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Submissions from 2010
shRNA-mediated decreases in c-Met levels affect the differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells and reduce their capacity for tissue repair, Ivana Rosová, Daniel Link, and Jan A. Nolta
A general co-expression network-based approach to gene expression analysis: comparison and applications, Jianhua Ruan, Angela K. Dean, and Weixiong Zhang
Multiple independent loci at chromosome 15q25.1 affect smoking quantity: a meta-analysis and comparison with lung cancer and COPD, Nancy L. Saccone, Robert C. Culverhouse, Tae-Hwi Schwantes-An, Lingwei Sun, Andrew C. Heath, Michele L. Pergadia, John P. Rice, Jen C. Wang, Pamela A.F Madden, Laura J. Bierut, and et al.
SPOT: A web-based tool for using biological databases to prioritize SNPs after a genome-wide association study, Scott F. Saccone, Raphael Bolze, Prasanth Thomas, Jiaxi Quan, Gaurang Mehta, Ewa Deelman, Jay A. Tischfield, and John P. Rice
Gallbladder infarction and liver abscess formation following right hepatic artery chemoembolization for metastatic neuroendocrine tumor, Christopher Sampson and Ryan Petersen
Beyond citation analysis: a model for assessment of research impact, Cathy C. Sarli, Ellen K. Dubinsky, and Kristi L. Holmes
Common genetic and environmental contributions to post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol dependence in young women, C. E. Sartor, V. V. McCutcheon, N. E. Pommer, E. C. Nelson, J. D. Grant, A. E. Duncan, M. Waldron, K. K. Bucholz, P. A F Madden, and A. C. Heath
SIRT1 promotes the central adaptive response to diet restriction through activation of the dorsomedial and lateral nuclei of the hypothalamus, Akiko Satoh, Cynthia S. Brace, Gal Ben-Josef, Tim West, David F. Wozniak, David M. Holtzman, Erik D. Herzog, and Shin-ichiro Imai
More than Tuskegee: Understanding mistrust about research participation, Darcell P. Scharff, Katherine J. Mathews, Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Hoffsuemmer, Emeobong Martin, and Dorothy Edwards
Effects of moderate-volume, high-load lower-body resistance training on strength and function in persons with Parkinson's disease: A pilot study, Brian K. Schilling, Ronald F. Pfeiffer, Mark S. LeDoux, Robyn E. Karlage, Richard J. Bloomer, and Michael J. Falvo
Surface properties of Helicobacter pylori urease complex are essential for persistence, Tobias D. Schoep, Alma Fulurija, Fayth Good, Wei Lu, Robyn P. Himbeck, Carola Schwan, Sung Sook Choi, Douglas E. Berg, Peer R.E. Mittl, Mohammed Benghezal, and Barry J. Marshall
Exome sequencing, ANGPTL3 mutations, and familial combined hypolipidemia, Gustav Schonfeld, Pin Yue, and et al
Neighborhood conditions, diabetes, and risk of lower-body functional limitations among middle-aged African Americans: A cohort study, Mario Schootman, Elena M. Andresen, Fredric D. Wolinsky, J Philip Miller, Yan Yan, and Douglas K. Miller
Attention to memory and the environment: functional specialization and dynamic competition in human posterior parietal cortex, Carlo Sestieri, Gordon L. Shulman, and Maurizio Corbetta
Genome-wide analysis reveals novel genes essential for heme homeostasis in Caenorhabditis elegans, Scott Severance, Abbhirami Rajagopal, Anita U. Rao, Gustavo C. Cerqueira, Makedonka Mitreva, Najib M. El-Sayed, Michael Krause, and Iqbal Hamza
Symptoms of psychological distress among African Americans seeking HIV-related mental health care, Enbal Shacham, Tania B. Basta, and Michael Reece
