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Attenuation of autoimmune disease in fas-deficient mice by treatment with a cytotoxic benzodiazepine
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-03)
Objective Elimination of autoreactive cells relies on Fas-dependent activation-induced cell death mechanisms, an important component of peripheral tolerance. Defects in Fas or its cognate ligand lead to inefficient ...
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 ...
Recruitment of Women Research Participants: The Women's Health Registry at the University of Michigan
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2007-06-01)
Objective: The goal was to develop the Women's Health Registry, a research participant database that prospectively collects detailed information on potential research subjects to assist in linking them with open research ...
Desmoplastic and neurotropic melanoma
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-02-01)
BACKGROUND Desmoplastic and neurotropic melanoma (DNMM) occasionally metastasizes to regional lymph nodes and extranodal sites. The value of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has not been demonstrated clearly for patients ...
Emergent Behaviors in a Deterministic Model of the Human Uterus
(2009-11-10)
A cellular automaton designed to mimic the geometry, and physiologic function of the human uterus in labor produces patterns of activity which provide insight into how the human uterus functions in the birth process.
State-Specific Trends in Preterm Delivery: Are Rates Really Declining Among Non-Hispanic African Americans Across the United States?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-01)
Objectives : This study sought to examine state-specific trends in preterm delivery rates among non-Hispanic African Americans and to assess whether these rates are influenced by misclassification of gestational age. Methods ...
Thin primary cutaneous melanomas
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002-10-01)
BACKGROUND Public awareness and education may lead to the detection of thinner melanomas, which may result in a decrease in morbidity and mortality rates. Which detection patterns, lesion, and patient characteristics are ...
The utility of lockout valve reservoirs in preventing autoinflation in penile prostheses
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-09)
Introduction : Autoinflation is a troublesomecomplication following penile prosthesisplacement that may be potentiated by prevesicalscarring following radical prostatectomy. Weevaluated the frequency of autoinflation ...
Sentinel lymph node biopsy for patients with problematic spitzoid melanocytic lesions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-01-15)
BACKGROUND Spindle and/or epithelioid melanocytic proliferations that display overlapping histopathologic features of Spitz nevus and Spitz-like melanoma are diagnostically difficult and controversial melanocytic tumors. ...
A Bayesian hierarchical approach to multirater correlated ROC analysis
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005)
In a common ROC study design, several readers are asked to rate diagnostics of the same cases processed under different modalities. We describe a Bayesian hierarchical model that facilitates the analysis of this study ...