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Submissions from 2011
Coordinated increase in inhibitory and excitatory synapses onto retinal ganglion cells during development, Florentina Soto, Adam Bleckert, Renate Lewis, Yunhee Kang, Daniel Kerschensteiner, Ann Marie Craig, and Rachel OL Wong
A sensitive high-throughput assay for evaluating host-pathogen interactions in cryptococcus neoformans infection, Deepa Srikanta, Meng Yang, Matthew Williams, and Tamara L. Doering
Catalytic and non-catalytic roles for the Mono-ADP-Ribosyltransferase Arr in the mycobacterial DNA damage response, Christina L. Stallings, Linda Chu, Lucy X. Li, and Michael S. Glickman
CarD: A new RNA polymerase modulator in mycobacteria, Christina L. Stallings and Michael S. Glickman
Crohn disease: A current perspective on genetics, autophagy and immunity, Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, John D. Rioux, Atsushi Mizoguchi, Tatsuya Saitoh, Alan Huett, Arlette Darfeuille-Michaud, Tom Wileman, Noboru Mizushima, Simon Carding, Shizuo Akira, Miles Parkes, and Ramnik J. Xavier
The [RNQ+] prion: A model of both functional and pathological amyloid, Kevin C. Stein and Heather L. true
Oral acyclovir suppression and neurodevelopment after neonatal herpes, Gregory Storch and et al
Functional interaction between dynein light chain and intermediate chain is required for mitotic spindle positioning, Melissa D. Stuchell-Brereton, Amanda Siglin, Jun Li, Jeffrey K. Moore, Shubbir Ahmed, John C. Williams, and John A. Cooper
RNA binding protein CUGBP2/CELF2 mediates curcumin- induced mitotic catastrophe of pancreatic cancer cells, Dharmalingam Subramaniam, Satish Ramalingam, David C. Linehan, Brian K. Dieckgraefe, Russell G. Postier, Courtney W. Houchen, Roy A. Jensen, and Shrikant Anant
Application of collapsing methods for continuous traits to the Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 exome sequence data, Yun Ju Sung, Treva K. Rice, and Dabeeru C. Rao
Changes in events alter how people remember recent information, Khena M. Swallow, Deanna M. Barch, Denise Head, Corey J. Maley, Derek Holder, and Jeffrey M. Zacks
Type I interferon negatively controls plasmacytoid dendritic cell numbers in vivo, Melissa Swiecki, Yaming Wang, William Vermi, Susan Gilfillan, Robert D. Schreiber, and Marco Colonna
Neural representation of temporal duration: coherent findings obtained with the “lossy integration” model, Olga V. Sysoeva, Marc Wittmann, and Jiri Wackermann
Glucose and fatty acids synergize to promote B-cell apoptosis through activation of glycogen synthase kinase 3beta independent of JNK activation, Katsuya Tanabe, Yang Liu, Syed D. Hasan, Sara C. Martinez, Corentin Cras-Meneur, Cris M. Welling, Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi, Yukio Tanizawa, Christopher J. Rhodes, Erik Zmuda, Tsonwin Hai, Nada A. Abumrad, and M. Alan Permutt
Preschool onset attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Course and predictors of stability over 24 months, Mini Tandon, Xuemei Si, and Joan Luby
Targeting protein-protein interactions for parasite control, Christina M. Taylor, Kerstin Fischer, Sahar Abubucker, Zhengyuan Wang, John Martin, Daojun Jiang, Marc Magliano, Marie-Noelle Rosso, Ben-Wen Li, Peter U. Fischer, and Makedonka Mitreva
Critical role of astroglial apolipoprotein E and liver X receptor-α expression for microglial Aβ phagocytosis, Dick Terwel, Knut R. Steffensen, Philip B. Verghese, Markus P. Kummer, Jan-Åke Gustafsson, David M. Holtzman, and Michael T. Heneka
