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... A recent review of biomarkers of chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer discusses the difficulties of clinical bi-omarker validation [55]. Prediction of cancer drug action with pharmacogenetic ... for recurrent ovarian cancer. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010; 203: 1-7. 41. [Internet] NCCN. National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology; Ovarian Cancer. ... [60] Lung cancer Hicks RJ [61] Colorectal cancer de Geus-Oei LF et al [62] Breast cancer Avril N et al [63] Cancer of the cervix Schwarz JK et al [64] Cancer of the ovaries Schwarz JK...
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... Institute of Medicine of the U.S.National Academy of Sciences.Christopher J. L. Murray is the Richard Saltonstall professor of public policy, professor of social medicine, and director of theHarvard ... the strong collaboration with theInterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP), an association of themedical academies or medical divisions of the scientificacademies of 44 countries. David Challoner and ... NationalAcademy of Sciences, the U.S. member of the IAMP, played acritical role in facilitating all aspects of the IAMP’s collabo-ration. Patrick Kelley and Dianne Stare of the Institute of Medicine...
... reported reduced erythro-cyte and hair zinc concentrations whichsignificantly correlated with androgen sta-tus. The influence of chronic zinc deficiencyon gonadal growth and function was con-sidered ... &haematological status in F* First author; CS, cross-sectional; L, longitudinal; F, female; M, male; C/ P: clinical picture; HC, head circumference; MUAC, mid upper-arm circumference; BMI, bodymass ... the exact mechanism of iron deficiency in SCD is not clear, themost probable cause is excessive urinary losssecondary to chronic haemolysis.138Iron deficiency in SCD might be bene-ficial and...
... americana.Temperatureprofiles of five cycles of 90Њ C (30 sec), 45Њ C (60 sec), 72Њ C (90 sec)followed by 27 cycles of 90Њ C (30 sec), 55Њ C (45 sec), 72Њ C (60 sec) were used for PCR amplification. PCR product wasrun ... Biosystems,Foster City, CA). Both strands were sequenced to confirmaccuracy of each haplotype sequence.Phylogenies were constructed using distance matrix andparsimony approaches with the software package ... How ‘‘cosmopolitan’’ are the continental cyclo-poid copepods? Comparison of the North American and Eur-asians faunas, with description of Acanthocyclops parasensitivussp. n. (Copepoda: Cyclopoida)...
... this context of this indicator.2 It is approximate because of uncertainty in the underlying incidence of TB and because notifi ed cases are not necessarily a subset of incident cases that occurred ... TBMortality caused by TB can be directly measured if a national VR system of high coverage with accurate cod-ing of causes of death according to the latest revision of the international classifi cation ... John Cann, Maria Lourdes Carrasco Flores, Martín Castellanos Joya, Kenneth Castro, Roxana C spedes Robles, Gemma Chery, Jesse Chun, Sonia Copeland, Clara Cruz, Celia de Cuellar, Ofelia Cuevas,...
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... dependence of heparin effect onk506To further characterize the influence of heparin on the APC-catalyzed inactivation of FVa and to confirm the specificity of the effects observed in Fig. 1, time courses ... forinvestigation of the interaction between APC and FVa.However, given the general abundance of heparin-likestructures on the surface of the vascular bed, and the lack of good estimates of local concentrations ... inhibitoryactivity to UFH. In contrast, equimolar amounts of pentasaccharide did not influence the inactivation of FVaby APC.To relate the inactivation curves of FVa to speci c cleavages in...