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 | Intragenic deletion in the LARGE gene causes Walker-Warburg syndrome. | Fig4: Schematic overview of LARGE exons 8â11 of wild-type sequence (a) and patient sequence (b), showing the exons depicted by black boxes and the MLPA probes depicted by black bars. MLPA analysis revealed deletion of four MLPA probes (IN8-2, EX9, EX10, and IN10)....Bottom Line: These mutations result in a virtual lack of glycosylation of alpha-dystroglycan.We hypothesized that more severe LARGE mutations are associated with a more severe CMD phenotype in humans.This finding demonstrates that LARGE gene mutations can give rise to a... | van Reeuwijk J, Grewal PK, Salih MA, BeltrĂĄn-Valero de BernabĂ© D, et al. - Hum. Genet. (2007) |
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 | (2,4-Dimethoxy-benzyl-idene)-2-hydroxy-benzohydrazide ethanol solvate. | Fap2: Hydrogen-bonded dimeric structure.Bottom Line: In the planar title mol-ecule, C(16)H(16)N(2)O(4)·C(2)H(6)O, the planar Schiff base molecule is linked to the ethanol solvent mol-ecule by a hydr-oxy-amide hydrogen bond.The hydr-oxy group of the ethanol mol-ecule is a hydrogen-bond donor to the double-bonded... | Yehye WA, Ariffin A, Ng SW - Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online (2008) |
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 | Pollutant effects on genotoxic parameters and tumor-associated protein levels in adults: a cross sectional... | Figure 9: Categories of urinary cadmium concentrations: association with the number of micronuclei.Bottom Line: Confounding factors were taken into account.Overall significant differences between areas were found for carcinoembryonic antigen, micronuclei, 8-hydroxy-deoxyguanosine and DNA damage.Also, we found significant associations between values of PSA above the p90... | De Coster S, Koppen G, Bracke M, Schroijen C, et al. - Environ Health (2008) |
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 | (E)-Ethyl N'-(2-hydroxy-benzyl-idene)-hydrazinecarboxyl-ate. | Fap1: The asymmetric unit of the title compound. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level. OâH···N hydrogen bonds are shown as dashed lines.Bottom Line: Each independent mol-ecule is approximately planar and adopts a trans configuration with respect to the C=N double bond.Intra-molecular O-HâŻN hydrogen bonds are observed in both mol-ecules.The ribbons are arranged into layers parallel to (02). | Gao B - Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online (2008) |
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 | Characterization of coupled ground state and excited state equilibria by fluorescence spectral deconvolution. | Fig1: General scheme of ground-state and excited-state transformations and emissions in the case of a reversible excited-state reaction and two ground state speciesBottom Line: Three distinct fluorescence emission bands are resolved, with a distribution of intensities that is excitation-wavelength-dependent.The deconvolution of the spectrum into individual components is based on their representation as asymmetric Siano-Metzler log-normal... | Caarls W, Soledad Celej M, Demchenko AP, Jovin TM - J Fluoresc (2009) |
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 | Validating physician-certified verbal autopsy and probabilistic modeling (InterVA) approaches to verbal... | Figure 1: The distribution of adult deaths, March 2007-June 2010. The figure shows distribution of deaths used in this study. The red dots represent the 145 deaths that occurred in the Kilifi district hospital, and the white dots represent the overall death distribution...Bottom Line: The InterVA overestimated tuberculosis as a cause of death compared to the HCOD.The observed sensitivities and specificities across the five major causes of death varied from 43% to 100% and 87% to 99%, respectively, for the InterVA/PCVA against the HCOD.Both... | Bauni E, Ndila C, Mochamah G, Nyutu G, Matata L, et al. - Popul Health Metr (2011) |
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 | Trigeminal electrophysiology: a 2 x 2 matrix model for differential diagnosis between temporomandibular... | Figure 8: Jaw Jerk reflex in the intercuspal position. The figure shows the high degree of asymmetry in amplitude between the sides.Bottom Line: A degree of asymmetry of the jaw jerk's amplitude between sides (ipJJ%), when the mandible was kept in the intercuspal position, was found in the TMD group (0.24% +/- 0.14%) with a statistically significant difference in relation to the control group (0.61%... | Frisardi G, Chessa G, Sau G, Frisardi F - BMC Musculoskelet Disord (2010) |
