Prognostic significance of epithelial-mesenchymal and mesenchymal-epithelial transition protein expression in non-small cell lung cancer (Publications)
microarrays. RESULTS: Of the 533 patients, 48% had squamous cell carcinoma, 47% adenocarcinoma, and 5% adenosquamous carcinoma. High expression of periostin in either stroma or tumor epithelia, independently
Comparison of adult physical activity levels in three Swiss alpine communities with varying access to motorized transportation (Publications)
the other two communities (community 2: 35.9%, 95% CI: 30.6%-41.6%, community 3: 32.7%, 95% CI: 27.5%-38.3%). The differences were due to higher levels of moderate physical activities. Vigorous physical
Turkish freshwater and marine macrophyte extracts show in vitro antiprotozoal activity and inhibit FabI, a key enzyme of <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
l potential. The best antileishmanial activity was exerted by U. lactuca and P. oceanica (IC(50)'s 5.9 and 8.0mug/ml, respectively). Five extracts that demonstrated inhibitory activity towards P. falciparum
Multiple parasite infections and their relationship to self-reported morbidity in a community of rural Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
obtained for 500/561 (89.1%) participants, similarly distributed among sex, with an age range from 5 days to 91 years. The prevalences of Plasmodium falciparum, hookworms, Entamoeba histolytica/E. dispar
Cotton dust, endotoxin and cancer mortality among the Shanghai textile workers cohort: a 30-year analysis (Publications)
general, risks were greatest for 20-year lagged medium exposure (all cancers HR=2.7 (95% CI 1.4 to 5.2); cancer excluding lung cancer HR=3.4 (1.7-7.0); gastrointestinal cancer HR=4.1 (1.8-9.7)). With the
The public health significance and control of schistosomiasis in China - then and now (Publications)
have been reached in 260 counties (60.0%), transmission control has been achieved in 63 counties (14.5%), but the disease was still endemic in the remaining 110 counties (25.4%). Comparison between the number
Occupational exposures and uncontrolled adult-onset asthma in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey II (Publications)
12-month and 10-year exposure to any occupational asthmagens (OR (95% CI) 1.6 (1.0-2.40) and 1.7 (1.2-2.5), respectively); high (1.7 (1.0-2.8) and 1.9 (1.3-2.9), respectively) and low (1.6 (1.0-2.7) and 1.8
Reactivity to accelerometer measurement of children and adolescents (Publications)
CONCLUSION: Reactivity to accelerometer measurement of PA is likely to be present to an extent of about 5% on the first day and may introduce a relevant bias to accelerometer-based studies. In pre-school children
Eau potable, assainissement et risque de maladies diarrhéiques dans la Communauté Urbaine de Nouakchott, Mauritanie (Publications)
affected like Sebkha (19.1%). The distribution according to the age categories shows that children under 5 years are the most affected with 51.7% followed by people aged over 14 with 34.2%. The correlation analysis
Impact and cost-effectiveness of snail control to achieve disease control targets for schistosomiasis (Publications)
focal snail control interventions against Schistosoma haematobium across a range of low-prevalence (5-20%) and high-prevalence (25-50%) rural Kenyan communities. We simulated strategies over a 10-year period