BIAS ANALYSIS APPLIED TO AGRICULTURAL HEALTH STUDY PUBLICATIONS TO ESTIMATE NON-RANDOM SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY

Bias analysis applied to Agricultural Health Study publications to estimate non-random sources of uncertainty

Abstract Background The associations of pesticide exposure with disease outcomes HDMI Type A to DVI-I are estimated without the benefit of a randomized design.For this reason and others, these studies are susceptible to systematic errors.I analyzed studies of the associations between alachlor and glyphosate exposure and cancer incidence, both deriv

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The Potential Therapeutic Effects of Agmatine, Methylprednisolone, and Rapamycin on Experimental Spinal Cord Injury

Objective: In spinal cord injury (SCI), the primary mechanical damage leads to a neuroinflammatory response and the secondary neuronal injury occurs in response to the release of reactive oxygen species (ROS).In addition to the suppression of inflammation, autophagy plays a significant role in the survival of neurons during secondary SCI.The presen

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Adaptive significance of the prolonged diapause in the western Mediterranean lycaenid butterfly Tomares ballus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Diapause is a common dormancy strategy exhibited by many species of invertebrates and insects to temporarily avoid seasonally recurring unfavourable conditions for their development, most usually in winter.Less frequently, a prolonged diapause lasting two or more years is described in species living in unpredictable environments where it is adaptiv

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