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Volume 1;  2008
Correspondence
Reductive stress on life span extension in C. elegans
Markus Ralser and Ivor J Benjamin
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 19. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-19.
PMCID: PMC2518267
A new approach to primer design for the control of PCR bias in methylation studies
Tomasz K Wojdacz, Lise Lotte Hansen, and Alexander Dobrovic
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 54. Published online 2008 July 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-54.
PMCID: PMC2525644
Meta-analysis of SUMO1
Brian J Wilson
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 60. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-60.
PMCID: PMC2525640
Data Note
The Alternative Splicing Mutation Database: a hub for investigations of alternative splicing using mutational evidence
Jason M Bechtel, Preeti Rajesh, Irina Ilikchyan, Ying Deng, Pankaj K Mishra, Qi Wang, Xiaochun Wu, Kirill A Afonin, William E Grose, Ye Wang, Sadik Khuder, and Alexei Fedorov
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 3. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-3.
PMCID: PMC2518265
Absence of human herpes virus-8 (HHV8) in nephrogenic systemic fibrosis
Patrick J O'Donnell, Wayne H Duke, and Liron Pantanowitz
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 82. Published online 2008 September 17. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-82.
PMCID: PMC2585090
Hypothesis
Effective therapeutic dosage of antipsychotic medications in patients with psychotic symptoms: Is there a racial difference?
Muideen O Bakare
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 25. Published online 2008 June 12. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-25.
PMCID: PMC2518282
Project Notes
Progress in the PRIDE technique for rapidly comparing protein three-dimensional structures
Svetlana Kirillova and Oliviero Carugo
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 44. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-44.
PMCID: PMC2535597
Characteristics of TIA and its management in a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan
Ayeesha Kamal, Farhad Khimani, Rushna Raza, Sahar Zafar, Salman Bandeali, and Sayeedullah Jan
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 73. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-73.
PMCID: PMC2546420
Short Reports
Hypertension among adults in a deprived urban area of Peru – Undiagnosed and uncontrolled?
Alisha R Davies, J Jaime Miranda, Robert H Gilman, and Liam Smeeth
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 2. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-2.
PMCID: PMC2518278
Risk-communication capability for public health emergencies varies by community diversity
Elena Savoia, Michael A Stoto, Paul D Biddinger, Paul Campbell, Kasisomayajula Viswanath, and Howard Koh
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 6. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-6.
PMCID: PMC2518279
Prevalence of malnutrition among settled pastoral Fulani children in Southwest Nigeria
Uwem F Ekpo, Akin M Omotayo, and Morenike A Dipeolu
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 7. Published online 2008 March 12. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-7.
PMCID: PMC2518276
Temporal epidemiology of microfilaraemia among migrant workers entering Kuwait
Saeed Akhtar, Hameed GHH Mohammad, and Edwin Michael
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 8. Published online 2008 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-8.
PMCID: PMC2518558
Inappropriately low aldosterone concentrations in adults with AIDS-related diarrhoea in Zambia: a study of response to fluid challenge
Trevor Kaile, Isaac Zulu, Ruth Lumayi, Neil Ashman, and Paul Kelly
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 10. Published online 2008 April 17. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-10.
PMCID: PMC2518272
Survival of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Water
Richard A Moore, Apichai Tuanyok, and Donald E Woods
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 11. Published online 2008 May 7. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-11.
PMCID: PMC2518269
Comparison of palpation-versus ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsies in the evaluation of thyroid nodules
Ahmet Selcuk Can and Kamil Peker
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 12. Published online 2008 May 15. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-12.
PMCID: PMC2518275
Interaction of the growth and tumour suppressor NORE1A with microtubules is not required for its growth-suppressive function
Anna Moshnikova, Sergey Kuznetsov, and Andrei V Khokhlatchev
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 13. Published online 2008 May 15. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-13.
PMCID: PMC2518271
Detection of the transforming AKT1 mutation E17K in non-small cell lung cancer by high resolution melting
Hongdo Do, Benjamin Solomon, Paul L Mitchell, Stephen B Fox, and Alexander Dobrovic
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 14. Published online 2008 May 16. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-14.
