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  1. Vampire bat related rabies harms both livestock industry and public health sector in central Brazil. The geographical distributions of vampire bat-transmitted rabies virus variants are delimited by mountain ch...

    Authors: Shinji Hirano, Takuya Itou, Adolorata AB Carvalho, Fumio H Ito and Takeo Sakai
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:288
  2. Femoral access is a fundamental element of catheter-based cerebral angiography. Knowledge of location of the common femoral artery (CFA) bifurcation is important as the risk of retroperitoneal bleeding is incr...

    Authors: Alexandra R Paul, Geoffrey P Colby, Martin G Radvany, Judy Huang, Rafael J Tamargo and Alexander L Coon
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:285
  3. Several systematic reviews (SRs) have assessed the effectiveness of moxibustion for a range of conditions, often with contradictory conclusions. Our aim was to provide a critical evaluation and summary of thes...

    Authors: Myeong Soo Lee, Jung Won Kang and Edzard Ernst
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:284
  4. Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a Gram-positive human pathogen that is capable of causing a wide spectrum of human disease. Thus, the organism has evolved to colonize a number of physiologically distinct host site...

    Authors: Amity L Roberts, Robert C Holder and Sean D Reid
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:281
  5. Despite a recent increase in activities to promote evidence-based practice (EBP), it was unclear how Malaysian hospital practitioners received this new approach in medicine. This study examines their confidenc...

    Authors: Nai Ming Lai, Cheong Lieng Teng and Ming Lee Lee
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:279
  6. The staphylococci are one of the most common environmental isolates found in clean room facility. Consequently, isolation followed by comprehensive and accurate identification is an essential step in any envir...

    Authors: Norhan S Sheraba, Aymen S Yassin and Magdy A Amin
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:278
  7. The increasing number of methodologies and tools currently available to analyse gene expression microarray data can be confusing for non specialist users.

    Authors: Nicolas Servant, Eleonore Gravier, Pierre Gestraud, Cecile Laurent, Caroline Paccard, Anne Biton, Isabel Brito, Jonas Mandel, Bernard Asselain, Emmanuel Barillot and Philippe Hupé
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:277
  8. Rating scale items in a 6-week clinical trial of olanzapine versus placebo augmentation in patients with mixed bipolar disorder partially nonresponsive to ≥14 days of divalproex monotherapy were analyzed to ch...

    Authors: John P Houston, Jennifer L Gatz, Elisabeth K Degenhardt and Hassan H Jamal
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:276
  9. The efficiency of gene therapy experiments is frequently evaluated by measuring the impact of the treatment on the expression of genes of interest by quantitative real time PCR (qRT-PCR) and by normalizing the...

    Authors: María Moreno-Igoa, Raquel Manzano, Sara Oliván, Ana C Calvo, Janne M Toivonen and Rosario Osta
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:275
  10. We report an attempt to extend the previously successful approach of combining SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) microarrays and DNA pooling (SNP-MaP) employing high-density microarrays. Whereas earlier stu...

    Authors: Alexandra Schosser, Katrina Pirlo, Darya Gaysina, Sarah Cohen-Woods, Leonard C Schalkwyk, Amanda Elkin, Ania Korszun, Cerisse Gunasinghe, Joanna Gray, Lisa Jones, Emma Meaburn, Anne E Farmer, Ian W Craig and Peter McGuffin
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:274
  11. A sensitive and analytically specific nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) is valuable in confirming the diagnosis of early Lyme disease at the stage of spirochetemia.

    Authors: Sin Hang Lee, Veronica S Vigliotti, Jessica S Vigliotti, William Jones, Jessie Williams and Jay Walshon
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:273
  12. Occupational health has received limited research attention in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Much of the published data in this region come from South Africa and little has been reported n...

    Authors: Adamson S Muula, Emmanuel Rudatsikira and Seter Siziya
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:272
  13. Variola virus (VARV) the causative agent of smallpox, eradicated in 1980, have wide spectrum of immunomodulatory proteins to evade host immunity. Recently additional biological activity was discovered for VARV...

    Authors: Denis V Antonets, Tatyana S Nepomnyashchikh and Sergei N Shchelkunov
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:271
  14. We aim to propose interactions between the parathyroid hormone-2 receptor (PTH2R) and its ligand the tuberoinfundibular peptide of 39 residues (TIP39) by constructing a homology model of their complex. The two...

    Authors: Mirna Abraham-Nordling, Bengt Persson and Erik Nordling
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:270
  15. Cognitive tests have been used in population surveys as first stage screens for dementia but are biased by education. However functional ability scales are less biased by education than the cognitive scale and...

