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Petrogenesis of high Ba-Sr granites; the Rogart Pluton, Sutherland by Fowler, M. B, Henney, P. J, Darbyshire, D. P. F, Greenwood, P. B

“…The Rogart pluton is a typical example of high Ba-Sr granitic magmatism, emplaced in northern Scotland towards the end of the Caledonian Orogeny. It consists…”
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The potential impact of soil ingestion on human mineral nutrition by Hooda, P.S., Henry, C.J.K., Seyoum, T.A., Armstrong, L.D.M., Fowler, M.B.

“…Geophagia, the intentional and repeated ingestion of soil material, is a complex eating behaviour with incomprehensible aetiology. It is generally assumed that…”
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The Effect of Carvedilol on Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure by Packer, Milton, Bristow, Michael R, Cohn, Jay N, Colucci, Wilson S, Fowler, Michael B, Gilbert, Edward M, Shusterman, Neil H

“…Activation of the sympathetic nervous system is one of the cardinal pathophysiologic abnormalities in patients with chronic heart failure. Levels of…”
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Effect of Carvedilol on Survival in Severe Chronic Heart Failure by Packer, Milton, Coats, Andrew J.S, Fowler, Michael B, Katus, Hugo A, Krum, Henry, Mohacsi, Paul, Rouleau, Jean L, Tendera, Michal, Castaigne, Alain, Roecker, Ellen B, Schultz, Melissa K, Staiger, Christoph, Curtin, Ellen L, DeMets, David L

“…As compared with placebo, carvedilol reduced the risk of death by 35 percent and the combined risk of death or hospitalization by 24 percent. Beta-blocking…”
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Mixed Caledonian appinite magmas: implications for lamprophyre fractionation and high Ba-Sr granite genesis by Fowler, M. B., Henney, P. J.

“…Ach'Uaine Hybrid appinites represent a rare example of lamprophyric magmas that were demonstrably exactly contemporaneous with felsic differentiates, preserved…”
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Clinical, hemodynamic, and cardiopulmonary exercise test determinants of survival in patients referred for evaluation of heart failure by MYERS, J, GULLESTAD, L, VAGELOS, R, DAT DO, BELLIN, D, ROSS, H, FOWLER, M. B

“…Accurate prognosis in chronic heart failure has become increasingly important in assessing the efficacy of treatment and in appropriately allocating scarce…”
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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and prognosis in severe heart failure: 14 mL/kg/min revisited by Myers, Jonathan, Gullestad, Lars, Vagelos, Randall, Do, Dat, Bellin, Daniel, Ross, Heather, Fowler, Michael B.

“…Background Accurately establishing prognosis in severe heart failure has become increasingly important in assessing the efficacy of treatment modalities and in…”
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Petrogenesis of high Ba–Sr plutons from the Northern Highlands Terrane of the British Caledonian Province by Fowler, M.B., Kocks, H., Darbyshire, D.P.F., Greenwood, P.B.

“…A variety of high Ba–Sr granites and syenites is intruded into the Caledonian terrane of the Northern Highlands of Scotland. Volumetrically rather small, the…”
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A Comprehensive Management System for Heart Failure Improves Clinical Outcomes and Reduces Medical Resource Utilization by West, Jeffrey A, Miller, Nancy H, Parker, Kathleen M, Senneca, Deborah, Ghandour, Ghassan, Clark, Mia, Greenwald, George, Heller, Robert S, Fowler, Michael B, DeBusk, Robert F

“…The effectiveness of heart failure management in clinical practice is limited by physicians' suboptimal utilization of effective medications, patients' poor…”
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Increased β-receptor density and improved hemodynamic response to catecholamine stimulation during long-term metoprolol therapy in heart failure from dilated cardiomyopathy by HEILBRUNN, S. M, PIR SHAH, BRISTOW, M. R, VALANTINE, H. A, GINSBURG, R, FOWLER, M. B

“…Severe heart failure is associated with a reduction in myocardial beta-adrenergic receptor density and an impaired contractile response to catecholamine…”
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Influence of preoperative pulmonary artery pressure on mortality after heart transplantation: Testing of potential reversibility of pulmonary hypertension with nitroprusside is useful in defining a high risk group by Costard-Jäckle, Angelika, Fowler, Michael B.

“…Patients with pulmonary hypertension are at risk of developing fatal right heart failure after heart transplantation. To evaluate this risk potential,…”
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Assessment of the β-adrenergic receptor pathway in the intact failing human heart: progressive receptor down-regulation and subsensitivity to agonist response by FOWLER, M. B, LASER, J. A, HOPKINS, G. L, MINOBE, W, BRISTOW, M. R

“…We developed methods for identifying beta-adrenergic receptors in human right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy tissue with the radioligand…”
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β-blockers in heart failure : Do they improve the quality as well as the quantity of life? by FOWLER, M. B

“…Heart failure is a common clinical problem in patients with cardiovascular disease. Mortality remains high despite conventional therapy. The morbidity…”
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The Potential Impact of Geophagia on the Bioavailability of Iron, Zinc and Calcium in Human Nutrition by Hooda, P S, Henry, CJK, Seyoum, T A, Armstrong, LDM, Fowler, M B

“…Geophagia, the deliberate ingestion of soil, is a complex eating behaviour with obscure aetiology and numerous health/medical problems. It is conventionally…”
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Hypomethylation in cervical tissue: is there a correlation with folate status? by Fowler, B M, Giuliano, A R, Piyathilake, C, Nour, M, Hatch, K

“…We have shown previously that DNA hypomethylation is significantly associated with grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN; Y.I. Kim et al., Cancer,…”
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Cost effectiveness of carvedilol for heart failure by Delea, Thomas E, Vera-Llonch, Montserrat, Richner, Randel E, Fowler, Michael B, Oster, Gerry

“…In this study, we examine the cost effectiveness of carvedilol for the treatment of chronic heart failure (CHF). We use a Markov model to project life…”
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Induction of nitric oxide synthase in the human cardiac allograft is associated with contractile dysfunction of the left ventricle by LEWIS, N. P, TSAO, P. S, BILLINGHAM, M. E, VALANTINE, H. A, FOWLER, M. B, RICKENBACHER, P. R, CHUN XUE, JOHNS, R. A, HAYWOOD, G. A, VON DER LEYEN, H, TRINDADE, P. T, COOKE, J. P, HUNT, S. A

“…The mechanisms underlying cardiac contractile dysfunction after transplantation remain poorly defined. Previous work has revealed that inducible nitric oxide…”
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Effects of Beta Blockers on Symptoms and Functional Capacity in Heart Failure by Fowler, Michael B

“…Beta-adrenergic-blocking drugs ameliorate the progression of disease that usually characterizes heart failure. All of the larger multicenter studies have…”
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Analysis of deaths in patients awaiting heart transplantation: impact on patient selection criteria by Haywood, G. A., Rickenbacher, P. R., Trindade, P. T., Gullestad, L., Jiang, J. P., Schroeder, J. S., Vagelos, R., Oyer, P., Fowler, M. B.

“…OBJECTIVE: To analyse the clinical characteristics of patients who died on the Stanford heart transplant waiting list and to develop a method for risk…”
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Conflicting mineral and whole-rock isochron ages from the Late-Archaean Lewisian complex of northwestern Scotland: Implications for geochronology in polymetamorphic high-grade terrains by Whitehouse, M.J., Fowler, M.B., Friend, C.R.L.

“…We report major and trace element (including rare-earth element, REE) geochemistry and whole-rock Sm Nd geochronology on two suites of mafic/ultramafic…”
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