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  1. Age-associated decline in central cholinergic activity makes older adults susceptible to harmful effects of anticholinergics (ACs). Evidence exists of an association between effects of AC medications on cognit...

    Authors: Rewadee Jenraumjit, Surarong Chinwong, Dujrudee Chinwong, Tipaporn Kanjanarach, Thanat Kshetradat, Tinakon Wongpakaran and Nahathai Wongpakaran
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:4
  2. In marginalized setting, under-nutrition and illnesses due to infectious agents create a vicious circle. In our previous study, we reported that easy-to-do hand hygiene interventions were effective in preventi...

    Authors: Mahmud Abdulkader Mahmud, Mark Spigt, Afework Mulugeta Bezabih, Geert-Jan Dinant and Roman Blanco Velasco
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:1
  3. Gene–environment interactions contribute to the development of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. We examined whether childhood trauma, apolipoprotein E isoforms and viral protein R (Vpr) variants were a...

    Authors: Jacqueline S. Womersley, Lara B. Clauss, Olivette Varathan, Susan Engelbrecht, Sian M. J. Hemmings, Soraya Seedat and Georgina Spies
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:828
  4. Globally, the research knowledge gap exists in the sexual reproductive health (SRH) services of street adolescents. The intensity of the problem is high in settings like Ethiopia, where there are limited acces...

    Authors: Abdo Abazinab Ababor, Desalegn Wirtu Tesso and Melese Chego Cheme
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:827
  5. Pabda (Ompok bimaculatus) is a freshwater catfish, largely available in Asian countries, especially in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal. This fish is highly valued for its fabulous taste and high nutritional...

    Authors: Ruby Dhar, Karthikeyan Pethusamy, Sunil Singh, Indrani Mukherjee, Ashikh Seethy, Bharoti Sengupta, Tryambak Srivastava, Sajib Sarkar, Vikramjit Mandal, Madhumita Karmakar, Sandipan Gupta, Arpita Ghosh and Subhradip Karmakar
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:825
  6. Absence of nocturnal blood pressure (BP) dipping is associated with poor health outcomes, including increased mortality. Non-dipper BP seems to be a predictor of cardiovascular damage in hypertensive patients....

    Authors: Mohammadreza Taban Sadeghi, Zahra Soroureddin, Masoud Nouri-Vaskeh, Pantea Nazarpoori and Saeideh Aghayari Sheikh Neshin
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:824
  7. Evidence supporting lifestyle modification in vascular risk reduction is limited, drawn largely from primary prevention studies. To advance the evidence base for non-pharmacological and non-surgical stroke sec...

    Authors: Maggie Lawrence, Eric Asaba, Elaine Duncan, Marie Elf, Gunilla Eriksson, James Faulkner, Susanne Guidetti, Birgitta Johansson, Christina Kruuse, Danielle Lambrick, Caitlin Longman, Lena von Koch, Xu Wang and Olive Lennon
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:823
  8. Early-onset severe preeclampsia is associated with significant maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality especially in low-resource settings, where women have limited access to antenatal care. This datase...

    Authors: Solwayo Ngwenya, Brian Jones, Desmond Mwembe, Cladnos Mapfumo, Akinbowale Familusi, Hausitoe Nare and Alexander Edward Patrick Heazell
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:822
  9. Genomic DNA (gDNA) is the optimal source of DNA for methylation analysis. This study compared methylation patterns in gDNA derived from blood with cell-line derived DNA (clDNA) from the same individuals. The c...

    Authors: L. J. Smyth, J. Kilner, A. P. Maxwell and A. J. McKnight
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:821
  10. Text classification is a recurrent goal in machine learning projects and a typical task in crowdsourcing platforms. Hybrid approaches, leveraging crowdsourcing and machine learning, work better than either in ...

    Authors: Jorge Ramírez, Marcos Baez, Fabio Casati and Boualem Benatallah
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:820
  11. File fragment classification of audio file formats is a topic of interest in network forensics. There are a few publicly available datasets of files with audio formats. Therewith, there is no public dataset fo...

    Authors: Atieh Khodadadi and Mehdi Teimouri
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:819
  12. Parafilm M® is a moisture-resistant thermoplastic commonly used to seal Nematode Growth Media (NGM) agar plates on which the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is cultured. This practice reduces media dehydration an...

    Authors: Jessica H. Shinn-Thomas, Sara E. Scanga, Patrick S. Spica, Hardik K. Nariya, Emra Klempic and Mary R. Brockett
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:818
  13. Pneumonia is a common but serious illness that continues to present significant morbidity and mortality. Although the effect of severity at admission on outcome has been well reported, the role of comorbidity ...

    Authors: Mai Thi Ngoc Nguyen, Nobuyuki Saito and Yukiko Wagatsuma
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:817
  14. Gulf War Illness is a chronic multisymptom disorder severely impacting the health and well-being of many Veterans of the 1990–1991 Gulf War. Symptoms that define the disease include pain, fatigue, mood and mem...

