Annals ofClinical Medicine

Volume: 3 - Number: 75 - August 20, 2003

Outstanding

Fibrosis and disease progression in hepatitis C

Fundamentals of Endothelial Function for the Clinical Cardiologist

Efficacy of Mycophenolate Mofetil in Patients with Diffuse Proliferative Lupus Nephritis

Endoluminal Beta-Radiation Therapy for the Prevention of Coronary Restenosis after Balloon Angioplasty

Arterial Hypertension

Emerging Excitatory Role of Cardiovascular Sympathetic Afferents in Pathophysiological Conditions

Endothelial Apoptosis Induced by Oxidative Stress Through Activation of NF-B: Antiapoptotic Effect of Antioxidant Agents on Endothelial Cells

Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Gene Polymorphism and Maternal Vascular Adaptation to Pregnancy

Endothelin Mediates Some of the Renal Actions of Acutely Administered Angiotensin II

Endothelin-1 Gene Variant Associates With Blood Pressure in Obese Japanese Subjects: The Ohasama Study

Enhanced Affective Startle Modulation in Salt-Sensitive Subjects

Enhanced Nitric Oxide Inactivation and Protein Nitration by Reactive Oxygen Species in Renal Insufficiency

Estrogen Activates Phosphatases and Antagonizes Growth-Promoting Effect of Angiotensin II

Expression of Human Angiotensinogen-Renin in Rat Effects on Transcription and Heart Function

Fibrosis, Matrix Metalloproteinases, and Inflammation in the Heart of DOCA-Salt Hypertensive Rats: Role of ETA Receptors

Functional Correlates of Central Arterial Geometric Phenotypes

Functional Significance of Activation of Calcium/Calmodulin–Dependent Protein Kinase II in Angiotensin II–Induced Vascular Hyperplasia and Hypertension

Genomic Scan for Exercise Blood Pressure in the Health, Risk Factors, Exercise Training and Genetics (HERITAGE) Family Study

Heart Failure, Redox Alterations, and Endothelial Dysfunction

Hemodynamic and Autonomic Adjustments to Real Life Stress Conditions in Humans

Autoimmunity

Enterocolitis induced by autoimmune targeting of enteric glial cells: A possible mechanism in Crohn's disease?

Enumerating autoreactive T cells in peripheral blood: a big step in diabetes prediction

European Congress of Reproductive Immunology. Plzen, Czech Republic, June-July 2004

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in fulminant myocarditis complicating systemic lupus erythematosus.

FC Receptor biology

Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathy (Celiac Disease): More Common Than You Think

Cardiology

Electrophysiological Breakthroughs From the Left Atrium to the Pulmonary Veins

Endogenous Na,K Pump Ligands Are Differentially Regulated During Acute NaCl Loading of Dahl Rats

Endotoxin-Induced Mortality Is Related to Increased Oxidative Stress and End-Organ Dysfunction, Not Refractory Hypotension, in Heme Oxygenase-1-Deficient Mice

Enhanced Efficacy of Eptifibatide Administration in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome Requiring In-Hospital Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Evidence for Possible Involvement of 5-HT2B Receptors in the Cardiac Valvulopathy Associated With Fenfluramine and Other Serotonergic Medications

Evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection (Chagas’ Disease) Among Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

Folic Acid Improves Endothelial Function in Coronary Artery Disease via Mechanisms Largely Independent of Homocysteine Lowering

Fundamentals of Endothelial Function for the Clinical Cardiologist

Gas Exchange Detection of Exercise-Induced Right-to-Left Shunt in Patients With Primary Pulmonary Hypertension

Gene Therapy Strategy for Long-Term Myocardial Protection Using Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Delivery of Heme Oxygenase Gene

Genetic Alterations That Inhibit In Vivo Pressure-Overload Hypertrophy Prevent Cardiac Dysfunction Despite Increased Wall Stress

Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease

Genetics of Hypertension, Target-Organ Complications, and Response to Therapy

Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Receptor Blockade Improves Outcomes in Diabetic Patients Presenting With Unstable Angina /Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Granulomatous Aortitis Presenting as an Acute Myocardial Infarction in Crohn's Disease

