M. R.

Toxicity evaluation of flucycloxuron and diflubenzuron on the cellular model, Paramecium   sp. (2006)

  • ROUABHI,
  • R.,
  • BERREBBAH,
  • H.,
  • DJEBAR,
  • M.R.

The effect of two pesticides, the diflubenzuron (DFB) and flucycloxuron (FCX) was studied on the ciliated protiste cellular model, Paramecium   sp. Treatment with the DFB at 10 and 20 μg/ml reduces...

Harvesting the saphenous vein with surrounding tissue for CABG provides long-term graft patency comparable to the left internal thoracic artery: Results of a randomized longitudinal trial (2006)

  • Souza,
  • D.S.R.,
  • Johansson,
  • B.,
  • Bojo,
  • L.,
  • ...

Objective: Conventional harvesting of the saphenous vein in coronary artery bypass surgery produces vessel damage that contributes to graft failure. A novel "no touch" technique provides high short-...

The effect of acute ischemia on ET-1 and its receptors in patients with underlying chronic ischemia of the lower limb (2006)

Elevated plasma and tissue endothelin (ET)-1 levels in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) has been described. Here the effect of a period of acute ischemia and subsequent reperfusion on...

Relationships between fish feeding guild and trophic structure in English lowland shallow lakes subject to anthropogenic influence: implications for lake restoration (2006)

  • Zambrano,
  • L.,
  • Perrow,
  • M.R,
  • Sayer,
  • C.D.,
  • ...

The shallow lakes of Eastern England have been subject to intense anthropogenic pressures including nutrient enrichment and fish stocking. We sought to determine the relationships between fish...

Postictal diffusion weighted imaging (2006)

A far-infrared molecular and atomic line survey of the Orion KL region (2006)

We have carried out a high spectral resolution (λ/Δλ~ 6800–9700) line survey towards the Orion Kleinmann–Low (KL) cluster from 44 to 188 μm. The observations were taken with the...

A censura em cena - O arquivo Miroel Silveira (2005)

Trabalho apresentado nas Mesas Temáticas do XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 05-09,setembro,2005  O eixo temático O...

Chico Bento: Uma análise das práticas educativas rurais e dos valores do campo difundidos pelo personagem de Maurício de Sousa (2005)

  • PROCóPIO,
  • M.R

Trabalho apresentado no Intercom Júnior, evento componente do XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 05-09,setembro,2005  O...

Uma rádio Guarani-Kaiowá na Fronteira Brasil-Paraguai (2005)

Trabalho apresentado no I Colóquio Transfronteiras Sul de Ciências da Comunicação, evento componente do XXVII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da...

Discursos sobre o Dever-Ser Jornalístico: Construindo um Capital Simbólico (2005)

  • OLIVEIRA,
  • M.R

Trabalho apresentado no NP02 - Jornalismo no XXVII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Porto Alegre RS, 2004.  O trabalho se propõe a discutir como os...

Rádio e Internet: o Encontro de Duas Grandes Invenções (2005)

Trabalho apresentado no NP 06 - Rádio e Mídia Sonora no XXVII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Porto Alegre RS, 2004.  A permanência do...

A Era Pós-Mídia Desenhada nas Rádios Livres: o Pensamento de Félix Guattari (2005)

Trabalho apresentado no NP06 - Rádio e Mídia Sonora durante o XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 05-09,setembro,2005....

Esfera pública, cultura política e democratização: considerações sobre o papel dos media na difusão de normas e valores democráticos (2005)

Trabalho apresentado no NP 12 - Comunicação para a Cidadania no XXVII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Porto Alegre RS, 2004.  Tomando por base...

O rádio paulistano como elemento constitutivo das práticas culturais (2005)

Trabalho apresentado no NP21 - Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas durante o XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ,...

