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• Importance of background rates of disease in assessment of vaccine safety during mass immunisation with pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccines.

  Because of the advent of a new influenza A H1N1 strain, many countries have begun mass immunisation programmes. Awareness of the background rates of p…

  Authors: Steven Black, Juhani Eskola, Claire-Anne Siegrist, Neal Halsey, Noni Macdonald, Barbara Law, Elizabeth Miller, Nick Andrews, Julia Stowe, Daniel Salmon,…

  Source: Lancet. 2009 Dec 19

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• C-reactive protein causes downregulation of vascular angiotensin subtype 2 receptors and systolic hypertension in mice.

  BACKGROUND: Chronic elevations in circulating C-reactive protein (CRP) are associated with a greater risk of hypertension. Whether elevations in CRP c…

  Authors: Wanpen Vongpatanasin, Gail D Thomas, Randall Schwartz, Lisa A Cassis, Sherri Osborne-Lawrence, Lisa Hahner, Linda L Gibson, Steven Black, David Samols, Philip W Shaul

  Source: Circulation. 2007 Feb 27

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• Pupil-led sex education in England (RIPPLE study): cluster-randomised intervention trial.

  BACKGROUND: Improvement of sex education in schools is a key part of the UK government's strategy to reduce teenage pregnancy in England. We examined …

  Authors: J M Stephenson, V Strange, S Forrest, A Oakley, A Copas, E Allen, A Babiker, S Black, M Ali, H Monteiro,…

  Source: Lancet. 2004 Jul 24-30

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• Quality assessment of the human genome sequence.

  As the final sequencing of the human genome has now been completed, we present the results of the largest examination of the quality of the finished D…

  Authors: Jeremy Schmutz, Jeremy Wheeler, Jane Grimwood, Mark Dickson, Joan Yang, Chenier Caoile, Eva Bajorek, Stacey Black, Yee Man Chan, Mirian Denys,…

  Source: Nature. 2004 May 27

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• A comparative case study of face recognition: the contribution of configural and part-based recognition systems, and their interaction.

  Understanding the interaction between the configural and part-based systems in face recognition is the major aim of this study. Specifically, we estab…

  Authors: Josée Rivest, Morris Moscovitch, Sandra Black

  Source: Neuropsychologia. 2009 Nov

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• C-reactive protein downregulates endothelial NO synthase and attenuates reendothelialization in vivo in mice.

  C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute-phase reactant that is positively associated with cardiovascular disease risk and endothelial dysfunction. In cel…

  Authors: Randall Schwartz, Sherri Osborne-Lawrence, Lisa Hahner, Linda L Gibson, Andrew K Gormley, Wanpen Vongpatanasin, Weifei Zhu, R Ann Word, Divya Seetharam, Steven Black,…

  Source: Circulation research. 2007 May 25

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• Leukocyte-derived hepatic lipase increases HDL and decreases en face aortic atherosclerosis in LDLr-/- mice expressing CETP.

  In addition to hepatic expression, cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) and hepatic lipase (HL) are expressed by human macrophages. The combined …

  Authors: Neil J Hime, Audrey S Black, Josh J Bulgrien, Linda K Curtiss

  Source: Journal of lipid research. 2008 Oct

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• Rates of autoimmune diseases in Kaiser Permanente for use in vaccine adverse event safety studies.

  Safety monitoring following new vaccine introduction includes assessment of potential new onset autoimmune diseases (AID). As knowledge regarding AID …

  Authors: Nicola P Klein, Paula Ray, Diane Carpenter, John Hansen, Edwin Lewis, Bruce Fireman, Steven Black, Claudia Galindo, Johannes Schmidt, Roger Baxter

  Source: Vaccine. 2010 Jan 22

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• Immunogenicity and tolerability of a quadrivalent meningococcal glycoconjugate vaccine in children 2-10 years of age.

  Meningococcal disease incidence is highest in infants, but a significant burden of disease also occurs in children. In this Phase II, single-centre US…

  Authors: S Black, N P Klein, J Shah, L Bedell, A Karsten, P M Dull

  Source: Vaccine. 2010 Jan 8

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• Sex determination from the occipital condyle: discriminant function analysis in an eighteenth and nineteenth century British sample.

  Fragmentary human remains compromised by different types of inhumation, or physical insults such as explosions, fires, and mutilations may frustrate t…

  Authors: René Gapert, Sue Black, Jason Last

  Source: American journal of physical anthropology. 2009 Apr

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