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    • Availability of Insurance Linkage Programs in U.S. Emergency Departments 

      Kanak, Mia; Delgado, M. Kit; Camargo, Carlos A.; Wang, N. Ewen (Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, 2014)
      Introduction: As millions of uninsured citizens who use emergency department (ED) services are now eligible for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the ED is ideally situated to facilitate linkage to insurance. ...
    • Avalanche Analysis from Multielectrode Ensemble Recordings in Cat, Monkey, and Human Cerebral Cortex during Wakefulness and Sleep 

      Dehghani, Nima; Hatsopoulos, Nicholas G.; Haga, Zach D.; Parker, Rebecca A.; Greger, Bradley; Halgren, Eric; Cash, Sydney S.; Destexhe, Alain (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2012)
      Self-organized critical states are found in many natural systems, from earthquakes to forest fires, they have also been observed in neural systems, particularly, in neuronal cultures. However, the presence of critical ...
    • Average Household Exposure to Newspaper Coverage about the Harmful Effects of Hormone Therapy and Population-Based Declines in Hormone Therapy Use 

      Haas, Jennifer S.; Miglioretti, Diana L.; Geller, Berta; Buist, Diana S. M.; Nelson, David E.; Kerlikowske, Karla; Carney, Patricia A.; Dash, Sarah; Breslau, Erica S.; Ballard-Barbash, Rachel (Springer-Verlag, 2007)
      Background: The news media facilitated the rapid dissemination of the findings from the estrogen plus progestin therapy arm of the Women’s Health Initiative (EPT-WHI). Objective: To examine the relationship between the ...
    • The avian respiratory system: a unique model for studies of respiratory toxicosis and for monitoring air quality 

      Brown, Richard C; Brain, Joseph David; Wang, Ning (Environmental Health Perspectives, 1997)
      There are many distinct differences (morphologic, physiologic, and mechanical) between the bird's lung-air-sac respiratory system and the mammalian bronchoalveolar lung. In this paper, we review the physiology of the avian ...
    • The AViKA (Adding Value in Knee Arthroplasty) postoperative care navigation trial: rationale and design features 

      Losina, Elena; Collins, Jamie E; Daigle, Meghan E; Donnell-Fink, Laurel A; Prokopetz, Julian JZ; Strnad, Doris; Lerner, Vladislav; Rome, Benjamin N; Ghazinouri, Roya; Skoniecki, Debra J; Katz, Jeffrey N; Wright, John (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Utilization of total knee arthroplasty is increasing rapidly. A substantial number of total knee arthroplasty recipients have persistent pain after surgery. Our objective was to design a randomized controlled ...
    • Avoiding a lost generation of scientists 

      Taylor, Justin Q; Kovacik, Peter; Traer, James; Zakahi, Philip; Oslowski, Christine; Widge, Alik S; Glorioso, Christin A (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2016)
      By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.
    • Avoiding Breast Animation Deformity with Pectoralis-Sparing Subcutaneous Direct-to-Implant Breast Reconstruction 

      Kobraei, Edward M.; Cauley, Ryan; Gadd, Michele; Austen, William G.; Liao, Eric C. (Wolters Kluwer Health, 2016)
      Summary: There is renewed interest in sparing the pectoralis major muscle in implant breast reconstruction, placing the implant in the subcutaneous position. This advance is made reliable by improvements in mastectomy skin ...
    • Avoiding Misdiagnosis in Patients with Neurological Emergencies 

      Pope, Jennifer Vyse; Edlow, Jonathan A. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
      Approximately 5% of patients presenting to emergency departments have neurological symptoms. The most common symptoms or diagnoses include headache, dizziness, back pain, weakness, and seizure disorder. Little is known ...
    • Avoiding Symmetry-Breaking Spatial Non-Uniformity in Deformable Image Registration via a Quasi-Volume-Preserving Constraint 

      Aganj, Iman; Reuter, Martin; Sabuncu, Mert R.; Fischl, Bruce (Elsevier BV, 2015-02-01)
      The choice of a reference image typically influences the results of deformable image registration, thereby making it asymmetric. This is a consequence of a spatially non-uniform weighting in the cost function integral that ...
    • AVPV Neurons Containing Estrogen Receptor-Beta in Adult Male Rats Are Influenced by Soy Isoflavones 

      Bu, Lihong; Lephart, Edwin D (BioMed Central, 2007)
      Background: Isoflavones, the most abundant phytoestrogens in soy foods, are structurally similar to 17beta-estradiol. It is known that 17beta-estradiol induces apoptosis in anteroventral periventricular nucleus (AVPV) in ...
    • Awakening lineage potential by Ikaros-mediated transcriptional priming 

      Yoshida, Toshimi; Ng, Samuel Yao-Ming; Georgopoulos, Katia (Elsevier BV, 2010)
      Bioinformatic studies on a revised hierarchy of hematopoietic progenitors have provided a genome-wide view of lineage-affiliated transcriptional programs directing early hematopoiesis. Unexpectedly, lymphoid, myeloid, and ...
    • Awareness, Accuracy, and Predictive Validity of Self-reported Cholesterol in Women 

      Huang, Peng-yun A.; Buring, Julie Elizabeth; Ridker, Paul M.; Glynn, Robert J. (Springer-Verlag, 2007)
      Background: Although current guidelines emphasize the importance of cholesterol knowledge, little is known about accuracy of this knowledge, factors affecting accuracy, and the relationship of self-reported cholesterol ...
    • AZD2171, a Pan-VEGF Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor, Normalizes Tumor Vasculature and Alleviates Edema in Glioblastoma Patients 

