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  1. Genetic variants of the genes encoding Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1) co-receptors and their ligands, like CC-Chemokine Receptor 5 delta 32 mutation (CCR5-Delta32), CCR5 promoter A/G (Adenine/Guanine), CC...

    Authors: Céline Nguefeu Nkenfou, Linda Chapdeleine Mouafo Mekue, Christelle Tafou Nana and Jules Roger Kuiate
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:288
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  2. Poor nutritional status of mothers has a direct and indirect consequence on their own health and that of their children. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between nutritional status...

    Authors: Idowu O Senbanjo, Ibiyemi O Olayiwola, Wasiu A Afolabi and Olayinka C Senbanjo
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:286
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Bacterial blood stream infection constitutes a significant public health problem and it is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. The aim of this study was to assess the preval...

    Authors: Mulat Dagnew, Gizachew Yismaw, Mucheye Gizachew, Alemayehu Gadisa, Tigist Abebe, Tinebeb Tadesse, Agersew Alemu and Biniam Mathewos
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:283
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  6. Long term oxygen therapy improves survival in hypoxemic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Because pressure support ventilation with a home care ventilator is largely unsupervised, the...

    Authors: Philippe Goutorbe, Erwan Daranda, Yves Asencio, Pierre Esnault, Bertrand Prunet, Julien Bordes, Bruno Palmier and Eric Meaudre
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:282
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  7. Salmon trypsin is shown to increase secretion of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-8 from human airway epithelial cells through activation of PAR-2. Secretion of IL-8 induced by king crab trypsin ...

    Authors: Anett K Larsen, Kurt Kristiansen, Ingebrigt Sylte, Ole-Morten Seternes and Berit E Bang
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:281
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  9. The need of having feasible screening tools like Coronary Calcium Scoring (CCS) and CT Coronary Artery (CTCA) for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) has become paramount. We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of CCS in...

    Authors: Nizar Bhulani, Ali Khawaja, Asif Jafferani, Maryam Baqir, Ramin Ebrahimi and Zafar Sajjad
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:279
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  10. Obesity is increasingly common in the obstetric population. Maternal obesity and excess gestational weight gain (GWG) are associated with increased perinatal risk. There is limited published data demonstrating...

    Authors: Alexis Shub, Emily Y-S Huning, Karen J Campbell and Elizabeth A McCarthy
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:278
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  11. 3-bromopyruvate (3-BrPA) is a glycolytic inhibitor that affects cancer cells by targeting energy metabolism. Preclinical reports have established that a 1.75 mM dose of 3-BrPA is effective and sufficient to in...

    Authors: Rani Kunjithapatham, Jean-Francois H Geschwind, Pramod P Rao, Tatiana N Boronina, Robert N Cole and Shanmugasundaram Ganapathy-Kanniappan
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:277
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  13. High concentrations of plasma leptin and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines in leptin-resistance in obesity have been reported to trigger endothelial dysfunction. The objective of this study was to eluc...

    Authors: Mochamad Rasjad Indra, Satuman Karyono, Retty Ratnawati and Safarina G Malik
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:275
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  15. Having an estimate of the measurement error of self-report questionnaires is important both for assessing follow-up results after treatment and when planning intervention studies. Specific questionnaires have ...

    Authors: Øystein Skare, Sigrud Liavaag, Olav Reikerås, Petter Mowinckel and Jens Ivar Brox
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:273
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  17. Gender based violence affects the health and wellbeing of women across the world on an epidemic scale. While women remain more vulnerable to both sexual violence and risk of HIV infection, they are less able t...

    Authors: Fatuma Hassen and Ngussie Deyassa
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:271
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  19. Anthroposophic treatment includes special artistic and physical therapies and special medications. We here report an update to a previously published study of anthroposophic treatment for chronic diseases, inc...

    Authors: Harald Johan Hamre, Helmut Kiene, Anja Glockmann, Renatus Ziegler and Gunver Sophia Kienle
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:269
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  20. Stroke was the second most common cause of death worldwide in 2004, resulting in 5.7 million deaths. This case controlled study was conducted in Tertiary care hospitals of Peshawar, KPK Pakistan about common r...

