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Metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity: differential effects on myocardial function according to metabolic syndrome, rather than obesity
The term ‘metabolically healthy obese (MHO)’ is distinguished using body mass index (BMI), yet BMI is a poor index of adiposity. Some epidemiological data suggest that MHO carries a lower risk of cardiovascula...
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Case report: Getting it taped
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Hochfettdiät induziert molekulare und physiologische Dysfunktionen der Harnblase
Adipositas ist mit seiner Vielzahl an Komorbiditäten zur weltweiten Pandemie angewachsen. Der vorliegende Beitrag behandelt pathophysiologische Aspekte der adipositasassoziierten Harnblasendysfunktionen.
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Kommentar zu den neuen Leitlinien (2012) der Europäischen Gesellschaft für Kardiologie zur kardiovaskulären Prävention
Die neuen europäischen Leitlinien für die Prävention kardiovaskulärer (CV) Erkrankungen werden von 9 medizinischen Fachgesellschaften getragen. Sie sind neu strukturiert, kürzer gefasst und besser lesbar: Kern...
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Prilocaine induced methaemoglobinaemia in a medically compromised patient. Was this an inevitable consequence of the dose administered?
The development of methaemoglobinaemia is a rare complication of local anaesthetic administration. In this condition the ability of haemoglobin to transport ox...
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40th EASD Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Mycobacteria and other environmental organisms as immunomodulators for immunoregulatory disorders
In the rich, developed parts of the world there has been a steady and simultaneous increase in at least three groups of disease: (1) allergies, (2) inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD; e.g. Crohn’s disease and ul...
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The clostridial mobilisable transposons
Mobilisable transposons are transposable genetic elements that also encode mobilisation functions but are not in themselves conjugative. They rely on coresident conjugative elements to facilitate their transf...
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The toxic symbiontCaedibacter caryophila in the cytoplasm ofParamecium novaurelia
Endosymbiotic bacteria were observed to inhabit the cytoplasm of the freshwater ciliateParamecium novaurelia. Transmission electron microscopy and toxicity tests with sensitive paramecia showed that the endosymbi...
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Dopamine D1 receptor protein is elevated in nucleus accumbens of human, chronic methamphetamine users
Animal data have long suggested that an adaptive upregulation of nucleus accumbens dopamine D1 receptor function might underlie part of the dependency on drugs of abuse. We measured by quantitative immunoblott...
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Brain choline acetyltransferase activity in chronic, human users of cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin
Cognitive impairment has been reported in some chronic users of psychostimulants, raising the possibility that long-term drug exposure might damage brain neuronal systems, including the cholinergic system, whi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Infektionen durch humane Herpesviren 6 und 7
HHV 6 wurde 1986 aus Lymphozyten des peripheren Blutes von Patienten mit Lymphomen und/oder einer HIV-Infektion isoliert und anfänglich als humanes B-lymphotropes Virus (HBLV) bezeichnet [14]. Zwei Subtypen, H...
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The measurement of gastric motor function and transit in man by echo planar magnetic resonance imaging
Echo-planar imaging (EPI) can be used to produce snapshot images of the human stomach and antro-pyloro-duodenal segment in real time as an alternative technique to intubation and exposure to ionizing radiation...
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Role of Porin-Kinase Interactions in Disease
Hexokinase (ATP: D-hexose 6-phosphotransferase, EC2.7.1.1) and glycerol kinase (ATP: glycerol phosphotransferase, EC2.7.1.30) catalyze the phosphorylation of their respective hexose and triose substrates in or...