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Submissions from 2009
An ensemble learning approach to reverse-engineering transcriptional regulatory networks from time-series gene expression data, Jianhua Ruan, Youping Deng, Edward J. Perkins, and Weixiong Zhang
Supplementing high-density SNP microarrays for additional coverage of disease-related genes: Addiction as a paradigm, Scott F. Saccone, Laura J. Bierut, Elissa J. Chesler, Peter W. Kalivas, Caryn Lerman, Nancy L. Saccone, George R. Uhl, Chuan-Yun Li, Vivek M. Philip, Howard J. Edenberg, Stephen T. Sherry, Michael Feolo, Robert K. Moyzis, and Joni L. Rutter
HIV-1 CRF 02 AG polymerase genes in Southern Ghana are mosaics of different 02 AG strains and the protease gene cannot infer subtypes, Kwamena W. Sagoe, Magda Dwidar, Theophilus K. Adiku, and Max Q. Arens
The Bacillus anthracis protein MprF is required for synthesis of lysylphosphatidylglycerols and for resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides, Shalaka Samant, Fong-Fu Hsu, Alexander A. Neyfakh, and Hyunwoo Lee
Comparison of arthroscopic and open treatment of septic arthritis of the wrist, Douglas M. Sammer and Alexander Y. Shin
Multiple hereditary exostosis, EXT genes, and skeletal development, Linda J. Sandell
Regulation of the Drosophila Enhancer of split and invected-engrailed gene complexes by sister chromatid cohesion proteins, Cheri A. Schaaf, Ziva Misulovin, Gurmukh Sahota, Akbar M. Siddiqui, Yuri B. Schwartz, Tatyana G. Kahn, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Maria Gause, and Dale Dorsett
A phase 2 study of vorinostat in acute myeloid leukemia, Eric W. Schaefer, Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla, Mark Juckett, John F. DiPersio, Vivek Roy, James Slack, Wenting Wu, Kristina Laumann, Igor Espinoza-Delgado, and Steven D. Gore
High harvest yield, high expansion, and phenotype stability of CD146 mesenchymal stromal cells from whole primitive human umbilical cord tissue, Rebecca C. Schugar, Steven M. Chirieleison, Kristin E. Wescoe, Benjamin T. Schmidt, Yuko Askew, Jordan J. Nance, Joshua M. Evron, Bruno Peault, and Bridget M. Deasy
Routine screening for depression: Identifying a challenge for successful HIV care, E Shacham, D Nurutdinova, V Satyanarayana, K Stamm, and E. T. Overton
Cervical spine motion during extrication: A pilot study, Jeffrey S. Shafer and Rosanne S. Naunheim
RNA-interference knockdown of Drosophila pigment dispersing factor in neuronal subsets: The anatomical basis of a neuropeptide’s circadian functions, Orie T. Shafer and Paul H. Taghert
Echogenic intracardiac foci: Associated with increased risk for fetal trisomy 21 or not?, Anthony L. Shanks, Anthony O. Odibo, and Diana L. Gray
Application of three-level linear mixed-effects model incorporating gene-age interactions for association analysis of longitudinal family data, Gang Shi, Treva K. Rice, Chi Charles Gu, and Debeeru C. Rao
Candidemia on presentation to the hospital: Development and validation of a risk score, Andrew F. Shorr, Ying P. Tabak, Richard S. Johannes, Xiaowu Sun, James Spalding, and Marin H. Kollef
Cost-effectiveness analysis of a silver-coated endotracheal tube to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia, Andrew F. Shorr, Marya D. Zilberberg, and Marin Kollef
Ion channels underlying stimulus-exocytosis coupling and its cell-to-cell heterogeneity in β-cells of transplantable porcine islets of Langerhans, Amelia M. Silva, Adam S. Dickey, David W. Barnett, and Stanley Misler
