Getting a Grip on Complexes
Changes in first hip fracture r ...
Summary We determined age-standardized first hip fracture rates in British Columbia between 1990 and 2004. We found sex and fracture type rates in k ...
Serum undercarboxylated osteoca ...
Summary Recent animal studies have demonstrated that undercarboxylated osteocalcin upregulates insulin secretion via osteoblast-insulin signaling. H ...
Fracture risk and adjuvant horm ...
Summary The risk of hip and other fractures was examined among a population-based group of older women with breast cancer. Women using aromatase inh ...
Cardiac Functions in Children W ...
Childhood growth hormone deficiency (GHD) decreases left-ventricular (LV) mass, but impairment of cardiac function has never been documented. The ob ...
Myocardial Perfusion and Exerci ...
Peak exercise myocardial perfusion was evaluated in patients with D-transposition of the great arteries 12 years after the arterial switch operation ...
Impact of the Viral Respiratory ...
To compare postoperative outcomes in children undergoing cardiac surgery during the viral respiratory season and nonviral season at our institution. ...
The Quantitative and Qualitativ ...
This prospective, single-center study aimed to evaluate the platelet response during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery in a large cohort of child ...
Normalization of Pulmonary Vasc ...
A 3-month-old infant with perimembranous ventricular septal defect (VSD) and pulmonary hypertension presented at our center. Cardiac catheterization ...
Advances in our understanding o ...
Glomerular thrombotic microangiopathy is a hallmark feature of haemolytic uraemic syndrome, the leading cause of acute renal failure in childhood. T ...
Four family cases of acute rena ...
Cortinarius poisoning is a rare syndrome that is responsible for a delayed toxic tubulointerstitial nephritis that can induce severe acute or chroni ...
Urinary transforming growth fac ...
Renal dysfunction affects 5–18% of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). To date, no studies have described urinary levels of transforming growth ...
Radiology residents’ experience ...
Background Residents should be exposed to adequate procedural volume to act independently upon completion of training. Informal inquiry led us to qu ...
Quality assurance: using the ex ...
Background Many methods are used to track patient exposure during acquisition of plain film radiographs. A uniform international standard would aid ...
Image Gently: Challenges for ra ...
The development of digital radiography (DR) has provided numerous benefits for pediatric imaging, including the ability to post-process images and t ...
Clinical and radiological disti ...
In 1938, Saul Jarcho and Paul Levin from Johns Hopkins Hospital reported cases of thoracic insufficiency due to vertebral and rib anomalies. Nearly ...
Hydranencephaly associated with ...
Hydranencephaly is an encephaloclastic central nervous system disorder characterised by severe destruction of the cerebral hemispheres with preserva ...
Cytokine release in mononuclear ...
The aim of this study was the evaluation of the release of bone-resorbing cytokines in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of patients with ase ...
B-Casein Bilayer Adsorption at ...
Ellipsometric and surface pressure studies of â-casein adsorption layers at the water/air interface support the idea of a model that assumes the for ...
Microarray-Based Gene Expressio ...
Microarray studies have successfully shed light on various aspects of the molecular mechanisms behind the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HC ...
Current Therapeutic Options for ...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in the developed world. The increasing life expectancy in the last years has le ...
Indispensable Roles of Plastids ...
The plastid is an organelle vital to all photosynthetic and some non-photosynthetic eukaryotes. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, a number of ...
Getting a Grip on Complexes
We are witnessing tremendous advances in our understanding of the organization of life. Complete genomes are being deciphered with ever increasing sp ...
The Protein Kinase Inhibitor Ba ...
Balanol, a fungal metabolite, is a potent ATP-competitive inhibitor of Protein Kinase C (PKC) and Protein Kinase A (PKA), important targets in oncolo ...
Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor ...
Multiple in vivo and in vitro studies show that excessive release of glutamate, and subsequent activation of ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) ...
Phenotype Data: A Neglected Res ...
To a great extent, our phenotype is determined by our genetic material. Many genotypic modifications may ultimately become manifest in more or less p ...