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The antioxidative and/or free-radical-scavenging activities of R-()and S-(+)ibuprofen enantiomers, as well as of the drug racemate, were studied in vitro on measuring the kinetics of (uninhibited or drug-inhibited) degradation of high molecular weight hyaluronan by hydroxyl radicals. The continual flux of OH radicals radicals at aerobic conditions was maintained by the H2O2 + Cu 2+ system. The ...

Journals on the move: launch of the ESC Journals app.

Academic Journals on the Internet

While much research examines the internet's impact on 'electronic business' information technology may have an equally profound impact on what might be called 'electronic science'. Although the internet has the potential of revolutionizing research, it is not clear in which ways the structure of journals and the associated research processes will be affected. The purpose of this article is to p...

Hierarchy of evidence relating to hand surgery in Brazilian orthopedic journals.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE There is no systematic assessment of the quality of scientific production in the specialty of hand surgery in our setting. This study aimed to systematically assess the status of evidence generation relating to hand surgery and to evaluate the reproducibility of the classification method based on an evidence pyramid. DESIGN AND SETTING Secondary study conducted at Univer...

Hidden effectiveness? Results of hand-searching Italian language journals for occupational health interventions.

OBJECTIVE To compare the yield of hand-searching with optimised electronic search strategies in retrieving occupational health (OH) intervention studies published in a language other than English. METHODS The authors systematically hand-searched and screened reports of OH intervention studies published in Italian in peer-reviewed scientific journals between 1990 and 2008. The authors evaluate...