The interplay of sociodemographic factors on virologic suppression among a U.S. outpatient HIV clinic population, Enbal Shacham, Diana Nurutdinova, Nur Onen, Katelin Stamm, and E. Turner Overton
Characteristics of psychosocial support seeking during HIV-related treatment in western Kenya, Enbal Shacham, Michael Reece, Willis Owino Ong'or, Otieno Omollo, Patrick O. Monahan, and Claris Ojwang
Epimorphin deletion protects mice from inflammation-induced colon carcinogenesis and alters stem cell niche myofibroblast secretion, Anisa Shaker, Elzbieta A. Swietlicki, Lihua Wang, Shujun Jiang, Birce Onal, Shashi Bala, Katherine DeSchryver, Rodney Newberry, Marc S. Levin, and Deborah C. Rubin
MOF and histone H4 acetylation at lysine 16 are critical for DNA damage response and double-strand break repair, Girdhar G. Sharma, Sairei So, Arun Gupta, Rakesh Kumar, Christelle Cayrou, Nikita Avvakumov, Utpal Bhadra, Raj K. Pandita, Matthew H. Porteus, David J. Chen, Jacques Cote, and Tej K. Pandita
No dramatic age-related loss of hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons in Bcl-2 over-expression mice or Bax null mice, Haiyan Shen, Jonathan I. Matsui, Debin Lei, Lirong Han, Kevin K. Ohlemiller, and Jianxin Bao
A SNP discovery method to assess variant allele probability from next-generation resequencing data, Yufeng Shen, Zhengzheng Wan, Cristian Coarfa, Rafal Drabek, Lei Chen, Elizabeth A. Ostrowski, Yue Liu, George M. Weinstock, David A. Wheeler, Richard A. Gibbs, and Fuli Yu
Cat-Map: Putting cataract on the map, Alan Shiels, Thomas M. Bennett, and J. Fielding Hejtmancik
The development of therapeutic antibodies that neutralize homologous and heterologous genotypes of dengue virus type 1, Bimmi Shrestha, James D. Brien, Soila Sukupolvi-Petty, S. Kyle Austin, Melissa A. Edeling, Taekyung Kim, Katie M. O'Brien, Christopher A. Nelson, Syd Johnson, Daved H. Fremont, and Michael S. Diamond
Perspectives on: Molecular dynamics and computational methods Multi-scale electrophysiology modeling: from atom to organ, Jonathan R. Silva and Yoram Rudy
Parental depression and offspring psychopathology: A Children of Twins study, A. L. Singh, B. M. D'Onofrio, W. S. Slutske, E. Turkheimer, R. E. Emery, K. P. Harden, A. C. Heath, P. A F Madden, D. J. Statham, and N. G. Martin
Cisplatin ototoxicity blocks sensory regeneration in the avian inner ear, Eric L. Slattery and Mark E. Warchol
A functional metagenomic approach for expanding the synthetic biology toolbox for biomass conversion, Morten O. A. Sommer, George M. Church, and Gautam Dantas
The human microbiome harbors a diverse reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes, Morten O.A. Sommer, George M. Church, and Gautam Dantas
Human cord blood progenitors with high aldehyde dehydrogenase activity improve vascular density in a model of acute myocardial infarction, Claus S. Sondergaard, David A. Hess, Dustin J. Maxwell, Carla Weinheimer, Ivana Rosová, Michael H. Creer, David Piwnica-Worms, Attila Kovacs, Lene Pedersen, and Jan A. Nolta
Genetic and environmental influences on internalizing psychopathology vary as a function of economic status, S. C. South and R. F. Krueger
The contraceptive CHOICE project: Recruiting women at highest risk for unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection, Janine E. Spain, Jeffrey F. Peipert, Tessa Madden, Jenifer E. Allsworth, and Gina M. Secura
