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    • The high cost of diarrhoeal illness for urban slum households–a cost-recovery approach: a cohort study 

      Patel, Ronak Bhailal; Stoklosa, Hanni; Shitole, Shrutika; Shitole, Tejal; Sawant, Kiran; Nanarkar, Mahesh; Subbaraman, Ramnath; Ridpath, Alison; Patil-Deshmuk, Anita (BMJ Publishing Group, 2013)
      Objectives: Rapid urbanisation has often meant that public infrastructure has not kept pace with growth leading to urban slums with poor access to water and sanitation and high rates of diarrhoea with greater household ...

    • High density EEG—What do we have to lose? 

      Chu, Catherine Jean (Elsevier BV, 2015)

    • High density genetic mapping identifies new susceptibility loci for rheumatoid arthritis 

      Eyre, Steve; Bowes, John; Diogo, Dorothée; Lee, Annette; Barton, Anne; Martin, Paul; Zhernakova, Alexandra; Stahl, Eli; Viatte, Sebastien; McAllister, Kate; Amos, Christopher I.; Padyukov, Leonid; Toes, Rene E.M.; Huizinga, Tom W.J.; Wijmenga, Cisca; Trynka, Gosia; Franke, Lude; Westra, Harm-Jan; Alfredsson, Lars; Hu, Xinli; Sandor, Cynthia; de Bakker, Paul I.W.; Davila, Sonia; Khor, Chiea Chuen; Heng, Khai Koon; Andrews, Robert; Edkins, Sarah; Hunt, Sarah E; Langford, Cordelia; Symmons, Deborah; Concannon, Pat; Onengut-Gumuscu, Suna; Rich, Stephen S; Deloukas, Panos; Gonzalez-Gay, Miguel A.; Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Luis; Ärlsetig, Lisbeth; Martin, Javier; Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Solbritt; Plenge, Robert; Raychaudhuri, Soumya; Klareskog, Lars; Gregersen, Peter K; Worthington, Jane (2012)
      Summary Using the Immunochip custom single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array, designed for dense genotyping of 186 genome wide association study (GWAS) confirmed loci we analysed 11,475 rheumatoid arthritis cases of ...

    • High density lipoprotein mediates anti-inflammatory transcriptional reprogramming of macrophages via the transcriptional repressor ATF3 

      De Nardo, Dominic; Labzin, Larisa I.; Kono, Hajime; Seki, Reiko; Schmidt, Susanne V.; Beyer, Marc; Xu, Dakang; Zimmer, Sebastian; Lahrmann, Catharina; Schildberg, Frank A.; Vogelhuber, Johanna; Kraut, Michael; Ulas, Thomas; Kerksiek, Anja; Krebs, Wolfgang; Bode, Niklas; Grebe, Alena; Fitzgerald, Michael L.; Hernandez, Nicholas J.; Williams, Bryan; Knolle, Percy; Kneilling, Manfred; Röcken, Martin; Lütjohann, Dieter; Wright, Samuel D.; Schultze, Joachim L.; Latz, Eicke (2014)
      High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) mediates reverse cholesterol transport and it is known to be protective against atherosclerosis. In addition, HDL has potent anti-inflammatory properties that may be critical for protection ...

    • High density mapping of the MHC identifies a shared role for HLA-DRB1*01:03 in inflammatory bowel diseases and heterozygous advantage in ulcerative colitis 

      Goyette, Philippe; Boucher, Gabrielle; Mallon, Dermot; Ellinghaus, Eva; Jostins, Luke; Huang, Hailiang; Ripke, Stephan; Gusareva, Elena S; Annese, Vito; Hauser, Stephen L; Oksenberg, Jorge R; Thomsen, Ingo; Leslie, Stephen; Daly, Mark J; Van Steen, Kristel; Duerr, Richard H; Barrett, Jeffrey C; McGovern, Dermot PB; Schumm, L Philip; Traherne, James A; Carrington, Mary N; Kosmoliaptsis, Vasilis; Karlsen, Tom H; Franke, Andre; Rioux, John D (2014)
      Genome-wide association studies of the related chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) known as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis have shown strong evidence of association to the major histocompatibility complex ...

    • High density methylation QTL analysis in human blood via next-generation sequencing of the methylated genomic DNA fraction 

      McClay, Joseph L.; Shabalin, Andrey A.; Dozmorov, Mikhail G.; Adkins, Daniel E.; Kumar, Gaurav; Nerella, Srilaxmi; Clark, Shaunna L.; Bergen, Sarah E.; Hultman, Christina M.; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Aberg, Karolina A.; van den Oord, Edwin J. C. G. (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Genetic influence on DNA methylation is potentially an important mechanism affecting individual differences in humans. We use next-generation sequencing to assay blood DNA methylation at approximately 4.5 million ...

