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Volume 67, Issue 5, Pages 1003-1260 (2006)

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The busy shall inherit the earth: The evolution from ‘hard work’ to ‘busyness’ in modern science and society, 28 May 2006
Bruce G. Charlton
pages 1003-1005
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Bird flu, influenza and 1918: The case for mutant Avian tuberculosis, 28 June 2006
Lawrence Broxmeyer
pages 1006-1015
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A hypothesis: Sunspot cycles may detect pandemic influenza A in 1700–2000 A.D., 28 June 2006
John W.K. Yeung
pages 1016-1022
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Increasing trend of spina bifida and decreasing birth weight in relation to declining body-mass index of young women in Japan, 11 July 2006
Hidemi Takimoto, Tsunenobu Tamura
pages 1023-1026
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Are prions related to the emergence of early life?, 30 June 2006
Omar Lupi, Paula Dadalti, Eduardo Cruz, Paul R. Sanberg, The Cryopraxis’ Task Force for Prion Research
pages 1027-1033
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Cold climate genes and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus, 24 June 2006
Leonid E. Fridlyand, Louis H. Philipson
pages 1034-1041
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Bronchial epilepsy or broncho-pulmonary hyper-excitability as a model of asthma pathogenesis, 24 June 2006
Ba X. Hoang, Stephen A. Levine, D. Graeme Shaw, Phuong Pham, Cuong Hoang
pages 1042-1051
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Selective estrogen receptor modulators: A possible new treatment of osteoporosis in males, 22 June 2006
Darko Kastelan, Zlatko Giljevic, Ivana Kraljevic, Mirko Korsic
pages 1052-1053
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Cancer: A medical emergency, 07 July 2006
William Harless, Yang Qiu
pages 1054-1059
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γ-Glutamyltransferase is a promising biomarker for cardiovascular risk, 10 August 2006
Okan Turgut, Ahmet Yilmaz, Kenan Yalta, Filiz Karadas, M. Birhan Yilmaz
pages 1060-1064
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Factor XII (Hageman factor) is a missing link between stress and hypercoagulability and plays an important role in the pathophysiology of ischemic stroke, 06 June 2006
Arnold E Eggers
pages 1065-1071
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A new theory of cryptogenic stroke and its relationship to patent foramen ovale; or, the puzzle of the missing extra risk, 03 July 2006
Arnold E. Eggers
pages 1072-1075
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B-type natriuretic peptide is an independent predictor for cardiovascular death in patients with no clinical signs of ventricular dysfunction after acute myocardial infarction, 24 May 2006
Yanzhou Zhang, Lexin Wang
pages 1076-1078
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Osteoarthritis: An example of phenoptosis through autonomic dysfunction?, 03 April 2006
Anthony J. Yun, Patrick Y. Lee, John Doux
pages 1079-1085
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Botulinum toxin injections to reduce adiposity: Possibility, or fat chance?, 26 May 2006
Erle C.H. Lim, Raymond C.S. Seet
pages 1086-1089
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Drug interactions and pharmacogenetic reactions are the basis for chloroquine and mefloquine-induced psychosis, 16 July 2006
Joseph M. Alisky, Elena L. Chertkova, Kenneth A. Iczkowski
pages 1090-1094
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Functional duality of merlin: A conundrum of proteome complexity, 07 July 2006
Z. Chen, A. Fadiel, Y. Xia
pages 1095-1098
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Novel drug discovery and molecular biological methods, via DNA, RNA and protein changes using structure–function transitions: Transitional structural chemogenomics, transitional structural chemoproteomics and novel multi-stranded nucleic acid microarray, 10 July 2006
Claude E. Gagna, W. Clark Lambert
pages 1099-1114
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The Unitarian Hypothesis for the aetiology of diabetes mellitus, 28 June 2006
E.Y. Morrison, D. Ragoobirsingh, S.A. Peter
pages 1115-1120
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Pro-inflammatory cytokines may induce late preconditioning in unstable angina patients, 28 June 2006
Yong-yi Wang, Bang-liang Yin
pages 1121-1124
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The role of excessive volume expansion in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia, 03 July 2006
Jules B. Puschett
pages 1125-1132
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A possible hypoxia-induced endothelial proliferation in the pathogenesis of epithelioid hemangioma, 28 June 2006
Zhi-Jun Sun, Lu Zhang, Wen-Feng Zhang, Bing Liu, Zu-Bing Li, Yi-Fang Zhao
pages 1133-1135
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Rescue treatment and prevention of asthma using magnesium throat lozenges: Hypothesis for a mouth–lung biologically closed electric circuit, 24 June 2006
George A. Eby
pages 1136-1141
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Treatment resistance in unipolar depression: Is it an iatrogenic phenomenon caused by antidepressant treatment of patients with a bipolar diathesis?, 24 June 2006
V. Sharma
pages 1142-1145
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Statins may decrease skeletal-related events in breast cancer patients with bone metastases, 18 July 2006
Murat Dincer, Nilufer Bulut, Hakan Harputluoglu, Kadri Altundag
pages 1146-1147
