| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveCorrespondence 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 |