PMCID: PMC2442881
RNase footprinting demonstrates antigenomic hepatitis delta virus ribozyme structural rearrangement as a result of self-cleavage reaction
Larissa Savochkina, Victoria Alekseenkova, Tatyana Belyanko, Nadezhda Dobrynina, and Robert Beabealashvilli
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 15. Published online 2008 May 16. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-15.
PMCID: PMC2518280
Absence of mtDNA mutations in leukocytes of CADASIL patients
Khaled K Abu-Amero, Ali Hellani, and Saeed Bohlega
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 16. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-16.
PMCID: PMC2518270
Heminested reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (hnRT-PCR) as a tool for rabies virus detection in stored and decomposed samples
Danielle B Araújo, Helio Langoni, Marilene F Almeida, and Jane Megid
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 17. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-17.
PMCID: PMC2518274
Spike-in validation of an Illumina-specific variance-stabilizing transformation
Mark J Dunning, Matthew E Ritchie, Nuno L Barbosa-Morais, Simon Tavaré, and Andy G Lynch
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 18. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-18.
PMCID: PMC2518281
Brain region-specificity of palmitic acid-induced abnormalities associated with Alzheimer's disease
Sachin Patil, Deebika Balu, Joseph Melrose, and Christina Chan
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 20. Published online 2008 June 4. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-20.
PMCID: PMC2518273
Limitations in assessing nerve growth factor levels in aqueous humor samples from human eyes
Kakarla V Chalam, Rajesh K Sharma, and Ravi K Murthy
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 22. Published online 2008 June 5. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-22.
PMCID: PMC2518285
Contemporary evidence: baseline data from the D2B Alliance
Elizabeth H Bradley, Brahmajee K Nallamothu, Amy F Stern, Jason R Byrd, Emily J Cherlin, Yongfei Wang, Christina Yuan, Ingrid Nembhard, John E Brush, Jr, and Harlan M Krumholz
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 23. Published online 2008 June 11. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-23.
PMCID: PMC2525646
An audit of Colposcopy referrals from a GU/STD clinic
Catherine O'Connor, Helena Myles, Mortimer B O'Connor, Josephine Clancy, Ailis Ryan, Mary Traynor, Dolores McGrath, and Kitty O'Sullivan
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 24. Published online 2008 June 12. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-24.
PMCID: PMC2518287
Common dietary flavonoids inhibit the growth of the intraerythrocytic malaria parasite
Adele M Lehane and Kevin J Saliba
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 26. Published online 2008 June 18. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-26.
PMCID: PMC2518919
Drugs, alcohol and sexual health: opportunities to influence risk behaviour
Robert Patton, Francis Keaney, and Michael Brady
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 27. Published online 2008 June 18. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-27.
PMCID: PMC2518286
Discovering and verifying DNA polymorphisms in a mung bean [V. radiata (L.) R. Wilczek] collection by EcoTILLING and sequencing
Noelle A Barkley, Ming L Wang, Athey G Gillaspie, Rob E Dean, Gary A Pederson, and Tracie M Jenkins
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 28. Published online 2008 June 18. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-28.
PMCID: PMC2518284
Lactogenic differentiation of HC11 cells is not accompanied by downregulation of AP-2 transcription factor genes
Richard Jäger, Leontios Pappas, and Hubert Schorle
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 29. Published online 2008 June 23. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-29.
PMCID: PMC2518283
Analysis of gene expression patterns by microarray hybridization in blood mononuclear cells of SLA-DRB1 defined Canadian Yorkshire pigs
Maria I Nino-Soto, Razi Jafari Jozani, Byram Bridle, and Bonnie A Mallard
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 31. Published online 2008 June 23. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-31.
PMCID: PMC2529311
Chocolate bar as an incentive did not increase response rate among physiotherapists: a randomised controlled trial
Gro Jamtvedt, Sarah Rosenbaum, Kristin Thuve Dahm, and Signe Flottorp
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 34. Published online 2008 June 24. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-34.
PMCID: PMC2518288
The inverse starving test is not a suitable provocation test for Gilbert's syndrome
Niels Teich, Inken Lehmann, Jonas Rosendahl, Michael Tröltzsch, Joachim Mössner, and Ingolf Schiefke
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 35. Published online 2008 June 24. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-35.
