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New Articles in PLoS ONE

Published May 12, 2011 to May 18, 2011

If articles are interdisciplinary then they may appear under more than one subject heading in the list below.

Subjects:

Biochemistry

The Dyad Symmetry Element of Epstein-Barr Virus Is a Dominant but Dispensable Replication Origin
Elisabeth Ott, Paolo Norio, Marion Ritzi, Carl Schildkraut, Aloys Schepers

Systematic Exploitation of Multiple Receptor Conformations for Virtual Ligand Screening
Giovanni Bottegoni, Walter Rocchia, Manuel Rueda, Ruben Abagyan, Andrea Cavalli

Altered mRNA Editing and Expression of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors after Kainic Acid Exposure in Cyclooxygenase-2 Deficient Mice
Luca Caracciolo, Alessandro Barbon, Sara Palumbo, Cristina Mora, Christopher D. Toscano, Francesca Bosetti, Sergio Barlati

Plasma and Liver Lipidomics Response to an Intervention of Rimonabant in ApoE*3Leiden.CETP Transgenic Mice
Chunxiu Hu, Heng Wei, Anita M. van den Hoek, Mei Wang, Rob van der Heijden, Gerwin Spijksma, Theo H. Reijmers, Jildau Bouwman, Suzan Wopereis, Louis M. Havekes, Elwin Verheij, Thomas Hankemeier, Guowang Xu, Jan van der Greef

Rational Design of Protein Stability: Effect of (2S,4R)-4-Fluoroproline on the Stability and Folding Pathway of Ubiquitin
Maria D. Crespo, Marina Rubini

Contribution of Cytochrome P450 and ABCB1 Genetic Variability on Methadone Pharmacokinetics, Dose Requirements, and Response
Francina Fonseca, Rafael de la Torre, Laura Díaz, Antonio Pastor, Elisabet Cuyàs, Nieves Pizarro, Olha Khymenets, Magí Farré, Marta Torrens

Optimized Purification of a Heterodimeric ABC Transporter in a Highly Stable Form Amenable to 2-D Crystallization
Carmen Galián, Florence Manon, Manuela Dezi, Cristina Torres, Christine Ebel, Daniel Lévy, Jean-Michel Jault

Muc5b Is the Major Polymeric Mucin in Mucus from Thoroughbred Horses With and Without Airway Mucus Accumulation
Karine Rousseau, Jacqueline M. Cardwell, Emma Humphrey, Richard Newton, David Knight, Peter Clegg, David J. Thornton

Prognostic Impacts of Angiopoietins in NSCLC Tumor Cells and Stroma: VEGF-A Impact Is Strongly Associated with Ang-2
Sigve Andersen, Tom Donnem, Khalid Al-Shibli, Samer Al-Saad, Helge Stenvold, Lill-Tove Busund, Roy M. Bremnes

A Motif Unique to the Human Dead-Box Protein DDX3 Is Important for Nucleic Acid Binding, ATP Hydrolysis, RNA/DNA Unwinding and HIV-1 Replication
Anna Garbelli, Sandra Beermann, Giulia Di Cicco, Ursula Dietrich, Giovanni Maga

Distinct Roles of Bcl-2 and Bcl-Xl in the Apoptosis of Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells during Differentiation
Lisa Oliver, Erika Hue, Julien Rossignol, Gwenola Bougras, Philippe Hulin, Philippe Naveilhan, Dominique Heymann, Laurent Lescaudron, François M. Vallette

An shRNA-Based Screen of Splicing Regulators Identifies SFRS3 as a Negative Regulator of IL-1β Secretion
Pedro Moura-Alves, Ana Neves-Costa, Helena Raquel, Teresa Raquel Pacheco, Bruno D'Almeida, Raquel Rodrigues, Iris Cadima-Couto, Ângelo Chora, Mariana Oliveira, Margarida Gama-Carvalho, Nir Hacohen, Luis F. Moita

The Sensitivity of Massively Parallel Sequencing for Detecting Candidate Infectious Agents Associated with Human Tissue
Richard A. Moore, René L. Warren, J. Douglas Freeman, Julia A. Gustavsen, Caroline Chénard, Jan M. Friedman, Curtis A. Suttle, Yongjun Zhao, Robert A. Holt

In Vitro Surfactant Structure-Toxicity Relationships: Implications for Surfactant Use in Sexually Transmitted Infection Prophylaxis and Contraception
Ângela S. Inácio, Katia A. Mesquita, Marta Baptista, João Ramalho-Santos, Winchil L. C. Vaz, Otília V. Vieira

RMDAP: A Versatile, Ready-To-Use Toolbox for Multigene Genetic Transformation
Lei Ma, Jiangli Dong, Yongsheng Jin, Mingliang Chen, Xiaoye Shen, Tao Wang

Determining the Sub-Cellular Localization of Proteins within Caenorhabditis elegans Body Wall Muscle
Barbara Meissner, Teresa Rogalski, Ryan Viveiros, Adam Warner, Lorena Plastino, Adam Lorch, Laure Granger, Laurent Segalat, Donald G. Moerman

New Synthetic Thrombin Inhibitors: Molecular Design and Experimental Verification
Elena I. Sinauridze, Alexey N. Romanov, Irina V. Gribkova, Olga A. Kondakova, Stepan S. Surov, Aleksander S. Gorbatenko, Andrey A. Butylin, Mikhail Yu. Monakov, Alexey A. Bogolyubov, Yuryi V. Kuznetsov, Vladimir B. Sulimov, Fazoyl I. Ataullakhanov

Firefly Luciferase and Rluc8 Exhibit Differential Sensitivity to Oxidative Stress in Apoptotic Cells
Julie Czupryna, Andrew Tsourkas

Preferential Localization of Human Origins of DNA Replication at the 5′-Ends of Expressed Genes and at Evolutionarily Conserved DNA Sequences
Manuel S. Valenzuela, Yidong Chen, Sean Davis, Fan Yang, Robert L. Walker, Sven Bilke, John Lueders, Melvenia M. Martin, Mirit I. Aladjem, Pierre P. Massion, Paul S. Meltzer

Naturally Occurring Osmolyte, Trehalose Induces Functional Conformation in an Intrinsically Disordered Activation Domain of Glucocorticoid Receptor
Shagufta H. Khan, John A. Arnott, Raj Kumar

A Curve Shaped Description of Large Networks, with an Application to the Evaluation of Network Models
Xianchuang Su, Xiaogang Jin, Yong Min, Linjian Mo, Jiangang Yang

Multiple Aggregates and Aggresomes of C-Terminal Truncated Human αA-Crystallins in Mammalian Cells and Protection by αB-Crystallin
Ilangovan Raju, Anbarasu Kumarasamy, Edathara C. Abraham

Chronic Ethanol Consumption in Rats Produces Opioid Antinociceptive Tolerance through Inhibition of Mu Opioid Receptor Endocytosis
Li He, Jennifer L. Whistler

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens
Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson, Evelyn Toh, Lixia Diao, Xiang Gao, J. Dennis Fortenberry, Barbara Van Der Pol

De Novo Enzyme Design Using Rosetta3
Florian Richter, Andrew Leaver-Fay, Sagar D. Khare, Sinisa Bjelic, David Baker

One for All—A Highly Efficient and Versatile Method for Fluorescent Immunostaining in Fish Embryos
Daigo Inoue, Joachim Wittbrodt

Plasma Proteome Profiles Associated with Inflammation, Angiogenesis, and Cancer
Karen S. Kelly-Spratt, Sharon J. Pitteri, Kay E. Gurley, Denny Liggitt, Alice Chin, Jacob Kennedy, Chee-Hong Wong, Qing Zhang, Tina Busald Buson, Hong Wang, Samir M. Hanash, Christopher J. Kemp

Deficiency of the Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain in Muscle Does Not Cause Insulin Resistance
Dong-Ho Han, Chad R. Hancock, Su Ryun Jung, Kazuhiko Higashida, Sang Hyun Kim, John O. Holloszy

Social Class Differences in Secular Trends in Established Coronary Risk Factors over 20 Years: A Cohort Study of British Men from 1978–80 to 1998–2000
Sheena E. Ramsay, Peter H. Whincup, Sarah L. Hardoon, Lucy T. Lennon, Richard W. Morris, S. G. Wannamethee

Dominant Negative Phenotype of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab, Cry11Aa and Cry4Ba Mutants Suggest Hetero-Oligomer Formation among Different Cry Toxins
Daniela Carmona, Claudia Rodríguez-Almazán, Carlos Muñoz-Garay, Leivi Portugal, Claudia Pérez, Ruud A. de Maagd, Petra Bakker, Mario Soberón, Alejandra Bravo

Mitochondrial Changes in Ageing Caenorhabditis elegans – What Do We Learn from Superoxide Dismutase Knockouts?
Jan Gruber, Li Fang Ng, Sheng Fong, Yee Ting Wong, Soon Ann Koh, Ce-Belle Chen, Guanghou Shui, Wei Fun Cheong, Sebastian Schaffer, Markus R. Wenk, Barry Halliwell

Insight into the Interaction of Metal Ions with TroA from Streptococcus suis
Beiwen Zheng, Qiangmin Zhang, Jia Gao, Huiming Han, Ming Li, Jingren Zhang, Jianxun Qi, Jinghua Yan, George F. Gao

Identification of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Yersinia pestis Type III Secretion System YscN ATPase
Wieslaw Swietnicki, Daniel Carmany, Michael Retford, Mark Guelta, Russell Dorsey, Joel Bozue, Michael S. Lee, Mark A. Olson

Differential Regulation and Recovery of Intracellular Ca2+ in Cerebral and Small Mesenteric Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells of Simulated Microgravity Rat
Jun-Hui Xue, Lian-Hong Chen, Hua-Zhou Zhao, Yong-Dong Pu, Han-Zhong Feng, Yu-Guang Ma, Jin Ma, Yao-Ming Chang, Zuo-Ming Zhang, Man-Jiang Xie

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Chitinase and Chitinase-Like Genes in the African Malaria Mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)
Jianzhen Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yasuyuki Arakane, Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Karl J. Kramer, Enbo Ma, Kun Yan Zhu

Modulation of the CD95-Induced Apoptosis: The Role of CD95 N-Glycosylation
Olga M. Shatnyeva, Andriy V. Kubarenko, Claudia E. M. Weber, Alexander Pappa, Reinhard Schwartz-Albiez, Alexander N. R. Weber, Peter H. Krammer, Inna N. Lavrik

Mth10b, a Unique Member of the Sac10b Family, Does Not Bind Nucleic Acid
Yan-Feng Liu, Nan Zhang, Hong-Wei Yao, Xian-Ming Pan, Meng Ge

C-Terminus Glycans with Critical Functional Role in the Maturation of Secretory Glycoproteins
Daniela Cioaca, Simona Ghenea, Laurentiu N. Spiridon, Marioara Marin, Andrei-Jose Petrescu, Stefana M. Petrescu

Human Glycolipid Transfer Protein (GLTP) Expression Modulates Cell Shape
Yongguang Gao, Taeowan Chung, Xianqiong Zou, Helen M. Pike, Rhoderick E. Brown

Two Naturally Occurring Terpenes, Dehydrocostuslactone and Costunolide, Decrease Intracellular GSH Content and Inhibit STAT3 Activation
Elena Butturini, Elisabetta Cavalieri, Alessandra Carcereri de Prati, Elena Darra, Antonella Rigo, Kazuo Shoji, Norie Murayama, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yasuo Watanabe, Hisanori Suzuki, Sofia Mariotto

Back to top

Biophysics

Systematic Exploitation of Multiple Receptor Conformations for Virtual Ligand Screening
Giovanni Bottegoni, Walter Rocchia, Manuel Rueda, Ruben Abagyan, Andrea Cavalli

Rational Design of Protein Stability: Effect of (2S,4R)-4-Fluoroproline on the Stability and Folding Pathway of Ubiquitin
Maria D. Crespo, Marina Rubini

Cell Pattern in Adult Human Corneal Endothelium
Carlos H. Wörner, Alicia Olguín, José L. Ruíz-García, Nuria Garzón-Jiménez

Structural Similarity and Classification of Protein Interaction Interfaces
Nan Zhao, Bin Pang, Chi-Ren Shyu, Dmitry Korkin

M6 Membrane Protein Plays an Essential Role in Drosophila Oogenesis
María Paula Zappia, Marcela Adriana Brocco, Silvia C. Billi, Alberto C. Frasch, María Fernanda Ceriani

The Sensitivity of Massively Parallel Sequencing for Detecting Candidate Infectious Agents Associated with Human Tissue
Richard A. Moore, René L. Warren, J. Douglas Freeman, Julia A. Gustavsen, Caroline Chénard, Jan M. Friedman, Curtis A. Suttle, Yongjun Zhao, Robert A. Holt

Actinic Skin Damage and Mortality - the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
Wei He, Fei Zhu, Xiaoguang Ma, Xinyu Zhao, Min Zheng, Zhao Chen, Steven B. Heymsfield, Shankuan Zhu

Naturally Occurring Osmolyte, Trehalose Induces Functional Conformation in an Intrinsically Disordered Activation Domain of Glucocorticoid Receptor
Shagufta H. Khan, John A. Arnott, Raj Kumar

A Curve Shaped Description of Large Networks, with an Application to the Evaluation of Network Models
Xianchuang Su, Xiaogang Jin, Yong Min, Linjian Mo, Jiangang Yang

Microtubules as Platforms for Assaying Actin Polymerization In Vivo
J. Margit Oelkers, Marlene Vinzenz, Maria Nemethova, Sonja Jacob, Frank P. L. Lai, Jennifer Block, Malgorzata Szczodrak, Eugen Kerkhoff, Steffen Backert, Kai Schlüter, Theresia E. B. Stradal, J. Victor Small, Stefan A. Koestler, Klemens Rottner

A Biophysical Model of Cell Adhesion Mediated by Immunoadhesin Drugs and Antibodies
Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Daniel Coombs, Toby Starr, Michael L. Dustin, Byron Goldstein

Modulation of the CD95-Induced Apoptosis: The Role of CD95 N-Glycosylation
Olga M. Shatnyeva, Andriy V. Kubarenko, Claudia E. M. Weber, Alexander Pappa, Reinhard Schwartz-Albiez, Alexander N. R. Weber, Peter H. Krammer, Inna N. Lavrik

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Biotechnology

Systematic Exploitation of Multiple Receptor Conformations for Virtual Ligand Screening
Giovanni Bottegoni, Walter Rocchia, Manuel Rueda, Ruben Abagyan, Andrea Cavalli

In Vivo Electroporation Enhances the Immunogenicity of an HIV-1 DNA Vaccine Candidate in Healthy Volunteers
Sandhya Vasan, Arlene Hurley, Sarah J. Schlesinger, Drew Hannaman, David F. Gardiner, Daniel P. Dugin, Mar Boente-Carrera, Roselle Vittorino, Marina Caskey, Johanne Andersen, Yaoxing Huang, Josephine H. Cox, Tony Tarragona-Fiol, Dilbinder K. Gill, Hannah Cheeseman, Lorna Clark, Len Dally, Carol Smith, Claudia Schmidt, Harriet H. Park, Jakub T. Kopycinski, Jill Gilmour, Patricia Fast, Robert Bernard, David D. Ho

Rational Design of Protein Stability: Effect of (2S,4R)-4-Fluoroproline on the Stability and Folding Pathway of Ubiquitin
Maria D. Crespo, Marina Rubini

Comparative Methods for Association Studies: A Case Study on Metabolite Variation in a Brassica rapa Core Collection
Dunia Pino Del Carpio, Ram Kumar Basnet, Ric C. H. De Vos, Chris Maliepaard, Maria João Paulo, Guusje Bonnema

RMDAP: A Versatile, Ready-To-Use Toolbox for Multigene Genetic Transformation
Lei Ma, Jiangli Dong, Yongsheng Jin, Mingliang Chen, Xiaoye Shen, Tao Wang

Allelic Variation, Alternative Splicing and Expression Analysis of Psy1 Gene in Hordeum chilense Roem. et Schult
Cristina Rodríguez-Suárez, Sergio G. Atienza, Fernando Pistón

Spectral Characterization and Unmixing of Intrinsic Contrast in Intact Normal and Diseased Gastric Tissues Using Hyperspectral Two-Photon Microscopy
Lauren E. Grosberg, Andrew J. Radosevich, Samuel Asfaha, Timothy C. Wang, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman

Use of the 2A Peptide for Generation of Multi-Transgenic Pigs through a Single Round of Nuclear Transfer
Wei Deng, Dongshan Yang, Bentian Zhao, Zhen Ouyang, Jun Song, Nana Fan, Zhaoming Liu, Yu Zhao, Qinghong Wu, Bayaer Nashun, Jiangjing Tang, Zhenfang Wu, Weiwang Gu, Liangxue Lai

Metabolic Profiling Based Quantitative Evaluation of Hepatocellular Metabolism in Presence of Adipocyte Derived Extracellular Matrix
Nripen S. Sharma, Deepak Nagrath, Martin L. Yarmush

Naturally Occurring Osmolyte, Trehalose Induces Functional Conformation in an Intrinsically Disordered Activation Domain of Glucocorticoid Receptor
Shagufta H. Khan, John A. Arnott, Raj Kumar

Expression of HLA Class II Molecules in Humanized NOD.Rag1KO.IL2RgcKO Mice Is Critical for Development and Function of Human T and B Cells
Rebecca Danner, Snehal N. Chaudhari, John Rosenberger, Jacqueline Surls, Thomas L. Richie, Teodor-Doru Brumeanu, Sofia Casares

Decreased Proliferation Kinetics of Mouse Myoblasts Overexpressing FRG1
Steven C. Chen, Ellie Frett, Joseph Marx, Darko Bosnakovski, Xylena Reed, Michael Kyba, Brian K. Kennedy

Multiple Aggregates and Aggresomes of C-Terminal Truncated Human αA-Crystallins in Mammalian Cells and Protection by αB-Crystallin
Ilangovan Raju, Anbarasu Kumarasamy, Edathara C. Abraham

Oligodendrocytes as Regulators of Neuronal Networks during Early Postnatal Development
Sandrine Doretto, Monica Malerba, Maria Ramos, Taruna Ikrar, Chisato Kinoshita, Claudia De Mei, Emanuele Tirotta, Xiangmin Xu, Emiliana Borrelli

Real-Time Monitoring of Cisplatin-Induced Cell Death
Hamed Alborzinia, Suzan Can, Pavlo Holenya, Catharina Scholl, Elke Lederer, Igor Kitanovic, Stefan Wölfl

Dominant Negative Phenotype of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab, Cry11Aa and Cry4Ba Mutants Suggest Hetero-Oligomer Formation among Different Cry Toxins
Daniela Carmona, Claudia Rodríguez-Almazán, Carlos Muñoz-Garay, Leivi Portugal, Claudia Pérez, Ruud A. de Maagd, Petra Bakker, Mario Soberón, Alejandra Bravo

Visible Light Responsive Photocatalyst Induces Progressive and Apical-Terminus Preferential Damages on Escherichia coli Surfaces
Je-Wen Liou, Ming-Hui Gu, Yen-Kai Chen, Wen-Yi Chen, Yi-Cheng Chen, Yao-Hsuan Tseng, Yu-Jiun Hung, Hsin-Hou Chang

Decreased Functional Diversity and Biological Pest Control in Conventional Compared to Organic Crop Fields
Jochen Krauss, Iris Gallenberger, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

Establishment of a Transgenic Mouse Model Specifically Expressing Human Serum Amyloid A in Adipose Tissue
Maja Olsson, Sofie Ahlin, Bob Olsson, Per-Arne Svensson, Marcus Ståhlman, Jan Borén, Lena M. S. Carlsson, Kajsa Sjöholm

Novel AroA from Pseudomonas putida Confers Tobacco Plant with High Tolerance to Glyphosate
Hai-Qin Yan, Su-Hua Chang, Zhe-Xian Tian, Le Zhang, Yi-Cheng Sun, Yan Li, Jing Wang, Yi-Ping Wang

Evaluation of Early and Late Effects into the Acute Spinal Cord Injury of an Injectable Functionalized Self-Assembling Scaffold
Daniela Cigognini, Alessandro Satta, Bianca Colleoni, Diego Silva, Matteo Donegà, Stefania Antonini, Fabrizio Gelain

Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Responding to Dissolved Oxygen in Adenosine Fermentation
Wen-Bang Yu, Shu-Hong Gao, Chun-Yun Yin, Ying Zhou, Bang-Ce Ye

Exploiting Nucleotide Composition to Engineer Promoters
Manfred G. Grabherr, Jens Pontiller, Evan Mauceli, Wolfgang Ernst, Martina Baumann, Tara Biagi, Ross Swofford, Pamela Russell, Michael C. Zody, Federica Di Palma, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Reingard M. Grabherr

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Cell Biology

Cell Pattern in Adult Human Corneal Endothelium
Carlos H. Wörner, Alicia Olguín, José L. Ruíz-García, Nuria Garzón-Jiménez

The Rho-Family GTPase Rac1 Regulates Integrin Localization in Drosophila Immunosurveillance Cells
Miguel J. Xavier, Michael J. Williams

DNA Damage during G2 Phase Does Not Affect Cell Cycle Progression of the Green Alga Scenedesmus quadricauda
Monika Hlavová, Mária Čížková, Milada Vítová, Kateřina Bišová, Vilém Zachleder

Downregulation of FIP200 Induces Apoptosis of Glioblastoma Cells and Microvascular Endothelial Cells by Enhancing Pyk2 Activity
Dongyan Wang, Mitchell A. Olman, Jerry Stewart, Russell Tipps, Ping Huang, Paul W. Sanders, Eric Toline, Richard A. Prayson, Jeongwu Lee, Robert J.Weil, Cheryl A. Palmer, G. Yancey Gillespie, Wei Michael Liu, Russell O. Pieper, Jun-Lin Guan, Candece L. Gladson

Rapid and Highly Efficient Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
Athanasia D. Panopoulos, Sergio Ruiz, Fei Yi, Aída Herrerías, Erika M. Batchelder, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte

Mechanical Tension Increases CCN2/CTGF Expression and Proliferation in Gingival Fibroblasts via a TGFβ-Dependent Mechanism
Fen Guo, David E. Carter, Andrew Leask

Caspase Inhibition Blocks Cell Death and Enhances Mitophagy but Fails to Promote T-Cell Lymphoma
Sih-han Wang, Sean M. Martin, Peter S. Harris, C. Michael Knudson

Distinct Roles of Bcl-2 and Bcl-Xl in the Apoptosis of Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells during Differentiation
Lisa Oliver, Erika Hue, Julien Rossignol, Gwenola Bougras, Philippe Hulin, Philippe Naveilhan, Dominique Heymann, Laurent Lescaudron, François M. Vallette

In Vitro Surfactant Structure-Toxicity Relationships: Implications for Surfactant Use in Sexually Transmitted Infection Prophylaxis and Contraception
Ângela S. Inácio, Katia A. Mesquita, Marta Baptista, João Ramalho-Santos, Winchil L. C. Vaz, Otília V. Vieira

Adenoma Formation following Limited Ablation of p120-Catenin in the Mouse Intestine
Whitney G. Smalley-Freed, Andrey Efimov, Sarah P. Short, Peilin Jia, Zhongming Zhao, M. Kay Washington, Sylvie Robine, Robert J. Coffey, Albert B. Reynolds

Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factor TCF21 Is a Downstream Target of the Male Sex Determining Gene SRY
Ramji K. Bhandari, Ingrid Sadler-Riggleman, Tracy M. Clement, Michael K. Skinner

Determining the Sub-Cellular Localization of Proteins within Caenorhabditis elegans Body Wall Muscle
Barbara Meissner, Teresa Rogalski, Ryan Viveiros, Adam Warner, Lorena Plastino, Adam Lorch, Laure Granger, Laurent Segalat, Donald G. Moerman

Harnessing Expression Data to Identify Novel Candidate Genes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Michelle R. Jones, Angela Chua, Yii-Der I. Chen, Xiaohui Li, Ronald M. Krauss, Jerome I. Rotter, Richard S. Legro, Ricardo Azziz, Mark O. Goodarzi

Meningothelial Cells React to Elevated Pressure and Oxidative Stress
Xiaorong Xin, Bin Fan, Josef Flammer, Neil R. Miller, Gregor P. Jaggi, Hanspeter E. Killer, Peter Meyer, Albert Neutzner

Preferential Localization of Human Origins of DNA Replication at the 5′-Ends of Expressed Genes and at Evolutionarily Conserved DNA Sequences
Manuel S. Valenzuela, Yidong Chen, Sean Davis, Fan Yang, Robert L. Walker, Sven Bilke, John Lueders, Melvenia M. Martin, Mirit I. Aladjem, Pierre P. Massion, Paul S. Meltzer

