2,009 datasets found
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A family of putative K
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Background Prior to this report, members of the inward rectifier family, or Kir, have been found only in eukaryotes. Like most K+ channels, the pore-forming part of... -
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Discontinuous and non-discontinuous subgenomic RNA transcription in a nidovirus
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Arteri-, corona-, toro- and roniviruses are evolutionarily related positive-strand RNA viruses, united in the order Nidovirales. The best studied nidoviruses, the... -
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Polyomyositis and myocarditis associated with acquired toxoplasmosis in an immunocompetent girl
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Background Acquired toxoplasmosis more frequently goes unrecognized. Immunocompetent adults and adolescents with primary infection are generally asymptomatic, but... -
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Reconstitution of licensed replication origins on
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Background In order to ensure precise chromosome duplication, eukaryotes "license" their replication origins during late mitosis and early G1 by assembling complexes... -
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The average cost of measles cases and adverse events following vaccination in industrialised countries
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Background Even though the annual incidence rate of measles has dramatically decreased in industrialised countries since the implementation of universal immunisation... -
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Treatment of achalasia: the short-term response to botulinum toxin injection seems to be independent of any kind of pretreatment
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Background It has been suggested that intrasphincteric injection of botulinum toxin (BTX) may represent an alternative therapy to balloon dilatation in achalasia. The... -
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Increased risk of tuberculosis in health care workers: a retrospective survey at a teaching hospital in Istanbul, Turkey
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Background Tuberculosis (TB) is an established occupational disease affecting health care workers (HCWs). Determining the risk of TB among HCWs is important to enable... -
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Surfactant gene polymorphisms and interstitial lung diseases
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Pulmonary surfactant is a complex mixture of phospholipids and proteins, which is present in the alveolar lining fluid and is essential for normal lung function.... -
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Protocol of a prospective cohort study of the effect of different methods of drainage of neuropathic bladder on occurrence of symptomatic urinary infection, and adverse events related to the urinary drainage system in spinal cord injury patients
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Background To present a protocol of a prospective, cohort study in which four groups of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients will participate. (Patients with indwelling... -
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Partial identification by site-directed mutagenesis of a cell growth inhibitory site on the human galectin-1 molecule
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Background Previous work, by us and others, has shown that mammalian galectins-1 have a growth-inhibitory activity for mammalian cells which is apparently independent... -
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Reliability of race assessment based on the race of the ascendants: a cross-sectional study
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Background Race is commonly described in epidemiological surveys based on phenotypic characteristics. Training of interviewers to identify race is time-consuming and... -
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Surfactant protein-D and pulmonary host defense
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Surfactant protein-D (SP-D) participates in the innate response to inhaled microorganisms and organic antigens, and contributes to immune and inflammatory regulation... -
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Proteinase-3 as the major autoantigen of c-ANCA is strongly expressed in lung tissue of patients with Wegener's granulomatosis
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Proteinase-3 (PR-3) is a neutral serine proteinase present in azurophil granules of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes and serves as the major target antigen of... -
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1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3increases the expression of the CaT1 epithelial calcium channel in the Caco-2 human intestinal cell line
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The active hormonal form of vitamin D (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D) is the primary regulator of intestinal calcium absorption efficiency. In vitamin D deficiency,... -
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Long terminal repeat retrotransposons of
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A new data-mining program, LTR_STRUC, was used to mine the GenBank rice (Oryza sativa) database as well as the more extensive Monsanto rice dataset for long terminal... -
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Is council tax valuation band a predictor of mortality?
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Background All current UK indices of socio-economic status have inherent problems, especially those used to govern resource allocation to the health sphere. The... -
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Genetic epidemiology: Psoriatic arthritis
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The existence of psoriatic arthritis as a distinct clinical entity remains a topic of debate; some authors propose that it is simply the co-occurrence of psoriasis... -
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Encephalomeningocele cases over 10 years in Thailand: a case series
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Background Encephalomeningocele, especially in the frontoethmoidal region, is a form of neural tube defect which affects patients in Southeast Asia more commonly than... -
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Simpson's paradox and calculation of number needed to treat from meta-analysis
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Background Calculation of numbers needed to treat (NNT) is more complex from meta-analysis than from single trials. Treating the data as if it all came from one trial...
2,009 datasets found