-
Article
Open AccessCombined effects of endogenous sex hormone levels and mammographic density on postmenopausal breast cancer risk: results from the Breakthrough Generations Study
Mammographic density and sex hormone levels are strong risk factors for breast cancer, but it is unclear whether they represent the same aetiological entity or are independent risk factors.
-
Article
Open AccessBreast cancer risk following Hodgkin lymphoma radiotherapy in relation to menstrual and reproductive factors
Women treated with supradiaphragmatic radiotherapy (sRT) for Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) at young ages have a substantially increased breast cancer risk. Little is known about how menarcheal and reproductive factors...
-
Article
Open AccessThe Breakthrough Generations Study: design of a long-term UK cohort study to investigate breast cancer aetiology
The rationale, design, recruitment and follow-up methods are described for the Breakthrough Generations Study, a UK cohort study started in 2003, targeted at investigation of breast cancer aetiology.
-
Article
Evidence that disease-induced population decline changes genetic structure and alters dispersal patterns in the Tasmanian devil
Infectious disease has been shown to be a major cause of population declines in wild animals. However, there remains little empirical evidence on the genetic consequences of disease-mediated population decline...
-
Article
Open AccessDeterminants of age at menarche in the UK: analyses from the Breakthrough Generations Study
Early menarche increases breast cancer risk but, aside from weight, information on its determinants is limited.
-
Article
A clinical trial assessing the safety and efficacy of the CB1R inverse agonist taranabant in obese and overweight patients: low-dose study
To evaluate the weight loss efficacy, safety and tolerability of taranabant, a CB1R inverse agonist, in obese and overweight patients.
-
Article
Medium-resolution autonomous in situ gamma detection system for marine and coastal waters
We are develo** a medium-resolution autonomous in situ gamma detection system for marine and coastal waters. The system is designed to extract and preconcentrate isotopes of interest from natural waters prio...
-
Article
Open AccessOvarian cancer risk in premenopausal and perimenopausal women treated with Tamoxifen: a case–control study
As tamoxifen stimulates ovarian steroidogenesis in premenopausal women, induces ovulation and increases the incidence of benign ovarian cysts, there has been concern that it might also increase ovarian cancer ...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Of Mice and Men: The Many Guises of Estrogens
Models of estrogen insufficiency have revealed new and unexpected roles for estrogens in males as well as females. These models include natural mutations in the aromatase gene in humans, as well as mouse knock...
-
Chapter
Molecular Markers in Tree Improvement: Characterisation and Use in Eucalyptus
-
Article
Rates of antimicrobial resistance among common bacterial pathogens causing respiratory, blood, urine, and skin and soft tissue infections in pediatric patients
Antimicrobial resistance patterns among the principal bacterial pathogens from infections of the respiratory tract, blood, skin and soft tissue, and urinary tract of pediatric patients from the USA, Canada, Ge...
-
Article
Segregation of Polymers in the Course of Film Formation from a Mixture of Latexes
Film formation from binary mixtures of latexes of thermodynamically incompatible polymers was studied. Partial segregation of the polymers in the course of latex film formation, causing asymmetry of the result...
-
Article
International Surveillance of Susceptibility to Levofloxacin and Other Agents among Respiratory Pathogens
-
Article
Current Activity of Ciprofloxacin Against Gram-Negative Bacilli in the United States
-
Article
The Activity of Fluoroquinolones and Other Antimicrobial Agents Against Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis
-
Article
Frequency of Occurrence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Bacterial Pathogens Associated with Skin and Soft Tissue Infections During 1997 from an International Surveillance Programme
The SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme was established to provide a coordinated, standardised, international surveillance on antimicrobial resistance. In one part of the programme, isolates from skin...
-
Article
Detection of staphylococcal genes directly from cerebrospinal and peritoneal fluid samples using a multiplex polymerase chain reaction
A multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that can simultaneously detect eubacterial isolates and the methicillin-susceptibility of staphylococcal isolates from cerebrospinal and peritoneal fluid samples was...
-
Article
Solubility and Phase Behavior of Cr(III) Oxides in Alkaline Media at Elevated Temperatures
A platinum-lined, flowing autoclave facility is used to investigate the solubility behavior of Cr2O3 and FeCr2O4 in alkaline sodium phosphate, sodium hydroxide, and ammonium hydroxide solutions between 21 and 288...
-
Article
Dissociative Chemisorption at Hyperthermal Energies: Benchmark Studies in Group IV Systems
A photolytic source of H atoms is used to probe abstraction and adsorption reactions on the D/Si(100) monodeuteride surface. Surface H and D coverages are determined for H atom exposures, with incident average...
-
Article
Magnetite solubility and phase stability in alkaline media at elevated temperatures
A platinum-lined flowing autocláve facility was used to investigate the solubility behavior of magnetite (Fe3O4) in alkaline sodium phosphate and ammonium hydroxide solutions between 21 and 288°C. Measured iron s...