Phosphorylation of mouse immunity-related GTPase (IRG) resistance proteins is an evasion strategy for virulent Toxoplasma gondii, Tobias Steinfeldt, Stephanie Konen-Waisman, Lan Tong, Nikolaus Pawlowski, Tobias Lamkemeyer, L. David Sibley, Julia P. Hunn, and Jonathan C. Howard
Consuming cassava as a staple food places children 2-5 years old at risk for inadequate protein intake, an observational study in Kenya and Nigeria, Kevin Stephenson, Rachel Amthor, Sally Mallowa, Rhoda Nungo, Busie Maziya-Dixon, Simon Gichuki, Ada Mbanaso, and Mark Manary
Expression of the BabA adhesin during experimental infection with Helicobacter pylori, Cathy M. Styer, Lori M. Hansen, Cara L. Cooke, Amy M. Gundersen, Sung Sook Choi, Douglas E. Berg, Mohammed Benghezal, Barry J. Marshall, Richard M. Peek Jr, Thomas Boren, and Jay V. Solnick
Genome-wide association study of Lp-PLA2 activity and mass in the Framingham Heart Study, Sunil Suchindran, David Rivedal, John R. Guyton, Tom Milledge, Xiaoyi Gao, Ashlee Benjamin, Jennifer Rowell, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, and Jeanette J. McCarthy
Health and life insurance as an alternative to malpractice tort law, Walton Sumner II
Glucocorticoid protection of oligodendrocytes against excitotoxin involving hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha in a cell-type-specific manner, Yu-Yo Sun, Chen-Yu Wang, Ming-Feng Hsu, Shu-Hui Juan, Chiu-Yun Chang, Chih-Ming Chou, Liang-Yo Yang, Kuo-Sheng Hung, Jan Xu, Yi-Hsuan Lee, and Chung Y. Hsu
IPS-1 is essential for the control of West Nile virus infection and immunity, Mehul S. Suthar, Daphne Y. Ma, Sunil Thomas, Jennifer M. Lund, Nu Zhang, Stephane Daffis, Alexander Y. Rudensky, Michael J. Bevan, Edward A. Clark, Murali-Krishna Kaja, Michael S. Diamond, and Michael Gale Jr.
Type I IFN enhances follicular B cell contribution to the T cell-independent antibody response, Cristina L. Swanson, Timothy J. Wilson, Pamela Strauch, Marco Colonna, Roberta Pelanda, and Raul M. Torres
Revised SHEA position paper: Influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel, Thomas R. Talbot, Hilary Babcock, Arthur L. Caplan, Deborah Cotton, Lisa L. Maragakis, Gregory A. Poland, Edward J. Septimus, Michael L. Tapper, and David J. Weber
Block of mouse Slo1 and Slo3 K+ channels by CTX, IbTX, TEA, 4-AP and quinidine, Qiong-Yao Tang, Zhe Zhang, Xiao-Ming Xia, and Christopher J. Lingle
The perilipin homologue, Lipid storage droplet 2, regulates sleep homeostasis and prevents learning impairments following sleep loss, Matthew S. Thimgan, Yasuko Suzuki, Laurent Seugnet, Laura Gottschalk, and Paul J. Shaw
RAB26 and RAB3D are direct transcriptional targets of MIST1 that regulate exocrine granule maturation, Xiaolin Tian, Ramon U. Jin, Andrew J. Bredemeyer, Edward J. Oates, Katatzyna M. Blazewska, Charles E. McKenna, and Jason C. Mills
Neonatal intravenous injection of a gammaretroviral vector has a low incidence of tumor induction in mice, Mindy Tittiger, Xiuxui Ma, Lingfei Xu, and Katherine P. Ponder
Midazolam inhibits hippocampal long-term potentiation and learning through dual central and peripheral benzodiazepine receptor activation and neurosteroidogenesis, Kazuhiro Tokuda, Kazuko A. O'Dell, Yukitoshi Izumi, and Charles F. Zorumski
Detection rates of congenital heart disease in Guatemala, Sara M. Trucco, Joaquin Barnoya, Luis A. Larrazabal, Aldo Castañeda, and David F. Teitel