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase genetic polymorphisms and toxicity to 5-FU-based chemoradiation in rectal cancer, Fabienne J. Thomas, Alison A. Motsinger-Reif, Janelle M. Hoskins, Anne M. Dvorak, Siddharth Roy, A. Alyasiri, Robert J. Myerson, James W. Fleshman, Benjamin Tan, and Howard L. McLeod
Fibrocartilage tissue engineering: the role of the stress environment on cell morphology and matrix expression, Stavros Thomopoulos, Rosalina Das, Victor Birman, Lester Smith, Katherine Ku, Elliott L. Elson, Kenneth M. Pryse, Juan Pablo Marquez, and Guy M. Genin
Consumption of single cigarettes and quitting behavior: A longitudinal analysis of Mexican smokers, James F. Thrasher, Victor Villalobos, Joaquin Barnoya, Raul Sansores, and Richard O'Connor
Bioluminescence imaging captures the expression and dynamics of endogenous p21 promoter activity in living mice and intact cells, Kelsey L. Tinkum, Luciano Marpegan, Lynn S. White, Jinwu Sun, Erik D. Herzog, David Piwnica-Worms, and Helen Piwnica-Worms
Ethanol enhances neurosteroidogenesis in hippocampal pyramidal neurons by paradoxical NMDA receptor activation, Kazuhiro Tokuda, Yukitoshi Izumi, and Charles F. Zorumski
Controlled cortical impact traumatic brain injury in 3xTg-AD mice causes acute intra-axonal amyloid-β accumulation and independently accelerates the development of tau abnormalities, Hien T. Tran, Frank M. LaFerla, David M. Holtzman, and David L. Brody
Lineage relationship of direct-developing melanocytes and melanocyte stem cells in the zebrafish, Robert C. Tryon, Charles W. Higdon, and Stephen L. Johnson
The N-terminal, polybasic region is critical for prion protein neuroprotective activity, Jessie A. Turnbaugh, Laura Westergard, Ursula Unterberger, Emiliano Biasini, and David A. Harris
Statistical analysis and interpretation of prenatal diagnostic imaging studies, part 2: Descriptive and inferential statistical methods, Methodius G. Tuuli and Anthony O. Odibo
Implications of the prion-related Q/N domains in TDP-43 and FUS, Maria Udan and Robert H. Baloh
Effect of supplementation during pregnancy with L-arginine and antioxidant vitamins in medicalfood on pre-eclampsia in high risk population: Randomised controlled trial, Felipe Vadillo-Ortega, Otilia Perichant-Perera, Salvador Espino, Marco Antonio Avila-Vergara, Isabel Ibarra, Roberto Ahued, Myrna Godines, Samuel Parry, George Macones, and Jerome F. Strauss
The transcriptional diversity of 25 Drosophila cell lines, Marijke J. van Baren, Laura Langton, Aaron E. Tenney, and Michael R. Brent
bop5 mutations reveal new roles for the IC138 phosphoprotein in the regulation of flagellar motility and asymmetric waveforms, Kristyn E. VanderWaal, Ryosuke Yamamoto, Ken-ichi Wakabayashi, Laura Fox, Ritsu Kamiya, Susan K. Dutcher, Phillip V. Bayly, Winfield S. Sale, and Mary E. Porter
Development, maturation, and necessity of transcription factors in the mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus, Cassandra VanDunk, Lindsay A. Hunter, and Paul A. Gray
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy versus laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding for the treatment severe obesity in high risk patients, J. Esteban Varela
Plasmodium protease ROM1 is important for proper formation of the parasitophorous vacuol, Iset Medina Vera, Wandy L. Beatty, Photini Sinnis, and Kami Kim
Opposing synaptic regulation of amyloid-β metabolism by NMDA receptors in vivo, Deborah K. Verges, Jessica L. Restivo, Whitney D. Goebel, David M. Holtzman, and John R. Cirrito
