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dimethylaminoazobenzene or Thioacetamide. Larry D. Smith and Donald E. Kizer. 1348 Hormonal Effects on Thymidine Kinase Ac tivity in Normal Rat Adrenal and in Hormonedependent Adrenal Carcinoma. M. R. Garland, Thérà ̈se Ng, and J. F. Richards. 1355 Erythropoietic Effect of Plasma from Patients with Advanced Cancer. Dincer Firat and Jose Banzon. 1360 Metabolic Studies on Mammary Tumor MTW9 follo...

Obesity increases the risk of distant metastatic recurrence and reduces breast cancer survival. However, the mechanisms behind this pathology and identification of relevant therapeutic targets are poorly defined. Plasma free fatty acids (FFA) levels are elevated in obese individuals. Here we report that TGFβ transiently activates ERK and subsequently phosphorylates SMAD4 at Thr277, which facili...

Analysis was conducted of the patient residence geocoding of all E-code (external cause) discharges on the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry system for the calendar year 1996 from Limerick's two acute hospitals (one public, one private). The results indicate a substantial level of error, even at county and county borough level. Some 21 percent of the 1383 patients attributed to Limerick County Boroug...

Hepatitis G virus (HGV) nonstructural protein 3 (NS3) contains amino acid sequence motifs typical of ATPase and RNA helicase proteins. In order to examine the RNA helicase activity of the HGV NS3 protein, the NS3 region (amino acids 904 to 1580) was fused with maltose-binding protein (MBP), and the fusion protein was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified with amylose resin and anion-exchan...

Cataract is the leading cause of blindness in Saudi Arabia. The author studied 1383 patients who had undergone cataract extraction (total of 1520 procedures) from October 1985 to March 1986 at the King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. All patients were observed for at least two months. Of 1520 eyes 555 (37%) achieved a visual acuity of 20/40 or better, 309 (20%) a visual ac...

coronary heart disease in clinical practice. Recommendations of the Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology, European Atherosclerosis Society and European Society of Hypertension. Eur Heart J 1994;15:130031. 32. Randomized trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S). Lancet 1994;344(8934): 1383-9. 33. The ...

2000. 5. Pham A, Wang J. Bernard-Soulier syndrome: an inherited platelet disorder. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2007;131:1834-6. 6. Young G, Luban N, White JG. Giant platelet disorders in African-American children misdiagnosed as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 1999;21:231-6. 7. Sugi T, Makino T. Factor XII, kininogen and plasma prekallikrein in abnormal pregnancies. Curr Dr...

Lymphatic filariasis has been considered as a disease of adults and most epidemiological surveys have excluded children. The prevalence of infection and clinical manifestations of the disease among children in the age group of 1-15 years was determined in a Wuchereria bancrofti endemic area. The 1383 children from the rural villages of a coastal district (Khurda), State of Orissa, India, were s...

Kusaka, Takashi (National Institute for Leprosy Research, Tokyo, Japan), Ryo Sato, and Ko Shoji. Comparison of cytochromes in mycobacteria grown in vitro and in vivo. J. Bacteriol. 87:1383-1388. 1964.-Spectrophotometric investigations were made on cell suspensions or particulate fractions of four species of mycobacteria which had been cultivated in vitro. The results obtained indicated the pres...