CD46 engagement on human CD4+ T cells produces T regulatory type 1-like regulation of antimycobacterial T cell responses, Steven M. Truscott, Getahun Abate, Jeffrey D. Price, Claudia Kemper, John P. Atkinson, and Daniel F. Hoft
Roles of membrane trafficking in nerve repair and regeneration, Elizabeth Tuck and Valeria Cavalli
Image-based calibration of a deformable mirror in wide-field microscopy, Diwakar Turaga and Timothy E. Holy
Full tensor diffucion is not required to access the white-matter integrity in mouse contusion spinal cord injury, Tsang-Wei Tu, Joong H. Kim, Jian Wang, and Sheng-Kwei Song
High-throughput discovery of rare insertions and deletions in large cohorts, Francesco L.M. Vallania, Todd E. Druley, Enrique Ramos, Jue Wang, Ingrid Borecki, Michael Province, and Robi D. Mitra
Bisulfite Patch PCR enables multiplexed sequencing of promoter methylation across cancer samples, Katherine Elena Varley and Robi David Mitra
Perceptions of HIV risk among monogamous wives of alcoholic men in South India: A qualitative study, Deepthi S. Varma, Prabha S. Chandra, Catina Callahan, Wendy Reich, and Linda B. Cottler
Management of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer: role of gefitinib, Vamsidhar Velcheti, Daniel Morgensztern, and Ramaswamy Govindan
Is transcription factor binding site turnover a sufficient explanation for cis-regulatory sequence divergence?, Sandeep Venkataram and Justin C. Fay
Amyloid precursor protein cleavage-dependent and -independent axonal degeneration programs share a common nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyltransferase 1-sensitive pathway, Bhupinder P.S. Vohra, Yo Sasaki, Bradley R. Miller, Jufang Chang, Aaron DiAntonio, and Jeffrey Milbrandt
Risk of miscarriage with bivalent vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18: Pooled analysis of two randomised controlled trials, Sholom Wacholder, Bingshu Eric Chen, Allen Wilcox, George Macones, Paula Gonzalez, Brian Befano, Allan Hildesheim, Ana Cecilia Rodriguez, Diane Solomon, Rolando Herrero, and Mark Schiffman
Identification of YsrT and evidence that YsrRST constitute a unique phosphorelay system in Yersinia enterocolitica, Kimberly A. Walker, Markus W. Obrist, Shirly Mildiner-Earley, and Virginia L. Miller
TIP-1 translocation onto the cell plasma membrane is a molecular biomarker of tumor response to ionizing radiation, Hailun Wang, Heping Yan, Allie Fu, Miaojun Han, Dennis Hallahan, and Zhaozhong Han
The timing and location of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor expression determine enteric nervous system structure and function, Hongtao Wang, Inna Hughes, William Planer, Alexander Parsadanian, John R. Grider, Bhupinder P.S. Vohra, Cynthia Keller-Peck, and Robert O. Heuckeroth
Mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis in cumulus cells of type I diabetic mice, Qiang Wang, Antonina I. Frolova, Scott Purcell, Katie Adastra, Erica Schoeller, Maggie M. Chi, Tim Schedl, and Kelle H. Moley
Characterizing Ancylostoma caninum transcriptome and exploring nematode parasitic adaptation, Zhengyuan Wang, Sahar Abubucker, John Martin, Richard K. Wilson, John Hawdon, and Makedonka Mitreva
Novel venom gene discovery in the platypus, Camilla M. Whittington, Anthony T. Papenfuss, Devin P. Locke, Elaine R. Mardis, Richard K. Wilson, Sahar Abubucker, Makedonka Mitreva, Emily SW Wong, Arthur L. Hsu, Philip W. Kuchel, Katherine Belov, and Wesley C. Warren
Fatty acid modulation and polyamine block of GluK2 kainate receptors analyzed by scanning mutagenesis, Timothy J. Wilding, Kevin Chen, and James E. Huettner