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 | An evidence-based recommendation on bed head elevation for mechanically ventilated patients. | Figure 1: Summary estimates of associations between treatment and control groups: clinically suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia. 1GRADE Working Group grades of evidence: high quality, further research is very unlikely to change confidence in the estimate of effect;...Bottom Line: This recommendation, however, is not an evidence-based one.A systematic review on the benefits and disadvantages of semi-upright position in ventilated patients was done according to PRISMA guidelines.A group of 22 experts recommended elevating the head of... | Niël-Weise BS, Gastmeier P, Kola A, Vonberg RP, et al. - Crit Care (2011) |
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 | 10-Methoxy-benzo[g]imidazo[1,2-a][1,8]naphthyridine-4-carbonitrile. | Fap3: A packing diagram for the title compound, evidencing Ï-Ï stacking interactions (red dotted lines).Bottom Line: In the title compound, C(16)H(10)N(4)O, both the meth-oxy and nitrile substituents lie in the plane defined by the benzo[g]imidazo[1,2-a]-1,8-naphthyridine ring system, resulting in a nearly planar geometry for the entire mol-ecule (r.m.s. deviation of the... | Tarasov AV, Volovnenko TA, Lugan N, Volovenko YM - Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online (2009) |
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 | Identification, subcellular localization, biochemical properties, and high-resolution crystal structure... | fig2: Detection of TbUGP mRNA and TbUGP protein in T.brucei. (A) RTâPCR reaction using 8, 16, 32 and 40 ng of RNA from T.brucei bloodstream (BSF) or procyclic (PCF) form parasites. (B) TbUGP western blot. Lane 1, E.coli recombinant TbUGP (25 ng); lane 2, BSF...Bottom Line: UDP-Glc is also the glucosyl donor for the unfolded glycoprotein glucosyltransferase (UGGT) involved in glycoprotein quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum and is the presumed donor for the synthesis of base J (ÎČ-D-glucosylhydroxymethyluracil), a rare... | Mariño K, GĂŒther ML, Wernimont AK, Amani M, et al. - Glycobiology (2010) |
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 | Globular adiponectin, acting via AdipoR1/APPL1, protects H9c2 cells from hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced... | pone-0019143-g002: Activation of components of the intrinsic apoptosis pathway upon H/R and their regulation by gAd.(A) shows a representative Western blot of cytochrome c expression in cytosolic fraction with quantitative analysis. (B) A representative western blot showing levels...Bottom Line: The anti-apoptotic effect of adiponectin was also verified via attenuation of H/R-induced phosphatidylserine exposure using annexin V binding.To further address the mechanism of adiponctins anti-apoptotic effects we used siRNA to efficiently knockdown adiponectin... | Park M, Youn B, Zheng XL, Wu D, Xu A, Sweeney G - PLoS ONE (2011) |
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![Uptake studies of [14C]FR and [3H]Glu into human fibroblasts.Duplicates of cells (HFF, non-infected; TgHFF, >50% infected with tachyzoites) were incubated in parallel in phosphate-free âextracellular bufferâ (see Material and Methods) for 15 min at 37°C in the presence of either [14C]FR or [3H]Glu, respectively, of the same specific activity (1.45 µCi/ml, equaling 25 µM drug concentration per assay). Cell-associated radioactivity was determined by scintillation counting of an aliquot of lysed cells and dpm for each compound were determined according to the manufacturer](/imgs/rescaled137/3087763_pone.0019334.g003.png) | Fosmidomycin uptake into Plasmodium and Babesia-infected erythrocytes is facilitated by parasite-induced... | pone-0019334-g003: Uptake studies of [14C]FR and [3H]Glu into human fibroblasts.Duplicates of cells (HFF, non-infected; TgHFF, >50% infected with tachyzoites) were incubated in parallel in phosphate-free âextracellular bufferâ (see Material and Methods) for 15 min at 37°C...Bottom Line: In contrast, Toxoplasma gondii-infected cells do apparently not take up the compounds, and the drugs are inactive against the liver stages of Plasmodium berghei, a mouse malaria parasite.Our findings provide an explanation for the observed differences in activity... | Baumeister S, Wiesner J, Reichenberg A, Hintz M, et al. - PLoS ONE (2011) |