Cumulative Inflammatory Load Is Associated with Short Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study
Aoife O'Donovan, Matthew S. Pantell, Eli Puterman, Firdaus S. Dhabhar, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Kristine Yaffe, Richard M. Cawthon, Patricia L. Opresko, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Suzanne Satterfield, Anne B. Newman, Hilsa N. Ayonayon, Susan M. Rubin, Tamara B. Harris, Elissa S. Epel, for the Health Aging and Body Composition Study

Decreased Proliferation Kinetics of Mouse Myoblasts Overexpressing FRG1
Steven C. Chen, Ellie Frett, Joseph Marx, Darko Bosnakovski, Xylena Reed, Michael Kyba, Brian K. Kennedy

Multiple Aggregates and Aggresomes of C-Terminal Truncated Human αA-Crystallins in Mammalian Cells and Protection by αB-Crystallin
Ilangovan Raju, Anbarasu Kumarasamy, Edathara C. Abraham

Microtubules as Platforms for Assaying Actin Polymerization In Vivo
J. Margit Oelkers, Marlene Vinzenz, Maria Nemethova, Sonja Jacob, Frank P. L. Lai, Jennifer Block, Malgorzata Szczodrak, Eugen Kerkhoff, Steffen Backert, Kai Schlüter, Theresia E. B. Stradal, J. Victor Small, Stefan A. Koestler, Klemens Rottner

Chronic Ethanol Consumption in Rats Produces Opioid Antinociceptive Tolerance through Inhibition of Mu Opioid Receptor Endocytosis
Li He, Jennifer L. Whistler

RAD21 Cooperates with Pluripotency Transcription Factors in the Maintenance of Embryonic Stem Cell Identity
Anja Nitzsche, Maciej Paszkowski-Rogacz, Filomena Matarese, Eva M. Janssen-Megens, Nina C. Hubner, Herbert Schulz, Ingrid de Vries, Li Ding, Norbert Huebner, Matthias Mann, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg, Frank Buchholz

Oligodendrocytes as Regulators of Neuronal Networks during Early Postnatal Development
Sandrine Doretto, Monica Malerba, Maria Ramos, Taruna Ikrar, Chisato Kinoshita, Claudia De Mei, Emanuele Tirotta, Xiangmin Xu, Emiliana Borrelli

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

Platelets Alter Gene Expression Profile in Human Brain Endothelial Cells in an In Vitro Model of Cerebral Malaria
Mathieu Barbier, Dorothée Faille, Béatrice Loriod, Julien Textoris, Claire Camus, Denis Puthier, Laurence Flori, Samuel Crocodile Wassmer, Geneviève Victorero, Marie-Christine Alessi, Thierry Fusaï, Catherine Nguyen, Georges E. Grau, Pascal Rihet

β2-Agonist Induced cAMP Is Decreased in Asthmatic Airway Smooth Muscle Due to Increased PDE4D
Thomas Trian, Janette K. Burgess, Kyoko Niimi, Lyn M. Moir, Qi Ge, Patrick Berger, Stephen B. Liggett, Judith L. Black, Brian G. Oliver

A Biophysical Model of Cell Adhesion Mediated by Immunoadhesin Drugs and Antibodies
Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Daniel Coombs, Toby Starr, Michael L. Dustin, Byron Goldstein

Wnt3a Induces Myofibroblast Differentiation by Upregulating TGF-β Signaling Through SMAD2 in a β-Catenin-Dependent Manner
Jon M. Carthy, Farshid S. Garmaroudi, Zongshu Luo, Bruce M. McManus

The Puf-Family RNA-Binding Protein Puf2 Controls Sporozoite Conversion to Liver Stages in the Malaria Parasite
Katja Müller, Kai Matuschewski, Olivier Silvie

Modulation of the CD95-Induced Apoptosis: The Role of CD95 N-Glycosylation
Olga M. Shatnyeva, Andriy V. Kubarenko, Claudia E. M. Weber, Alexander Pappa, Reinhard Schwartz-Albiez, Alexander N. R. Weber, Peter H. Krammer, Inna N. Lavrik

C-Terminus Glycans with Critical Functional Role in the Maturation of Secretory Glycoproteins
Daniela Cioaca, Simona Ghenea, Laurentiu N. Spiridon, Marioara Marin, Andrei-Jose Petrescu, Stefana M. Petrescu

Human Glycolipid Transfer Protein (GLTP) Expression Modulates Cell Shape
Yongguang Gao, Taeowan Chung, Xianqiong Zou, Helen M. Pike, Rhoderick E. Brown

P130Cas Attenuates Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) Receptor Internalization by Modulating EGF-Triggered Dynamin Phosphorylation
Yong Seok Kang, Wook Kim, Yun Hyun Huh, Jeomil Bae, Jin Soo Kim, Woo Keun Song

Two Naturally Occurring Terpenes, Dehydrocostuslactone and Costunolide, Decrease Intracellular GSH Content and Inhibit STAT3 Activation
Elena Butturini, Elisabetta Cavalieri, Alessandra Carcereri de Prati, Elena Darra, Antonella Rigo, Kazuo Shoji, Norie Murayama, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yasuo Watanabe, Hisanori Suzuki, Sofia Mariotto

Renal Cystic Disease Proteins Play Critical Roles in the Organization of the Olfactory Epithelium
Jennifer L. Pluznick, Diego J. Rodriguez-Gil, Michael Hull, Kavita Mistry, Vincent Gattone, Colin A. Johnson, Scott Weatherbee, Charles A. Greer, Michael J. Caplan

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Chemistry

Systematic Exploitation of Multiple Receptor Conformations for Virtual Ligand Screening
Giovanni Bottegoni, Walter Rocchia, Manuel Rueda, Ruben Abagyan, Andrea Cavalli

Plasma and Liver Lipidomics Response to an Intervention of Rimonabant in ApoE*3Leiden.CETP Transgenic Mice
Chunxiu Hu, Heng Wei, Anita M. van den Hoek, Mei Wang, Rob van der Heijden, Gerwin Spijksma, Theo H. Reijmers, Jildau Bouwman, Suzan Wopereis, Louis M. Havekes, Elwin Verheij, Thomas Hankemeier, Guowang Xu, Jan van der Greef

New Synthetic Thrombin Inhibitors: Molecular Design and Experimental Verification
Elena I. Sinauridze, Alexey N. Romanov, Irina V. Gribkova, Olga A. Kondakova, Stepan S. Surov, Aleksander S. Gorbatenko, Andrey A. Butylin, Mikhail Yu. Monakov, Alexey A. Bogolyubov, Yuryi V. Kuznetsov, Vladimir B. Sulimov, Fazoyl I. Ataullakhanov

Naturally Occurring Osmolyte, Trehalose Induces Functional Conformation in an Intrinsically Disordered Activation Domain of Glucocorticoid Receptor
Shagufta H. Khan, John A. Arnott, Raj Kumar

De Novo Enzyme Design Using Rosetta3
Florian Richter, Andrew Leaver-Fay, Sagar D. Khare, Sinisa Bjelic, David Baker

Real-Time Monitoring of Cisplatin-Induced Cell Death
Hamed Alborzinia, Suzan Can, Pavlo Holenya, Catharina Scholl, Elke Lederer, Igor Kitanovic, Stefan Wölfl

Identification of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Yersinia pestis Type III Secretion System YscN ATPase
Wieslaw Swietnicki, Daniel Carmany, Michael Retford, Mark Guelta, Russell Dorsey, Joel Bozue, Michael S. Lee, Mark A. Olson

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Computational Biology

Systematic Exploitation of Multiple Receptor Conformations for Virtual Ligand Screening
Giovanni Bottegoni, Walter Rocchia, Manuel Rueda, Ruben Abagyan, Andrea Cavalli

Recurrent Chromosomal Copy Number Alterations in Sporadic Chordomas
Long Phi Le, G. Petur Nielsen, Andrew Eric Rosenberg, Dafydd Thomas, Julie M. Batten, Vikram Deshpande, Joseph Schwab, Zhenfeng Duan, Ramnik J. Xavier, Francis J. Hornicek, A. John Iafrate

A Comprehensive Analysis of Gene Expression Changes Provoked by Bacterial and Fungal Infection in C. elegans
Ilka Engelmann, Aurélien Griffon, Laurent Tichit, Frédéric Montañana-Sanchis, Guilin Wang, Valerie Reinke, Robert H. Waterston, LaDeana W. Hillier, Jonathan J. Ewbank

Selection and Validation of Reference Genes for Quantitative Real-Time PCR in Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) Based on Transcriptome Sequence Data
Natalia V. Demidenko, Maria D. Logacheva, Aleksey A. Penin

EphB2 SNPs and Sporadic Prostate Cancer Risk in African American Men
Christiane M. Robbins, Stanley Hooker, Rick A. Kittles, John D. Carpten

Comparison of Sequence Reads Obtained from Three Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms
Shingo Suzuki, Naoaki Ono, Chikara Furusawa, Bei-Wen Ying, Tetsuya Yomo

Structural Similarity and Classification of Protein Interaction Interfaces
Nan Zhao, Bin Pang, Chi-Ren Shyu, Dmitry Korkin

miR-346 Controls Release of TNF-α Protein and Stability of Its mRNA in Rheumatoid Arthritis via Tristetraprolin Stabilization
Noha Semaan, Laurent Frenzel, Ghada Alsaleh, Guillaume Suffert, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Jean Sibilia, Sebastien Pfeffer, Dominique Wachsmann

The Sensitivity of Massively Parallel Sequencing for Detecting Candidate Infectious Agents Associated with Human Tissue
Richard A. Moore, René L. Warren, J. Douglas Freeman, Julia A. Gustavsen, Caroline Chénard, Jan M. Friedman, Curtis A. Suttle, Yongjun Zhao, Robert A. Holt

Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families
Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette

Adenoma Formation following Limited Ablation of p120-Catenin in the Mouse Intestine
Whitney G. Smalley-Freed, Andrey Efimov, Sarah P. Short, Peilin Jia, Zhongming Zhao, M. Kay Washington, Sylvie Robine, Robert J. Coffey, Albert B. Reynolds

New Synthetic Thrombin Inhibitors: Molecular Design and Experimental Verification
Elena I. Sinauridze, Alexey N. Romanov, Irina V. Gribkova, Olga A. Kondakova, Stepan S. Surov, Aleksander S. Gorbatenko, Andrey A. Butylin, Mikhail Yu. Monakov, Alexey A. Bogolyubov, Yuryi V. Kuznetsov, Vladimir B. Sulimov, Fazoyl I. Ataullakhanov

Harnessing Expression Data to Identify Novel Candidate Genes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Michelle R. Jones, Angela Chua, Yii-Der I. Chen, Xiaohui Li, Ronald M. Krauss, Jerome I. Rotter, Richard S. Legro, Ricardo Azziz, Mark O. Goodarzi

Metabolic Profiling Based Quantitative Evaluation of Hepatocellular Metabolism in Presence of Adipocyte Derived Extracellular Matrix
Nripen S. Sharma, Deepak Nagrath, Martin L. Yarmush

A Curve Shaped Description of Large Networks, with an Application to the Evaluation of Network Models
Xianchuang Su, Xiaogang Jin, Yong Min, Linjian Mo, Jiangang Yang

Genetic Classification of Populations Using Supervised Learning
Michael Bridges, Elizabeth A. Heron, Colm O'Dushlaine, Ricardo Segurado, The International Schizophrenia Consortium (ISC), Derek Morris, Aiden Corvin, Michael Gill, Carlos Pinto

Gitools: Analysis and Visualisation of Genomic Data Using Interactive Heat-Maps
Christian Perez-Llamas, Nuria Lopez-Bigas

The Transcriptome of Human Epicardial, Mediastinal and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissues in Men with Coronary Artery Disease
Sandra Guauque-Olarte, Nathalie Gaudreault, Marie-Ève Piché, Dominique Fournier, Pascale Mauriège, Patrick Mathieu, Yohan Bossé

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens
Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson, Evelyn Toh, Lixia Diao, Xiang Gao, J. Dennis Fortenberry, Barbara Van Der Pol

Dysregulation of IFN System Can Lead to Poor Response to Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C
Koji Onomoto, Shiho Morimoto, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Hidenori Toyoda, Masami Tanaka, Masahiko Kuroda, Kazuko Uno, Takashi Kumada, Fumihiko Matsuda, Kunitada Shimotohno, Takashi Fujita, Yoshiki Murakami

Overestimating Resource Value and Its Effects on Fighting Decisions
Lee Alan Dugatkin, Aaron David Dugatkin

Identification of Prognostic Molecular Features in the Reactive Stroma of Human Breast and Prostate Cancer
Anne Planche, Marina Bacac, Paolo Provero, Carlo Fusco, Mauro Delorenzi, Jean-Christophe Stehle, Ivan Stamenkovic

Mitochondrial Changes in Ageing Caenorhabditis elegans – What Do We Learn from Superoxide Dismutase Knockouts?
Jan Gruber, Li Fang Ng, Sheng Fong, Yee Ting Wong, Soon Ann Koh, Ce-Belle Chen, Guanghou Shui, Wei Fun Cheong, Sebastian Schaffer, Markus R. Wenk, Barry Halliwell

Phylodynamics of Hepatitis C Virus Subtype 2c in the Province of Córdoba, Argentina
Viviana E. Ré, Andrés C. A. Culasso, Silvia Mengarelli, Adrián A. Farías, Fabián Fay, María B. Pisano, Osvaldo Elbarcha, Marta S. Contigiani, Rodolfo H. Campos

A Biophysical Model of Cell Adhesion Mediated by Immunoadhesin Drugs and Antibodies
Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Daniel Coombs, Toby Starr, Michael L. Dustin, Byron Goldstein

Dynamical Patterns of Cattle Trade Movements
Paolo Bajardi, Alain Barrat, Fabrizio Natale, Lara Savini, Vittoria Colizza

Self-Organized Discrimination of Resources
Alexandre Campo, Simon Garnier, Olivier Dédriche, Mouhcine Zekkri, Marco Dorigo

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Chitinase and Chitinase-Like Genes in the African Malaria Mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)
Jianzhen Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yasuyuki Arakane, Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Karl J. Kramer, Enbo Ma, Kun Yan Zhu

Modulation of the CD95-Induced Apoptosis: The Role of CD95 N-Glycosylation
Olga M. Shatnyeva, Andriy V. Kubarenko, Claudia E. M. Weber, Alexander Pappa, Reinhard Schwartz-Albiez, Alexander N. R. Weber, Peter H. Krammer, Inna N. Lavrik

C-Terminus Glycans with Critical Functional Role in the Maturation of Secretory Glycoproteins
Daniela Cioaca, Simona Ghenea, Laurentiu N. Spiridon, Marioara Marin, Andrei-Jose Petrescu, Stefana M. Petrescu

Advanced Autumn Migration of Sparrowhawk Has Increased the Predation Risk of Long-Distance Migrants in Finland
Aleksi Lehikoinen

Exploiting Nucleotide Composition to Engineer Promoters
Manfred G. Grabherr, Jens Pontiller, Evan Mauceli, Wolfgang Ernst, Martina Baumann, Tara Biagi, Ross Swofford, Pamela Russell, Michael C. Zody, Federica Di Palma, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Reingard M. Grabherr

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Computer Science

Niche as a Determinant of Word Fate in Online Groups
Eduardo G. Altmann, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Adilson E. Motter

Structural Similarity and Classification of Protein Interaction Interfaces
Nan Zhao, Bin Pang, Chi-Ren Shyu, Dmitry Korkin

New Synthetic Thrombin Inhibitors: Molecular Design and Experimental Verification
Elena I. Sinauridze, Alexey N. Romanov, Irina V. Gribkova, Olga A. Kondakova, Stepan S. Surov, Aleksander S. Gorbatenko, Andrey A. Butylin, Mikhail Yu. Monakov, Alexey A. Bogolyubov, Yuryi V. Kuznetsov, Vladimir B. Sulimov, Fazoyl I. Ataullakhanov

De Novo Enzyme Design Using Rosetta3
Florian Richter, Andrew Leaver-Fay, Sagar D. Khare, Sinisa Bjelic, David Baker

The Spread of Scientific Information: Insights from the Web Usage Statistics in PLoS Article-Level Metrics
Koon-Kiu Yan, Mark Gerstein

Dynamical Patterns of Cattle Trade Movements
Paolo Bajardi, Alain Barrat, Fabrizio Natale, Lara Savini, Vittoria Colizza

Self-Organized Discrimination of Resources
Alexandre Campo, Simon Garnier, Olivier Dédriche, Mouhcine Zekkri, Marco Dorigo

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Dermatology

Actinic Skin Damage and Mortality - the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
Wei He, Fei Zhu, Xiaoguang Ma, Xinyu Zhao, Min Zheng, Zhao Chen, Steven B. Heymsfield, Shankuan Zhu

A Novel Splice Variant in the N-propeptide of COL5A1 Causes an EDS Phenotype with Severe Kyphoscoliosis and Eye Involvement
Sofie Symoens, Fransiska Malfait, Philip Vlummens, Trinh Hermanns-Lê, Delfien Syx, Anne De Paepe

GATA3 Expression Is Decreased in Psoriasis and during Epidermal Regeneration; Induction by Narrow-Band UVB and IL-4
Emőke Rácz, Dorota Kurek, Marius Kant, Ewout M. Baerveldt, Edwin Florencia, Sabine Mourits, Dick de Ridder, Jon D. Laman, Leslie van der Fits, Errol P. Prens

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Developmental Biology

CD133 Positive Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma Stem-Like Cell Population Is Enriched in Rhabdospheres
Dagmar Walter, Sampoorna Satheesha, Patrick Albrecht, Beat C. Bornhauser, Valentina D'Alessandro, Susanne M. Oesch, Hubert Rehrauer, Ivo Leuschner, Ewa Koscielniak, Carole Gengler, Holger Moch, Michele Bernasconi, Felix K. Niggli, Beat W. Schäfer, Part of this study was conducted in cooperation with the CWS Study Group

Unc-51/ATG1 Controls Axonal and Dendritic Development via Kinesin-Mediated Vesicle Transport in the Drosophila Brain
Hiroaki Mochizuki, Hirofumi Toda, Mai Ando, Mitsuhiko Kurusu, Toshifumi Tomoda, Katsuo Furukubo-Tokunaga

Analysis of Transcriptional Regulatory Pathways of Photoreceptor Genes by Expression Profiling of the Otx2-Deficient Retina
Yoshihiro Omori, Kimiko Katoh, Shigeru Sato, Yuki Muranishi, Taro Chaya, Akishi Onishi, Takashi Minami, Takashi Fujikado, Takahisa Furukawa

M6 Membrane Protein Plays an Essential Role in Drosophila Oogenesis
María Paula Zappia, Marcela Adriana Brocco, Silvia C. Billi, Alberto C. Frasch, María Fernanda Ceriani

Rapid and Highly Efficient Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
Athanasia D. Panopoulos, Sergio Ruiz, Fei Yi, Aída Herrerías, Erika M. Batchelder, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte

Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factor TCF21 Is a Downstream Target of the Male Sex Determining Gene SRY
Ramji K. Bhandari, Ingrid Sadler-Riggleman, Tracy M. Clement, Michael K. Skinner

Determining the Sub-Cellular Localization of Proteins within Caenorhabditis elegans Body Wall Muscle
Barbara Meissner, Teresa Rogalski, Ryan Viveiros, Adam Warner, Lorena Plastino, Adam Lorch, Laure Granger, Laurent Segalat, Donald G. Moerman

Differential Requirement for Utrophin in the Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Correction of Muscle versus Fat in Muscular Dystrophy Mice
Amanda J. Beck, Joseph M. Vitale, Qingshi Zhao, Joel S. Schneider, Corey Chang, Aneela Altaf, Jennifer Michaels, Mantu Bhaumik, Robert Grange, Diego Fraidenraich

Harnessing Expression Data to Identify Novel Candidate Genes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Michelle R. Jones, Angela Chua, Yii-Der I. Chen, Xiaohui Li, Ronald M. Krauss, Jerome I. Rotter, Richard S. Legro, Ricardo Azziz, Mark O. Goodarzi

Metabolic Profiling Based Quantitative Evaluation of Hepatocellular Metabolism in Presence of Adipocyte Derived Extracellular Matrix
Nripen S. Sharma, Deepak Nagrath, Martin L. Yarmush

INSL3 in the Ruminant: A Powerful Indicator of Gender- and Genetic-Specific Feto-Maternal Dialogue
Ravinder Anand-Ivell, Stefan Hiendleder, Carolina Viñoles, Graeme B. Martin, Carolyn Fitzsimmons, Andrea Eurich, Bettina Hafen, Richard Ivell

Expression of HLA Class II Molecules in Humanized NOD.Rag1KO.IL2RgcKO Mice Is Critical for Development and Function of Human T and B Cells
Rebecca Danner, Snehal N. Chaudhari, John Rosenberger, Jacqueline Surls, Thomas L. Richie, Teodor-Doru Brumeanu, Sofia Casares

Oligodendrocytes as Regulators of Neuronal Networks during Early Postnatal Development
Sandrine Doretto, Monica Malerba, Maria Ramos, Taruna Ikrar, Chisato Kinoshita, Claudia De Mei, Emanuele Tirotta, Xiangmin Xu, Emiliana Borrelli

NFATc1 Regulation of TRAIL Expression in Human Intestinal Cells
Qingding Wang, Yuning Zhou, Heidi L. Weiss, Chi-Wing Chow, B. Mark Evers

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

One for All—A Highly Efficient and Versatile Method for Fluorescent Immunostaining in Fish Embryos
Daigo Inoue, Joachim Wittbrodt

Synaptically-Competent Neurons Derived from Canine Embryonic Stem Cells by Lineage Selection with EGF and Noggin
Jared T. Wilcox, Jonathan K. Y. Lai, Esther Semple, Brigitte A. Brisson, Cathy Gartley, John N. Armstrong, Dean H. Betts

Chemopreventive Effect of PSP Through Targeting of Prostate Cancer Stem Cell-Like Population
Sze-Ue Luk, Terence Kin-Wah Lee, Ji Liu, Davy Tak-Wing Lee, Yung-Tuen Chiu, Stephanie Ma, Irene Oi-Lin Ng, Yong-Chuan Wong, Franky Leung Chan, Ming-Tat Ling

Comparative Study of Hematopoietic Differentiation between Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
Heather Melichar, Ou Li, Jenny Ross, Hilary Haber, Dragana Cado, Hector Nolla, Ellen A. Robey, Astar Winoto

Mitochondrial Changes in Ageing Caenorhabditis elegans – What Do We Learn from Superoxide Dismutase Knockouts?
Jan Gruber, Li Fang Ng, Sheng Fong, Yee Ting Wong, Soon Ann Koh, Ce-Belle Chen, Guanghou Shui, Wei Fun Cheong, Sebastian Schaffer, Markus R. Wenk, Barry Halliwell

In Silico Survey of the Mitochondrial Protein Uptake and Maturation Systems in the Brown Alga Ectocarpus siliculosus
Ludovic Delage, Catherine Leblanc, Pi Nyvall Collén, Bernhard Gschloessl, Marie-Pierre Oudot, Lieven Sterck, Julie Poulain, Jean-Marc Aury, J. Mark Cock

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Diabetes and Endocrinology

Harnessing Expression Data to Identify Novel Candidate Genes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Michelle R. Jones, Angela Chua, Yii-Der I. Chen, Xiaohui Li, Ronald M. Krauss, Jerome I. Rotter, Richard S. Legro, Ricardo Azziz, Mark O. Goodarzi

Social Class Differences in Secular Trends in Established Coronary Risk Factors over 20 Years: A Cohort Study of British Men from 1978–80 to 1998–2000
Sheena E. Ramsay, Peter H. Whincup, Sarah L. Hardoon, Lucy T. Lennon, Richard W. Morris, S. G. Wannamethee

Genistein Increases Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling and Promotes Tumor Progression in Advanced Human Prostate Cancer
Hisae Nakamura, Yuwei Wang, Takeshi Kurita, Hans Adomat, Gerald R. Cunha, Yuzhuo Wang

Establishment of a Transgenic Mouse Model Specifically Expressing Human Serum Amyloid A in Adipose Tissue
Maja Olsson, Sofie Ahlin, Bob Olsson, Per-Arne Svensson, Marcus Ståhlman, Jan Borén, Lena M. S. Carlsson, Kajsa Sjöholm

Association of HbA1c Values with Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Diabetic Dialysis Patients. The INVOR Study and Review of the Literature
Gisela Sturm, Claudia Lamina, Emanuel Zitt, Karl Lhotta, Florian Haider, Ulrich Neyer, Florian Kronenberg

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Ecology

Species Diversity and Phylogeographical Affinities of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea) of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
Nicholas W. Jeffery, Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, Sarah J. Adamowicz

Alphacoronaviruses in New World Bats: Prevalence, Persistence, Phylogeny, and Potential for Interaction with Humans
Christina Osborne, Paul M. Cryan, Thomas J. O'Shea, Lauren M. Oko, Christina Ndaluka, Charles H. Calisher, Andrew D. Berglund, Mead L. Klavetter, Richard A. Bowen, Kathryn V. Holmes, Samuel R. Dominguez

