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Is sleep’s ‘supreme mystery’ unraveling? An evolutionary analysis of sleep encounters no mystery; nor does life’s earliest sleep, recently discovered in jellyfish
J. Lee Kavanau
pages 3-9
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The future of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in psychiatric treatment
Steven Taylor, Murray B. Stein
pages 14-21
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Tracing the origins of “fetal origins” of adult diseases: Programming by oxidative stress?, 04 October 2005
Z.C. Luo, W.D. Fraser, P. Julien, C.L. Deal, F. Audibert, G.N. Smith, X. Xiong, M. Walker
pages 38-44
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Incestuous gene in consanguinophilia and incest: Toward a consilience theory of incest taboo, 04 October 2005
Srdjan Denic, M Gary Nicholls
pages 52-58
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Passive muscle stiffness may be influenced by active contractility of intramuscular connective tissue, 04 October 2005
Robert Schleip, Ian L. Naylor, Daniel Ursu, Werner Melzer, Adjo Zorn, Hans-Joachim Wilke, Frank Lehmann-Horn, Werner Klingler
pages 66-71
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The cell clone ecology hypothesis and the cell fusion model of cancer progression and metastasis: History and experimental support, 19 September 2005
George E. Parris
pages 76-83
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Inflammation: A possible pathogenic link to cardiac syndrome X, 23 September 2005
Jian-Jun Li, Yi-Shi Li, Yuen Zhang, Zhan Gao, Zheng Li, Hai-Yan Qian
pages 87-91
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Defective placentation and resultant oxidative stress play a similar role in complete hydatidiform mole to that in preeclampsia and early pregnancy loss, 19 September 2005
Muge Harma, Mehmet Harma
pages 100-102
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A postulated role for 16α-hydroxydehydroepiandrosterone in the prevention of respiratory distress syndrome, 19 September 2005
Henry Lardy
pages 107-109
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Role of insulin-sensitizing property of telmisartan, a commercially available angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker in preventing the development of atrial fibrillation, 12 September 2005
S. Yamagishi, K. Takenaka, H. Inoue
pages 118-120
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Tumor cell formation by normal somatic cells fusing and cancer prevention prospects, 23 September 2005
G.K. Gogichadze, E.V. Misabishvili, T.G. Gogichadze
pages 133-136
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What is the underlying cause of aneuploidy associated with increasing maternal age? Is it associated with elevated levels of gonadotropins?, 05 September 2005
Polat Dursun, Murat Gultekin, Kunter Yuce, Ali Ayhan
pages 143-147
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Bile acids aided by acid suppression therapy may be associated with the development of esophageal cancers in westernized societies, 26 August 2005
Dennis H. Stamp
pages 154-157
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Hypoxia–reoxygenation contributes to increased frequency of venous thromboembolism in air travellers, 17 October 2005
Yoav Keynan, Noemi Bitterman, Haim Bitterman
pages 165-168
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TrkB partial agonists: Potential treatment strategy for epilepsy, mania, and autism, 14 July 2005
Shih-Jen Tsai
pages 173-175
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Adaptive chaos: Mild disorder may help contain major disease, 14 September 2005
Alexander Golbin, Alexander Umantsev
pages 182-187
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Treatments for burns in the London Medical Papyrus show the first seven biblical plagues of Egypt are coherent with Santorini’s volcanic fallout, 17 October 2005
Siro Igino Trevisanato
pages 193-196
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Neurotoxicity of inhaled manganese: A reanalysis of human exposure arising from showering, 19 September 2005
David C. Dorman, Brian A. Wong
pages 199-200
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Lung infiltration of adult T-cell leukemia cells following the administration of arsenic trioxide. Lung infiltration of ATL by AS2O3, 14 September 2005
Yutaka Tsutsumi, Hiroe Kanamori, Hiroaki Yamato, Nobuyuki Ehira, Takahito Kawamura, Shinji Obara, Junji Tanaka, Masahiro Asaka, Masahiro Imamura, Nobuo Masauzi
pages 201-202
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Phosphodiesterase inhibitors may be indicated in the treatment of postulated vasoactive neuropeptide autoimmune fatigue-related disorders, 19 September 2005
Donald R. Staines
pages 203-204
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No anti-ACTH autoantibody in serum of SARS patients
Jing Li, Jie Gao, Jinning Lou
pages 205-206
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The autistic vision problem with light from fluorescent lamps explained in terms of coherence and phase shift, 13 October 2005
Emanuel Gluskin, Nikolas Bisketzis, Yehuda Ben-Shimol, Frangiskos V. Topalis
pages 207-208
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Atherosclerosis in developing and developed countries. Relation with immune dysregulation and hygiene hypothesis, 10 October 2005
G. Clerc
pages 209-210
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Weekly paclitaxel may improve locoregional recurrence by decreasing interstitial fluid pressure in operable node-positive breast cancer patients, 14 June 2005
Kadri Altundag, Ozden Altundag, Cem Boruban, Muzaffer B. Altundag, Selahattin Turen
pages 211-212
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Erratum to “Serotonergic paradoxes of autism replicated in a simple mathematical model [Med Hypotheses 64 (2005) 742–750]”, 04 October 2005
Skirmantas Janušonis
page 214
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