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Arsenic is one of the most common metalloid contaminants in groundwater and it has both acute and chronic toxicity affecting multiple organs. Details of the mechanism of arsenic toxicity are still lacking and profile studies at metabolic... more
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      Principal Component AnalysisArsenicBiomarkersMultidisciplinary
Book (in French) published in 2003 at the occasion of the first exhibition staging exclusively biomedia art works at the national art center Le Lieu Unique in Nantes/France. Hauser Jens (ed.): L'Art Biotech. Nantes/Trézélan, 2003. The... more
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      Evolutionary BiologyPhilosophyEpistemologyPhilosophy of Science
Molecular and isotopic studies of archaeological organic remains, based on identification of biomarker, allow their characterisation. Using a rigorous fractionation scheme of organic extracts and mass spectrometric techniques (GCeMS,... more
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      ArchaeologyBiomarkersGC-MSStable Isotope
Dietary advanced glycation end products (AGE) formed during heating of food have gained interest as potential nutritional toxins with adverse effects on inflammation and glucose metabolism. In the present study, we investigated the... more
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      Nutrition and DieteticsBiomarkersDietComparative Study
Objective:To examine whether gene expression analysis of a large-scale Parkinson disease (PD) patient cohort produces a robust blood-based PD gene signature compared to previous studies that have used relatively small cohorts (≤220... more
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      Cognitive ScienceNeurologyBiomarkersBiology
Endothelial-derived microparticles (EMPs) are a novel biological marker of endothelium injury and vasomotion disorders that are involved in pathogenesis of cardiovascular, metabolic, and inflammatory diseases. Circulating levels of EMPs... more
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      BiomarkersClinical BiochemistryRisk assessmentDiabetes mellitus
Myocardial infarction causes a cascade of events, which leads to heart failure, debilitation and death. This study examined possible cardioprotective effect of oleuropein in rats with acute myocardial infarction. Male Sprague-Dawly rats... more
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      BiomarkersOxidative StressElectrocardiographyAntioxidants
The origin of extensive oil staining, recorded over a 120 m interval of the Jurassic Pilliga Sandstone in the fully-cored Bellata-1 well, northern Gunnedah Basin, has been investigated using conventional organic geochemical techniques.... more
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      Earth SciencesOrganic GeochemistryBiomarkersEnvironmental Sciences
The present manuscript describes a biomarker capturing strategy based on nanoporous silica particles. The method is shown to enrich the yield of species in the low-molecular weight proteome (LMWP), allowing detection of small peptides in... more
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      Mass SpectrometryBiomarkersProteomicsNanotechnology
Background: Several serum parameters have been evaluated for adding prognostic value to clinical scoring systems in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), but none of the reports used multivariate testing of more than one parameter at a... more
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      BiomarkersSurvival AnalysisTreatment OutcomeMedicine
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) provides an ideal framework to establish multi-disciplinary research networks. COST Action BM1203 (EU-ROS) represents a consortium of researchers from different disciplines who are... more
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      Molecular BiologyBiomarkersBiologyEuropean Union
Stress responses in athletes can be attributed to training and competition, where increased physiological and psychological stress may negatively affect performance and recovery. To examine the relationship between training load (TL) and... more
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      BiomarkersAdolescentSwimmingYoung Adult
The kynurenine pathway (KP) is the principle route of L-Tryptophan (TRP) metabolism, producing several neurotoxic and neuroprotective metabolic precursors before complete oxidation to the essential pyridine nucleotide nicotinamide adenine... more
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      PharmacologyBioinformaticsEvolutionary BiologyPathology
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      BiomarkersInflammationEndothelial CellsBlood Coagulation
Variations in extended hopane distributions are now routinely applied in assessing anoxia in ancient marine sediments and for oil-source correlation studies. Current parameters based on the extended hopanes focus on the predominance of... more
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      Earth SciencesOrganic GeochemistryCarbonBiomarkers
Information on sCD200 (OX-2), 25-Hydroxyvitamin-D(25(OH)D), homocysteine (hcy), eosinophil cationic peptid (ECP), d-dimer (DD), CXCL8, fractional exhale nitric oxide concentrations (FeNO) status all together among patients with allergy in... more
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      BiomarkersVitamin DAsthmaTurkey
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      UrologyBiomarkersRisk assessmentEpigenetics
Growing evidence suggests that loudness dependency of auditory evoked potentials (LDAEP) and resting EEG alpha and theta may be biological markers for predicting response to antidepressants. In spite of this promise, little is known about... more
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      PsychologyPsychophysiologyPrincipal Component AnalysisBiomarkers
INTRODUCTION Delayed graft function (DGF) is a consequence of ischemia-reperfusion injuries in kidney allografts, for which no definite treatment is available. The neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and interleukin-18... more
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      BiomarkersKidney transplantationAdolescentIran
Human serum glycomics is a promising method for finding cancer biomarkers but often lacks the tools for streamlined data analysis. The Glycolyzer software incorporates a suite of analytic tools capable of identifying informative glycan... more
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      AlgorithmsMass SpectrometryBiomarkersProteomics
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      Environmental ToxicologyPhotosynthesisBiomarkersFluorescence
Involuntary weight loss, a part of the cachexia syndrome, is a debilitating co-morbidity of cancer and currently has no treatment options. Results from a recent clinical trial at our institution showed that biliary tract cancer patients... more
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      BiomarkersSignal TransductionMiceSkeletal Muscle
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      AgingBiomarkersLocomotionBiological Sciences
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      BiomarkersAtherosclerosisAdolescentApoptosis
An existing method for the determination of glyphosate and its main metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in water has been improved. It is based on precolumn derivatization with the fluorescent reagent... more
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      EngineeringTechnologyBiomarkersPesticides
Background: Recent studies suggest that immunotherapy using T regulatory cells (Tregs) prolongs remission in type 1 diabetes (T1DM). Here, we report factors that possibly affect the efficacy of this treatment. Methods: The metabolic and... more
