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In honour of Professor Leaf Huang, recipient of the Journal of Drug Targeting's life-time achievement award for 2018
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Taylor and Francis Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
[No abstract available]
Characterization and assessment of potential microRNAs involved in phosphate-induced aortic calcification
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Wiley-Liss Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
Medial artery calcification, a hallmark of type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease (CKD), is known as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. Hyperphosphatemia associated with CKD ...
Assessing the use of the anatomical method for the estimation of sub-adult stature in Black South Africans
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
Stature estimation is rarely attempted in sub-adults due to the general lack of available standards as a result of the dearth of sufficiently large sub-adult skeletal collections with known demographic information. To ...
Clinical presentation, management, and pathophysiology of neuropathic itch
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Lancet Publishing Group
, 2018 , Article Review)
Unlike conventional itch, neuropathic itch develops in normal skin from excess peripheral firing or dampened central inhibition of itch pathway neurons. Neuropathic itch is a symptom of the same central and peripheral ...
The largest reported papillary thyroid carcinoma arising in struma ovarii and metastasis to opposite ovary: Case report and review of literature
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BioMed Central Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Background: Malignant struma ovarii (MSO) is a very rare, germ cell tumor of the ovary, histologically identical to differentiated thyroid cancers. Struma ovarii (SO) is difficult to diagnose on clinical basis or imaging ...
Association of cardiac myosin-binding protein-C with the ryanodine receptor channel - putative retrograde regulation?
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Company of Biologists Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
The cardiac muscle ryanodine receptor-Ca2+ release channel (RyR2) constitutes the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ efflux mechanism that initiates myocyte contraction, while cardiac myosin-binding protein-C (cMyBP-C; also ...
Geographical differences in semen characteristics of 13 892 infertile men
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Arab Association of Urology
, 2018 , Article)
Objective: To assess the relationship between geographical differences and all semen parameters, across 13,892 infertile men of 84 diverse nationalities, recruited at a specialised tertiary hospital that represents the ...
A comparison between the effectiveness of PBL and LBL on improving problem-solving abilities of medical students using questioning
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
In daily patient-history taking and diagnosis practice, doctors ask questions to gather information from patients and narrow down diagnostic hypotheses. Training medical students to be efficient problem solvers through the ...
A new improved graphical and quantitative method for detecting bias in meta-analysis.
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
, 2018 , Article)
Detection of publication and related biases remains suboptimal and threatens the validity and interpretation of meta-analytical findings. When bias is present, it usually differentially affects small and large studies ...
Measurements of the talus in the assessment of population affinity
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. As part of their routine work, forensic anthropologists are expected to report population affinity as part of the biological profile of an individual. The skull is the most widely used bone for the ...