    Authors: S Umayal, M Kulathunga, S Somaratne, S Srikanth, S Kathriarachchi and Ranil De Silva
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:268
  16. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a set of statistical techniques used to measure and analyze the relationships of observed and latent variables. Similar but more powerful than regression analyses, it exam...

    Authors: Tanya N Beran and Claudio Violato
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:267
  17. Landmark based geometric morphometrics (GM) allows the quantitative comparison of organismal shapes. When applied to systematics, it is able to score shape changes which often are undetectable by traditional m...

    Authors: Jean-Pierre AL Dujardin, Dramane Kaba and Amy B Henry
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:266
  18. Abdominal pain of unknown origin affects up to 20% of school-aged children. Evaluation of children is symptom-based without clear guidelines to investigate molecular mechanisms of abdominal pain. Aberrant mole...

    Authors: Tara J Taylor, Nader N Youssef, Ravi Shankar, David E Kleiner and Wendy A Henderson
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:265
  19. A recent study reported that gene expression profiles from peripheral blood samples of healthy subjects prior to viral inoculation were indistinguishable from profiles of subjects who received viral challenge ...

    Authors: Alexander Statnikov, Nikita I Lytkin, Lauren McVoy, Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp and Constantin F Aliferis
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:264
  20. In the psychiatric acute and emergency services patients present in severe crisis often complicated by behavioral problems, substance use, and multiple axis 1 diagnoses. In these clinical settings both legal a...

    Authors: John C Fløvig, Arne E Vaaler and Gunnar Morken
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:263
  21. Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are in general used to gain a first insight into gene activities from a species of interest. Subsequently, and typically based on a combination of EST and genome sequences, micro...

    Authors: Kolja Henckel, Helge Küster, Leonhard J Stutz and Alexander Goesmann
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:262
  22. Haemoglobin (Hb) and pantophysin (Pan I) markers have been used intensively in population studies of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and in the analysis of traits such as temperature tolerance, growth characteristics...

    Authors: Tudor Borza, Brent Higgins, Gary Simpson and Sharen Bowman
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:261
  23. Detection of bacterial nucleic acids in synovial fluid following total joint arthroplasty with suspected infection can be difficult; among other technical challenges, inhibitors in the specimens require extens...

    Authors: Sandeep Kathju, Roger S Lasken, Latha Satish, Sandra Johnson, Paul Stoodley, J Christopher Post and Garth D Ehrlich
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:259
  24. In 1988, the SPILI project was established in order to evaluate the cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk profile of the inhabitants of Spili, in rural Crete, Greece. The first reports from this project revealed t...

    Authors: Christos Lionis, Dimitrios Anyfantakis, Emmanouil K Symvoulakis, Sue Shea, Demosthenes Panagiotakos and Elias Castanas
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:258
  25. Relatively recently, the software KBâ„¢ Basecaller has replaced phred for identifying the bases from raw sequence data in DNA sequencing employing dideoxy chemistry. We have measured quantitatively the consequences...

    Authors: Richard W Hyman, Hui Jiang, Marilyn Fukushima and Ronald W Davis
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:257
  26. Following disasters, separated and unaccompanied children are among the most vulnerable, therefore international organisations have formed guidelines regarding the management of these children. Guidelines incl...

    Authors: Farnaz Bazeghi and Hamid R Baradaran
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:256
  27. The coordinated activity of different flavonoid biosynthesis genes in Arabidopsis thaliana results in tissue-specific accumulation of flavonols, anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins (PAs). These compounds possess d...

    Authors: Christiane Katja Kleindt, Ralf Stracke, Frank Mehrtens and Bernd Weisshaar
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:255
  28. There is little published on current Saudi diabetic patients' practices when they are exposed to foot disorders such as open wound, ulcer, and skin cracks. These factors are usually influenced by local culture...

    Authors: Balkees A Bakhotmah and Hasan A Alzahrani
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:254
  29. Transgenic labels that allow the visualization of specific populations of neurons have proven to be powerful tools for research. Further developing such resources to label additional cell types and specific or...

    Authors: Robert W Burgess and Peter G Fuerst
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:253
  30. The CHD7 (Chromodomain Helicase DNA binding protein 7) gene encodes a member of the chromodomain family of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling enzymes. Mutations in the CHD7 gene are found in individuals with CHAR...

    Authors: Christian Colin, Flávia S Tobaruella, Ricardo G Correa, Mari C Sogayar and Marcos A Demasi
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:252
  31. Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the etiological agent of paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) in ruminants and is suggested to be one of the etiologic factors in Crohn's disease in humans. Cont...