A role of SCN9A in human epilepsies, as a cause of febrile seizures and as a potential modifier of Dravet syndrome, Nanda A. Singh, Chris Pappas, E. Jill Dahle, Lieve R. F. Claes, Timothy H. Pruess, Peter De Jonghe, Joel Thompson, Missy Dixon, Christina Gurnett, Andy Peiffer, H. Steve White, Francis Filloux, and Mark F. Leppert
Information technology resource management in radiation oncology, R. Alfredo Siochi, Peter Balter, Charles D. Bloch, Harry S. Bushe, Charles S. Mayo, Bruce H. Curran, Wenzheng Feng, George C. Kagadis, Thomas H. Kirby, and Robin L. Stern
Systematic review of the role of sedation in diagnostic spinal interventional techniques, Howard S. Smith, Pradeep Chopra, Vikram B. Patel, Michael E. Frey, and Rahul Rastogi
Molecularly targeted nanocarriers deliver the cytolytic peptide melittin specifically to tumor cells in mice, reducing tumor growth, Neeleesh R. Soman, Steven L. Baldwin, Grace Hu, Jon N. Marsh, Gregory M. Lanza, John E. Heuser, Jeffrey M. Arbeit, Samuel A. Wickline, and Paul H. Schlesinger
A novel role for Stat1 in phagosome acidification and natural host resistance to intracellular infection by Leishmania major, Gerald F. Spath, Paul Schlesinger, Robert Schreiber, and Stephen M. Beverley
Bioinformatics methods for learning radiation-induced lung inflammation from heterogeneous retrospective and prospective data, Sarah J. Spencer, Damian Almiron Bonnin, Joseph O. Deasy, Jeffrey D. Bradley, and Issam El Naqa
Improving the outcome of infants born at <30 >weeks' gestation - a randomized controlled trial of preventative care at home, Alicia J. Spittle, Carmel Ferretti, Peter J. Anderson, Jane Orton, Abbey Eeles, Lisa Bates, Roslyn N. Boyd, Terrie E. Inder, and Lex W. Doyle
Reliability and validity of the Student Perceptions of School Cohesion Scale in a sample of Salvadoran secondary school students, Andrew E. Springer, Amy McQueen, Guillermo Quintanilla, Marcela Arrivillaga, and Michael W. Ross
Acute dosing of latrepirdine (Dimebon™), a possible Alzheimer therapeutic, elevates extracellular amyloid-β levels in vitro and in vivo, John W. Steele, Soong H. Kim, John R. Cirrito, Deborah K. Verges, Jessica L. Restivo, David Westaway, Paul Fraser, Peter St George Hyslop, Mary Sano, Ilya Bezprozvanny, Michelle E. Ehrlich, David M. Holtzman, and Sam Gandy
Identification of Atg5-dependent transcriptional changes and increases in mitochondrial mass in Atg5-deficient T lymphocytes, Linda M. Stephenson, Brian C. Miller, Aylwin Ng, Jason Eisenberg, Zijiang Zhao, Ken Cadwell, Daniel B. Graham, Noboru N. Mizushima, Ramnik Xavier, Herbert W. Virgin, and Wojciech Swat
Low-fidelity DNA synthesis by the L979F mutator derivative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase zeta, Jana E. Stone, Grace E. Kissling, Scott A. Lujan, Igor B. Rogozin, Carrie M. Stith, Peter M.J. Burgers, and Thomas A. Kunkel
Mutants of the Paf1 complex alter phenotypic expression of the yeast prion [PSI+], Lisa A. Strawn, Changyi A. Lin, Elizabeth M.H Tank, Morwan M. Osman, Sarah A. Simpson, and Heather L. True
Pathogenicity of a disease-associated human IL-4 receptor allele in experimental asthma, Raffi Tachdjian, Clinton Mathias, Shadi Al Khatib, Paul J. Bryce, Hong S. Kim, Frank Blaeser, Brian D. O'Connor, Danuta Rzymkiewicz, Andrew Chen, Michael J. Holtzman, Gurjit K. Hershey, Holger Garn, Hani Harb, Harald Renz, Hans C. Oettgen, and Talal A. Chatila
