... disease and cancer, where diabetes
is associated with poor outcomes [11,12], diabetes may
confer some protection against acute lung injury in patients
with sepsis and may not be associated with ... short-term
mortality after infection - indeed it is not all bad news.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Acknowledgements
Sachin Ye...
... avail-
ability and habitat heterogeneity [46,47].
In this study, we focused on the ecology and ethnome-
dicine of woody and herbaceous plants. These plants are
distributed in highly-fragmented habitats, ... analytic and synthetic
phytosociological characters. Ecology 1950, 31:434-455.
22. Curtis JT: The Vegetation of Wisconsin An ordination of plant communities,
University Wisconsin P...
... balance and gait and increased risk of falls
[22]. We hypothesised that calluses would be more com-
mon in women, and would be significantly associated
with obesity, foot pain, foot deformity (hallux ... presence of lesions and physical characteris-
tics (gender, obesity and dominant foot) and foot charac-
teristics (foot posture, hallux valgus, lesser toe deformity
and ankle fl...
... antonino.previtera@unimi .it
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University of Milan, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry,
Rehabilitation Unit, San Paolo Hospital, Milan, Italy
Full list of author information is available ... helped with data collection.
Author details
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University of Milan, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry,
Rehabilitation Unit, San Paolo Hospital, Milan, Italy.
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Rehabilitation...
... familiar with this condition to ensure prompt
diagnosis and effective treatment. Our patient responded
promptly with supplemental oxygen and this case demon-
strates that methylene blue is not always ... effective
treatment for this condition. It is administered at a dose of
1–2 mg/kg IV slowly over 3–1 0 minutes. Improvement
should occur within one hour, but if cyanosis pers...
... examined with BioEdit
Sequence Alignment Editor (Department of Microbiology, North Carolina State University,
version 7.0.5.3, http://www.mbio.ncsu.edu/BioEdit/bioedit.html) and manually edited ... Korean isolate and has been commercially
available since 1994. Despite this long history of use, the mechanism for the attenuation of the
vaccine strain is still elusive. We attempted to...
... Rajakarunanayake Y, Hyland K: The
significance of linearity of quantities in electrophoresed and blotted
materials demonstrated by BandScan-an analytical program. Proceedings
of the Computational Systems ... they have no competing interests.
Received: 30 May 2010 Accepted: 17 July 2010 Published: 17 July 2010
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