Medical and Biomedical Researches

Attentional-shaping as a means to improve emotion perception deficits in schizophrenia.

July 3rd, 2008
Attentional-shaping as a means to improve emotion perception deficits in schizophrenia. Inability to recognize emotional expressions of others (emotion perception) is one of the most common impairments observed among individuals with schizophrenia. Such deficits presumably contribute much to the social dysfunction characteristic of schizophrenia. This study ...

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Comparison of lycopene and fluvastatin effects on atherosclerosis induced by a high-fat diet in rabb

July 3rd, 2008
Comparison of lycopene and fluvastatin effects on atherosclerosis induced by a high-fat diet in rabbits. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the antiatherogenic effect of lycopene in rabbits fed a high-fat diet. METHODS: Forty adult male rabbits were divided into five groups that were fed a standard diet, a ...

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Circulating oxidized low-density lipoproteins are associated with overweight, obesity, and low serum

July 3rd, 2008
Circulating oxidized low-density lipoproteins are associated with overweight, obesity, and low serum carotenoids in older community-dwelling women. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine whether total serum carotenoids, alpha-tocopherol, selenium, and obesity were independently associated with oxidized low-density lipoproteins (ox-LDLs) in moderately to severely ...

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Signalling pathways regulating nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling of the mRNA-binding protein HuR.

July 3rd, 2008
Signalling pathways regulating nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling of the mRNA-binding protein HuR. During the last decade evidence from numerous studies has been accumulated demonstrating that posttranscriptional gene regulation including mRNA turnover and translation is an important paradigm of eukaryotic gene expression contributing to the vast majority of cellular ...

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Shape-based multi-spectral optical image reconstruction through genetic algorithm based optimization

July 3rd, 2008
Shape-based multi-spectral optical image reconstruction through genetic algorithm based optimization. Multi-spectral optical imaging of skin and skin-lesions has been of significant interest for various biomedical applications. A multi-spectral optical imaging instrument called Nevoscope has been developed to acquire images of skin and skin-lesion through trans-illumination. Nevoscope ...

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Influence of Gender on Diagnostic Accuracy of Rapid Atrial and Ventricular Pacing Stress Echocardiog

July 3rd, 2008
Influence of Gender on Diagnostic Accuracy of Rapid Atrial and Ventricular Pacing Stress Echocardiography for the Detection of Coronary Artery Disease: A Multicenter Study (Pol-RAPSE Final Results). BACKGROUND: Rapid cardiac pacing using a permanent pacemaker may be used as a nonpharmacologic stress during echocardiographic imaging for ...

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Boundary conditions and phase transitions in neural networks. Theoretical results.

July 3rd, 2008
Boundary conditions and phase transitions in neural networks. Theoretical results. The purpose of this paper is to present some relevant theoretical results on the asymptotic behaviour of finite neural networks (on lattices) when they are subjected to fixed boundary conditions. This work focuses on two different ...

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Recognizing emotions expressed by body pose: A biologically inspired neural model.

July 3rd, 2008
Recognizing emotions expressed by body pose: A biologically inspired neural model. Research into the visual perception of human emotion has traditionally focused on the facial expression of emotions. Recently researchers have turned to the more challenging field of emotional body language, i.e. emotion expression through body ...

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Bisphenol A concentration-dependently increases human granulosa-lutein cell matrix metalloproteinase

July 3rd, 2008
Bisphenol A concentration-dependently increases human granulosa-lutein cell matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) enzyme output. Bisphenol A (BPA) is an estrogenic contaminant that has been quantified at higher levels in the follicular fluid of women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) compared to healthy fertile controls. However, the effect of ...

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Compromised visuomotor processing speed in players of Rugby Union from school through to the nationa

July 3rd, 2008
Compromised visuomotor processing speed in players of Rugby Union from school through to the national adult level. The aim of this study was to investigate the residual effects of concussion amongst players of Rugby Union from school through to the national adult level, with pre-season testing ...

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Improved diagnosis and treatment of anastomotic leakage after colorectal surgery.

July 3rd, 2008
Improved diagnosis and treatment of anastomotic leakage after colorectal surgery. AIM: This study aimed at testing feasibility of a standardised postoperative surveillance protocol to reduce delay in the diagnosis of anastomotic leakage (AL) and, subsequently, mortality. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Patient files of patients operated between 1996 ...

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Vascular injury during anterior exposure of the spine.

July 3rd, 2008
Vascular injury during anterior exposure of the spine. OBJECTIVES: Fusion of the spine is often performed from an anterior approach requiring mobilization of aorta, iliac artery, and vein. This study describes the preferred techniques and incidence of vascular complications at a spine center. METHODS: Information and ...

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Carotid endarterectomy within 2 weeks of minor ischemic stroke: A prospective study.

