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  1. Naja ashei is a snake of medical importance in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, and Tanzania. Little is known about the enzymatic (snake venom phospholipases A2; svPLA2’s) and toxic (lethal) activities of N. ash...

    Authors: Mitchel Otieno Okumu, James Mucunu Mbaria, Joseph Kangangi Gikunju, Paul Gichohi Mbuthia, Vincent Odongo Madadi and Francis Okumu Ochola

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:325

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  2. Hyperthyroidism is the excessive synthesis of thyroid hormones. Thyroid uptake scans and ultrasonography provide an accurate diagnosis of hyperthyroidism, especially when thyroid receptor antibody (TRAb) measu...

    Authors: Khaled Alswat, Sara Ahmad Assiri, Raad M. M. Althaqafi, Atheer Alsufyani, Abaad Althagafi, Sara Alrebaiee and Najd Alsukhayri

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:324

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  3. This study aimed to clarify the factors of successful inter-agency collaboration that affect multidisciplinary workers’ abilities to identify child maltreatment. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted; the...

    Authors: Ayumi Okato, Tasuku Hashimoto, Mami Tanaka, Naoki Saito, Mamiko Endo, Jun Okayama, Akiko Ichihara, Saki Eshima, Satoshi Handa, Masayoshi Senda, Yasunori Sato, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Michiko Nakazato and Masaomi Iyo

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:323

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  4. Infection with the bacteria Helicobacter pylori has been classified as class one carcinogen associated with increasing susceptibility of gastritis and gastric carcinoma. This study is aiming at investigating the ...

    Authors: Aziza K. Mohamed, Nazik M. Elhassan, Zahra A. Awhag, Fadwa S. Ali, Eman T. Ali, Najwa A. Mhmoud, Emmanuel E. Siddig, Rowa Hassan, Eiman S. Ahmed, Azam Fattahi, Ayman Ahmed, Mohamed S. Muneer, Hussam A. Osman, Nouh S. Mohamed and Ali M. M. Edris

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:322

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  5. Palladin is a ubiquitous phosphoprotein expressed in vertebrate cells that works as a scaffolding protein. Several isoforms deriving from alternative splicing are originated from the palladin gene and involved...

    Authors: Boimpoundi Eunice Flavie Ouali, Tzu-Yu Liu, Chun-Yen Lu, Pei-Yuan Cheng, Chao-Li Huang, Chun-Chun Li, Yu-Chung Chiang and Hao-Ven Wang

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:321

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  6. Spiroplasma citri is a bacterium with a wide host range and is the causal agent of citrus stubborn and brittle root diseases of citrus and horseradish, respectively. S. citri is transmitted in a circulative, pers...

    Authors: Raymond Yokomi, Rachel Rattner, Fatima Osman, Yogita Maheshwari, Vijayanandraj Selvaraj, Deborah Pagliaccia, Jianchi Chen and Georgios Vidalakis

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:320

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  7. This study was designed for the characterization and establishment of antibiotic susceptibility profiles of non-fermentative gram negative bacteria isolated from hospitalized patients in a tertiary care hospit...

    Authors: Santosh Kumar Yadav, Rajshree Bhujel, Shyam Kumar Mishra, Sangita Sharma and Jeevan Bahadur Sherchand

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:319

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  8. Mutualism between endogenous viruses and eukaryotes is still poorly understood. Several endogenous double-stranded polydnaviruses, bracoviruses, homologous to those present in parasitic braconid wasp genomes w...

    Authors: Kelvin M. Kimenyi, Muna F. Abry, Winnie Okeyo, Enock Matovu, Daniel Masiga and Benard W. Kulohoma

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:318

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  9. IL-17A G197A and IL-17F A7488G polymorphisms has been identified to be associated with the susceptibility to many diseases. This study aimed to investigate the frequency distribution of IL-17A G197A and IL-17F A7...

    Authors: Nouh S. Mohamed, Emmanuel E. Siddig, Abdallah E. Ahmed, Musab M. A. Albsheer, Hanadi Abdelbagi, Eman T. Ali, Anadel A. Alsubki, Sabah A. Abdalaziz, Madinna Mustafa, Mohamed S. Muneer, Hussam A. Osman, Maha M. Osman, Mohamed S. Ali, Ali M. M. Edris, Ayman Ahmed and Rihab A. Omer

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:317

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  10. CD4 T lymphocytes are the most widely used cellular markers to assess the course of HIV infection, clinical staging and, monitoring the effect of antiretroviral therapy. The regional reference range for Easter...

