... conceived ofthe study, and participated in its design, write up, data analysis, editorial changes, and coordination as the corresponding author All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... Mancuso AA, Harnsberger HR, Muraki AS, Stevens MH: Computed tomography of cervical and retropharyngeal lymph nodes: normal anatomy, variants of normal, and applications in staging head and neck cancer ... head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a meta-analysis J Natl Cancer Inst 2001, 100:712-720 Yamazaki Y, Saitoh M, Notani K, Tei K, Totsuka Y, Takinami S, Kanegae K, Inubushi M, Tamaki N, Kitagawa...
... during the third term Apart from sex and age, we also evaluated (as background variables) the participants' experiences of health care as a patient and as a relative, which were ranked as mainly ... neurosurgeon' and'the [lack of] quality of life'; thegeneral public gave priority to the first argument, whereas the physicians stressed the latter Neither group was swayed by the age ofthe patient and ... experiences of health care as relatives of patients were rather similar, but thegeneral public had greater experience of health care as a patient and had more combined positive and negative patient...
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... Yamane N, Shoji-Hosaka E, Kanda Y, Sakurada M, Uchida K, Anazawa H, Satoh M, Yamasaki M et al (2003) The absence of fucose but not the presence of galactose or bisecting N-acetylglucosamine of ... lipid storage Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95, 2526–2530 Priatel JJ, Sarkar M, Schachter H & Marth JD (1997) Isolation, characterization and inactivation ofthe mouse Mgat3 gene: the bisecting N-acetylglucosamine ... ligand-independent activation of EGFR and subsequent activation of Rac1 and MAP kinase, which appears to be involved in cell migration and proliferation [73] Thus, it is possible that upregulation...
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... We also thank Andy Ng and Evelyne Copeland for critical reading ofthe manuscript This work was supported by a Genomics and Health Research Initiative ofthe National Research Council of Canada ... functional aggregates and compartments Acknowledgements We thank Drs Dmitri Tolkachev and Surajit Bhattacharjya for their valuable discussion and Patrice Bouchard and Betty Zhu for technical assistance ... domains from Src andthe mouse Grb4, and expression and purification ofthe Grb4 SH2 and RGS3 PDZ domains (A) Secondary structural elements are from the X-ray crystallographic structure of the...
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... the presence of mutual chemical interactions between enzyme intermediates and provides and explanation for catalase activity Other questions, such as the localization ofthe amino acid radical ... that the catalytic cycles of both LPO and MPO have unusual features with respect to the classical peroxidase mechanism and interactions with H2O2 In the light ofthe experimental data presented above, ... this fact alone does not explain the wide catalase activity-spectrum among members ofthe animal peroxidase protein family Structural factors (such as the presence ofa sulphonium linkage in...
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