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..occupational asbestos exposure to lung cancer using pooled data from two large case-control studies conducted in Germany. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) showed an increased risk with duration of asbestos exposure (..

..This trial was undertaken at many major medical Centers in the USA and in Germany and have now completed...

..Peter Gruss, Max Planck Institute, Germany). The conditionally deleted KLF4 (Klf4CN) mice had a small eye phenotype with defects in lens, cornea and iris...

..This past year the results of a similar gene therapy trial for CGD was reported by a group from Germany that X-CGD patients conditioned with the chemotherapy agent busulfan to make room in the bone marrow before the ..

..revised upward in 2000 by the National Academy of Sciences and were also increased in the following countries: Germany, Austria, Denmark, France, Japan, and China...

..This trial is currently ongoing at many major medical Centers in the USA and in Germany. IL-13-toxin is also in clinical trials for brain tumor therapy at many national and international clinical sites...

..are the basis for a number of NEI CRADAs with pharmaceutical companies including Pharmcia/Pfizer and Merck/Germany. Our implants have been used in a number of preclinical studies and in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical ..

..by the formation of societies in Great Britain, several countries in Europe (the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Italy, and France), Japan, and Israel...

..was investigated in a collaborative project with the Max-Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, Germany (3), while the effects of GABA where investigated with the lab of Dr. Jun Shen in NIMH (4)...

..Innovative features include international web casting to Germany, England and Brazil...

..SITES 2008 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2009 - Madrid, Spain 2010 - Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA 2011 - Berlin, Germany 2012 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA The main objectives of the World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Consortium are to ..

..We are also collaborating with the lab of Stefan Offermans in Heidelberg, Germany on a mouse model in which our previously generated transgenic mice expressing cre recombinase in parathyroid ..

..but not limited to the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States...

..including, in addition to the United States, Australia, China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, England, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Poland, India and others...

..Several groups of researchers in Germany have demonstrated recently that HHV-6 is one of the two most common pathogens implicated in myocarditis, contrary ..

..Ari Waisman and Thorsten Buch in Germany. Essentially, this imported strain is for the same rationale...

..However, through a collaboration with Udo Kontny, Univ. of Frieburg, Germany, we discovered that Ewings sarcoma is also quite susceptible to programmed cell death via ligation of TRAIL ..

..More than 10 years ago, we and our collaborators in Germany began to archive thyroid tumor tissues from patients who underwent thyroidectomy near the site of the power plant,..

..have recently observed that exposure of mice to well-characterized PM collected from ambient air in Dusseldorf, Germany caused shortening of the bleeding, prothrombin and partial thromboplastin times, and increased the platelet count ..

This program of research involves short- and long-term longitudinal studies in Goteberg (Sweden) and Berlin (Germany) of children with distinct child care experiences...

..have recently observed that exposure of mice to well-characterized PM collected from ambient air in Dusseldorf, Germany caused shortening of the bleeding, prothrombin and partial thromboplastin times, and increased the platelet count ..

..Motion Control (Salt lake City, Utah), Liberating Technologies (Boston, MA), and Otto Bock (Duderstadt, Germany)...

..replicated in both the US and the UK, while the DCDC2 association has been independently replicated in the US, Germany, and Italy. All four RD genes have potent effects on neuronal migration...

..Subsequent meetings were held in Freiburg (Germany) in 1997, Elsinor (Denmark) in 1999, Santa Barbara (California, USA) in 2001, Hakone (Japan) in 2003 and most ..

..The conference has attracted top researchers from Australia, England, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States, countries where the majority of research on cognitive aging is done...

..Human serosurveys show that 15-30% of populations from the US, Japan and Germany have cross-reactive antibodies to LPV which may actually represent reactivity to MCPyV infection...

..in New York City, USA (Mann), McGill University in Montreal, Canada (Turecki) and University of Munich, Germany (Rujescu) to examine the complex genetic basis of suicidal behavior...

..in New York City, USA (Mann), McGill University in Montreal, Canada (Turecki) and University of Munich, Germany (Rujescu) to examine the complex genetic basis of suicidal behavior...

