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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Host antimicrobial proteins as endogenous immunomodulators.
Host defense mechanisms are multilayered and involve physical as well as chemical barriers, antimicrobial factors as well as a broad set of immunocompetent cells. The mode of action of antimicrobial factors is variable, ranging from opsonisation and agglutination to direct ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Full-length and internally deleted forms of interleukin-7 are present in horse (Equus caballus) lymph node tissue.
Horse IL-7 (HIL-7) cDNA was isolated from adult lymph node tissue by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using oligonucleotide primers based on horse genomic sequences (The Broad Institute). In ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Body size at birth and socio-economic status in childhood: Implications for Cloninger\'s psychobiological model of temperament at age 60.
Small birth size predicts various psychiatric outcomes, including depression. While biologically based temperamental traits may constitute a vulnerability factor for depression, the extent to which birth size ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Personality disorders and perceived stress in major depressive disorder.
The investigation of comorbidity between major depressive disorder (MDD) and personality disorders (PDs) has attracted considerable interest. Whereas some studies found that the presence of PDs has adverse effects on the course and treatment of MDD, others ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Maternity blues as a predictor of DSM-IV depression and anxiety disorders in the first three months postpartum.
BACKGROUND: Maternity blues have been described as a relevant risk factor for postpartum depression. Information regarding the influence of maternity blues on the onset and course of clinical postpartum ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Glucocorticoid receptor mediated negative feedback in chronic fatigue syndrome using the low dose (0.5 mg) dexamethasone suppression test.
BACKGROUND: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is associated with hypocortisolism, but it is not yet clear the extent to which enhanced negative feedback may underlie this finding. METHODS: We ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Prevalence and correlates of bipolar II disorder in major depressive patients at a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Hong Kong.
BACKGROUND: Western studies indicate a high prevalence of bipolar II disorder defined by a Research Diagnostic Criteria 2-day hypomania duration criterion (30 to 61%) amongst clinically depressive ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Approximate entropy of motoneuron firing patterns during a motor preparation task.
The aim of this study was to test whether approximate entropy (ApEn) analysis provides a suitable method of detecting differences induced by a motor preparation task in time-ordered inter-spike intervals (ISIs) recorded in tonically firing ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Imaging techniques: New insights into chemokine/chemokine receptor biology at the immune system.
Our current knowledge of molecular and cellular responses in vivo is based mainly on event reconstruction from time-freeze observations. Conventional biochemical and genetic methods consider the cell as an individual entity and ligand/receptor pairs ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Synthesis and antitumor activity of a new mixed-ligand complex di-n-butyl-(4-chlorobenzohydroxamato)tin(IV) chloride.
Reaction of di-n-butyltin(IV) dichloride with 4-chlorobenzohydroxamic acid at 1:1 ratio yielded a new mixed-ligand diorganotin(IV) complex, di-n-butyl-(4-chlorobenzohydroxamato)tin(IV) chloride(DBDCT). It was fully characterized by IR, (1)H, (13)C, (119)Sn NMR spectra and single crystal X-ray analysis. In ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Moderate perinatal arsenic exposure alters neuroendocrine markers associated with depression and increases depressive-like behaviors in adult mouse offspring.
Arsenic is one of the most common heavy metal contaminants found in the environment, particularly in water. We examined the impact of perinatal exposure to relatively low levels ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Stress and glucocorticoid footprints in the brain-The path from depression to Alzheimer\'s disease.
Increasingly, stress is recognized as a trigger of depressive episodes and recent evidence suggests a causal role of stress in the onset and progression of Alzheimer\'s disease (AD) pathology. Besides aging, sex is ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Neurobiology of panic disorder: From animal models to brain neuroimaging.
Evidence from animal models of anxiety has led to the hypothesis that serotonin enhances inhibitory avoidance (related to anxiety) in the forebrain, but inhibits one-way escape (panic) in the midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG). Stressing the difference ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Acute and chronic effects of ferret odor exposure in Sprague-Dawley rats.
This manuscript describes several behavioral and functional studies evaluating the capacity of ferret odors to elicit a number of acute and long-term responses in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Acute presentation elicits multiple responses, suggesting that ferret ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Faith-based evaluation: Accountable to whom, for what?
Findings, issues, and lessons learned about program evaluation are examined from a national qualitative study of 15 faith-based human service programs targeting those in need in urban areas. Using a grounded theory design, five properties emerge as part of ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
A comparison of the response of Simocephalus mixtus (Cladocera) and Daphnia magna to contaminated freshwater sediments.
The southeast region of Mexico is characterized by intensive oil industry activities carried out by the national public enterprise Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). The freshwater lagoon \"El Limón\", located in the ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Effects of neurotoxic insecticides on heat-shock proteins and cytokine transcription in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
This study investigated sublethal, molecular effects of two current-use insecticides, chlorpyrifos (CP) and esfenvalerate (EV) in juvenile Chinook salmon. Heat-shock protein (hsp60, hsp70, hsp90) expression was quantified by Western blotting in ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Sorafenib (Nexavar((R))) induces molecular remission and regression of extramedullary disease in a patient with FLT3-ITD(+) acute myeloid leukemia.
The fms-related tyrosine kinase 3 internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD) can be found in about one quarter of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) [Small D. FLT3 mutations: biology ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Involvement of the TGF-beta and mTOR/p70S6Kinase pathways in the transformation process induced by v-ErbA.
v-ErbA is the oncogenic form of TRalpha/c-ErbA which transforms chicken erythrocytic progenitors by blocking differentiation. The oncogenic property of v-ErbA has been correlated with its ability to antagonize ligand-dependent gene activation by ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Analysis of the Metabolic Footprint and Tissue Metabolome of Placental Villous Explants Cultured at Different Oxygen Tensions Reveals Novel Redox Biomarkers.
Pre-eclampsia (PE) is a multi-system disorder of pregnancy hypothesised to arise from circulating factors derived from an unhealthy placenta. Some changes in placental phenotype seen ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Effect of pulpal pressure on the microtensile bond strength of luting resin cements to human dentin.
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to examine the effect of pulpal pressure on the microtensile bond strength (mTBS) of luting resin cements to human dentin and the permeability ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Initial versus final fracture of metal-free crowns, analyzed via acoustic emission.
OBJECTIVE: To discriminate between initial and final fracture failure loads of four metal-free crown systems by the conjoint detection of acoustic emission signals during compressive loading. METHODS: Teeth were prepared and used for crown construction ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
High in vitro development after somatic cell nuclear transfer and trichostatin A treatment of reconstructed porcine embryos.
Abnormal epigenetic modification is supposed to be one of factors accounting for inefficient reprogramming of the donor cell nuclei in ooplasm after somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). Trichostatin A ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Factors impacting equine sperm recovery rate and quality following cushioned centrifugation.
Two experiments were conducted to investigate modifications in cushioned centrifugation of stallion semen. Specifically, the effects of tube type, centrifugation medium, cushion type, and centrifugation force on post-centrifugation sperm recovery rate and quality were evaluated. ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
DNA-based stable isotope probing: a link between community structure and function.
DNA-based molecular techniques permit the comprehensive determination of microbial diversity but generally do not reveal the relationship between the identity and the function of microorganisms. The first direct molecular technique to enable the linkage of ...
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