Role of NADPH oxidase versus neutrophil proteases in antimicrobial host defense, R. Robert Vethanayagam, Nikolaos G. Almyroudis, Melissa J. Grimm, David C. Lewandowski, Christine T. N Pham, Timothy S. Blackwell, Ruta Petraitiene, Vidmantas Petraitis, Thomas J. Walsh, Constantin F. Urban, and Brahm H. Segal
MicroRNAs modulate schwann cell response to nerve injury by reinforcing transcriptional silencing of dedifferentiation-related genes, Andreu Viader, Li-Wei Chang, Timothy Fahrner, Rakesh Nagarajan, and Jeffrey Milbrandt
Schwann cell mitochondrial metabolism supports long-term axonal survival and peripheral nerve function, Andreu Viader, Judith P. Golden, Robert H. Baloh, Robert E. Schmidt, Daniel A. Hunter, and Jeffrey Milbrandt
Differential regional and subtype-specific vulnerability of enteric neurons to mitochondrial dysfunction, Andreu Viader, Elizabeth C. Wright-Jin, Bhupinder P.S Vohra, Robert O. Heuckeroth, and Jeffrey Milbrandt
Weight loss, exercise, or both and physical function in obese older adults, Dennis T. Villareal, Suresh Chode, Nehu Parimi, David R. Sinacore, Krupa Shah, Tiffany Hilton, Reina Armamento-Villareal, Nicola Napoli, and Clifford Qualls
Phr1 is required for proper retinocollicular targeting of nasal-dorsal retinal ganglion cells, Bradley Q. Vo, A J. Bloom, and Susan M. Culican
Exenatide improves glucose homeostasis and prolongs survival in a murine model of dilated cardiomyopathy, Arpita Kalla Vyas, Kai-Chen Yang, Dennis Woo, Anatoly Tzekov, Attila Kovacs, Patrick Y. Jay, and Paul W. Hruz
Four-year longitudinal performance of a population-based sample of healthy children on a neuropsychological battery: The NIH MRI study of normal brain development, Deborah P. Waber, Peter W. Forbes, C. R. Almli, and Emily A. Blood
Calling Cards enable multiplexed identification of the genomic targets of DNA-binding proteins, Haoyi Wang, David Mayhew, Xuhua Chen, Mark Johnston, and Robi David Mitra
Deep small RNA sequencing from the nematode Ascaris reveals conservation, functional diversification, and novel developmental profiles, Jianbin Wang, Benjamin Czech, Amanda Crunk, Adam Wallace, Makedonka Mitreva, Gregory J. Hannon, and Richard E. Davis
Measuring the impact of apnea and obesity on circadian activity patterns using functional linear modeling of actigraphy data, Jia Wang, Hong Xian, Amy Licis, Elena Deych, Jimin Ding, Jennifer McLeland, Cristina Toedebusch, Tao Li, Stephen Duntley, and William Shannon
Gateways of ventral and dorsal streams in mouse visual cortex, Quanxin Wang, Enquan Gao, and Andreas Burkhalter
Acute impact of moderate-intensity and vigorous-intensity exercise bouts on daily physical activity energy expenditure in postmenopausal women, Xuewen Wang and Barbara J. Nicklas
Differential microbicidal effects of human histone proteins H2A and H2B on Leishmania promastigotes and amastigotes, Yingwei Wang, Yang Chen, Lijun Xin, Stephen M. Beverley, Eric D. Carlsen, Vsevolod Popov, Kwang-Poo Chang, Ming Wang, and Lynn Soong
Fine-tuning p53 activity through C-terminal modification significantly contributes to HSC homeostasis and mouse radiosensitivity, Yunyuan V. Wang, Mathias Leblanc, Norma Fox, Jian-Hua Mao, Kelsey L. Tinkum, Kurt Krummel, Dannielle Engle, David Piwnica-Worms, Helen Piwnica-Worms, Allan Balmain, Kenneth Kaushanszy, and Geoffrey M. Wahl
Sequencing a mouse acute promyelocytic leukemia genome reveals genetic events relevant for disease progression, Lukas D. Wartman, David E. Larson, Zhifu Xiang, Li Ding, Ken Chen, Ling Lin, Patrick Cahan, Jeffery M. Klco, John S. Welch, Cheng Li, Jacqueline E. Payton, Geoffrey L. Uy, Nobish Varghese, Rhonda E. Ries, and et al.