..in New York City, USA (Mann), McGill University in Montreal, Canada (Turecki) and University of Munich, Germany (Rujescu) to examine the complex genetic basis of suicidal behavior...

..S., Canada and Germany. Many patients will be identified from our existing family registry...

..The tests will be provided to UVA and our consortium sites in Bangladesh and Germany for clinical testing. Both sites have access to specimens and patients from areas where amebiasis is endemic...

..We continued a major study in collaboration with other investigators in Switzerland, Germany and New Zealand to solve the three-dimensional structure of vimentin IF...

..Specific aims are the following. 1. Collaborate with investigators in Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Israel, Italy, Poland, Turkey, and the United States of America, who have already identified ATM families, to a) ..

..However, the cross-sectional effect of marital status is smaller in Germany than in some other nations...

..is highly infectious to humans, was weaponized by the Soviet Union and was used as a biological warfare agent by Germany during World War I (and the Japanese in China in World War II - I heard it on the radio recently)...

..Previous conferences were held in Heidelberg, Germany (1989), San Diego, California (1991), Schloss Elmau, Germany (1993), Sydney, Australia (1995), Chapel Hill, North ..

..were in: Paris, France, 1995; Boston, MA, 1996; Copenhagen, Denmark, 1997; Montreal, Canada, 1998; Dusseldorf, Germany, 1999; San Antonio, Texas, 2000; Brighton, England, 2001; Sendai, Japan, 2002; and New York, NY, 2003...

..Prior to this position, I received training in nutrition and epidemiology at the University of Kiel, Germany and the University of North Carolina, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute ..

..Prior to this position, I received training in nutrition and epidemiology at the University of Kiel, Germany and the University of North Carolina, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute ..

..Gustav Jirikowski at the University of Jena, Germany, Jeffrey Tasker of Tulane University and Robert Shapiro at the Oregon Health Sciences University...

..were in: Paris, France, 1995; Boston, MA, 1996; Copenhagen, Denmark, 1997; Montreal, Canada, 1998; Dusseldorf, Germany, 1999; San Antonio, Texas, 2000; Brighton, England, 2001; Sendai, Japan, 2002; and New York, NY, 2003...

..in a systematic cross country comparison using comparable data from twelve different countries (United States, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Switzerland, and Austria) taking ..

..Courvalin (France) and H. Labischinski (Germany)...

..Courvalin (France) and H. Labischinski (Germany)...

..In collaboration with Dr. Hans-Gottfried Genieser (Biolog Institute, Bremen, Germany) we took a chemistry-based approach to characterize the cAMP receptor which functions in our pathway by screening ..

..Louis) Frontiers in parasite imaging (Discussion Leader: Markus Engstler, Munich, Germany) The 2008 Host-parasite Interactions GRC conference will focus on the latest findings on molecular aspects of ..

..Modeling M3--the fourth in a series of international meetings (1994: Lawrence, Kansas; 1997: Berlin, Germany; 2000: New York, NY)--is to bring together both developers of computational tools for biomolecular simulations ..

..The ISBRA Congresses are held biannually and, since the founding of ISBRA, meetings have been held in Germany, USA, Finland, Japan, Canada, UK,. Australia, and Denmark...

..Initial training has been completed in Mainz, Germany, and the intraoral training will be conducted in Seattle, Washington...

..The ISBRA Congresses are held biennially and, since the founding of ISBRA, meetings have been held in Germany, U.S.A., Finland, Japan, Canada, UK, Australia, and Denmark...

..Ismail (USA), Kim Ekstrand (Denmark), Christopher Longbottom (Scotland), Nigel Pitts (Scotland), Elmar Reich (Germany), David Ricketts (Scotland), Robert Selwitz (USA, NIDCR), Woosung Sohn (USA), Gail Topping (Scotland), Andrea ..

..jointly sponsored by the University of Heidelberg], alternated locations so that it is held every other year in Germany. The 2003 program is scheduled in San Diego, CA, where participants receive CME credit...

..The ISBRA Congresses are held biennially and, since the founding of ISBRA, meetings have been held in Germany, U.S.A., Finland, Japan, Canada, UK, Australia, and Denmark...

..sixteen other US universities, hospitals and biotechnology companies, as well as foreign research institutions at Germany, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom, we propose to further extend these collaborations by developing ..