The potential impact of percutaneous pulmonary valve stent implantation on right ventricular outflow tract re-intervention (2005)

  • Coats,
  • L.,
  • Tsang,
  • V.,
  • Khambadkone,
  • S.,
  • ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of a percutaneous technique for pulmonary valve implantation on the conventional surgical valve/conduit approach to right ventricular outflow tract re-intervention....

Sevoflurane sedation in infants undergoing MRI: a preliminary report (2005)

BACKGROUND: Stillness during natural sleep after feeding may not be sufficient for successful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in small infants less than 5 kg. Sedation, using an oral agent, is often...

The management of infants and children for painless imaging (2005)

  • Sury,
  • M.R.,
  • Harker,
  • H.,
  • Begent,
  • J.,
  • ...

The ability of a child to remain sufficiently immobile for painless imaging depends upon their behaviour and the imaging itself. Anaesthesia allows imaging to be optimised but it is expensive, scarce...

Water-filled garment warming of infants undergoing open abdominal or thoracic surgery (2005)

  • Sury,
  • M.R.,
  • Scuplak,
  • S.

We have assessed the efficacy of a water-filled garment (ThermoWrap-Allon(TM) 2001) to maintain normothermia in small infants during major open abdominal or thoracic surgery. Twenty-two patients were...

Disruption of Bardet-Biedl syndrome ciliary proteins perturbs planar cell polarity in vertebrates (2005)

  • Ross,
  • A.J.,
  • May-Simera,
  • H.,
  • Eichers,
  • E.R.,
  • ...

The evolutionarily conserved planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway (or noncanonical Wnt pathway) drives several important cellular processes, including epithelial cell polarization, cell migration and...

Functional analysis of the classical, alternative, and MBL pathways of the complement system: standardization and validation of a simple ELISA (2005)

  • Seelen,
  • M.A.,
  • Roos,
  • A.,
  • Wieslander,
  • J.,
  • ...

Primary defence against invading microorganisms depends on a functional innate immune system and the complement system plays a major role in such immunity. Deficiencies in one of the components of...

On the use of computational models for the quantitative assessment of surgery in congenital heart disease (2005)

  • Pittaccio,
  • S.,
  • Migliavacca,
  • F.,
  • Dubini,
  • G.,
  • ...

The surgical repair of congenital heart disease often involves significant modifications to the circulatory tree. Resections, reconstructions, graft insertions and the deployment of implants and...

Characterization of a new syndrome that associates craniosynostosis, delayed fontanel closure, parietal foramina, imperforate anus, and skin eruption: CDAGS (2005)

  • Mendoza-Londono,
  • R.,
  • Lammer,
  • E.,
  • Watson,
  • R.,
  • ...

We describe the clinical characterization, molecular analyses, and genetic mapping of a distinct genetic condition characterized by craniosynostosis, delayed closure of the fontanel, cranial defects,...

Exfoliated human proximal tubular cells: a model of cystinosis and Fanconi syndrome (2005)

The renal Fanconi syndrome (FS) is characterised by generalised proximal tubular dysfunction. Cystinosis is the most common genetic cause of the FS and results from defective function of cystinosin,...

Multiscale modeling of the cardiovascular system: application to the study of pulmonary and coronary perfusions in the univentricular circulation (2005)

  • Lagana,
  • K.,
  • Balossino,
  • R.,
  • Migliavacca,
  • F.,
  • ...

The objective of this study is to compare the coronary and pulmonary blood flow dynamics resulting from two configurations of systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts currently utilized during the Norwood...

The prevention of neonatal group B streptococcal disease: a report by a working group of the Medical Screening Society (2005)

  • Law,
  • M.R.,
  • Palomaki,
  • G.,
  • Alfirevic,
  • Z.,
  • ...

Streptococcus agalactiae, or Lancefield group B streptococcus (GBS), is the most frequent cause of serious bacterial sepsis, including neonatal meningitis, in UK neonates. Early-onset neonatal GBS...

