Background. This study was conducted to assess the diagnostic value of a multiplex PCR assay to detect H. pylori infection and to further evaluate the negative results from the CLOtest on patients with and without PPI treatment. Methods. This study is a retrospective cohort that included 457 patients with symptoms of dyspepsia, who underwent upper endoscopy at Evanston and Glenbrook Northshore ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this work is to identify disrupted pathways in narcolepsy according to systematically tracking the dysregulated modules of reweighted Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) networks. Here, we performed systematic identification and comparison of modules across normal and narcolepsy conditions by integrating PPI and gene-expression data. METHODS Firstly, normal and narcol...

BACKGROUND The aim of this randomized, crossover study was to determine if transoral fundoplication (TF) could further improve clinical outcomes in partial responders to high-dose (HD) proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy and to evaluate durability of TF. METHODS In seven United States centers, patients with hiatal hernia ≤ 2 cm and abnormal esophageal acid exposure (EAE) were randomized to TF...

Both prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the startle response and P50 sensory gating are important tools to investigate the inhibitory mechanisms of sensory processing. However, previous studies found no or a weak association between these two measures, which may have been due to the different indexes used. We examined the relationship between P50 sensory gating and P50 PPI. P50m sensory gating and PP...

conclusions our results revealed the possible crucial genes and mirnas involved in the initiation and progression of hcc cells infected with hcv. results based on the topological analysis of mirna-hubgene network, we identified the key hub mirnas. in order to identify the most important common sub-network, we aligned two ppi networks using netal tool. the c-jun gene was identified as the most i...

Few published reports have described occupational contact dermatitis from proton pump inhibitor (PPI) exposure in the literature. We present an additional case of a 58-year-old male pharmaceutical worker with an occupational airborne allergic contact dermatitis to PPIs confirmed by patch testing. This is a novel report of workplace exposure to dexlansoprazole and esomeprazole PPIs with resultan...

Nucleotide incorporation reactions, catalyzed by DNA and RNA polymerases, are critically important in the biological processes of living systems. Their common byproduct, pyrophosphate (PPi), is a negatively charged small molecule typically detected using optical techniques, such as chemiluminescence. Label-free electrical monitoring of biochemical reactions offers several advantages including i...

Approximately 15% of American adults report some degree of difficulty hearing in a noisy environment or have auditory filtering difficulties. There are objective clinical tests of auditory filtering, yet few tests exist for mouse models that do not rely on extensive training. We have used reflex modification audiometry (RMA) and developed exclusion criteria for the mouse model. This RMA based t...

UNLABELLED : Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research is increasingly required, although evidence to inform its implementation is limited. OBJECTIVE Inform the evidence base by describing how plans for PPI were implemented within clinical trials and identifying the challenges and lessons learnt by research teams. METHODS We compared PPI plans extracted from clinical trial grant appl...