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Rheumatoid arthritis, gold therapy, contact allergy and blood cytokines
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Objective To study the clinical and biochemical effects of a low starting dose for gold therapy in rheumatoid arthritis patients with a contact allergy to gold.... -
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Development of real-time NASBA assays with molecular beacon detection to quantify mRNA coding for HHV-8 lytic and latent genes
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Background Human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) is linked to the pathogenesis of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), and the HHV-8 DNA load in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) is... -
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LDL-cholesterol lowering effect of a generic product of simvastatin compared to simvastatin (Zocor™) in Thai hypercholesterolemic subjects – a randomized crossover study, the first report from Thailand
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Background It is commonly agreed that people with a high blood LDL-cholesterol will have a higher risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) than people with low blood... -
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High-tech and low-tech orthopaedic surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Background Zambia's governmental health system suffers from shortage of surgical supplies and poor management skills for the sparse resources at hand. The situation... -
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Oriented antibody immobilization to polystyrene macrocarriers for immunoassay modified with hydrazide derivatives of poly(meth)acrylic acid
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Background Hydrophobic polystyrene is the most common material for solid phase immunoassay. Proteins are immobilized on polystyrene by passive adsorption, which often... -
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Pharmacological and ischemic preconditioning of the human myocardium: mitoK
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Background These studies investigate the role of mitoKATP channels, protein kinase C (PKC) and Mitogen activated protein kinase (p38MAPK) on the cardioprotection of... -
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Pharmacology of the critically ill
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Reduced natriuretic response to acute sodium loading in COMT Gene deleted mice
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The intrarenal natriuretic hormone dopamine (DA) is metabolised by catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) and monoamine oxidase (MAO). Inhibition of COMT, as... -
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Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy in elective percutaneous coronary intervention
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Thrombosis plays a major role in acute vessel closure both after coronary balloon angioplasty and after stenting. This review will address the role of antiplatelet... -
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PersistentChlamydiaeand chronic arthritis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
AllChlamydiaspecies are obligate intracellular bacterial parasites, and all are pathogenic to their various hosts [1].Chlamydia trachomatisandChlamydia pneumoniaeare... -
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Pervasive influence of large-scale climate in the dynamics of a terrestrial vertebrate community
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Background Large-scale climatic variability has been implicated in the population dynamics of many vertebrates throughout the Northern Hemisphere, but has not been... -
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A role for the collagen I/III and MMP-1/-13 genes in primary inguinal hernia?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Abnormal collagen metabolism is thought to play an important role in the development of primary inguinal hernia. This is underlined by detection of altered... -
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GPR99, a new G protein-coupled receptor with homology to a new subgroup of nucleotide receptors
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Background Based on sequence similarity, the superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors (GPRs) can be subdivided into several subfamilies, the members of which often... -
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Altered prostanoid production by fibroblasts cultured from the lungs of human subjects with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Prostanoids are known to participate in the process of fibrogenesis. Because lung fibroblasts produce prostanoids and are believed to play a central role... -
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Genomic organization of
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Background The tropomodulins (TMODs) are a family of proteins that cap the pointed ends of actin filaments. Four TMODs have been identified in humans, with orthologs... -
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Alterations of E-cadherin and β-catenin in gastric cancer
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Background The E-cadherin-catenin complex plays a crucial role in epithelial cell-cell adhesion and in the maintenance of tissue architecture. Perturbation in the... -
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Apolipoprotein E gene polymorphism is not a strong risk factor for diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy in Type I diabetes: case-control study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The gene encoding apolipoprotein E (APOE) has been proposed as a candidate gene for vascular complications in Type I diabetes. This study aimed to... -
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Future of adenoviruses in the gene therapy of arthritis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Recombinant adenoviruses are straightforward to produce at high titres, have a promiscuous host-range, and, because of their ability to infect nondividing cells, lend... -
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Annotated Bibliography on Equity in Health, 1980-2001
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The purposes of this bibliography are to present an overview of the published literature on equity in health and to summarize key articles relevant to the mission of... -
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Factors explaining variance in perceived pain in women with fibromyalgia
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background We hypothesized that a substantial proportion of the subjectively experienced variance in pain in fibromyalgia patients would be explained by psychological...
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