University Medical Center New Orleans

The Effects of Ibuprofen on the Physiology and Survival of Patients with Sepsis

In patients with sepsis, treatment with ibuprofen reduces levels of prostacyclin and thromboxane and decreases fever, tachycardia, oxygen consumption, and lactic acidosis, but i...

Estimating African American Admixture Proportions by Use of Population-Specific Alleles

Phase III Randomized Study of Cisplatin Versus Paclitaxel Versus Cisplatin and Paclitaxel in Patients With Suboptimal Stage III or IV Ovarian Cancer: A Gynecologic Oncology Group Study

PURPOSE: To assess progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with suboptimally debulked epithelial ovarian cancer receiving cisplatin (100 mg/m 2 ) o...

Recombination and mutation during long-term gastric colonization by <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> : Estimates of clock rates, recombination size, and minimal age

The bacterium Helicobacter pylori colonizes the gastric mucosa of half of the human population, resulting in chronic gastritis, ulcers, and cancer. We sequenced ten gene fragmen...

Relative Brain Size and Metabolism in Mammals

Comparisons of the relation between brain and body weights among extant mammals show that brain sizes have not increased as much as body sizes. Interspecific increases in brain ...

Identification of a Second Region Upstream of the Mouse Heme Oxygenase-1 Gene That Functions as a Basal Level and Inducer-dependent Transcription Enhancer

A 161-base pair fragment (AB1) approximately 10 kilobase pairs upstream of the transcription start site of the mouse heme oxygenase-1 gene functions as a basal level and inducer...

Bibliographic Instruction in the Health Sciences

In the 1980s, biomedical indexing and bibliography are at a level unmatched in history. In spite of a monumental effort by librarians, information specialists, and indexers, a l...