    Authors: Syed Muhammad Adnan Shah, Syed Muhammad Salman Shah, Saima Khan, Shahzad Ur Rehman, Zakir Ahmad Khan, Wisal Ahmed and Zubair
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:268
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  21. Fibroadenomas are the second most common breast pathology occurring in young women under the age of 35 years old. Fibroadenomas can be classified as simple or complex according to histological features. Comple...

    Authors: Gennaro Limite, Emanuela Esposito, Viviana Sollazzo, Giuseppe Ciancia, Rosa Di Micco, Dario De Rosa and Pietro Forestieri
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:267
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Research Notes 2014 7:206

  22. The reverse transcription quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) is a widely used, highly sensitive laboratory technique to rapidly and easily detect, identify and quantify gene expression....

    Authors: Nicolas Piller, Isabelle Decosterd and Marc R Suter
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:266
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Children with nasal carriage of S. aureus play an important role in community spread of S. aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). Screening the nasal carriage isolates of S. aureus for antibiotic resi...

    Authors: Sapna Dey, Senia Rosales-Klintz, Shobha Shouche, Jai Prakash Narayan Pathak and Ashish Pathak
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:265
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  24. Despite international success in reducing ozone-depleting emissions, ultraviolet radiation (UV) is not expected to decrease for several decades. Thus, it is pressing to implement tools that allow investigating...

    Authors: Laura M Martinez-Levasseur, Diane Gendron, Robert J Knell and Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:264
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  25. Malaria and Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) are co-endemic and major public health problems in Ethiopia. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of malaria and STHs co-infection and to determine...

    Authors: Million Getachew, Ketema Tafess, Ahmed Zeynudin and Delenesaw Yewhalaw
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:263
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  26. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized clinically by severe, progressive loss of skeletal muscle. The phenotype is much less severe in the mdx mouse model of DMD than that seen in patients with DMD. H...

    Authors: Stephen JP Pratt, Su Xu, Roger J Mullins and Richard M Lovering
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:262
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  27. Pharmacy-based tobacco sales are a rapidly increasing segment of the U.S. retail tobacco market. Growing evidence links easy access to tobacco retail outlets such as pharmacies to increased tobacco use. This m...

    Authors: Pallavi Patwardhan, Robert McMillen and Jonathan P Winickoff
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:261
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  28. Gait and balance problems are common in patients with multiple sclerosis, leading to high risk for falls. Local Dynamic Stability (LDS), a non-linear gait stability index, has been advocated as an early indica...

    Authors: Roger Hilfiker, Claude Vaney, Brigitte Gattlen, André Meichtry, Olivier Deriaz, Véronique Lugon-Moulin, Anne-Marie Anchisi-Bellwald, Cécilia Palaci, Denise Foinant and Philippe Terrier
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:260
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  30. There is a growing use of mobile devices to access the Internet. We examined whether participants who used a mobile device to access a brief online survey were quicker to respond to the survey but also, less l...

    Authors: John A Cunningham, Clayton Neighbors, Nicolas Bertholet and Christian S Hendershot
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:258
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  32. Microalbuminuria is a marker of cardiovascular events. This study investigated the prevalence of microalbuminuria in the general population and the factors that can affect urinary excretion of albumin.

    Authors: Satoru Tanaka, Hiroyuki Takase, Yasuaki Dohi and Genjiro Kimura
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:256
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  33. Bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) based virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) vectors have been developed and used in soybean for the functional analysis of genes involved in disease resistance to foliar pathogens. Howe...

    Authors: Pramod K Kandoth, Robert Heinz, Greg Yeckel, Nathan W Gross, Parijat S Juvale, John Hill, Steven A Whitham, Thomas J Baum and Melissa G Mitchum
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:255
    Content type: Technical Note Published on:

  34. Paclitaxel plus bevacizumab have shown a high response rate and prolonged progression-free survival in metastatic breast cancer patients. However, overall survival was not prolonged. Thus, no conclusion has be...