PMCID: PMC2519072
Evidence for bacteriophage T7 tail extension during DNA injection
Philip Serwer, Elena T Wright, Kevin W Hakala, and Susan T Weintraub
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 36. Published online 2008 June 26. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-36.
PMCID: PMC2525648
Health-related quality of life in a trial of acupuncture, sham acupuncture and conventional treatment for chronic sinusitis
Knut Stavem, Edna Røssberg, and Pål G Larsson
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 37. Published online 2008 June 27. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-37.
PMCID: PMC2546421
Amyloid-beta peptide degradation in cell cultures by mycoplasma contaminants
Haitian Zhao, Ute Dreses-Werringloer, Peter Davies, and Philippe Marambaud
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 38. Published online 2008 June 30. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-38.
PMCID: PMC2527505
Reduction of the pulse duration of the ultrafast laser pulses of the Two-Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy (2PLSM)
Ali Hussain Reshak
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 39. Published online 2008 July 9. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-39.
PMCID: PMC2519073
Statistical analysis of post mortem DNA damage-derived miscoding lesions in Neandertal mitochondrial DNA
Sergi Vives, M Thomas Gilbert, Conchita Arenas, Elena Gigli, Oscar Lao, and Carles Lalueza-Fox
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 40. Published online 2008 July 10. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-40.
PMCID: PMC2547106
Biologically active fibroblast growth factor 1 tagged with various epitopes
Masahiro Asada, Emi Honda, and Toru Imamura
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 42. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-42.
PMCID: PMC2526085
Stress regulated members of the plant organic cation transporter family are localized to the vacuolar membrane
Isabell Küfner and Wolfgang Koch
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 43. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-43.
PMCID: PMC2519074
Hepatic steatosis in patients with HIV-Hepatitis C Virus coinfection: is it associated with antiretroviral therapy and more advanced hepatic fibrosis?
Sumita Verma, Robert D Goldin, and Janice Main
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 46. Published online 2008 July 15. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-46.
PMCID: PMC2527001
Selection of reference genes for qRT-PCR examination of wild populations of Atlantic cod Gadus morhua
Pål A Olsvik, Liv Søfteland, and Kai K Lie
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 47. Published online 2008 July 16. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-47.
PMCID: PMC2527504
Radical prostatectomies in Austria, 1997–2004
Gerald Haidinger, Stephan Madersbacher, Georg Schatzl, and Christian Vutuc
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 48. Published online 2008 July 21. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-48.
PMCID: PMC2533339
Educational inequalities in self-reported health in a general Iranian population
Ali Montazeri, Azita Goshtasebi, and Mariam Vahdaninia
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 50. Published online 2008 July 21. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-50.
PMCID: PMC2527570
Hand-held internet tablets for school-based data collection
Simon J Denny, Taciano L Milfont, Jennifer Utter, Elizabeth M Robinson, Shanthi N Ameratunga, Sally N Merry, Theresa M Fleming, and Peter D Watson
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 52. Published online 2008 July 26. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-52.
PMCID: PMC2525643
Cigarette smoking and associated factors among in-school adolescents in Jamaica: comparison of the Global Youth Tobacco Surveys 2000 and 2006
Adamson S Muula, Seter Siziya, and Emmanuel Rudatsikira
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 55. Published online 2008 July 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-55.
PMCID: PMC2529312
Whole genome amplification and its impact on CGH array profiles
Bente A Talseth-Palmer, Nikola A Bowden, Alyssa Hill, Cliff Meldrum, and Rodney J Scott
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 56. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-56.
PMCID: PMC2525645
Conservation of CD44 exon v3 functional elements in mammals
Elena Vela, Josep M Hilari, María Delclaux, Hugo Fernández-Bellon, and Marcos Isamat
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 57. Published online 2008 July 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-57.
PMCID: PMC2531186
Primary antimicrobial resistance among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from HIV seropositive and HIV seronegative patients in Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Willy Urassa, Ferdinand Mugusi, Eduardo Villamor, Gernard Msamanga, Candida Moshiro, Ronald Bosch, Elmar Saathoff, and Wafaie Fawzi
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 58. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-58.