UV-Deprived Coloration Reduces Success in Mate Acquisition in Male Sand Lizards (Lacerta agilis)
Mats Olsson, Staffan Andersson, Erik Wapstra

How Do Honeybees Attract Nestmates Using Waggle Dances in Dark and Noisy Hives?
Yuji Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Ikeno

An Experimental Test of the Information Model for Negotiation of Biparental Care
Jessica Meade, Ki-Baek Nam, Jin-Won Lee, Ben J. Hatchwell

Effects of the Distribution of Female Primates on the Number of Males
Laurel Mariah Carnes, Charles L. Nunn, Rebecca J. Lewis

Modeling Routes of Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission: Environmental Prion Persistence Promotes Deer Population Decline and Extinction
Emily S. Almberg, Paul C. Cross, Christopher J. Johnson, Dennis M. Heisey, Bryan J. Richards

Contrasting Diversity Patterns of Crenarchaeal, Bacterial and Fungal Soil Communities in an Alpine Landscape
Lucie Zinger, David P. H. Lejon, Florence Baptist, Abderrahim Bouasria, Serge Aubert, Roberto A. Geremia, Philippe Choler

Space Use of Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) Revealed by Radio-Tracking
Melanie Hagen, Martin Wikelski, W. Daniel Kissling

Relative Impacts of Adult Movement, Larval Dispersal and Harvester Movement on the Effectiveness of Reserve Networks
Arnaud Grüss, David M. Kaplan, Deborah R. Hart

Elevational Patterns of Species Richness, Range and Body Size for Spiny Frogs
Junhua Hu, Feng Xie, Cheng Li, Jianping Jiang

Systematic and Evolutionary Insights Derived from mtDNA COI Barcode Diversity in the Decapoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca)
Joana Matzen da Silva, Simon Creer, Antonina dos Santos, Ana C. Costa, Marina R. Cunha, Filipe O. Costa, Gary R. Carvalho

Overestimating Resource Value and Its Effects on Fighting Decisions
Lee Alan Dugatkin, Aaron David Dugatkin

Phytophagous Arthropods and a Pathogen Sharing a Host Plant: Evidence for Indirect Plant-Mediated Interactions
Raphaëlle Mouttet, Philippe Bearez, Cécile Thomas, Nicolas Desneux

Out of Their Depth? Isolated Deep Populations of the Cosmopolitan Coral Desmophyllum dianthus May Be Highly Vulnerable to Environmental Change
Karen J. Miller, Ashley A. Rowden, Alan Williams, Vreni Häussermann

Decreased Functional Diversity and Biological Pest Control in Conventional Compared to Organic Crop Fields
Jochen Krauss, Iris Gallenberger, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

Re-Structuring of Marine Communities Exposed to Environmental Change: A Global Study on the Interactive Effects of Species and Functional Richness
Martin Wahl, Heike Link, Nicolaos Alexandridis, Jeremy C. Thomason, Mauricio Cifuentes, Mark J. Costello, Bernardo A. P. da Gama, Kristina Hillock, Alistair J. Hobday, Manfred J. Kaufmann, Stefanie Keller, Patrik Kraufvelin, Ina Krüger, Lars Lauterbach, Bruno L. Antunes, Markus Molis, Masahiro Nakaoka, Julia Nyström, Zulkamal bin Radzi, Björn Stockhausen, Martin Thiel, Thomas Vance, Annika Weseloh, Mark Whittle, Lisa Wiesmann, Laura Wunderer, Takehisa Yamakita, Mark Lenz

Exploring or Avoiding Novel Food Resources? The Novelty Conflict in an Invasive Bird
Daniel Sol, Andrea S. Griffin, Ignasi Bartomeus, Hayley Boyce

The Population Growth Consequences of Variation in Individual Heterozygosity
Martina M. I. Di Fonzo, Fanie Pelletier, T.H. Clutton-Brock, Josephine M. Pemberton, Tim Coulson

Dynamical Patterns of Cattle Trade Movements
Paolo Bajardi, Alain Barrat, Fabrizio Natale, Lara Savini, Vittoria Colizza

Self-Organized Discrimination of Resources
Alexandre Campo, Simon Garnier, Olivier Dédriche, Mouhcine Zekkri, Marco Dorigo

Immune Responses Accelerate Ageing: Proof-of-Principle in an Insect Model
E. Rhiannon Pursall, Jens Rolff

Advanced Autumn Migration of Sparrowhawk Has Increased the Predation Risk of Long-Distance Migrants in Finland
Aleksi Lehikoinen

Meiofauna in the Gollum Channels and the Whittard Canyon, Celtic Margin—How Local Environmental Conditions Shape Nematode Structure and Function
Jeroen Ingels, Alexei V. Tchesunov, Ann Vanreusel

Phage Encoded H-NS: A Potential Achilles Heel in the Bacterial Defence System
Connor T. Skennerton, Florent E. Angly, Mya Breitbart, Lauren Bragg, Shaomei He, Katherine D. McMahon, Philip Hugenholtz, Gene W. Tyson

Are Algae Relevant to the Detritus-Based Food Web in Tank-Bromeliads?
Olivier Brouard, Anne-Hélène Le Jeune, Céline Leroy, Régis Cereghino, Olivier Roux, Laurent Pelozuelo, Alain Dejean, Bruno Corbara, Jean-François Carrias

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Epidemiology

Livelihood Security and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Low and Middle Income Settings: A Systematic Review
Beth S. Rachlis, Edward J. Mills, Donald C. Cole

ACE I/D Gene Polymorphism Can't Predict the Steroid Responsiveness in Asian Children with Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis
Tian-Biao Zhou, Yuan-Han Qin, Li-Na Su, Feng-Ying Lei, Wei-Fang Huang, Yan-Jun Zhao

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Evolutionary Biology

Species Diversity and Phylogeographical Affinities of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea) of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
Nicholas W. Jeffery, Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, Sarah J. Adamowicz

Evolutionary Time-Scale of the Begomoviruses: Evidence from Integrated Sequences in the Nicotiana Genome
Pierre Lefeuvre, Gordon W. Harkins, Jean-Michel Lett, Rob W. Briddon, Mark W. Chase, Benoit Moury, Darren P. Martin

UV-Deprived Coloration Reduces Success in Mate Acquisition in Male Sand Lizards (Lacerta agilis)
Mats Olsson, Staffan Andersson, Erik Wapstra

How Do Honeybees Attract Nestmates Using Waggle Dances in Dark and Noisy Hives?
Yuji Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Ikeno

An Experimental Test of the Information Model for Negotiation of Biparental Care
Jessica Meade, Ki-Baek Nam, Jin-Won Lee, Ben J. Hatchwell

Toward a DNA Taxonomy of Alpine Rhithrogena (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae) Using a Mixed Yule-Coalescent Analysis of Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA
Laurent Vuataz, Michel Sartori, André Wagner, Michael T. Monaghan

Effects of the Distribution of Female Primates on the Number of Males
Laurel Mariah Carnes, Charles L. Nunn, Rebecca J. Lewis

Evolution, Insular Restriction, and Extinction of Oceanic Land Crabs, Exemplified by the Loss of an Endemic Geograpsus in the Hawaiian Islands
Gustav Paulay, John Starmer

Phylogenetic Distribution of Intron Positions in Alpha-Amylase Genes of Bilateria Suggests Numerous Gains and Losses
Jean-Luc Da Lage, Frédérique Maczkowiak, Marie-Louise Cariou

Inheritance of Vertebral Number in the Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
Jussi S. Alho, Tuomas Leinonen, Juha Merilä

Life-History Evolution on Tropidurinae Lizards: Influence of Lineage, Body Size and Climate
Renata Brandt, Carlos A. Navas

Systematic and Evolutionary Insights Derived from mtDNA COI Barcode Diversity in the Decapoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca)
Joana Matzen da Silva, Simon Creer, Antonina dos Santos, Ana C. Costa, Marina R. Cunha, Filipe O. Costa, Gary R. Carvalho

Overestimating Resource Value and Its Effects on Fighting Decisions
Lee Alan Dugatkin, Aaron David Dugatkin

Mitochondrial Changes in Ageing Caenorhabditis elegans – What Do We Learn from Superoxide Dismutase Knockouts?
Jan Gruber, Li Fang Ng, Sheng Fong, Yee Ting Wong, Soon Ann Koh, Ce-Belle Chen, Guanghou Shui, Wei Fun Cheong, Sebastian Schaffer, Markus R. Wenk, Barry Halliwell

Phylodynamics of Hepatitis C Virus Subtype 2c in the Province of Córdoba, Argentina
Viviana E. Ré, Andrés C. A. Culasso, Silvia Mengarelli, Adrián A. Farías, Fabián Fay, María B. Pisano, Osvaldo Elbarcha, Marta S. Contigiani, Rodolfo H. Campos

The Advantage of Standing Up to Fight and the Evolution of Habitual Bipedalism in Hominins
David R. Carrier

Immune Responses Accelerate Ageing: Proof-of-Principle in an Insect Model
E. Rhiannon Pursall, Jens Rolff

Advanced Autumn Migration of Sparrowhawk Has Increased the Predation Risk of Long-Distance Migrants in Finland
Aleksi Lehikoinen

Phage Encoded H-NS: A Potential Achilles Heel in the Bacterial Defence System
Connor T. Skennerton, Florent E. Angly, Mya Breitbart, Lauren Bragg, Shaomei He, Katherine D. McMahon, Philip Hugenholtz, Gene W. Tyson

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Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Transient Gastric Irritation in the Neonatal Rats Leads to Changes in Hypothalamic CRF Expression, Depression- and Anxiety-Like Behavior as Adults
Liansheng Liu, Qian Li, Robert Sapolsky, Min Liao, Kshama Mehta, Aditi Bhargava, Pankaj J. Pasricha

Adenoma Formation following Limited Ablation of p120-Catenin in the Mouse Intestine
Whitney G. Smalley-Freed, Andrey Efimov, Sarah P. Short, Peilin Jia, Zhongming Zhao, M. Kay Washington, Sylvie Robine, Robert J. Coffey, Albert B. Reynolds

Spectral Characterization and Unmixing of Intrinsic Contrast in Intact Normal and Diseased Gastric Tissues Using Hyperspectral Two-Photon Microscopy
Lauren E. Grosberg, Andrew J. Radosevich, Samuel Asfaha, Timothy C. Wang, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman

NFATc1 Regulation of TRAIL Expression in Human Intestinal Cells
Qingding Wang, Yuning Zhou, Heidi L. Weiss, Chi-Wing Chow, B. Mark Evers

Dysregulation of IFN System Can Lead to Poor Response to Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C
Koji Onomoto, Shiho Morimoto, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Hidenori Toyoda, Masami Tanaka, Masahiko Kuroda, Kazuko Uno, Takashi Kumada, Fumihiko Matsuda, Kunitada Shimotohno, Takashi Fujita, Yoshiki Murakami

Phylodynamics of Hepatitis C Virus Subtype 2c in the Province of Córdoba, Argentina
Viviana E. Ré, Andrés C. A. Culasso, Silvia Mengarelli, Adrián A. Farías, Fabián Fay, María B. Pisano, Osvaldo Elbarcha, Marta S. Contigiani, Rodolfo H. Campos

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Case-Control Study
Alfonso Carvajal, Sara Ortega, Lourdes Del Olmo, Xavier Vidal, Carmelo Aguirre, Borja Ruiz, Anita Conforti, Roberto Leone, Paula López-Vázquez, Adolfo Figueiras, Luisa Ibáñez

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Genetics and Genomics

Species Diversity and Phylogeographical Affinities of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea) of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
Nicholas W. Jeffery, Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, Sarah J. Adamowicz

Recurrent Chromosomal Copy Number Alterations in Sporadic Chordomas
Long Phi Le, G. Petur Nielsen, Andrew Eric Rosenberg, Dafydd Thomas, Julie M. Batten, Vikram Deshpande, Joseph Schwab, Zhenfeng Duan, Ramnik J. Xavier, Francis J. Hornicek, A. John Iafrate

Altered mRNA Editing and Expression of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors after Kainic Acid Exposure in Cyclooxygenase-2 Deficient Mice
Luca Caracciolo, Alessandro Barbon, Sara Palumbo, Cristina Mora, Christopher D. Toscano, Francesca Bosetti, Sergio Barlati

Behavior of QQ-Plots and Genomic Control in Studies of Gene-Environment Interaction
Arend Voorman, Thomas Lumley, Barbara McKnight, Kenneth Rice

Plasma and Liver Lipidomics Response to an Intervention of Rimonabant in ApoE*3Leiden.CETP Transgenic Mice
Chunxiu Hu, Heng Wei, Anita M. van den Hoek, Mei Wang, Rob van der Heijden, Gerwin Spijksma, Theo H. Reijmers, Jildau Bouwman, Suzan Wopereis, Louis M. Havekes, Elwin Verheij, Thomas Hankemeier, Guowang Xu, Jan van der Greef

Selection and Validation of Reference Genes for Quantitative Real-Time PCR in Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) Based on Transcriptome Sequence Data
Natalia V. Demidenko, Maria D. Logacheva, Aleksey A. Penin

EphB2 SNPs and Sporadic Prostate Cancer Risk in African American Men
Christiane M. Robbins, Stanley Hooker, Rick A. Kittles, John D. Carpten

The Rho-Family GTPase Rac1 Regulates Integrin Localization in Drosophila Immunosurveillance Cells
Miguel J. Xavier, Michael J. Williams

Comparison of Sequence Reads Obtained from Three Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms
Shingo Suzuki, Naoaki Ono, Chikara Furusawa, Bei-Wen Ying, Tetsuya Yomo

AAV2-Mediated Subretinal Gene Transfer of hIFN-α Attenuates Experimental Autoimmune Uveoretinitis in Mice
Lichun Tian, Peizeng Yang, Bo Lei, Ju Shao, Chaokui Wang, Qin Xiang, Lin Wei, Zhougui Peng, Aize Kijlstra

Comparative Methods for Association Studies: A Case Study on Metabolite Variation in a Brassica rapa Core Collection
Dunia Pino Del Carpio, Ram Kumar Basnet, Ric C. H. De Vos, Chris Maliepaard, Maria João Paulo, Guusje Bonnema

Genomic Characterization of Haemophilus parasuis SH0165, a Highly Virulent Strain of Serovar 5 Prevalent in China
Zhuofei Xu, Min Yue, Rui Zhou, Qi Jin, Yang Fan, Weicheng Bei, Huanchun Chen

Unc-51/ATG1 Controls Axonal and Dendritic Development via Kinesin-Mediated Vesicle Transport in the Drosophila Brain
Hiroaki Mochizuki, Hirofumi Toda, Mai Ando, Mitsuhiko Kurusu, Toshifumi Tomoda, Katsuo Furukubo-Tokunaga

A Nonparametric Mean-Variance Smoothing Method to Assess Arabidopsis Cold Stress Transcriptional Regulator CBF2 Overexpression Microarray Data
Pingsha Hu, Tapabrata Maiti

Analysis of Transcriptional Regulatory Pathways of Photoreceptor Genes by Expression Profiling of the Otx2-Deficient Retina
Yoshihiro Omori, Kimiko Katoh, Shigeru Sato, Yuki Muranishi, Taro Chaya, Akishi Onishi, Takashi Minami, Takashi Fujikado, Takahisa Furukawa

Toward a DNA Taxonomy of Alpine Rhithrogena (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae) Using a Mixed Yule-Coalescent Analysis of Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA
Laurent Vuataz, Michel Sartori, André Wagner, Michael T. Monaghan

Differential Genetic Susceptibility to Child Risk at Birth in Predicting Observed Maternal Behavior
Keren Fortuna, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, David Mankuta, Marsha Kaitz, Reut Avinun, Richard P. Ebstein, Ariel Knafo

Prognostic Impacts of Angiopoietins in NSCLC Tumor Cells and Stroma: VEGF-A Impact Is Strongly Associated with Ang-2
Sigve Andersen, Tom Donnem, Khalid Al-Shibli, Samer Al-Saad, Helge Stenvold, Lill-Tove Busund, Roy M. Bremnes

Ambient Oxygen Promotes Tumorigenesis
Ho Joong Sung, Wenzhe Ma, Matthew F. Starost, Cory U. Lago, Philip K. Lim, Michael N. Sack, Ju-Gyeong Kang, Ping-yuan Wang, Paul M. Hwang

miR-346 Controls Release of TNF-α Protein and Stability of Its mRNA in Rheumatoid Arthritis via Tristetraprolin Stabilization
Noha Semaan, Laurent Frenzel, Ghada Alsaleh, Guillaume Suffert, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Jean Sibilia, Sebastien Pfeffer, Dominique Wachsmann

An shRNA-Based Screen of Splicing Regulators Identifies SFRS3 as a Negative Regulator of IL-1β Secretion
Pedro Moura-Alves, Ana Neves-Costa, Helena Raquel, Teresa Raquel Pacheco, Bruno D'Almeida, Raquel Rodrigues, Iris Cadima-Couto, Ângelo Chora, Mariana Oliveira, Margarida Gama-Carvalho, Nir Hacohen, Luis F. Moita

The Sensitivity of Massively Parallel Sequencing for Detecting Candidate Infectious Agents Associated with Human Tissue
Richard A. Moore, René L. Warren, J. Douglas Freeman, Julia A. Gustavsen, Caroline Chénard, Jan M. Friedman, Curtis A. Suttle, Yongjun Zhao, Robert A. Holt

RMDAP: A Versatile, Ready-To-Use Toolbox for Multigene Genetic Transformation
Lei Ma, Jiangli Dong, Yongsheng Jin, Mingliang Chen, Xiaoye Shen, Tao Wang

Allelic Variation, Alternative Splicing and Expression Analysis of Psy1 Gene in Hordeum chilense Roem. et Schult
Cristina Rodríguez-Suárez, Sergio G. Atienza, Fernando Pistón

Targeted Skipping of Human Dystrophin Exons in Transgenic Mouse Model Systemically for Antisense Drug Development
Bo Wu, Ehsan Benrashid, Peijuan Lu, Caryn Cloer, Allen Zillmer, Mona Shaban, Qi Long Lu

Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factor TCF21 Is a Downstream Target of the Male Sex Determining Gene SRY
Ramji K. Bhandari, Ingrid Sadler-Riggleman, Tracy M. Clement, Michael K. Skinner

Determining the Sub-Cellular Localization of Proteins within Caenorhabditis elegans Body Wall Muscle
Barbara Meissner, Teresa Rogalski, Ryan Viveiros, Adam Warner, Lorena Plastino, Adam Lorch, Laure Granger, Laurent Segalat, Donald G. Moerman

An Active Site Aromatic Triad in Escherichia coli DNA Pol IV Coordinates Cell Survival and Mutagenesis in Different DNA Damaging Agents
Ryan W. Benson, Matthew D. Norton, Ida Lin, William S. Du Comb, Veronica G. Godoy

The Genetic Variation of RELN Expression in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Galit Ovadia, Sagiv Shifman

Effect of Soluble ICAM-1 on a Sjögren's Syndrome-like Phenotype in NOD Mice Is Disease Stage Dependent
Nienke Roescher, Jelle L. Vosters, Hongen Yin, Gabor G. Illei, Paul P. Tak, John A. Chiorini

Sex-Dependent Changes in Social Behaviors in Motor Pre-Symptomatic R6/1 Mice
Susanna Pietropaolo, Pauline Delage, Sebastien Cayzac, Wim E. Crusio, Yoon H. Cho

Differential Requirement for Utrophin in the Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Correction of Muscle versus Fat in Muscular Dystrophy Mice
Amanda J. Beck, Joseph M. Vitale, Qingshi Zhao, Joel S. Schneider, Corey Chang, Aneela Altaf, Jennifer Michaels, Mantu Bhaumik, Robert Grange, Diego Fraidenraich

Harnessing Expression Data to Identify Novel Candidate Genes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Michelle R. Jones, Angela Chua, Yii-Der I. Chen, Xiaohui Li, Ronald M. Krauss, Jerome I. Rotter, Richard S. Legro, Ricardo Azziz, Mark O. Goodarzi

A Novel Splice Variant in the N-propeptide of COL5A1 Causes an EDS Phenotype with Severe Kyphoscoliosis and Eye Involvement
Sofie Symoens, Fransiska Malfait, Philip Vlummens, Trinh Hermanns-Lê, Delfien Syx, Anne De Paepe

A Curve Shaped Description of Large Networks, with an Application to the Evaluation of Network Models
Xianchuang Su, Xiaogang Jin, Yong Min, Linjian Mo, Jiangang Yang

INSL3 in the Ruminant: A Powerful Indicator of Gender- and Genetic-Specific Feto-Maternal Dialogue
Ravinder Anand-Ivell, Stefan Hiendleder, Carolina Viñoles, Graeme B. Martin, Carolyn Fitzsimmons, Andrea Eurich, Bettina Hafen, Richard Ivell

Genetic Classification of Populations Using Supervised Learning
Michael Bridges, Elizabeth A. Heron, Colm O'Dushlaine, Ricardo Segurado, The International Schizophrenia Consortium (ISC), Derek Morris, Aiden Corvin, Michael Gill, Carlos Pinto

Decreased Proliferation Kinetics of Mouse Myoblasts Overexpressing FRG1
Steven C. Chen, Ellie Frett, Joseph Marx, Darko Bosnakovski, Xylena Reed, Michael Kyba, Brian K. Kennedy

The First Sequenced Carnivore Genome Shows Complex Host-Endogenous Retrovirus Relationships
Álvaro Martínez Barrio, Marie Ekerljung, Patric Jern, Farid Benachenhou, Göran O. Sperber, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Jonas Blomberg, Göran Andersson

RAD21 Cooperates with Pluripotency Transcription Factors in the Maintenance of Embryonic Stem Cell Identity
Anja Nitzsche, Maciej Paszkowski-Rogacz, Filomena Matarese, Eva M. Janssen-Megens, Nina C. Hubner, Herbert Schulz, Ingrid de Vries, Li Ding, Norbert Huebner, Matthias Mann, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg, Frank Buchholz

Hypoxia and Prostaglandin E Receptor 4 Signalling Pathways Synergise to Promote Endometrial Adenocarcinoma Cell Proliferation and Tumour Growth
Rob D. Catalano, Martin R. Wilson, Sheila C. Boddy, Andrew T. M. McKinlay, Kurt J. Sales, Henry N. Jabbour

Gitools: Analysis and Visualisation of Genomic Data Using Interactive Heat-Maps
Christian Perez-Llamas, Nuria Lopez-Bigas

The Transcriptome of Human Epicardial, Mediastinal and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissues in Men with Coronary Artery Disease
Sandra Guauque-Olarte, Nathalie Gaudreault, Marie-Ève Piché, Dominique Fournier, Pascale Mauriège, Patrick Mathieu, Yohan Bossé

Detection of Variants in 15 Genes in 87 Unrelated Chinese Patients with Leber Congenital Amaurosis
Lin Li, Xueshan Xiao, Shiqiang Li, Xiaoyun Jia, Panfeng Wang, Xiangming Guo, Xiaodong Jiao, Qingjiong Zhang, J. Fielding Hejtmancik

NFATc1 Regulation of TRAIL Expression in Human Intestinal Cells
Qingding Wang, Yuning Zhou, Heidi L. Weiss, Chi-Wing Chow, B. Mark Evers

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

PAX6 Haplotypes Are Associated with High Myopia in Han Chinese
Bo Jiang, Maurice K. H. Yap, Kim Hung Leung, Po Wah Ng, Wai Yan Fung, Wai Wa Lam, Yang-shun Gu, Shea Ping Yip

Validation of a Cost-Efficient Multi-Purpose SNP Panel for Disease Based Research
Liping Hou, Christopher Phillips, Marco Azaro, Linda M. Brzustowicz, Christopher W. Bartlett

Platelets Alter Gene Expression Profile in Human Brain Endothelial Cells in an In Vitro Model of Cerebral Malaria
Mathieu Barbier, Dorothée Faille, Béatrice Loriod, Julien Textoris, Claire Camus, Denis Puthier, Laurence Flori, Samuel Crocodile Wassmer, Geneviève Victorero, Marie-Christine Alessi, Thierry Fusaï, Catherine Nguyen, Georges E. Grau, Pascal Rihet

Inheritance of Vertebral Number in the Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
Jussi S. Alho, Tuomas Leinonen, Juha Merilä

Plasma Proteome Profiles Associated with Inflammation, Angiogenesis, and Cancer
Karen S. Kelly-Spratt, Sharon J. Pitteri, Kay E. Gurley, Denny Liggitt, Alice Chin, Jacob Kennedy, Chee-Hong Wong, Qing Zhang, Tina Busald Buson, Hong Wang, Samir M. Hanash, Christopher J. Kemp