Osteoblast connexin43 modulates skeletal architecture by regulating both arms of bone remodeling, Marcus Watkins, Susan K. Grimston, Jin Yi Norris, Bertrand Guillotin, Angela Shaw, Elia Beniash, and Roberto Civitelli
Catheter-associated Nocardia higoensis bacteremia in a child with acute lymphocytic leukemia, Michael E. Watson Jr., Michele M. Eastabrook, and Carey-Ann D. Burnham
Photo Quiz: A 2-year-old female with fever and rash, Michael E. Watson Jr., Gregory A. Storch, W. Michael Dunne Jr., and Carey-Ann D. Burnham
Profile of ezogabine (retigabine) and its potential as an adjunctive treatment for patients with partial-onset seizures, Judith L.Z Weisenberg and Michael Wong
Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) replacement decreases insulin resistance and lowers inflammatory cytokines in aging humans, Edward P. Weiss, Dennis T. Villareal, Luigi Fontana, Dong-Ho Han, and John O. Holloszy
The duration of diarrhea and fever is associated with growth faltering in rural Malawian children aged 6-18 months, Ariana Weisz, Gus Meuli, Chrissie Thakwalakwa, Indi Trehan, Kenneth Maleta, and Mark Manary
PML-RARA can increase hematopoietic self-renewal without causing a myeloproliferative disease in mice, John S. Welch, Wenlin Yuan, and Timothy J. Ley
The cytoplasmic adaptor protein Caskin mediates Lar signal transduction during Drosophila motor axon guidance, Yi-Lan Weng, Nan Liu, Aaron DiAntonio, and Heather T. Broihier
ISG15 is critical in the control of Chikungunya virus infection independent of UbE1L mediated conjugation, Scott W. Werneke, Clementine Schilte, Anjali Rohatgi, Kristen J. Monte, Alain Michault, Fernando Arenzana-Seisdedos, Dana L. Vanlandingham, Stephen Higgs, Arnaud Fontanet, Matthew L. Albert, and Deborah J. Lenschow
A nine amino acid domain Is essential for mutant prion protein toxicity, Laura Westergard, Jessie A. Turnbaugh, and David A. Harris
The tumor suppressor gene Trp53 protects the mouse lens against posterior subcapsular cataracts and the BMP receptor Acvr1 acts as a tumor suppressor in the lens, Luke A. Wiley, Ramya Rajagopal, Lisa K. Dattilo, and David C. Beebe
Genome-wide joint SNP and CNV analysis of aortic root diameter in African Americans: the HyperGEN study, Nathan E. Wineinger, Amit Patki, Kristin J. Meyers, Ulrich Broeckel, Charles C. Gu, DC Rao, Richard B. Devereux, Donna K. Arnett, and Herman K. Tiwari
Risk estimates from an online risk calculator are more believable and recalled better when expressed as integers, Holly O. Witteman, Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, Erika A. Waters, Teresa Gavaruzzi, and Angela Fagerlin
Electronic surveillance for healthcare-associated central line-associated bloodstream infections outside the intensive care unit, Keith F. Woeltje, Kathleen M. McMullen, Anne M. Butler, Ashleigh J. Goris, and Joshua A. Doherty
High-fat meal effect on LDL, HDL, and VLDL particle size and number in the Genetics of Lipid- Lowering drugs and diet network (GOLDN): An interventional study, Mary K. Wojczynski, Stephen P. Glasser, Albert Oberman, Edmond K. Kabagambe, Paul N. Hopkins, Michael Y. Tsai, Robert J. Straka, Jose M. Ordovas, and Donna K. Arnett
Physical activity and risk of colon adenoma: A meta-analysis, Kathleen Yaus Wolin, Yan Yan, and Graham A. Colditz
New technologies in clinical microbiology, Donna M. Wolk and W. Michael Dunne Jr.