PMCID: PMC2525641
Skateboards: Are they really perilous? A retrospective study from a district hospital
Ulfin Rethnam, Rajam Sheeja Yesupalan, and Amit Sinha
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 59. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-59.
PMCID: PMC2526087
The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Brachypodium distachyon: sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis of eight grass plastomes
Esteban Bortiri, Devin Coleman-Derr, Gerard R Lazo, Olin D Anderson, and Yong Q Gu
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 61. Published online 2008 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-61.
PMCID: PMC2527572
Are residential and nursing homes adequately screening overseas healthcare workers?
Joanne M Alner, David Hagen, Sue Andrews, Rachel Loveday, and Hugo C van Woerden
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 62. Published online 2008 August 5. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-62.
PMCID: PMC2527002
Streptococcus pneumoniae early response genes to human lung epithelial cells
Xin-Ming Song, Wayne Connor, Karsten Hokamp, Lorne A Babiuk, and Andrew A Potter
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 64. Published online 2008 August 12. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-64.
PMCID: PMC2527573
Power of grammatical evolution neural networks to detect gene-gene interactions in the presence of error
Alison A Motsinger-Reif, Theresa J Fanelli, Anna C Davis, and Marylyn D Ritchie
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 65. Published online 2008 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-65.
PMCID: PMC2531119
The transcriptional cofactor MIER1-beta negatively regulates histone acetyltransferase activity of the CREB-binding protein
Tina M Blackmore, Corinne F Mercer, Gary D Paterno, and Laura L Gillespie
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 68. Published online 2008 August 22. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-68.
PMCID: PMC2546418
Barriers to healthy eating by National Health Service (NHS) hospital doctors in the hospital setting: results of a cross-sectional survey
James Winston, Carol Johnson, and Sue Wilson
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 69. Published online 2008 August 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-69.
PMCID: PMC2551607
Differential susceptibility of PCR reactions to inhibitors: an important and unrecognised phenomenon
Jim F Huggett, Tanya Novak, Jeremy A Garson, Clare Green, Stephen D Morris-Jones, Robert F Miller, and Alimuddin Zumla
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 70. Published online 2008 August 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-70.
PMCID: PMC2564953
Quantification of circulating endothelial and progenitor cells: comparison of quantitative PCR and four-channel flow cytometry
Michael Steurer, Johann Kern, Matthias Zitt, Albert Amberger, Monika Bauer, Günther Gastl, Gerold Untergasser, and Eberhard Gunsilius
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 71. Published online 2008 August 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-71.
PMCID: PMC2546419
Comparative phylogenomics and multi-gene cluster analyses of the Citrus Huanglongbing (HLB)-associated bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter
Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Huihong Liao, Hong Lin, Xianjin Bai, Xiaolong Zhao, Edwin L Civerolo, Michael Irey, Helvecio Coletta-Filho, and Gerhard Pietersen
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 72. Published online 2008 August 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-72.
PMCID: PMC2564951
Characterization of endemic Shigella boydii strains isolated in Iran by serotyping, antimicrobial resistance, plasmid profile, ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
Reza Ranjbar, Caterina Mammina, Mohammad R Pourshafie, and Mohammad M Soltan-Dallal
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 74. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-74.
PMCID: PMC2547104
Drosophila phosphopantothenoylcysteine synthetase is required for tissue morphogenesis during oogenesis
Floris Bosveld, Anil Rana, Willy Lemstra, Harm H Kampinga, and Ody CM Sibon
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 75. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-75.
PMCID: PMC2542404
Knowledge and attitudes towards HIV vaccines among Soweto adolescents
Guy de Bruyn, Nokuthula Skhosana, Gavin Robertson, James A McIntyre, and Glenda E Gray
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 76. Published online 2008 August 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-76.
PMCID: PMC2546417
Development of a nutrition and physical activity booklet to engage seniors
Linda Burke, Peter Howat, Andy H Lee, Jonine Jancey, Deb Kerr, and Trevor Shilton
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 77. Published online 2008 September 4. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-77.
