Objective: To examine the placebo effect and its potential determinants in the treatment of
osteoarthritis (OA) via a systematic literature search of Medline, EMBASE, Scientific Citation …

Tuberous sclerosis (TSC [MIM 191090 and MIM 191100]) is an autosomal dominant
disorder characterized by hamartomas in many organs. Two thirds of cases are sporadic …

Spurred by theoretical and applied goals, the study of dog temperament has begun to
garner considerable research attention. The researchers studying temperament in dogs …

Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by the
widespread development of distinctive tumors termed hamartomas. TSC-determining loci …

A wide variety of enzymatic pathways that produce specialized metabolites in bacteria, fungi
and plants are known to be encoded in biosynthetic gene clusters. Information about these …

Microbes have central roles in ocean food webs and global biogeochemical processes, yet
specific ecological relationships among these taxa are largely unknown. This is in part due …

The three-dimensional (3D) structure and architecture of biomaterial scaffolds play a critical
role in bone formation as they affect the functionality of the tissue-engineered constructs …

Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) involves the deposition of thin solid films from chemical
precursors in the vapour phase, and encompasses a variety of deposition techniques …

In the design of tissue engineering scaffolds, design parameters including pore size, shape
and interconnectivity, mechanical properties and transport properties should be optimized to …

AIMS To determine the clinical features of a large number of unselected UK hospital patients
with confirmed septic arthritis and to determine those features associated with a poor …