Croatian medical journal
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Croatian medical journal · Feb 2014
Self-correction in biomedical publications and the scientific impact.
To analyze mistakes and misconduct in multidisciplinary and specialized biomedical journals. ⋯ The study suggests that the intensified self-correction in biomedicine is due to the attention of readers and authors, who spot errors in their hub of evidence-based information. Digitization and open access confound the staggering increase in correction notices and retractions.
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Croatian medical journal · Feb 2014
Estrogen receptor 1 gene (TA)n polymorphism is associated with lone atrial fibrillation in men.
To determine the association between the number of thymine-adenine (TA)n dinucleotide repeats in the promoter region of the gene coding for the estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) and the prevalence of lone atrial fibrillation (AF) in men. ⋯ Our results indicate that a greater number of (TA)n repeats in the promoter region of ESR1 is associated with a significantly increased likelihood of lone atrial fibrillation in men.
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Croatian medical journal · Feb 2014
Slovenian population data for five new European Standard Set short tandem repeat loci and SE33 locus.
To establish the allele distribution and statistical parameters of forensic interest for the D10S1248, D22S1045, D2S441, D1S1656, D12S391, and SE33 loci in Slovenian population and to compare allele frequencies with those from other populations. ⋯ Slovenian population does not differ significantly from other European populations in terms of allele frequency distributions for the six analyzed STR loci. Based on forensic efficiency values, SE33 may be considered the most informative locus, which makes it especially useful in forensic investigations.
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Croatian medical journal · Feb 2014
Increased survival after irradiation followed by regeneration of bone marrow stromal cells with a novel thiol-based radioprotector.
To investigate the survival of laboratory rats after irradiation and to study the cellularity of their bone marrow and the multipotential mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) in groups treated with or without a new thiol-based radioprotector (GM2011). ⋯ Although the irradiation dosage was relatively high, GL2011 acted as a very effective new radioprotector. The recovery of the BN-MSCs and their counts support the effectiveness of the studied radioprotector.