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Background The Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD) of the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded over 700 grants to conduct clinical trials of medicals products for rare diseases since 1983, leading to over 70 ...
Kathleen L. Miller +4 more
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Joint effort to target the orphan of the orphan [PDF]
In this issue of Blood, Cuvelier and colleagues from the Applied Biomarkers of Late Effects of Childhood Cancer (ABLE) Consortium evaluate, for the first time, the performance of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Criteria (NIH-CC) for diagnosing chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) in pediatric patients in a prospective multicenter trial.
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An analysis of the impact of orphanhood at antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation on HIV outcomes in Asia included 4300 children; 51% were male. At ART initiation, 1805 (42%) were non-orphans (median age: 3 years), 1437 (33%) were single orphans (6 ...
B.u.i.V.u. Huy +21 more
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Transport study of interleukin-1 inhibitors using a human in vitro model of the blood-brain barrier
The proinflammatory cytokine Interleukin-1 (IL-1), with its two isoforms α and β, has important roles in multiple pathogenic processes in the central nervous system.
Elisabet O. Sjöström +6 more
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The recent discovery of several new endogenous opioid peptides has generated excitement over their potential physiological roles. For example, endomorphins are likely to have well defined functions due to their affinity and selectivity for a class of extensively studied opioid receptors (1).
J R, Walker, G F, Koob
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Census of solo LuxR genes in prokaryotic genomes
luxR genes encode transcriptional regulators that control acyl homoserine lactone-based quorum sensing (AHL QS) in Gram negative bacteria. On the bacterial chromosome, luxR genes are usually found next or near to a luxI gene encoding the AHL signal ...
Sanjarbek eHudaiberdiev +7 more
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An insight into bronchiectasis: Causes, clinical features, and treatment practices
Introduction: Bronchiectasis is a common, progressive respiratory disease characterized by irreversibly dilated, damaged, and thickened bronchi. It is present as a clinical syndrome of chronic cough, sputum production, and recurrent lower respiratory ...
Laxmi Devi +4 more
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Background Retrotransposons have been implicated as causes of Mendelian disease, but their role in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has not been systematically defined, because they are only called with adequate sensitivity from whole genome sequencing ...
Rebeca Borges-Monroy +9 more
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Classic galactosemia: features of diagnosis and treatment
Background. Galactosemia type I, or classic galactosemia (CG), is the most severe form of hereditary disorders of carbohydrate metabolism, in particular, galactose. Galactosemia is not included in the program of massive neonatal screening in Ukraine. The
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