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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Mitochondria, oxidative stress and PARP-1 network: a new target for neuroprotective effects of tetracyclines?
Mitochondria, oxidative stress and PARP-1 network: a new target for neuroprotective effects of tetracyclines?
Orsucci D, Mancuso M, Siciliano G.
Department of Neuroscience, Neurological Clinic, University of Pisa, Via Roma 67, ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
A technique for simultaneous measurement of Ca2+, FRET fluorescence, and force in intact mouse small arteries.
FRET-based biosensor molecules are powerful tools to reveal specific molecular interactions in cells. Typically however, they are used in cultured cells that (inevitably) express different genes than their counterparts in ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Contribution of pacemaker channels to autonomous electrical activity of differentiated embryonic stem cells.
Contribution of pacemaker channels to autonomous electrical activity of differentiated embryonic stem cells.
Akhavan A.
California Pacific Medical Center.
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
What do tachycardiomyopathy belong to? Reply.
Elliott P; and on behalf of the following co-authors:, Andersson B, Arbustini E, Bilinska Z, Cecchi F, Charron P, Dubourg O, Kühl U, Maisch B, McKenna WJ, Monserrat L, Pankuweit S, Rapezzi C, Seferovic P, Tavazzi L, Keren A.
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
What do tachycardiomyopathy belong to?
Santangeli P, Marzo F, Camporeale A, Bellocci F, Crea F, Pieroni M.
Department of Cardiology, Catholic University, Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy.
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Parameters in Television Captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults: Effects of Caption Rate Versus Text Reduction on Comprehension.
Caption rate and text reduction are factors that appear to affect the comprehension of captions by people who are deaf or hard of hearing. These 2 factors are ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of Carbohydrate Accumulation in Allium cepa L.
Onion and shallot (Allium cepa L.) exhibit wide variation in bulb fructan content and the Frc locus on chromosome 8 conditions much of this variation. To understand the biochemical basis of Frc we conducted biochemical ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
An analysis of long-distance water transport in the soybean stem using H215O.
The lateral water movement in the intact stem of a transpiring soybean plant was analyzed quantitatively by a real-time measurement system utilizing labeled water, H(2)(15)O, and gamma ray detectors. A large volume of water ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Nano Scale Proteomics Revealed the Presence of Regulatory Proteins Including Three FT-like proteins in Phloem and Xylem Saps from Rice.
The main physiological roles of phloem and xylem in higher plants involve the transport of water, nutrients and metabolites. They are also involved, however, in whole ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Spatial Attention Related SEP Amplitude Modulations Covary with BOLD Signal in S1--A Simultaneous EEG--fMRI Study.
Recent studies investigating the influence of spatial-selective attention on primary somatosensory processing have produced inconsistent results. The aim of this study was to explore the influence of tactile spatial-selective attention on ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Human Amygdala Sensitivity to the Pupil Size of Others.
Stimulation of the amygdala produces pupil dilation in animal and human subjects. The present study examined whether the amygdala is sensitive to variations in the pupil size of others. Male subjects underwent event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Homeostatic Metaplasticity of the Motor Cortex is Altered during Headache-Free Intervals in Migraine with Aura.
Preconditioning of the human primary motor cortex (M1) with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can shape the magnitude and direction of excitability changes induced by a subsequent session of repetitive transcranial ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Neural Correlates of True Memory, False Memory, and Deception.
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine whether neural activity can differentiate between true memory, false memory, and deception. Subjects heard a series of semantically related words and were later asked to make a recognition ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Locus Coeruleus {alpha}-Adrenergic-Mediated Activation of Cortical Astrocytes In Vivo.
The locus coeruleus (LC) provides the sole source of norepinephrine (NE) to the cortex for modulation of cortical synaptic activity in response to salient sensory information. NE has been shown to improve signal-to-noise ratios, sharpen receptive fields ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Functional Lateralization of Face, Hand, and Trunk Representation in Anatomically Defined Human Somatosensory Areas.
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and cytoarchitectonic probability maps to investigate the responsiveness of individual areas in the human primary and secondary somatosensory cortices to hand, face, or trunk stimulation ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
A review of algorithmic techniques for disulfide-bond determination.
Disulfide bonds play an important role in understanding protein folding, evolution, and in studies related to determining structural and functional properties of specific proteins. At the state-of-the-art, a large number of computational techniques have been proposed for determining ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Proteomics in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Proteomic approaches are increasingly being used to complement genetic and RNA interference-based studies of gene function in Caenorhabditis elegans. Several strategies to isolate protein complexes from whole worms and individual differentiated cell types have been described. In vivo labelling methods have also ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Analysis of Pro12Ala PPAR gamma polymorphism and Helicobacter pylori infection in gastric adenocarcinoma and peptic ulcer disease.
BACKGROUND: Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) is a ligand-dependent transcription factor involved in various disease processes including inflammation and carcinogenesis. We investigated the association of Pro12Ala PPARgamma polymorphism and ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) 1 and 2 help to predict disease outcome in GIST patients.
BACKGROUND: The expression of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system has never been studied in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied the immunohistochemical expression of IGF1 receptor (IGFR-I), ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Proton MR spectroscopy for monitoring early treatment response of breast cancer to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy.
Baek HM, Chen JH, Nalcioglu O, Su MY.
John Tu and Thomas Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, University of California, Irvine Hall 164, Irvine, CA 92697-5020, USA.
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Protein biotinylation visualized by a complex structure of biotin protein ligase with a substrate.
Biotin protein ligase (BPL) catalyzes the biotinylation of the biotin carboxyl carrier protein (BCCP) only at a special lysine residue. Here we report the first structure of BPL:BCCP complex crystals which are ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Papillary muscle realignment and mitral annuloplasty in patients with severe ischemic mitral regurgitation and dilated heart.
Chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) is one of the leading causes of congestive heart failure and death. It is controversial whether mitral annuloplasty (MAP) per se can improve the long-term ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
To the editor.
de Miranda PA, Reiter PD.
Novo Nordisk Health Care AG Andreasstr 15 CH-8050 Zurich Switzerland.
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
A dynamic comparative study concerning the effects of Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and aldosterone receptor blockers on the fibrinolytic system.
The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) plays a central role in fibrinolysis. Activation of the RAAS stimulates the expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), which can be directly implicated ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
The safety profile of yasmin is similar to other combined oral contraceptives.
Cronin M, Korner P.
Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany.
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