PMCID: PMC2547105
Identification of a non-purple tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase: an evolutionary link to Ser/Thr protein phosphatases?
Kieran S Hadler, Thomas Huber, A Ian Cassady, Jane Weber, Jodie Robinson, Allan Burrows, Gregory Kelly, Luke W Guddat, David A Hume, Gerhard Schenk, and Jack U Flanagan
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 78. Published online 2008 September 4. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-78.
PMCID: PMC2553084
Analysis of clinical and demographic characteristics of patients presenting with renal colic in the emergency department
Mustafa Serinken, Ozgur Karcioglu, Ibrahim Turkcuer, Halis Ilke Ozkan, Mustafa Kemal Keysan, and Aytaç Bukiran
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 79. Published online 2008 September 16. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-79.
PMCID: PMC2556689
Advanced spot quality analysis in two-colour microarray experiments
Mikalai Yatskou, Eugene Novikov, Guillaume Vetter, Arnaud Muller, Emmanuel Barillot, Laurent Vallar, and Evelyne Friederich
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 80. Published online 2008 September 17. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-80.
PMCID: PMC2556690
Cellular phosphatases facilitate combinatorial processing of receptor-activated signals
Dhiraj Kumar, Raina Dua, Ravichandran Srikanth, Shilpi Jayaswal, Zaved Siddiqui, and Kanury VS Rao
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 81. Published online 2008 September 17. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-81.
PMCID: PMC2573882
PCR diagnostics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in historic human long bone remains from 18th century burials in Kaiserebersdorf, Austria
Lutz Bachmann, Barbara Däubl, Charlotte Lindqvist, Luise Kruckenhauser, Maria Teschler-Nicola, and Elisabeth Haring
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 83. Published online 2008 September 17. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-83.
PMCID: PMC2556691
Comparative analysis of 1st, 2nd, and 4th year MD students' attitudes toward Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Christopher P Riccard and Michele Skelton
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 84. Published online 2008 September 17. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-84.
PMCID: PMC2573883
Expression and regulation of transcript for the novel transmembrane protein Tmem182 in the adipocyte and muscle lineage
Yu Wu and Cynthia M Smas
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 85. Published online 2008 September 19. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-85.
PMCID: PMC2564950
Mutation screening of CHD5 in melanoma-prone families linked to 1p36 revealed no deleterious coding or splice site changes
David Ng, Xiaohong R Yang, Margaret A Tucker, and Alisa M Goldstein
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 86. Published online 2008 September 19. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-86.
PMCID: PMC2564952
Spectrocolorimetric evaluation of repaired articular cartilage after a microfracture
Koji Hattori, Kota Uematsu, Hiroaki Matsumori, Yoshihiro Dohi, Yoshinori Takakura, and Hajime Ohgushi
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 87. Published online 2008 September 23. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-87.
PMCID: PMC2570674
A comparative analysis of metal transportomes from metabolically versatile Pseudomonas
Adhikarla Haritha, Agnes Rodrigue, and Pamarthi Maruthi Mohan
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 88. Published online 2008 September 24. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-88.
PMCID: PMC2573884
Stability of methylnicotinate in aqueous solution as utilized in the 'niacin patch test'
Brian M Ross and Martin Katzman
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 89. Published online 2008 September 24. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-89.
PMCID: PMC2562371
Diabetes experts' reasoning about diabetes prevention studies: a questionnaire survey
Ingrid Mühlhauser
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 90. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-90.
PMCID: PMC2588450
Synchronous visual analysis and editing of RNA sequence and secondary structure alignments using 4SALE
Philipp N Seibel, Tobias Müller, Thomas Dandekar, and Matthias Wolf
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 91. Published online 2008 October 14. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-91.
PMCID: PMC2587473
Genotypic and phenotypic diversity of Bacillus spp. isolated from steel plant waste
Dulcecleide B Freitas, Mariana P Reis, Cláudia I Lima-Bittencourt, Patrícia S Costa, Paulo S Assis, Edmar Chartone-Souza, and Andréa MA Nascimento
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 92. Published online 2008 October 17. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-92.
PMCID: PMC2588453
Determining the impact of alternative splicing events on transcriptome dynamics
Emmanuelle Wilhelm, François-Xavier Pellay, Arndt Benecke, and Brendan Bell
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 94. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-94.
