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Mechanical ventilation: lessons from the ARDSNet trial
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an inflammatory disease of the lungs characterized clinically by bilateral pulmonary infiltrates, decreased... -
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Two C or not two C: recurrent disruption of Zn-ribbons, gene duplication, lineage-specific gene loss, and horizontal gene transfer in evolution of bacterial ribosomal proteins
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Ribosomal proteins are encoded in all genomes of cellular life forms and are, generally, well conserved during evolution. In prokaryotes, the genes for... -
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The effects of weather on fungal abundance and richness among 25 communities in the Intermountain West
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Background Because moisture and temperature influence the growth of fungi, characterizing weather conditions favorable for fungi may be used to predict the abundance... -
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Open tension free repair of inguinal hernias; the Lichtenstein technique
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Recurrences have been a significant problem following hernia repair. Prosthetic materials have been increasingly used in hernia repair to prevent... -
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Rational therapy of chronic venous insufficiency – chances and limits of the therapeutic use of horse-chestnut seeds extract
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background and methods We report two clinical studies, one already published, performed in patients with early and advanced chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). In... -
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Prevalence of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder among adults in obesity treatment
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Bariatric patients showing poor "focus" during treatment more often failed to lose weight or maintain reduced weight. Evaluation of these patients... -
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Cell adhesion and signaling on the fibronectin 1
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The first type III repeat of fibronectin is known to be involved in fibronectin matrix assembly, and recombinant proteins from this type III repeat can... -
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Do multiple outcome measures require p-value adjustment?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Readers may question the interpretation of findings in clinical trials when multiple outcome measures are used without adjustment of the p-value. This... -
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Human papillomavirus DNA in plasma of patients with cervical cancer
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a crucial etiological factor for cervical cancer (CC) development. From a diagnostic view-point, the consistent presence of... -
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Acetaminophen poisoning: an update for the intensivist
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Acetaminophen overdose is common and can result from deliberate/nonstaggered or accidental/staggered ingestion. Patients presenting within 24 h of an acetaminophen... -
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E-utilities (Entrez Programming Utilities)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
E-utilities (Entrez Programming Utilities) are a set of eight server-side programs that provide a stable interface into the Entrez query and database system at the... -
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Third Party Annotation (TPA) Database
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
A database that contains sequences built from the existing primary sequence data in GenBank. The sequences and corresponding annotations are experimentally supported... -
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Confounding factors in diagnosing brain death: a case report
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Brain death is strictly defined medically and legally. This diagnosis depends on three cardinal neurological features: coma, absent brainstem reflexes, and... -
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Mutational analysis of human profilin I reveals a second PI(4,5)-P
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Profilin is a small cytoskeletal protein which interacts with actin, proline-rich proteins and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)-P2).... -
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Systematic reviews of complementary therapies – an annotated bibliography. Part 2: Herbal medicine
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Complementary therapies are widespread but controversial. We aim to provide a comprehensive collection and a summary of systematic reviews of clinical... -
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Sequence Read Archive (SRA)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The Sequence Read Archive (SRA) stores raw sequencing data from the next generation of sequencing platforms including Roche 454 GS System®, Illumina Genome Analyzer®,... -
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Platelet count and Interleukin 6 Gene polymorphism in healthy subjects
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is thought to play important roles in the development of reactive thrombocytosis caused by inflammation by its stimulatory effect on... -
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Clinical Table Search Service
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Clinical Table Search Service (formerly "lforms-service") is a web service which software programs can use for querying clinical data tables. -
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BioProject
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The BioProject database links to data that have been or will be deposited into archival databases maintained at members of the International Nucleotide Sequence... -
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Genetic epidemiology: Systemic lupus erythematosus
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Systemic lupus erythematosus is the prototype multisystem autoimmune disease. A strong genetic component of susceptibility to the disease is well established. Studies...