Dietary carbohydrate modifies the inverse association between saturated fat intake and cholesterol on very low-density lipoproteins, A. C. Wood, E. K. Kabagambe, I. B. Borecki, H. K. Tiwari, J. M. Ordovas, and D. K. Arnett
Lipoprotein Lipase S447X variant associated with VLDL, LDL and HDL diameter clustering in the MetS, Alexis C. Wood, Stephen Glasser, W Timothy Garvey, Edmond K. Kabagambe, Ingrid B. Borecki, Hemant K. Tiwari, Michael Y. Tsai, Paul N. Hopkins, Jose M. Ordovas, and Donna K. Arnett
A monthly quality assurance procedure for 3D surface imaging, H. Omar Wooten, Eric E. Klein, Garima Gokrhoo, and Lakshmi Santanam
RhoA protects the mouse heart against ischemia/reperfusion injury, Sunny Yang Xiang, Davy Vanhoutte, Dominic P. Del Re, Nicole H. Purcell, Haiyun Ling, Indroneal Banerjee, Julie Bossuyt, Richard A. Lang, Yi Zheng, Scot J. Matkovich, Shigeki Miyamoto, Jeffrey D. Molkentin, Gerald W. Dorn II, and Joan Heller Brown
A genomic storm in critically injured humans, Wenzhong Xiao, Bernard H. Brownstein, and et al
Identification of the PGRMC1 protein complex as the putative sigma-2 receptor binding site, Jinbin Xu, Chenbo Zeng, Wenhua Chu, Fenghui Pan, Justin M. Rothfuss, Fanjie Zhang, Zhude Tu, Dong Zhou, Dexing Zeng, Suwanna Vangveravong, Fabian Johnston, Dirk Spitzer, Katherine C. Chang, Richard S. Hotchkiss, William G. Hawkins, Robert H. Mach, and et al
In vivo microdialysis reveals age-dependent decrease of brain interstitial fluid tau levels in P301S human tau transgenic mice, Kaoru Yamada, John R. Cirrito, Floy R. Stewart, Hong Jiang, Mary Beth Finn, Brandon B. Holmes, Lester I. Binder, Eva-Maria Mandelkow, Marc I. Diamond, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, and David M. Holtzman
Accurate quantification of lipid species by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry - Meet a key challenge in lipidomics, Kui Yang and Xianlin Han
Fig1 facilitates calcium influx and localizes to membranes destined to undergo fusion during mating in Candida albicans, Meng Yang, Alexandra Brand, Thyagarajan Srikantha, Karla J. Daniels, David R. Soll, and Neil A.R. Gow
Enrichment analysis of genetic association in genes and pathways by aggregating signals from both rare and common variants, Wei Yang and C Charles Gu
Binocular disparity tuning and visual–vestibular congruency of multisensory neurons in macaque parietal cortex, Yun Yang, Sheng Liu, Syed A. Chowdhury, Gregory C. DeAngelis, and Dora E. Angelaki
A vertebrate case study of the quality of assemblies derived from next-generation sequences, Liang Ye, LaDeana W. Hillier, Patrick Minx, Nay Thane, Devin P. Locke, John C. Martin, Lei Chen, Makedonka Mitreva, Jason R. Miller, Kevin V. Haub, David J. Dooling, Elaine R. Mardis, Richard K. Wilson, George M. Weinstock, and Wesley C. Warren
Elevated hemostasis markers after pneumonia increases one-year risk of all-cause and cardiovascular deaths, Sachin Yende, Gina D'Angelo, John A. Kellum, Lisa Weissfeld, A. Murat Kaynar, Tammy Young, Kaikobad Irani, and Derek C. Angus
Adipose tissue endocannabinoid system gene expression: depot differences and effects of diet and exercise, Tongjian You, Beth L. Disanzo, Xuewen Wang, Rongze Yang, and Dawei Gong
Cholesterol tuning of BK ethanol response is enantioselective, and is a function of accompanying lipids, Chunbo Yuan, Maohui Chen, Douglas F. Covey, and Steven N. Treistman
Prediction error associated with the perceptual segmentation of naturalistic events, Jeffrey M. Zacks, Christopher A. Kurby, Michelle L. Eisenberg, and Nayiri Haroutunian
Multisensory calibration Is independent of cue reliability, Adam Zaidel, Amanda H. Turner, and Dora E. Angelaki
