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Volume 2;  2009
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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
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