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Ueber quantitative Zuckerbestimmung im Urin
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Hereditary diabetes insipidus: an immunohistochemical study of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland
We report the histological findings in a case of hereditary diabetes insipidus (HDI) using vasopressin (VP) immunohistochemistry. The hypothalamus displayed a marked loss of magnocellular VP neurons, with pres...
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Diencephalic idiopathic gliosis: an unusual hypothalamic syndrome of dermopathy, diarrhea and growth arrest
This case report of a 16-year-old girl describes the association of chronic diarrhea and lower limb dermopathy with an unusual and widespread gliosis within hypothalamic and other diencephalic structures. This...
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Abstracts for the Tenth International Conference on Brain Tumour Research and Therapy
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Absence of protease-resistant prion protein in dementia characterized by neuronal loss and status spongiosus
Dementia characterized by neuronal loss and status spongiosus (DNLS) is a non-Alzheimer degenerative process which is characterized by Pick-like lobar atrophy with neuronal depletion and gliosis of the cerebra...
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Characterization of a shared epitope in cortical Lewy body fibrils and Alzheimer paired helical filaments
The straight fibrils of the Lewy body contain an epitope related to phosphorylation of the KSPV motif common to the C termini of the 200- and 170-kDa neurofilament subunits and τ. To further characterize this ...
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Alzheimer paired helical filaments: a comparison with the twisted ribbon model
To investigate if Alzheimer paired helical filaments (PHF) closely resemble twisted ribbons, as indicated by recent high-resolution ultrastructural studies, we compared physical models of twisted ribbons with ...
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Induction chemotherapy followed by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation or aggressive consolidation chemotherapy in childhood acute myeloblastic leukemia: A prospective study from the French Society of Pediatric Hematology and Immunology (SHIP)
In the LAME89/91 protocol, children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who achieved complete remission (CR) after induction chemotherapy, were treated either with allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) if...
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Erythrocyte spermine levels: a prognostic parameter in childhood common acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Polyamines have been implicated to play a role in cell proliferation and in cancer development. Ninety percent of the circulating spermidine (Spd) and spermine (Spm) are transported by red blood cells (RBC). R...
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Feasibility of a PB CD34+ cell transplantation procedure using standard leukapheresis products in very small children
To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of CD34+ cell immunoselection from routine peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) harvests in very small children a prospective study was performed in 15 children with advanced...
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Membranous nephropathy and orbital malignant tumor
A 7-year-old girl with membranous nephropathy is reported who suffered 16 months later from an orbital rhabdomyosarcoma. Proteinuria disappeared at the time of the remission of the tumor. Membranous nephropath...
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Modeling of a periodic instability in paired helical filaments reveals an axial repeat
Ultrastructural studies of paired helical filaments (PHF) have been facilitated by the ability to isolate enriched fractions of detergent-insoluble forms of PHF. These fractions are composed of a relatively h...
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Open AccessAdverse outcome of infants with metastatic neuroblastoma, MYCN amplification and/or bone lesions: results of the French Society of Pediatric Oncology
To assess the relevance of MYCN amplification and bone lesions in stage 4 neuroblastoma (NB) in infants aged <1 year, 51 infants with stage 4 NB were enrolled. Three groups of patients were defined according t...
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Open AccessLiquid-based cytology for primary cervical cancer screening: a multi-centre study
The aim of this six-centre, split-sample study was to compare ThinPrep fluid-based cytology to the conventional Papanicolaou smear. Six cytopathology laboratories and 35 gynaecologists participated. 5428 patie...
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New landmarks improve the positioning of the left Broncho-Cath™ double-lumen tube-comparison with the classic technique
To compare a new technique (NT) for positioning the left modified Broncho-Cath™ double-lumen tube (LM-DLT) by fibreoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) to the classic technique (CT).
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Open AccessTreatment of stage 4s neuroblastoma – report of 10 years' experience of the French Society of Paediatric Oncology (SFOP)
Stage 4s neuroblastoma (NB) is usually associated with a favourable outcome, despite a large tumour burden, as spontaneous regression frequently occurs. However, in some infants rapid disease progression can b...
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Open AccessLocalised and unresectable neuroblastoma in infants: excellent outcome with low-dose primary chemotherapy
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of low-dose chemotherapy in infants with localised and unresectable neuroblastoma (NB). All consecutive infants with localised NB and no N-myc amplification ...
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Caspase-1 activation of caspase-6 in human apoptotic neurons
Active caspase-6 (Csp-6) induces cell death in primary cultures of human neurons and is abundant in the neuropathological lesions of Alzheimer's disease. However, the mode of Csp-6 activation is not known. Her...
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Sarcome des tissus mous chez l’enfant et l’adolescent: ce qu’il faut retenir en 2006
Les sarcomes des tissus mous (STM) représentent 6 % des proliférations malignes chez l’enfant et l’adolescent. Il s’agit d’une tumeur rare. Les STM se répartissent chez l’enfant et l’adolescent en rhabdomyosar...
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Open AccessTemporal Scalability through Adaptive -Band Filter Banks for Robust H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video Coding
This paper presents different structures that use adaptive -band hierarchical filter banks for temporal scalability. Open-loop and closed-loop co...