    • High Dose Intermittent Sorafenib Shows Improved Efficacy Over Conventional Continuous Dose in Renal Cell Carcinoma 

      Wang, Xiaoen; Zhang, Liang; Goldberg, S. Nahum; Bhasin, Manoj; Brown, Victoria; Alsop, David C.; Signoretti, Sabina; Mier, James W.; Atkins, Michael B.; Bhatt, Rupal Satish (BioMed Central, 2011)
      Background: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) responds to agents that inhibit vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway. Sorafenib, a multikinase inhibitor of VEGF receptor, is effective at producing tumor responses and ...

    • High Endogenous Expression of Chitinase 3-Like 1 and Excessive Epithelial Proliferation with Colonic Tumor Formation in MOLF/EiJ Mice 

      Low, Daren; DeGruttola, Arianna K.; Poltrak, Alexander; Mizoguchi, Atsushi; Mino-Kenudson, Mari; Mizoguchi, Emiko (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      Colorectal cancer (CRC) development is mediated by uncontrolled survival and proliferation of tumor progenitor cells. Using animal models to identify and study host-derived factors that underlie this process can aid ...

    • High fat diet enhances stemness and tumorigenicity of intestinal progenitors 

      Beyaz, Semir; Mana, Miyeko D.; Roper, Jatin; Kedrin, Dmitriy; Saadatpour, Assieh; Hong, Sue-Jean; Bauer-Rowe, Khristian E.; Xifaras, Michael E.; Akkad, Adam; Arias, Erika; Pinello, Luca; Katz, Yarden; Shinagare, Shweta; Abu-Remaileh, Monther; Mihaylova, Maria M.; Lamming, Dudley W.; Dogum, Rizkullah; Guo, Guoji; Bell, George W.; Selig, Martin; Nielsen, G. Petur; Gupta, Nitin; Ferrone, Cristina R.; Deshpande, Vikram; Yuan, Guo-Cheng; Orkin, Stuart H.; Sabatini, David M.; Yilmaz, Ömer H. (2016)
      Little is known about how pro-obesity diets regulate tissue stem and progenitor cell function. Here we find that high fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity augments the numbers and function of Lgr5+ intestinal stem-cells (ISCs) ...

    • High Fidelity System Modeling for High Quality Image Reconstruction in Clinical CT 

      Do, Synho; Karl, William Clem; Singh, Sarabjeet; Kalra, Mannudeep; Brady, Tom; Shin, Ellie; Pien, Homer (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Today, while many researchers focus on the improvement of the regularization term in IR algorithms, they pay less concern to the improvement of the fidelity term. In this paper, we hypothesize that improving the fidelity ...

    • High Frequency of Transmitted HIV-1 Gag HLA Class I-Driven Immune Escape Variants but Minimal Immune Selection over the First Year of Clade C Infection 

      Gounder, Kamini; Padayachi, Nagavelli; Mann, Jaclyn K.; Radebe, Mopo; Mokgoro, Mammekwa; van der Stok, Mary; Mkhize, Lungile; Mncube, Zenele; Jaggernath, Manjeetha; Reddy, Tarylee; Walker, Bruce D.; Ndung’u, Thumbi (Public Library of Science, 2015)
      In chronic HIV infection, CD8+ T cell responses to Gag are associated with lower viral loads, but longitudinal studies of HLA-restricted CD8+ T cell-driven selection pressure in Gag from the time of acute infection are ...

    • High frequency off-target mutagenesis induced by CRISPR-Cas nucleases in human cells 

      Fu, Yanfang; Foden, Jennifer A.; Khayter, Cyd; Maeder, Morgan L.; Reyon, Deepak; Joung, J. Keith; Sander, Jeffry D. (2013)
      CRISPR RNA-guided endonucleases (RGENs) have rapidly emerged as a facile and efficient platform for genome editing. Here, we use a human cell-based reporter assay to characterize off-target cleavage of Cas9-based RGENs. ...

    • High Incidence of Xenogenic Bone Marrow Engraftment in Pig-to-Baboon Intra-Bone Bone Marrow Transplantation 

      Tasaki, M.; Wamala, I.; Tena, A.; Villani, V.; Sekijima, M.; Pathiraja, V.; Wilkinson, R. A.; Pratts, S.; Cormack, T.; Clayman, E.; Arn, J. S.; Shimizu, A.; Fishman, Jay Alan; Sachs, David H.; Yamada, Kazuhiko (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      Previous attempts of α-1,3-galactocyltransferase knockout (GalTKO) pig bone marrow (BM) transplantation (Tx) into baboons have demonstrated a loss of macro-chimerism within 24 h in most cases. In order to achieve improved ...