    Authors: Kazuo Ishizuna, Jun Ninomiya, Makoto Kojima, Miho Kawashima, Miwako Nozaki, Hidetsugu Yamagishi, Yoshihiko Ueda and Masatoshi Oya
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:254
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  35. The association of EpCAM expression with the progression of gastric cancer remains unclear. Here, we investigated the expression of EpCAM in gastric cancer subtypes and correlated the data to tumor cell prolif...

    Authors: Feride Kroepil, Agnieszka Dulian, Daniel Vallböhmer, Helene Geddert, Andreas Krieg, Christian Vay, Stefan A Topp, Jan Schulte am Esch, Stephan E Baldus, Olivier Gires, Wolfram T Knoefel and Nikolas H Stoecklein
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:253
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  36. Colonization of the intestine with some microorganisms has been shown to have beneficial health effects. The association of bacteria with its human host starts soon after birth; however in infants born prematu...

    Authors: Jacinta M Tobin, Suzanne M Garland, Susan E Jacobs, Marie Pirotta and Sepehr N Tabrizi
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:252
    Content type: Technical Note Published on:

  37. Prompt initiation of appropriate neonatal resuscitation skills is critical for the neonate experiencing difficulty transitioning to extra-uterine life. The use of simulation training is considered to be an ind...

    Authors: Harish J Amin, Khalid Aziz, Louis P Halamek and Tanya N Beran
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:251
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. The evolution of individual microsatellite loci is often complex and homoplasy is common but often goes undetected. Sequencing alleles at a microsatellite locus can provide a more complete picture of the commo...

    Authors: Aaron M Dickey, Paula M Hall, Robert G Shatters Jr and Cindy L Mckenzie
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:249
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  41. Despite strong academic recognition of the SDOH both in Canada and internationally, acknowledgement and uptake of the SDOH in health policy and public consciousness have remained weak. This paper aims to disce...

    Authors: Lynn McIntyre, Robert Shyleyko, Cherie Nicholson, Hope Beanlands and Lindsay McLaren
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:247
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  43. The elucidation of the routes of transmission of a pathogen is crucial for the prevention of infectious diseases caused by bacteria that are not a resident in human tissue. The purpose of this report is to des...

    Authors: Hiroshi Eguchi, Tatsuro Miyamoto, Tomomi Kuwahara, Sayaka Mitamura and Yoshinori Mitamura
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:245
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  44. The main purpose of the study was to assess the prevalence, body distributions and factors associated with musculoskeletal pain (MSP) among medical students in a private Malaysian medical college.

    Authors: Mustafa Ahmed Alshagga, Amal R Nimer, Looi Pui Yan, Ibrahim Abdel Aziz Ibrahim, Saeed S Al-Ghamdi and Sami Abdo Radman Al-Dubai
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:244
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  47. Haemophilus influenzae is a human-restricted facultative anaerobe which resides mostly in the oropharynx. The majority of isolates recovered from the throat are unencapsulated commensals (NTHi), but depending on ...

    Authors: Hannah Kendall Smith, Kevin Lee Nelson, Edison S Calaunan, Arnold Lee Smith and Victoria Nguyen
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:241
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  48. Synovial sarcoma presenting in the mediastinum is exceedingly rare. Furthermore, data addressing optimal therapy is limited. Herein we present a case where an attempt to downsize the tumor to a resectable stat...

    Authors: Samer Salah, Akram Al-Ibraheem, Amal Daboor and Maysa Al-Hussaini
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:240
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  49. Cosmos caudatus is a local plant which has antioxidant properties and contains high calcium. It is also reported to be able to strengthen the bone. This report is an extension to previously published article in E...

    Authors: Norazlina Mohamed, Zulaikha Sahhugi, Elvy Suhana Mohd Ramli and Norliza Muhammad
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:239
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  50. Retraction in Medline medical literature experienced a tenfold increase between 1999 and 2009, however retraction remains a rare event since it represents 0.02% of publications. Retractions used to be handled ...

    Authors: Evelyne Decullier, Laure Huot, Géraldine Samson and Hervé Maisonneuve
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2013 6:238
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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