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in preschool children: an investigation of validation based on visual attention performance, Mini Tandon, Xuemei Si, Andy Belden, and Joan Luby
Closed-channel block of BK potassium channels by bbTBA requires partial activation, Qiong-Yao Tang, Xu-Hui Zeng, and Christopher J. Lingle
Disease-associated mutant ubiquitin causes proteasomal impairment and enhances the toxicity of protein aggregates, Elizabeth M. H. Tank and Heather L. true
Multiple-infection and recombination in HIV-1 within a longitudinal cohort of women, Alan R. Templeton, Melissa G. Kramer, Joseph Jarvis, Jeanne Kowalski, Stephen Gange, Michael F. Schneider, Qiujia Shao, Guang Wen Zhang, Mei-Fen Yeh, Hua-Ling Tsai, Hong Zhang, and Richard B. Markham
Non-invasive stroke volume measurement and passive leg raising predict volume responsiveness in medical ICU patients: An observational cohort study, Steven W. Thiel, Marin H. Kollef, and Warren Isakow
A therapeutic antibody against West Nile virus neutralizes infection by blocking fusion within endosomes, Bruce S. Thompson, Bastiaan Moesker, Jolanda M. Smit, Jan Wilschut, Michael S. Diamond, and Daved H. Fremont
Sustained CTL activation by murine pulmonary epithelial cells promotes the development of COPD-like disease, Jay W. Tichelaar, Michael T. Borchers, Scott C. Wesselkamper, Victor Curull, Alba Ramirez-Sarmiento, Albert Sanchez-Font, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Carlos Coronell, Josep Lloreta, Alvar G. Agusti, Joaquim Gea, John A. Howington, Michael F. Reed, Sandra L. Starnes, and Nathaniel L. Harris
Neuropsychological functioning of U.S. Gulf War veterans 10 years after the war, Rosemary Toomey, Renee Alpern, Jennifer J. Vasterling, Dewleen G. Baker, Domenic J. Reda, Michael J. Lyons, William G. Henderson, Han K. Kang, Seth A. Eisen, and Frances M. Murphy
Greater occipital nerve stimulation via the Bion microstimulator: Implantation technique and stimulation parameters clinical trial: NCT00205894, Terrence L. Trentman, David M. Rosenfeld, Bert B. Vargas, Todd J. Schwedt, Richard S. Zimmerman, and David W. Dodick
Optical imaging of interaural time difference representation in rat auditory cortex., Vassiliy Tsytsarev, Hidenao Fukuyama, Daniel Pope, Elena Pumbo, and Minoru Kimura
Dietary fat feeding alters lipid peroxidation in surfactant-like particles secreted by rat small intestine, Aasma Turan, Akhtar Mahmood, and David Alpers
LULL1 retargets TorsinA to the nuclear envelope revealing an activity that is impaired by the DYT1 dystonia mutation, Abigail B. Vander Heyden, Teresa V. Naismith, Erik L. Snapp, Didier Hodzic, and Phyllis I. Hanson
Intra-tumor heterogeneity of MLH1 promoter methylation revealed by deep single molecule bisulfite sequencing, Katherine E. Varley, David G. Mutch, Tina B. Edmonston, Paul J. Goodfellow, and Robi D. Mitra
The Coxiella burnetii ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein family is heterogeneous, with C-terminal truncations that influence Dot/Icm-mediated secretion, Daniel E. Voth, Dale Howe, Paul A. Beare, Joseph P. Vogel, Nathan Unsworth, James E. Samuel, and Robert A. Heinzen
Parental alcoholism and offspring behavior problems: Findings in Australian children of twins, Mary Waldron, Nicholas G. Martin, and Andrew C. Heath