Clinical Microbiology

Emergence of Diverse Helicobacter Species in the Pathogenesis of Gastric and Enterohepatic Diseases

Endocarditis Due to Rare and Fastidious Bacteria

Escherichia coli and Salmonella 2000: the View From Here

Evaluation of 15 Motility Media and a Direct Microscopic Method for Detection of Motility in Enterococci

Evaluation of the C6 Peptide Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Individuals Vaccinated with the Recombinant OspA Vaccine

Experimental Oral Candidiasis in Animal Models

Genetic Diversity of the Outer Surface Protein C Gene of Southern Borrelia Isolates and Its Possible Epidemiological, Clinical, and Pathogenetic Implications

Genome of the Extremely Radiation-Resistant Bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans Viewed from the Perspective of Comparative Genomics

Global Impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDS

Clinical Psychiatric

Empirical Evidence and Psychotherapy: A Growing Scientific Base

Enhanced Startle Reactions to Acoustic Stimuli in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes

Evaluating the use of benzodiazepines following recent bereavement

Evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions in the community care of schizophrenia

Functional Imaging Studies: Linking Mind and Basic Neuroscience

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cocaine Craving

Genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease: advising relatives

Critical Care

Evidence for Excess Long-Term Mortality After Treated Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Feasibility of an Affected Sibling Pair Study in Ischemic Stroke: Results of a 2-Center Family History Registry

Diabetes

From Thebes to Toronto and the 21st Century: An Incredible Journey

Further Mapping of the Idd5.1 Locus for Autoimmune Diabetes in NOD Mice

Glucose Control During and After Pancreatic Transplantation

HbA1c Levels Are Genetically Determined Even in Type 1 Diabetes: Evidence From Healthy and Diabetic Twins

Family Medicine

Emergency Postcoital Contraception

Evaluating the Febrile Patient with a Rash

Evaluation and Treatment of the Patient with Osteoarthritis

Family Physicians’ Observations of Their Practice, Well Being, and Health Care in the United States

Family Physicians’ Personal Experiences of Their Fathers’ Health Care

Female Sexual Dysfunction: Evaluation and Treatment

Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB): A Newer Drug of Abuse

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Getting the Facts on Restless Legs

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Endoscopic Ligation Compared with Combined Treatment with Nadolol and Isosorbide Mononitrate to Prevent Recurrent Variceal Bleeding

Expression of cell volume-regulated kinase h-sgk in pancreatic tissue

Expression of small heat shock protein alphaB-crystallin is induced after hepatic stellate cell activation

Expression, transport properties, and chromosomal location of organic anion transporter subtype 4

Fibrogenesis: V. TGF-beta signaling pathways

Functional properties of transfected human DMT1 iron transporter

Gene transfer of recombinant endothelial nitric oxide synthase to liver in vivo and in vitro

Genes, Microbes, and T Cells — New Therapeutic Targets in Crohn's Disease

GLP-2 stimulates intestinal growth in premature TPN-fed pigs by suppressing proteolysis and apoptosis

Gut-derived norepinephrine plays a critical role in producing hepatocellular dysfunction during early sepsis

Helicobacter pylori — Not a Good Bug after All

Helicobacter pylori Infection and the Development of Gastric Cancer

Hematology

General T-cell receptor antagonists to immunomodulate HLA-A2-restricted minor histocompatibility antigen HA-1-specific T-cell responses

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe combined immunodeficiency in the neonatal period leads to superior thymic output and improved survival

Image and Radiology

EFICACIA DE F18 – FLUORODEOXIGLUCOSA SPECT PARA EVALUAR INFARTO RECIENTE Y VIABILIDAD MIOCARDICA

EVALUACION DE TUMORES EPIDERMOIDES RECURRENTES DE CABEZA Y CUELLO MEDIANTE INMUNO-SPECT CON EL ANTICUERPO MONOCLONAL IOR EGF/R3 MARCADO CON Tc-99m

EVALUACION DE VIABILIDAD MIOCARDICA CON F18 DEOXIGLUCOSA EN INFARTO DE MIOCARDIO RECIENTE

Evaluation of JPEG and Wavelet Compression of Body CT Images for Direct Digital Teleradiologic Transmission