Visualizing lens epithelial cell proliferation in whole lenses, Luke A. Wiley, Ying-Bo Shui, and David C. Beebe
Quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance for molecular imaging, Patrick M. Winter, Shelton D. Caruthers, Gregory M. Lanza, and Samuel A. Wickline
Physical activity in US Blacks: a systematic review and critical examination of self-report instruments, Kathleen Y. Wolin, Casey Fagin, Nneka Ufere, Hallie Tuchman, and Gary G. Bennett
State-dependent electrostatic interactions of S4 arginines with E1 in S2 during Kv7.1 activation, Dick Wu, Kelli Delaloye, Mark A. Zaydman, Ali Nekouzadeh, Yoram Rudy, and Jianmin Cui
Mcl1 haploinsufficiency protects mice from Myc-induced acute myeloid leukemia, Zhifu Xiang, Hui Luo, Jacqueline E. Payton, Jennifer Cain, Timothy J. Ley, Joseph T. Opferman, and Michael H. Tomasson
Protein turnover of the Wallenda/DLK kinase regulates a retrograde response to axonal injury, Xin Xiong, Xin Wang, Ronny Ewanek, Pavan Bhat, Aaron DiAntonio, and Catherine A. Collins
Relationship between complex and simple spike activity in macaque caudal vermis during three-dimensional vestibular stimulation, Tatyana Yakusheva, Pablo M. Blazquez, and Dora E. Angelaki
NIK stabilization in osteoclasts results in osteoporosis and enhanced inflammatory osteolysis, Chang Yang, Kathleen McCoy, Jennifer L. Davis, Marc Schmidt-Supprian, Yoshiteru Sasaki, Roberta Faccio, and Deborah Veis Novack
Fibroblast growth factor receptors 1 and 2 in keratinocytes control the epidermal barrier and cutaneous homeostasis, Jingxuan Yang, Michael Meyer, Anna-Katharina Müller, Friederike Böhm, Richard Grose, Tina Dauwalder, Francois Verrey, Manfred Kopf, Juha Partanen, Wilhelm Bloch, David M. Ornitz, and Sabine Werner
Application of X STOP device in the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis, Xiaobin Yi and Bradley McPherson
Brentuximab vedotin (SGN-35) for relapsed CD30-positive lymphomas, Anas Younes, Nancy L. Bartlett, John P. Leonard, Dana A. Kennedy, Carmel M. Lynch, Eric L. Sievers, and Andres Forero-Torres
Behavioral consequences of NMDA antagonist-induced neuroapoptosis in the infant mouse brain, Carla M. Yuede, David F. Wozniak, Catherine E. Creeley, George T. Taylor, John W. Olney, and Nuri B. Farber
Enhanced hepatic apoA-I secretion and peripheral efflux of cholesterol and phospholipid in CD36 null mice, Pin Yue, Zhouji Chen, Fatiha Nassir, Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi, Brian Finck, Salman Azhar, and Nada A. Abumrad
Ribosomal RNA diversity predicts genome diversity in gut bacteria and their relatives, Jesse R. Zaneveld, Catherine Lozupone, Jeffrey I. Gordon, and Rob Knight
Conservation and divergence of microRNAs and their functions in Euphorbiaceous plants, Changying Zeng, Wenquan Wang, Yun Zheng, Xin Chen, Weiping Bo, Shun Song, Weixiong Zhang, and Ming Ping
Regulation of cell death and epileptogenesis by the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR): A double-edged sword?, Ling-Hui Zeng, Sharon McDaniel, Nicholas R. Rensing, and Michael Wong
Multiple distinct small RNAs originate from the same microRNA precursors, Weixiong Zhang, Shang Gao, Xuefeng Zhou, Jing Xia, Padmanabhan Chellappan, Xiang Zhou, Xiaoming Zhang, and Hailing Jin
Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis among asymptomatic HIV+ patients in Guangxi, China, Yao Zhang, Lan Yu, Zhi-rong Tang, Shao-biao Huang, Yuan-jia Zheng, Zhi-hao Meng, Kai Sun, Li-ming Wang, Ray Y. Chen, and Fu-jie Zhang
