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The association between iliocostal distance and the number of vertebral and non-vertebral fractures in women and men registered in the Canadian Database For Osteoporosis and Osteopenia (CANDOO)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The identification of new methods of evaluating patients with osteoporotic fracture should focus on their usefulness in clinical situations such that they... -
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Normal embryonic stages of the Longnose Gar,
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Gaps exist in the modern literature that describes patterns of development in living groups of actinopterygian fishes. Relatively recent descriptions of... -
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The efficacy of chemical agents in cleaning and disinfection programs
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Due to the growing number of outbreaks of infection in hospital nurseries, it becomes essential to set up a sanitation program that indicates that the... -
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Femoral vein size in newborns and infants: preliminary investigation
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: The femoral vein is an important site for central venous access in newborns and infants. The objectives of this study are to determine whether age or... -
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Markers for early detection of cancer: Statistical guidelines for nested case-control studies
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Recently many long-term prospective studies have involved serial collection and storage of blood or tissue specimens. This has spurred nested case-control... -
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Clinical review: Use of vancomycin in haemodialysis patients
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Following intravenous administration, vancomycin is poorly metabolized and is mainly excreted unchanged in urine. Total body clearance is thus dependent on the... -
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Giardiasis in children living in post-earthquake camps from Armenia (Colombia)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background An earthquake in the coffee growing region of Colombia on January 25, 1999 destroyed 70% of the houses in Armenia city. Transitory housing camps still... -
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Equipment review: Continuous assessment of arterial blood gases
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Equipment review: Continuous assessment of arterial blood gases -
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Medical immunology: a new journal for a new subspecialty
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
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Interleukin-4 receptor alpha gene variants and allergic disease
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The interleukin-4 (IL-4) signalling cascade has been identified as a pathway potentially important in the development of asthma. Genetic variants within this... -
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Debate: Should the elderly receive thrombolytic therapy, or primary angioplasty, for acute myocardial infarction? The case for primary angioplasty
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
As the population ages the number of elderly patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) will continue to increase. There has been no head-to-head... -
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Classification and evolutionary history of the single-strand annealing proteins, RecT, Redβ, ERF and RAD52
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The DNA single-strand annealing proteins (SSAPs), such as RecT, Redβ, ERF and Rad52, function in RecA-dependent and RecA-independent DNA recombination... -
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Cholinergic and GABAergic pathways in fly motion vision
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The fly visual system is a highly ordered brain structure with well-established physiological and behavioral functions. A large number of interneurons in... -
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The cloning, genomic organization and tissue expression profile of the human DLG5 gene
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Familial atrial fibrillation, an autosomal dominant disease, was previously mapped to chromosome 10q22. One of the genes mapped to the 10q22 region is... -
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A rate equation model of stomatal responses to vapour pressure deficit and drought
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Stomata respond to vapour pressure deficit (D) – when D increases, stomata begin to close. Closure is the result of a decline in guard cell turgor, but the... -
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Cellular cardiomyoplasty with autologous skeletal myoblasts for ischemic heart disease and heart failure
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Cell transplantation to repair or regenerate injured myocardium is a new frontier in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Even though it is based on many years of... -
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Characterization of DNA binding, transcriptional activation, and regulated nuclear association of recombinant human NFATp
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background NFATp is one member of a family of transcriptional activators whose nuclear accumulation and hence transcriptional activity is regulated in mammalian... -
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Cytokine mRNA and protein expression in primary-culture and repeated-passage synovial fibroblasts from patients with rheumatoid arthritis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Constitutive mRNA expression and secretion of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines was comparatively analyzed in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synovial... -
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The use of breast conserving surgery: linking insurance claims with tumor registry data
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The purpose of this study was to use insurance claims and tumor registry data to examine determinants of breast conserving surgery (BCS) in women with... -
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Taking stock of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The identification of the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene opened the way for gene therapy. In the ten years since then, proof of principle in vitro and then in animal...