Evolution of Diagnostic Neuroradiology from 1904 to 1999

Fallopian Tube Disease: The Cobblestone Pattern as a Radiographic Sign

Fiber Crossing in Human Brain Depicted with Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging

Focused Abdominal US in Patients with Trauma

FUNCTIONAL BRAIN STUDY OF CHRONIC TRAUMATIC HEAD INJURY

Health Care Rationing: Every Physician’s Dilemma

Immunoinfectology

Elevated Levels of Lipopolysaccharide-Binding Protein and Soluble CD14 in Plasma in Neonatal Early-Onset Sepsis

Elucidation of the Cross-Reactive Immunoglobulin M Response to Human Herpesviruses 6 and 7 on the Basis of Neutralizing Antibodies

Evaluation of Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Diagnosis of Post-Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis with Crude or Recombinant k39 Antigen

Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever?

Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Improves Deficient In Vitro Neutrophil Transendothelial Migration in Patients with Advanced Liver Disease

Grape Seed Extract Activates Th1 Cells In Vitro

Infectology

Efficacy of Low-Dose Intermittent Subcutaneous Interleukin (IL)2 in Antiviral Drug Experienced Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infected Persons with Detectable Virus Load: A Controlled Study of 3 IL-2 Regimens with Antiviral Drug Therapy

Evaluation of T Cell Receptor Gene Rearrangement Excision Circles after Antiretroviral Therapy in Children Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Evidence for Chlamydia trachomatis as a Human Papillomavirus Cofactor in the Etiology of Invasive Cervical Cancer in Brazil and the Philippines

Evidence for Different Mechanisms of Chloroquine Resistance in 2 Plasmodium Species That Cause Human Malaria

Experimental Yellow Fever Virus Infection in the Golden Hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). I. Virologic, Biochemical, and Immunologic Studies

Experimental Yellow Fever Virus Infection in the Golden Hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). II. Pathology

Fibrosis and disease progression in hepatitis C

Future therapy of hepatitis C

Group B Streptococcal -Hemolysin/Cytolysin Promotes Invasion of Human Lung Epithelial Cells and the Release of Interleukin-9

Internal Medicine

Efficacy of Mycophenolate Mofetil in Patients with Diffuse Proliferative Lupus Nephritis

Endoluminal Beta-Radiation Therapy for the Prevention of Coronary Restenosis after Balloon Angioplasty

Entrainment of Free-Running Circadian Rhythms by Melatonin in Blind People

Enzyme-Replacement Therapy in Mucopolysaccharidosis I

Familial Aggregation of Parkinson's Disease in Iceland

Familial isolated hypoparathyroidism caused by a mutation in the gene for the transcription factor GCMB

Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in 20 U.S. Cities, 1988

Fludarabine Compared with Chlorambucil as Primary Therapy for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Folic Acid Antagonists during Pregnancy and the Risk of Birth Defects

Fomepizole for the Treatment of Methanol Poisoning

Gama-delta T cells in innate anti-bacterial defenses

Gene-Expression Profiles in Hereditary Breast Cancer

Genetic Variation in Alcohol Dehydrogenase and the Beneficial Effect of Moderate Alcohol Consumption on Myocardial Infarction

Genomic Aberrations and Survival in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Guanine nucleotides and acute renal failure

Guanosine supplementation reduces apoptosis and protects renal function in the setting of ischemic injury

Investigation

Enhanced ERK-1/2 activation in mice susceptible to coxsackievirus-induced myocarditis

Enhanced synthesis of albumin and fibrinogen at high altitude

Episodic coronary artery vasospasm and hypertension develop in the absence of Sur2 KATP channels

Essential role of Gas6 for glomerular injury in nephrotoxic nephritis

Estrogen alters thresholds for B cell apoptosis and activation

Exploiting dendritic cells to improve vaccine efficacy

Fiber type and metabolic dependence of T2 increases in stimulated rat muscles

Functional redundancy of Rab27 proteins and the pathogenesis of Griscelli syndrome

G1 and G2 cell-cycle arrest following microtubule depolymerization in human breast cancer cells

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor stimulation increases blood pressure and heart rate and activates autonomic regulatory neurons

Heparin’s anti-inflammatory effects require glucosamine 6-O-sulfation and are mediated by blockade of L- and P-selectins