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Phototherapy and malignancy: Possible enhancement by iron administration and hyperbaric oxygen, 24 July 2006
Noori S. AL-Waili, Glenn J. Butler
pages 1148-1158
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The human erythrocyte has developed the biconcave disc shape to optimise the flow properties of the blood in the large vessels, 24 June 2006
Chika Uzoigwe
pages 1159-1163
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Molecular mechanism based on self-replicating protein conformation for the inheritance of acquired information in humans, 07 July 2006
C.P.J. Maury
pages 1164-1169
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Could treatment with arundic acid (ONO-2506) increase vulnerability for depression?, 24 June 2006
Radmila Manev, Hari Manev
pages 1170-1172
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Sensory gating deficits, pattern completion, and disturbed fronto-limbic balance, a model for description of hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia, 07 July 2006
Arash Javanbakht
pages 1173-1184
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Deal in the womb: Fetal opiates, parent-offspring conflict, and the future of midwifery, 10 August 2006
Péter Apari, Lajos Rózsa
pages 1189-1194
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The beneficial effects of high-density lipoprotein on adipocytes may relate to its anti-atherogenic properties, 24 June 2006
Zhi-hong Wu, Shui-ping Zhao, Hui-jun Ye
pages 1195-1199
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Elimination of cardiac arrhythmias using oral taurine with l-arginine with case histories: Hypothesis for nitric oxide stabilization of the sinus node, 24 June 2006
George Eby, William W. Halcomb
pages 1200-1204
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The roles of Arkadia in renal tubular epithelial to mesenchymal transition, 24 June 2006
Fu-You Liu, Xiao-Zhao Li
pages 1205-1207
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Target-derived neurotrophins may influence the survival of adult retinal ganglion cells when local neurotrophic support is disrupted: Implications for glaucoma, 28 June 2006
J.A. Murphy, D.B. Clarke
pages 1208-1212
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Cancer cachexia demonstrates the energetic impact of gluconeogenesis in human metabolism, 24 June 2006
G.P.A. Bongaerts, H.K. van Halteren, C.A.M. Verhagen, D.J.Th. Wagener
pages 1213-1222
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Magnesium supplementation in the treatment of dementia patients, 22 June 2006
Serefnur Ozturk, Aslı Ece Cillier
pages 1223-1225
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The thrombophilic fetus, 03 July 2006
Andrea L. Tranquilli, Monica Emanuelli
pages 1226-1229
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A postulated role for transcriptional regulator LMO2 in the proliferation and involution of hemangioma, 23 June 2006
Zhi-Jun Sun, Lu Zhang, Yi-Fang Zhao
pages 1230-1232
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Salt addiction: A different kind of drug addiction, 22 June 2006
Yalcin Tekol
pages 1233-1234
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Are New World leishmaniases becoming anthroponoses?, 24 June 2006
Brice Rotureau
pages 1235-1241
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Inhibition of SHH signaling pathway: Molecular treatment strategy of odontogenic keratocyst, 28 June 2006
Lu Zhang, Zhi-Jun Sun, Yi-Fang Zhao, Zhuan Bian, Ming-Wen Fan, Zhi Chen
pages 1242-1244
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The evolutionary role of erectile dysfunction, 22 June 2006
Ofer N. Gofrit
pages 1245-1249
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Correspondence

Vasopressin and oxytocin as neurohormonal mediators of MDMA (ecstasy) sociosexual behavioural effects, 30 June 2006
Enzo Emanuele, Mariarosa Arra, Sara Pesenti
pages 1250-1251
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Removal of senescent cells from organisms: A way to retard aging or just nonsense?, 24 April 2006
Chang-Su Lim
pages 1251-1252
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Hypoxia: A common mechanism of tumorigenesis?, 06 June 2006
Xiong-Zhi Wu
page 1252
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The safety role of gap junctions: A new perspective on atrio-ventricular nodal reentry, 10 July 2006
Somayeh Mahdavi, Shahriar Gharibzadeh, Farzad Towhidkhah, Mostafa Rezaei-Tavirani
pages 1253-1254
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Endo-abdominal hypertension complicating pregnancy & fetal development, 28 June 2006
M. Gerard Baggot
pages 1254-1255
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Normal-tension glaucoma and Alzheimer’s disease: Hypothesis of a possible common underlying risk factor, 24 June 2006
Peter Wostyn
pages 1255-1256
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Targeting cerebral Bcl-2 expression as a potential therapeutic target in autism: Potential usefulness of human recombinant nerve growth factor, 10 August 2006
Marianna Boso, Stefania Ucelli di Nemi, Francesco Barale, Enzo Emanuele
pages 1256-1257
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Cytosine deaminase producing Clostridium may be used in detection of tumors, 10 August 2006
Hassan Tirandaz, Amir Salehi-Najafabadi, Azam Eslamifar
pages 1257-1258
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The timing is right: Evolution of AIDS-causing HIV strains is consistent with history of chloroquine use, 28 June 2006
G.E. Parris
pages 1258-1259
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