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Novel mutation in an Egyptian patient with infantile Canavan disease.
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Springer Verlag (Germany)
, 2016 , Article)
Canavan disease (CD) is a rare fatal childhood neurological autosomal recessive genetic disease caused by mutations in the ASPA gene, which lead to catalytic deficiency of the ASPA enzyme that catalyzes the deacetylation ...
Exploring Gender Difference in Sleep Quality of Young Adults: Findings from a Large Population Study
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Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
, 2016 , Article)
To explore if gender difference in sleep quality is due to higher prevalence of depression in females, and whether socio-demographic and lifestyle factors have a differential effect on sleep quality in males and females. ...
Structural modeling of p.V31F variant in the aspartoacylase gene.
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
Aspartoacylase (ASPA) is an abundant enzyme in the brain, which catalyzes the conversion of N-acetylaspartate into acetate and aspartate, deficiency in its activity leads to degeneration of the white matter of the brain ...
Integrated performance assessment model for water distribution networks
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
The American infrastructure report card in 2013 rated the US water system infrastructure with grade of ‘D’. The Canadian infrastructure report card in 2012 stated that around 15.4% of Canada’s water infrastructure has a ...
Identification of a 48 kDa form of unconventional myosin 1c in blood serum of patients with autoimmune diseases.
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
We searched for protein markers present in blood serum of multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients in comparison to healthy human individuals. We used precipitati ...
Sleep quality and obesity in young subjects: a meta-analysis
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Wiley
, 2016 , Article)
To assess the effect of poor sleep quality on Overweight/Obesity (Ow/Ob) in young subjects, and explore if this association is independent of sleep duration. Pubmed, EMBASE, and MEDLINE databases were searched for papers ...
The McGill Brisbane Symptom Score in relation to survival in pancreatic adenocarcinoma: a validation study
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Springer
, 2016 , Article)
The McGill Brisbane Symptom Score (MBSS) is a clinical score for pancreatic cancer patients upon initial presentation that takes into account four variables (weight loss, abdominal pain, jaundice, and history of smoking) ...
Electrodeposition of flower-like platinum on electrophoretically grown nitrogen-doped graphene as a highly sensitive electrochemical non-enzymatic biosensor for hydrogen peroxide detection
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
An efficient non-enzymatic biosensor electrode consisting of nitrogen-doped graphene (N-graphene) and platinum nanoflower (Pt NF) with different N-graphene loadings were fabricated on indium tin oxide (ITO) glass using a ...
Combined influence of temperature and flow rate of feeds on the performance of forward osmosis
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
The effect of the membrane orientation, feeds flow rate, feeds temperature, and combining effect of both temperature and flow rate on the membrane flux was investigated in order to enhance the performance of forward osmosis ...
Effect of Zn and Ni substitution on structural, morphological and magnetic properties of tin oxide nanoparticles
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
Structural, morphological, optical and magnetic properties of Zn and Zn–Ni co-doped tin oxide (SnO2) nanoparticles synthesized by sol-gel method. The influence of doping concentration on phase and particle size of the ...