Medical Bioethical

Eli Lilly violates patients' privacy

Embryo cell research should continue, committee says

English teenager given heart transplant against her will

Epidemiology and detection of HIV-1 among pregnant women in the United Kingdom: results from national surveillance 1988-96

Ethical debate: child sexual abuse: when a doctor's duty to report abuse conflicts with a duty of confidentiality to the victim (The woman who wanted to see her paediatric hospital records)

Ethical debate: Informed consent in medical research • Informed consent: a response to recent correspondence • Changing the BMJ's position on informed consent would be counterproductive • Informed consenta publisher's duty • Trial subjects must be fully i

Ethical debate: Sex, drugs, and the invasion of privacy • Respect for privacy and the case of Mr K • Commentary: Hospital can never be home • Commentary: Silence may be the best advocacy • Commentary: Nurses should recognise patients' rights to autonomy •

Ethical dilemma: Retrieving semen from a dead patient • Utilitarianism in the absence of definitive guidelines • The patient was assaulted • Some ethical concerns were ignored • An ethic of ambivalence

Ethical issues in diagnosis and management of patients in the permanent vegetative state

Ethics behind closed doors: do research ethics committees need secrecy?

Ethics of using preimplantation genetic diagnosis to select a stem cell donor for an existing person

EU advisory committee members declare their interests

EU harmonises rules for trials

EU institutions divided on therapeutic cloning

Factors affecting uptake of antenatal HIV testing in London: results of a multicentre study

Failure to report ethical approval in child health research: review of published papers

Falsifying data is main problem in US research fraud review

FDA advierte a los fabricantes de drogas de SIDA

Fears that a rise in genetic testing will rule out insurance are "paranoia"

First trimester ultrasound screening

For and against: Clinical equipoise and not the uncertainty principle is the moral underpinning of the randomised controlled trial • FOR • AGAINST

For and against: Declaration of Helsinki should be strengthened • FOR • AGAINST • Rothman and Michels' riposte

For and against: Direct to consumer advertising is medicalising normal human experience: Against

For and against: Should Nottingham University give back its tobacco money? • For • Against

Former health minister accused of diverting funds from health care

France creates opt out register for organ donation

France outlaws the right to sue for being born

From exceptionalism to normalisation: a reappraisal of attitudes and practice around HIV testing

Gaining informed consent for screening

German doctors face investigation in drugs scandal

German prosecutor investigates the removal of dead babies' organs

German research society apologises to victims of Nazis

Germany faces shortfall in transplant organs

Germany reorganises its transplant services

Getting informed consent from patients to take part in the clinical training of students: randomised trial of two strategies

GMC advises doctors on seeking consent

Government orders inquiry into removal of children's organs

Government sets up inquiry into ventilation trial

GP reprimanded for testing patients for HIV without consent

GPs shut surgeries in protest at government targets

GPs warned on accepting hospitality from drug companies

Grouplegal action launched over retained organs

Guide to ethics of treating children published

Haematologist may face disciplinary action for research fraud

Half as many animals used in medical research as 20 years ago

Head of the Medical Council of India removed for corruption

Health authority employing HIV positive dentist wins anonymity

Health websites in US propose new ethics code

Medical Physiology

Epimorphin expression in intestinal myofibroblasts induces epithelial morphogenesis

Expression and Intracellular Localization of an SCN5A Double Mutant R1232W/T1620M Implicated in Brugada Syndrome

Fatal attraction: chemokines and type 1 diabetes

Fatty acid oxidation in human skeletal muscle

FGF2 Signaling Is Required for the Development of Neuronal Circuits Regulating Blood Pressure

Frank-Starling Relationship: Long on Importance, Short on Mechanism

Functional repair of a mutant chloride channel using a trans-splicing ribozyme

Getting peptide vaccines to work: just a matter of quality control?

