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Magnetic shielding and spin-rotation interaction in ground state alkali molecules
Precision measurements of nuclear magnetic dipole moments in alkali molecules are performed using atom-molecule exchange optical pum**. A comparison with measurements on alkali atoms gives the magnetic shiel...
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Mass spectrometric size analysis of N2O-clusters
Mass spectra of N2O-clusters in the size rangen≲7,000 molecules per cluster, formed in a supersonic beam, have been recorded in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The spectra trace the transition from growth by ...
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Electron Attachment to Van der Waals Clusters
Electrons of variable energy are attached to preformed clusters of CO2, N2O, H2O and SF6 in a molecular beam. The shape resonances of CO2 and N2O are found to be increasingly redshifted with increasing cluster si...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Electron Attachment to Clusters
Weakly bound clusters are formed by adiabatic expansion of CO2, N2O, H2O, SF6, Xe, and some halocarbons. Electron attachment to these clusters is investigated in the low-pressure environment of the collimated clu...
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Effects of filaggrin breakdown products on the growth and maturation of keratinocytes
Filaggrin is degraded to amino acids in the stratum corneum. We tested the hypothesis that the resulting high concentrations of amino acids might be involved in the control of keratinocyte maturation. An amino...
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Prevalence of coeliac disease in diabetic children and adolescents
Screening for coeliac disease (CD) with serum antigliadin antibodies (AGA) was performed in 1032 diabetic children and adolescents. In 8 children CD had been diagnosed before study entry. Of the remaining 1024...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of Association in Nuclear Families
The major goal of association studies in genetics is to define risk haplotypes which may be responsible for the disease phenotype and to determine what kind of genetic control the marker system contributes to ...
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Map** of the gene for autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) to chromosome 6p21–cen
Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is one of the major hereditary nephropathies in children predominantly presenting in early childhood. The clinical picture is variable but there is a fatal...
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Schizophrenia: Shifting the balance of care
Schizophrenia poses a major challenge to policy makers in health and social care in England. As deinstitutionalisation has progressed, public concern about people with the condition has increased owing to a sm...
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Human adenosine A2a receptor (A2aAR) gene: systematic mutation screening in patients with schizophrenia
Several lines of evidence suggest an involvement of adenosine A2a receptor (A2aAR) mediated adenosinergic neuromodulation in the etiopathogenesis of schizophrenia. We therefore perfomed a systematic mutation scan...
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QALYs and mental health care
Quality-adjusted life year measures (QALYs) have been fervently debated by researchers and decision makers concerned with resource allocation in the health care sector. They have been heralded as important aid...
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Systematic mutation screening and association study of the A1 and A2a adenosine receptor genes in panic disorder suggest a contribution of the A2a gene to the development of disease
Several lines of evidence suggest a contribution of adenosinergic neurotransmission to the development of panic disorder. We therefore hypothesized that variation in the A1 and A2a adenosine receptor (AR) genes m...
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Insertion/deletion variant (−141C Ins/Del) in the 5′ regulatory region of the dopamine D2 receptor gene: lack of association with schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder
A possible dysregulation of dopaminergic neurotransmission has been implicated in the aetiology of schizophrenic psychoses, in particular of paranoid-hallucinatory states, and of the manic episodes of bipolar...
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Does a hostel's managing agency determine the access to psychiatric services of its residents?
This study examines the effect of managing agency (local authority, private or voluntary) on the use of other health and social care services by residents in mental health hostels and group homes with differe...
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Association between hSKCa3 and schizophrenia not confirmed by transmission disequilibrium test in 193 offspring/parents trios
A possible association between the small conductance calcium-regulated potassium channel gene, hSKCa3, and schizophrenia has recently been described by Chandy et al1 using a case-control design with patients with...
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Serotonin transporter gene and schizophrenia: evidence for association/linkage disequilibrium in families with affected siblings
The serotonergic (5-HT) system has been implicated in the etiopathogenesis of psychoses. Since the 5-HT transporter plays an important role in regulation of 5-HT transmission, its gene can be considered as a c...
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DRD4 exon III VNTR polymorphism—susceptibility factor for heroin dependence? Results of a case-control and a family-based association approach
Dopaminergic abnormalities are implicated in the pathogenesis of substance abuse.1 Recently, two reports have been published suggesting an association between opioid dependence and presence of long alleles of the...
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Dopamine D3 receptor variant and tardive dyskinesia
In the search for genetic factors contributing to tardive dyskinesia, dopamine receptor genes are considered major candidates. The dopamine D3 receptor is of primary interest as dopamine D3 receptor knock-out mi...
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Systematic screening for DNA sequence variation in the coding region of the human dopamine transporter gene (DAT1)
The dopamine transporter (DAT) plays a central role in dopaminergic neurotransmission in the human brain. Genetic association studies have used a variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphism in the 3′-...
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Association study of the low-activity allele of catechol-O-methyltransferase and alcoholism using a family-based approach
Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) is a major component of the metabolic pathways of neurotransmitters such as dopamine, adrenaline, and noradrenaline. The activity of COMT is known to vary within the populat...