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 | A high confidence, manually validated human blood plasma protein reference set. | Figure 2: Histogram depicting the number of validated, non-redundant peptides versus the MW of the identified proteins. The number of validated, non-redundant peptides used to identify each protein was calculated and this number was plotted as a function of the molecular...Bottom Line: Furthermore, we employed a statistical score that allows database peptide identification searching using the products of two consecutive stages of tandem mass spectrometry (MS3).All proteins annotated as belonging to the immunoglobulin family as well as all... | Schenk S, Schoenhals GJ, de Souza G, Mann M - BMC Med Genomics (2008) |
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 | "Oriental anthropometry" in plastic surgery. | Figure 0002: Nipple-Areolar Complex under the reference guide of M1 or CV.17 (Tanzhong).Bottom Line: A four-point-verbal-rating-scale was used to record the patients' opinion of therapeutic-satisfaction (TS).ASO was 75.3 +/- 9.4% and TS indicated that most patients (58.5%) obtained "good" results.Of the remainder, 38.7% found the results "excellent", and 2.8%... | Senna-Fernandes V - Indian J Plast Surg (2008) |
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 | A specific role of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase gamma. A regulation of autonomic Ca(2)+ oscillations... | Figure 6: Proposed signaling pathway of the purinergic receptor: regulation of cardiac autonomic activity. Activation of the G proteinâcoupled P2 purinergic receptor leads to dissociation of α and ÎČÎł subunits. α activates Fyn, whereas ÎČÎł stimulates PI3KÎł. Tec...Bottom Line: However, although PI3Kalpha and -beta have been shown to mediate specific cell functions in nonhematopoietic cells, such a role has not been found yet for PI3Kgamma.A dominant negative mutant of Tec blocks the purinergic effect on cell Ca(2+) spiking.We conclude... | Bony C, Roche S, Shuichi U, Sasaki T, Crackower MA, et al. - J. Cell Biol. (2001) |
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 | What will happen if we do nothing to control trachoma: health expectancies for blinding trachoma in southern... | pntd-0000396-g001: Summary of data framework for analysis of trichiasis health expectancies.TT, trachomatous trichiasis; WHOSIS, World Health Organization Statistical Information System.Bottom Line: Total life expectancy at birth in 2001 was 54.2 years for males and 58.1 for females.Trichiasis life expectancy with low vision or blindness was 5.1 (95% CI = 3.9-6.4) years (9% [95% CI = 7-11] of remaining life) and 7.6 (95% CI = 6.0-9.1) years (12% [95% CI... | Ngondi JM, Matthews FE, Reacher MH, King J, et al. - PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2009) |
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 | The "Connection" Between HIV Drug Resistance and RNase H. | f1-viruses-02-01476: Mechanisms of NRTI resistance. (A) Nucleotide excision. Mutations in pol, such as TAMs, aid in the ATP-mediated removal of an incorporated AZT monophosphate (AZT-MP) yielding an AZTppppA excision byproduct. (B) Nucleotide discrimination. Mutations in pol cause...Bottom Line: Since both NRTIs and NNRTIs target the polymerase (pol) domain of reverse transcriptase (RT), most genotypic analysis for drug resistance is limited to the first ~300 amino acids of RT.However, recent studies have demonstrated that mutations in the C-terminal... | Delviks-Frankenberry KA, Nikolenko GN, Pathak VK - Viruses (2010) |
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 | Metallic nanoparticle on micro ring resonator for bio optical detection and sensing. | g003: The Drop port intensity with three random positions of 30 Au nanoparticles with 80nm in size.Bottom Line: For the Au nanoparticle, because it has smaller real refractive index than air and large absorption refractive index, we found that there is a blue shift for the ring resonance wavelength, instead of red shift normally observed for dielectric nanoparticles.The... | Haddadpour A, Yi Y - Biomed Opt Express (2010) |
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