Gamma-secretase composed of PS1/Pen2/Aph1a can cleave notch and amyloid precursor protein in the absence of nicastrin, Guojun Zhao, Zhenyi Liu, Ma. Xenia G. Ilagan, and Raphael Kopan
Glycine311, a determinant of paxilline block in BK channels: A novel bend in the BK S6 helix, Yu Zhou, Qiong-Yao Tang, Xiao-Ming Xia, and Christopher J. Lingle
Herbaspirillum species bacteremia in a pediatric oncology patient, Edward D. Ziga, Todd Druley, and Carey-Ann D. Burnham
Inappropriate empiric antifungal therapy for candidemia in the ICU and hospital resource utilization: a retrospective cohort study, Marya D. Zilberberg, Marin H. Kollef, Heather Arnold, Andrew Labelle, Scott T. Micek, Smita Kothari, and Andrew F. Shorr
Submissions from 2009
Mutations in ampG and lytic transglycosylase genes affect the net release of peptidoglycan monomers from Vibrio fischeri, Dawn M. Adin, Jacquelyn T. Engle, William E. Goldman, Margaret J. McFall-Ngai, and Eric V. Stabb
Item response modeling of DSM-IV mania symptoms in two representative US epidemiological samples, A. Agrawal, J. I. Nurnberger Jr., and M. T. Lynskey
Cancer stem cells - from initiation to elimination, how far have we reached?, Kamal Akhtar, Wendy Bussen, and Shaun P. Scott
Physical and sexual violence and incident sexually transmitted infections, Jenifer E. Allsworth, Mallika Anand, Colleen A. Redding, and Jeffrey F. Peipert
Classification of nonenzymatic homologues of protein kinases, K. Anamika, K. R. Abhinandan, K. Deshmukh, and N. Srinivasan
Copper-64 radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging of cancer: Advances in preclinical and clinical research, Carolyn J. Anderson and Riccardo Ferdani
αA-crystallin R49Cneo mutation influences the architecture of lens fiber cell membranes and causes posterior and nuclear cataracts in mice, Usha P. Andley
Exploring the feasibility of a meta-structure for DSM-V and ICD-11: Could it improve utility and validity, G. Andrews, D. P. Goldberg, R. F. Krueger, W. T. Carpenter Jr, S. E. Hyman, P. Sachdev, and D. S. Pine
Heritability of risk-taking in adolescence: A longitudinal twin study, Andrey P. Anokhin, Simon Golosheykin, Julia Grant, and Andrew C. Heath
Epistatic interactions of CDKN2B-TCF7L2 for risk of type 2 diabetes and of CDKN2B-JAZF1 for triglyceride/high-density lipoprotein ratio longitudinal change: Evidence from the Framingham Heart Study, Ping An, Mary Feitosa, Shamika Ketkar, Avril Adelman, Shiow Lin, Ingrid Borecki, and Michael Province
Difficulty in diagnosing surgical site infection after arthroscopy in developing countries, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, Siriporn Wittayachanyapong, Pranee Sitaposa, Kanokporn Thongphubeth, Hilary Babcock, and Victoria J. Fraser
Protocol for the BAG-RECALL clinical trial: A prospective, multi-center, randomized, controlled trial to determine whether a bispectral index-guided protocol is superior to an anesthesia gas-guided protocol in reducing intraoperative awareness with explicit recall in high risk surgical patients, Michael S. Avidan, Ben J. Palanca, David Glick, Eric Jacobsohn, Alex Villafranca, Michael O'Connor, and George A. Mashour
Microbiological, clinical, and surgical features of fungal prosthetic joint infections: A multi-institutional experience, Khalid Azzam, Javad Parvizi, Donald Jungkind, Arlen Hanssen, Thomas Fehring, Bryan Springer, Kevin Bozic, Craig Della Valle, Luis Pulido, and Robert Barrack
