Public-health impact of outdoor and traffic-related air pollution: a European assessment (Publications)
cases of chronic bronchitis (adults); more than 290,000 episodes of bronchitis (children); more than 0.5 million asthma attacks; and more than 16 million person-days of restricted activities. INTERPRETATION:
Harnessing the wealth of Chinese scientific literature: schistosomiasis research and control in China (Publications)
"Schistosoma" () and covering the period 1990-2006, we obtained 10,244 hits in the CNKI database and 5,975 in VIP. We examined 10 Chinese biomedical journals that published the highest number of original
Cross-validation of bioelectrical impedance analysis for the assessment of body composition in a representative sample of 6- to 13-year-old children (Publications)
measured with DXA. Body resistance (R) was measured at 50 kHz with 4-BIA and segmental body resistance at 5, 50, 250 and 500 kHz with 8-BIA. The resistance index (RI) was calculated as height(2)/R. Selection
Effect of self-hypnosis on hay fever symptoms - a randomised controlled intervention study (Publications)
The intervention consisted of teaching self-hypnosis during a mean of 2.4 sessions (SD 1.7; range 2-5 sessions) and continuation of standard anti-allergic pharmacological treatment. RESULTS: Of 79 randomised
Treatment of breast cancer in the elderly: a prospective, population-based Swiss study (Publications)
registries between 2003 and 2005 (n = 4820). Surgical and non-surgical BC treatment was analyzed over 5 age groups ( < 65, 65 to < 70, 70 to < 75, 75 to < 80 and ? 80 years), and the predictive impact of
Phylogenetic relationships and chromosomal location of five distinct glycine receptor subunit genes in the teleost <em>Danio rerio</em> (Publications)
Gene mapping reveals that the two duplicated genes are localized on two different linkage groups (LG5 and LG22) as would be daughter genes resulting from a large-scale duplication of the ancestral genome
Anti-trypanosomal activity of Fexinidazole: a new oral nitroimidazole drug candidate for the treatment of sleeping sickness (Publications)
Fexinidazole is a 5-nitroimidazole drug currently in clinical development for the treatment of human sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)) caused by infection with species of the protozoan
The procyclin-associated genes of <em>Trypanosoma brucei</em> are not essential for cyclical transmission by tsetse (Publications)
we show that the EP/PAG1 locus in AnTat1.1 has to be extended by three more PAGs, which we named PAG5, PAG2* and PAG4. The EP/PAG2 locus most likely evolved from the EP/PAG1 locus by deletion of a fragment
DNA methylation assessed by SMRT sequencing is linked to mutations in <em>Neisseria meningitidis</em> isolates (Publications)
mutability also at 6mA methylated nucleotides, complementing mutational hotspots previously described at 5mC methylated nucleotides. These findings suggest a more diverse role of DNA methylation and Restric
Validation of questions on asthma and wheeze in farming and anthroposophic children (Publications)
questionnaire responses on asthma and wheeze against bronchial response to hypertonic saline (HS) (4.5%) in populations previously shown to have a lower prevalence of asthma and allergies: farmers' children