    Authors: Monika Dzieciol, Patrick Volgger, Johannes Khol, Walter Baumgartner, Martin Wagner and Ingeborg Hein
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:251
  32. The application of mobile computing and communication technology is rapidly expanding in the fields of health care and public health. This systematic review will summarise the evidence for the effectiveness of...

    Authors: Caroline Free, Gemma Phillips, Lambert Felix, Leandro Galli, Vikram Patel and Philip Edwards
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:250
  33. The synergy between tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection on perceived stigma is not well studied. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of TB/HIV co-infection on...

    Authors: Amare Deribew, Yohannes HaileMichael, Markos Tesfaye, Dejene Desalegn, Ajeme Wogi and Shallo Daba
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:249
  34. Aedes aegypti is the principal vector of dengue and yellow fever viruses. The availability of the sequenced and annotated genome enables genome-wide analyses of gene expression in this mosquito. The large amount ...

    Authors: Sumudu N Dissanayake, Jose MC Ribeiro, Mei-Hui Wang, William A Dunn, Guiyun Yan, Anthony A James and Osvaldo Marinotti
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:248
  35. Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) after breast surgery was investigated by few authors and remains controversial, because of concerns of toxicity with taxanes/anthracyclines and radiation. This treatment is ...

    Authors: Nabil Ismaili, Sanaa Elmajjaoui, Issam Lalya, Lamia Boulaamane, Rhizlane Belbaraka, Halima Abahssain, Rachi Aassab, Noureddine Benjaafar, Brahim El Khalil El Guddari, Omar El Mesbahi, Yassir Sbitti, Mohammed Ismaili and Hassan Errihani
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:247
  36. Primary care may be a key setting for suicide prevention. However, comparatively little is known about the services available in primary care for suicide prevention. The aims of the current study were to descr...

    Authors: Pooja Saini, Kirsten Windfuhr, Anna Pearson, Damian Da Cruz, Caroline Miles, Lis Cordingley, David While, Nicola Swinson, Alyson Williams, Jenny Shaw, Louis Appleby and Navneet Kapur
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:246
  37. Meiotic recombination in eukaryotes requires two homologues of the E. coli RecA proteins: Rad51 and Dmc1. Both proteins play important roles in the binding of single stranded DNA, homology search, strand invasion...

    Authors: Upendra Kumar Devisetty, Katie Mayes and Sean Mayes
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:245
  38. Brucellosis is a worldwide anthropozoonotic disease caused by an in vivo intracellular pathogen belonging to genus Brucella. The characterization of brucelae transcriptome's during host-pathogen interaction has b...

    Authors: Carlos A Rossetti, Cristi L Galindo, Harold R Garner and L Garry Adams
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:244
  39. Alcohol is a commonly used social drug and driving under influence is a well-established risk factor for traffic accidents[1]. To improve road safety, legal limits are set for blood alcohol concentration (BAC) an...

    Authors: Judith Hegeman, Vivian Weerdesteyn, Bart JF van den Bemt, Bart Nienhuis, Jacques van Limbeek and Jacques Duysens
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:243
  40. Collybistin (CB), a neuron-specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor, has been implicated in targeting gephyrin-GABAA receptors clusters to inhibitory postsynaptic sites. However, little is known about addition...

    Authors: Andrea L Sertie, Gustavo de Alencastro, Vanessa J De Paula and Maria Rita Passos-Bueno
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:242
  41. Salmonid alphavirus (SAV) is a widespread pathogen in European aquaculture of salmonid fish. Distinct viral subtypes have been suggested based on sequence comparisons and some of these have different geographi...

    Authors: Marius Karlsen, Stephane Villoing, Karl F Ottem, Espen Rimstad and Are Nylund
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:241
  42. DNA methylation contributes to the regulation of gene expression during development and cellular differentiation. The recently developed Methylated DNA ImmunoPrecipitation (MeDIP) assay allows a comprehensive ...

    Authors: Jinsong Jia, Aleksandra Pekowska, Sebastien Jaeger, Touati Benoukraf, Pierre Ferrier and Salvatore Spicuglia
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:240
  43. A large portion of tissues stored worldwide for diagnostic purposes is formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE). These FFPE-archived tissues are an extremely valuable source for retrospective (genetic) stud...

    Authors: Cornelis JJ Huijsmans, Jan Damen, Johannes C van der Linden, Paul HM Savelkoul and Mirjam HA Hermans
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:239
  44. Falls management programmes have been instituted to attempt to reduce falls. This pilot study was undertaken to determine whether the Nintendo® WiiFit was a feasible and acceptable intervention in community-dwell...

    Authors: Marie A Williams, Roy L Soiza, Alison McE Jenkinson and Alison Stewart
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2010 3:238

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