Synchronous gene expression of the Yersinia enterocolitica Ysa type III secretion system and its effectors, Kimberly A. Walker and Virginia L. Miller
Oncogenic HPV infection interrupts the expression of tumor-suppressive miR-34a through viral oncoprotein E6, Xiaohong Wang, Hsukun Wang, John P. McCoy, Nilam Sanjib Banerjee, Janet S. Rader, Thomas R. Broker, Craig A. Meyers, Louise Chow, and Zhiming Zheng
Ube2j2 ubiquitinates hydroxylated amino acids on ER-associated degradation substrates, Xiaoli Wang, Roger A. Herr, Martijn Rabelink, Rob C. Hoeben, Emmanual J.H.J. Wiertz, and Ted H. Hansen
A PCR-based platform for microRNA expression profiling studies, Xiaowei Wang
Selection of hyperfunctional siRNAs with improved potency and specificity, Xiaowei Wang, Xiaohui Wang, Rajeev K. Varma, Lesslie Beauchamp, Susan Magdaleno, and Timothy J. Sendera
Cdc42 antagonizes Rho1 activity at adherens junctions to limit epithelial cell apical tension, Stephen J. Warner and Gregory D. Longmore
The physical and genetic framework of the maize B73 genome, Fusheng Wei, Jianwei Zhang, Shiguo Zhou, Ruifeng He, Mary Schaeffer, Kristi Collura, David Kudrna, Ben P. Faga, Marina Wissotski, Wolfgang Gloser, Susan M. Rock, Tina A. Graves, Robert S. Fulton, Ed Coe, Patrick S. Schnable, David C. Schwartz, Doreen Ware, Sandra W. Clifton, Richard K. Wilson, and Rod A. Wing
Surgical compared with nonoperative treatment for lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis, James N. Weinstein, Jon D. Lurie, Tor D. Tosteson, Wenyan Zhao, Emily A. Blood, Anna N.A. Tosteson, Nancy Birkmeyer, Harry Herkowitz, Michael Longley, Lawrence Lenke, Sanford Emery, and Serena S. Hu
Long-term safety and effectiveness of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Richard Weisler, Joel Young, Greg Mattingly, Joseph Gao, Liza Squires, and Lenard Adler
The theory of discovering rare variants via DNA sequencing, Michael C. Wendl and Richard K. Wilson
The metal homeostasis protein, Lsp, of Streptococcus pyogenes is necessary for acquisition of zinc and virulence, Benjamin F. Westin, Audrey Brenot, and Michael G. Caparon
Lack of X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein leads to increased apoptosis and tissue loss following neonatal brain injury, Tim West, Madeliene Stump, Gregory Lodygensky, Jeff J. Neil, Mohanish Deshmukh, and David M. Holtzman
Neuroprotective effects of blockers for T-type calcium channels, Norelle C. Wildburger, Avary Lin-Ye, Michelle A. Baird, Debin Lei, and Jianxin Bao
Late life depression with cognitive impairment: Evaluation and treatment, Consuelo H. Wilkins, Jose Mathews, and Yvette I. Sheline
A genome-wide association study of pulmonary function measures in the Framingham heart study, Jemma B. Wilk, Ting-hsu Chen, Daniel J. Gottlieb, Robert E. Walter, Michael W. Nagle, Brian J. Brandler, Richard H. Myers, Ingrid B. Borecki, Edwin K. Silverman, Scott T. Weiss, and George T. O'Connor
Targeting colorectal cancer with anti-epidermal growth factor receptor antibodies: focus on panitumumab, Kerry J. Williams and A. Craig Lockhart
Physical activity and colon cancer prevention: A meta-analysis, Kathleen Yaus Wolin, Yan Yan, Graham A. Colditz, and I. M. Lee
Identification of pediatric septic shock subclasses based on genome-wide expression profiling, Hector R. Wong, Natalie Cvijanovich, Richard Lin, Geoffrey L. Allen, Neal J. Thomas, Douglas F. Willson, Robert J. Freishtat, Nick Anas, Keith Meyer, Paul A. Checchia, Marie Monaco, Kelli Odom, and Thomas P. Shanley