Identification of Methylated Genes Associated with Aggressive Clinicopathological Features in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Anna Enjuanes, Verònica Fernàndez, Luis Hernández, Alba Navarro, Sílvia Beà, Magda Pinyol, Armando López-Guillermo, Andreas Rosenwald, German Ott, Elías Campo, Pedro Jares

Dysregulation of IFN System Can Lead to Poor Response to Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C
Koji Onomoto, Shiho Morimoto, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Hidenori Toyoda, Masami Tanaka, Masahiko Kuroda, Kazuko Uno, Takashi Kumada, Fumihiko Matsuda, Kunitada Shimotohno, Takashi Fujita, Yoshiki Murakami

Life-History Evolution on Tropidurinae Lizards: Influence of Lineage, Body Size and Climate
Renata Brandt, Carlos A. Navas

Systematic and Evolutionary Insights Derived from mtDNA COI Barcode Diversity in the Decapoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca)
Joana Matzen da Silva, Simon Creer, Antonina dos Santos, Ana C. Costa, Marina R. Cunha, Filipe O. Costa, Gary R. Carvalho

Identification of Prognostic Molecular Features in the Reactive Stroma of Human Breast and Prostate Cancer
Anne Planche, Marina Bacac, Paolo Provero, Carlo Fusco, Mauro Delorenzi, Jean-Christophe Stehle, Ivan Stamenkovic

Evaluation of PRNP Expression Based on Genotypes and Alleles of Two Indel Loci in the Medulla Oblongata of Japanese Black and Japanese Brown Cattle
George Msalya, Takeshi Shimogiri, Shotaro Ohno, Shin Okamoto, Kotaro Kawabe, Mitsuru Minezawa, Yoshizane Maeda

Out of Their Depth? Isolated Deep Populations of the Cosmopolitan Coral Desmophyllum dianthus May Be Highly Vulnerable to Environmental Change
Karen J. Miller, Ashley A. Rowden, Alan Williams, Vreni Häussermann

In Silico Survey of the Mitochondrial Protein Uptake and Maturation Systems in the Brown Alga Ectocarpus siliculosus
Ludovic Delage, Catherine Leblanc, Pi Nyvall Collén, Bernhard Gschloessl, Marie-Pierre Oudot, Lieven Sterck, Julie Poulain, Jean-Marc Aury, J. Mark Cock

ACE I/D Gene Polymorphism Can't Predict the Steroid Responsiveness in Asian Children with Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis
Tian-Biao Zhou, Yuan-Han Qin, Li-Na Su, Feng-Ying Lei, Wei-Fang Huang, Yan-Jun Zhao

Establishment of a Transgenic Mouse Model Specifically Expressing Human Serum Amyloid A in Adipose Tissue
Maja Olsson, Sofie Ahlin, Bob Olsson, Per-Arne Svensson, Marcus Ståhlman, Jan Borén, Lena M. S. Carlsson, Kajsa Sjöholm

The Population Growth Consequences of Variation in Individual Heterozygosity
Martina M. I. Di Fonzo, Fanie Pelletier, T.H. Clutton-Brock, Josephine M. Pemberton, Tim Coulson

Identification of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Yersinia pestis Type III Secretion System YscN ATPase
Wieslaw Swietnicki, Daniel Carmany, Michael Retford, Mark Guelta, Russell Dorsey, Joel Bozue, Michael S. Lee, Mark A. Olson

The Puf-Family RNA-Binding Protein Puf2 Controls Sporozoite Conversion to Liver Stages in the Malaria Parasite
Katja Müller, Kai Matuschewski, Olivier Silvie

Physical Confirmation and Mapping of Overlapping Rat Mammary Carcinoma Susceptibility QTLs, Mcs2 and Mcs6
Jennifer Sanders, Jill D. Haag, David J. Samuelson

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Chitinase and Chitinase-Like Genes in the African Malaria Mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)
Jianzhen Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yasuyuki Arakane, Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Karl J. Kramer, Enbo Ma, Kun Yan Zhu

Design and Synthesis of a Quintessential Self-Transmissible IncX1 Plasmid, pX1.0
Lars H. Hansen, Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia, Sara Bentzon-Tilia, Anders Norman, Louise Rafty, Søren J. Sørensen

Dysfunctional CFTR Alters the Bactericidal Activity of Human Macrophages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Paola Del Porto, Noemi Cifani, Simone Guarnieri, Enea Gino Di Domenico, Maria A. Mariggiò, Francesca Spadaro, Silvia Guglietta, Marco Anile, Federico Venuta, Serena Quattrucci, Fiorentina Ascenzioni

Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Responding to Dissolved Oxygen in Adenosine Fermentation
Wen-Bang Yu, Shu-Hong Gao, Chun-Yun Yin, Ying Zhou, Bang-Ce Ye

Phage Encoded H-NS: A Potential Achilles Heel in the Bacterial Defence System
Connor T. Skennerton, Florent E. Angly, Mya Breitbart, Lauren Bragg, Shaomei He, Katherine D. McMahon, Philip Hugenholtz, Gene W. Tyson

Discovery of Nuclear-Encoded Genes for the Neurotoxin Saxitoxin in Dinoflagellates
Anke Stüken, Russell J. S. Orr, Ralf Kellmann, Shauna A. Murray, Brett A. Neilan, Kjetill S. Jakobsen

Exploiting Nucleotide Composition to Engineer Promoters
Manfred G. Grabherr, Jens Pontiller, Evan Mauceli, Wolfgang Ernst, Martina Baumann, Tara Biagi, Ross Swofford, Pamela Russell, Michael C. Zody, Federica Di Palma, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Reingard M. Grabherr

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Hematology

Caspase Inhibition Blocks Cell Death and Enhances Mitophagy but Fails to Promote T-Cell Lymphoma
Sih-han Wang, Sean M. Martin, Peter S. Harris, C. Michael Knudson

PRL-3, a Metastasis Associated Tyrosine Phosphatase, Is Involved in FLT3-ITD Signaling and Implicated in Anti-AML Therapy
Jianbiao Zhou, Chonglei Bi, Wee-Joo Chng, Lip-Lee Cheong, Shaw-Cheng Liu, Sylvia Mahara, Kian-Ghee Tay, Qi Zeng, Jie Li, Ke Guo, Cheng Peow Bobby Tan, Hanry Yu, Daniel H. Albert, Chien-Shing Chen

New Synthetic Thrombin Inhibitors: Molecular Design and Experimental Verification
Elena I. Sinauridze, Alexey N. Romanov, Irina V. Gribkova, Olga A. Kondakova, Stepan S. Surov, Aleksander S. Gorbatenko, Andrey A. Butylin, Mikhail Yu. Monakov, Alexey A. Bogolyubov, Yuryi V. Kuznetsov, Vladimir B. Sulimov, Fazoyl I. Ataullakhanov

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

Platelets Alter Gene Expression Profile in Human Brain Endothelial Cells in an In Vitro Model of Cerebral Malaria
Mathieu Barbier, Dorothée Faille, Béatrice Loriod, Julien Textoris, Claire Camus, Denis Puthier, Laurence Flori, Samuel Crocodile Wassmer, Geneviève Victorero, Marie-Christine Alessi, Thierry Fusaï, Catherine Nguyen, Georges E. Grau, Pascal Rihet

Identification of Methylated Genes Associated with Aggressive Clinicopathological Features in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Anna Enjuanes, Verònica Fernàndez, Luis Hernández, Alba Navarro, Sílvia Beà, Magda Pinyol, Armando López-Guillermo, Andreas Rosenwald, German Ott, Elías Campo, Pedro Jares

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Immunology

CD38 Exacerbates Focal Cytokine Production, Postischemic Inflammation and Brain Injury after Focal Cerebral Ischemia
Chi-un Choe, Kerstin Lardong, Mathias Gelderblom, Peter Ludewig, Frank Leypoldt, Friedrich Koch-Nolte, Christian Gerloff, Tim Magnus

A Comprehensive Analysis of Gene Expression Changes Provoked by Bacterial and Fungal Infection in C. elegans
Ilka Engelmann, Aurélien Griffon, Laurent Tichit, Frédéric Montañana-Sanchis, Guilin Wang, Valerie Reinke, Robert H. Waterston, LaDeana W. Hillier, Jonathan J. Ewbank

Validation of World Health Organisation HIV/AIDS Clinical Staging in Predicting Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy and Clinical Predictors of Low CD4 Cell Count in Uganda
Steven Baveewo, Francis Ssali, Charles Karamagi, Joan N. Kalyango, Judith A. Hahn, Kenneth Ekoru, Peter Mugyenyi, Elly Katabira

In Vivo Electroporation Enhances the Immunogenicity of an HIV-1 DNA Vaccine Candidate in Healthy Volunteers
Sandhya Vasan, Arlene Hurley, Sarah J. Schlesinger, Drew Hannaman, David F. Gardiner, Daniel P. Dugin, Mar Boente-Carrera, Roselle Vittorino, Marina Caskey, Johanne Andersen, Yaoxing Huang, Josephine H. Cox, Tony Tarragona-Fiol, Dilbinder K. Gill, Hannah Cheeseman, Lorna Clark, Len Dally, Carol Smith, Claudia Schmidt, Harriet H. Park, Jakub T. Kopycinski, Jill Gilmour, Patricia Fast, Robert Bernard, David D. Ho

Attitudinal and Demographic Predictors of Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine (MMR) Uptake during the UK Catch-Up Campaign 2008–09: Cross-Sectional Survey
Katrina Brown, Graham Fraser, Mary Ramsay, Ruth Shanley, Noel Cowley, Johan van Wijgerden, Penelope Toff, Michelle Falconer, Michael Hudson, John Green, J. Simon Kroll, Charles Vincent, Nick Sevdalis

The Rho-Family GTPase Rac1 Regulates Integrin Localization in Drosophila Immunosurveillance Cells
Miguel J. Xavier, Michael J. Williams

AAV2-Mediated Subretinal Gene Transfer of hIFN-α Attenuates Experimental Autoimmune Uveoretinitis in Mice
Lichun Tian, Peizeng Yang, Bo Lei, Ju Shao, Chaokui Wang, Qin Xiang, Lin Wei, Zhougui Peng, Aize Kijlstra

miR-346 Controls Release of TNF-α Protein and Stability of Its mRNA in Rheumatoid Arthritis via Tristetraprolin Stabilization
Noha Semaan, Laurent Frenzel, Ghada Alsaleh, Guillaume Suffert, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Jean Sibilia, Sebastien Pfeffer, Dominique Wachsmann

An shRNA-Based Screen of Splicing Regulators Identifies SFRS3 as a Negative Regulator of IL-1β Secretion
Pedro Moura-Alves, Ana Neves-Costa, Helena Raquel, Teresa Raquel Pacheco, Bruno D'Almeida, Raquel Rodrigues, Iris Cadima-Couto, Ângelo Chora, Mariana Oliveira, Margarida Gama-Carvalho, Nir Hacohen, Luis F. Moita

Plasma Circulating Nucleic Acids Levels Increase According to the Morbidity of Plasmodium vivax Malaria
Bernardo S. Franklin, Barbara L. F. Vitorino, Helena C. Coelho, Armando Menezes-Neto, Marina L. S. Santos, Fernanda M. F. Campos, Cristiana F. Brito, Cor J. Fontes, Marcus V. Lacerda, Luzia H. Carvalho

High Resolution Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) in Multiple Sclerosis: The First Follow Up Study over Two Years
Nermin Serbecic, Fahmy Aboul-Enein, Sven C. Beutelspacher, Clemens Vass, Wolfgang Kristoferitsch, Hans Lassmann, Andreas Reitner, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

Adenoma Formation following Limited Ablation of p120-Catenin in the Mouse Intestine
Whitney G. Smalley-Freed, Andrey Efimov, Sarah P. Short, Peilin Jia, Zhongming Zhao, M. Kay Washington, Sylvie Robine, Robert J. Coffey, Albert B. Reynolds

Identification of Autoantibodies against TRPM1 in Patients with Paraneoplastic Retinopathy Associated with ON Bipolar Cell Dysfunction
Mineo Kondo, Rikako Sanuki, Shinji Ueno, Yuji Nishizawa, Naozumi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Ohguro, Shuichi Yamamoto, Shigeki Machida, Hiroko Terasaki, Grazyna Adamus, Takahisa Furukawa

Leukocyte ADAM17 Regulates Acute Pulmonary Inflammation
Patrick G. Arndt, Brian Strahan, Yue Wang, Chunmei Long, Keisuke Horiuchi, Bruce Walcheck

The SaeR/S Gene Regulatory System Induces a Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Response during Staphylococcus aureus Infection
Robert L. Watkins, Kyler B. Pallister, Jovanka M. Voyich

Effect of Soluble ICAM-1 on a Sjögren's Syndrome-like Phenotype in NOD Mice Is Disease Stage Dependent
Nienke Roescher, Jelle L. Vosters, Hongen Yin, Gabor G. Illei, Paul P. Tak, John A. Chiorini

GATA3 Expression Is Decreased in Psoriasis and during Epidermal Regeneration; Induction by Narrow-Band UVB and IL-4
Emőke Rácz, Dorota Kurek, Marius Kant, Ewout M. Baerveldt, Edwin Florencia, Sabine Mourits, Dick de Ridder, Jon D. Laman, Leslie van der Fits, Errol P. Prens

Expression of HLA Class II Molecules in Humanized NOD.Rag1KO.IL2RgcKO Mice Is Critical for Development and Function of Human T and B Cells
Rebecca Danner, Snehal N. Chaudhari, John Rosenberger, Jacqueline Surls, Thomas L. Richie, Teodor-Doru Brumeanu, Sofia Casares

Cumulative Inflammatory Load Is Associated with Short Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study
Aoife O'Donovan, Matthew S. Pantell, Eli Puterman, Firdaus S. Dhabhar, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Kristine Yaffe, Richard M. Cawthon, Patricia L. Opresko, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Suzanne Satterfield, Anne B. Newman, Hilsa N. Ayonayon, Susan M. Rubin, Tamara B. Harris, Elissa S. Epel, for the Health Aging and Body Composition Study

T Cells from Programmed Death-1 Deficient Mice Respond Poorly to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
Sultan Tousif, Yogesh Singh, Durbaka Vijaya Raghava Prasad, Pawan Sharma, Luc Van Kaer, Gobardhan Das

Hypoxia and Prostaglandin E Receptor 4 Signalling Pathways Synergise to Promote Endometrial Adenocarcinoma Cell Proliferation and Tumour Growth
Rob D. Catalano, Martin R. Wilson, Sheila C. Boddy, Andrew T. M. McKinlay, Kurt J. Sales, Henry N. Jabbour

Structural Correlates of Taste and Smell Loss in Encephalitis Disseminata
Felix Alexander Schmidt, Onder Goktas, Lutz Harms, Georg Bohner, Katharina Erb, Bettina Dahlslett, Franca Fleiner

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

Functional Impairment of Central Memory CD4 T Cells Is a Potential Early Prognostic Marker for Changing Viral Load in SHIV-Infected Rhesus Macaques
Hong He, Pramod N. Nehete, Bharti Nehete, Eric Wieder, Guojun Yang, Stephanie Buchl, K. Jagannadha Sastry

Platelets Alter Gene Expression Profile in Human Brain Endothelial Cells in an In Vitro Model of Cerebral Malaria
Mathieu Barbier, Dorothée Faille, Béatrice Loriod, Julien Textoris, Claire Camus, Denis Puthier, Laurence Flori, Samuel Crocodile Wassmer, Geneviève Victorero, Marie-Christine Alessi, Thierry Fusaï, Catherine Nguyen, Georges E. Grau, Pascal Rihet

One for All—A Highly Efficient and Versatile Method for Fluorescent Immunostaining in Fish Embryos
Daigo Inoue, Joachim Wittbrodt

Plasma Proteome Profiles Associated with Inflammation, Angiogenesis, and Cancer
Karen S. Kelly-Spratt, Sharon J. Pitteri, Kay E. Gurley, Denny Liggitt, Alice Chin, Jacob Kennedy, Chee-Hong Wong, Qing Zhang, Tina Busald Buson, Hong Wang, Samir M. Hanash, Christopher J. Kemp

Lipid Motif of a Bacterial Antigen Mediates Immune Responses via TLR2 Signaling
Amit A. Lugade, Anna Bianchi-Smiraglia, Vandana Pradhan, Galina Elkin, Timothy F. Murphy, Yasmin Thanavala

Comparative Study of Hematopoietic Differentiation between Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
Heather Melichar, Ou Li, Jenny Ross, Hilary Haber, Dragana Cado, Hector Nolla, Ellen A. Robey, Astar Winoto

Characterization of the Metabolic Phenotype of Rapamycin-Treated CD8+ T Cells with Augmented Ability to Generate Long-Lasting Memory Cells
Shan He, Koji Kato, Jiu Jiang, Daniel R. Wahl, Shin Mineishi, Erin M. Fisher, Donna M. Murasko, Gary D. Glick, Yi Zhang

Purification and Characterization of Enterovirus 71 Viral Particles Produced from Vero Cells Grown in a Serum-Free Microcarrier Bioreactor System
Chia-Chyi Liu, Meng-Shin Guo, Fion Hsiao-Yu Lin, Kuang-Nan Hsiao, Kate Hsuen-Wen Chang, Ai-Hsiang Chou, Yu-Chao Wang, Yu-Ching Chen, Chung-Shi Yang, Pele Choi-Sing Chong

Dendritic Cells Exposed to MVA-Based HIV-1 Vaccine Induce Highly Functional HIV-1-Specific CD8+ T Cell Responses in HIV-1-Infected Individuals
Núria Climent, Susana Guerra, Felipe García, Cristina Rovira, Laia Miralles, Carmen Elena Gómez, Núria Piqué, Cristina Gil, José María Gatell, Mariano Esteban, Teresa Gallart

Pregnancy and the Risk of Autoimmune Disease
Ali S. Khashan, Louise C. Kenny, Thomas M. Laursen, Uzma Mahmood, Preben B. Mortensen, Tine B. Henriksen, Keelin O'Donoghue

Vaginally Administered PEGylated LIF Antagonist Blocked Embryo Implantation and Eliminated Non-Target Effects on Bone in Mice
Ellen Menkhorst, Jian-Guo Zhang, Natalie A. Sims, Phillip O. Morgan, Priscilla Soo, Ingrid J. Poulton, Donald Metcalf, Estella Alexandrou, Melissa Gresle, Lois A. Salamonsen, Helmut Butzkueven, Nicos A. Nicola, Evdokia Dimitriadis

Paracoccidioides brasilinsis-Induced Migration of Dendritic Cells and Subsequent T-Cell Activation in the Lung-Draining Lymph Nodes
Suelen Silvana dos Santos, Karen Spadari Ferreira, Sandro Rogerio Almeida

A Biophysical Model of Cell Adhesion Mediated by Immunoadhesin Drugs and Antibodies
Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Daniel Coombs, Toby Starr, Michael L. Dustin, Byron Goldstein

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Chitinase and Chitinase-Like Genes in the African Malaria Mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)
Jianzhen Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yasuyuki Arakane, Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Karl J. Kramer, Enbo Ma, Kun Yan Zhu

The Inflammatory Response to Double Stranded DNA in Endothelial Cells Is Mediated by NFκB and TNFα
Suraj J. Patel, Rohit Jindal, Kevin R. King, Arno W. Tilles, Martin L. Yarmush

Modulation of the CD95-Induced Apoptosis: The Role of CD95 N-Glycosylation
Olga M. Shatnyeva, Andriy V. Kubarenko, Claudia E. M. Weber, Alexander Pappa, Reinhard Schwartz-Albiez, Alexander N. R. Weber, Peter H. Krammer, Inna N. Lavrik

Dysfunctional CFTR Alters the Bactericidal Activity of Human Macrophages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Paola Del Porto, Noemi Cifani, Simone Guarnieri, Enea Gino Di Domenico, Maria A. Mariggiò, Francesca Spadaro, Silvia Guglietta, Marco Anile, Federico Venuta, Serena Quattrucci, Fiorentina Ascenzioni

Immune Responses Accelerate Ageing: Proof-of-Principle in an Insect Model
E. Rhiannon Pursall, Jens Rolff

Cell-Intrinsic NF-κB Activation Is Critical for the Development of Natural Regulatory T Cells in Mice
Eva Gückel, Silke Frey, Mario M. Zaiss, Georg Schett, Sankar Ghosh, Reinhard E. Voll

Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific Th1, Th17 and Th22 Cells Using the Expression of CD40L in Tuberculous Pleurisy
Li Li, Dan Qiao, Xiaoying Fu, Suihua Lao, Xianlan Zhang, Changyou Wu

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Infectious Diseases

Validation of World Health Organisation HIV/AIDS Clinical Staging in Predicting Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy and Clinical Predictors of Low CD4 Cell Count in Uganda
Steven Baveewo, Francis Ssali, Charles Karamagi, Joan N. Kalyango, Judith A. Hahn, Kenneth Ekoru, Peter Mugyenyi, Elly Katabira

Alphacoronaviruses in New World Bats: Prevalence, Persistence, Phylogeny, and Potential for Interaction with Humans
Christina Osborne, Paul M. Cryan, Thomas J. O'Shea, Lauren M. Oko, Christina Ndaluka, Charles H. Calisher, Andrew D. Berglund, Mead L. Klavetter, Richard A. Bowen, Kathryn V. Holmes, Samuel R. Dominguez

In Vivo Electroporation Enhances the Immunogenicity of an HIV-1 DNA Vaccine Candidate in Healthy Volunteers
Sandhya Vasan, Arlene Hurley, Sarah J. Schlesinger, Drew Hannaman, David F. Gardiner, Daniel P. Dugin, Mar Boente-Carrera, Roselle Vittorino, Marina Caskey, Johanne Andersen, Yaoxing Huang, Josephine H. Cox, Tony Tarragona-Fiol, Dilbinder K. Gill, Hannah Cheeseman, Lorna Clark, Len Dally, Carol Smith, Claudia Schmidt, Harriet H. Park, Jakub T. Kopycinski, Jill Gilmour, Patricia Fast, Robert Bernard, David D. Ho

Artesunate Dose Escalation for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Malaria in a Region of Reported Artemisinin Resistance: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Delia Bethell, Youry Se, Chanthap Lon, Stuart Tyner, David Saunders, Sabaithip Sriwichai, Sea Darapiseth, Paktiya Teja-Isavadharm, Phisit Khemawoot, Kurt Schaecher, Wiriya Ruttvisutinunt, Jessica Lin, Worachet Kuntawungin, Panita Gosi, Ans Timmermans, Bryan Smith, Duong Socheat, Mark M. Fukuda

Attitudinal and Demographic Predictors of Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine (MMR) Uptake during the UK Catch-Up Campaign 2008–09: Cross-Sectional Survey
Katrina Brown, Graham Fraser, Mary Ramsay, Ruth Shanley, Noel Cowley, Johan van Wijgerden, Penelope Toff, Michelle Falconer, Michael Hudson, John Green, J. Simon Kroll, Charles Vincent, Nick Sevdalis

Added Value of Deep Sequencing Relative to Population Sequencing in Heavily Pre-Treated HIV-1-Infected Subjects
Francisco M. Codoñer, Christian Pou, Alexander Thielen, Federico García, Rafael Delgado, David Dalmau, Miguel Álvarez-Tejado, Lidia Ruiz, Bonaventura Clotet, Roger Paredes

Barriers to Initiation of Antiretrovirals during Antituberculosis Therapy in Africa
Dominique J. Pepper, Suzaan Marais, Robert J. Wilkinson, Feriyl Bhaijee, Virginia De Azevedo, Graeme Meintjes

Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD) among Tuberculosis Patients: A Study from Chennai, South India
Mohanarani Suhadev, Beena E. Thomas, Raja Sakthivel M, Murugesan P, Chandrasekaran V, Niruparani Charles, Durga R, Auxilia M, Trini A. Mathew, Fraser Wares

Capsular Serotype and Antibiotic Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates in Malaysia
Cheng-Foh Le, Navindra Kumari Palanisamy, Mohd Yasim Mohd Yusof, Shamala Devi Sekaran

Acceptability of Medical Male Circumcision Among Uncircumcised Men in Kenya One Year After the Launch of the National Male Circumcision Program
Amy Herman-Roloff, Nixon Otieno, Kawango Agot, Jeckoniah Ndinya-Achola, Robert C. Bailey

The Sensitivity of Massively Parallel Sequencing for Detecting Candidate Infectious Agents Associated with Human Tissue
Richard A. Moore, René L. Warren, J. Douglas Freeman, Julia A. Gustavsen, Caroline Chénard, Jan M. Friedman, Curtis A. Suttle, Yongjun Zhao, Robert A. Holt

Plasma Circulating Nucleic Acids Levels Increase According to the Morbidity of Plasmodium vivax Malaria
Bernardo S. Franklin, Barbara L. F. Vitorino, Helena C. Coelho, Armando Menezes-Neto, Marina L. S. Santos, Fernanda M. F. Campos, Cristiana F. Brito, Cor J. Fontes, Marcus V. Lacerda, Luzia H. Carvalho

