IMPROVING CAUSE OF DEATH CERTIFICATION IN THE PHILIPPINES: IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ELECTRONIC VERBAL AUTOPSY DECISION SUPPORT TOOL (SMARTVA AUTO-ANALYSE) TO AID PHYSICIAN DIAGNOSES OF OUT-OF-FACILITY DEATHS

Improving cause of death certification in the Philippines: implementation of an electronic verbal autopsy decision support tool (SmartVA auto-analyse) to aid physician diagnoses of out-of-facility deaths

Abstract Background The majority of deaths in the Philippines occur out-of-facility and require a medical certificate of cause of death by Municipal Health Officers (MHOs) for burial.MHOs lack a standardised certification process for out-of-facility deaths and when no medical records are available, certify a high proportion of ill-defined causes of

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Automated high-throughput quantification of mitotic spindle positioning from DIC movies of Caenorhabditis embryos.

The mitotic spindle is a microtubule-based structure that elongates to accurately segregate chromosomes during anaphase.Its position within the cell weeping hemlock for sale also dictates the future cell cleavage plan, thereby determining daughter cell orientation within a tissue or cell fate adoption for polarized cells.Therefore, the mitotic spin

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Systems Biology Approaches for the Prediction of Possible Role of Chlamydia pneumoniae Proteins in the Etiology of Lung Cancer.

Accumulating evidence has recently supported the association of bacterial infection with the growth and development of cancers, particularly in organs that are constantly exposed to bacteria such as the lungs, colon, cervical cancer etc.Our in silico study on the proteome of Chlamydia pneumoniae suggests an unprecedented idea of the etiology of lun

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Expression profiling of blood samples from an SU5416 Phase III metastatic colorectal cancer clinical trial: a novel strategy for biomarker identification

Abstract Background Microarray-based gene expression profiling is a powerful approach for the identification of molecular biomarkers of disease, particularly in human cancers.Utility of this approach to measure responses to therapy is less well established, in part due to challenges in obtaining serial biopsies.Identification of suitable surrogate

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