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  1. Myosin II-dependent contraction of the cytokinetic ring and primary septum formation by chitin synthase II are interdependent processes during cytokinesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Hence, null mutants of myosi...

    Authors: José F Rodríguez-Quiñones and José R Rodríguez-Medina
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:87
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  2. From October 2006 to February 2007, clinical specimens from 452 patients with symptoms related to respiratory tract infection in the northern region of Taiwan were collected. Real-time PCR and direct immunoflu...

    Authors: Yuan-Ming Lee, Sheng-Fan Wang, Cheng-Ming Lee, Kuan-Hsuan Chen, Yu-Jiun Chan, Wu-Tse Liu and Yi-Ming Arthur Chen
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:86
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  3. The murine ghrelin gene (Ghrl), originally sequenced from stomach tissue, contains five exons and a single transcription start site in a short, 19 bp first exon (exon 0). We recently isolated several novel first ...

    Authors: Inge Seim, Shea L Carter, Adrian C Herington and Lisa K Chopin
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:85
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  4. The treatment of acute acromioclavicular (AC) joint injuries depends mainly on the type of the dislocation and patient demands. This study compares the mid term outcome of two frequently performed surgical con...

    Authors: Bernd A Leidel, Volker Braunstein, Susann Pilotto, Wolf Mutschler and Chlodwig Kirchhoff
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:84
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  5. Women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have increased morbidity and mortality due to coronary heart disease. Chronic systemic inflammation is known to accelerate atherosclerosis and increase arterial stiffness i...

    Authors: Philip W Pemberton, Yasmeen Ahmad, Helena Bodill, Daniel Lokko, Samantha L Hider, Allen P Yates, Michael G Walker, Ian Laing and Ian N Bruce
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:83
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  8. Marbling defined by the amount and distribution of intramuscular fat is an economically important trait of beef cattle in Japan. We have recently reported that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the endoth...

    Authors: Takahisa Yamada, Seiki Sasaki, Shin Sukegawa, Sachiyo Yoshioka, Youichi Takahagi, Mitsuo Morita, Hiroshi Murakami, Fumiki Morimatsu, Tatsuo Fujita, Takeshi Miyake and Yoshiyuki Sasaki
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:78
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  9. The aim of this study was to develop a simple organ score derived from the Critical Care Minimum Data Set (CCMDS) to compare with the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, a previously validated sc...

    Authors: Tim W Felton, Rebecca Sander, Mo Al-Aloul, Paul Dark and Andrew M Bentley
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:77
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  10. This study investigated the nosocomial blood stream infection (BSI) in the adult ICUs in Assiut university hospitals to evaluate the rate of infection in different ICUs, causative microorganisms, antimicrobial...

    Authors: Shaaban H Ahmed, Enas A Daef, Mohammed S Badary, Mohammed A Mahmoud and Alaa A Abd-Elsayed
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:76
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  15. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common, childhood-onset neurodevelopmental disorder that is more frequent in males than females. Several genes on the X chromosome have been studied as cand...

    Authors: Xiaohui Xu, Keeley Brookes, Bo Sun, Nicholas Ilott and Philip Asherson
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:71
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  16. Apart from simple steatosis, the non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) can progress into liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. To date, however, no widely accepted therapeutic modalities have been established against N...

    Authors: Hitoshi Yoshiji, Ryuichi Noguchi, Yasuhide Ikenaka, Tadashi Namisaki, Mitsuteru Kitade, Kosuke Kaji, Yusaku Shirai, Junichi Yoshii, Koji Yanase, Masaharu Yamazaki, Tatsuhiro Tsujimoto, Hideto Kawaratani, Takemi Akahane, Yosuke Aihara and Hiroshi Fukui
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:70
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  17. It can be seen from the available mollusk mitogenomes that the family Pectinidae exhibits the most variation in genome organization. In this study, comparative mitogenomic analyses were performed for three sca...

    Authors: Xiangyun Wu, Xiaodong Xu, Ziniu Yu and Xiaoyu Kong
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:69
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  19. Oxygenases belong to the oxidoreductive group of enzymes (E.C. Class 1), which oxidize the substrates by transferring oxygen from molecular oxygen (O2) and utilize FAD/NADH/NADPH as the co-substrate. Oxygenases c...

    Authors: Pankaj K Arora, Manish Kumar, Archana Chauhan, Gajendra PS Raghava and Rakesh K Jain
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:67
    Content type: Data Note Published on:

  20. Activating mutations in the PIK3CA gene have been identified in a variety of human malignancies and are commonly detected in hotspot codons located in the helical and kinase domains in exons 9 and 20. Existing me...

    Authors: Carolyn D Hurst, Tahlita CM Zuiverloon, Christian Hafner, Ellen C Zwarthoff and Margaret A Knowles
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:66
    Content type: Technical Note Published on:

  21. Cell-specific expression of a subset of Enhancer of split (E(spl)-C) genes in proneural clusters is mediated by synergistic interactions between bHLH A (b asic H elix-L oop-H elix A ctivator) and Notch-signalling...

    Authors: John W Cave, Li Xia and Michael A Caudy
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:65
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  23. Baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) has become a standard in recombinant protein production and virus-like particle preparation for numerous applications.

    Authors: Hanna-Riikka Kärkkäinen, Hanna P Lesch, Antti I Määttä, Pyry I Toivanen, Anssi J Mähönen, Miia M Roschier, Kari J Airenne, Olli H Laitinen and Seppo Ylä-Herttuala
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:63
    Content type: Technical Note Published on:

  24. The purpose of this report is to assess the safety and efficacy of single lower pole access for multiple and branched renal calculi. A prospective non randomized clinical study included 26 patients with comple...