The SaeR/S Gene Regulatory System Induces a Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Response during Staphylococcus aureus Infection
Robert L. Watkins, Kyler B. Pallister, Jovanka M. Voyich

Dual Neonate Vaccine Platform against HIV-1 and M. tuberculosis
Richard Hopkins, Anne Bridgeman, Joan Joseph, Sarah C. Gilbert, Helen McShane, Tomáš Hanke

T Cells from Programmed Death-1 Deficient Mice Respond Poorly to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
Sultan Tousif, Yogesh Singh, Durbaka Vijaya Raghava Prasad, Pawan Sharma, Luc Van Kaer, Gobardhan Das

Glycyrrhizin Exerts Antioxidative Effects in H5N1 Influenza A Virus-Infected Cells and Inhibits Virus Replication and Pro-Inflammatory Gene Expression
Martin Michaelis, Janina Geiler, Patrizia Naczk, Patchima Sithisarn, Anke Leutz, Hans Wilhelm Doerr, Jindrich Cinatl

Rotavirus Rearranged Genomic RNA Segments Are Preferentially Packaged into Viruses Despite Not Conferring Selective Growth Advantage to Viruses
Cécile Troupin, Aurélie Schnuriger, Sarah Duponchel, Claire Deback, Nathalie Schnepf, Axelle Dehee, Antoine Garbarg-Chenon

Functional Impairment of Central Memory CD4 T Cells Is a Potential Early Prognostic Marker for Changing Viral Load in SHIV-Infected Rhesus Macaques
Hong He, Pramod N. Nehete, Bharti Nehete, Eric Wieder, Guojun Yang, Stephanie Buchl, K. Jagannadha Sastry

The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens
Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson, Evelyn Toh, Lixia Diao, Xiang Gao, J. Dennis Fortenberry, Barbara Van Der Pol

Platelets Alter Gene Expression Profile in Human Brain Endothelial Cells in an In Vitro Model of Cerebral Malaria
Mathieu Barbier, Dorothée Faille, Béatrice Loriod, Julien Textoris, Claire Camus, Denis Puthier, Laurence Flori, Samuel Crocodile Wassmer, Geneviève Victorero, Marie-Christine Alessi, Thierry Fusaï, Catherine Nguyen, Georges E. Grau, Pascal Rihet

Transmission of Plasmodium vivax in South-Western Uganda: Report of Three Cases in Pregnant Women
Mehul Dhorda, Dan Nyehangane, Laurent Rénia, Patrice Piola, Philippe J. Guerin, Georges Snounou

Dysregulation of IFN System Can Lead to Poor Response to Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C
Koji Onomoto, Shiho Morimoto, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Hidenori Toyoda, Masami Tanaka, Masahiko Kuroda, Kazuko Uno, Takashi Kumada, Fumihiko Matsuda, Kunitada Shimotohno, Takashi Fujita, Yoshiki Murakami

Livelihood Security and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Low and Middle Income Settings: A Systematic Review
Beth S. Rachlis, Edward J. Mills, Donald C. Cole

Evaluation of PRNP Expression Based on Genotypes and Alleles of Two Indel Loci in the Medulla Oblongata of Japanese Black and Japanese Brown Cattle
George Msalya, Takeshi Shimogiri, Shotaro Ohno, Shin Okamoto, Kotaro Kawabe, Mitsuru Minezawa, Yoshizane Maeda

Phylodynamics of Hepatitis C Virus Subtype 2c in the Province of Córdoba, Argentina
Viviana E. Ré, Andrés C. A. Culasso, Silvia Mengarelli, Adrián A. Farías, Fabián Fay, María B. Pisano, Osvaldo Elbarcha, Marta S. Contigiani, Rodolfo H. Campos

Incidence and Risk Factors of Serious Adverse Events during Antituberculous Treatment in Rwanda: A Prospective Cohort Study
Natalie Lorent, Osee Sebatunzi, Gloria Mukeshimana, Jef Van den Ende, Joannes Clerinx

Dendritic Cells Exposed to MVA-Based HIV-1 Vaccine Induce Highly Functional HIV-1-Specific CD8+ T Cell Responses in HIV-1-Infected Individuals
Núria Climent, Susana Guerra, Felipe García, Cristina Rovira, Laia Miralles, Carmen Elena Gómez, Núria Piqué, Cristina Gil, José María Gatell, Mariano Esteban, Teresa Gallart

Identification of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Yersinia pestis Type III Secretion System YscN ATPase
Wieslaw Swietnicki, Daniel Carmany, Michael Retford, Mark Guelta, Russell Dorsey, Joel Bozue, Michael S. Lee, Mark A. Olson

Hepatitis B Infection Is Associated with Asymptomatic Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon
Bruno B. Andrade, Cristiane J. N. Santos, Luís M. Camargo, Sebastião M. Souza-Neto, Antonio Reis-Filho, Jorge Clarêncio, Vitor R. R. Mendonça, Nívea F. Luz, Erney P. Camargo, Aldina Barral, Antônio A. M. Silva, Manoel Barral-Netto

The Puf-Family RNA-Binding Protein Puf2 Controls Sporozoite Conversion to Liver Stages in the Malaria Parasite
Katja Müller, Kai Matuschewski, Olivier Silvie

Dynamical Patterns of Cattle Trade Movements
Paolo Bajardi, Alain Barrat, Fabrizio Natale, Lara Savini, Vittoria Colizza

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Chitinase and Chitinase-Like Genes in the African Malaria Mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)
Jianzhen Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yasuyuki Arakane, Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Karl J. Kramer, Enbo Ma, Kun Yan Zhu

Dysfunctional CFTR Alters the Bactericidal Activity of Human Macrophages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Paola Del Porto, Noemi Cifani, Simone Guarnieri, Enea Gino Di Domenico, Maria A. Mariggiò, Francesca Spadaro, Silvia Guglietta, Marco Anile, Federico Venuta, Serena Quattrucci, Fiorentina Ascenzioni

Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific Th1, Th17 and Th22 Cells Using the Expression of CD40L in Tuberculous Pleurisy
Li Li, Dan Qiao, Xiaoying Fu, Suihua Lao, Xianlan Zhang, Changyou Wu

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Marine and Aquatic Sciences

Relative Impacts of Adult Movement, Larval Dispersal and Harvester Movement on the Effectiveness of Reserve Networks
Arnaud Grüss, David M. Kaplan, Deborah R. Hart

Systematic and Evolutionary Insights Derived from mtDNA COI Barcode Diversity in the Decapoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca)
Joana Matzen da Silva, Simon Creer, Antonina dos Santos, Ana C. Costa, Marina R. Cunha, Filipe O. Costa, Gary R. Carvalho

Out of Their Depth? Isolated Deep Populations of the Cosmopolitan Coral Desmophyllum dianthus May Be Highly Vulnerable to Environmental Change
Karen J. Miller, Ashley A. Rowden, Alan Williams, Vreni Häussermann

Sometimes Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) Cannot Find Their Way Back to the High Seas: A Multidisciplinary Study on a Mass Stranding
Sandro Mazzariol, Giovanni Di Guardo, Antonio Petrella, Letizia Marsili, Cristina M. Fossi, Claudio Leonzio, Nicola Zizzo, Salvatrice Vizzini, Stefania Gaspari, Gianni Pavan, Michela Podestà, Fulvio Garibaldi, Margherita Ferrante, Chiara Copat, Donato Traversa, Federica Marcer, Sabina Airoldi, Alexandros Frantzis, Yara De Beraldo Quirós, Bruno Cozzi, Antonio Fernández

Re-Structuring of Marine Communities Exposed to Environmental Change: A Global Study on the Interactive Effects of Species and Functional Richness
Martin Wahl, Heike Link, Nicolaos Alexandridis, Jeremy C. Thomason, Mauricio Cifuentes, Mark J. Costello, Bernardo A. P. da Gama, Kristina Hillock, Alistair J. Hobday, Manfred J. Kaufmann, Stefanie Keller, Patrik Kraufvelin, Ina Krüger, Lars Lauterbach, Bruno L. Antunes, Markus Molis, Masahiro Nakaoka, Julia Nyström, Zulkamal bin Radzi, Björn Stockhausen, Martin Thiel, Thomas Vance, Annika Weseloh, Mark Whittle, Lisa Wiesmann, Laura Wunderer, Takehisa Yamakita, Mark Lenz

In Silico Survey of the Mitochondrial Protein Uptake and Maturation Systems in the Brown Alga Ectocarpus siliculosus
Ludovic Delage, Catherine Leblanc, Pi Nyvall Collén, Bernhard Gschloessl, Marie-Pierre Oudot, Lieven Sterck, Julie Poulain, Jean-Marc Aury, J. Mark Cock

Meiofauna in the Gollum Channels and the Whittard Canyon, Celtic Margin—How Local Environmental Conditions Shape Nematode Structure and Function
Jeroen Ingels, Alexei V. Tchesunov, Ann Vanreusel

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Mathematics

Niche as a Determinant of Word Fate in Online Groups
Eduardo G. Altmann, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Adilson E. Motter

Evolutionary Time-Scale of the Begomoviruses: Evidence from Integrated Sequences in the Nicotiana Genome
Pierre Lefeuvre, Gordon W. Harkins, Jean-Michel Lett, Rob W. Briddon, Mark W. Chase, Benoit Moury, Darren P. Martin

Behavior of QQ-Plots and Genomic Control in Studies of Gene-Environment Interaction
Arend Voorman, Thomas Lumley, Barbara McKnight, Kenneth Rice

Bayesian Inference Underlies the Contraction Bias in Delayed Comparison Tasks
Paymon Ashourian, Yonatan Loewenstein

Comparative Methods for Association Studies: A Case Study on Metabolite Variation in a Brassica rapa Core Collection
Dunia Pino Del Carpio, Ram Kumar Basnet, Ric C. H. De Vos, Chris Maliepaard, Maria João Paulo, Guusje Bonnema

A Nonparametric Mean-Variance Smoothing Method to Assess Arabidopsis Cold Stress Transcriptional Regulator CBF2 Overexpression Microarray Data
Pingsha Hu, Tapabrata Maiti

Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families
Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette

Estimating Survival in Patients with Operable Skeletal Metastases: An Application of a Bayesian Belief Network
Jonathan Agner Forsberg, John Eberhardt, Patrick J. Boland, Rikard Wedin, John H. Healey

A Curve Shaped Description of Large Networks, with an Application to the Evaluation of Network Models
Xianchuang Su, Xiaogang Jin, Yong Min, Linjian Mo, Jiangang Yang

Overestimating Resource Value and Its Effects on Fighting Decisions
Lee Alan Dugatkin, Aaron David Dugatkin

Evaluation of Jackknife and Bootstrap for Defining Confidence Intervals for Pairwise Agreement Measures
Ana Severiano, João A. Carriço, D. Ashley Robinson, Mário Ramirez, Francisco R. Pinto

Dynamical Patterns of Cattle Trade Movements
Paolo Bajardi, Alain Barrat, Fabrizio Natale, Lara Savini, Vittoria Colizza

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Mental Health

Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD) among Tuberculosis Patients: A Study from Chennai, South India
Mohanarani Suhadev, Beena E. Thomas, Raja Sakthivel M, Murugesan P, Chandrasekaran V, Niruparani Charles, Durga R, Auxilia M, Trini A. Mathew, Fraser Wares

Transient Gastric Irritation in the Neonatal Rats Leads to Changes in Hypothalamic CRF Expression, Depression- and Anxiety-Like Behavior as Adults
Liansheng Liu, Qian Li, Robert Sapolsky, Min Liao, Kshama Mehta, Aditi Bhargava, Pankaj J. Pasricha

Contribution of Cytochrome P450 and ABCB1 Genetic Variability on Methadone Pharmacokinetics, Dose Requirements, and Response
Francina Fonseca, Rafael de la Torre, Laura Díaz, Antonio Pastor, Elisabet Cuyàs, Nieves Pizarro, Olha Khymenets, Magí Farré, Marta Torrens

The Genetic Variation of RELN Expression in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Galit Ovadia, Sagiv Shifman

Impaired Representation of Geometric Relationships in Humans with Damage to the Hippocampal Formation
Carsten Finke, Florian Ostendorf, Mischa Braun, Christoph J. Ploner

Life Expectancy at Birth for People with Serious Mental Illness and Other Major Disorders from a Secondary Mental Health Care Case Register in London
Chin-Kuo Chang, Richard D. Hayes, Gayan Perera, Mathew T. M. Broadbent, Andrea C. Fernandes, William E. Lee, Mathew Hotopf, Robert Stewart

Predicting Impaired Extinction of Traumatic Memory and Elevated Startle
Rebecca Nalloor, Kristopher Bunting, Almira Vazdarjanova

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Case-Control Study
Alfonso Carvajal, Sara Ortega, Lourdes Del Olmo, Xavier Vidal, Carmelo Aguirre, Borja Ruiz, Anita Conforti, Roberto Leone, Paula López-Vázquez, Adolfo Figueiras, Luisa Ibáñez

Postural Control in Bipolar Disorder: Increased Sway Area and Decreased Dynamical Complexity
Amanda R. Bolbecker, S. Lee Hong, Jerillyn S. Kent, Mallory J. Klaunig, Brian F. O'Donnell, William P. Hetrick

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Microbiology

Alphacoronaviruses in New World Bats: Prevalence, Persistence, Phylogeny, and Potential for Interaction with Humans
Christina Osborne, Paul M. Cryan, Thomas J. O'Shea, Lauren M. Oko, Christina Ndaluka, Charles H. Calisher, Andrew D. Berglund, Mead L. Klavetter, Richard A. Bowen, Kathryn V. Holmes, Samuel R. Dominguez

Evolutionary Time-Scale of the Begomoviruses: Evidence from Integrated Sequences in the Nicotiana Genome
Pierre Lefeuvre, Gordon W. Harkins, Jean-Michel Lett, Rob W. Briddon, Mark W. Chase, Benoit Moury, Darren P. Martin

Comparison of Sequence Reads Obtained from Three Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms
Shingo Suzuki, Naoaki Ono, Chikara Furusawa, Bei-Wen Ying, Tetsuya Yomo

Capsular Serotype and Antibiotic Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates in Malaysia
Cheng-Foh Le, Navindra Kumari Palanisamy, Mohd Yasim Mohd Yusof, Shamala Devi Sekaran

Genomic Characterization of Haemophilus parasuis SH0165, a Highly Virulent Strain of Serovar 5 Prevalent in China
Zhuofei Xu, Min Yue, Rui Zhou, Qi Jin, Yang Fan, Weicheng Bei, Huanchun Chen

Pathogenesis of Candida albicans Infections in the Alternative Chorio-Allantoic Membrane Chicken Embryo Model Resembles Systemic Murine Infections
Ilse D. Jacobsen, Katharina Große, Angela Berndt, Bernhard Hube

In Vitro Surfactant Structure-Toxicity Relationships: Implications for Surfactant Use in Sexually Transmitted Infection Prophylaxis and Contraception
Ângela S. Inácio, Katia A. Mesquita, Marta Baptista, João Ramalho-Santos, Winchil L. C. Vaz, Otília V. Vieira

Adenoma Formation following Limited Ablation of p120-Catenin in the Mouse Intestine
Whitney G. Smalley-Freed, Andrey Efimov, Sarah P. Short, Peilin Jia, Zhongming Zhao, M. Kay Washington, Sylvie Robine, Robert J. Coffey, Albert B. Reynolds

An Active Site Aromatic Triad in Escherichia coli DNA Pol IV Coordinates Cell Survival and Mutagenesis in Different DNA Damaging Agents
Ryan W. Benson, Matthew D. Norton, Ida Lin, William S. Du Comb, Veronica G. Godoy

Contrasting Diversity Patterns of Crenarchaeal, Bacterial and Fungal Soil Communities in an Alpine Landscape
Lucie Zinger, David P. H. Lejon, Florence Baptist, Abderrahim Bouasria, Serge Aubert, Roberto A. Geremia, Philippe Choler

The Spectrin Cytoskeleton Is Crucial for Adherent and Invasive Bacterial Pathogenesis
Tyson Ruetz, Steve Cornick, Julian Andrew Guttman

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens
Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson, Evelyn Toh, Lixia Diao, Xiang Gao, J. Dennis Fortenberry, Barbara Van Der Pol

Platelets Alter Gene Expression Profile in Human Brain Endothelial Cells in an In Vitro Model of Cerebral Malaria
Mathieu Barbier, Dorothée Faille, Béatrice Loriod, Julien Textoris, Claire Camus, Denis Puthier, Laurence Flori, Samuel Crocodile Wassmer, Geneviève Victorero, Marie-Christine Alessi, Thierry Fusaï, Catherine Nguyen, Georges E. Grau, Pascal Rihet

Transmission of Plasmodium vivax in South-Western Uganda: Report of Three Cases in Pregnant Women
Mehul Dhorda, Dan Nyehangane, Laurent Rénia, Patrice Piola, Philippe J. Guerin, Georges Snounou

Visible Light Responsive Photocatalyst Induces Progressive and Apical-Terminus Preferential Damages on Escherichia coli Surfaces
Je-Wen Liou, Ming-Hui Gu, Yen-Kai Chen, Wen-Yi Chen, Yi-Cheng Chen, Yao-Hsuan Tseng, Yu-Jiun Hung, Hsin-Hou Chang

Purification and Characterization of Enterovirus 71 Viral Particles Produced from Vero Cells Grown in a Serum-Free Microcarrier Bioreactor System
Chia-Chyi Liu, Meng-Shin Guo, Fion Hsiao-Yu Lin, Kuang-Nan Hsiao, Kate Hsuen-Wen Chang, Ai-Hsiang Chou, Yu-Chao Wang, Yu-Ching Chen, Chung-Shi Yang, Pele Choi-Sing Chong

Insight into the Interaction of Metal Ions with TroA from Streptococcus suis
Beiwen Zheng, Qiangmin Zhang, Jia Gao, Huiming Han, Ming Li, Jingren Zhang, Jianxun Qi, Jinghua Yan, George F. Gao

Altering the Ad5 Packaging Domain Affects the Maturation of the Ad Particles
Raul Alba, Dan Cots, Philomena Ostapchuk, Assumpcio Bosch, Patrick Hearing, Miguel Chillon

Paracoccidioides brasilinsis-Induced Migration of Dendritic Cells and Subsequent T-Cell Activation in the Lung-Draining Lymph Nodes
Suelen Silvana dos Santos, Karen Spadari Ferreira, Sandro Rogerio Almeida

Identification of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Yersinia pestis Type III Secretion System YscN ATPase
Wieslaw Swietnicki, Daniel Carmany, Michael Retford, Mark Guelta, Russell Dorsey, Joel Bozue, Michael S. Lee, Mark A. Olson

Extracellular Matrix Formation Enhances the Ability of Streptococcus pneumoniae to Cause Invasive Disease
Claudia Trappetti, Abiodun D. Ogunniyi, Marco R. Oggioni, James C. Paton

The Puf-Family RNA-Binding Protein Puf2 Controls Sporozoite Conversion to Liver Stages in the Malaria Parasite
Katja Müller, Kai Matuschewski, Olivier Silvie

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Chitinase and Chitinase-Like Genes in the African Malaria Mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)
Jianzhen Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yasuyuki Arakane, Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Karl J. Kramer, Enbo Ma, Kun Yan Zhu

Design and Synthesis of a Quintessential Self-Transmissible IncX1 Plasmid, pX1.0
Lars H. Hansen, Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia, Sara Bentzon-Tilia, Anders Norman, Louise Rafty, Søren J. Sørensen

Dysfunctional CFTR Alters the Bactericidal Activity of Human Macrophages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Paola Del Porto, Noemi Cifani, Simone Guarnieri, Enea Gino Di Domenico, Maria A. Mariggiò, Francesca Spadaro, Silvia Guglietta, Marco Anile, Federico Venuta, Serena Quattrucci, Fiorentina Ascenzioni

Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Responding to Dissolved Oxygen in Adenosine Fermentation
Wen-Bang Yu, Shu-Hong Gao, Chun-Yun Yin, Ying Zhou, Bang-Ce Ye

Phage Encoded H-NS: A Potential Achilles Heel in the Bacterial Defence System
Connor T. Skennerton, Florent E. Angly, Mya Breitbart, Lauren Bragg, Shaomei He, Katherine D. McMahon, Philip Hugenholtz, Gene W. Tyson

Discovery of Nuclear-Encoded Genes for the Neurotoxin Saxitoxin in Dinoflagellates
Anke Stüken, Russell J. S. Orr, Ralf Kellmann, Shauna A. Murray, Brett A. Neilan, Kjetill S. Jakobsen

Are Algae Relevant to the Detritus-Based Food Web in Tank-Bromeliads?
Olivier Brouard, Anne-Hélène Le Jeune, Céline Leroy, Régis Cereghino, Olivier Roux, Laurent Pelozuelo, Alain Dejean, Bruno Corbara, Jean-François Carrias

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Molecular Biology

Rational Design of Protein Stability: Effect of (2S,4R)-4-Fluoroproline on the Stability and Folding Pathway of Ubiquitin
Maria D. Crespo, Marina Rubini

Selection and Validation of Reference Genes for Quantitative Real-Time PCR in Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) Based on Transcriptome Sequence Data
Natalia V. Demidenko, Maria D. Logacheva, Aleksey A. Penin

EphB2 SNPs and Sporadic Prostate Cancer Risk in African American Men
Christiane M. Robbins, Stanley Hooker, Rick A. Kittles, John D. Carpten

Downregulation of FIP200 Induces Apoptosis of Glioblastoma Cells and Microvascular Endothelial Cells by Enhancing Pyk2 Activity
Dongyan Wang, Mitchell A. Olman, Jerry Stewart, Russell Tipps, Ping Huang, Paul W. Sanders, Eric Toline, Richard A. Prayson, Jeongwu Lee, Robert J.Weil, Cheryl A. Palmer, G. Yancey Gillespie, Wei Michael Liu, Russell O. Pieper, Jun-Lin Guan, Candece L. Gladson

Mechanical Tension Increases CCN2/CTGF Expression and Proliferation in Gingival Fibroblasts via a TGFβ-Dependent Mechanism
Fen Guo, David E. Carter, Andrew Leask

PRL-3, a Metastasis Associated Tyrosine Phosphatase, Is Involved in FLT3-ITD Signaling and Implicated in Anti-AML Therapy
Jianbiao Zhou, Chonglei Bi, Wee-Joo Chng, Lip-Lee Cheong, Shaw-Cheng Liu, Sylvia Mahara, Kian-Ghee Tay, Qi Zeng, Jie Li, Ke Guo, Cheng Peow Bobby Tan, Hanry Yu, Daniel H. Albert, Chien-Shing Chen

Adenoma Formation following Limited Ablation of p120-Catenin in the Mouse Intestine
Whitney G. Smalley-Freed, Andrey Efimov, Sarah P. Short, Peilin Jia, Zhongming Zhao, M. Kay Washington, Sylvie Robine, Robert J. Coffey, Albert B. Reynolds

Targeted Skipping of Human Dystrophin Exons in Transgenic Mouse Model Systemically for Antisense Drug Development
Bo Wu, Ehsan Benrashid, Peijuan Lu, Caryn Cloer, Allen Zillmer, Mona Shaban, Qi Long Lu

Determining the Sub-Cellular Localization of Proteins within Caenorhabditis elegans Body Wall Muscle
Barbara Meissner, Teresa Rogalski, Ryan Viveiros, Adam Warner, Lorena Plastino, Adam Lorch, Laure Granger, Laurent Segalat, Donald G. Moerman

Harnessing Expression Data to Identify Novel Candidate Genes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Michelle R. Jones, Angela Chua, Yii-Der I. Chen, Xiaohui Li, Ronald M. Krauss, Jerome I. Rotter, Richard S. Legro, Ricardo Azziz, Mark O. Goodarzi

The P2 Receptor Antagonist PPADS Supports Recovery from Experimental Stroke In Vivo
Alexandra B. Lämmer, Alexander Beck, Benjamin Grummich, Annette Förschler, Thomas Krügel, Thomas Kahn, Dietmar Schneider, Peter Illes, Heike Franke, Ute Krügel

Multiple Aggregates and Aggresomes of C-Terminal Truncated Human αA-Crystallins in Mammalian Cells and Protection by αB-Crystallin
Ilangovan Raju, Anbarasu Kumarasamy, Edathara C. Abraham

Chronic Ethanol Consumption in Rats Produces Opioid Antinociceptive Tolerance through Inhibition of Mu Opioid Receptor Endocytosis
Li He, Jennifer L. Whistler

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

β2-Agonist Induced cAMP Is Decreased in Asthmatic Airway Smooth Muscle Due to Increased PDE4D
Thomas Trian, Janette K. Burgess, Kyoko Niimi, Lyn M. Moir, Qi Ge, Patrick Berger, Stephen B. Liggett, Judith L. Black, Brian G. Oliver