Getting Tie(2)d up in angiogenesis

Guanosine nucleotides inhibit different syndromes of PTHrP excess caused by human cancers in vivo

Nephrology

Embryonic epithelial membrane transporters

Endothelial Function and Oxidative Stress in Renovascular Hypertension

Epidemiology of Anemia Associated with Chronic Renal Insufficiency among Adults in the United States: Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Escherichia coli O157:H7 — Piecing Together the Jigsaw Puzzle

Essential Role(s) of the Intrarenal Renin-Angiotensin System in Transforming Growth Factor–ß1 Gene Expression and Induction of Hypertrophy of Rat Kidney Proximal Tubular Cells in High Glucose

Expression of aquaporins in the renal connecting tubule

Extracellular Ca2+-sensing receptor is a promiscuous divalent cation sensor that responds to lead

Functional expression of novel peptide transporter in renal basolateral membranes

Gentamicin traffics rapidly and directly to the Golgi complex in LLC-PK1 cells

Heat Shock Protein 27 Associates with Basolateral Cell Boundaries in Heat-Shocked and ATP-Depleted Epithelial Cells

Hemodynamic Effects of Peritoneal Dialysis Solutions on the Rat Peritoneal Membrane: Role of Acidity, Buffer Choice, Glucose Concentration, and Glucose Degradation Products

Hemodynamics, Hypertension, Vascular Regulation

Nutrition

Elevated plasma 4-pyridoxic acid in renal insufficiency

Enhanced zinc utilization during lactation may reduce maternal and infant zinc depletion

Enhancement of immunity in the elderly by dietary supplementation with the probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis HN020

Evaluation of indexes of in vivo manganese status and the optimal intravenous dose for adult patients undergoing home parenteral nutrition

Exchangeable magnesium pool masses in healthy women: effects of magnesium supplementation

Ferritin concentrations in dried serum spots from capillary and venous blood in children in Sri Lanka: a validation study

Field Methods for Body Composition Assessment Are Valid in Healthy Chinese Adults

Got some amino acids to spare?

Habitual physical activity, anabolic hormones, and potassium content of fat-free mass in postmenopausal women

Hawthorn Fruit Is Hypolipidemic in Rabbits Fed a High Cholesterol Diet

Oncology

Elevated Expression of hTERT Is Associated with Dysplastic Cell Transformation during Human Oral Carcinogenesis in Situ

Endostatin-induced Modulation of Plasminogen Activation with Concomitant Loss of Focal Adhesions and Actin Stress Fibers in Cultured Human Endothelial Cells

Enhanced Adenovirus Transgene Expression in Malignant Cells Treated with the Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor FR901228

Estrogens Do Not Modify MAP Kinase-dependent Nuclear Signaling during Stimulation of Early G1 Progression in Human Breast Cancer Cells

Evaluation of Epithelial Cell Proliferation Rate in Normal-appearing Colonic Mucosa as a High-Risk Marker for Colorectal Cancer

Expression of Interleukin 8 and Its Receptors in Human Colon Carcinoma Cells with Different Metastatic Potentials

Family History and Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma

Forearm Blood Flow and Local Responses to Peptide Vasodilators: A Novel Pharmacodynamic Measure in the Phase I Trial of Antagonist G, a Neuropeptide Growth Factor Antagonist

Frequent Alterations of the p14ARF and p16INK4a Genes in Primary Central Nervous System Lymphomas

Helicobacter Pylori Membrane Protein 1: A New Carcinogenic Factor of Helicobacter Pylori

Pathology

Embryonic Gut Anomalies in a Mouse Model of Retinoic Acid-Induced Caudal Regression Syndrome : Delayed Gut Looping, Rudimentary Cecum, and Anorectal Anomalies

Enrichment, Immunomorphological, and Genetic Characterization of Fetal Cells Circulating in Maternal Blood

Exploring the Host Desmoplastic Response to Pancreatic Carcinoma : Gene Expression of Stromal and Neoplastic Cells at the Site of Primary Invasion

Exposure of Mice to Topical Bovine Thrombin Induces Systemic Autoimmunity

Expression and Gene Copy Number Analysis of ERBB2 Oncogene in Prostate Cancer

Expression of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Invasive Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma with Bronchioloalveolar Component and Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia

Expression of the Chemokine Receptors CCR4, CCR5, and CXCR3 by Human Tissue-Infiltrating Lymphocytes

Failure of Ureteric Bud Invasion : A New Model of Renal Agenesis in Mice

Features of Colorectal Cancers with High-Level Microsatellite Instability Occurring in Familial and Sporadic Settings : Parallel Pathways of Tumorigenesis

Focusing on the Glomerular Slit Diaphragm : Podocin Enters the Picture

Glomerular Calcification in Hypercalcemic Nephropathy.

