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  1. Occupational chromium exposure may induce DNA damage and lead to lung cancer and other work-related diseases. DNA repair gene polymorphisms, which may alter the efficiency of DNA repair, thus may contribute to...

    Authors: Xuhui Zhang, Xuan Zhang, Lei Zhang, Qing Chen, Zhangping Yang, Jingmin Yu, Hong Fu and Yimin Zhu
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:263
  2. To assess the relationship between serial serum leptin levels in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who received thrombolysis and the degree of coronary atherosclerosis, coronary reperfusion, echo...

    Authors: Hadi AR Hadi Khafaji, Abdul Bari Bener, Nasser M Rizk and Jassim Al Suwaidi
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:262
  3. Sex hormones may play an important role in observed gender differences in asthma incidence and severity, as well as in the observed changes in asthma symptoms during times of hormonal fluctuation (i.e.; premen...

    Authors: Ganesa Wegienka, Ewa Hasiec, Homer Boushey, Christine Cole Johnson, Ronald Strickler, Edward Zoratti and Suzanne Havstad
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:261
  4. Next generation sequencing (NGS) provides a valuable method to quickly obtain sequence information from non-model organisms at a genomic scale. In principle, if sequencing is not targeted for a genomic region ...

    Authors: Emese Meglécz, Nicolas Pech, André Gilles, Jean-François Martin and Michael G Gardner
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:259
  5. Saccharomyces cerevisiae senses hyperosmotic conditions via the HOG signaling network that activates the stress-activated protein kinase, Hog1, and modulates metabolic fluxes and gene expression to generate appro...

    Authors: Tao You, Piers Ingram, Mette D Jacobsen, Emily Cook, Andrew McDonagh, Thomas Thorne, Megan D Lenardon, Alessandro PS de Moura, M Carmen Romano, Marco Thiel, Michael Stumpf, Neil AR Gow, Ken Haynes, Celso Grebogi, Jaroslav Stark and Alistair JP Brown
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:258
  6. While being a standard powerful molecular biology technique, applications of the PCR to the amplification of high GC-rich DNA samples still present challenges which include limited yield and poor specificity o...

    Authors: Eric M Farell and Gladys Alexandre
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:257
  7. Serine proteases account for over a third of all known proteolytic enzymes; they are involved in a variety of physiological processes and are classified into clans sharing structural homology. The PA clan of e...

    Authors: Aparna Laskar, Euan J Rodger, Aniruddha Chatterjee and Chhabinath Mandal
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:256
  8. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and its association with stress, has not been studied among university students in Pakistan. We investigated the prevalence and the pattern of anxiety related IBS symptoms among ...

    Authors: Syed Saad Naeem, Efaza Umar Siddiqui, Abdul Nafey Kazi, Akhtar Amin Memon, Sumaiya Tauseeq Khan and Bilal Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:255
  9. Research has suggested that adults 40 years old and over are not following eye care visit recommendations. In the United States, the proportion of older adults is expected to increase drastically in the coming...

    Authors: Alberto J Caban-Martinez, Evelyn P Davila, Byron L Lam, Kristopher L Arheart, Kathryn E McCollister, Cristina A Fernandez, Manuel A Ocasio and David J Lee
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:253
  10. The Asteraceae species Cynara cardunculus (2n = 2x = 34) includes the two fully cross-compatible domesticated taxa globe artichoke (var. scolymus L.) and cultivated cardoon (var. altilis DC). As both are out-poll...

    Authors: Ezio Portis, Davide Scaglione, Alberto Acquadro, Giovanni Mauromicale, Rosario Mauro, Steven J Knapp and Sergio Lanteri
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:252
  11. Reducing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is associated with reduced risk for major coronary events. Despite statin efficacy, a considerable proportion of statin-treated hypercholesterolemic patient...

    Authors: Chih-Chieh Yu, Wen-Ter Lai, Kuang-Chung Shih, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Chieh-Hua Lu, Hung-Jen Lai, Mary E Hanson and Juey-Jen Hwang
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:251
  12. The importance of ERBB2/NEU/HER2 in the response of breast tumours to the heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) inhibitor 17-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17-AAG; tanespimycin) has been demonstrated in the clin...

    Authors: Loreta M Rodrigues, Yuen-Li Chung, Nada M S Al Saffar, Swee Y Sharp, Laura E Jackson, Udai Banerji, Marion Stubbs, Martin O Leach, John R Griffiths and Paul Workman
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:250
  13. The purpose of this study was to examine the career decision-making process of International Medical Graduates (IMGs). There are two main types of IMGs who apply for licensure in Canada. Canadian International...