High-Throughput Sequencing, Characterization and Detection of New and Conserved Cucumber miRNAs
Germán Martínez, Javier Forment, Cesar Llave, Vicente Pallás, Gustavo Gómez

Distinct and Shared Roles of β-Arrestin-1 and β-Arrestin-2 on the Regulation of C3a Receptor Signaling in Human Mast Cells
Arpana Vibhuti, Kshitij Gupta, Hariharan Subramanian, Qiang Guo, Hydar Ali

Establishment of a Transgenic Mouse Model Specifically Expressing Human Serum Amyloid A in Adipose Tissue
Maja Olsson, Sofie Ahlin, Bob Olsson, Per-Arne Svensson, Marcus Ståhlman, Jan Borén, Lena M. S. Carlsson, Kajsa Sjöholm

Differential Regulation and Recovery of Intracellular Ca2+ in Cerebral and Small Mesenteric Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells of Simulated Microgravity Rat
Jun-Hui Xue, Lian-Hong Chen, Hua-Zhou Zhao, Yong-Dong Pu, Han-Zhong Feng, Yu-Guang Ma, Jin Ma, Yao-Ming Chang, Zuo-Ming Zhang, Man-Jiang Xie

Wnt3a Induces Myofibroblast Differentiation by Upregulating TGF-β Signaling Through SMAD2 in a β-Catenin-Dependent Manner
Jon M. Carthy, Farshid S. Garmaroudi, Zongshu Luo, Bruce M. McManus

The Puf-Family RNA-Binding Protein Puf2 Controls Sporozoite Conversion to Liver Stages in the Malaria Parasite
Katja Müller, Kai Matuschewski, Olivier Silvie

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Chitinase and Chitinase-Like Genes in the African Malaria Mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)
Jianzhen Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yasuyuki Arakane, Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Karl J. Kramer, Enbo Ma, Kun Yan Zhu

Design and Synthesis of a Quintessential Self-Transmissible IncX1 Plasmid, pX1.0
Lars H. Hansen, Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia, Sara Bentzon-Tilia, Anders Norman, Louise Rafty, Søren J. Sørensen

Modulation of the CD95-Induced Apoptosis: The Role of CD95 N-Glycosylation
Olga M. Shatnyeva, Andriy V. Kubarenko, Claudia E. M. Weber, Alexander Pappa, Reinhard Schwartz-Albiez, Alexander N. R. Weber, Peter H. Krammer, Inna N. Lavrik

Sphingosine Kinase 1 Regulates the Akt/FOXO3a/Bim Pathway and Contributes to Apoptosis Resistance in Glioma Cells
Hongyu Guan, Libing Song, Junchao Cai, Yongbo Huang, Jueheng Wu, Jie Yuan, Jun Li, Mengfeng Li

C-Terminus Glycans with Critical Functional Role in the Maturation of Secretory Glycoproteins
Daniela Cioaca, Simona Ghenea, Laurentiu N. Spiridon, Marioara Marin, Andrei-Jose Petrescu, Stefana M. Petrescu

P130Cas Attenuates Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) Receptor Internalization by Modulating EGF-Triggered Dynamin Phosphorylation
Yong Seok Kang, Wook Kim, Yun Hyun Huh, Jeomil Bae, Jin Soo Kim, Woo Keun Song

Exploiting Nucleotide Composition to Engineer Promoters
Manfred G. Grabherr, Jens Pontiller, Evan Mauceli, Wolfgang Ernst, Martina Baumann, Tara Biagi, Ross Swofford, Pamela Russell, Michael C. Zody, Federica Di Palma, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Reingard M. Grabherr

Two Naturally Occurring Terpenes, Dehydrocostuslactone and Costunolide, Decrease Intracellular GSH Content and Inhibit STAT3 Activation
Elena Butturini, Elisabetta Cavalieri, Alessandra Carcereri de Prati, Elena Darra, Antonella Rigo, Kazuo Shoji, Norie Murayama, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yasuo Watanabe, Hisanori Suzuki, Sofia Mariotto

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Nephrology

The Involvement of SMILE/TMTC3 in Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response
Maud Racapé, Jean-Paul Duong Van Huyen, Richard Danger, Magali Giral, Françoise Bleicher, Yohann Foucher, Annaïck Pallier, Paul Pilet, Petra Tafelmeyer, Joanna Ashton-Chess, Emilie Dugast, Ségolène Pettré, Béatrice Charreau, Jean-Paul Soulillou, Sophie Brouard

ACE I/D Gene Polymorphism Can't Predict the Steroid Responsiveness in Asian Children with Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis
Tian-Biao Zhou, Yuan-Han Qin, Li-Na Su, Feng-Ying Lei, Wei-Fang Huang, Yan-Jun Zhao

Association of HbA1c Values with Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Diabetic Dialysis Patients. The INVOR Study and Review of the Literature
Gisela Sturm, Claudia Lamina, Emanuel Zitt, Karl Lhotta, Florian Haider, Ulrich Neyer, Florian Kronenberg

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Neurological Disorders

CD38 Exacerbates Focal Cytokine Production, Postischemic Inflammation and Brain Injury after Focal Cerebral Ischemia
Chi-un Choe, Kerstin Lardong, Mathias Gelderblom, Peter Ludewig, Frank Leypoldt, Friedrich Koch-Nolte, Christian Gerloff, Tim Magnus

Altered mRNA Editing and Expression of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors after Kainic Acid Exposure in Cyclooxygenase-2 Deficient Mice
Luca Caracciolo, Alessandro Barbon, Sara Palumbo, Cristina Mora, Christopher D. Toscano, Francesca Bosetti, Sergio Barlati

Downregulation of FIP200 Induces Apoptosis of Glioblastoma Cells and Microvascular Endothelial Cells by Enhancing Pyk2 Activity
Dongyan Wang, Mitchell A. Olman, Jerry Stewart, Russell Tipps, Ping Huang, Paul W. Sanders, Eric Toline, Richard A. Prayson, Jeongwu Lee, Robert J.Weil, Cheryl A. Palmer, G. Yancey Gillespie, Wei Michael Liu, Russell O. Pieper, Jun-Lin Guan, Candece L. Gladson

High Resolution Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) in Multiple Sclerosis: The First Follow Up Study over Two Years
Nermin Serbecic, Fahmy Aboul-Enein, Sven C. Beutelspacher, Clemens Vass, Wolfgang Kristoferitsch, Hans Lassmann, Andreas Reitner, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

Targeted Skipping of Human Dystrophin Exons in Transgenic Mouse Model Systemically for Antisense Drug Development
Bo Wu, Ehsan Benrashid, Peijuan Lu, Caryn Cloer, Allen Zillmer, Mona Shaban, Qi Long Lu

Sex-Dependent Changes in Social Behaviors in Motor Pre-Symptomatic R6/1 Mice
Susanna Pietropaolo, Pauline Delage, Sebastien Cayzac, Wim E. Crusio, Yoon H. Cho

Meningothelial Cells React to Elevated Pressure and Oxidative Stress
Xiaorong Xin, Bin Fan, Josef Flammer, Neil R. Miller, Gregor P. Jaggi, Hanspeter E. Killer, Peter Meyer, Albert Neutzner

Risk Factors for Neck and Upper Extremity Disorders among Computers Users and the Effect of Interventions: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
Johan H. Andersen, Nils Fallentin, Jane F. Thomsen, Sigurd Mikkelsen

The P2 Receptor Antagonist PPADS Supports Recovery from Experimental Stroke In Vivo
Alexandra B. Lämmer, Alexander Beck, Benjamin Grummich, Annette Förschler, Thomas Krügel, Thomas Kahn, Dietmar Schneider, Peter Illes, Heike Franke, Ute Krügel

Decreased Proliferation Kinetics of Mouse Myoblasts Overexpressing FRG1
Steven C. Chen, Ellie Frett, Joseph Marx, Darko Bosnakovski, Xylena Reed, Michael Kyba, Brian K. Kennedy

Perceptual Anchoring in Preschool Children: Not Adultlike, but There
Karen Banai, Rachel Yifat

Excessive Biologic Response to IFNβ Is Associated with Poor Treatment Response in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
Richard A. Rudick, M. R. Sandhya Rani, Yaomin Xu, Jar-Chi Lee, Jie Na, Jennifer Shrock, Anupama Josyula, Elizabeth Fisher, Richard M. Ransohoff

Structural Correlates of Taste and Smell Loss in Encephalitis Disseminata
Felix Alexander Schmidt, Onder Goktas, Lutz Harms, Georg Bohner, Katharina Erb, Bettina Dahlslett, Franca Fleiner

Synaptically-Competent Neurons Derived from Canine Embryonic Stem Cells by Lineage Selection with EGF and Noggin
Jared T. Wilcox, Jonathan K. Y. Lai, Esther Semple, Brigitte A. Brisson, Cathy Gartley, John N. Armstrong, Dean H. Betts

Frontal-to-Parietal Top-Down Causal Streams along the Dorsal Attention Network Exclusively Mediate Voluntary Orienting of Attention
Takashi J. Ozaki

Impaired Representation of Geometric Relationships in Humans with Damage to the Hippocampal Formation
Carsten Finke, Florian Ostendorf, Mischa Braun, Christoph J. Ploner

α-Synuclein Expression Selectively Affects Tumorigenesis in Mice Modeling Parkinson's Disease
Eitan Israeli, Eugenia Yakunin, Yonaton Zarbiv, Amir Hacohen-Solovich, Haya Kisos, Virginie Loeb, Michal Lichtenstein, Tziona Ben-Gedalya, Ofra Sabag, Eli Pikarsky, Haya Lorberboum-Galski, Ronit Sharon

Differential Regulation and Recovery of Intracellular Ca2+ in Cerebral and Small Mesenteric Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells of Simulated Microgravity Rat
Jun-Hui Xue, Lian-Hong Chen, Hua-Zhou Zhao, Yong-Dong Pu, Han-Zhong Feng, Yu-Guang Ma, Jin Ma, Yao-Ming Chang, Zuo-Ming Zhang, Man-Jiang Xie

Evaluation of Early and Late Effects into the Acute Spinal Cord Injury of an Injectable Functionalized Self-Assembling Scaffold
Daniela Cigognini, Alessandro Satta, Bianca Colleoni, Diego Silva, Matteo Donegà, Stefania Antonini, Fabrizio Gelain

Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Multiple System Atrophy: Immunomodulation and Neuroprotection
Sylvia Stemberger, Angelika Jamnig, Nadia Stefanova, Günter Lepperdinger, Markus Reindl, Gregor K. Wenning

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Case-Control Study
Alfonso Carvajal, Sara Ortega, Lourdes Del Olmo, Xavier Vidal, Carmelo Aguirre, Borja Ruiz, Anita Conforti, Roberto Leone, Paula López-Vázquez, Adolfo Figueiras, Luisa Ibáñez

Postural Control in Bipolar Disorder: Increased Sway Area and Decreased Dynamical Complexity
Amanda R. Bolbecker, S. Lee Hong, Jerillyn S. Kent, Mallory J. Klaunig, Brian F. O'Donnell, William P. Hetrick

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Neuroscience

CD38 Exacerbates Focal Cytokine Production, Postischemic Inflammation and Brain Injury after Focal Cerebral Ischemia
Chi-un Choe, Kerstin Lardong, Mathias Gelderblom, Peter Ludewig, Frank Leypoldt, Friedrich Koch-Nolte, Christian Gerloff, Tim Magnus

miR-132 Mediates the Integration of Newborn Neurons into the Adult Dentate Gyrus
Bryan W. Luikart, AeSoon L. Bensen, Eric K. Washburn, Julia V. Perederiy, Kimmy G. Su, Yun Li, Steven G. Kernie, Luis F. Parada, Gary L. Westbrook

Altered mRNA Editing and Expression of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors after Kainic Acid Exposure in Cyclooxygenase-2 Deficient Mice
Luca Caracciolo, Alessandro Barbon, Sara Palumbo, Cristina Mora, Christopher D. Toscano, Francesca Bosetti, Sergio Barlati

Honeybees' Speed Depends on Dorsal as Well as Lateral, Ventral and Frontal Optic Flows
Geoffrey Portelli, Franck Ruffier, Frédéric L. Roubieu, Nicolas Franceschini

Transient Gastric Irritation in the Neonatal Rats Leads to Changes in Hypothalamic CRF Expression, Depression- and Anxiety-Like Behavior as Adults
Liansheng Liu, Qian Li, Robert Sapolsky, Min Liao, Kshama Mehta, Aditi Bhargava, Pankaj J. Pasricha

Bayesian Inference Underlies the Contraction Bias in Delayed Comparison Tasks
Paymon Ashourian, Yonatan Loewenstein

How Do Honeybees Attract Nestmates Using Waggle Dances in Dark and Noisy Hives?
Yuji Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Ikeno

Unc-51/ATG1 Controls Axonal and Dendritic Development via Kinesin-Mediated Vesicle Transport in the Drosophila Brain
Hiroaki Mochizuki, Hirofumi Toda, Mai Ando, Mitsuhiko Kurusu, Toshifumi Tomoda, Katsuo Furukubo-Tokunaga

Large Scale Homing in Honeybees
Mario Pahl, Hong Zhu, Jürgen Tautz, Shaowu Zhang

An Experimental Test of the Information Model for Negotiation of Biparental Care
Jessica Meade, Ki-Baek Nam, Jin-Won Lee, Ben J. Hatchwell

Analysis of Transcriptional Regulatory Pathways of Photoreceptor Genes by Expression Profiling of the Otx2-Deficient Retina
Yoshihiro Omori, Kimiko Katoh, Shigeru Sato, Yuki Muranishi, Taro Chaya, Akishi Onishi, Takashi Minami, Takashi Fujikado, Takahisa Furukawa

Differential Genetic Susceptibility to Child Risk at Birth in Predicting Observed Maternal Behavior
Keren Fortuna, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, David Mankuta, Marsha Kaitz, Reut Avinun, Richard P. Ebstein, Ariel Knafo

High Resolution Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) in Multiple Sclerosis: The First Follow Up Study over Two Years
Nermin Serbecic, Fahmy Aboul-Enein, Sven C. Beutelspacher, Clemens Vass, Wolfgang Kristoferitsch, Hans Lassmann, Andreas Reitner, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

Adenoma Formation following Limited Ablation of p120-Catenin in the Mouse Intestine
Whitney G. Smalley-Freed, Andrey Efimov, Sarah P. Short, Peilin Jia, Zhongming Zhao, M. Kay Washington, Sylvie Robine, Robert J. Coffey, Albert B. Reynolds

Identification of Autoantibodies against TRPM1 in Patients with Paraneoplastic Retinopathy Associated with ON Bipolar Cell Dysfunction
Mineo Kondo, Rikako Sanuki, Shinji Ueno, Yuji Nishizawa, Naozumi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Ohguro, Shuichi Yamamoto, Shigeki Machida, Hiroko Terasaki, Grazyna Adamus, Takahisa Furukawa

The Genetic Variation of RELN Expression in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Galit Ovadia, Sagiv Shifman

Sex-Dependent Changes in Social Behaviors in Motor Pre-Symptomatic R6/1 Mice
Susanna Pietropaolo, Pauline Delage, Sebastien Cayzac, Wim E. Crusio, Yoon H. Cho

Increased Resting-State Perfusion after Repeated Encoding Is Related to Later Retrieval of Declarative Associative Memories
Georg Groen, Alexander N. Sokolov, Christina Jonas, Robert Roebling, Manfred Spitzer

Space Use of Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) Revealed by Radio-Tracking
Melanie Hagen, Martin Wikelski, W. Daniel Kissling

Meningothelial Cells React to Elevated Pressure and Oxidative Stress
Xiaorong Xin, Bin Fan, Josef Flammer, Neil R. Miller, Gregor P. Jaggi, Hanspeter E. Killer, Peter Meyer, Albert Neutzner

The P2 Receptor Antagonist PPADS Supports Recovery from Experimental Stroke In Vivo
Alexandra B. Lämmer, Alexander Beck, Benjamin Grummich, Annette Förschler, Thomas Krügel, Thomas Kahn, Dietmar Schneider, Peter Illes, Heike Franke, Ute Krügel

Contribution of Each Leg to the Control of Unperturbed Bipedal Stance in Lower Limb Amputees: New Insights Using Entropy
Petra Hlavackova, Céline Franco, Bruno Diot, Nicolas Vuillerme

Chronic Ethanol Consumption in Rats Produces Opioid Antinociceptive Tolerance through Inhibition of Mu Opioid Receptor Endocytosis
Li He, Jennifer L. Whistler

Perceptual Anchoring in Preschool Children: Not Adultlike, but There
Karen Banai, Rachel Yifat

Structural Correlates of Taste and Smell Loss in Encephalitis Disseminata
Felix Alexander Schmidt, Onder Goktas, Lutz Harms, Georg Bohner, Katharina Erb, Bettina Dahlslett, Franca Fleiner

Oligodendrocytes as Regulators of Neuronal Networks during Early Postnatal Development
Sandrine Doretto, Monica Malerba, Maria Ramos, Taruna Ikrar, Chisato Kinoshita, Claudia De Mei, Emanuele Tirotta, Xiangmin Xu, Emiliana Borrelli

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reveals Attentional Feedback to Area V1 during Serial Visual Search
Laura Dugué, Philippe Marque, Rufin VanRullen

Food Catches the Eye but Not for Everyone: A BMI–Contingent Attentional Bias in Rapid Detection of Nutriments
Lauri Nummenmaa, Jari K. Hietanen, Manuel G. Calvo, Jukka Hyönä

One for All—A Highly Efficient and Versatile Method for Fluorescent Immunostaining in Fish Embryos
Daigo Inoue, Joachim Wittbrodt

Synaptically-Competent Neurons Derived from Canine Embryonic Stem Cells by Lineage Selection with EGF and Noggin
Jared T. Wilcox, Jonathan K. Y. Lai, Esther Semple, Brigitte A. Brisson, Cathy Gartley, John N. Armstrong, Dean H. Betts

Area 5 Influences Excitability within the Primary Motor Cortex in Humans
Azra Premji, Navjot Rai, Aimee Nelson

Overestimating Resource Value and Its Effects on Fighting Decisions
Lee Alan Dugatkin, Aaron David Dugatkin

Frontal-to-Parietal Top-Down Causal Streams along the Dorsal Attention Network Exclusively Mediate Voluntary Orienting of Attention
Takashi J. Ozaki

Impaired Representation of Geometric Relationships in Humans with Damage to the Hippocampal Formation
Carsten Finke, Florian Ostendorf, Mischa Braun, Christoph J. Ploner

α-Synuclein Expression Selectively Affects Tumorigenesis in Mice Modeling Parkinson's Disease
Eitan Israeli, Eugenia Yakunin, Yonaton Zarbiv, Amir Hacohen-Solovich, Haya Kisos, Virginie Loeb, Michal Lichtenstein, Tziona Ben-Gedalya, Ofra Sabag, Eli Pikarsky, Haya Lorberboum-Galski, Ronit Sharon

Predicting Impaired Extinction of Traumatic Memory and Elevated Startle
Rebecca Nalloor, Kristopher Bunting, Almira Vazdarjanova

Why Um Helps Auditory Word Recognition: The Temporal Delay Hypothesis
Martin Corley, Robert J. Hartsuiker

Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Multiple System Atrophy: Immunomodulation and Neuroprotection
Sylvia Stemberger, Angelika Jamnig, Nadia Stefanova, Günter Lepperdinger, Markus Reindl, Gregor K. Wenning

Postural Control in Bipolar Disorder: Increased Sway Area and Decreased Dynamical Complexity
Amanda R. Bolbecker, S. Lee Hong, Jerillyn S. Kent, Mallory J. Klaunig, Brian F. O'Donnell, William P. Hetrick

Perceptual Training Prevents the Emergence of the Other Race Effect during Infancy
Michelle Heron-Delaney, Gizelle Anzures, Jane S. Herbert, Paul C. Quinn, Alan M. Slater, James W. Tanaka, Kang Lee, Olivier Pascalis

The Central Clock Neurons Regulate Lipid Storage in Drosophila
Justin R. DiAngelo, Renske Erion, Amanda Crocker, Amita Sehgal

Renal Cystic Disease Proteins Play Critical Roles in the Organization of the Olfactory Epithelium
Jennifer L. Pluznick, Diego J. Rodriguez-Gil, Michael Hull, Kavita Mistry, Vincent Gattone, Colin A. Johnson, Scott Weatherbee, Charles A. Greer, Michael J. Caplan

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Non-Clinical Medicine

Validation of World Health Organisation HIV/AIDS Clinical Staging in Predicting Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy and Clinical Predictors of Low CD4 Cell Count in Uganda
Steven Baveewo, Francis Ssali, Charles Karamagi, Joan N. Kalyango, Judith A. Hahn, Kenneth Ekoru, Peter Mugyenyi, Elly Katabira

Attitudinal and Demographic Predictors of Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine (MMR) Uptake during the UK Catch-Up Campaign 2008–09: Cross-Sectional Survey
Katrina Brown, Graham Fraser, Mary Ramsay, Ruth Shanley, Noel Cowley, Johan van Wijgerden, Penelope Toff, Michelle Falconer, Michael Hudson, John Green, J. Simon Kroll, Charles Vincent, Nick Sevdalis

Barriers to Initiation of Antiretrovirals during Antituberculosis Therapy in Africa
Dominique J. Pepper, Suzaan Marais, Robert J. Wilkinson, Feriyl Bhaijee, Virginia De Azevedo, Graeme Meintjes

EphB2 SNPs and Sporadic Prostate Cancer Risk in African American Men
Christiane M. Robbins, Stanley Hooker, Rick A. Kittles, John D. Carpten

Parental Death during Childhood and Adult Cardiovascular Risk in a Developing Country: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
C. Mary Schooling, ChaoQiang Jiang, Tai Hing Lam, WeiSen Zhang, Kar Keung Cheng, Gabriel M. Leung

Actinic Skin Damage and Mortality - the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
Wei He, Fei Zhu, Xiaoguang Ma, Xinyu Zhao, Min Zheng, Zhao Chen, Steven B. Heymsfield, Shankuan Zhu

Estimating Survival in Patients with Operable Skeletal Metastases: An Application of a Bayesian Belief Network
Jonathan Agner Forsberg, John Eberhardt, Patrick J. Boland, Rikard Wedin, John H. Healey

Detection of Variants in 15 Genes in 87 Unrelated Chinese Patients with Leber Congenital Amaurosis
Lin Li, Xueshan Xiao, Shiqiang Li, Xiaoyun Jia, Panfeng Wang, Xiangming Guo, Xiaodong Jiao, Qingjiong Zhang, J. Fielding Hejtmancik

The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens
Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson, Evelyn Toh, Lixia Diao, Xiang Gao, J. Dennis Fortenberry, Barbara Van Der Pol

Guidelines on Chemotherapy in Advanced Stage Gynecological Malignancies: An Evaluation of 224 Professional Societies and Organizations
Nikolaos P. Polyzos, Davide Mauri, John P. A. Ioannidis

Livelihood Security and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Low and Middle Income Settings: A Systematic Review
Beth S. Rachlis, Edward J. Mills, Donald C. Cole

Clinical Value of Prognostic Instruments to Identify Patients with an Increased Risk for Osteoporotic Fractures: Systematic Review
Johann Steurer, Cyrill Haller, HansJörg Häuselmann, Florian Brunner, Lucas M. Bachmann

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Obstetrics

Pregnancy and the Risk of Autoimmune Disease
Ali S. Khashan, Louise C. Kenny, Thomas M. Laursen, Uzma Mahmood, Preben B. Mortensen, Tine B. Henriksen, Keelin O'Donoghue

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Oncology

Recurrent Chromosomal Copy Number Alterations in Sporadic Chordomas
Long Phi Le, G. Petur Nielsen, Andrew Eric Rosenberg, Dafydd Thomas, Julie M. Batten, Vikram Deshpande, Joseph Schwab, Zhenfeng Duan, Ramnik J. Xavier, Francis J. Hornicek, A. John Iafrate

Zoledronic Acid Preserves Bone Structure and Increases Survival but Does Not Limit Tumour Incidence in a Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis Model
Tzong-Tyng Hung, Jeffrey Chan, Pamela J. Russell, Carl A. Power

EphB2 SNPs and Sporadic Prostate Cancer Risk in African American Men
Christiane M. Robbins, Stanley Hooker, Rick A. Kittles, John D. Carpten

CD133 Positive Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma Stem-Like Cell Population Is Enriched in Rhabdospheres
Dagmar Walter, Sampoorna Satheesha, Patrick Albrecht, Beat C. Bornhauser, Valentina D'Alessandro, Susanne M. Oesch, Hubert Rehrauer, Ivo Leuschner, Ewa Koscielniak, Carole Gengler, Holger Moch, Michele Bernasconi, Felix K. Niggli, Beat W. Schäfer, Part of this study was conducted in cooperation with the CWS Study Group