PMCID: PMC2584107
Identification and classification of genes regulated by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase- and TRKB-mediated signalling pathways during neuronal differentiation in two subtypes of the human neuroblastoma cell line SH-SY5Y
Yuichiro Nishida, Naoki Adati, Ritsuko Ozawa, Aasami Maeda, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, and Tadayuki Takeda
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 95. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-95.
PMCID: PMC2615028
Consultation patterns and clinical correlates of consultation in a tertiary care setting
Michaela R Jordan, Joslyn Conley, and William A Ghali
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 96. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-96.
PMCID: PMC2584105
Spectrum of heart diseases in a new cardiac service in Nigeria: An echocardiographic study of 1441 subjects in Abeokuta
Okechukwu S Ogah, Gail D Adegbite, Rufus O Akinyemi, Julius O Adesina, Albert A Alabi, Oscar I Udofia, Roseline F Ogundipe, and Julius KL Osinfade
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 98. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-98.
PMCID: PMC2585576
Ablation of prion protein immunoreactivity by heating in saturated calcium hydroxide
Justin J Greenlee, Eric M Nicholson, Amir N Hamir, Gary P Noyes, Mark T Holtzapple, and Marcus E Kehrli, Jr
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 99. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-99.
PMCID: PMC2588617
EBER2 RNA-induced transcriptome changes identify cellular processes likely targeted during Epstein Barr Virus infection
Sebastian Eilebrecht, François-Xavier Pellay, Peter Odenwälder, Guillaume Brysbaert, Bernd-Joachim Benecke, and Arndt Benecke
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 100. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-100.
PMCID: PMC2588618
Prevalence of depressive symptoms among non insulin treated Greek type 2 diabetic subjects
Alexios Sotiropoulos, Athanasia Papazafiropoulou, Ourania Apostolou, Anthi Kokolaki, Aristofanis Gikas, and Stavros Pappas
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 101. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-101.
PMCID: PMC2590605
Evaluation of efficacy and safety of gefitinib as monotherapy in Chinese patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer and very poor performance status
Zhong Wei, Wang Mengzhao, Zhang Li, Li Longyun, and Zhang Xiaotong
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 102. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-102.
PMCID: PMC2588452
BALB/c Mice resist infection with Bartonella bacilliformis
Beronica Infante, Sandra Villar, Sandra Palma, Jenny Merello, Roberto Valencia, Luis Torres, Jamie Cok, Palmira Ventosilla, Ciro Manguiña, Humberto Guerra, and Cesar Henriquez
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 103. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-103.
PMCID: PMC2590606
The surgeon and his tools-the case for a focused orthopaedic theatre induction programme
AJ Shyam Kumar, J Oakley, Shaun KS Wong, and Steve J Philips
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 104. Published online 2008 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-104.
PMCID: PMC2584106
The happy docs study: a Canadian Association of Internes and Residents well-being survey examining resident physician health and satisfaction within and outside of residency training in Canada
Jordan S Cohen, Yvette Leung, Meriah Fahey, Linda Hoyt, Roona Sinha, Lisa Cailler, Kevin Ramchandar, John Martin, and Scott Patten
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 105. Published online 2008 October 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-105.
PMCID: PMC2588451
Genetic profile of Egyptian hepatocellular-carcinoma associated with hepatitis C virus Genotype 4 by 15 K cDNA microarray: Preliminary study
Abdel-Rahman N Zekri, Mohamed M Hafez, Abeer A Bahnassy, Zeinab K Hassan, Tarek Mansour, Mahmoud M Kamal, and Hussein M Khaled
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 106. Published online 2008 October 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-106.
PMCID: PMC2584108
Sequence and structural evolution of the KsgA/Dim1 methyltransferase family
Heather C O'Farrell, Zhili Xu, Gloria M Culver, and Jason P Rife
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 108. Published online 2008 October 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-108.
PMCID: PMC2614427
Characteristic differences between the promoters of intron-containing and intronless ribosomal protein genes in yeast
Jing Zhang, Martin Vingron, and Stefan Roepcke
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 109. Published online 2008 October 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-109.