    Authors: Tanya N Beran, Efrem Violato, Sonia Faremo, Claudio Violato, David Watt and Deidre Lake
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:249
  14. Recent studies suggest that the poorer breast cancer outcome observed in African-American women (AAW) may, in part, result from underlying molecular factors. The purpose of this study was to investigate gene e...

    Authors: Jessica M Grunda, Adam D Steg, Qinghua He, Mark R Steciuk, Suzanne Byan-Parker, Martin R Johnson and William E Grizzle
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:248
  15. Renal cell carcinoma or RCC is one of the common and most lethal urological cancers, with 40% of the patients succumbing to death because of metastatic progression of the disease. Treatment of metastatic RCC r...

    Authors: Jayashree Ramana
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:246
  16. Recently a large number of short non-coding-RNAs (microRNAs, (miRNA)) have been identified. These miRNAs act as post-transcriptional regulators where they generally have an inhibitory function. miRNAs are pres...

    Authors: Rolf Jorde, Johan Svartberg, Ragnar Martin Joakimsen and Dag H Coucheron
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:245
  17. Staphylococcus epidermidis is the major bacterial species found in biofilm-related infections on indwelling medical devices. Microbial biofilms are communities of bacteria adhered to a surface and surrounded by a...

    Authors: Nuno Cerca, Fernanda Gomes, Sofia Pereira, Pilar Teixeira and Rosário Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:244
  18. Previous studies have identified brain areas related to cognitive abilities and personality, respectively. In this exploratory study, we extend the application of modern neuroimaging techniques to another area...

    Authors: David H Schroeder, Richard J Haier and Cheuk Ying Tang
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:242
  19. DNA methylation of promoter-associated CpG islands of certain genes may play a role in the development of colorectal cancer. The MYOD-1 gene which is a muscle differentiation gene has been showed to be significan...

    Authors: Ramesh P Arasaradnam, M Nabil Quraishi, Daniel Commane, John C Mathers and Mike Bradburn
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:240
  20. RASSF1A and RASSF1C are two major isoforms encoded by the Ras association domain family 1 (RASSF1) gene through alternative promoter selection and mRNA splicing. RASSF1A is a well established tumor suppressor ...

    Authors: Mark E Reeves, Melissa L Baldwin, Robert Aragon, Scott Baldwin, Shin-Tai Chen, Xinmin Li, Subburaman Mohan and Yousef G Amaar
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:239
  21. The methanogenic Archaea Methanosphaera stadtmanae has been detected in the human gut microbiota by both culture and culture-independent methods. Its growth reaches an exponential phase after 5 to 7-day culture i...

    Authors: Bédis Dridi, Saber Khelaifia, Marie-Laure Fardeau, Bernard Ollivier and Michel Drancourt
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:238
  22. Cytoscape is a well-developed flexible platform for visualization, integration and analysis of network data. Apart from the sophisticated graph layout and visualization routines, it hosts numerous user-develop...

    Authors: Aleksandar Stojmirović, Alexander Bliskovsky and Yi-Kuo Yu
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:237
  23. MicroRNAs play vital role in plant growth and development by changeable expression of their target genes with most plant microRNAs having perfect or near-perfect complementarities with their target genes but m...

    Authors: Changnian Song, Mingliang Yu, Jian Han, Chen Wang, Hong Liu, Yanping Zhang and Jinggui Fang
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:235
  24. The care of patients with a life-threatening, progressive and far advanced illness in a home-care setting requires appropriate individual care and requires the active support of family caregivers. General prac...

    Authors: Katja Hermann, Regine Boelter, Peter Engeser, Joachim Szecsenyi, Stephen M Campbell and Frank Peters-Klimm
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:233
  25. In the field of mouse genetics the advent of technologies like microarray based expression profiling dramatically increased data availability and sensitivity, yet these advanced methods are often vulnerable to...

    Authors: Petra Kraus, Xing Xing, Siew Lan Lim, Max E Fun, V Sivakamasundari, Sook Peng Yap, Haixia Lee, R Krishna Murthy Karuturi and Thomas Lufkin
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:232
  26. In 2008, Africa accounted for 94% of the cholera cases reported worldwide. Although the World Health Organization currently recommends the oral cholera vaccine in endemic areas for high-risk populations, its u...

    Authors: Jose Guerra, Bachir Mayana, Ali Djibo, Mahamane L Manzo, Augusto E Llosa and Rebecca F Grais
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:231
  27. Numerous methods exist for enriching bacterial or mammalian mRNA prior to transcriptome experiments. Yet there persists a need for methods to enrich for mRNA in non-mammalian animal systems. For example, insec...