    Authors: Tammy A. Butterick, Janeen H. Trembley, Laura L. Hocum Stone, Clemma J. Muller, Rebecca R. Rudquist and Ronald R. Bach
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:816
  15. Fertility is a count data usually rightly skewed and exhibiting large number of zeros than the distributional assumption of the generalized linear models (GLMs). This study examined the robustness of zero-augm...

    Authors: Yusuf Olushola Kareem, Imran O. Morhason-Bello, Ayo Stephen Adebowale, Joshua Odunayo Akinyemi and Oyindamola Bidemi Yusuf
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:815
  16. A pelvic surgery can cause erectile dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to evaluate erectile function at various times after pelvic surgery in male patients; to search the non-modifiable risk factors as...

    Authors: S. Artemi, P. Vassiliu, N. Arkadopoulos, Maria-Eleni Smyrnioti, P. Sarafis and V. Smyrniotis
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:814
  17. We report a transcriptome acquisition for the bath sponge Spongia officinalis, a non-model marine organism that hosts rich symbiotic microbial communities. To this end, a pipeline was developed to efficiently sep...

    Authors: Tereza Manousaki, Vasiliki Koutsouveli, Jacques Lagnel, Spyridon Kollias, Costas S. Tsigenopoulos, Christos Arvanitidis, Antonios Magoulas, Costas Dounas and Thanos Dailianis
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:813
  18. The objective of the project was to strengthen the community health worker (CHW) programme in Ssisa sub-county, Wakiso district, Uganda by providing a coherent, structured and standardized training, supervisio...

    Authors: David Musoke, Charles Ssemugabo, Rawlance Ndejjo, Edwinah Atusingwize, Trasias Mukama and Linda Gibson
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:812
  19. The supply of cefazolin has been reduced dramatically since March 2019 in Japan. However, no studies have evaluated the effects of cefazolin shortage on the appropriateness of antimicrobial use. Therefore, we ...

    Authors: Junpei Komagamine, Taku Yabuki and Taku Hiraiwa
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:811
  20. Carers play an important role within the UK mental health system. Those carers who support persons with psychosis can experience a reduction in their own physical and mental health. As part of the Caring for C...

    Authors: Cassie M. Hazell, Christina J. Jones, Aparajita Pandey and Helen E. Smith
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:810
  21. Oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay measures the quenching of fluorescent probe by peroxyl radicals. Antioxidants present in biological systems block the quenching of fluorescence probe. We experie...

    Authors: Harshi Gunawardena, Renuka Silva and Pathmasiri Ranasinghe
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:809
  22. Salmonella bacteria can induce the unfolded protein response, a cellular stress response to misfolding proteins within the endoplasmic reticulum. Salmonella can exploit the host unfolded protein response leading ...

    Authors: Antony N. Antoniou, Simon J. Powis and Janos Kriston-Vizi
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:808
  23. Edema syndrome is highly prevalent but under researched in captive frogs around the world. The objective of the present study was to characterize at a basic microbiological and cytological level of the bacteri...

    Authors: Anahí Oleas-Paz, Ana Cecilia Santamaría-Naranjo, Maira Rojas-Carrillo, Andrés Merino-Viteri and Alexander Genoy-Puerto
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:807
  24. Diabetes is associated with an upset of hematological and immunological parameters in humans, however information on the effects of Lycopene is scarce. The aim of the study was to gain information on basic cha...

    Authors: Ejike Daniel Eze, Adam Moyosore Afodun, Josephine Kasolo and Keneth Iceland Kasozi
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:805
  25. The resistance to antimony-containing glucantime is a major obstacle to successful treatment, especially in endemic areas. Looking the molecular mechanisms involved in this drug resistance will help in choosin...

    Authors: Maryam Fekrisoofiabadi, Meisam Fekri, Alireza Moradabadi, Reza Vahidi, Morteza Khaleghi, Maryam Ram and Shahriar Dabiri
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:803
  26. The association between unbalanced iron indices and the conditions of schizophrenia are not well understood. Liver dysfunction which has been linked to iron metabolism might be a contributing factor. This case...

    Authors: W. K. B. A. Owiredu, Peter Kojo Brenya, Yaw Osei, Edwin Ferguson Laing, Clement Opoku Okrah, Christian Obirikorang, Enoch Odame Anto, Emmanuel Acheampong and Sampson Donkor
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:802
  27. Classification of textual file formats is a topic of interest in network forensics. There are a few publicly available datasets of files with textual formats. Therewith, there is no public dataset for file fra...

    Authors: Fatemeh Mansouri Hanis and Mehdi Teimouri
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:801
  28. In sub Saharan Africa one of the key challenges in assessment using neuropsychological tools has been the lack of adequately validated and easily implementable measures. This study will translate into English,...