    Authors: Mahmoud M Shalaby, Medhat A Abdalla, Hassan A Aboul-Ella, Abdel-Monem A El-haggagy and Alaa A Abd-Elsayed
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:62
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  26. Dermatophytes are a group of closely related keratinophilic fungi that can invade keratinized humans and animals tissues such as skin, hair and nails causing dermatophytosis. They are an important cause of sup...

    Authors: Jaya Garg, Ragini Tilak, Atul Garg, Pradyot Prakash, Anil Kumar Gulati and Gopal Nath
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:60
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  27. The Runt DNA binding domain (Runx) defines a metazoan family of sequence-specific transcription factors with essential roles in animal ontogeny and stem cell based development. Depending on cis-regulatory context...

    Authors: Anthony J Robertson, Claire Larroux, Bernard M Degnan and James A Coffman
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:59
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  28. Fluorescent proteins such as GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) and DsRED (Discosoma sp.Red Fluorescent Protein) are often used as reporter molecules for transgene expression in Drosophila and other species. We h...

    Authors: Dhruv Grover, Junsheng Yang, Daniel Ford, Simon Tavaré and John Tower
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:58
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  30. We analyzed the use of RefSNP (rs) numbers to identify genetic variants in abstracts of human genetic association studies published from 2001 through 2007. The proportion of abstracts reporting rs numbers incr...

    Authors: Wei Yu, Renée Ned, Anja Wulf, Tiebin Liu, Muin J Khoury and Marta Gwinn
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:56
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  32. Asthma is a complex phenotype that is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Genome-wide linkage and association studies have been performed to identify susceptibility genes for asthma. These st...

    Authors: Yoshiko Imada, Masaya Fujimoto, Kenji Hirata, Tomomitsu Hirota, Yoichi Suzuki, Hirohisa Saito, Kenji Matsumoto, Akira Akazawa, Toshio Katsunuma, Shigemi Yoshihara, Motohiro Ebisawa, Masanao Shibasaki, Tadao Arinami, Mayumi Tamari and Emiko Noguchi
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:54
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  34. The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain containing 1 (NOD1) gene encodes a pattern recognition receptor that senses pathogens, leading to downstream responses characteristic of innate immunity. We investiga...

    Authors: Claudia Huebner, Lynnette R Ferguson, Dug Yeo Han, Martin Philpott, Murray L Barclay, Richard B Gearry, Alan McCulloch, Pieter S Demmers and Brian L Browning
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:52
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  35. Free-living amoebae serve as a natural reservoir for some bacteria that have evolved into «amoeba-resistant» bacteria. Among these, some are strictly intra-amoebal, such as Candidatus "Protochlamydia amoebophila"...

    Authors: Claire Moliner, Didier Raoult and Pierre-Edouard Fournier
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:51
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  37. Antimicrobial resistance is fast becoming a global concern with rapid increases in multidrug-resistant Gram negative organisms. The prevalence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing clinical isol...

    Authors: Stephen E Mshana, Erasmus Kamugisha, Mariam Mirambo, Trinad Chakraborty and Eligius F Lyamuya
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:49
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  38. Whole genome amplification (WGA) is a practical solution to eliminate molecular analysis limitations associated with genomic DNA (gDNA) quantity. Different methods have been developed to amplify the whole geno...

    Authors: Osama Alsmadi, Fadi Alkayal, Dorota Monies and Brian F Meyer
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:48
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  40. The protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, is spread by the tsetse fly and causes Human African Trypanosomiasis. Its cell cycle is complex and not fully understood at the molecular level. The T. brucei genome co...

    Authors: Séverine Monnerat, Caroline Clucas, Elaine Brown, Jeremy C Mottram and Tansy C Hammarton
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:46
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  42. Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptides (anti-CCP) are highly specific diagnostic and prognostic markers for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They have been also found in psoriatic arthritis (PsA), with controversies as ...

    Authors: Nermeen SA Abdel Fattah, Hanan E Hassan, Zenab A Galal and El Sayed E El Okda
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:44
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  45. Warfarin is an oral anticoagulant (OAT) that needs active management to ensure therapeutic range. Initial management is often carried out as an inpatient, though not requiring inpatient facilities. This mismat...

    Authors: Dónall Forde, Mortimer B O'Connor and Oonagh Gilligan
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:41
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  46. Nemaline myopathy is a neuromuscular disorder characterized by the presence of nemaline bodies in patient muscles. 20% of the cases are associated with α-skeletal muscle actin mutations. We previously showed t...

    Authors: Drieke Vandamme, Ellen Lambert, Davy Waterschoot, Davina Tondeleir, Joël Vandekerckhove, Laura M Machesky, Bruno Constantin, Heidi Rommelaere and Christophe Ampe
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:40
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  47. Currently one of the largest online repositories for human and mouse stem cell gene expression data, StemBase was first designed as a simple web-interface to DNA microarray data generated by the Canadian Stem ...

    Authors: Reatha Sandie, Gareth A Palidwor, Matthew R Huska, Christopher J Porter, Paul M Krzyzanowski, Enrique M Muro, Carolina Perez-Iratxeta and Miguel A Andrade-Navarro
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:39
    Content type: Technical Note Published on:

  48. Achromobacter sp. AO22 (formerly Alcaligenes sp. AO22), a bacterial strain isolated from a lead-contaminated industrial site in Australia, was previously found to be resistant to moderate to high levels of mercur...

    Authors: Shee Ping Ng, Belinda Davis, Enzo A Palombo and Mrinal Bhave
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:38
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  49. Citrus Huanglongbing (HLB) is one of the most devastating diseases on citrus and is associated with Candidatus Liberibacter spp.. The pathogens are phloem limited and have not been cultured in vitro. The current ...

    Authors: Jeong-soon Kim and Nian Wang
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2009 2:37
    Content type: Short Report Published on:
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