..between investigators at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, then undertakes research that contributes new knowledge complementing ongoing existing activities at both ..

..is third in a symposia series on the topic and originated in Smolenice, Slovakia (1997) and continued in Berlin, Germany (2000). As the first of its kind in the U.S., it builds on the previous 2 symposia's success...

..Oliver Speck, Ph.D. (University of Freiburg, Germany), will be responsible for developing MRI sequences with within-scan motion correction. Dr...

..in collaberation with the laboratories of Anthony A Hyman and Jonathan Howard at the Max Planck institute in Germany. In the independent phase, I aim to understand how two classes of conserved kinesin superfamily proteins (..

..The workshop will be held in Freiburg, Germany over 4 days from September 29th to October 2nd, 2007...

..This meeting will be held in Heidelberg/Mannheim, Germany, September 29 through October 2, 2004...

..for the 38th annual meeting of the International Narcotics Research Conference (INRC) to be held in Berlin, Germany from July 8-13, 2007...

..Ki-4 has been used in clinical trials in Germany and a cell bank has been transferred to COH for further development...

BACKGROUND: Due to the increasing number of scuba divers in Germany, the otorhinolaryngologist has to face rising numbers of diving-associated ENT disorders. However, data about the lifetime prevalence of these disorders are insufficient...

..SETTING: In total, 29 rehabilitation facilities for SCI patients in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, with a total of 837 hospitalized SCI patients...

PURPOSE: In September 2002, two freight trains collided at Bad Muender, Germany. The inhabitants were potentially exposed to combustion products and to the human carcinogen epichlorohydrine (ECH)...

..The decline for girls seems to be less caused by the earlier entry into adolescence...

..0+/-2.5 years at the psychosomatic clinic in Simbach, Germany. The following questionnaires, previously validated in German, were used to assess the patients: Questionnaire ..

..5 and 4.0 Gy. These results may provide a possible explanation for a local anti-inflammatory effect of low-dose RT. RT may be an excellent alternative for patients with contraindications to long-term treatment with steroids or NSAID...

..health supplement (GHS-MHS), the first nationwide, epidemiological study of both somatic and mental health in Germany on a representative sample of 4,181 subjects in the community...

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..Analysis of wounds in this large patient population provides more detailed information about the problem of pressure ulcers and should help improve prevention and treatment...

..X-rays from PR were higher quality than X-rays from R in this special study group. Day-to-day quality checks are necessary for pediatric chest X-rays in order to achieve a high quality standard...

..The study describes for the first time in greater detail the prevalence of specific disorders and the frequency of high-risk constellations in primary care and allows for the evaluation of various risk scores...

..Furthermore, work environment and job-specific influences, stress burdens and reactions, social comparison processes and disease-induced processes of declining social mobility and social exclusion are discussed as possible explanations...

..Pathological conditions that are associated with foot pain are the rigid flat foot, the hallux valgus and the cavus deformity. Plantar hyperkeratosis is an indicator of foot pathology...

..37); and female gender (beta = 0.25) CONCLUSION: Based on these questions, it was possible to predict the chronification of back pain with a probability of 78.05 %. A corresponding questionnaire and an evaluative table were developed...

..CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: The high prevalence of respiratory allergies in inner-city societies despite lower levels of hygiene might be explained by obesity...

..Mean duration for both "B" and "C" was 41 days compared to 80 days for "D" and "E". An assessment of both GCS and GOS was insufficient...

..CONCLUSION: The majority of functional back, hip and knee pain in adolescents must be classified as functional complaints. There is a significant association with female sex, visiting a high school and the consumption of legal drugs...

..To assess the potential of this problem in Germany, frequency of consumption and knowledge about and handling of raw meat during food preparation in the German ..

..3, 95% CI 1.1-4.9; overall satisfaction OR 3.7, 95% CI: 1.7-8.3). CONCLUSIONS: Sexual function was relatively better with longer disease duration and was not affected by the long-term severity of the disease...

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..Intended concepts in caries prevention in the future should aim to improve dental health especially in Turkish students at secondary modern schools while taking social inequality of this risk group into account...