Glutamyl Transpeptidase-Deficient Mice Are Resistant to the Nephrotoxic Effects of Cisplatin

Gp120-Induced Bob/GPR15 Activation : A Possible Cause of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Enteropathy

Granulocytic Sarcoma in MLL-Positive Infant Acute Myelogenous Leukemia : Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization Study of Childhood Acute Myelogenous Leukemia for Detecting MLL Rearrangement

GSTP1 CpG Island Hypermethylation Is Responsible for the Absence of GSTP1 Expression in Human Prostate Cancer Cells

Healing of Burn Wounds in Transgenic Mice Overexpressing Transforming Growth Factor-ß1 in the Epidermis

Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans as Regulators of Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 Receptor Binding in Breast Carcinomas

Pharmacology

Electrophysiologic Characterization of the Antipsychotic Drug Sertindole in a Rabbit Heart Model of Torsade de Pointes: Low Torsadogenic Potential Despite QT Prolongation

Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Antagonists Block Secondary Thermal Hyperalgesia in Rats with Knee Joint Inflammation

Group II Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors Modulate Extracellular Glutamate in the Nucleus Accumbens

Pneumonology

Empiric Antibiotic Therapy and Mortality Among Medicare Pneumonia Inpatients in 10 Western States : 1993, 1995, and 1997

Exhaled Nitric Oxide Is Elevated in Patients With Progressive Systemic Sclerosis Without Interstitial Lung Disease

Expiratory Flow Limitation and Orthopnea in Massively Obese Subjects

Hemodynamic Effects of Simulated Obstructive Apneas in Humans With and Without Heart Failure

Rheumatology

Etanercept in four children with therapy-resistant systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Evaluating the cutaneous involvement in scleroderma: torsional stiffness revisited

Evidence for a protective role of the human leukocyte antigen class II region in early rheumatoid arthritis

Evidence of association and linkage disequilibrium between a novel polymorphism in the transforming growth factor ß1 gene and hip bone mineral density: a study of female twins

Exercise can reverse quadriceps sensorimotor dysfunction that is associated with rheumatoid arthritis without exacerbating disease activity

Expression of interleukin-18 receptor in fibroblast-like synoviocytes

Genetics of osteoarticular disorders, Florence, Italy, 22–23 February 2003

Glucocorticoid epidural for sciatica: metabolic and endocrine sequelae

Health-care use by rheumatoid arthritis patients compared with non-arthritic subjects

Helicobacter pylori infection in rheumatoid arthritis: effect of drugs on prevalence and correlation with gastroduodenal lesions

Vascular Medicine

Endothelial Dysfunction and Blood Pressure Variability in Selected Inbred Mouse Strains

Experimental Rupture of Atherosclerotic Lesions Increases Distal Vascular Resistance: A Limiting Factor to the Success of Infarct Angioplasty

Folates and Cardiovascular Disease

Genome-Wide Linkage Analysis of Pulse Pressure in Mexican Americans

Handicap After Stroke: How Does It Relate to Disability, Perception of Recovery, and Stroke Subtype?: The North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study (NEMESIS)

Have Randomized Controlled Trials of Neuroprotective Drugs Been Underpowered? : An Illustration of Three Statistical Principles

Hemodynamic Consequences of Cerebral Vasospasm on Perforating Arteries : A Phantom Model Study

Hemodynamic Overload–Induced Activation of Myocardial Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases In Vivo : Augmented Responses in Young Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats and Diminished Responses in Aged Fischer 344 Rats

Virology and HIV/Aids

Enhancement of Hepatitis C Virus RNA Replication by Cell Culture-Adaptive Mutations

Ethical Considerations in the Treatment of Infertility in Women with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

Expenditures for the Care of HIV-Infected Patients in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

Fumagillin Treatment of Intestinal Microsporidiosis

Generation of a Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A Virus from an Avirulent Field Isolate by Passaging in Chickens

Global Impact of Influenza Virus on Cellular Pathways Is Mediated by both Replication-Dependent and -Independent Events