Annals ofClinical Medicine

Volume: 3 - Number: 68 - May 5, 2003

Outstanding

3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstasy) and Alcohol Interactions in Humans: Psychomotor Performance, Subjective Effects, and Pharmacokinetics

A Clinically Prognostic Scoring System for Patients Receiving Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: Results from the EuroSIDA Study

A Comparison of the Survival of Shipped and Locally Transplanted Cadaveric Renal Allografts

A full complement of receptors in immune complex diseases

Arterial Hypertension

"Hale" and Farewell: An Epilogue After 8 Years

Autoimmunity

I Latin-American Congress of Autoimmunity. Galapagos Islands. Ecuador. September 2003

A Controlled Trial of Natalizumab for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

A Longitudinal Study of Abnormalities on MRI and Disability from Multiple Sclerosis

A monoclonal thyroid-stimulating antibody

Cardiology

1{ALPHA},25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 and Its Potent Synthetic Analogs Downregulate Tissue Factor and Upregulate Thrombomodulin Expression in Monocytic Cells, Counteracting the Effects of Tumor Necrosis Factor and Oxidized LDL

3D-Magnetic Resonance Angiogram of Heterotopic Heart Transplant

Clinical Microbiology

Listeria Pathogenesis and Molecular Virulence Determinants

Vaccinia Virus Inhibitors as a Paradigm for the Chemotherapy of Poxvirus Infections

Clinical Psychiatric

A Novel Augmentation Strategy for Treating Resistant Major Depression

Critical Care

2-Month Mortality and Functional Status of Critically Ill Adult Patients Receiving Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation

A 38-Year-Old Man With Tracheomegaly, Tracheal Diverticulosis, and Bronchiectasis

A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Critical Care Delivery : Japan and the United States

A Cystic Upper Lobe Lesion in a Healthy Nonsmoking Man

A Multicenter Description of Intermediate-Care Patients* : Comparison With ICU Low-Risk Monitor Patients

A New Method for Predicting Recovery After Stroke

Diabetes

A Missense Mutation of Pax4 Gene (R121W) Is Associated With Type 2 Diabetes in Japanese

A Nonlinear Effect of Hyperglycemia and Current Cigarette Smoking Are Major Determinants of the Onset of Microalbuminuria in Type 1 Diabetes

Endocrinology and Metabolism

[123I]Metaiodobenzylguanidine and [111In]Octreotide Uptake in Benign and Malignant Pheochromocytomas

17ß-Estradiol Stimulates Expression of Osteoprotegerin by a Mouse Stromal Cell Line, ST-2, via Estrogen Receptor-

17ß-Estradiol Treatment Decreases Steroidogenic Enzyme Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Levels in the Rainbow Trout Testis

5-Reductase Type 2 Is Constitutively Expressed in the Dermal Papilla and Connective Tissue Sheath of the Hair Follicle in Vivo But Not during Culture in Vitro

5-Reductases in Human Breast Carcinoma: Possible Modulator of in Situ Androgenic Actions

A Global Study of Vitamin D Status and Parathyroid Function in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis: Baseline Data from the Multiple Outcomes of Raloxifene Evaluation Clinical Trial

A Mutation in the Cofactor-Binding Domain of 11ß-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 2 Associated with Mineralocorticoid Hypertension

A Novel Role for Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in the Synthesis of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone

Family Medicine

A Family Physician's Guide to Monitoring Methotrexate

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

A duodenum-specific enhancer regulates expression along three axes in the small intestine

Geriatric Internal Medicine

A Comparison of Outcomes with Angiotensin-Converting–Enzyme Inhibitors and Diuretics for Hypertension in the Elderly

A Controlled Trial of Inpatient and Outpatient Geriatric Evaluation and Management

Hematology

Neutrophils at the crossroads of cytokine and RA receptors

A Long-Term Study of Prognosis in Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance

Image and Radiology

¿MODIFICA EL SPECT GATILLADO (GATED SPECT) LA INTERPRETACION DE LOS ESTUDIOS DE PERFUSON MIOCARDICA?

