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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Urban regeneration and democratization of information access: CitiStat experience in Baltimore.
This article explores the potential of a GIS-based approach to city management - Baltimore\'s CitiStat e-government program - for meeting the goals of sustainable urban regeneration. The argument advocated here builds on the widely held ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Arecoline, a major alkaloid of areca nut, inhibits p53, represses DNA repair, and triggers DNA damage response in human epithelial cells.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer declared that areca nut was carcinogenic to human. Areca nut is the main component of betel quid (BQ), ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Older people\'s views of a good death in heart failure: Implications for palliative care provision.
Palliative care in the UK has been developed to meet the needs of predominantly middle aged and younger old people with cancer. Few data are available regarding the extent to which ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Effect of Sirolimus on Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A 1-Year Nonrandomized Controlled Trial.
BACKGROUND: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) after renal transplantation may be affected by immunosuppressive therapy. STUDY DESIGN: Nonrandomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of sirolimus (SRL) on LVH of renal transplant ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Kidney Function and Cognitive Impairment in US Adults: The Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study.
BACKGROUND: The association between kidney function and cognitive impairment has not been assessed in a national sample with a wide spectrum of kidney disease severity. STUDY DESIGN: ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Mycophenolate Mofetil Monotherapy in Membranous Nephropathy: A 1-Year Randomized Controlled Trial.
BACKGROUND: Treatment of patients with membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN) is controversial because of the lack of clear benefit of the immunosuppressive regimens on patient or renal survival. The objective of this study is to evaluate the ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Predicting the Risk of Dialysis and Transplant Among Patients With CKD: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
BACKGROUND: Providers need a reliable way to identify patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) at the highest risk of progression to end-stage renal disease so they can intervene to slow progression ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Predictive Value of Nephelometric and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Assays of Urine Albumin for Mortality in a High-Risk Aboriginal Population.
BACKGROUND: Urine albumin assays by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) yield greater values than immunoassays at lower albumin levels. We compared predictive values of albumin-creatinine ratios (ACRs) by ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Additive effect of pneumococcal vaccine and influenza vaccine on acute exacerbation in patients with chronic lung disease.
To determine the clinical efficacy of combined vaccination with 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine (PV) and influenza vaccine (IV) against pneumonia and acute exacerbation of chronic lung diseases (CLD), we conducted ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Immunogenicity and efficacy of two candidate human metapneumovirus vaccines in cynomolgus macaques.
Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is an important cause of acute respiratory tract disease for which the development of vaccine candidates is warranted. We have previously described the generation of an iscom matrix-adjuvanted HMPV fusion protein ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Vaccination by muscle electroporation: The injury helps.
Electroporation has been widely adopted in gene therapy and vaccination processes. Improving the vaccination efficiency has been constant question for both basic research and clinical studies. Recent evidences suggest that the EP-induced muscle injury contribute to the high vaccination ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
[Floating thrombus in an aberrant right subclavian artery: A rare cause of peripheral arterial embolic events.]
INTRODUCTION: Floating thrombus in an aberrant right subclavian artery is a rare cause of peripheral arterial embolic events. CASE REPORT: We report a 45-year-old woman who presented with an ischemia ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
[Environmental lead poisoning from lead-glazed earthenware used for storing drinks.]
INTRODUCTION: Current unusual environmental sources of lead exposure mainly include traditional medicines, either ayurvedic remedies or others, traditional cosmetics (kohl, surma), and the use of traditional earthenware, for storage or cooking. CASE REPORTS: We report two ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
[Infectious meningoencephalitis in non-immunocompromised adult: State of the art.]
Meningoencephalitis is a disease with many drawbacks: it is usually severe and its etiology will frequently remain unsolved even with thorough investigations. Pathogen diversities and the wide range of differential diagnosis are further limitations, while there are ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
[Acute meningoencephalitis revealing a Behçet\'s disease.]
We report a 69-year-old man admitted in intensive care unit for aseptic meningoencephalitis. Initially, suspicion of an infectious etiology led to introduce an anti-infectious treatment. Behçet\'s disease was diagnosed during hospitalization incited to screen for noninfectious etiologies. A high dose ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Comparative histochemical analyses of oxidative burst and cell wall reinforcement in compatible and incompatible melon-powdery mildew (Podosphaera fusca) interactions.
The spatial-temporal expression patterns of oxidative burst and cell wall reinforcement were analyzed in leaves of resistant and susceptible melon (Cucumis melo L.) cultivars in response to ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Reciprocal cooperation in avian mobbing: playing nice pays.
Unrelated passerine birds often join together while mobbing, a widespread antipredator behavior during which birds harass a predator. Although previous analyses concluded that mobbing could not have evolved via reciprocity, Krams and colleagues\' field experiments show that birds ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Death certificates provide an adequate source of cause of death information when evaluating lung cancer mortality: An example from the Mayo Lung Project.
To assess the accuracy of death certificates in assigning lung cancer as the underlying cause of death, death certificate data were compared to ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Immunohistochemical analysis of phosphorylated epidermal growth factor receptor might provide a surrogate marker of EGFR mutation.
PURPOSE: Overexpression of EGFR is found in several malignancies including lung cancers. Recently, EGFR mutation has been shown to correlate with responsiveness to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI). Although antibodies against ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Endobronchial ultrasound for diagnosis of synchronous primary lung cancers.
Endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has recently been shown to be accurate in diagnosis and staging of mediastinal lymph node metastases. We report a case of squamous cell carcinoma diagnosed by endobronchial biopsy with concomitant ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Carbonyl cyanide p-(trifluoromethoxy) phenylhydrazone (FCCP) as an O(2)(-) generator induces apoptosis via the depletion of intracellular GSH contents in Calu-6 cells.
Carbonyl cyanide p-(trifluoromethoxy) phenylhydrazone (FCCP) is an uncoupler of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in eukaryotic cells. Here, we investigated an involvement of O(2)(-) and GSH in ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Cellular reactions to gene dosage imbalance: genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic effects.
There is increasing evidence suggesting that stoichiometric imbalances in macromolecular complexes and in signaling/transcriptional networks are a source of dosage-dependent phenotypes. Such alterations can result from total or partial aneuploidy, gene copy number variants or ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Glossogeny and phylogeny: cultural evolution meets genetic evolution.
Evolutionary theorists since Darwin have been interested in the parallels and interactions between biological and cultural evolution. Recent applications of empirical techniques originally developed to analyze molecular genetic data to linguistic data offer new insights into the historical ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The provision of oral care by local government authorities in Israel: Policy issues and empirical evidence.
OBJECTIVES: Local governments in Israel are responsible for the provision of oral health care to school children in their jurisdictions. Although Israel benefits from a high ratio of dentists to ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Characteristics of signalling properties mediated by long-acting insulin analogue glargine and detemir in target cells of insulin.
Glargine and detemir are long-acting human insulin analogues with a smooth peakless profile of action. Although their binding affinities to the insulin receptor have been studied, little is known ...
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