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Costal osteochondroma presenting as haemothorax and diaphragmatic laceration
We report the unusual case of an 11-year-old girl who suffered a large haemothorax and lacerated left hemidiaphragm because of a costal osteochondroma arising from the left sixth rib near the costochondral jun...
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Analysis of metabolite profile data using batch-learning self-organizing maps
Novel tools are needed for efficient analysis and visualization of the massive data sets associated with metabolomics. Here, we describe a batch-learning self-organizing map (BL-SOM) for metabolome informatics...
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Preventive Effects of Rebamipide on NSAID-Induced Gastric Mucosal Injury and Reduction of Gastric Mucosal Blood Flow in Healthy Volunteers
The precise mechanisms of acute damage and the role of gastric mucosal blood flow in gastric mucosal injury induced by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) remain uncertain. The aim of this study was ...
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Oral Proton Pump Inhibitors Are as Effective as Endoscopic Treatment for Bleeding Peptic Ulcer: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial
In managing patients with bleeding peptic ulcers, it has been reported that pharmacologic treatment can be an alternative to endoscopic treatment. We compared the hemostasis rates of the endoscopic treatment, ...
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Terminal hemimelia of the lower extremity: absent lateral ray and a normal fibula
Congenital lateral ray deficiency is considered to be a manifestation of fibular hemimelia. However, we have noted patients with absent lateral ray but stable knee and ankle joints, and named this condition te...
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Electrochemical properties of LiFePO4/C synthesized by mechanical activation using sucrose as carbon source
Olivine lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) is attracting much attention as a safe, low cost and high capacity cathode material for lithium batteries, especially for applications in electric and hybrid-electric vehi...
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Endoscopic Evaluation in Gastrointestinal Graft-Versus-Host Disease: Comparisons with Histological Findings
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the major target site of the graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Whether endoscopic findings can predict the histological diagnosis and degree of severity in GVHD remains contr...
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Terminal hemimelia of the lower extremity: absent lateral ray and a normal fibula: reply to comments by Dr. Hootnick
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Terminal hemimelia of the lower extremity: absent lateral ray and a normal fibula
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Electrochemical properties of rechargeable organic radical battery with PTMA cathode
The electrochemical properties of the organic radical battery (ORB) having a lithium metal anode and a cathode consisting of a nitroxide radical polymer poly(2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyloxy-4-yl methacrylate...
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Metabolic Fingerprinting Study on the Substantial Equivalence of Genetically Modified (GM) Chinese Cabbage to Non-GM Cabbage
Genetically modified (GM) Chinese cabbage containing the bar gene was compared to 24 non-GM Chinese cabbage varieties to evaluate unwanted changes in GM crops using HPLC-DAD-based metabolic fingerprinting to char...
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Incidence and Etiology of Overt Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Adult Patients with Aplastic Anemia
Patients with thrombocytopenia caused by various neoplastic and primary bone marrow diseases are susceptible to major hemorrhage. There are few reports addressing the incidence and outcome of gastrointestinal ...
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Determination of indole-3-carbinol and indole-3-acetonitrile in Brassica vegetables using high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection
A simple and sensitive method for determining indole-3-carbinol (I3C) and indole-3-acetonitrile (I3A) from Brassica vegetable was developed using high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection...
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Vascular-specific activity of the Arabidopsis carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase 7 gene promoter
Carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases (CCDs) are involved in the production of diverse apocarotenoids including phytohormones, the visual molecules and the aromatic volatile compounds derived from carotenoids. Here...
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An efficient protocol for genetic transformation of watercress (Nasturtium officinale) using Agrobacterium rhizogenes
Watercress (Nasturtium officinale) is a member of the Brassicaceae family and a rich source of glucosinolate, which has been shown to possess anticancer properties. To extract these compounds from N. officinale f...
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Compositional comparative analysis between insect-resistant rice (Oryza sativa L.) with a synthetic cry1Ac gene and its non-transgenic counterpart
Composition analysis of genetically modified crops is an important consideration in the assessment of food safety. Agb0101 (Oryza sativa L. cv. Nakdongbyeo) developed in Korea is a form of insect-resistant rice t...
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Use of an anthocyanin production phenotype as a visible selection marker system in transgenic tobacco plant
To develop a potentially alternative method for the selection of transgenic plants instead of antibiotic and herbicide resistance, anthocyanin pigmentation phenotype was examined to provide a visible selection...
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Determination of phenolic acids in Korean rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars using gas chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry
Total soluble phenolic acids (free and esterified forms) from 15 Korean rice cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) were characterized to determine the total soluble phenolic acid contents and the diversity among the phenol...
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The factoring likelihood method for non-monotone missing data
We address the problem of parameter estimation in multivariate distributions under ignorable non-monotone missing data. The factoring likelihood method for monotone missing data, termed by Rubin (1974), is app...
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Parametric fractional imputation for nonignorable missing data
Parameter estimation with missing data is a frequently encountered problem in statistics. Imputation is often used to facilitate the parameter estimation by simply applying the complete-sample estimators to th...