PMCID: PMC2585575
Analysis of the genetic variation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains by multiple genome alignments
Andrés Cubillos-Ruiz, Juan Morales, and María Mercedes Zambrano
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 110. Published online 2008 November 7. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-110.
PMCID: PMC2590607
Survival of pneumococcus on hands and fomites
Heidi Smith-Vaughan, Faith Crichton, Jemima Beissbarth, Peter S Morris, and Amanda J Leach
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 112. Published online 2008 November 13. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-112.
PMCID: PMC2600638
Intrauterine growth restriction, visceral blood flow velocity and exocrine pancreatic function
Richard M Nicholl, Jean M Deenmamode, and Harold R Gamsu
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 115. Published online 2008 November 17. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-115.
PMCID: PMC2612675
Interpreting missense mutations in Human TRIM5alpha by computational methods
Philip A Chan
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 116. Published online 2008 November 24. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-116.
PMCID: PMC2611994
Purification and partial genome characterization of the bacterial endosymbiont Blattabacterium cuenoti from the fat bodies of cockroaches
Gaku Tokuda, Nathan Lo, Aya Takase, Akinori Yamada, Yoshinobu Hayashi, and Hirofumi Watanabe
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 118. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-118.
PMCID: PMC2621225
Mapping of the spontaneous deletion in the Ap3d1 gene of mocha mice: fast and reliable genotyping
Kim Ryun Drasbek, Mai Marie Holm, Marion Delenclos, and Kimmo Jensen
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 119. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-119.
PMCID: PMC2612676
Impact of prior outpatient antibiotic use on mortality for community acquired pneumonia: a retrospective cohort study
Eric M Mortensen, Marcos I Restrepo, Jacqueline A Pugh, and Antonio Anzueto
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 120. Published online 2008 December 1. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-120.
PMCID: PMC2606683
Probing of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae ApxIIIA toxin-dependent cytotoxicity towards mammalian peripheral blood mononucleated cells
Philippe GAC Vanden Bergh, Laurent LM Zecchinon, Thomas Fett, and Daniel Desmecht
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 121. Published online 2008 December 1. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-121.
PMCID: PMC2612674
HIV and AIDS-related knowledge among women in Iraq
Seter Siziya, Adamson S Muula, and Emmanuel Rudatsikira
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 123. Published online 2008 December 1. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-123.
PMCID: PMC2606682
Lack of anabolic response to skeletal loading in mice with targeted disruption of the pleiotrophin gene
Chandrasekhar Kesavan and Subburaman Mohan
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 124. Published online 2008 December 1. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-124.
PMCID: PMC2612677
Single nucleotide polymorphisms concordant with the horned/polled trait in Holsteins
Edward J Cargill, Nick J Nissing, and Michael D Grosz
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 128. Published online 2008 December 8. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-128.
PMCID: PMC2615027
Technical Notes
Development of a broad-host-range sacB-based vector for unmarked allelic exchange
Christopher J Marx
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 1. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-1.
PMCID: PMC2518277
Calculation of Splicing Potential from the Alternative Splicing Mutation Database
Jason M Bechtel, Preeti Rajesh, Irina Ilikchyan, Ying Deng, Pankaj K Mishra, Qi Wang, Xiaochun Wu, Kirill A Afonin, William E Grose, Ye Wang, Sadik Khuder, and Alexei Fedorov
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 4. Published online 2008 February 26. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-4.
PMCID: PMC2518266
Fast comparison of DNA sequences by oligonucleotide profiling
Vicente Arnau, Miguel Gallach, and Ignacio Marín
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 5. Published online 2008 February 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-5.
PMCID: PMC2518268
MarkerSet: a marker selection tool based on markers location and informativity in experimental designs
Olivier Demeure and Frédéric Lecerf
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 9. Published online 2008 March 26. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-9.
PMCID: PMC2525642
Multiplex preamplification of specific cDNA targets prior to gene expression analysis by TaqMan Arrays
Lourdes Mengual, Moisès Burset, Mercedes Marín-Aguilera, María José Ribal, and Antonio Alcaraz
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 21. Published online 2008 June 5. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-21.