    Authors: Shravan Kumar Mishra, Lilee Shrestha, Roshan Pandit, Sundar Khadka, Bimal Shrestha, Subhash Dhital, Saroj Sharma, Mukunda Sharma, Raj Kumar Mahato, Geeta Shakya and Krishna Das Manandhar

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:316

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  11. Understanding the mechanisms of cataract formation is important for age-related and hereditary cataracts caused by mutations in lens protein genes. Lens proteins of the crystallin gene families α-, β-, and γ-c...

    Authors: Usha P. Andley, Brittney N. Naumann, Paul D. Hamilton and Stephanie L. Bozeman

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:315

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  12. Seventeen years after the start of the IBAARV (Beninese initiative for access to antiretrovirals), transmitted drug resistance mutations in ARV-naïve patients and HIV-1 genetic diversity were investigated in B...

    Authors: Edmond Tchiakpe, Rene K. Keke, Nicole Vidal, Clément Ahoussinou, Olga Sekpe, Hermione G. Dagba, Eric Gbaguidi, Conrad Tonoukouen, Aldric Afangnihoun, Moussa Bachabi, Flore A. Gangbo, Halimatou Diop-Ndiaye and Coumba Toure-Kane

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:314

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  13. The aim of this study was to describe return to work determinants in patients with haematological malignancy.

    Authors: Bénédicte Clin, Natacha Heutte, Mathilde Boulanger, Xavier Troussard, Edouard Cornet, Ghandi Laurent Damaj, Véronique Bouvier, Anne-Valérie Guizard, Guy Launoy and Idlir Licaj

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:313

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  14. Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) involves both community-acquired and nosocomial infections. It is responsible for a wide variety of infections, including infections of the urinary tract, pneumonia, bacterem...

    Authors: Aalaa Mahgoub Albasha, Esraa hassan Osman, Saga Abd-Alhalim, Elianz F. Alshaib, Leena Al-Hassan and Hisham N. Altayb

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:312

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  15. Plasma, but also urine sample could represent a simple liquid biopsy for ovarian cancer biomarker detection. The miRNA-200 family has been shown to be dysregulated in ovarian cancer. The aim of this study was ...

    Authors: Kalle Savolainen, Mauro Scaravilli, Antti Ilvesmäki, Synnöve Staff, Teemu Tolonen, Johanna U. Mäenpää, Tapio Visakorpi and Annika Auranen

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:311

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  16. To investigate the descriptive nature of objectively-measured, free-living sleep quantity and quality, and the relationship to adiposity, in a rural African setting in 145 adults (≥ 40 years, female: n = 104, ...

    Authors: Ian Cook, Matlawa Mohlabe and Marianne Alberts

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:310

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  17. The Community Informant Detection Tool (CIDT) is a paper-based proactive case detection strategy with evidence for improving help-seeking behavior for mental healthcare. Key implementation barriers for the pap...

    Authors: Anvita Bhardwaj, Prasansa Subba, Sauharda Rai, Chaya Bhat, Renasha Ghimire, Mark J. D. Jordans, Eric Green, Lavanya Vasudevan and Brandon A. Kohrt

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:309

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  18. High prevalence of chronic ulcers and the burden of disease necessitate the increasingly significant production of new recombinant proteins in the world. The angiopoietin-1 enzyme is a part of the growth facto...

    Authors: Hamzeh Alipour, Marziae Shahriari-Namadi, Saeedeh Ebrahimi and Mohammad D. Moemenbellah-Fard

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:308

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  19. Measuring handgrip strength is a useful method to evaluate sarcopenia. No study has shown the trends of handgrip strength to weight ratio among Korean adolescents by year. This study aimed to determine the tre...

    Authors: Yunkoo Kang, Jieun Kim, Seung Kim, Sowon Park, Hyunjung Lim and Hong Koh

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:307

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  20. This secondary data analysis examined associations among perceived neighborhood environmental factors, physical activity (PA), and the presence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in Mexican–American (MA) adults. Seven...

    Authors: Rodney P. Joseph and Sonia Vega-López

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:306

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  21. Poultry is commonly considered to be the primary vehicle for Campylobacter infection in humans. The aim of this study is to assess the risk of Campylobacteriosis in chicken meat consumers in southern Benin by ...

