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Serum estradiol levels in postmenopausal women appear to add to other lifestyle factors in predicting a womans individual risk of breast cancer and may contribute significantly to current risk prediction models.
Alternative splice variants - proteins derived from the receptor tyrosine kinase superfamily - markedly reduced arthritis severity in an in vivo study, showing they have potential as therapeutic agents.
tmRNA rescues stalled ribosomes but lacks an anticodon and so probably uses a separate ligand to establish the reading frame on tmRNA, rather than the three nucleotides upstream of the first codon as previously thought.
Changing patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders from olanzapine to risperidone is safe and more effective if a gradual withdrawal of olanzapine is combined with rapid initiation of the new medication.
Woodlands have become fragmented into 'sky islands' as a result of global warming in the last 10,000 years, a hypothesis supported by the genetics of two Mexican jay populations that diverged after the last glaciation.
The promise of next generation colloids
(Amy G. Tsai, 04Jul2008)
Creagh-Brown and Evans main concern as noted in their commentary of our paper is the use of an animal model where the microcirculation of connective tissue is investigated...
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Response to Maziak
(Reuven Dar, 03Jul2008)
We read the recent study by Sajid and coworkers [1] and the subsequent comment by Maziak [2] with great interest. We were dismayed, however, by one sentence in Maziak's comment,...
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Jul
main concern as noted in their commentary of our paper is the use of an animal model where the microcirculation of connective tissue is investigated...
