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Opportunities And Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research Career Development: Implementation of A Women's Health Research Training Program
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2007-03-01)
Background: A key component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research is the development of interdisciplinary research teams. How best to teach and foster interdisciplinary research skills has ...
Glycogen synthase kinase-3 regulation of chromatin segregation and cytokinesis in mouse preimplantation embryos
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-02)
Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is a highly conserved serine/threonine protein kinase implicated in diverse cellular processes. Activity of GSK-3 is essential for meiotic chromatin segregation in oocytes, yet expression ...
Pregnancy Intention and Birth Outcomes: Does the Relationship Differ by Age or Race?
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2007-05-01)
Purpose: We hypothesized that intended pregnancy is associated with decreased risk of poor birth outcomes, irrespective of age or race. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 47,956 live singleton births using ...
A Systematic Review of Gender Differences in Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2007-10)
Gender differences exist in outcomes, particularly early mortality, for percutaneous interventions (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). Better understanding of this issue may target areas for improvement ...
Merkel cell carcinoma: Critical review with guidelines for multidisciplinary management
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-07-01)
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a relatively rare cutaneous malignancy that occurs predominantly in the older white population. The incidence of MCC appears to have tripled during the past 20 years; an increase that is ...
The impact of factors beyond Breslow depth on predicting sentinel lymph node positivity in melanoma
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-01-01)
BACKGROUND. In addition to Breslow depth, the authors previously described how increasing mitotic rate and decreasing age predicted sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastases in patients with melanoma. The objectives of the ...
Test-retest reliability of an instrumented speculum for measuring vaginal closure force No conflict of interest reported by the author(s). Work performed at the University of Michigan School of Nursing and University of Michigan Medical Center.
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-10)
Aims: The study aimed to: a) determine reliability of an instrumented speculum designed for measuring intravaginal closure pressure, and b) compare findings with a comparable device reported in the literature. The goal ...
3D excretory MR urography: Improved image quality with intravenous saline and diuretic administration
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-04)
Purpose To assess the effect of diuretic administration on the image quality of excretory magnetic resonance urography (MRU) obtained following intravenous hydration, and to determine whether intravenous hydration alone ...
What is a sentinel node? Re-evaluating the 10% rule for sentinel lymph node biopsy in melanoma
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2007-06-15)
Introduction Many surgeons use the “10% rule” to define whether a lymph node is a sentinel node (SLN) when staging malignant melanoma. However, this increases the number of SLN removed and the time and cost of the procedure. ...
Perceptions of Clinical Research Participation among African American Women
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2007-04-01)
Background: Recruiting minority women into clinical research remains a significant challenge to conducting ethnically representative research. The main objective of this Office on Women's Health, DHHS-funded e-health ...