Volume 10, Issue 1

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Volume 10 (1); 2013

Research Paper

Retrospective Analysis of the Relationship between Decline in FEV₁ and Abdominal Circumference in Male Smokers: the Takahata Study
Masamichi Sato, Yoko Shibata, Shuichi Abe, Sumito Inoue, Akira Igarashi, Keiko Yamauchi, Yasuko Aida, Hiroyuki Kishi, Keiko Nunomiya, Hiroshi Nakano, Kento Sato, Tetsu Watanabe, Tsuneo Konta, Yoshiyuki Ueno, Takeo Kato, Takamasa Kayama, Isao Kubota
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 1-7. doi:10.7150/ijms.5003
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The Therapeutic Effect of Human Adult Stem Cells Derived from Adipose Tissue in Endotoxemic Rat Model
Soyoung Shin, Yonggoo Kim, Sikyoung Jeong, Sungyoup Hong, Insoo Kim, Woonjeong Lee, Seungphil Choi
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 8-18. doi:10.7150/ijms.5385
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Three-year Review of Bacteriological Profile and Antibiogram of Burn Wound Isolates in Van, Turkey
Yasemin BAYRAM, Mehmet PARLAK, Cenk AYPAK, İrfan BAYRAM
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 19-23. doi:10.7150/ijms.4723
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Pulmonary Vein Isolation in 2012: Is It Necessary to Perform a Time Consuming Electrophysical Mapping or Should We Focus on Rapid and Safe Therapies? A Retrospective Analysis of Different Ablation Tools
Petra Maagh, Thomas Butz, Gunnar Plehn, Arndt Christoph, Axel Meissner
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 24-33. doi:10.7150/ijms.4771
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GATA5 loss-of-Function Mutations Underlie Tetralogy of Fallot
Dong Wei, Han Bao, Xing-Yuan Liu, Ning Zhou, Qian Wang, Ruo-Gu Li, Ying-Jia Xu, Yi-Qing Yang
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 34-42. doi:10.7150/ijms.5270
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Peginterferon Alfa-2a plus Ribavirin in Japanese Patients Infected with Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 2 Who Failed Previous Interferon Therapy
Tatsuo Kanda, Shingo Nakamoto, Takayoshi Nishino, Nobuo Takada, Akihito Tsubota, Keizo Kato, Tatsuo Miyamura, Daisuke Maruoka, Shuang Wu, Takeshi Tanaka, Makoto Arai, Shigeru Mikami, Keiichi Fujiwara, Fumio Imazeki, Osamu Yokosuka
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 43-49. doi:10.7150/ijms.5358
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Assessment of Effectiveness of Percutaneous Adhesiolysis in Managing Chronic Low Back Pain Secondary to Lumbar Central Spinal Canal Stenosis
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Kimberly A. Cash, Carla D. McManus, Vidyasagar Pampati
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 50-59. doi:10.7150/ijms.5303
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Mutation Screening of the BRCA1 Gene in Early Onset and Familial Breast/Ovarian Cancer in Moroccan Population
Abdelilah Laraqui, Nancy Uhrhammer, Idriss Lahlou-Amine, Hicham EL Rhaffouli, Jamila El Baghdadi, Mohamed Dehayni, Rahali Driss Moussaoui, Mohamed Ichou, Yassir Sbitti, Abderrahman Al Bouzidi, Said Amzazi, Yves-Jean Bignon
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 60-67. doi:10.7150/ijms.5014
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Experiences of Single Incision Cholecystectomy
Huseyin Yilmaz, Husnu Alptekin, Fahrettin Acar, Ilhan Ciftci, Ahmet Tekin, Mustafa Sahin
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 73-78. doi:10.7150/ijms.5030
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Effects of Zinc Supplementation on Plasma Copper/Zinc Ratios, Oxidative Stress, and Immunological Status in Hemodialysis Patients
Chih-Hung Guo, Chia-Liang Wang
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 79-89. doi:10.7150/ijms.5291
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Increased Locomotor Activity and Non-Selective Attention and Impaired Learning Ability in SD Rats after Lentiviral Vector-Mediated RNA Interference of Homer 1a in the Brain
Qin Hong, Lei Yang, Min Zhang, Xiao-Qin Pan, Mei Guo, Li Fei, Mei-Ling Tong, Rong-Hua Chen, Xi-Rong Guo, Xia Chi
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 90-102. doi:10.7150/ijms.4892
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Plasma B-type Natriuretic Peptide Level in Patients with Acute Cerebral Infarction according to Infarction Subtype and Infarction Volume
Seo Hyun Kim, Ji-Yong Lee, Sang Hyun Park, Hyun-Chan Jang, Eun Ju Lim, Sei-Jin Chang, Sung-Soo Lee
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 103-109. doi:10.7150/ijms.5005
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Short Research Communication

Long Term and Standard Incubations of WST-1 Reagent Reflect the Same Inhibitory Trend of Cell Viability in Rat Airway Smooth Muscle Cells
Lei-Miao Yin, Yin Wei, Yu Wang, Yu-Dong Xu, Yong-Qing Yang
Int. J. Med. Sci. 2013; 10(1): 68-72. doi:10.7150/ijms.5256
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