      Batchelor, Tracy Todd; Sorensen, A; di Tomaso, Emmanuelle; Zhang, Wei-Ting; Duda, Dan Gabriel; Cohen, Kenneth S.; Kozak, Kevin R.; Cahill, Daniel P.; Chen, Poe-Jou; Zhu, Mingwang; Ancukiewicz, Marek; Mrugala, Maciej M.; Plotkin, Scott Randall; Drappatz, Jan; Louis, David N.; Ivy, Percy; Scadden, David Thomas; Benner, Thomas; Loeffler, Jay Steven; Wen, Patrick Yung Chih; Jain, Rakesh K. (Elsevier BV, 2007)
      Using MRI techniques, we show here that normalization of tumor vessels in recurrent glioblastoma patients by daily administration of AZD2171—an oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor of VEGF receptors—has rapid onset, is prolonged ...
    • Aβ Imaging: Feasible, Pertinent, and Vital to Progress in Alzheimer’s Disease 

      Villemagne, Victor L.; Klunk, William E.; Mathis, Chester A.; Rowe, Christopher C.; Ikonomovic, Milos D.; Ishii, Kenji; Jack, Clifford R.; Jagust, William J.; Koeppe, Robert A.; Lowe, Val J.; Masters, Colin L.; Montine, Thomas J.; Morris, John C.; Nordberg, Agneta; Petersen, Ronald C.; Reiman, Eric M.; Van Laere, Koen; Drzezga, Alexander; Brooks, David J.; Hyman, Bradley Theodore; Johnson, Keith Alan; Selkoe, Dennis J.; Sperling, Reisa Anne; Weiner, Michael W. (Springer-Verlag, 2012)
    • B Cell Antigen Receptor Signal Strength and Peripheral B Cell Development are Regulated by a 9-O-Acetyl Sialic Acid Esterase 

      Cariappa, Annaiah; Takematsu, Hiromu; Liu, Haoyuan; Diaz, Sandra; Haider, Khaleda; Kalloo, Geetika; Varki, Nissi; Varki, Ajit; Boboila, Cristian; Connole, Michelle Ann; Shi, Hai Ning; Pillai, Shiv Subramaniam (Rockefeller University Press, 2009)
      We show that the enzymatic acetylation and deacetylation of a cell surface carbohydrate controls B cell development, signaling, and immunological tolerance. Mice with a mutation in sialate:O-acetyl esterase, an enzyme that ...
    • B cell homeostasis and follicle confines are governed by fibroblastic reticular cells 

      Cremasco, Viviana; Woodruff, Matthew C.; Onder, Lucas; Cupovic, Jovana; Nieves-Bonilla, Janice M.; Schildberg, Frank A.; Chang, Jonathan; Cremasco, Floriana; Harvey, Christopher J.; Wucherpfennig, Kai; Ludewig, Burkhard; Carroll, Michael C.; Turley, Shannon J. (2014)
      Fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs) are known to inhabit T cell-rich areas of lymphoid organs where they function to coordinate T cell and dendritic cell interactions. However, in vivo manipulation of FRCs has been limited ...
    • B cell receptor pathway in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: specific role of CC-292 

      Arnason, Jon E; Brown, Jennifer R (Dove Medical Press, 2014)
      Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common adult leukemia. The current treatment paradigm involves the use of chemoimmunotherapy, when patients develop an indication for therapy. With this strategy, a majority ...
    • B Cells Populating the Multiple Sclerosis Brain Mature in the Draining Cervical Lymph Nodes 

      Stern, Joel N. H.; Yaari, Gur; Vander Heiden, Jason A.; Church, George; Donahue, William F.; Hintzen, Rogier Q.; Huttner, Anita J.; Laman, Jon D.; Nagra, Rashed M.; Nylander, Alyssa; Pitt, David; Ramanan, Sriram; Siddiqui, Bilal A.; Vigneault, Francois; Kleinstein, Steven H.; Hafler, David A.; O’Connor, Kevin C. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2014-08-06)
      Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by autoimmune mediated demyelination and neurodegeneration. The CNS of patients with MS harbors expanded clones of ...
    •  B-Crystallin Protects Retinal Tissue during Staphylococcus aureus- Induced Endophthalmitis 

      Whiston, E. A.; Sugi, N.; Kamradt, M. C.; Sack, C.; Heimer, S. R.; Engelbert, M.; Wawrousek, E. F.; Gilmore, Michael S.; Ksander, Bruce R.; Gregory, M. S. (American Society for Microbiology, 2008)
      Bacterial infections of the eye highlight a dilemma that is central to all immune-privileged sites. On the one hand, immune privilege limits inflammation to prevent bystander destruction of normal tissue and loss of vision. ...
    • b-FGF Induces Corneal Blood and Lymphatic Vessel Growth in a Spatially Distinct Pattern 

      Hajrasouliha, Amir R.; Sadrai, Zahra; Chauhan, Sunil Kumar; Dana, Reza (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2012)
      Purpose To study the spatial variances in ligand expression and angiogenic effect in response to the inflammatory response induced by b-FGF. Methods b-FGF micropellets (80ng) were implanted in the temporal side ...