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      BiomarkersCytokinesTreatment OutcomeAdolescent
Liver fibrosis is the excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins, including collagen, that occurs in most types of chronic liver diseases. Advanced liver fibrosis results in cirrhosis, liver failure, and portal hypertension... more
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      BiochemistryMedical SciencesMolecular BiologyToxicology
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      BiomarkersSignal TransductionResistanceAntineoplastic Agents
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      PharmacologyBioinformaticsEvolutionary BiologyPathology
The pathophysiology of exocrine dysfunction observed in Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether autoan-tibodies against human AQP5 are present in the sera of SS patients.... more
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      BiomarkersAquaporins (AQP)Dry EyesSjogren´s Syndrome
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      BiomarkersEnvironmental BiotechnologyINTENSIVE CAREBiological markers
Approximately 20% of the population has elevated circulating levels of lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]), one of the most robust predictors of cardiovascular disease risk. This is particularly true for women. Many female patients with... more
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      BiomarkersRisk assessmentMedicineGeorgia
Recent attention is focused on understanding the genetic basis for individual susceptibility to the development of chronic disease. An emphasis is concentrated on establishing an association be-tween inheritance of polymorphic chemical... more
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      BiostatisticsBiomarkersEnvironmental HealthBiology
Environmental cadmium contamination is present in some rural villages of Mae Sot District, Tak Province, northwestern Thailand. We compared the health of 751 persons aged ≥ 35 years living in 3 contaminated villages with 682 people from 3... more
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      BiomarkersThailandHypertensionDiabetes mellitus
Time spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) is a strong predictor of cardiovascular health, yet few humans living in industrialized societies meet current recommendations (150 min/week). Researchers have long suggested... more
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      Evolutionary BiologyNutrition and DieteticsAnthropologyBiomarkers
Aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic yield of dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) in detection of uric acid accumulation in joints or periarticular structures in patients suspected of having gout, in their... more
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      ImmunologyMedical MicrobiologyBiomarkersTreatment Outcome
Undifferentiated arthritis (UA) is a label applied to patients with joint complaints which cannot be classified according to current criteria, which implies a need for precision diagnostic technologies. We studied serum galectin-3, a... more
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      ImmunologyBiomarkersRheumatoid ArthritisProspective studies
The DNA methylation-based 'epigenetic clock' correlates strongly with chronological age, but it is currently unclear what drives individual differences. We examine cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between the... more
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      StatisticsEpidemiologyCognitionAging
The occurrence of overweight and obesity has risen around the world. This rate will increase in the future without appropriate interventions. Obesity is a condition with increased percentage of fat mass. Evidence based studies indicate... more
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      ObesityBiomarkersAdipokinesDietary
Molecular biomarkers (C 37 alkenones, n-nonacosane and n-hexacosanol) and TOC are used together with benthic N 18 O and N 13 C data to document the hydrographic response of the western Mediterranean Sea to rapid climatic variability.... more
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      Earth SciencesClimate variabilityBiomarkersSea surface temperature
Newly discovered cytokines TSLP and IL33 are being studied as important indicators of Th2 inflammation and their effect on Treg cells is likely to modulate immune response. We attempted to study TSLP and IL-33 and then correlated with... more
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      Flow CytometryBiomarkersCytokinesAsthma
— This paper presents the results of a study developing artificial neural network system (ANN) for classification of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy patients. The classification is done using biomarkers, from cerebrospinal fluid:... more
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      Alzheimer's DiseaseBiomarkersArtificial Neural Networks
Menstrual blood loss may reduce risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular and other diseases in premenopausal women (compared to men of comparable age and postmenopausal women) by maintaining relatively low levels of body iron as measured by... more
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      NursingBiomarkersPostmenopausal WomenIron
Objectives We evaluated whether the measurement of serum phosphorylated neurofilament heavy chain ( pNF-H) titre is likely to be a valid biomarker of axonal injury in multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods Serum pNF-H concentrations were... more
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      NeuroimagingMultiple sclerosisMagnetic Resonance ImagingBiomarkers
Background: Liver regeneration is a multi-stage process that unfolds gradually, with different mediators acting at different stages of regeneration. Calcium (Ca 2+ ) signaling is essential for liver regeneration. In hepatocytes, Ca 2+... more
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      BiomarkersRNA interferenceLiverCalcium Signaling
Introduction: Air pollution causes respiratory symptoms and pulmonary disease. Airway inflammation may be involved in the mechanism also for cardiovascular disease. Wood smoke is a significant contributor to air pollution, with complex... more
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      BiomarkersOxidative StressWoodVolatile Organic Compounds
Media conditioned by dysfunctioning pancreatic beta cells offer an excellent source of potential protein markers associated with this phenotype. Proteins identified from cell culture model systems are often found to be of importance... more
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      Chemical EngineeringAnalytical ChemistryMass SpectrometryBiomarkers
BII ϭ BPH Impact Index BPH ϭ benign prostatic hyperplasia I-PSS ϭ International Prostate Symptom Score LUTS ϭ lower urinary tract symptoms PPSM ϭ Patient Perception of Study Medication Q11 ϭ question 11 ).
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      BiomarkersPatient SatisfactionClinical SciencesQuestionnaires
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      General PracticeHealth PromotionBiomarkersMedicine
Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) and sickle cell disease (SCD) are associated with splenomegaly and spleen dysfunction in pediatric patients. Scant data exist on possible correlations between spleen morphology and function in HS and SCD.... more
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      Sickle Cell AnemiaBiomarkersImmunohistochemistryBiopsy