| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveCorrespondence Rosiglitazone: can meta-analysis accurately estimate excess cardiovascular risk given the available data? Re-analysis of randomized trials using various methodologic approaches Jan O Friedrich, Joseph Beyene, and Neill KJ Adhikari BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 5. Published online 2009 January 10. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-5.PMCID: PMC2649945 Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach Donat Agosti and Willi Egloff BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 53. Published online 2009 March 30. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-53.PMCID: PMC2673227 The need for genetic variant naming standards in published abstracts of human genetic association studies Wei Yu, Renée Ned, Anja Wulf, Tiebin Liu, Muin J Khoury, and Marta Gwinn BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 56. Published online 2009 April 14. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-56.PMCID: PMC2672936 Antibiotic and anti-inflammatory use and the risk of prostate cancer Nicholas A Daniels, Yea-Hung Chen, and Stephen Bent BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 57. Published online 2009 April 17. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-57.PMCID: PMC2672937 Data Note Identification of genes differentially expressed between benign and osteopontin transformed rat mammary epithelial cells Vittal V Kurisetty, Patrick G Johnston, Philip S Rudland, and Mohamed K El-Tanani BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 15. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-15.PMCID: PMC2644310 Short Reports Hepatitis B virus subgenotypes D1 and D3 are prevalent in Pakistan Saeeda Baig, Anwar Siddiqui, Runu Chakravarty, and Tariq Moatter BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 1. Published online 2009 January 4. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-1.PMCID: PMC2636821 The constancy of gene conservation across divergent bacterial orders Olin K Silander and Martin Ackermann BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 2. Published online 2009 January 7. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-2.PMCID: PMC2633337 Pdx-1 or Pdx-1-VP16 protein transduction induces β-cell gene expression in liver-stem WB cells Juliette Cuvelier Delisle, Lionel Martignat, Laurence Dubreil, Pierre Saï, Jean-Marie Bach, Vanessa Louzier, and Steffi Bösch BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 3. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-3.PMCID: PMC2637887 Effects and feasibility of a preventive intervention in sub-threshold and mild panic disorder: Results of a pilot study Peter Meulenbeek, Godelief Willemse, Filip Smit, Niels Smits, Anton van Balkom, Philip Spinhoven, and Pim Cuijpers BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 4. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-4.PMCID: PMC2645427 Medication adherence levels and differential use of mental-health services in the treatment of schizophrenia Haya Ascher-Svanum, Baojin Zhu, Douglas E Faries, Nicolas M Furiak, and William Montgomery BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 6. Published online 2009 January 12. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-6.PMCID: PMC2628922 Absence of GAPDH regulation in tumor-cells of different origin under hypoxic conditions in – vitro Harun M Said, Buelent Polat, Carsten Hagemann, Jelena Anacker, Michael Flentje, and Dirk Vordermark BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 8. Published online 2009 January 13. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-8.PMCID: PMC2646737 IGRA tests perform similarly to TST but cause no adverse reactions: pediatric experience in Finland Esko Tavast, Eeva Salo, Ilkka Seppälä, and Tamara Tuuminen BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 9. Published online 2009 January 15. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-9.PMCID: PMC2637289 Expression of 5S rDNA in the oocytes of water frogs Elżbieta Czarniewska and Robert Plewa BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 10. Published online 2009 January 19. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-10.PMCID: PMC2651904 BEAP: The BLAST Extension and Alignment Program- a tool for contig construction and analysis of preliminary genome sequence James E Koltes, Zhi-Liang Hu, Eric Fritz, and James M Reecy BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 11. Published online 2009 January 22. