An increased cortisol/cortisone ratio in venous umbilical cord blood is associated with increased systolic blood pressure at age 3, suggesting that in vitro exposure to maternal glucocorticoids may predispose to hypertension in later life.
The MisPred tool improves gene predictions within public databases by using five distinct approaches to detect incomplete or incorrect sequences, such as missing signal peptides or problems with domain integrity.
Prompted mammograms, where computer-aided detection systems alert readers to suspicious features, result in more recalls for both normal and cancer cases, and variable size prompts may be most useful.
Young women who are exposed to adverse life events, such as the loss of a loved one, may be predisposed to breast cancer, but a happy or optimistic attitude appears to have a protective effect.
Young children in malaria-endemic western Kenya have low levels of red cell complement regulatory proteins, increasing the susceptibility of red cells to complement-mediated destruction during malaria infection.
wrong modelling of protein sequence evolution
(Yaniv Loewenstein, 28Aug2008)
Reading the abstract, it seems to me that your assumptions are not just simplifying, but completely wrong. As sequences diverge, we gain more information on the sequence-function...
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Best Treatment for MSSA
(Jaques Sztajnbok, 27Aug2008)
Dear authors. I read with great interest your article and I have a question: Why didn't you use oxacillin plus clindamycin since the strain was MSSA and its a wellknokwn fact...
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