..Hints of a Candida-syndrome could not be found. The relation with smoking cigarettes is a new result. Associations to Candida-vaginitis and allergies were described before...

..As no distinction can be made between familial violence and other forms of violence using the KiGGS data, care should be taken in interpreting it. Its significance lies in identifying risk groups...

..CONCLUSIONS: Results show that a systematic improvement of precautionary complementary psychosocial care for risk patients is needed as well as the obligation of psychiatric emergency consultation before involuntary hospitalization...

..CONCLUSION: We conclude that extensive medical evaluation is necessary if the aim is to guarantee genuine ED in family studies for human obesity. Non-paternity deserves specific attention in ED studies...

..CONCLUSIONS: Head injuries are the main cause of hospitalization in traumatized children and adolescents. However, the use of a protective helmet becomes significantly less frequent with increasing age...

..However, this did not explain much of the variance. DISCUSSION: According to our results, APD can be assumed to be a one dimensional construct. In addition, noise hypersensitivity may be separable from other APD complaints...

..The aim of this nationwide interview and examination survey was to collect, for the first time in Germany, comprehensive and nationwide data on the health status of children and adolescents...

..Early identification, prevention, and treatment of additional risk factors seem to be necessary, particularly in light of the high incidence of future cardiovascular disease...

..surveys (1995-2000) were conducted, using data from the ISAAC phase I and III surveys, collected in Münster, Germany (n = 6,996, response 81.8%)...

..Repetitive examinations can monitor the course of recovery and correct false optimistic prognoses. The method may be applied at bedside and requires minimal time and little financial effort...

..CONCLUSION: Univariate assessments may be falsified by bias; this effect can be uncovered by multivariate models...

..CONCLUSION: Local RT in patients with localized tumors is equieffective to CSI. The radiation oncologist must keep in mind that patients with localized ependymomas benefit from local doses > or =45 Gy...

..5%, with endoprosthesis in 48.6 % as well as other methods in 1.9% of the cases. In comparison to hip replacement care, a shorter hospital stay could be proved with osteosynthetic methods...

..Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) which is being performed nationwide in Germany. From 2003 to 2006, a random subsample of 1800 children aged 3-14 years is being studied with regard to their ..

..Up to now the established teams have done their field work very well and the coordination of the overall project by the Robert Koch Institute works well, too. A total of 722 subjects had taken part in the GerES IV by July 2004...

..CONCLUSIONS: These data confirm that surgical experience and a consistent post-surgical treatment can reduce the relapse frequency of chronic polypous rhinosinusitis. This is indicated by the on average late occurrence of a relapse...

..Women were affected by recurrent episodes more often than men. Until now, any individual assessment of the probable risk of developing an angioneurotic edema during ACE inhibitor treatment appears to be impossible...

..Therefore, patients with severe hepatic injuries should be treated in a specialized institution...

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..CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of persistent hepatitis C in children from an urban hospital in Germany is low. Most patients with HCV antibodies are not infected...

..Only if diagnosis is made early, consistent therapy can be applied as early as needed in order to achieve good clinical results...

..A limitation in our study was the significant number of patients lost to follow-up (22.7%)...

..assess the prevalence of diabetes-associated autoantibodies in a general population in the northeastern part of Germany, with emphasis on autoantibodies against glutamic acid decarboxylase (GADA), protein tyrosine phosphatase (IA-2A),..

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..T2 DM) among children have increased in the last years and developed into a major public health problem in Germany. Obesity and T2 DM are important causes of morbidity among young people associated with high costs for the health ..

..In the future, the prevention and efficient treatment of an existing or an often undiagnosed osteoporosis and also the prevention of falls in elderly persons should be an important public health concern...

Tobacco abuse is especially a public health problem among children and teenagers in Germany. While the proportion of adolescents smoking regularly was 18% in 1997, this has increased to more than 30% in 2001...

..056 pupils 2234 school sport injuries have been reported to the Gemeinde Unfall Versicherung (GUV) Niedersachsen, Germany. RESULTS: Gymnastic sport injuries account for 18 % (403 accidents), which is second after ball sports injuries...

..This suggests that the interface between auditory/sensory and cognitive/operational processing is deficient in the children affected...