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• Recurrence rates of video-assisted thoracoscopic versus open surgery in the prevention of recurrent pneumothoraces: a systematic review of randomised and non-randomised trials.

  BACKGROUND: Evidence supporting similar recurrence rates between video-assisted and open surgery for the treatment of recurrent pneumothorax is questi…

  Authors: Allanah Barker, Eleni C Maratos, Lyn Edmonds, Eric Lim

  Source: Lancet. 2007 Jul 28

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• Aberrant luminal progenitors as the candidate target population for basal tumor development in BRCA1 mutation carriers.

  Basal-like breast cancers arising in women carrying mutations in the BRCA1 gene, encoding the tumor suppressor protein BRCA1, are thought to develop f…

  Authors: Elgene Lim, François Vaillant, Di Wu, Natasha C Forrest, Bhupinder Pal, Adam H Hart, Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, David E Gyorki, Teresa Ward, Audrey Partanen,…

  Source: Nature medicine. 2009 Aug

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• Composite outcomes in cardiovascular research: a survey of randomized trials.

  BACKGROUND: Composite end points are common in clinical trials. OBJECTIVE: To describe how composite outcomes are used, constructed, and reported in c…

  Authors: Eric Lim, Adam Brown, Adel Helmy, Shafi Mussa, Douglas G Altman

  Source: Annals of internal medicine. 2008 Nov 4

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• A mutation in Sec15l1 causes anemia in hemoglobin deficit (hbd) mice.

  Hemoglobin deficit (hbd) mice carry a spontaneous mutation that impairs erythroid iron assimilation but does not cause other defects. Normal delivery …

  Authors: Jackie E Lim, Ou Jin, Carolyn Bennett, Kelly Morgan, Fudi Wang, Cameron C Trenor, Mark D Fleming, Nancy C Andrews

  Source: Nature genetics. 2005 Nov

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• Proteomic profiling of exosomes: current perspectives.

  Exosomes are 40-100 nm membrane vesicles of endocytic origin secreted by most cell types in vitro. Recent studies have shown that exosomes are also fo…

  Authors: Richard J Simpson, Søren S Jensen, Justin W E Lim

  Source: Proteomics. 2008 Oct

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• Hls5 regulated erythroid differentiation by modulating GATA-1 activity.

  Hemopoietic lineage switch (Hls) 5 and 7 were originally isolated as genes up-regulated during an erythroid-to-myeloid lineage switch. We have shown p…

  Authors: Raelene Endersby, Ian J Majewski, Louise Winteringham, Jennifer G Beaumont, Amy Samuels, Robin Scaife, Esther Lim, Merlin Crossley, S Peter Klinken, Jean-Philippe Lalonde

  Source: Blood. 2008 Feb 15

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• T3DB: a comprehensively annotated database of common toxins and their targets.

  In an effort to capture meaningful biological, chemical and mechanistic information about clinically relevant, commonly encountered or important toxin…

  Authors: Emilia Lim, Allison Pon, Yannick Djoumbou, Craig Knox, Savita Shrivastava, An Chi Guo, Vanessa Neveu, David S Wishart

  Source: Nucleic acids research. 2010 Jan

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• Test performance of endobronchial ultrasound and transbronchial needle aspiration biopsy for mediastinal staging in patients with lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.

  BACKGROUND: Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) with transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) is becoming widely used for mediastinal lymph node staging in…

  Authors: K Adams, P L Shah, L Edmonds, E Lim

  Source: Thorax. 2009 Sep

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• Insulin regulates glucagon-like peptide-1 secretion from the enteroendocrine L cell.

  Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus are associated with impaired postprandial secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a potent insul…

  Authors: Gareth E Lim, Guan J Huang, Nina Flora, Derek LeRoith, Christopher J Rhodes, Patricia L Brubaker

  Source: Endocrinology. 2009 Feb

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• SMPDB: The Small Molecule Pathway Database.

  The Small Molecule Pathway Database (SMPDB) is an interactive, visual database containing more than 350 small-molecule pathways found in humans. More …

  Authors: Alex Frolkis, Craig Knox, Emilia Lim, Timothy Jewison, Vivian Law, David D Hau, Phillip Liu, Bijaya Gautam, Son Ly, An Chi Guo,…

  Source: Nucleic acids research. 2010 Jan

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