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-11.PMCID: PMC2642851 Inhibitory effects of rat bone marrow-derived dendritic cells on naïve and alloantigen-specific CD4+ T cells: a comparison between dendritic cells generated with GM-CSF plus IL-4 and dendritic cells generated with GM-CSF plus IL-10 George Tiurbe, Anja Matuschek, Ulrike Kämmerer, Manuela Schneider, Arnulf Thiede, Karin Ulrichs, and Christoph Otto BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 12. Published online 2009 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-12.PMCID: PMC2639598 Characterization of the time course of changes of the evoked electrical activity in a model of a chemically-induced neuronal plasticity Frédéric D Broccard, Silvia Pegoraro, Maria Elisabetta Ruaro, Claudio Altafini, and Vincent Torre BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 13. Published online 2009 January 27. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-13.PMCID: PMC2645426 A split and rearranged nuclear gene encoding the iron-sulfur subunit of mitochondrial succinate dehydrogenase in Euglenozoa Ryan MR Gawryluk and Michael W Gray BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 16. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-16.PMCID: PMC2663770 Correlation of the 4977 bp mitochondrial DNA deletion with human sperm dysfunction Fotini Ieremiadou and George C Rodakis BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 18. Published online 2009 February 4. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-18.PMCID: PMC2642850 IP-10, MCP-1, MCP-2, MCP-3, and IL-1RA hold promise as biomarkers for infection with M. tuberculosis in a whole blood based T-cell assay Morten Ruhwald, Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen, Paulo Rabna, Jesper Eugen-Olsen, and Pernille Ravn BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 19. Published online 2009 February 4. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-19.PMCID: PMC2660909 A new measure of population structure using multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms and its relationship with FST Hongyan Xu, Bayazid Sarkar, and Varghese George BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 21. Published online 2009 February 6. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-21.PMCID: PMC2652468 Epiblast-specific Snai1 deletion results in embryonic lethality due to multiple vascular defects Hilda Lomelí, Christa Starling, and Thomas Gridley BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 22. Published online 2009 February 6. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-22.PMCID: PMC2650704 A biologically active peptide mimetic of N-acetylgalactosamine/galactose Laura L Eggink and J Kenneth Hoober BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 23. Published online 2009 February 11. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-23.PMCID: PMC2657794 Analysis of apyrase 5' upstream region validates improved Anopheles gambiae transformation technique Fabrizio Lombardo, Gareth J Lycett, Alessandra Lanfrancotti, Mario Coluzzi, and Bruno Arcà BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 24. Published online 2009 February 19. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-24.PMCID: PMC2669092 Acute aortic dissection: be aware of misdiagnosis Irene Asouhidou and Theodora Asteri BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 25. Published online 2009 February 20. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-25.PMCID: PMC2653043 Validation of phylogenetic signals in amplified fragment length data: testing the utility and reliability in closely related taxa Jessica A Wooten and Lori R Tolley-Jordan BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 26. Published online 2009 February 25. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-26.PMCID: PMC2654459 Cutaneous symptoms such as acneform eruption and pigmentation are closely associated with blood levels of 2,3,4,7,8-penta-chlorodibenzofurans in Yusho patients, using data mining analysis Tomoaki Imamura, Shinya Matsumoto, Manabu Akahane, Yoshiyuki Kanagawa, Soichi Koike, Bunichi Tajima, Shiro Matsuya, Hiroshi Uchi, Satoko Shibata, and Masutaka Furue BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 27. Published online 2009 February 25. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-27.PMCID: PMC2657795 Rapid intracerebroventricular delivery of Cu-DOTA-etanercept after peripheral administration demonstrated by PET imaging Edward L Tobinick, Kai Chen, and Xiaoyuan Chen BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 28. Published online 2009 February 27. PMCID: PMC2651903 Markers typed in genome-wide analysis identify regions showing deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium Anna E Vine and David Curtis BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 29. Published online 2009 March 2. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-29.PMCID: PMC2667528 Current practices in the use of sildenafil for pulmonary arterial hypertension in Brazilian hospitals Ana HA de Souza, Lucio M Cabral, and Gisele Huf BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 30. Published online 2009 March 2. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-30.PMCID: PMC2666750 Afferent activity to necklace glomeruli is dependent on external stimuli Renee E Cockerham, Frank L Margolis, and Steven D Munger BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 31. Published online 2009 March 2. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-31.PMCID: PMC2653044 The protein Nα-terminal acetyltransferase hNaa10p (hArd1) is phosphorylated in HEK293 cells Hiwa Målen, Johan R Lillehaug, and Thomas Arnesen BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 32. Published online 2009 March 2. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-32.PMCID: PMC2654568 Molecular characterization of the sequences of the 16S-23S rDNA internal spacer region (ISR) from isolates of Taylorella asinigenitalis Akihiro Tazumi, Shinji Ono, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, John E Moore, B Cherie Millar, and Motoo Matsuda BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 33. Published online 2009 March 3. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-33.PMCID: PMC2666751 Characteristic tetanus infection in disaster-affected areas: case study of the Yogyakarta earthquakes in Indonesia Agung Budi Sutiono, Andri Qiantori, Hirohiko Suwa, and Toshizumi Ohta BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 34. Published online 2009 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-34.PMCID: PMC2656519 New microsatellite markers for pigeonpea (cajanus cajan (L.) millsp.) DA Odeny, Jayashree B, C Gebhardt, and J Crouch BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 35. Published online 2009 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-35.PMCID: PMC2660351 Macrophage migration inhibitory factor is associated with mortality in cerebral malaria patients in India Vidhan Jain, Shannon McClintock, Avinash C Nagpal, Aditya P Dash, Jonathan K Stiles, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Neeru Singh, and Naomi W Lucchi BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 36. Published online 2009 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-36.PMCID: PMC2657153 Characterization of copy numbers of 16S rDNA and 16S rRNA of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus and the implication in detection in planta using quantitative PCR Jeong-soon Kim and Nian Wang BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 37. Published online 2009 March 6. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-37.PMCID: PMC2663771 A Tn5051-like mer-containing transposon identified in a heavy metal tolerant strain Achromobacter sp. AO22 Shee Ping Ng, Belinda Davis, Enzo A Palombo, and Mrinal Bhave BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 38. Published online 2009 March 7. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-38.PMCID: PMC2663772 Phenotypes induced by NM causing α-skeletal muscle actin mutants in fibroblasts, Sol 8 myoblasts and myotubes Drieke Vandamme, Ellen Lambert, Davy Waterschoot, Davina Tondeleir, Joël Vandekerckhove, Laura M Machesky, Bruno Constantin, Heidi Rommelaere, and Christophe Ampe BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 40. Published online 2009 March 10. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-40.PMCID: PMC2657152 Potentially avoidable inpatient nights among warfarin receiving patients; an audit of a single university teaching hospital Dónall Forde, Mortimer B O'Connor, and Oonagh Gilligan BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 41. Published online 2009 March 13. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-41.PMCID: PMC2657894 Factors associated with self-reported first sexual intercourse in Scottish adolescents Suzanne C Penfold, Edwin R van Teijlingen, and Janet S Tucker BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 42. Published online 2009 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-42.PMCID: PMC2666752 Assessment of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide in psoriatic arthritis Nermeen SA Abdel Fattah, Hanan E Hassan, Zenab A Galal, and El Sayed E El Okda BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 44. Published online 2009 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-44.PMCID: PMC2666753 Influence of fruit drinks with or without lactobacillus Lp299v on the gastrointestinal uptake of paracetamol in man Ulrika Åkerman and Lars Edvinsson BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 45. Published online 2009 March 20. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-45.PMCID: PMC2666754 Searching for novel cell cycle regulators in Trypanosoma brucei with an RNA interference screen Séverine Monnerat, Caroline Clucas, Elaine Brown, Jeremy C Mottram, and Tansy C Hammarton BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 46. Published online 2009 March 23. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-46.PMCID: PMC2674452 Determinants of maternal and umbilical blood lead levels: a cross-sectional study, Mosul, Iraq Asma A Al-Jawadi, Zina WA Al-Mola, and Raghad A Al-Jomard BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 47. Published online 2009 March 24. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-47.PMCID: PMC2663773 Specific and complete human genome amplification with improved yield achieved by phi29 DNA polymerase and a novel primer at elevated temperature Osama Alsmadi, Fadi Alkayal, Dorota Monies, and Brian F Meyer BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 48. Published online 2009 March 24. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-48.PMCID: PMC2663774 Prevalence of multiresistant gram-negative organisms in a tertiary hospital in Mwanza, Tanzania Stephen E Mshana, Erasmus Kamugisha, Mariam Mirambo, Trinad Chakraborty, and Eligius F Lyamuya BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 49. Published online 2009 March 26. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-49.PMCID: PMC2667529 Constitutive and regulated expression vectors to construct polyphosphate deficient bacteria Francisco P Chávez, Cecilia Mauriaca, and Carlos A Jerez BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 50. Published online 2009 March 26. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-50.PMCID: PMC2667530 Evidence that the intra-amoebal Legionella drancourtii acquired a sterol reductase gene from eukaryotes Claire Moliner, Didier Raoult, and Pierre-Edouard Fournier BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 51. Published online 2009 March 27. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-51.PMCID: PMC2667531 Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain containing 1 (NOD1) haplotypes and single nucleotide polymorphisms modify susceptibility to inflammatory bowel diseases in a New Zealand caucasian population: a case-control study Claudia Huebner, Lynnette R Ferguson, Dug Yeo Han, Martin Philpott, Murray L Barclay, Richard B Gearry, Alan McCulloch, Pieter S Demmers, and Brian L Browning BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 52. Published online 2009 March 27. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-52.PMCID: PMC2674453 Large scale genotyping study for asthma in the Japanese population Yoshiko Imada, Masaya Fujimoto, Kenji Hirata, Tomomitsu Hirota, Yoichi Suzuki, Hirohisa Saito, Kenji Matsumoto, Akira Akazawa, Toshio Katsunuma, Shigemi Yoshihara, Motohiro Ebisawa, Masanao Shibasaki, Tadao Arinami, Mayumi Tamari, and Emiko Noguchi BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 54. Published online 2009 March 31. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-54.PMCID: PMC2674055 Identification of HLA-A*02-B*46 haplotype allele variant in Guangdong Han populations on the basis of PCR-SBT Fu Xiong, Lulu Xiao, Min Luo, and Fei Huang BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 55. Published online 2009 April 7. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-55.PMCID: PMC2674454 The evolution of Runx genes II. The C-terminal Groucho recruitment motif is present in both eumetazoans and homoscleromorphs but absent in a haplosclerid demosponge Anthony J Robertson, Claire Larroux, Bernard M Degnan, and James A Coffman BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 59. Published online 2009 April 17. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-59.PMCID: PMC2674455 Rapid detection of dermatophytes from skin and hair Jaya Garg, Ragini Tilak, Atul Garg, Pradyot Prakash, Anil Kumar Gulati, and Gopal Nath BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 60. Published online 2009 April 18. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-60.PMCID: PMC2678142 Technical Notes A measure of endosomal pH by flow cytometry in Dictyostelium Anna Marchetti, Emmanuelle Lelong, and Pierre Cosson BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 7. Published online 2009 January 12. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-7.PMCID: PMC2632630 Sequence Searcher: A Java tool to perform regular expression and fuzzy searches of multiple DNA and protein sequences Francesco Marass and Chris Upton BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 14. Published online 2009 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-14.PMCID: PMC2637886 PeakSeeker: a program for interpreting genotypes of mononucleotide repeats James M Thompson and Stephen J Salipante BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 17. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-17.PMCID: PMC2645428 Blunt apical dissection during anatomic radical retropubic prostatectomy Kazunori Namiki, Ali Kasraeian, Saif Yacoub, and Charles J Rosser BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 20. Published online 2009 February 6. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-20.PMCID: PMC2654458 Recent developments in StemBase: a tool to study gene expression in human and murine stem cells Reatha Sandie, Gareth A Palidwor, Matthew R Huska, Christopher J Porter, Paul M Krzyzanowski, Enrique M Muro, Carolina Perez-Iratxeta, and Miguel A Andrade-Navarro BMC Res Notes. 2009; 2: 39. Published online 2009 March 10. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-39.PMCID: PMC2660910 |