Anomalous origin of the right pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta with fibrous continuity to the pulmonary trunk (2005)

A 1-month-old patient was brought to our institution with clinical signs of pulmonary hypertension. Cross-sectional echocardiography suggested a diagnosis of aortopulmonary window. At the time of...

MKKS/BBS6, a divergent chaperonin-like protein linked to the obesity disorder Bardet-Biedl syndrome, is a novel centrosomal component required for cytokinesis (2005)

Chaperonins are multisubunit, cylinder-shaped molecular chaperones involved in folding newly synthesized polypeptides. Here we show that MKKS/BBS6, one of several proteins associated with...

Recovery after anesthesia for short pediatric oncology procedures: propofol and remifentanil compared with propofol, nitrous oxide, and sevoflurane (2005)

Anesthesia techniques in children undergoing short painful oncology procedures should allow rapid recovery without side effects. We compared the recovery characteristics of two anesthetic techniques:...

The Fontan circulation: a challenge to William Harvey? (2005)

The Fontan operation, which places the systemic and pulmonary circulations in series and is driven by a single ventricular chamber, is the treatment of choice for patients born with one ventricle....

Molecular studies in Portuguese patients with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and report of three new mutations in DHCR7 (2005)

  • Cardoso,
  • M.L.,
  • Balreira,
  • A.,
  • Martins,
  • E.,
  • ...

Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLO) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by craniofacial dysmorphism, mental retardation, multiple congenital anomalies, and increased levels of...

Specific loss of connexin 26 expression in ductal sweat gland epithelium associated with the deletion mutation del(GJB6-D13S1830) (2005)

  • Common,
  • J.E.,
  • Bitner-Glindzicz,
  • M.,
  • O'Toole,
  • E.A.,
  • ...

Summary A whole array of cutaneous syndromes is associated with distinct dominant mutations in GJB2 encoding the gap junction protein connexin 26 (Cx26), including Vohwinkel's syndrome and...

Elastic scattering spectroscopy for detection of sentinel lymph node metastases in breast carcinoma (2005)

Sentinel node biopsy is the new standard for lymphatic staging of breast carcinoma. Intraoperative detection of sentinel node metastases avoids a second operation for those patients with metastatic...

Visual functioning and quality of life in the SubFoveal Radiotherapy Study (SFRADS): SFRADS report 2 (2005)

  • Stevenson,
  • M.R.,
  • Hart,
  • P.M.,
  • Chakravarthy,
  • U.,
  • ...

AIMS: To determine whether or not self reported visual functioning and quality of life in patients with choroidal neovascularisation caused by age related macular degeneration (AMD) is better in...

International consensus outcome measures for patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. Development and initial validation of myositis activity and damage indices in patients with adult onset disease. (2004)

  • Isenberg,
  • D.A.,
  • Allen,
  • E.,
  • Farewell,
  • V.,
  • ...

OBJECTIVE: To devise new tools to assess activity and damage in patients with idiopathic myopathies (IIM). METHODS: An international multidisciplinary consensus effort to standardize the conduct and...

Witnesses with intellectual disabilities in court: What questions are asked and what influence do they have? (2004)

  • Kebbell,
  • M.R.,
  • Hatton,
  • C.,
  • Johnson,
  • S.D.

Purpose. To identify the ways that witnesses with and without intellectual disabilities are examined in court. Specifically to identify what questions are asked and what influence they have. Methods....

Achiasmia - a Review (2004)

Antibiotics for toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis: an evidence-based systematic review (2003)

PURPOSE: To determine the effectiveness of systemic antibiotic treatment for toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Toxoplasma retinochoroiditis is a significant cause of visual...

Antibiotics for toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis: an evidence-based systematic review (2003)

PURPOSE: To determine the effectiveness of systemic antibiotic treatment for toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Toxoplasma retinochoroiditis is a significant cause of visual...

Mycosis fungoides involving the oral mucosa in a child (2003)

  • Wain,
  • E.M.,
  • Setterfield,
  • J.,
  • Judge,
  • M.R.,
  • ...

