Child survival gains in Tanzania: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys (Publications)
70.1-96.3) deaths per 1000 livebirths in 2004. The change in absolute risk was 58.4 (95% CI 32.7-83.8; p
Efficacy and safety of tribendimidine against <em>Clonorchis sinensis</em> (Publications)
tribendimidine administered for 3 days and praziquantel, respectively. High egg reduction rates (97.6-98.8%) were observed for all treatment regimens. Single-dose tribendimidine was the best-tolerated treatment
Extremely low frequency magnetic field measurements in buildings with transformer stations in Switzerland (Publications)
concurrently measured with 5 to 6 EMDEX II meters for 10min. Measured arithmetic mean ELF-MF was 0.59muT in 8 apartments that were fully adjacent to a transformer room, either directly above the transformer or
Antimycobacterial, antiprotozoal and cytotoxic potential of twenty-one brown algae (Phaeophyceae) from British and Irish waters (Publications)
leishmanicidal activity, with H. siliquosa and B. bifurcata again being the most active (IC50s 6.4 and 8.6 mug/mL). When tested against M. tuberculosis, only the B. bifurcata extract was found to have some
MAGE-C1/CT-7 expression in plasma cell myeloma: sub-cellular localization impacts on clinical outcome (Publications)
MAGE-C1/CT-7, and NY-ESO-1 was investigated on paraffin-embedded bone marrow biopsies from 219 PM and 8 monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) patients. The frequency and prognostic impact
Lagunamide C, a cytotoxic cyclodepsipeptide from the marine cyanobacterium <em>Lyngbya majuscula</em> (Publications)
displayed potent cytotoxic activity against a panel of cancer cell lines, such as P388, A549, PC3, HCT8, and SK-OV3 cell lines, with IC(50) values ranging from 2.1nM to 24.4nM. Compound 1 also displayed
3,5-Diaryl-2-aminopyridines as a novel class of orally active antimalarials demonstrating single dose cure in mice and clinical candidate potential (Publications)
has good oral bioavailability (51% at 20 mg/kg) and a reasonable half-life (t(1/2) approximately 7-8 h)
Discordances in the application of different criteria for quantification of paediatric abdominal obesity: an analysis of two Swiss studies (Publications)
obesity varied between 3.1 and 49.4% in boys, and 4.7 and 55.5% in girls (Ballabeina), and between 1.8 and 36.3% in boys and 4.5 and 37.3% in girls (KISS). Among children considered as abdominally obese
Sequence analysis of the MSP 1 gene of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> isolates from Hainan, China (Publications)
of the MSP1 from this two Chinese isolates were identical with each other except for Blocks 2, 4 and 8. CONCLUSION: The sequences of the MSP 1 from two Chinese isolates of P. falciparum belong to the MAD20
Antiprotozoal, antimycobacterial and cytotoxic potential of some British green algae (Publications)
only C. rupestris and U. lactuca had moderate trypanocidal activity against T. cruzi (IC(50) values 80.8 and 34.9 mug/ml). Again, all four extracts showed leishmanicidal activity with IC(50) values ranging