    Authors: Nikhil Kumar, Todd Creasy, Yezhou Sun, Melissa Flowers, Luke J Tallon and Julie C Dunning Hotopp
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:230
  28. Sickness absence (SA) is a complex phenomenon influenced by the health of the worker and socio-economic factors. An epidemiological study of SA has never been conducted for Brazilian university workers. This s...

    Authors: Antonio Carlos Zechinatti, João Carlos Belloti, Vinícius Ynoe de Moraes and Walter Manna Albertoni
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:229
  29. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of the nutritionally vulnerable countries with a high rate of children death without showing a sign of improvement in last two decades. Current study investigated the prevalences ...

    Authors: Handan Wand, Namarola Lote, Irene Semos and Peter Siba
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:228
  30. The prevalence of drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) in Ethiopia in general, and Jimma area in particular, is not well documented. We conducted a study at Jimma University specialized hospital in southwest Ethio...

    Authors: Gemeda Abebe, Ketema Abdissa, Alemseged Abdissa, Ludwig Apers, Mulualem Agonafir, Bouke C de-Jong and Robert Colebunders
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:225
  31. RT-qPCR is a common tool for quantification of gene expression, but its accuracy is dependent on the choice and stability (steady state expression levels) of the reference gene/s used for normalization. To dat...

    Authors: Xianxian Yang, Jodie T Hatfield, Susan J Hinze, Xiongzheng Mu, Peter J Anderson and Barry C Powell
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:222
  32. A previous study reported a method for measuring the spectral transmittance of individual human eyelids. A prototype light mask using narrow-band “green” light (λmax = 527 nm) was used to deliver light through cl...

    Authors: Mariana G Figueiro and Mark S Rea
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:221
  33. Quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction is becoming the primary tool for detecting mRNA and transcription data analysis as it shows to have advantages over other more commonly used techniques. Neverth...

    Authors: João L Coito, Margarida Rocheta, Luísa Carvalho and Sara Amâncio
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:220
  34. Urinary tract infection (UTI) represents one of the most common diseases encountered in community medical practice. In resource poor settings, treatment is usually empiric due to the high cost and long duratio...

    Authors: Jane-Francis Tatah Kihla Akoachere, Suylika Yvonne, Njom Henry Akum and Esemu Nkie Seraphine
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:219
  35. Previous studies have revealed altered expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-family members and their endogenous inhibitor leucine-rich and immunoglobulin-like domains 1 (LRIG1) in renal cell c...

    Authors: Marcus Thomasson, Håkan Hedman, Börje Ljungberg and Roger Henriksson
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:216
  36. The presence of multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii raises a big therapeutic challenge in our hospital. Tigecycline, a new glycylcycline with expanded broad spectrum of activity against multi-drug resist...

    Authors: Nahid H Ahmed, Kamaldeen Baba, Cornelis Clay, Ruth Lekalakala and Anwar A Hoosen
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:215
  37. The first draft assembly and gene prediction of the grapevine genome (8X base coverage) was made available to the scientific community in 2007, and functional annotation was developed on this gene prediction. ...

    Authors: Jérôme Grimplet, John Van Hemert, Pablo Carbonell-Bejerano, José Díaz-Riquelme, Julie Dickerson, Anne Fennell, Mario Pezzotti and José M Martínez-Zapater
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:213
  38. Complex human diseases may be associated with many gene interactions. Gene interactions take several different forms and it is difficult to identify all of the interactions that are potentially associated with...

    Authors: Ming-Chih Wang, Feng-Chi Chen, Yen-Zho Chen, Yao-Ting Huang and Trees-Juen Chuang
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:212
  39. The newly released 450k DNA methylation array from Illumina, Inc. offers the possibility to analyze more than 480,000 individual CpG sites in a user friendly standardized format. In this study the relationship...

    Authors: Jessica Roessler, Ole Ammerpohl, Jana Gutwein, Britta Hasemeier, Sumadi Lukman Anwar, Hans Kreipe and Ulrich Lehmann
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:210
  40. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of increasing doses of inhaled histamine on the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), inspiratory lung function parameters (ILPs) and dyspnea in subjects...

    Authors: Sunil K Ramlal, Frank J Visser, Wim C J Hop, Bas Staffhorst, P N Richard Dekhuijzen and Yvonne F Heijdra
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:209
  41. H. pylori infection has been associated with many micronutrient deficiencies. There is a dearth of data from communities with nutritional deficiencies and high prevalence of H. pylori infection. The aim of this s...

    Authors: Shahid Rasool, Shahab Abid, Mohammad Perwaiz Iqbal, Naseema Mehboobali, Ghulam Haider and Wasim Jafri
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2012 5:206

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