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Open AccessProstate cancer induced bone pain: pathobiology, current treatments and pain responses from recent clinical trials
Metastatic spread of prostate cancer to the skeleton may result in debilitating bone pain. In this review, we address mechanisms underpinning the pathobiology of metastatic prostate cancer induced bone pain (P...
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Side Effects of Central Analgesic Drugs
Strong opioid analgesics, such as morphine, are the most widely used, centrally acting class of analgesics that are available in the clinic for the treatment of moderate to severe acute nociceptive pain and ch...
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Follicular lymphoma-protective HLA class II variants correlate with increased HLA-DQB1 protein expression
Multiple follicular lymphoma (FL) susceptibility single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I and II regions have been identified, including rs6457327, rs3117222, rs2647012, rs1...
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Leukemia-related chromosomal loss detected in hematopoietic progenitor cells of benzene-exposed workers
Benzene exposure causes acute myeloid leukemia and hematotoxicity, shown as suppression of mature blood and myeloid progenitor cell numbers. As the leukemia-related aneuploidies monosomy 7 and trisomy 8 previo...
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Open AccessPG545, a dual heparanase and angiogenesis inhibitor, induces potent anti-tumour and anti-metastatic efficacy in preclinical models
PG545 is a heparan sulfate (HS) mimetic that inhibits tumour angiogenesis by sequestering angiogenic growth factors in the extracellular matrix (ECM), thus limiting subsequent binding to receptors. Importantly...
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The RNA-binding protein La contributes to cell proliferation and CCND1 expression
The La protein is an essential RNA-binding protein implicated in different aspects of RNA metabolism. Herein, we report that small interfering (siRNA)-mediated La depletion reduces cell proliferation of differ...
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A comparison of the cytogenetic alterations and global DNA hypomethylation induced by the benzene metabolite, hydroquinone, with those induced by melphalan and etoposide
Specific cytogenetic alterations and changes in DNA methylation are involved in leukemogenesis. Benzene, an established human leukemogen, is known to induce cytogenetic changes through its active metabolites i...
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Proteomic analysis of childhood leukemia
Childhood acute lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias are stratified into molecular and cytogenetic subgroups important for prognosis and therapy. Studies have shown that gene expression profiles can discriminat...
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Open AccessNon-Hodgkin's lymphoma, obesity and energy homeostasis polymorphisms
A population-based case–control study of lymphomas in England collected height and weight details from 699 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) cases and 914 controls. Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) over ...
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RAS mutation is associated with hyperdiploidy and parental characteristics in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia
We explored the relationship of RAS gene mutations with epidemiologic and cytogenetic factors in a case series of children with leukemia. Diagnostic bone marrow samples from 191 incident leukemia cases from the N...
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Presleep Cognitions in Patients with Insomnia Secondary to Chronic Pain
This study had two primary objectives: (1) characterize the content of presleep cognitions of chronic pain patients and (2) evaluate the association between presleep cognitions and sleep disturbance. Thirty-on...
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Forming-limit diagrams of aluminum tailor-welded blank weld material
The current work develops forming-limit diagrams (FLDs) for weld materials in aluminum tailorwelded blanks (TWBs) under biaxial stretching conditions. Aluminum TWBs consist of multiple-thickness and alloy shee...
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Weld metal ductility in aluminum tailor welded blanks
The objective of the research described in this article was to characterize and numerically describe the ductility of weld material in aluminum tailor welded blanks under uniaxial tension conditions. Aluminum ...
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Sleep Quality and Presleep Arousal in Chronic Pain
This study was designed (1) to characterize the extent and nature of sleep complaints of chronic pain patients and (2) to examine the factors that predict sleep quality. A heterogeneous sample of 51 outpatient...
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Characterizing Al tailor-welded blanks for automotive applications
The application of aluminum tailor-welded blanks offers significant potential for reducing the weight of future automobiles, and improvements are being made in the development and understanding of the welding ...
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Diversity and affinities among species and strains of Lipomyces
Phylogenetic relationships of the yeast genus Lipomyces were studied using sequences from fragments of 5.8S rRNA gene and from internal transcribed spacer region ITS2 of 13 strains (7 type strains included) re...
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Comparison of industrial yeast strains for fermentation of spent sulphite pul** liquor fortified with wood hydrolysate
Ethanol production from spent sulphite pul** liquor (SSL) was compared for four different yeasts. A second strain of S. cerevisiae as well as a 2-deoxyglucose-resistant strain formed through protoplast fusion...
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The effect of a plant-derived smoke extract on the germination of light-sensitive lettuce seed
A simple and rapid bioassay using seeds of Lactuca sativa L. Grand Rapids has been developed for the detection of germination-enhancing compound(s) in plant-derived smoke extracts. This light-sensitive species ge...
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Purine cytokinin nomenclature: a working system of abbreviations
Many synonyms for the cytokinin 6-(benzylamino)purine and its metabolites have arisen in the literature despite a 1970 IUPAC-IUB directive delimiting such nomenclature. Examples of symbols and abbreviations fo...
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Myxozyma vanderwaltii sp. nov. (Candidaceae), a new yeast species isolated from a flower ofProtea repens (L.) L.
Three strains of an undescribed species of the genusMyxozyma were recovered. The new species differs from other accepted species of the genus in its assimilation pattern of carbon sources, mol% G + C and low DNA-...