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In vitro effects of hydrogen peroxide on rat uterine contraction before and during pregnancy
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Medicinska Naklada Zagreb
, 2018 , Article)
Aim To assess the in vitro effect of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) on uterine contractions in pregnant and non-pregnant rats. Methods The study was performed at the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud ...
Attitudes and barriers towards using complementary and alternative medicine among university students in Jordan
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Churchill Livingstone
, 2018 , Article)
Background: Perceptions towards Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) are highly variable but are improving globally. However, studies conducted in Jordan about CAM are insufficient. This study aims to explore the ...
Effect of cell-phone radiofrequency on angiogenesis and cell invasion in human head and neck cancer cells.
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Wiley
, 2018 , Article)
Today, the cell phone is the most widespread technology globally. However, the outcome of cell-phone radiofrequency on head and neck cancer progression has not yet been explored. The chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) and human ...
Effectiveness of Market-Level Biosecurity at Reducing Exposure of Poultry and Humans to Avian Influenza: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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Oxford University Press
, 2018 , Article)
In this study, we aimed to identify the effect of market-level risk factors on avian influenza (AI) infection in poultry and humans and generate evidence that will inform AI prevention and control programs at live bird ...
Health Outcomes from Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Infections in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Mary Ann Liebert
, 2018 , Article)
Copyright © 2018, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Background: Salmonella is a leading cause of foodborne enterocolitis worldwide. Antimicrobial use in food animals is the driving force for antimicrobial resistance among Salmonella ...
Prenatal and early life origins of adolescence sleep problems: evidence from a birth cohort.
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De Gruyter
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose This study aims to identify the prenatal and early life predictors of adolescence sleep problems. Methods Sleep data (n = 5081) from the 14-year (13.92 ± 0.34 years) follow-up of a birth cohort were analyzed to ...
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 ...
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 ...