D-chiro-Inositol is absorbed but not synthesised in rodents, Lin Xiaobo, Lina Ma, Chaya Gopalan, and Richard E. Ostlund
Discovering cis-regulatory RNAs in Shewanella genomes by Support Vector Machines, Xing Xu, Yongmei Ji, and Gary D. Stormo
Interactions between beta subunits of the KCNMB family and Slo3: Beta4 selectively modulates Slo3 expression and function, Cheng-Tao Yang, Xu-Hui Zeng, Xiao-Ming Xia, and Christopher J. Lingle
Bcl3 interacts cooperatively with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) coactivator 1α to coactivate nuclear receptors estrogen-related receptor α and PPARα, John Yang, R. Sanders Williams, and Daniel P. Kelly
BOLD correlates of trial-by-trial reaction time variability in gray and white matter: A multi-study fMRI analysis, Tal Yarkoni, Deanna M. Barch, Jeremy R. Gray, Thomas E. Conturo, and Todd S. Braver
Dissection of the transformation of primary human hematopoietic cells by the oncogene NUP98-HOXA9, Enas R. Yassin, Nayan J. Sarma, Anmaar M. Abdul-Nabi, James Dombrowski, Ye Han, Akiko Takeda, and Nabeel R. Yaseen
Histone H2AX stabilizes broken DNA strands to suppress chromosome breaks and translocations during V(D)J recombination, Bu Yin, Velibor Savic, Marisa M. Juntilla, Andrea L. Bredemeyer, Katherine S. Yang-Iott, Beth A. Helmink, Gary A. Koretzky, Barry P. Sleckman, and Craig H. Bassing
The mating-specific Gα interacts with a kinesin-14 and regulates pheromone-induced nuclear migration in budding yeast, Sofia V. Zaichick, Metodi V. Metodiev, Scott A. Nelson, Oleksii Durbrovskyi, Edward Draper, John A. Cooper, and David E. Stone
The MUS81 endonuclease is essential for telomerase negative cell proliferation, Sicong Zeng and Qin Yang
Dosage effects of cohesin regulatory factor PDS5 on mammalian development: Implications for cohesinopathies, Bin Zhang, Jufang Chang, Ming Fu, Jie Huang, Rakesh Kashyap, Ezequiel Salavaggione, Sanjay Jain, Kulkarni Shashikant, Matthew A. Deardorff, Maria L. Giovannucci Uzielli, Dale Dorsett, David C. Beebe, Patrick Y. Jay, Robert O. Heuckeroth, Ian Krantz, and Jeffrey Milbrandt
Chemosensitizing and cytotoxic effects of 2-deoxy-D-glucose on breast cancer cells, Fanjie Zhang and Rebecca L. Aft
Degradation of host sphingomyelin is essential for Leishmania virulence, Ou Zhang, Mattie C. Wilson, Wei Xu, Fong-Fu Hsu, John Turk, F. Matthew Kuhlmann, Yingwei Wang, Lynn Soong, Phillip Key, Stephen M. Beverley, and Kai Zhang
N-terminal inactivation domains of β subunits are protected from trypsin digestion by binding within the antechamber of BK channels, Zhe Zhang, Xu-Hui Zeng, Xiao-Ming Xia, and Christopher J. Lingle
Inferring binding energies from selected binding sites, Yue Zhao, David Granas, and Gary D. Stormo
Serine 58 of 14-3-3ζ Is a molecular switch regulating ASK1 and oxidant stress-induced cell death, Jibin Zhou, Zhili Shao, Risto Kerkela, Hidenori Ichijo, Anthony J. Muslin, Celia Pombo, and Thomas Force
Genome-wide identification and analysis of small RNAs originated from natural antisense transcripts in Oryza sativa, Xuefeng Zhou, Ramanjulu Sunkar, Hailing Jin, Jian-Kang Zhu, and Weixiong Zhang
Altered states of telomere deprotection and the two-stage mechanism of replicative aging, Ying Zhou, Sandeep Misri, Jerry W. Shay, Tej K. Pandita, and Woodring E. Wright
Submissions from 2008