mGlu2 metabotropic glutamate receptors restrain inflammatory pain and mediate the analgesic activity of dual mGlu2/mGlu3 receptor agonists, Magda Zammataro, Santina Chiechio, Michael C. Montana, Anna Traficante, Agata Copani, Ferdinando Nicoletti, and Robert W. Gereau IV
A mathematical model for the determination of steady-state cardiolipin remodeling mechanisms using lipidomic data, Lu Zhang, Robert J. A. Bell, Michael A. Kiebish, Thomas N. Seyfried, Xianlin Han, Richard W. Gross, and Jeffrey H. Chuang
Methods for adjusting population structure and familial relatedness in association test for collective effect of multiple rare variants on quantitative traits, Qunyuan Zhang, Doyoung Chung, Aldi Kraja, Ingrid B. Borecki, and Michael A. Province
Congenital bone marrow failure in DNA-PKcs mutant mice associated with deficiencies in DNA repair, Shichuan Zhang, Hirohiko Yajima, HoangDinh Huynh, Junke Zheng, Elsa Callen, Hua-Tang Chen, Nancy Wong, Samuel Bunting, Yu-Fen Lin, Mengxia Li, Kyung-Jone Lee, Michael Story, Eric Gapud, Barry P. Sleckman, André Nussenzweig, Cheng Cheng Zhang, David J. Chen, and Benjamin P.C. Chen
Improving Salmonella vector with rec mutation to stabilize the DNA cargoes, Xiangmin Zhang, Soo-Young Wanda, Karen Brenneman, Wei Kong, Xin Zhang, Kenneth Roland, and Roy Curtiss III
Identification of DHX33 as a mediator of rRNA synthesis and cell growth, Yandong Zhang, Jason T. Forys, Alexander P. Miceli, Abigail S. Gwinn, and Jason D. Weber
Transcriptome analysis of female and male Xiphophorus maculatus Jp 163 A, Ziping Zhang, Yilei Wang, Shuhong Wang, Jingtao Liu, Wesley Warren, Makedonka Mitreva, and Ronald B. Walter
The genetic sonogram: Comparing the use of likelihood ratios versus logistic regression coefficients for Down syndrome screening, Yan Zhong, Ryan Longman, Rachael Bradshaw, and Anthony O. Odibo
FlyFactorSurvey: A database of Drosophila transcription factor binding specificities determined using the bacterial one-hybrid system, Lihua J. Zhu, Ryan G. Christensen, Majid Kazemian, Christopher J. Hull, Metewo S. Enuameh, Matthew D. Basciotta, Jessie A. Brasefield, Cong Zhu, Yuna Asriyan, David S. Lapointe, Saurabh Sinha, Scot A. Wolfe, and Michael H. Brodsky
Pregnancy in multiple system atrophy: A case report, Lirong Zhu, Nigel J. Cairns, Samer D. Tabbal, and Brad A. Racette
Do shared etiological factors contribute to the relationship between sexual orientation and depression?, B. P. Zietsch, K. J H Verweij, A. C. Heath, P. A F Madden, N. G. Martin, E. C. Nelson, and M. T. Lynskey
Submissions from 2010
In vitro transformation of primary human CD34+ cells by AML fusion oncogenes: Early gene expression profiling reveals possible drug target in AML, Anmaar M. Abdul-Nabi, Enas R. Yassin, Nobish Varghese, Hrishikesh Deshmukh, and Nabeel R. Yaseen
Influenza vaccination among healthcare workers: Ten-year experience of a large healthcare organization, Cristina Ajenjo, Keith F. Woeltje, Hilary M. Babcock, Nancy Gemeinhart, Marilyn Jones, and Victoria J. Fraser
Targeting of B and T lymphocyte associated (BTLA) prevents graft-versus-host disease without global immunosuppression, Jörn C. Albring, Michelle M. Sandau, Aaron S. Rapaport, Brian T. Edelson, Ansuman Satpathy, Mona Mashayekhi, Stephanie K. Lathrop, Chyi-Song Hsieh, Matthias Stelljes, Marco Colonna, Theresa L. Murphy, and Kenneth M. Murphy
Blood meal analysis to identify reservoir hosts for Amblyomma americanum ticks, Brian F. Allan, Lisa S. Goessling, Gregory A. Storch, and Robert E. Thach
VIPR: A probabilistic algorithm for analysis of microbial detection microarrays, Adam F. Allred, Guang Wu, Tuya Wulan, Kael F. Fischer, Michael R. Holbrook, Robert B. Tesh, and David Wang
