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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Emotional reactions of anger and shame to the norm violation characterizing episodes of interpersonal harm.
Norms are the socially shared restraints by which human behaviour is regulated. When applied to events involving interpersonal harm, the perceived level of norm violation by a perpetrator will lead to ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Patient satisfaction of primary care for musculoskeletal diseases: A comparison between Neural Therapy and conventional medicine.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Patients with musculoskeletal disorders are increasingly choosing complementary medicine in the search for cures to their problems. The main objective of this study was therefore to assess and ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Primary prevention of diabetes mellitus type 2 and cardiovascular diseases using a cognitive behavior program aimed at lifestyle changes in people at risk: design of a randomized controlled trial.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The number of people with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM) is ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Understanding atrioventricular septal defect. Anatomoechocardiographic correlation.
ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: Correlate the anatomic features of atrioventricular septal defect with echocardiographic images. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Sixty specimen hearts were studied by sequential segmental analysis. Echocardiograms were performed on 34 patients. Specimen hearts with findings equivalent to those of echocardiographic ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Brain injury-associated biomarkers of TGF-beta1, S100B, GFAP, NF-L, tTG, AbetaPP, and tau were concomitantly enhanced and the UPS was impaired during acute brain injury caused by Toxocara canis in mice.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Because the outcomes and sequelae after different types of brain injury (BI) are variable ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Cost-effectiveness of ranibizumab for neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Intravitreal ranibizumab prevents vision loss and improves visual acuity in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration, but it is expensive, and efficacy beyond 2 years is uncertain. METHODS: We assessed the cost-effectiveness of ranibizumab compared with ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Risk, uncertainty or safety in the use of the blood and blood derivatives?
ABSTRACT: Long period of time has elapsed since the French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys carried out the first successful blood transfusion to a human being. Using bird feathers as canules, ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Secreted APP regulates the function of full-length APP in neurite outgrowth through interaction with integrin beta1.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Beta-Amyloid precursor protein (APP) has been reported to play a role in the outgrowth of neurites from cultured neurons. Both cell-surface APP and its soluble, ectodomain cleavage product ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Validation of internal control for gene expression study in soybean by quantitative real-time PCR.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Normalizing to housekeeping gene (HKG) can make results from quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) more reliable. Recent studies have shown that no single HKG is universal for all experiments. Thus, a ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Transitions of Care from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to Adult Mental Health Services (TRACK Study): A study of protocols in Greater London.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Although young people\'s transition from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS) in England ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Evolution of a behavior-linked microsatellite-containing element in the 5\' flanking region of the primate AVPR1A gene.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The arginine vasopressin V1a receptor (V1aR) modulates social cognition and behavior in a wide variety of species. Variation in a repetitive microsatellite element in the 5\' flanking region ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Complex regional pain syndrome 1 - the Swiss cohort study.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Little is known about the course of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 1 and potential factors influencing the course of this disorder over time. The goal of this study is a) to set up a ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Rifaximin for maintenance therapy in antibiotic-dependent pouchitis.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Pouchitis is the most common long-term complication of in patients with restorative proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. Patients often develop antibiotic-dependent form of pouchitis requiring long-term antibiotic therapy for remission maintenance. Rifaximin, an oral, non-systemic, broad-spectrum antibiotic ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Thai lexical tone perception in native speakers of Thai, English and Mandarin Chinese: an event-related potentials training study.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Tone languages such as Thai and Mandarin Chinese use differences in fundamental frequency (F0, pitch) to distinguish lexical meaning. Previous behavioral studies have shown that native ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The trypanosome transcriptome is remodelled during differentiation but displays limited responsiveness within life stages.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Trypanosomatids utilise polycistronic transcription for production of the vast majority of protein-coding mRNAs, which operates in the absence of gene-specific promoters. Resolution of nascent transcripts by polyadenylation and trans-splicing, together ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Comparison of two doses and two routes of administration of misoprostol after pre-treatment with mifepristone for early pregnancy termination.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: It is not known whether a 400 ug dose of misoprostol has a similar efficacy as an 800 ug dose when administered sublingually or vaginally ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Hemispheric lateralization of a molecular signal for pain modulation in the amygdala.
ABSTRACT: The extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) cascade has been shown to be a key modulator of pain processing in the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) in mice. ERK is activated in the CeA ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Covariance of maximum likelihood evolutionary distances between sequences aligned pairwise.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The estimation of a distance between two biological sequences is a fundamental process in molecular evolution. It is usually performed by maximum likelihood (ML) on characters aligned either pairwise or jointly in a multiple ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Study to Prospectively evaluate Reamed Intramedually Nails in patients with Tibial fractures (S.P.R.I.N.T.): Study Rationale and Design.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Surgeons agree on the benefits of operative treatment of tibial fractures - the most common of long bone fractures - with an intramedullary rod, or nail. Rates ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Expression of HIV-1 antigens in plants as potential subunit vaccines.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has infected more than 40 million people worldwide, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. The high prevalence of HIV-1 subtype C in southern Africa necessitates the development of cheap, effective ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
A simple way to identify non-viable cells within living plant tissue using confocal microscopy.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Plant cell death is a normal process during plant development. Mutant plants may exhibit misregulation of this process, which can lead to severe growth defects. Simple ways of visualising cell ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity in blood of ewes on farms in different scrapie categories in Iceland.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Preliminary studies indicated decreased glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity in blood of ewes on scrapie-afflicted farms. Other studies have shown decreased GPX activity in brain of prion-infected mice and ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Double vs single internal thoracic artery harvesting in diabetic patients: role in perioperative infection rate.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The aim of this prospective study is to evaluate the role in the onset of surgical site infections of bilateral internal thoracic arteries harvesting in patients with decompensated preoperative ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Pathways to ischemic neuronal cell death: are sex differences relevant?
ABSTRACT: We have known for some time that the epidemiology of human stroke is sexually dimorphic until late in life, well beyond the years of reproductive senescence and menopause. Now, a new concept is emerging: the ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Development of the retinotectal system in the direct-developing frog Eleutherodactylus coqui in comparison with other anurans.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Frogs primitively have a biphasic life history with an aquatic larva (tadpole) and a usually terrestrial adult. However, direct developing frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus have lost a ...
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