2,009 datasets found
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Continuing medical education in Turkey: Recent developments
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The Turkish Association of Medicine founded a Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee in 1993 to evaluate and accredit scientific meetings and... -
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General Practitioners' views on the provision of nicotine replacement therapy and bupropion
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) and a new drug, bupropion, are licensed in several countries as aids to smoking cessation. General practitioners (GPs)... -
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Digital analysis of cDNA abundance; expression profiling by means of restriction fragment fingerprinting
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Gene expression profiling among different tissues is of paramount interest in various areas of biomedical research. We have developed a novel method (DADA,... -
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Dietary fiber showed no preventive effect against colon and rectal cancers in Japanese with low fat intake: an analysis from the results of nutrition surveys from 23 Japanese prefectures
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Since Fuchs' report in 1999, the reported protective effect of dietary fiber from colorectal carcinogenesis has led many researchers to question its real... -
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Production of Diamino propionic acid ammonia lyase by a new strain of
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Seeds of the legume plant Lathyrus sativus, which is grown in arid and semi arid tropical regions, contain Diamino Propionic acid (DAP). DAP is a... -
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Outcomes research in the development and evaluation of practice guidelines
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Practice guidelines have been developed in response to the observation that variations exist in clinical medicine that are not related to variations in the... -
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Improvements to parallel plate flow chambers to reduce reagent and cellular requirements
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The parallel plate flow chamber has become a mainstay for examination of leukocytes under physiologic flow conditions. Several design modifications have... -
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A comparison of balloon injury models of endovascular lesions in rat arteries
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Balloon injury (BI) of the rat carotid artery (CCA) is widely used to study intimal hyperplasia (IH) and decrease in lumen diameter (LD), but CCA's small... -
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Delayed union of femoral fractures in older rats:decreased gene expression
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Fracture healing slows with age. While 6-week-old rats regain normal bone biomechanics at 4 weeks after fracture, one-year-old rats require more than 26... -
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Use of a rapid arterial blood gas analyzer to estimate blood hemoglobin concentration among critically ill adults
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Objective To evaluate whether measurement of the hemoglobin (Hb) concentration with a blood gas analyzer approximates that determined by a conventional coulter... -
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Leukocyte trafficking in alveoli and airway passages
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Many pulmonary diseases preferentially affect the large airways or the alveoli. Although the mechanisms are often particular to each disease process, site-specific... -
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Generation of choline for acetylcholine synthesis by phospholipase D isoforms
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Dedication This article is dedicated to the memory of Sue Kim Hanson, a graduate student in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Boston University... -
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Response of regional brain glutamate transaminases of rat to aluminum in protein malnutrition
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The mechanism of aluminum-induced neurotoxicity is not clear. The involvement of glutamate in the aluminium-induced neurocomplications has been suggested.... -
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Medical therapy versus interventional therapy in hypertropic obstructive cardiomyopathy
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Medical treatment in symptomatic patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy aims to reduce the outflow tract gradients, and to improve diastolic... -
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Statistical issues in randomized trials of cancer screening
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The evaluation of randomized trials for cancer screening involves special statistical considerations not found in therapeutic trials. Although some of... -
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Pulse pressure and age at menopause
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The objective of this study was to study the association of early age at menopause with pulse pressure (PP), a marker of arterial stiffness, and PP change.... -
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A comparison of hospital readmission rates between two general physicians with different outpatient review practices
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background There has been a relentless increase in emergency medical admissions in the UK over recent years. Many of these patients suffer with chronic conditions... -
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Long-term experience with implanted intrathecal drug administration systems for failed back syndrome and chronic mechanical low back pain
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Continuous intrathecal drug delivery has been shown in open studies to improve pain and quality of life in those with intractable back pain who have had... -
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Genetics University of Toronto Thrombophilia Study in Women (GUTTSI): genetic and other risk factors for venous thromboembolism in women
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Women may be at increased risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) as compared with men. We studied the effects of genetic and biochemical markers of... -
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Abundant protein domains occur in proportion to proteome size
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Conserved domains in proteins have crucial roles in protein interactions, DNA binding, enzyme activity and other important cellular processes. It will be...
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