Preference transitivity and symbolic representation in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella), Elsa Addessi, Alessandra Mancini, Lara Crescimbene, Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, and Elisabetta Visalberghi
Xenophagy in herpes simplex virus replication and pathogenesis, Diane E. Alexander and David A. Leib
A non-tumor suppressor role for basal p19ARF in maintaining nucleolar structure and function, Anthony J. Apicelli, Leonard B. Maggi Jr., Angela C. Hirbe, Alexander P. Miceli, Mary E. Olanich, Crystal L. Schulte-Winkeler, Anthony J. Saporita, Michael Kuchenreuther, Jose Sanchez, Katherine Weilbaecher, and Jason D. Weber
Outbreak of postoperative endophthalmitis in a Thai tertiary care center, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, Supanee Jirajariyavej, Kanokporn Thongphubeth, Chananart Yuekyen, David K. Warren, and Victoria J. Fraser
Long-term outcome of an intervention to remove unnecessary urinary catheters, with and without a quality improvement team, in a Thai tertiary care center, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, Akeruetai Suwannakin, Puritat Maungboon, David K. Warren, and Victoria J. Fraser
Case-control study of clinical features of influenza in hospitalized patients, Hilary M. Babcock, Liana R. Merz, Erik R. Dubberke, and Victoria J. Fraser
Comparison of laparoscopic and percutaneous cryoablation of renal tumors: A cost analysis, Khalid Badwan, Keegan Maxwell, Ramakrishna Venkatesh, Robert S. Figenshau, Dan Brown, Cathy Chen, and Sam B. Bahayani
Detection of murine norovirus 1 by using plaque assay, transfection assay, and real-time reverse transcription-PCR before and after heat exposure, Leen Baert, Christiane E. Wobus, Els Van Coillie, Larissa B. Thackray, Johan Debevere, and Mieke Uyttendaele
PPAR signaling in placental development and function, Yaacov Barak, Yoel Sadovsky, and Tali Shalom-Barak
Late endocytic multivesicular bodies intersect the chlamydial inclusion in the absence of CD63, Wandy L. Beatty
Panel construction for mapping in admixed populations via expected mutual information, Sivan Bercovici, Dan Geiger, Liran Shlush, Karl Skorecki, and Alan Templeton
Burkitt lymphoma with cutaneous involvement, David R. Berk, Amy Cheng, Anne C. Lind, and Susan J. Bayliss
Bronchiolar chemokine expression is different after single versus repeated cigarette smoke exposure, Tomoko Betsuyaku, Ichiro Hamamura, Junko Hata, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hiroaki Mitsuhashi, Tracy L. Adair-Kirk, Robert M. Senior, and Masaharu Nishimura
Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy: Fifty cases, Sam B. Bhayani
Robotic assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for suspected renal cell carcinoma: Retrospective review of surgical outcomes of 35 cases, Sam B. Bhayani and Nitin Das
Factors influencing cataract formation after Nd: YAG laser peripheral iridotomy, James C. Bobrow
Early results of the ponseti method for the treatment of clubfoot in distal arthrogryposis, Stephanie Boehm, Noppachart Limpaphayom, Farhang Alaee, Marc F. Sinclair, and Matthew B. Dobbs
What's new in spine surgery, Keith H. Bridwell, Paul A. Anderson, Scott D. Boden, Alexander R. Vaccaro, and Jeffrey C. Wang
Microneme rhomboid protease TgROM1 is required for efficient intracellular growth of Toxoplasma gondii, Fabien Brossier, G. Lucas Starnes, Wandy L. Beatty, and L. David Sibley
Many specialists for suppressing cortical excitation, Andreas Burkhalter