    Authors: Sylvain Daton Kouglenou, Alidehou Jerrold Agbankpe, Victorien Dougnon, Armando Djiyou Djeuda, Esther Deguenon, Marie Hidjo, Lamine Baba-Moussa and Honore Bankole

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:305

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  22. Screening inventories are important tools in clinical settings and research but may be sensitive to temporary fluctuations. Therefore, we revisited data from a longitudinal study with the Lund University Check...

    Authors: Roger Persson and Kai Österberg

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:304

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  23. Preterm infants are exposed earlier than their term counterparts to unattenuated sounds from the external environment during the sensitive period of the organization of the auditory cortical circuitry. In the ...

    Authors: Hannalice Gottschalck Cavalcanti, Aryelly Dayane da Silva Nunes, Brenda Karla Silva da Cunha, Kátia de Freitas Alvarenga, Sheila Andreoli Balen and Antonio Pereira Jr.

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:303

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  26. IL17 is a critical pro-inflammatory cytokine that is involved in inflammation, multidrug resistance and growth persistence pathways in cancer. This study is aiming at studying the expression of IL17 and hormon...

    Authors: Eman Taha Ali, Mai Abdulrahman Mohammed Masri, Emmanuel Edwar Siddig, Ayman Ahmed, Mohamed S. Muneer, Nouh Saad Mohamed and Ali Mahmoud Mohammed Edris

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:300

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  27. In Para-cycling competitions, cyclists with amputation of one-leg and no prosthesis, i.e., Division Cycle, Sport Class C2, perform pedaling movement on bicycle by unilateral leg. The purpose of this study was ...

    Authors: Kohei Watanabe, Yuta Yamaguchi, Wataru Fukuda, Sho Nakazawa, Taishi Kenjo and Tetsunari Nishiyama

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:299

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  28. The study was carried out with the aim to find out the frequency of Glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency among the patients attending the hospital and to rationalize the qualitative methemoglobi...

    Authors: Uday Sharma, Satyendra Mishra, Narayan Gautam and Badri Kumar Gupta

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:298

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  29. This study examined the relationship between leg bone length and sprint performance in sprinters. The leg bone lengths in 28 100-m specialized sprinters and 28 400-m specialized sprinters were measured using m...

    Authors: Daichi Tomita, Tadashi Suga, Masafumi Terada, Takahiro Tanaka, Yuto Miyake, Hiromasa Ueno, Mitsuo Otsuka, Akinori Nagano and Tadao Isaka

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:297

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  30. Most eukaryotic cells contain microtubule filaments, which play central roles in intra-cellular organization. However, microtubule networks have a wide variety of architectures from one cell type and organism ...

    Authors: Arthur T. Molines, Virginie Stoppin-Mellet, Isabelle Arnal and Frédéric M. Coquelle

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:296

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  31. Prostate cancer (PC) is common cancer worldwide. Several markers have been developed to differentiate between benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) from PC. A descriptive retrospective hospital-based study aimed ...

    Authors: Eiman Siddig Ahmed, Lubna S. Elnour, Rowa Hassan, Emmanuel E. Siddig, Mintu Elsa Chacko, Eman T. Ali, Mona A. Mohamed, Abdalla Munir, Mohamed S. Muneer, Nouh S. Mohamed and Ali M. M. Edris

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:295

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  32. β2 microglobulin, as a biomarker, is used for the diagnosis of oral malignant and pre-malignant lesions. The components of the microglobulin system can directly or indirectly help grow and develop tumors. The ...

    Authors: Fatemeh Nosratzehi, Tahereh Nosratzehi, Ebrahim Alijani and Soha Saberi Rad

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:294

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  34. The assessment of clinical efficacy and toxicity is very important in pharmacology and toxicology. The effects of psychostimulants (e.g. amphetamine), psychotomimetics (e.g. Cannabis sativus) and snake antiven...

    Authors: Saganuwan Alhaji Saganuwan

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:292

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  35. Mouse models have delivered variable recapitulation of Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD) pathology and consistently demonstrated neurological involvement which may be a limited feature of human disease. With the p...

    Authors: A. M. Nikiforuk, K. Tierny, T. A. Cutts, D. K. Kobasa, S. S. Theriault and B. W. M. Cook

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:291

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  36. Chalcones (1, 3-diaryl-2-propen-1-ones) and their derivatives are widely explored from the past decade for its antimalarial activity. To elucidate their mechanism of action on the malaria parasite, the ultrast...