Downregulation of FIP200 Induces Apoptosis of Glioblastoma Cells and Microvascular Endothelial Cells by Enhancing Pyk2 Activity
Dongyan Wang, Mitchell A. Olman, Jerry Stewart, Russell Tipps, Ping Huang, Paul W. Sanders, Eric Toline, Richard A. Prayson, Jeongwu Lee, Robert J.Weil, Cheryl A. Palmer, G. Yancey Gillespie, Wei Michael Liu, Russell O. Pieper, Jun-Lin Guan, Candece L. Gladson

Prognostic Impacts of Angiopoietins in NSCLC Tumor Cells and Stroma: VEGF-A Impact Is Strongly Associated with Ang-2
Sigve Andersen, Tom Donnem, Khalid Al-Shibli, Samer Al-Saad, Helge Stenvold, Lill-Tove Busund, Roy M. Bremnes

Ambient Oxygen Promotes Tumorigenesis
Ho Joong Sung, Wenzhe Ma, Matthew F. Starost, Cory U. Lago, Philip K. Lim, Michael N. Sack, Ju-Gyeong Kang, Ping-yuan Wang, Paul M. Hwang

Caspase Inhibition Blocks Cell Death and Enhances Mitophagy but Fails to Promote T-Cell Lymphoma
Sih-han Wang, Sean M. Martin, Peter S. Harris, C. Michael Knudson

PRL-3, a Metastasis Associated Tyrosine Phosphatase, Is Involved in FLT3-ITD Signaling and Implicated in Anti-AML Therapy
Jianbiao Zhou, Chonglei Bi, Wee-Joo Chng, Lip-Lee Cheong, Shaw-Cheng Liu, Sylvia Mahara, Kian-Ghee Tay, Qi Zeng, Jie Li, Ke Guo, Cheng Peow Bobby Tan, Hanry Yu, Daniel H. Albert, Chien-Shing Chen

Adenoma Formation following Limited Ablation of p120-Catenin in the Mouse Intestine
Whitney G. Smalley-Freed, Andrey Efimov, Sarah P. Short, Peilin Jia, Zhongming Zhao, M. Kay Washington, Sylvie Robine, Robert J. Coffey, Albert B. Reynolds

Actinic Skin Damage and Mortality - the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
Wei He, Fei Zhu, Xiaoguang Ma, Xinyu Zhao, Min Zheng, Zhao Chen, Steven B. Heymsfield, Shankuan Zhu

Identification of Autoantibodies against TRPM1 in Patients with Paraneoplastic Retinopathy Associated with ON Bipolar Cell Dysfunction
Mineo Kondo, Rikako Sanuki, Shinji Ueno, Yuji Nishizawa, Naozumi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Ohguro, Shuichi Yamamoto, Shigeki Machida, Hiroko Terasaki, Grazyna Adamus, Takahisa Furukawa

Estimating Survival in Patients with Operable Skeletal Metastases: An Application of a Bayesian Belief Network
Jonathan Agner Forsberg, John Eberhardt, Patrick J. Boland, Rikard Wedin, John H. Healey

Firefly Luciferase and Rluc8 Exhibit Differential Sensitivity to Oxidative Stress in Apoptotic Cells
Julie Czupryna, Andrew Tsourkas

Harnessing Expression Data to Identify Novel Candidate Genes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Michelle R. Jones, Angela Chua, Yii-Der I. Chen, Xiaohui Li, Ronald M. Krauss, Jerome I. Rotter, Richard S. Legro, Ricardo Azziz, Mark O. Goodarzi

IGF1R Signaling in Ewing Sarcoma Is Shaped by Clathrin-/Caveolin-Dependent Endocytosis
Ana Sofia Martins, José Luis Ordóñez, Ana Teresa Amaral, Frans Prins, Giuseppe Floris, Maria Debiec-Rychter, Pancras C. W. Hogendoorn, Enrique de Alava

Hypoxia and Prostaglandin E Receptor 4 Signalling Pathways Synergise to Promote Endometrial Adenocarcinoma Cell Proliferation and Tumour Growth
Rob D. Catalano, Martin R. Wilson, Sheila C. Boddy, Andrew T. M. McKinlay, Kurt J. Sales, Henry N. Jabbour

Guidelines on Chemotherapy in Advanced Stage Gynecological Malignancies: An Evaluation of 224 Professional Societies and Organizations
Nikolaos P. Polyzos, Davide Mauri, John P. A. Ioannidis

Real-Time Monitoring of Cisplatin-Induced Cell Death
Hamed Alborzinia, Suzan Can, Pavlo Holenya, Catharina Scholl, Elke Lederer, Igor Kitanovic, Stefan Wölfl

Plasma Proteome Profiles Associated with Inflammation, Angiogenesis, and Cancer
Karen S. Kelly-Spratt, Sharon J. Pitteri, Kay E. Gurley, Denny Liggitt, Alice Chin, Jacob Kennedy, Chee-Hong Wong, Qing Zhang, Tina Busald Buson, Hong Wang, Samir M. Hanash, Christopher J. Kemp

Chemopreventive Effect of PSP Through Targeting of Prostate Cancer Stem Cell-Like Population
Sze-Ue Luk, Terence Kin-Wah Lee, Ji Liu, Davy Tak-Wing Lee, Yung-Tuen Chiu, Stephanie Ma, Irene Oi-Lin Ng, Yong-Chuan Wong, Franky Leung Chan, Ming-Tat Ling

Genistein Increases Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling and Promotes Tumor Progression in Advanced Human Prostate Cancer
Hisae Nakamura, Yuwei Wang, Takeshi Kurita, Hans Adomat, Gerald R. Cunha, Yuzhuo Wang

Identification of Prognostic Molecular Features in the Reactive Stroma of Human Breast and Prostate Cancer
Anne Planche, Marina Bacac, Paolo Provero, Carlo Fusco, Mauro Delorenzi, Jean-Christophe Stehle, Ivan Stamenkovic

α-Synuclein Expression Selectively Affects Tumorigenesis in Mice Modeling Parkinson's Disease
Eitan Israeli, Eugenia Yakunin, Yonaton Zarbiv, Amir Hacohen-Solovich, Haya Kisos, Virginie Loeb, Michal Lichtenstein, Tziona Ben-Gedalya, Ofra Sabag, Eli Pikarsky, Haya Lorberboum-Galski, Ronit Sharon

Physical Confirmation and Mapping of Overlapping Rat Mammary Carcinoma Susceptibility QTLs, Mcs2 and Mcs6
Jennifer Sanders, Jill D. Haag, David J. Samuelson

Sphingosine Kinase 1 Regulates the Akt/FOXO3a/Bim Pathway and Contributes to Apoptosis Resistance in Glioma Cells
Hongyu Guan, Libing Song, Junchao Cai, Yongbo Huang, Jueheng Wu, Jie Yuan, Jun Li, Mengfeng Li

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Ophthalmology

Cell Pattern in Adult Human Corneal Endothelium
Carlos H. Wörner, Alicia Olguín, José L. Ruíz-García, Nuria Garzón-Jiménez

AAV2-Mediated Subretinal Gene Transfer of hIFN-α Attenuates Experimental Autoimmune Uveoretinitis in Mice
Lichun Tian, Peizeng Yang, Bo Lei, Ju Shao, Chaokui Wang, Qin Xiang, Lin Wei, Zhougui Peng, Aize Kijlstra

Analysis of Transcriptional Regulatory Pathways of Photoreceptor Genes by Expression Profiling of the Otx2-Deficient Retina
Yoshihiro Omori, Kimiko Katoh, Shigeru Sato, Yuki Muranishi, Taro Chaya, Akishi Onishi, Takashi Minami, Takashi Fujikado, Takahisa Furukawa

Identification of Autoantibodies against TRPM1 in Patients with Paraneoplastic Retinopathy Associated with ON Bipolar Cell Dysfunction
Mineo Kondo, Rikako Sanuki, Shinji Ueno, Yuji Nishizawa, Naozumi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Ohguro, Shuichi Yamamoto, Shigeki Machida, Hiroko Terasaki, Grazyna Adamus, Takahisa Furukawa

Detection of Variants in 15 Genes in 87 Unrelated Chinese Patients with Leber Congenital Amaurosis
Lin Li, Xueshan Xiao, Shiqiang Li, Xiaoyun Jia, Panfeng Wang, Xiangming Guo, Xiaodong Jiao, Qingjiong Zhang, J. Fielding Hejtmancik

PAX6 Haplotypes Are Associated with High Myopia in Han Chinese
Bo Jiang, Maurice K. H. Yap, Kim Hung Leung, Po Wah Ng, Wai Yan Fung, Wai Wa Lam, Yang-shun Gu, Shea Ping Yip

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Otolaryngology

Structural Correlates of Taste and Smell Loss in Encephalitis Disseminata
Felix Alexander Schmidt, Onder Goktas, Lutz Harms, Georg Bohner, Katharina Erb, Bettina Dahlslett, Franca Fleiner

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Pathology

Recurrent Chromosomal Copy Number Alterations in Sporadic Chordomas
Long Phi Le, G. Petur Nielsen, Andrew Eric Rosenberg, Dafydd Thomas, Julie M. Batten, Vikram Deshpande, Joseph Schwab, Zhenfeng Duan, Ramnik J. Xavier, Francis J. Hornicek, A. John Iafrate

Plasma Circulating Nucleic Acids Levels Increase According to the Morbidity of Plasmodium vivax Malaria
Bernardo S. Franklin, Barbara L. F. Vitorino, Helena C. Coelho, Armando Menezes-Neto, Marina L. S. Santos, Fernanda M. F. Campos, Cristiana F. Brito, Cor J. Fontes, Marcus V. Lacerda, Luzia H. Carvalho

Identification of Autoantibodies against TRPM1 in Patients with Paraneoplastic Retinopathy Associated with ON Bipolar Cell Dysfunction
Mineo Kondo, Rikako Sanuki, Shinji Ueno, Yuji Nishizawa, Naozumi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Ohguro, Shuichi Yamamoto, Shigeki Machida, Hiroko Terasaki, Grazyna Adamus, Takahisa Furukawa

Decreased Proliferation Kinetics of Mouse Myoblasts Overexpressing FRG1
Steven C. Chen, Ellie Frett, Joseph Marx, Darko Bosnakovski, Xylena Reed, Michael Kyba, Brian K. Kennedy

The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens
Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson, Evelyn Toh, Lixia Diao, Xiang Gao, J. Dennis Fortenberry, Barbara Van Der Pol

Sometimes Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) Cannot Find Their Way Back to the High Seas: A Multidisciplinary Study on a Mass Stranding
Sandro Mazzariol, Giovanni Di Guardo, Antonio Petrella, Letizia Marsili, Cristina M. Fossi, Claudio Leonzio, Nicola Zizzo, Salvatrice Vizzini, Stefania Gaspari, Gianni Pavan, Michela Podestà, Fulvio Garibaldi, Margherita Ferrante, Chiara Copat, Donato Traversa, Federica Marcer, Sabina Airoldi, Alexandros Frantzis, Yara De Beraldo Quirós, Bruno Cozzi, Antonio Fernández

Mitochondrial Changes in Ageing Caenorhabditis elegans – What Do We Learn from Superoxide Dismutase Knockouts?
Jan Gruber, Li Fang Ng, Sheng Fong, Yee Ting Wong, Soon Ann Koh, Ce-Belle Chen, Guanghou Shui, Wei Fun Cheong, Sebastian Schaffer, Markus R. Wenk, Barry Halliwell

Impaired Representation of Geometric Relationships in Humans with Damage to the Hippocampal Formation
Carsten Finke, Florian Ostendorf, Mischa Braun, Christoph J. Ploner

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Pediatrics and Child Health

CD133 Positive Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma Stem-Like Cell Population Is Enriched in Rhabdospheres
Dagmar Walter, Sampoorna Satheesha, Patrick Albrecht, Beat C. Bornhauser, Valentina D'Alessandro, Susanne M. Oesch, Hubert Rehrauer, Ivo Leuschner, Ewa Koscielniak, Carole Gengler, Holger Moch, Michele Bernasconi, Felix K. Niggli, Beat W. Schäfer, Part of this study was conducted in cooperation with the CWS Study Group

Perceptual Anchoring in Preschool Children: Not Adultlike, but There
Karen Banai, Rachel Yifat

Perceptual Training Prevents the Emergence of the Other Race Effect during Infancy
Michelle Heron-Delaney, Gizelle Anzures, Jane S. Herbert, Paul C. Quinn, Alan M. Slater, James W. Tanaka, Kang Lee, Olivier Pascalis

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Pharmacology

Systematic Exploitation of Multiple Receptor Conformations for Virtual Ligand Screening
Giovanni Bottegoni, Walter Rocchia, Manuel Rueda, Ruben Abagyan, Andrea Cavalli

Artesunate Dose Escalation for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Malaria in a Region of Reported Artemisinin Resistance: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Delia Bethell, Youry Se, Chanthap Lon, Stuart Tyner, David Saunders, Sabaithip Sriwichai, Sea Darapiseth, Paktiya Teja-Isavadharm, Phisit Khemawoot, Kurt Schaecher, Wiriya Ruttvisutinunt, Jessica Lin, Worachet Kuntawungin, Panita Gosi, Ans Timmermans, Bryan Smith, Duong Socheat, Mark M. Fukuda

Contribution of Cytochrome P450 and ABCB1 Genetic Variability on Methadone Pharmacokinetics, Dose Requirements, and Response
Francina Fonseca, Rafael de la Torre, Laura Díaz, Antonio Pastor, Elisabet Cuyàs, Nieves Pizarro, Olha Khymenets, Magí Farré, Marta Torrens

Targeted Skipping of Human Dystrophin Exons in Transgenic Mouse Model Systemically for Antisense Drug Development
Bo Wu, Ehsan Benrashid, Peijuan Lu, Caryn Cloer, Allen Zillmer, Mona Shaban, Qi Long Lu

New Synthetic Thrombin Inhibitors: Molecular Design and Experimental Verification
Elena I. Sinauridze, Alexey N. Romanov, Irina V. Gribkova, Olga A. Kondakova, Stepan S. Surov, Aleksander S. Gorbatenko, Andrey A. Butylin, Mikhail Yu. Monakov, Alexey A. Bogolyubov, Yuryi V. Kuznetsov, Vladimir B. Sulimov, Fazoyl I. Ataullakhanov

Potent Host-Directed Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Myxovirus RNA-Dependent RNA-Polymerases
Stefanie A. Krumm, J. Maina Ndungu, Jeong-Joong Yoon, Melanie Dochow, Aiming Sun, Michael Natchus, James P. Snyder, Richard K. Plemper

The P2 Receptor Antagonist PPADS Supports Recovery from Experimental Stroke In Vivo
Alexandra B. Lämmer, Alexander Beck, Benjamin Grummich, Annette Förschler, Thomas Krügel, Thomas Kahn, Dietmar Schneider, Peter Illes, Heike Franke, Ute Krügel

Glycyrrhizin Exerts Antioxidative Effects in H5N1 Influenza A Virus-Infected Cells and Inhibits Virus Replication and Pro-Inflammatory Gene Expression
Martin Michaelis, Janina Geiler, Patrizia Naczk, Patchima Sithisarn, Anke Leutz, Hans Wilhelm Doerr, Jindrich Cinatl

Dysregulation of IFN System Can Lead to Poor Response to Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C
Koji Onomoto, Shiho Morimoto, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Hidenori Toyoda, Masami Tanaka, Masahiko Kuroda, Kazuko Uno, Takashi Kumada, Fumihiko Matsuda, Kunitada Shimotohno, Takashi Fujita, Yoshiki Murakami

Incidence and Risk Factors of Serious Adverse Events during Antituberculous Treatment in Rwanda: A Prospective Cohort Study
Natalie Lorent, Osee Sebatunzi, Gloria Mukeshimana, Jef Van den Ende, Joannes Clerinx

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Case-Control Study
Alfonso Carvajal, Sara Ortega, Lourdes Del Olmo, Xavier Vidal, Carmelo Aguirre, Borja Ruiz, Anita Conforti, Roberto Leone, Paula López-Vázquez, Adolfo Figueiras, Luisa Ibáñez

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Physics

Systematic Exploitation of Multiple Receptor Conformations for Virtual Ligand Screening
Giovanni Bottegoni, Walter Rocchia, Manuel Rueda, Ruben Abagyan, Andrea Cavalli

Niche as a Determinant of Word Fate in Online Groups
Eduardo G. Altmann, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Adilson E. Motter

Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families
Marcelo A. Montemurro, Damián H. Zanette

Actinic Skin Damage and Mortality - the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
Wei He, Fei Zhu, Xiaoguang Ma, Xinyu Zhao, Min Zheng, Zhao Chen, Steven B. Heymsfield, Shankuan Zhu

Spectral Characterization and Unmixing of Intrinsic Contrast in Intact Normal and Diseased Gastric Tissues Using Hyperspectral Two-Photon Microscopy
Lauren E. Grosberg, Andrew J. Radosevich, Samuel Asfaha, Timothy C. Wang, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman

Naturally Occurring Osmolyte, Trehalose Induces Functional Conformation in an Intrinsically Disordered Activation Domain of Glucocorticoid Receptor
Shagufta H. Khan, John A. Arnott, Raj Kumar

A Curve Shaped Description of Large Networks, with an Application to the Evaluation of Network Models
Xianchuang Su, Xiaogang Jin, Yong Min, Linjian Mo, Jiangang Yang

The Spread of Scientific Information: Insights from the Web Usage Statistics in PLoS Article-Level Metrics
Koon-Kiu Yan, Mark Gerstein

Dynamical Patterns of Cattle Trade Movements
Paolo Bajardi, Alain Barrat, Fabrizio Natale, Lara Savini, Vittoria Colizza

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Physiology

UV-Deprived Coloration Reduces Success in Mate Acquisition in Male Sand Lizards (Lacerta agilis)
Mats Olsson, Staffan Andersson, Erik Wapstra

Cell Pattern in Adult Human Corneal Endothelium
Carlos H. Wörner, Alicia Olguín, José L. Ruíz-García, Nuria Garzón-Jiménez

Muc5b Is the Major Polymeric Mucin in Mucus from Thoroughbred Horses With and Without Airway Mucus Accumulation
Karine Rousseau, Jacqueline M. Cardwell, Emma Humphrey, Richard Newton, David Knight, Peter Clegg, David J. Thornton

High Resolution Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) in Multiple Sclerosis: The First Follow Up Study over Two Years
Nermin Serbecic, Fahmy Aboul-Enein, Sven C. Beutelspacher, Clemens Vass, Wolfgang Kristoferitsch, Hans Lassmann, Andreas Reitner, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

Identification of Autoantibodies against TRPM1 in Patients with Paraneoplastic Retinopathy Associated with ON Bipolar Cell Dysfunction
Mineo Kondo, Rikako Sanuki, Shinji Ueno, Yuji Nishizawa, Naozumi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Ohguro, Shuichi Yamamoto, Shigeki Machida, Hiroko Terasaki, Grazyna Adamus, Takahisa Furukawa

Harnessing Expression Data to Identify Novel Candidate Genes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Michelle R. Jones, Angela Chua, Yii-Der I. Chen, Xiaohui Li, Ronald M. Krauss, Jerome I. Rotter, Richard S. Legro, Ricardo Azziz, Mark O. Goodarzi

Meningothelial Cells React to Elevated Pressure and Oxidative Stress
Xiaorong Xin, Bin Fan, Josef Flammer, Neil R. Miller, Gregor P. Jaggi, Hanspeter E. Killer, Peter Meyer, Albert Neutzner

Risk Factors for Neck and Upper Extremity Disorders among Computers Users and the Effect of Interventions: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
Johan H. Andersen, Nils Fallentin, Jane F. Thomsen, Sigurd Mikkelsen

The P2 Receptor Antagonist PPADS Supports Recovery from Experimental Stroke In Vivo
Alexandra B. Lämmer, Alexander Beck, Benjamin Grummich, Annette Förschler, Thomas Krügel, Thomas Kahn, Dietmar Schneider, Peter Illes, Heike Franke, Ute Krügel

Contribution of Each Leg to the Control of Unperturbed Bipedal Stance in Lower Limb Amputees: New Insights Using Entropy
Petra Hlavackova, Céline Franco, Bruno Diot, Nicolas Vuillerme

INSL3 in the Ruminant: A Powerful Indicator of Gender- and Genetic-Specific Feto-Maternal Dialogue
Ravinder Anand-Ivell, Stefan Hiendleder, Carolina Viñoles, Graeme B. Martin, Carolyn Fitzsimmons, Andrea Eurich, Bettina Hafen, Richard Ivell

Chronic Ethanol Consumption in Rats Produces Opioid Antinociceptive Tolerance through Inhibition of Mu Opioid Receptor Endocytosis
Li He, Jennifer L. Whistler

Hypoxia and Prostaglandin E Receptor 4 Signalling Pathways Synergise to Promote Endometrial Adenocarcinoma Cell Proliferation and Tumour Growth
Rob D. Catalano, Martin R. Wilson, Sheila C. Boddy, Andrew T. M. McKinlay, Kurt J. Sales, Henry N. Jabbour

Structural Correlates of Taste and Smell Loss in Encephalitis Disseminata
Felix Alexander Schmidt, Onder Goktas, Lutz Harms, Georg Bohner, Katharina Erb, Bettina Dahlslett, Franca Fleiner

Oligodendrocytes as Regulators of Neuronal Networks during Early Postnatal Development
Sandrine Doretto, Monica Malerba, Maria Ramos, Taruna Ikrar, Chisato Kinoshita, Claudia De Mei, Emanuele Tirotta, Xiangmin Xu, Emiliana Borrelli

NFATc1 Regulation of TRAIL Expression in Human Intestinal Cells
Qingding Wang, Yuning Zhou, Heidi L. Weiss, Chi-Wing Chow, B. Mark Evers

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

The Appearance and Modulation of Osteocyte Marker Expression during Calcification of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Dongxing Zhu, Neil Charles Wallace Mackenzie, José Luis Millán, Colin Farquharson, Vicky Elizabeth MacRae

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reveals Attentional Feedback to Area V1 during Serial Visual Search
Laura Dugué, Philippe Marque, Rufin VanRullen

Deficiency of the Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain in Muscle Does Not Cause Insulin Resistance
Dong-Ho Han, Chad R. Hancock, Su Ryun Jung, Kazuhiko Higashida, Sang Hyun Kim, John O. Holloszy

Area 5 Influences Excitability within the Primary Motor Cortex in Humans
Azra Premji, Navjot Rai, Aimee Nelson

Life-History Evolution on Tropidurinae Lizards: Influence of Lineage, Body Size and Climate
Renata Brandt, Carlos A. Navas

Characterization of the Metabolic Phenotype of Rapamycin-Treated CD8+ T Cells with Augmented Ability to Generate Long-Lasting Memory Cells
Shan He, Koji Kato, Jiu Jiang, Daniel R. Wahl, Shin Mineishi, Erin M. Fisher, Donna M. Murasko, Gary D. Glick, Yi Zhang

Frontal-to-Parietal Top-Down Causal Streams along the Dorsal Attention Network Exclusively Mediate Voluntary Orienting of Attention
Takashi J. Ozaki

Mitochondrial Changes in Ageing Caenorhabditis elegans – What Do We Learn from Superoxide Dismutase Knockouts?
Jan Gruber, Li Fang Ng, Sheng Fong, Yee Ting Wong, Soon Ann Koh, Ce-Belle Chen, Guanghou Shui, Wei Fun Cheong, Sebastian Schaffer, Markus R. Wenk, Barry Halliwell

The Advantage of Standing Up to Fight and the Evolution of Habitual Bipedalism in Hominins
David R. Carrier

Differential Regulation and Recovery of Intracellular Ca2+ in Cerebral and Small Mesenteric Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells of Simulated Microgravity Rat
Jun-Hui Xue, Lian-Hong Chen, Hua-Zhou Zhao, Yong-Dong Pu, Han-Zhong Feng, Yu-Guang Ma, Jin Ma, Yao-Ming Chang, Zuo-Ming Zhang, Man-Jiang Xie

The Central Clock Neurons Regulate Lipid Storage in Drosophila
Justin R. DiAngelo, Renske Erion, Amanda Crocker, Amita Sehgal

Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific Th1, Th17 and Th22 Cells Using the Expression of CD40L in Tuberculous Pleurisy
Li Li, Dan Qiao, Xiaoying Fu, Suihua Lao, Xianlan Zhang, Changyou Wu

Renal Cystic Disease Proteins Play Critical Roles in the Organization of the Olfactory Epithelium
Jennifer L. Pluznick, Diego J. Rodriguez-Gil, Michael Hull, Kavita Mistry, Vincent Gattone, Colin A. Johnson, Scott Weatherbee, Charles A. Greer, Michael J. Caplan

