Viscous sputum specimens usually cannot undergo automated extraction, and thus, a pre-homogenization process is desirable before isolating nucleic acids for real-time reverse transcription PCR.
Fei Yu +6 more
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BackgroundChronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major public health problem worldwide, and mother-to-child transmission is the key mode of HBV infection.
Guofang Feng +9 more
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Opportunities for integrated pest management to control the poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae [PDF]
Dermanyssus gallinae is the most economically important ectoparasite of laying hens in Europe. Control of D. gallinae is already hampered by issues of pesticide resistance and product withdrawal and, with the prohibition of conventional cages in 2012 and
COSOROABA I. +11 more
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The effect of different cementation techniques on the amount of remaining excess cement depending on the crown-abutment margin level [PDF]
Background/Aim. One of the disadvantages of the cement-retained fixed implant-supported restorations is the residual cement, which is found on the superstructure after the cementation procedure and has been identified as a risk factor for the occurrence ...
Đorđević Aleksandar +5 more
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Decreased expression of caveolin 1 in patients with systemic sclerosis: crucial role in the pathogenesis of tissue fibrosis. [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: Recent studies have implicated caveolin 1 in the regulation of transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) downstream signaling. Given the crucial role of TGFbeta in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), we sought to determine whether ...
de Almeida, Cecilia J. +6 more
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Astroglial-axonal interactions during early stages of myelination in mixed cultures using in vitro and ex vivo imaging techniques [PDF]
<b>Background</b><p></p> Myelination is a very complex process that requires the cross talk between various neural cell types.
Anderson, Kurt I +4 more
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Intramachine and intermachine variability in transesophageal color doppler images of pulsatile jets: in vitro studies [PDF]
Background: Color Doppler flow mapping is widely used as a marker of severity of valvular regurgitation, and the transesophageal approach has provided high-quality images in patients with poor acoustic windows.
Anayiotos, Andreas +2 more
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Modified Nucleoside Triphosphates for In-vitro Selection Techniques [PDF]
Le développement de SELEX (Selective Enhancement of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment) fournit un outil puissant pour la recherche d'oligonucléotides fonctionnels ayant la capacité de lier des ligands avec une affinité et une sélectivité élevées (aptamères) et pour la découverte de séquences d'acides nucléiques avec diverses activités enzymatiques ...
Adolfo Marcelo Iribarren +4 more
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The effects of various culture conditions on shoot elongation, rooting and plantlet acclimatization were tested. Adventitious shoots obtained through direct organogenesis of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cv. ‘Mejhoul’ were used as explants.
Reda MEZIANI +5 more
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Molecular medicine of microRNAs: structure, function and implications for diabetes [PDF]
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a family of endogenous small noncoding RNA molecules, of 19–28 nucleotides in length. In humans, up to 3% of all genes are estimated to encode these evolutionarily conserved sequences.
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