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Tetramethylpyrazine attenuates spinal cord ischemic injury due to aortic cross-clamping in rabbits
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Background Lower limb paralysis occurs in 11% of patients after surgical procedure of thoracic or thoracoabdominal aneurysms and is an unpredictable and distressful... -
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Transcriptional transactivation by selected short random peptides attached to lexA-GFP fusion proteins
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Background Transcriptional transactivation is a process with remarkable tolerance for sequence diversity and structural geometry. In studies of the features that... -
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The human genome revolution or evolution?
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A prospective randomised pilot study of sedation regimens in a general ICU population: a reality-based medicine study
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Background: For logistical reasons sedation studies are often carried out in elective surgical patients and the results extrapolated to the general intensive care... -
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The thermal stability of the
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We have investigated the thermal stability of the Fusarium solani pisi cutinase as a function of pH, in the range from pH 2–12. Its highest enzymatic activity... -
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Acetylcholinesterase assay for cerebrospinal fluid using bupivacaine to inhibit butyrylcholinesterase
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Background Most test systems for acetylcholinesterase activity (E.C.3.1.1.7.) are using toxic inhibitors (BW284c51 and iso-OMPA) to distinguish the enzyme from... -
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The Yersinia YopE and YopH type III effector proteins enhance bacterial proliferation following contact with eukaryotic cells
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Background Several bacterial pathogens express antihost factors that likely decrease both their maximal growth rate (due to metabolic costs) as well as their... -
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Interaction between mevalonate pathway and retinoic acid-induced differentiation
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All trans retinoic acid (ATRA) is a potent inducer of differentiation of HL-60 cell line. The pretreatment of the cells by compactin, a competitive inhibitor of... -
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"In-gel" purified ditags direct synthesis of highly efficient SAGE Libraries
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Background SAGE (serial analysis of gene expression) is a recently developed technique for systematic analysis of eukaryotic transcriptomes. The most critical step in... -
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Paper reports: Combating the invasion of intensive care literature
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First isolation of the enterohaemorrhagic
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Background Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is considered to be common cause of haemorrhagic colitis (HC), thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and... -
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Risk for rheumatic disease in relation to ethnicity and admixture
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Risk of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is high in west Africans compared with Europeans, and risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is high in Native Americans... -
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Osmotic stress-dependent serine phosphorylation of the histidine kinase homologue DokA
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Background Two-component systems consisting of histidine kinases and their corresponding receivers are widespread in bacterial signal transduction. In the past few... -
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Induction of apoptosis in rat peripheral blood lymphocytes by the anticancer drug CI-994 (acetyldinaline)
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Abstract CI-994 (acetyldinaline) is an investigational anticancer drug currently in clinical trials. In preclinical safety studies in rats and dogs, CI-994 resulted... -
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Biofilm formation by nontypeable
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Background Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae is an important cause of otitis media in children and lower respiratory tract infection in adults with chronic... -
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Pro/con clinical debate: Are steroids useful in the management of patients with septic shock?
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Decision-making in the intensive care unit is often very difficult. Although we are encouraged to make evidence-based decisions, this may be difficult for a number of... -
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Cluster-Rasch models for microarray gene expression data
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Background We propose two different formulations of the Rasch statistical models to the problem of relating gene expression profiles to the phenotypes. One... -
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Capgras syndrome: a clinical manifestation of watershed cerebral infarct complicating the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
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Ischaemic cerebral accidents are frequent following extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), especially after fixing the reinjection cannula in the right primitive... -
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Forced oscillation assessment of respiratory mechanics in ventilated patients
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The forced oscillation technique (FOT) is a method for non-invasively assessing respiratory mechanics that is applicable both in paralysed and non-paralysed patients.... -
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The Beginning of the Research Stream in Family Medicine Residency Program at McMaster University
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Background To examine research background, attitudes, knowledge and skills of family medicine residents with regard to primary care research and to compare residents...