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Urinary endothelin-1 as a marker of renal damage in sickle cell disease.
BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects the kidney by acute mechanisms as well as by insidious renal medullary/papillary necrosis, resulting in tubular defects,... -
Morphometric studies of collagen and fibrin lattices contracted by human ging...
Cell shape variations and substratum re-organization during contraction of floating collagen and fibrin lattices seeded with human gingival fibroblasts were determined... -
Altered neurotensin mrna expression in mice lacking the dopamine transporter.
Psychostimulants and antipsychotic drugs increase mRNA expression of the neuropeptide neurotensin (NT) in the striatum and nucleus accumbens. In the present study, we... -
Implementation of subcellular water mapping by electron energy loss spectrosc...
The water concentration in biological cells plays a predominant role in cellular life. Using electron energy loss spectroscopy, the feasibility to measure the water... -
Bimodal speech: early suppressive visual effects in human auditory cortex.
While everyone has experienced that seeing lip movements may improve speech perception, little is known about the neural mechanisms by which audiovisual speech... -
X-ray microanalysis of organic thin sections in TEM using an UTW Si(Li) detec...
We compared Hall's peak to continuum ratio method with a peak ratio method in order to quantify light elements (C, N, and O) in organic specimens as a model for... -
Three-dimensional distributions of elements in biological samples by energy-f...
By combining electron tomography with energy-filtered electron microscopy, we have shown the feasibility of determining the three-dimensional distributions of... -
Endotracheal tubes coated with antiseptics decrease bacterial colonization of...
BACKGROUND: Formation of a bacterial biofilm within the endotracheal tube (ETT) after tracheal intubation is rapid and represents a ready source of lung bacterial... -
Selection of SNP subsets for association studies in candidate genes: comparis...
BACKGROUND: The recent advances in genotyping and molecular techniques have greatly increased the knowledge of the human genome structure. Millions of polymorphisms... -
Stability of pedalling mechanics during a prolonged cycling exercise performe...
The aim of this study was to analyse the effect of pedalling rate on the pattern of mechanical torque application and on neuromuscular fatigue during prolonged cycling... -
Optical imaging of luminescence for in vivo quantification of gene electrotra...
BACKGROUND: Optical imaging is an attractive non-invasive way to evaluate the expression of a transferred DNA, mainly thanks to its lower cost and ease of realization.... -
Decision making concerning life-sustaining treatment in paediatric nephrology...
BACKGROUND: In a previous article, we studied decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment (LST) taken between 1995 and 2001 in 31 French-speaking... -
Comparison of a spatial approach with the multilevel approach for investigati...
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Most studies of place effects on health have followed the multilevel analytical approach that investigates geographical variations of health phenomena... -
A multilevel analysis of tobacco use and tobacco consumption levels in France...
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Perspectives in the prevention of premature birth.
Obstetric and neonatal interventions have improved the survival of preterm infants, but there has not been an equivalent reduction in long-term neurological... -
A simple procedure for estimating the false discovery rate.
MOTIVATION: The most used criterion in microarray data analysis is nowadays the false discovery rate (FDR). In the framework of estimating procedures based on the... -
Epidemiology of male reproductive function: a field searching for tools.
BACKGROUND: An increase in the frequency of disorders of the male human reproductive organs has been described over recent decades. Neither its causes nor its... -
Alcohol consumption and insulin resistance syndrome parameters: associations ...
PURPOSE: To determine the effects of average alcohol consumption and changes in alcohol intake on the insulin resistance syndrome parameters in a 3-year follow-up... -
[Comparison of fertility rates after ectopic pregnancy in Auvergne and Lille ...
OBJECTIVES: Fertility rates after ectopic pregnancy (EP) were compared between the Auvergne region (central France) and the Lille region (northern France) in order to... -
Two hour plasma glucose is not unequivocally predictive for early death in me...
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: We examined whether the 2-h plasma glucose (2 hPG) concentration after a 75 g OGTT is predictive of death in men with a diabetic, an impaired or a...