PMCID: PMC2518557
PhosCalc: A tool for evaluating the sites of peptide phosphorylation from Mass Spectrometer data
Daniel MacLean, Michael A Burrell, David J Studholme, and Alexandra ME Jones
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 30. Published online 2008 June 23. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-30.
PMCID: PMC2518918
A sequencing strategy for identifying variation throughout the prion gene of BSE-affected cattle
Michael L Clawson, Michael P Heaton, John W Keele, Timothy PL Smith, Gregory P Harhay, Juergen A Richt, and William W Laegreid
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 32. Published online 2008 June 23. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-32.
PMCID: PMC2525647
Genome-wide screens for effective siRNAs through assessing the size of siRNA effects
Xiaohua Douglas Zhang
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 33. Published online 2008 June 23. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-33.
PMCID: PMC2526086
Sub-parts per billion detection of trace volatile chemicals in human breath using Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry
Brian M Ross
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 41. Published online 2008 July 10. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-41.
PMCID: PMC2536665
Development and application of a microarray meter tool to optimize microarray experiments
Richard JD Rouse, Katrine Field, Jennifer Lapira, Allen Lee, Ivan Wick, Colleen Eckhardt, C Ramana Bhasker, Laura Soverchia, and Gary Hardiman
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 45. Published online 2008 July 11. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-45.
PMCID: PMC2535775
Fisher: a program for the detection of H/ACA snoRNAs using MFE secondary structure prediction and comparative genomics – assessment and update
Eva Freyhult, Sverker Edvardsson, Ivica Tamas, Vincent Moulton, and Anthony M Poole
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 49. Published online 2008 July 21. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-49.
PMCID: PMC2551606
Prediction of protein secondary structures with a novel kernel density estimation based classifier
Darby Tien-Hao Chang, Yu-Yen Ou, Hao-Geng Hung, Meng-Han Yang, Chien-Yu Chen, and Yen-Jen Oyang
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 51. Published online 2008 July 23. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-51.
PMCID: PMC2527571
Different media and supplements modulate the clonogenic and expansion properties of rabbit bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells
Simone Lapi, Francesca Nocchi, Roberta Lamanna, Simona Passeri, Mariacarla Iorio, Aldo Paolicchi, Patrizia Urciuoli, Alessandra Coli, Francesca Abramo, Vincenzo Miragliotta, Elisabetta Giannessi, Maria Rita Stornelli, Renato Vanacore, Giulia Stampacchia, Guido Pisani, Luciano Borghetti, and Fabrizio Scatena
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 53. Published online 2008 July 28. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-53.
PMCID: PMC2525639
SigWin-detector: a Grid-enabled workflow for discovering enriched windows of genomic features related to DNA sequences
Márcia A Inda, Marinus F van Batenburg, Marco Roos, Adam SZ Belloum, Dmitry Vasunin, Adianto Wibisono, Antoine HC van Kampen, and Timo M Breit
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 63. Published online 2008 August 8. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-63.
PMCID: PMC2533338
Salvaging Affymetrix probes after probe-level re-annotation
Wim C de Leeuw, Han Rauwerda, Martijs J Jonker, and Timo M Breit
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 66. Published online 2008 August 19. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-66.
PMCID: PMC2547102
GPCRTree: online hierarchical classification of GPCR function
Matthew N Davies, Andrew Secker, Mark Halling-Brown, David S Moss, Alex A Freitas, Jon Timmis, Edward Clark, and Darren R Flower
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 67. Published online 2008 August 21. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-67.
PMCID: PMC2547103
DNA-free RNA isolation protocols for Arabidopsis thaliana, including seeds and siliques
Luis Oñate-Sánchez and Jesús Vicente-Carbajosa
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 93. Published online 2008 October 20. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-93.
PMCID: PMC2613888
SWPS3 – fast multi-threaded vectorized Smith-Waterman for IBM Cell/B.E. and ×86/SSE2
Adam Szalkowski, Christian Ledergerber, Philipp Krähenbühl, and Christophe Dessimoz
BMC Res Notes. 2008; 1: 107. Published online 2008 October 29. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-107.
PMCID: PMC2615776
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