... incapable of
re-innervating the joint.
In this study we investigate the long-term effi-
cacy of facet debridement for the treatment of chronic
back pain originating in the facet joint.
MATERIALS ... 40% of patients
had relief for at least 12 months, and mean duration of
pain relief was 14 months. Barlocher et al.
1
treated 50
patients with cryorhizoto...
... 2002
A critical motif for oligomerization and chaperone activity
of bacterial a- heat shock proteins
Sonja Studer, Markus Obrist, Nicolas Lentze and Franz Narberhaus
Institute of Microbiology, Eidgeno
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ssische ... mammalian a- crystallins, the oligomerization
principles of bacterial a- Hsp proteins have received little
attention. Available data indicat...
... a short proof for the result of Noonan [3] that the number
of permutations of length n containing exactly one occurence of pattern 321 is
3
n
2n
n−3
.
(To be precise, Noonan considered permutations ... A short proof for the number of permutations
containing pattern 321 exactly once
Alexander Burstein
Department of Mathematics
Howard...
... appear to play key roles in the pathogenesis of
RA, and the co-ordinated production of chemokines and
proinflammatory cytokines is probably important in the
orchestration of the inflammatory responses ... al.
Research article
A novel mechanism for the regulation of IFN-
γγ
inducible
protein-10 expression in rheumatoid arthritis
Ryosuke Hanaoka
1
, Tsu...
... disease by destroying target tissues through
induction of apoptosis of chondrocytes [33]. Alternatively,
Fas could contribute to synovial hyperplasia by inducing
proliferation of Fas- expressing synovial ... control mice with
CIA reveal less inflammation/joint destruction in DBA-lpr/
lpr mice in spite of the same clinical score as that of control
mice.
The proinflamm...
... Pinto et al.: A systematic approach for the
identification of novel, serologically reactive recombinant Varicella-
Zoster Virus (VZV) antigens. Virology Journal 2010 7:165.
Submit your next manuscript ... Virology Journal 2010, 7:165
http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/165
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A systematic approach for the identification
o...
... comprehensive platform for quality control of
botanical drugs (PhytomicsQC): a case study of
Huangqin Tang (HQT) and PHY906
Robert Tilton
1
, Anthony A Paiva
1
, Jing-Qu Guan
1
, Rajendra Marathe
1
, Zaoli ... this article as: Tilton et al.: A comprehensive platform for quality
control of botanical drugs (PhytomicsQC): a case...
... examination of the structure and function of computer hard drives and DNA. Theoretical Biology
and Medical Modelling 2010 7:3.
Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central
and take full advantage ... CHD and that of the DHD.
Correlation 4: translation and access of biological information via the DNA transcription
machinery
One of the limitations...
... investigate the statistical properties of the
model.
Model
Mathematical Modeling of Circadian Rhythms
In all organisms studied so far, circadian rhythms that
allow adaptation to a periodically changing ... fre-
quencies of alleles A and a are q and 1 - q, respectively. For
a particular genotype j of this QTL (j = 0 for aa, 1 for Aa
and 2 for AA), the parameter...
... 8
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... Trauma Registry Standard (KVITTRA), Data Dictionary.
5 The Norwegian National Trauma Registry, Data Dictionary.
6 American College of Surgeons, National Trauma Data Bank; National Trauma Data ... model variables.
Data variable no. Data variable name Type of data Data variable categories or
values
Definition of data variable
1 Age Continuous Number The patient's age...
... statistical and data- mining techniques allow
for the combination of such databases, the management
of missing data and the sensible exploration of large-scale
data.
For now, both approaches are valid. ... Physiological data, drug and
blood product administration can all be tagged electroni-
cally, as can the patient's position within the hospital.
Other databases, such as...
... research
A consensus-based template for uniform reporting of data from
pre-hospital advanced airway management
Stephen JM Sollid*
1,2
, David Lockey
3
, Hans Morten Lossius
1,4
and Pre-
hospital advanced ... any airway man-
agement beyond manual opening of the airway and the
use of simple adjuncts, such as a Guedel airway, should be
considered as advanced...
... transnasal endoscopy and
intubation of the pylorus. Attending intensive care physicians were trained in the handling of the new endoscope
for transnasal gastroenteroscopy for two days. A jejunal feeding ... study and participated in the
analysis of data. GE, DS, IF, MS and NW participated in the analysis and
interpretation of data. IF and GE revised the manuscript. NW concei...
... corrected, and contiguity and continuity are dramatically
improved.
Background
We describe the generation of the reference sequence for the
Ciona savignyi genome. C. savignyi is among the species of
sessile ... haplome alignment and reference sequence of the highly
polymorphic Ciona savignyi genome
Kerrin S Small
*
, Michael Brudno
†
, Matthew M...