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The MAST-CLA system (Hitachi Chemical Diagnostics, Inc., Mountain View, CA) is an in vitro diagnostic test for the simultaneous determination of specific IgE to different allergens. Recently, a new generation of MAST-CLA was developed (OPTIGEN; Hitachi Chemical Diagnostics). The purpose of this study...
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PMID: 21819752
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We focus on emerging techniques that may form a coherently integrated pipeline to overcome present limitations to both the discovery and validation processes....
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PMID: 21817166
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: There is evidence for both reliability and validity for simultaneously assessing surgical skills and communication skills. Further instrument development is required to assess professionalism in a structured examination context.
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PMID: 21861980
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This study sought to determine whether a formalized teaching intervention could reduce the interobserver variability (IOV) in visual estimation of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) within a group of sonographers and physicians with a spectrum of experience.
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PMID: 21835373
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The purpose of this study was to compare the prognostic role of various computed tomography (CT) signs of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction, including 3-dimensional ventricular volume measurements, to predict adverse outcomes in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE).
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PMID: 21835376
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We compared the performance of the PT2 scheme on the two title molecules using SCF, MP2 and DFT (BLYP, B3LYP, PBE and B3PW91 functionals) methods combined with polarization consistent pc-n (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4) basis sets, Dunning's basis sets (aug)-cc-pVXZ where X = D, T, Q, 5, 6 and Pople's...
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PMID: 21153906
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Our goal is to examine novel echocardiographic characteristics of phenotype-negative carriers for a known sarcomeric gene mutation for HCM....
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PMID: 21835286
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The aim of this study is to assess the role of novel biomarkers for the diagnostic evaluation of acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
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PMID: 21835288
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The aim of this study was to compare the ability of final-year Turkish dental students and dentists to assess the level of gingival health status by using the Development of Ability to Assess Gingival Status (DAAGS) computer program. Forty-eight students in their final year of dental education and 24...
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PMID: 21828307
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Bioanalytical methods are used to quantitatively determine the concentration of drugs, biotransformation products or other specified substances in biological matrices and are often used to provide critical data to pharmacokinetic or bioequivalence studies in support of regulatory sub...
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PMID: 21827269
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In this study the authors address the quality of abstracts reviewed during a systematic review. Their objective was to describe the proportion of abstracts that could not be coded and to explore factors associated with that outcome. Using an exploratory design, a database of titles uploaded for analy...
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PMID: 21827304
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Intervention fidelity refers to strategies that practitioners and researchers use to monitor, enhance, or evaluate the accuracy and consistency of the delivery of an intervention to ensure that it is implemented according to how it was planned. The purpose of the authors in this article was to evalua...
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PMID: 21827305
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Pyridinoline (Pyr), deoxypyridinoline (D-Pyr), galactosyl-pyridinoline (Gal-Pyr) and glucosyl-galactosyl pyridinoline (GluGal-Pyr) are enzymatic mature pyridinium crosslinks. Generally, only total Pyr and D-Pyr urinary amounts (free+bound forms) are evaluated by HPLC as indices of bo...
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PMID: 21855424
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We discovered that curcuminoids were mainly present as glucuronides in plasma, whereas in free form in tumor tissue. A validated LC/MS/MS method was established to determine the three free curcuminoids in tumor homogenate. Samples were separated on a Zorbax SB-C(18) column, eluted with acetonitrile-...
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PMID: 21856253
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Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are a key class of drugs for the treatment of HIV infection. NRTIs are intracellularly phosphorylated to their active triphosphate metabolites and compete with endogenous deoxynucleotides (dNTP) for substrate binding. It is therefor...
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PMID: 21862423
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A rapid and simple method for the simultaneous quantification of AFB1 and OTA in rat plasma, liver and kidney by UHPLC-FLD has been successfully validated according to the following criteria: selectivity, stability, linearity, precision, accuracy, recovery, robustness and limits of q...
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PMID: 21868292
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We have recently reported that when cholesterol is oxidized with an ozone-like oxidant generated by activated mouse neutrophils, secosterol-A is generated which is then converted to secosterol-B by an aldol reaction. To investigate further pathophysiological roles of secosterols, we have developed a...
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PMID: 21871845
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We have found no significant differences in both ascorbic acid and uric acid concentration between the smokers and non-smokers (351.0±237.9μmol/L and 323.7±99.5μmol/L vs. 444.8±245.5μmol/L and 316.6±108.9μmol/L, p>0.05). This assay is a simple and reproducible HPLC method for the simultaneou...
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PMID: 21871848
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Iturin A, a powerful antifungal surfactant, is a kind of bacterial lipopeptide produced by Bacillus strains. This study addresses the use of an aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) using ethanol/ammonium sulfate to extract iturin A from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens NJN-6 fermentation broth...
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PMID: 21872538
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