    Authors: Rachel Wanjiru Maina, Amina Abubakar, Perez-Garcia Miguel, Fons J. R. Van De Vijver and Manasi Kumar
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:799
  29. The study aimed to assess the relationship between coffee intake, obstructive sleep apnea risk (OSA), and glycemic control among patients with diabetes mellitus.

    Authors: Mohammed Adam Ahmed Elnour, Abdulmoneim Ahmed Saleh, Mowffaq Mohammed Kalantan and Hyder Osman Mirghani
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:798
  30. The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of lateral flow immunoassay (LFA) against latex agglutination (LA), India ink and culture in point-of-care diagnosis of cryptococcus meningitis (CM)....

    Authors: Lawrence Kirimi Gitonga, Waqo Gufu Boru, Arthur Kwena, Marybeth Maritim, Joyce Wamicwe and James Ransom
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:797
  31. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most common infectious diseases, and Escherichia coli is the most common pathogen isolated from patients with UTIs. The products of sfa, afa and foc genes are important for...

    Authors: Elnaz Davari Abad, Amin Khameneh and Leila Vahedi
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:796
  32. Streptococcus suis (S. suis) is a causative agent for various syndromes in pigs. It can be transmitted to humans with typical symptoms of meningitis and death. Although human infections have been confirmed at Bal...

    Authors: I Nengah Kerta Besung, I Gusti Ketut Suarjana, Kadek Karang Agustina, Ida Bagus Oka Winaya, Hamong Soeharsono, Ni Ketut Suwiti and Gusti Ngurah Mahardika
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:795
  33. l-Asparaginase (ASNase) is an enzyme used in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). As the therapeutic ASNases has bacterial origin, severe side effects are associated with its use, among them hyp.....

    Authors: Raquel Caminha Dantas, Ludmilla Freire Caetano, Ariany Lima Sousa Torres, Matheus Soares Alves, Emanuelly Thays Muniz Figueiredo Silva, Louhanna Pinheiro Rodrigues Teixeira, Daniel Câmara Teixeira, Renato de Azevedo Moreira, Marcela Helena Gambim Fonseca, Saul Gaudêncio Neto, Leonardo Tondello Martins, Gilvan Pessoa Furtado and Kaio Cesar Simiano Tavares
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:794
  34. Edible vegetable oils are prone to quality deterioration through oxidation and microbial degradation resulting in nutritional loss and off-flavors. Quality deterioration may contribute in the formation of oxid...

    Authors: Yonnas Adugna Negash, Dagnachew Eyachew Amare, Bikes Destaw Bitew and Henok Dagne
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:793
  35. Our aim was to study within-person variability in mood, cognition, energy, and impulsivity measured in an Ecological Momentary Assessment paradigm in bipolar disorder by using modern statistical techniques. Ex...

    Authors: Han Li, Dahlia Mukherjee, Venkatesh Basappa Krishnamurthy, Caitlin Millett, Kelly A. Ryan, Lijun Zhang, Erika F. H. Saunders and Ming Wang
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:791
  36. Recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) is a condition which is defined as three consecutive pregnancy losses prior to 20 weeks from the last menstrual period. Progesterone is a steroid hormone that has an essent...

    Authors: Reyhane Rahnama, Mitra Rafiee, Saloomeh Fouladi, Maryam Akbari-Fakhrabadi, Ferdos Mehrabian and Abbas Rezaei
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:790
  37. Higher blood malondialdehyde (biomarker of lipid peroxidation) levels in the first hours of traumatic brain injury (TBI) have been found in patients with a worst prognosis. The objective of this study was to d...

    Authors: Leonardo Lorente, María M. Martín, Pedro Abreu-González, Luis Ramos, Juan J. Cáceres, Mónica Argueso, Jordi Solé-Violán, Alejandro Jiménez and Victor García-Marín
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:789
  38. Recently, many tumor sequencing studies have inferred and reported on mutational signatures, short nucleotide patterns at which particular somatic base substitutions appear more often. A number of signatures r...

    Authors: Priyatama Pandey, Zhi Yang, Darryl Shibata, Paul Marjoram and Kimberly D. Siegmund
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:788
  39. Evidence on treatment outcomes and their trend analysis through a register based retrospective study have significant contributions in the improvement of a national tuberculosis program. This study was aimed a...

    Authors: Mahmud Abdulkader, Ischa van Aken, Selam Niguse, Haftamu Hailekiros and Mark Spigt
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:786
  40. To evaluate the effect of active video games in promoting physical activity and motor performance, and reducing fatigue in children with cancer. A randomized controlled trial was conducted. The intervention in...

    Authors: Lotta Hamari, Liisa S. Järvelä, Päivi M. Lähteenmäki, Mikko Arola, Anna Axelin, Tero Vahlberg and Sanna Salanterä
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2019 12:784

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