July 3rd, 2008
Carotid endarterectomy within 2 weeks of minor ischemic stroke: A prospective study. OBJECTIVE: Data from multicenter symptomatic trials have shown that benefit from carotid endarterectomy (CEA) was greatest in patients with carotid disease operated within 2 weeks of their last ischemic event. We prospectively analyzed the ...

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Suboptimal use of statin therapy in elderly patients with atherosclerosis: A population-based study.

July 3rd, 2008
Suboptimal use of statin therapy in elderly patients with atherosclerosis: A population-based study. BACKGROUND: Current evidence suggests that statin use plays an important role in improving adverse cardiovascular outcomes in patients with atherosclerosis. However, limited population-based data are available on use of statin therapy in these ...

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Elastic fibers reconstructed using adenovirus-mediated expression of tropoelastin and tested in the

July 3rd, 2008
Elastic fibers reconstructed using adenovirus-mediated expression of tropoelastin and tested in the elastase model of abdominal aortic aneurysm in rats. OBJECTIVE: An adenoviral vector carrying a recombinant tropoelastin (TE) gene with a Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) tag adenoviral tropoelastin green fluorescent protein (AdTE-GFP) was transferred to ...

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Impaired graft healing due to hypercholesterolemia is prevented by dietary supplementation with alph

July 3rd, 2008
Impaired graft healing due to hypercholesterolemia is prevented by dietary supplementation with alpha-tocopherol. OBJECTIVE: The patency of prosthetic grafts is partly limited by incomplete endothelial cell coverage and development of anastomotic intimal hyperplasia. The goal of this study was to determine the effect of elevated cholesterol ...

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Qualitative and quantitative analysis of flavonoids in the leaves of Isatis indigatica Fort. by ultr

July 3rd, 2008
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of flavonoids in the leaves of Isatis indigatica Fort. by ultra-performance liquid chromatography with PDA and electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry detection. A novel method based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography with photo diode array and electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry detection (UPLC-PDA-ESI-MS/MS) ...

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Determination of antibacterial quaternary ammonium compound in lozenges and human serum by resonance

July 3rd, 2008
Determination of antibacterial quaternary ammonium compound in lozenges and human serum by resonance light scattering technique. A method for the specific determination of an antibacterial quaternary ammonium compound Dequalinium chloride (DQC) was described in this paper. At pH 0.5, the resonance light scattering (RLS) intensity of ...

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Phase-contrast X-ray tomography: Contrast mechanism and roles of phase retrieval.

July 3rd, 2008
Phase-contrast X-ray tomography: Contrast mechanism and roles of phase retrieval. The direct phase-contrast X-ray tomography, which reconstructs tomograms directly from projection phase-contrast images without the phase retrievals, finds many interesting applications for detection of interfaces for different tissues. In this work we explore and clarify the ...

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Somatic mtDNA mutations and aging - Facts and fancies.

July 3rd, 2008
Somatic mtDNA mutations and aging - Facts and fancies. Mitochondria play a critical role in the life of the cell as they control their metabolic rate, energy production and cell death. Mitochondria have long been appreciated as causative to aging. The age-associated respiratory chain deficiency is ...

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Ethanol extracts of Rehmannia complex (Di Huang) containing no Corni fructus improve early diabetic

July 3rd, 2008
Ethanol extracts of Rehmannia complex (Di Huang) containing no Corni fructus improve early diabetic nephropathy by combining suppression on the ET-ROS axis with modulate hypoglycemic effect in rats. AIM: Liuwei Dihuang (Rehmannia complex, RC) decoction, a classic prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), has been used ...

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Cryobiological determinants of frozen semen quality, with special reference to stallion.

July 3rd, 2008
Cryobiological determinants of frozen semen quality, with special reference to stallion. Success in cryopreserving stallion semen has been very variable. Several different freezing regimes have been published. However, because extenders and procedures used in each regime have differed, direct comparison of these techniques has been very ...

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Developing biological resource banks as a supporting tool for wildlife reproduction and conservation

July 3rd, 2008
Developing biological resource banks as a supporting tool for wildlife reproduction and conservation The Iberian lynx bank as a model for other endangered species. This work presents a Biological Resource Bank generated as a complementary supporting tool for the reproduction and the in situ and ex ...

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Vaginal oestrus during the reproductive and non-reproductive period in European ground squirrels.

July 3rd, 2008
Vaginal oestrus during the reproductive and non-reproductive period in European ground squirrels. Most hibernating animals are thought to be monoestrous because reproductive activity is subject to strong time constraints. In previous studies, female European ground squirrels (Spermophilus citellus) turned out to have elevated oestradiol levels during ...

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A feasibility study developing an integrated testing strategy assessing skin irritation potential of

July 3rd, 2008
A feasibility study developing an integrated testing strategy assessing skin irritation potential of chemicals. The regulatory assessment of chemical safety is still driven by hazard testing in animals. The Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals (REACH) legislation and new technologies require a shift in the ...

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