Neoplasm, tissue injury, infection, or inflammation are accompanied by a number of changes within the organism, representing an immediate set of inflammatory reactions counteracting these challenges, aiming at the isolation and neutralization of pathogens and the prevention of further pathogen entry. The resulting minimization of tissue damage and promotion of repair processes permits the homeo...

BACKGROUND Human growth hormone (hGH) is measured for the diagnosis of secretion disorders. These measurements fall under the EU Directive 98/79/EC on in vitro diagnostic medical devices requiring traceability of commercial calibrator values to higher-order reference materials or procedures (Off J Eur Communities 1998 Dec 7;L 331:1-37). External quality assessment schemes show large discrepanci...

Preeclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy-related disease with potentially severe consequences with respect to foeto-maternal morbidity and mortality. However, the molecular pathogenesis of PE remains largely unknown. Recent reports have shown that microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) may play important roles in the development of PE. Analysing the miRNAs in sera from preeclamptic women may improve our understand...

Burgen und Schlösser in Deutschland. Hrsg. von Klaus Merten, unter Mitarbeit Uwe Albrecht, Hans-Joachim Giersberg, Irene Markowitz u. Michael Peztet. Aufnahmen Paolo Marton, München (Hirmer) 1995, 574 S., zahlr. Abb.

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BACKGROUND The effective management of wait times is a top priority for Canadians. Attention to date has largely focused on wait times for adult surgery. The purpose of this study was to develop surgical wait time access targets for children. METHODS Using nominal group techniques, expert panels reached consensus on prioritization levels for 574 diagnoses in 10 surgical disciplines for wait 1...

Open Source software repository is a collection of various projects with varying levels of activities, participations, and downloads. In this paper, we attempt to categorize and mine activity, thus discovering success, by focusing on the Games group. However, we observe that there are a significant number of projects within the Games category that are inactive or have no ranking assigned by Sou...

We present results from a spectroscopic survey designed to uncover AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) binaries hidden in the photometric database of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The discovery of only 7 new AM CVns in the observed part of our sample suggests a lower space density than previously predicted. Based on the complete g ≤ 19 sample, we calculate an observed space density for AM CVns...