Browsing Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences Faculty Publications by Publish Date
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The Relationship between Hospital Infection Surveillance and Control Activities and Antibiotic Resistant Pathogen Rates
(2005-01-13)Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship of surveillance and control activities in Canadian hospitals with rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), C. difficile associated ... -
Placental Growth Factor (PGF) deficiency is associated with impaired cerebral vascular development in mice
(2016-02-18)Placental growth factor (PGF) rises in maternal plasma over normal human and mouse pregnancy but is low in many women with the acute onset hypertensive syndrome preeclampsia (PE). Pregnancies in Pgf-/- mice seem normal ... -
Ethnogenesis and Craniofacial Change in Japan from the Perspective of Nonmetric Traits
(2016-07-13)To examine population affinities in light of the ‘dual structure model’, frequencies of 21 nonmetric cranial traits were analyzed in 17 prehistoric to recent samples from Japan and five from continental northeast Asia. ... -
Brief Communication : Cranial Nonmetric Trait Database on the Internet
(2016-07-13)This brief note announces the publication of a nonmetric cranial trait database as a freely available resource on the Internet at: http://library.queensu.ca/web- doc/ssdc/cntd. The files were constructed in the program Excel, ... -
Mandibular Torus : A Synthesis of New and Previously Reported Data and a Discusssion of its Cause
(2016-07-14)Using original data on 1,5000 mandibles, but mainly previously published data, I present a overview of the distribution characteristics of mandibular torus and a hypothesis concerning its cause. Pedigree studies have ... -
Intraobserver Scoring Replicability
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The use of viscoelastic hemostatic tests in pregnancy and puerperium: review of the current evidence - communication from the Women's Health SSC of the ISTH
(Wiley, 2019-05-24)Recent years have shown increasing interest in the use of thromboelastography (TEG) (Haemonetics, Braintree, MA) and thromboelastometry (ROTEM; Munich, Germany). These are established point‐of‐care global viscoelastic ... -
On certain two-signal perspectives of lymphocyte activation and inactivation, thymic G-quadruplexes, and the role of aggregation in self/not-self discrimination
(Wiley, 2019-06-05)Distinctive “two signal” paths in immunology, taken by researchers with different academic backgrounds, seem to have both contained facets of the truth. Having been influenced by education at a medical school where Almroth ... -
19F NMR Monitoring of Reversible Protein Post‐Translational Modifications: Class D β‐Lactamase Carbamylation and Inhibition
(Wiley, 2019)Bacterial production of β‐lactamases with carbapenemase activity is a global health threat. The active sites of class D carbapenemases such as OXA‐48, which is of major clinical importance, uniquely contain a carbamylated ... -
A Fluorescence‐Based Assay for Screening β‐Lactams Targeting the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transpeptidase LdtMt2
(Wiley, 2019)Mycobacterium tuberculosis l,d‐transpeptidases (Ldts), which are involved in cell‐wall biosynthesis, have emerged as promising targets for the treatment of tuberculosis. However, an efficient method for testing inhibition ...