Involvement of the oral mucosa in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma is uncommon and is usually associated with a poor prognosis (the majority of patients dying from the disease within 3 years of the...

Virological suppression at 6 months is related to choice of initial regimen in antiretroviral-naive patients: a cohort study (2002)

  • Matthews,
  • G.V.,
  • Sabin,
  • C.A.,
  • Mandalia,
  • S.,
  • ...

BACKGROUND: Guidelines recommend both protease inhibitor (PI)- and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-containing regimens for initial therapy in HIV-positive individuals whilst...

Anatomic variability in coronary arterial distribution with regard to the arterial switch procedure (2002)

BACKGROUND: We investigated the coronary arterial origins and course and the position of the great arteries in hearts with discordant ventriculoarterial connections. At the same time, we sought to...

Divalent metal inhibition of non-haem iron uptake across the rat duodenal brush border membrane (2002)

Duodenal Fe2+ uptake is essential to body Fe2+ homeostasis, but the interaction of metals with the uptake process remains unclear. The present study compared the effects of four essential trace...

Modulation of reflexly evoked vagal bradycardias by central 5-HT1A receptors in anaesthetized rabbits (2002)

  • Skinner,
  • M.R.,
  • Ramage,
  • A.G.,
  • Jordan,
  • D.

1 The role of central 5-HT1A receptors in the control of the bradycardia and changes in central respiratory drive, renal nerve activity and blood pressure evoked by stimulating cardiopulmonary...

The influence of belief that a car crashed on witnesses? estimates of civilian and police car speed (2002)

  • Kebbell,
  • M.R.,
  • Johnson,
  • S.D.,
  • Froyland,
  • I.,
  • ...

The authors performed 2 experiments investigating the influence of thebelief that a vehicle crashed on witnesses? estimates of the vehicle?s speed. In Experiment1, participants saw a video of a...

Quantitative imaging of glutathione in hippocampal neurons and glia in culture using monochlorobimane (2001)

  • Keelan,
  • J.,
  • Allen,
  • N.J.,
  • Antcliffe,
  • D.,
  • ...

Glutathione (GSH) is a major antioxidant system in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS). Abnormalities of GSH metabolism have been associated with many disorders of the CNS, including...

Mitochondria as targets for nitric oxide-induced protection during simulated ischemia and reoxygenation in isolated neonatal cardiomyocytes (2001)

BACKGROUND: As shown previously, exposure to NO donors initiates protective mechanisms in cardiomyocytes that persist after removal of the donor, a form of pharmacological preconditioning. Because NO...

Exploration of the role of reactive oxygen species in glutamate neurotoxicity in rat hippocampal neurones in culture (2001)

  • Vergun,
  • O.,
  • Sobolevsky,
  • A.I.,
  • Yelshansky,
  • M.V.,
  • ...

1. Exposure of hippocampal neurones to glutamate at toxic levels is associated with a profound collapse of mitochondrial potential and deregulation of calcium homeostasis. We have explored the...

Use of plum pox potyvirus as an expression vector in plants. (2001)

  • Fernᮤez-Fernᮤez,
  • M. R.,
  • Lucini,
  • C.,
  • L󰥺-Moya,
  • J. J.,
  • ...

Plum pox potyvirus (PPV) is the causal agent of a devastating disease that affects stone fruit trees of the

Plant-based vaccines: unique advantages (2001)

Numerous studies have shown that viral epitopes and subunits of bacterial toxins can be expressed and correctly processed in transgenic plants. The recombinant proteins induce immune responses and...

D* production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA (1997)

  • Butterworth,
  • J.M.,
  • Catterall,
  • C.,
  • Jones,
  • T.W.,
  • ...

Measurement of elastic J/O photoproduction at HERA (1997)

  • Butterworth,
  • J.M.,
  • Catterall,
  • C.,
  • Jones,
  • T.W.,
  • ...
 
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