    • High level accumulation of single-chain variable fragments in the cytosol of transgenicPetunia hybrida 

      De Jaeger, Geert; Buys, Emmanuel; Eeckhout, Dominique; De Wilde, Chris; Jacobs, Anni; Kapila, Jyoti; Angenon, Geert; Van Montagu, Marc; Gerats, , Tom; Depicker, Ann (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999)
      The accumulation of five murine single-chain variable fragments, binding to dihydroflavonol 4-reductase, was analyzed in transgenic Petunia hybrida plants. The five scFv-encoding sequences were cloned in an optimized plant ...

    • High Level Object Recognition Without an Anterior Inferior Temporal Lobe 

      Biederman, Irving; Gerhardstein, Peter C.; Cooper, Eric E.; Nelson, Charles A. (Elsevier, 1997)
      Seven individuals with unilateral anterior inferior temporal (AIT) lobectomies performed two types of shape recognition tasks with line drawings of 3D objects briefy presented in either the left or the right visual field. ...

    • High Levels of Epstein–Barr Virus DNA in Latently Infected Gastric Adenocarcinoma 

      Ryan, Julie L; Morgan, Douglas R; Dominguez, Ricardo L; Thorne, Leigh B; Elmore, Sandra H; Mino-Kenudson, Mari; Lauwers, Gregory Y.; Booker, Jessica K; Gulley, Margaret L (Nature Publishing Group, 2009)
      Gastric adenocarcinoma is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is present in the malignant cells of approximately 10% of cases. It is unclear whether EBV is being missed in some ...

    • High Loading of Polygenic Risk for ADHD in Children With Comorbid Aggression 

      Hamshere, Marian L.; Langley, Kate; Martin, Joanna; Agha, Sharifah Shameem; Stergiakouli, Evangelia; Anney, Richard J.L.; Buitelaar, Jan; Faraone, Stephen V.; Lesch, Klaus-Peter; Neale, Benjamin M.; Franke, Barbara; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund; Asherson, Philip; Merwood, Andrew; Kuntsi, Jonna; Medland, Sarah E.; Ripke, Stephan; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Freitag, Christine; Reif, Andreas; Renner, Tobias J.; Romanos, Marcel; Romanos, Jasmin; Warnke, Andreas; Meyer, Jobst; Palmason, Haukur; Vasquez, Alejandro Arias; Lambregts-Rommelse, Nanda; Roeyers, Herbert; Biederman, Joseph; Doyle, Alysa E.; Hakonarson, Hakon; Rothenberger, Aribert; Banaschewski, Tobias; Oades, Robert D.; McGough, James J.; Kent, Lindsey; Williams, Nigel; Owen, Michael J.; Holmans, Peter; O’Donovan, Michael C.; Thapar, Anita (American Psychiatric Association, 2014)
      Objective: Although attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is highly heritable, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have not yet identified any common genetic variants that contribute to risk. There is evidence ...

    • High Pancreatic n-3 Fatty Acids Prevent STZ-Induced Diabetes in Fat-1 Mice: Inflammatory Pathway Inhibition 

      Bellenger, Jérôme; Bellenger, Sandrine; Bataille, Amandine; Nicolaou, Anna; Rialland, Mickaël; Tessier, Christian; Narce, Michel; Massey, Karen A.; Kang, Jing Xuan (American Diabetes Association, 2011)
      Obejctive: Because of confounding factors, the effects of dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) on type 1 diabetes remain to be clarified. We therefore evaluated whether fat-1 transgenic mice, a well-controlled ...

    • High Phobic Anxiety Is Related to Lower Leukocyte Telomere Length in Women 

      Okereke, Olivia Ifeoma; Prescott, Jennifer; Wong, Jason Yat Yang; Han, Jiali; Rexrode, Kathryn Marian; De Vivo, Immaculata (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: Chronic psychological distress has been linked to shorter telomeres, an indication of accelerated aging. Yet, little is known about relations of anxiety to telomeres. We examined whether a typically chronic ...

    • High Prevalence of Hypertension and Placental Insufficiency, but No In Utero HIV Transmission, among Women on HAART with Stillbirths in Botswana 

      Souda, Sajini; Parekh, Natasha; Binda, Kelebogile; Kayembe, Mukendi; Svab, Petr; Babitseng, Orphinah; Jimbo, William; Creek, Tracy; Essex, Max; Shapiro, Roger L.; Lockman, Shahin; Powis, Kathleen Marie; Makhema, Joseph Moeketsi; Roberts, Drucilla Jane (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: Increased stillbirth rates occur among HIV-infected women, but no studies have evaluated the pathological basis for this increase, or whether highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) influences the etiology ...