Immunoinfectology

Ability of the Borreliacidal Antibody Test To Confirm Lyme Disease in Clinical Practice

Exposure of HEp-2 Cells to Stress Conditions Influences Antinuclear Antibody Reactivity

Increased Anionic Peptide Distribution and Intensity during Progression and Resolution of Bacterial Pneumonia

Invasive Pneumococcal Infections in Denmark from 1995 to 1999: Epidemiology, Serotypes, and Resistance

Relevance of Dietary Lipids as Modulators of Immune Functions in Cells Infected with Listeria monocytogenes

Stimulant-Dependent Modulation of Cytokines and Chemokines by Airway Epithelial Cells: Cross Talk between Pulmonary Epithelial and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells

Infectology

A Clinically Prognostic Scoring System for Patients Receiving Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: Results from the EuroSIDA Study

A Human Immunodeficiency VirusTransgenic Mouse Model for Assessing Interventions that Block Microbial-Induced Proviral Expression

An Anti-CD45RO Immunotoxin Kills Latently Infected Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) CD4 T Cells in the Blood of HIV-Positive Persons

In Vitro Therapeutic Effect of Epigallocatechin Gallate on Nicotine-Induced Impairment of Resistance to Legionella pneumophila Infection of Established MH-S Alveolar Macrophages

The Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)Trimera Mouse: A Model for Evaluation of Agents against HCV

Internal Medicine

A Comparison of Etanercept and Methotrexate in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

A Comparison of Glyburide and Insulin in Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

A Comparison of Levomethadyl Acetate, Buprenorphine, and Methadone for Opioid Dependence

A Molecular Marker for Chloroquine-Resistant Falciparum Malaria

Investigation

Deficient natural killer cell cytotoxicity in patients with IKK-/NEMO mutations

1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 is a negative endocrine regulator of the renin-angiotensin system

Medical Bioethical

"Buffer zone" law for abortion clinics declared unconstitutional

"Sale of organs" to be investigated

$1bn drug deal creates debt for "tomorrow's AIDS orphans"

Medical Physiology

1-Antitrypsin polymerization and the serpinopathies: pathobiology and prospects for therapy

A full complement of receptors in immune complex diseases

A monoclonal thyroid-stimulating antibody

A novel dispersin protein in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli

Nephrology

Brief Report:BK-Related Polyomavirus Vasculopathy in a Renal-Transplant Recipient

A Comparison of the Survival of Shipped and Locally Transplanted Cadaveric Renal Allografts

Nutrition

[13C]Linoleic iacid oxidation and transfer into milk in stunted lactating women with contrasting body mass indexes

5,10-Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase genotype determines the plasma homocysteine-lowering effect of supplementation with 5-methyltetrahydrofolate or folic acid in healthy young women

Oncology

A Family of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2A with the RET Proto-oncogene Mutation in Codon 618 (CysArg)

A Gene-Expression Signature as a Predictor of Survival in Breast Cancer

A Hepatocellular Carcinoma-specific Adenovirus Variant, CV890, Eliminates Distant Human Liver Tumors in Combination with Doxorubicin

A Novel Approach in the Treatment of Cancer: Targeting the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor

Pathology

Cathepsin K Is a Critical Protease in Synovial Fibroblast-Mediated Collagen Degradation

A Dominant Interference Collagen X Mutation Disrupts Hypertrophic Chondrocyte Pericellular Matrix and Glycosaminoglycan and Proteoglycan Distribution in Transgenic Mice

Pharmacology

[Arg14,Lys15]Nociceptin, a Highly Potent Agonist of the Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ Receptor: in Vitro and in Vivo Studies

2C-Adrenergic Receptors Mediate Spinal Analgesia and Adrenergic-Opioid Synergy

3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstasy) and Alcohol Interactions in Humans: Psychomotor Performance, Subjective Effects, and Pharmacokinetics

A New Bis-Indole, KARs, Induces Selective M Arrest with Specific Spindle Aberration in Neuroblastoma Cell Line SH-SY5Y

Rheumatology

A Controlled Trial of Arthroscopic Surgery for Osteoarthritis of the Knee

A high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio as a potential risk factor for corticosteroid-induced osteonecrosis in rabbits

Virology and HIV/Aids

A Controlled Trial of Valganciclovir as Induction Therapy for Cytomegalovirus Retinitis