    Authors: Shweta Sinha, B. D. Radotra, Bikash Medhi, Daniela I. Batovska, Nadezhda Markova and Rakesh Sehgal

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:290

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  38. In the present study, we sought to investigate the association between red cell distribution width (RDW) and stroke severity and outcome in patients who underwent anti-thrombolytic therapy with tissue plasmino...

    Authors: Kavous Shahsavarinia, Younes Ghavam Laleh, Payman Moharramzadeh, Mahboob Pouraghaei, Elyar Sadeghi-Hokmabadi, Fatemeh Seifar, Farid Hajibonabi, Zhila Khamnian, Mehdi Farhoudi and Sara Mafi

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:288

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  39. Effect of bilateral, optic neuropathy on the function of retinal pigment epithelium has not been investigated extensively to date. This study aimed to determine the effect of bilateral, optic neuropathy on lig...

    Authors: Padmini Dahanayake, Tharaka L. Dassanayake, Manoji Pathirage, Saman Senanayake, Mike Sedgwick and Vajira Weerasinghe

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:287

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  40. This study aims to assess the relationship between Food and Nutrition Literacy (FNLIT) and dietary diversity score (DDS); FNLIT and nutrient adequacy (NAR%, MAR%) in school-age children in Iran.

    Authors: Azam Doustmohammadian, Nasrin Omidvar, Nastaran Keshavarz-Mohammadi, Hassan Eini-Zinab, Maryam Amini, Morteza Abdollahi, Zeinab Amirhamidi and Homa Haidari

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:286

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  41. Musculoskeletal pain is often caused by injury to the bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments or nerves. Symptoms can be localized or generalized. Mild-moderate symptoms are treated with topical/oral over the count...

    Authors: Hoan Linh Banh and Andrew Cave

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:285

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  42. Adenosine has an analgesic and anti-inflammatory role and its injections are used for perioperative pain management. We aimed to study efficacy of intrathecal injection of adenosine for post-operative radicula...

    Authors: Dawood Aghamohammadi, Mahmood Eydi, Alireza Pishgahi, Azam Esmaeilinejad and Neda Dolatkhah

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:284

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  43. The influence of physical activity (PA) on the immune system has emerged as a new field of research. Regular PA may promote an anti-inflammatory state in the body, thus contributing to the down-regulation of p...

    Authors: Karina Standahl Olsen, Marko Lukic and Kristin Benjaminsen Borch

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:283

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  44. Fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) 2 regulates the development of the adrenal gland in mice. In addition, FGFR2-mediated signalling has been shown to prevent apoptosis and to enhance proliferation in adr...

    Authors: Matthias Haase, Anne Thiel, Ute I. Scholl, Hany Ashmawy, Matthias Schott and Margret Ehlers

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:282

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  45. We previously described the structure and activity of a glycoside hydrolase family 30 subfamily 8 (GH30-8) endoxylanase, CaXyn30A, from Clostridium acetobutylicum which exhibited novel glucuronic acid (GA)-indepe...

    Authors: Casey Crooks, Liangkun Long and Franz J. St John

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:281

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  46. A Paenibacillus strain isolated in previous research exhibited antimicrobial activity against relevant human pathogens including Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes. In this study, the genome of the ...

    Authors: Magdalena Pajor, Jonathan Sogin, Randy W. Worobo and Piotr Szweda

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:280

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  47. Oral anticoagulants are one of the most frequently used medications. However, these drugs have a range of side effects including potential life-threatening complications. Little is known regarding the awarenes...

    Authors: Ibrahim Zahid, Syed Wajih Ul Hassan, Nida Sehar Bhurya, Sheena Nadeem Alam, Choudhary Ahmed Hasan, Bakht Hussain Shah, Fasiha Bakhtawar Fatima, Ayesha Ahmed, Syed Sabih Ul Hassan, Javeria Hayat, Aqsa Zulfiqar, Rija Sheikh, Momin Aziz, Rabbia Siddiqi, Kaneez Fatima and Muhammad Shahzeb Khan

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:279

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  48. Inappropriate life style has destructive effects on sperm quality and, male fertility, so that lifestyle modification may improve spermogram indexes preliminary data. This study aimed to determine the relation...

    Authors: Leila Amini, Mahsa Kahrobaie, Leila Amiri-Farahani and Hamid Haghani

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:278

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  49. Compared to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), there have been few studies focused on the molecular characterization of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). In this cross-section...

    Authors: Zahra Tayebi, Hossein Goudarzi, Masoud Dadashi and Mehdi Goudarzi

    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2020 13:277

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