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Plant Biology

Evolutionary Time-Scale of the Begomoviruses: Evidence from Integrated Sequences in the Nicotiana Genome
Pierre Lefeuvre, Gordon W. Harkins, Jean-Michel Lett, Rob W. Briddon, Mark W. Chase, Benoit Moury, Darren P. Martin

Selection and Validation of Reference Genes for Quantitative Real-Time PCR in Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) Based on Transcriptome Sequence Data
Natalia V. Demidenko, Maria D. Logacheva, Aleksey A. Penin

Comparative Methods for Association Studies: A Case Study on Metabolite Variation in a Brassica rapa Core Collection
Dunia Pino Del Carpio, Ram Kumar Basnet, Ric C. H. De Vos, Chris Maliepaard, Maria João Paulo, Guusje Bonnema

DNA Damage during G2 Phase Does Not Affect Cell Cycle Progression of the Green Alga Scenedesmus quadricauda
Monika Hlavová, Mária Čížková, Milada Vítová, Kateřina Bišová, Vilém Zachleder

A Nonparametric Mean-Variance Smoothing Method to Assess Arabidopsis Cold Stress Transcriptional Regulator CBF2 Overexpression Microarray Data
Pingsha Hu, Tapabrata Maiti

RMDAP: A Versatile, Ready-To-Use Toolbox for Multigene Genetic Transformation
Lei Ma, Jiangli Dong, Yongsheng Jin, Mingliang Chen, Xiaoye Shen, Tao Wang

Allelic Variation, Alternative Splicing and Expression Analysis of Psy1 Gene in Hordeum chilense Roem. et Schult
Cristina Rodríguez-Suárez, Sergio G. Atienza, Fernando Pistón

Contrasting Diversity Patterns of Crenarchaeal, Bacterial and Fungal Soil Communities in an Alpine Landscape
Lucie Zinger, David P. H. Lejon, Florence Baptist, Abderrahim Bouasria, Serge Aubert, Roberto A. Geremia, Philippe Choler

Structure-Function Analysis of STRUBBELIG, an Arabidopsis Atypical Receptor-Like Kinase Involved in Tissue Morphogenesis
Prasad Vaddepalli, Lynette Fulton, Martine Batoux, Ram Kishor Yadav, Kay Schneitz

High-Throughput Sequencing, Characterization and Detection of New and Conserved Cucumber miRNAs
Germán Martínez, Javier Forment, Cesar Llave, Vicente Pallás, Gustavo Gómez

In Silico Survey of the Mitochondrial Protein Uptake and Maturation Systems in the Brown Alga Ectocarpus siliculosus
Ludovic Delage, Catherine Leblanc, Pi Nyvall Collén, Bernhard Gschloessl, Marie-Pierre Oudot, Lieven Sterck, Julie Poulain, Jean-Marc Aury, J. Mark Cock

Novel AroA from Pseudomonas putida Confers Tobacco Plant with High Tolerance to Glyphosate
Hai-Qin Yan, Su-Hua Chang, Zhe-Xian Tian, Le Zhang, Yi-Cheng Sun, Yan Li, Jing Wang, Yi-Ping Wang

The Arabidopsis thaliana Homeobox Gene ATHB12 Is Involved in Symptom Development Caused by Geminivirus Infection
Jungan Park, Hyun-Ju Lee, Choong-Ill Cheon, Sung-Han Kim, Yoon-Sun Hur, Chung-Kyun Auh, Kyung-Hwan Im, Dae-Jin Yun, Sukchan Lee, Keith R. Davis

Are Algae Relevant to the Detritus-Based Food Web in Tank-Bromeliads?
Olivier Brouard, Anne-Hélène Le Jeune, Céline Leroy, Régis Cereghino, Olivier Roux, Laurent Pelozuelo, Alain Dejean, Bruno Corbara, Jean-François Carrias

Vertical Distribution of Epibenthic Freshwater Cyanobacterial Synechococcus spp. Strains Depends on Their Ability for Photoprotection
Jens N. Lohscheider, Martina Strittmatter, Hendrik Küpper, Iwona Adamska

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Public Health and Epidemiology

Validation of World Health Organisation HIV/AIDS Clinical Staging in Predicting Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy and Clinical Predictors of Low CD4 Cell Count in Uganda
Steven Baveewo, Francis Ssali, Charles Karamagi, Joan N. Kalyango, Judith A. Hahn, Kenneth Ekoru, Peter Mugyenyi, Elly Katabira

Alphacoronaviruses in New World Bats: Prevalence, Persistence, Phylogeny, and Potential for Interaction with Humans
Christina Osborne, Paul M. Cryan, Thomas J. O'Shea, Lauren M. Oko, Christina Ndaluka, Charles H. Calisher, Andrew D. Berglund, Mead L. Klavetter, Richard A. Bowen, Kathryn V. Holmes, Samuel R. Dominguez

In Vivo Electroporation Enhances the Immunogenicity of an HIV-1 DNA Vaccine Candidate in Healthy Volunteers
Sandhya Vasan, Arlene Hurley, Sarah J. Schlesinger, Drew Hannaman, David F. Gardiner, Daniel P. Dugin, Mar Boente-Carrera, Roselle Vittorino, Marina Caskey, Johanne Andersen, Yaoxing Huang, Josephine H. Cox, Tony Tarragona-Fiol, Dilbinder K. Gill, Hannah Cheeseman, Lorna Clark, Len Dally, Carol Smith, Claudia Schmidt, Harriet H. Park, Jakub T. Kopycinski, Jill Gilmour, Patricia Fast, Robert Bernard, David D. Ho

Attitudinal and Demographic Predictors of Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine (MMR) Uptake during the UK Catch-Up Campaign 2008–09: Cross-Sectional Survey
Katrina Brown, Graham Fraser, Mary Ramsay, Ruth Shanley, Noel Cowley, Johan van Wijgerden, Penelope Toff, Michelle Falconer, Michael Hudson, John Green, J. Simon Kroll, Charles Vincent, Nick Sevdalis

Added Value of Deep Sequencing Relative to Population Sequencing in Heavily Pre-Treated HIV-1-Infected Subjects
Francisco M. Codoñer, Christian Pou, Alexander Thielen, Federico García, Rafael Delgado, David Dalmau, Miguel Álvarez-Tejado, Lidia Ruiz, Bonaventura Clotet, Roger Paredes

Barriers to Initiation of Antiretrovirals during Antituberculosis Therapy in Africa
Dominique J. Pepper, Suzaan Marais, Robert J. Wilkinson, Feriyl Bhaijee, Virginia De Azevedo, Graeme Meintjes

Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD) among Tuberculosis Patients: A Study from Chennai, South India
Mohanarani Suhadev, Beena E. Thomas, Raja Sakthivel M, Murugesan P, Chandrasekaran V, Niruparani Charles, Durga R, Auxilia M, Trini A. Mathew, Fraser Wares

EphB2 SNPs and Sporadic Prostate Cancer Risk in African American Men
Christiane M. Robbins, Stanley Hooker, Rick A. Kittles, John D. Carpten

Capsular Serotype and Antibiotic Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates in Malaysia
Cheng-Foh Le, Navindra Kumari Palanisamy, Mohd Yasim Mohd Yusof, Shamala Devi Sekaran

Transmission Pattern of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Its Implication for Tuberculosis Control in Eastern Rural China
Yi Hu, Barun Mathema, Weili Jiang, Barry Kreiswirth, Weibing Wang, Biao Xu

Parental Death during Childhood and Adult Cardiovascular Risk in a Developing Country: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
C. Mary Schooling, ChaoQiang Jiang, Tai Hing Lam, WeiSen Zhang, Kar Keung Cheng, Gabriel M. Leung

Acceptability of Medical Male Circumcision Among Uncircumcised Men in Kenya One Year After the Launch of the National Male Circumcision Program
Amy Herman-Roloff, Nixon Otieno, Kawango Agot, Jeckoniah Ndinya-Achola, Robert C. Bailey

Actinic Skin Damage and Mortality - the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
Wei He, Fei Zhu, Xiaoguang Ma, Xinyu Zhao, Min Zheng, Zhao Chen, Steven B. Heymsfield, Shankuan Zhu

Harnessing Expression Data to Identify Novel Candidate Genes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Michelle R. Jones, Angela Chua, Yii-Der I. Chen, Xiaohui Li, Ronald M. Krauss, Jerome I. Rotter, Richard S. Legro, Ricardo Azziz, Mark O. Goodarzi

Risk Factors for Neck and Upper Extremity Disorders among Computers Users and the Effect of Interventions: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
Johan H. Andersen, Nils Fallentin, Jane F. Thomsen, Sigurd Mikkelsen

Chronic Ethanol Consumption in Rats Produces Opioid Antinociceptive Tolerance through Inhibition of Mu Opioid Receptor Endocytosis
Li He, Jennifer L. Whistler

Oligonucleotide Microarray Analysis of Age-Related Gene Expression Profiles in Miniature Pigs
Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

PAX6 Haplotypes Are Associated with High Myopia in Han Chinese
Bo Jiang, Maurice K. H. Yap, Kim Hung Leung, Po Wah Ng, Wai Yan Fung, Wai Wa Lam, Yang-shun Gu, Shea Ping Yip

The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens
Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson, Evelyn Toh, Lixia Diao, Xiang Gao, J. Dennis Fortenberry, Barbara Van Der Pol

Transmission of Plasmodium vivax in South-Western Uganda: Report of Three Cases in Pregnant Women
Mehul Dhorda, Dan Nyehangane, Laurent Rénia, Patrice Piola, Philippe J. Guerin, Georges Snounou

Social Class Differences in Secular Trends in Established Coronary Risk Factors over 20 Years: A Cohort Study of British Men from 1978–80 to 1998–2000
Sheena E. Ramsay, Peter H. Whincup, Sarah L. Hardoon, Lucy T. Lennon, Richard W. Morris, S. G. Wannamethee

Livelihood Security and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Low and Middle Income Settings: A Systematic Review
Beth S. Rachlis, Edward J. Mills, Donald C. Cole

Mitochondrial Changes in Ageing Caenorhabditis elegans – What Do We Learn from Superoxide Dismutase Knockouts?
Jan Gruber, Li Fang Ng, Sheng Fong, Yee Ting Wong, Soon Ann Koh, Ce-Belle Chen, Guanghou Shui, Wei Fun Cheong, Sebastian Schaffer, Markus R. Wenk, Barry Halliwell

Phylodynamics of Hepatitis C Virus Subtype 2c in the Province of Córdoba, Argentina
Viviana E. Ré, Andrés C. A. Culasso, Silvia Mengarelli, Adrián A. Farías, Fabián Fay, María B. Pisano, Osvaldo Elbarcha, Marta S. Contigiani, Rodolfo H. Campos

Life Expectancy at Birth for People with Serious Mental Illness and Other Major Disorders from a Secondary Mental Health Care Case Register in London
Chin-Kuo Chang, Richard D. Hayes, Gayan Perera, Mathew T. M. Broadbent, Andrea C. Fernandes, William E. Lee, Mathew Hotopf, Robert Stewart

ACE I/D Gene Polymorphism Can't Predict the Steroid Responsiveness in Asian Children with Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis
Tian-Biao Zhou, Yuan-Han Qin, Li-Na Su, Feng-Ying Lei, Wei-Fang Huang, Yan-Jun Zhao

Vaginally Administered PEGylated LIF Antagonist Blocked Embryo Implantation and Eliminated Non-Target Effects on Bone in Mice
Ellen Menkhorst, Jian-Guo Zhang, Natalie A. Sims, Phillip O. Morgan, Priscilla Soo, Ingrid J. Poulton, Donald Metcalf, Estella Alexandrou, Melissa Gresle, Lois A. Salamonsen, Helmut Butzkueven, Nicos A. Nicola, Evdokia Dimitriadis

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Case-Control Study
Alfonso Carvajal, Sara Ortega, Lourdes Del Olmo, Xavier Vidal, Carmelo Aguirre, Borja Ruiz, Anita Conforti, Roberto Leone, Paula López-Vázquez, Adolfo Figueiras, Luisa Ibáñez

Dynamical Patterns of Cattle Trade Movements
Paolo Bajardi, Alain Barrat, Fabrizio Natale, Lara Savini, Vittoria Colizza

Association of HbA1c Values with Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Diabetic Dialysis Patients. The INVOR Study and Review of the Literature
Gisela Sturm, Claudia Lamina, Emanuel Zitt, Karl Lhotta, Florian Haider, Ulrich Neyer, Florian Kronenberg

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Radiology and Medical Imaging

Structural Correlates of Taste and Smell Loss in Encephalitis Disseminata
Felix Alexander Schmidt, Onder Goktas, Lutz Harms, Georg Bohner, Katharina Erb, Bettina Dahlslett, Franca Fleiner

Frontal-to-Parietal Top-Down Causal Streams along the Dorsal Attention Network Exclusively Mediate Voluntary Orienting of Attention
Takashi J. Ozaki

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Respiratory Medicine

Capsular Serotype and Antibiotic Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates in Malaysia
Cheng-Foh Le, Navindra Kumari Palanisamy, Mohd Yasim Mohd Yusof, Shamala Devi Sekaran

Muc5b Is the Major Polymeric Mucin in Mucus from Thoroughbred Horses With and Without Airway Mucus Accumulation
Karine Rousseau, Jacqueline M. Cardwell, Emma Humphrey, Richard Newton, David Knight, Peter Clegg, David J. Thornton

Prognostic Impacts of Angiopoietins in NSCLC Tumor Cells and Stroma: VEGF-A Impact Is Strongly Associated with Ang-2
Sigve Andersen, Tom Donnem, Khalid Al-Shibli, Samer Al-Saad, Helge Stenvold, Lill-Tove Busund, Roy M. Bremnes

Leukocyte ADAM17 Regulates Acute Pulmonary Inflammation
Patrick G. Arndt, Brian Strahan, Yue Wang, Chunmei Long, Keisuke Horiuchi, Bruce Walcheck

Lipid Motif of a Bacterial Antigen Mediates Immune Responses via TLR2 Signaling
Amit A. Lugade, Anna Bianchi-Smiraglia, Vandana Pradhan, Galina Elkin, Timothy F. Murphy, Yasmin Thanavala

β2-Agonist Induced cAMP Is Decreased in Asthmatic Airway Smooth Muscle Due to Increased PDE4D
Thomas Trian, Janette K. Burgess, Kyoko Niimi, Lyn M. Moir, Qi Ge, Patrick Berger, Stephen B. Liggett, Judith L. Black, Brian G. Oliver

Incidence and Risk Factors of Serious Adverse Events during Antituberculous Treatment in Rwanda: A Prospective Cohort Study
Natalie Lorent, Osee Sebatunzi, Gloria Mukeshimana, Jef Van den Ende, Joannes Clerinx

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Rheumatology

Mechanical Tension Increases CCN2/CTGF Expression and Proliferation in Gingival Fibroblasts via a TGFβ-Dependent Mechanism
Fen Guo, David E. Carter, Andrew Leask

miR-346 Controls Release of TNF-α Protein and Stability of Its mRNA in Rheumatoid Arthritis via Tristetraprolin Stabilization
Noha Semaan, Laurent Frenzel, Ghada Alsaleh, Guillaume Suffert, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg, Jean Sibilia, Sebastien Pfeffer, Dominique Wachsmann

Risk Factors for Neck and Upper Extremity Disorders among Computers Users and the Effect of Interventions: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
Johan H. Andersen, Nils Fallentin, Jane F. Thomsen, Sigurd Mikkelsen

The Appearance and Modulation of Osteocyte Marker Expression during Calcification of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Dongxing Zhu, Neil Charles Wallace Mackenzie, José Luis Millán, Colin Farquharson, Vicky Elizabeth MacRae

Vaginally Administered PEGylated LIF Antagonist Blocked Embryo Implantation and Eliminated Non-Target Effects on Bone in Mice
Ellen Menkhorst, Jian-Guo Zhang, Natalie A. Sims, Phillip O. Morgan, Priscilla Soo, Ingrid J. Poulton, Donald Metcalf, Estella Alexandrou, Melissa Gresle, Lois A. Salamonsen, Helmut Butzkueven, Nicos A. Nicola, Evdokia Dimitriadis

Clinical Value of Prognostic Instruments to Identify Patients with an Increased Risk for Osteoporotic Fractures: Systematic Review
Johann Steurer, Cyrill Haller, HansJörg Häuselmann, Florian Brunner, Lucas M. Bachmann

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Science Policy

Plasma and Liver Lipidomics Response to an Intervention of Rimonabant in ApoE*3Leiden.CETP Transgenic Mice
Chunxiu Hu, Heng Wei, Anita M. van den Hoek, Mei Wang, Rob van der Heijden, Gerwin Spijksma, Theo H. Reijmers, Jildau Bouwman, Suzan Wopereis, Louis M. Havekes, Elwin Verheij, Thomas Hankemeier, Guowang Xu, Jan van der Greef

Transmission Pattern of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Its Implication for Tuberculosis Control in Eastern Rural China
Yi Hu, Barun Mathema, Weili Jiang, Barry Kreiswirth, Weibing Wang, Biao Xu

Risk Factors for Neck and Upper Extremity Disorders among Computers Users and the Effect of Interventions: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
Johan H. Andersen, Nils Fallentin, Jane F. Thomsen, Sigurd Mikkelsen

Guidelines on Chemotherapy in Advanced Stage Gynecological Malignancies: An Evaluation of 224 Professional Societies and Organizations
Nikolaos P. Polyzos, Davide Mauri, John P. A. Ioannidis

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Surgery

Estimating Survival in Patients with Operable Skeletal Metastases: An Application of a Bayesian Belief Network
Jonathan Agner Forsberg, John Eberhardt, Patrick J. Boland, Rikard Wedin, John H. Healey

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Urology

Zoledronic Acid Preserves Bone Structure and Increases Survival but Does Not Limit Tumour Incidence in a Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis Model
Tzong-Tyng Hung, Jeffrey Chan, Pamela J. Russell, Carl A. Power

EphB2 SNPs and Sporadic Prostate Cancer Risk in African American Men
Christiane M. Robbins, Stanley Hooker, Rick A. Kittles, John D. Carpten

The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens
Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson, Evelyn Toh, Lixia Diao, Xiang Gao, J. Dennis Fortenberry, Barbara Van Der Pol

Chemopreventive Effect of PSP Through Targeting of Prostate Cancer Stem Cell-Like Population
Sze-Ue Luk, Terence Kin-Wah Lee, Ji Liu, Davy Tak-Wing Lee, Yung-Tuen Chiu, Stephanie Ma, Irene Oi-Lin Ng, Yong-Chuan Wong, Franky Leung Chan, Ming-Tat Ling

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Virology

The Dyad Symmetry Element of Epstein-Barr Virus Is a Dominant but Dispensable Replication Origin
Elisabeth Ott, Paolo Norio, Marion Ritzi, Carl Schildkraut, Aloys Schepers

Validation of World Health Organisation HIV/AIDS Clinical Staging in Predicting Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy and Clinical Predictors of Low CD4 Cell Count in Uganda
Steven Baveewo, Francis Ssali, Charles Karamagi, Joan N. Kalyango, Judith A. Hahn, Kenneth Ekoru, Peter Mugyenyi, Elly Katabira

Alphacoronaviruses in New World Bats: Prevalence, Persistence, Phylogeny, and Potential for Interaction with Humans
Christina Osborne, Paul M. Cryan, Thomas J. O'Shea, Lauren M. Oko, Christina Ndaluka, Charles H. Calisher, Andrew D. Berglund, Mead L. Klavetter, Richard A. Bowen, Kathryn V. Holmes, Samuel R. Dominguez

Evolutionary Time-Scale of the Begomoviruses: Evidence from Integrated Sequences in the Nicotiana Genome
Pierre Lefeuvre, Gordon W. Harkins, Jean-Michel Lett, Rob W. Briddon, Mark W. Chase, Benoit Moury, Darren P. Martin

In Vivo Electroporation Enhances the Immunogenicity of an HIV-1 DNA Vaccine Candidate in Healthy Volunteers
Sandhya Vasan, Arlene Hurley, Sarah J. Schlesinger, Drew Hannaman, David F. Gardiner, Daniel P. Dugin, Mar Boente-Carrera, Roselle Vittorino, Marina Caskey, Johanne Andersen, Yaoxing Huang, Josephine H. Cox, Tony Tarragona-Fiol, Dilbinder K. Gill, Hannah Cheeseman, Lorna Clark, Len Dally, Carol Smith, Claudia Schmidt, Harriet H. Park, Jakub T. Kopycinski, Jill Gilmour, Patricia Fast, Robert Bernard, David D. Ho

Barriers to Initiation of Antiretrovirals during Antituberculosis Therapy in Africa
Dominique J. Pepper, Suzaan Marais, Robert J. Wilkinson, Feriyl Bhaijee, Virginia De Azevedo, Graeme Meintjes

The Sensitivity of Massively Parallel Sequencing for Detecting Candidate Infectious Agents Associated with Human Tissue
Richard A. Moore, René L. Warren, J. Douglas Freeman, Julia A. Gustavsen, Caroline Chénard, Jan M. Friedman, Curtis A. Suttle, Yongjun Zhao, Robert A. Holt

Potent Host-Directed Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Myxovirus RNA-Dependent RNA-Polymerases
Stefanie A. Krumm, J. Maina Ndungu, Jeong-Joong Yoon, Melanie Dochow, Aiming Sun, Michael Natchus, James P. Snyder, Richard K. Plemper

Rotavirus Rearranged Genomic RNA Segments Are Preferentially Packaged into Viruses Despite Not Conferring Selective Growth Advantage to Viruses
Cécile Troupin, Aurélie Schnuriger, Sarah Duponchel, Claire Deback, Nathalie Schnepf, Axelle Dehee, Antoine Garbarg-Chenon

Livelihood Security and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Low and Middle Income Settings: A Systematic Review
Beth S. Rachlis, Edward J. Mills, Donald C. Cole

Purification and Characterization of Enterovirus 71 Viral Particles Produced from Vero Cells Grown in a Serum-Free Microcarrier Bioreactor System
Chia-Chyi Liu, Meng-Shin Guo, Fion Hsiao-Yu Lin, Kuang-Nan Hsiao, Kate Hsuen-Wen Chang, Ai-Hsiang Chou, Yu-Chao Wang, Yu-Ching Chen, Chung-Shi Yang, Pele Choi-Sing Chong

Phylodynamics of Hepatitis C Virus Subtype 2c in the Province of Córdoba, Argentina
Viviana E. Ré, Andrés C. A. Culasso, Silvia Mengarelli, Adrián A. Farías, Fabián Fay, María B. Pisano, Osvaldo Elbarcha, Marta S. Contigiani, Rodolfo H. Campos

Altering the Ad5 Packaging Domain Affects the Maturation of the Ad Particles
Raul Alba, Dan Cots, Philomena Ostapchuk, Assumpcio Bosch, Patrick Hearing, Miguel Chillon

Incidence and Risk Factors of Serious Adverse Events during Antituberculous Treatment in Rwanda: A Prospective Cohort Study
Natalie Lorent, Osee Sebatunzi, Gloria Mukeshimana, Jef Van den Ende, Joannes Clerinx

Dendritic Cells Exposed to MVA-Based HIV-1 Vaccine Induce Highly Functional HIV-1-Specific CD8+ T Cell Responses in HIV-1-Infected Individuals
Núria Climent, Susana Guerra, Felipe García, Cristina Rovira, Laia Miralles, Carmen Elena Gómez, Núria Piqué, Cristina Gil, José María Gatell, Mariano Esteban, Teresa Gallart

Hepatitis B Infection Is Associated with Asymptomatic Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon
Bruno B. Andrade, Cristiane J. N. Santos, Luís M. Camargo, Sebastião M. Souza-Neto, Antonio Reis-Filho, Jorge Clarêncio, Vitor R. R. Mendonça, Nívea F. Luz, Erney P. Camargo, Aldina Barral, Antônio A. M. Silva, Manoel Barral-Netto

The Arabidopsis thaliana Homeobox Gene ATHB12 Is Involved in Symptom Development Caused by Geminivirus Infection
Jungan Park, Hyun-Ju Lee, Choong-Ill Cheon, Sung-Han Kim, Yoon-Sun Hur, Chung-Kyun Auh, Kyung-Hwan Im, Dae-Jin Yun, Sukchan Lee, Keith R. Davis

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Women's Health

Parental Death during Childhood and Adult Cardiovascular Risk in a Developing Country: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study
C. Mary Schooling, ChaoQiang Jiang, Tai Hing Lam, WeiSen Zhang, Kar Keung Cheng, Gabriel M. Leung

Clinical Value of Prognostic Instruments to Identify Patients with an Increased Risk for Osteoporotic Fractures: Systematic Review
Johann Steurer, Cyrill Haller, HansJörg Häuselmann, Florian Brunner, Lucas M. Bachmann

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