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Open AccessAre glucose and insulin levels at all time points during OGTT a reliable marker of diabetes mellitus risk in pediatric obesity?
Childhood overweight and obesity associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome represent the new global pandemic and the main causative factors for dysglycemia, prediabetes, and Type 2 Diabetes Mel...
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Open AccessPerBrain: a multimodal approach to personalized tracking of evolving state-of-consciousness in brain-injured patients: protocol of an international, multicentric, observational study
Disorders of consciousness (DoC) are severe neurological conditions in which consciousness is impaired to various degrees. They are caused by injury or malfunction of neural systems regulating arousal and awar...
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Open AccessDeep venous thrombosis and abortion: an unusual clinical manifestation of severe form of pectus excavatum
Pectus excavatum is a chest wall malformation with a strong psychological and aesthetic impact. Rarely, pectus excavatum patients can show respiratory or cardiac symptoms occurring mainly during physical exert...
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Mesenchymal cystic hamartoma presenting with pneumothorax: case report and review of the literature
Mesenchymal cystic hamartoma (MCH) of the lung is a rare disease, with an indolent course in the majority of cases. It can be single or multifocal and it is composed of primitive mesenchymal cells admixed with...
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Method and Results of Direct Measurement of the Interstellar Neutral Helium Abundance and Isotopic Composition
One of the important astrophysical problems is the determination of the abundance of helium isotopes 3He and 4He in different regions of the Universe, because this abundance can reflect its history by pointing to...
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Isotopic Composition and Abundance of Interstellar Neutral Helium Based on Direct Measurements
One of the important problems in astrophysics is the determination of the abundances of the helium isotopes 3He and 4He in various regions of the universe, since those abundances can provide evidence of the inten...
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Diverse prevalence of large deletions within the OA1 gene in ocular albinism type 1 patients from Europe and North America
Ocular albinism type 1 (OA1) is an X-linked disorder mainly characterized by congenital nystagmus and photodysphoria, moderate to severe reduction of visual acuity, hypopigmentation of the retina, and the pre...
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Early phases in in vitro culture of tomato cotyledons: Starch accumulation and protein pattern in relation to the hormonal treatment
Tomato cotyledon explants, cultured in vitro in the presence of sucrose, were subjected to different hormonal treatments to establish whether the induction of different organogenic programmes could be correlat...
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Effect of 1,2-benzisoxazole-3-acetic acid on plant regeneration from protoplasts of Nicotiana tabacum
Benzisoxazole-3-acetic acid, a new synthetic growth regulator, was administered to protoplast cultures from Nicotiana tabacum and subsequently to the developed microcalluses, to test its activity on plant regener...
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Activity of 1,2-benzisoxazole-3-one and indole-2,3-dione on plant regeneration in vitro and on cell elongation
We tested the morphogenetic and cell elongating activity of 1,2-benzisoxazole-3-one, a compound similar to 1,2-benzisoxazole-3-acetic acid but lacking the lateral carbon chain. For comparison, we tested also t...
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Epidermis integrity and epicotyl growth in azuki bean
In order to verify if epidermis integrity played a determinant role in epicotyl elongation induced by fusicoccin (FC), buffers at different pH's, and indoleacetic acid (IAA), we studied the short-term kinetics...
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Action of Testosterone Propionate and 4-Chlorotestosterone Acetate on Protein Synthesis in vitro
The protein anabolic activity of testosterone propionate is well established1. It has been shown that an increase in the rate of uptake of labelled glycine occurs in slices of kidney from mice treated with this s...
