant marine fish are attracting an increasing interest. In the present study, we extracted and purified a novel antitumor pr...
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Title: Cold Exposure and Sleep in the Rat: REM Sleep Homeostasis and Body Size Abstract: MANY STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT A SLEEP DEFICIT INDUCES A SUBSEQUENT INCREASE IN THE DURATION AND/OR IN THE INTENSITY OF SLEEP AND THAT the occurrence of sleep reduces sleep propensity. The outcome of the regulation of such a balance ...
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Title: Cancer Research Participation Beliefs and Behaviors of a Southern Black Population: A Quantitative Analysis of the Role of Structural Factors in Cancer Research Participation Abstract: Increasing the participation of Blacks in cancer research is a vital component of a strategy to reduce racial inequities in canc...
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Title: Maternal attributions for the causes and remedies of their children's abdominal pain. Abstract: OBJECTIVE ::: To examine mothers' attributions for the causes and remedies of their children's abdominal pain, specifically whether attributions differed according to child diagnosis, reflected a dualistic or multidim...
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Title: Mapping of Myxococcus xanthus Social Motility dsp Mutations to the dif Genes Abstract: Myxococcus xanthus dsp and dif mutants have similar phenotypes in that they are deficient in social motility and fruiting body development. We compared the two loci by genetic mapping, complementation with a cosmid clone, DNA ...
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Title: Patient's Perception of Symptoms Related to Morning Activity in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: The SYMBOL Study Abstract: Background/Aims: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience more problematic respiratory symptoms and have more trouble performing daily activities in the m...
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Title: Hippocampal atrophy but not white-matter changes predicts the long-term cognitive response to cholinesterase inhibitors in Alzheimer’s disease Abstract: IntroductionThis study aimed to investigate the feasibility of predicting the long–term effects of cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEI) with common clinical neuroim...
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Title: Helicobacter pylori Abstract: Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative bacterium which causes chronic gastritis and plays important roles in peptic ulcer disease, gastric carcinoma, and gastric lymphoma. H. pylori has been found in the stomachs of humans in all parts of the world. In developing countries, 70 to 90...
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