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Impact of a Revised Curriculum Focusing on Clinical Neurology and Musculoskeletal Care on a Required Fourth-Year Medical Student Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clerkship
(2016-11-29)
Background. A Required Fourth-Year Medical Student Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Clerkship was found to increase students' knowledge of PM&R; however the students' overall rotation evaluations were consistently ...
Identification of Vape Shops in Two North Carolina Counties: An Approach for States without Retailer Licensing
(2016-10-27)
Stores that sell electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) as their primary product
are a new phenomenon and often termed “vape shops”. While vape shops are now regulated by
state and federal agencies, not all states ...
Murine mesothelin: characterization, expression, and inhibition of tumor growth in a murine model of pancreatic cancer
(2016)
Background: Mesothelin has attracted much interest as a tumor specific antigen; it has been reported to promote
tumor development and to be a good target for cancer treatment. Most studies to date have used human
mesothelin ...
Pathology Informatics Essentials for Residents: A Flexible Informatics Curriculum Linked to Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Milestones (a secondary publication)*
(2016-07-11)
Context: Recognition of the importance of informatics to the practice of pathology has surged. Training residents in pathology
informatics has been a daunting task for most residency programs in the United States because ...
Healthy CD4+ T lymphocytes are not affected by targeted therapies against the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
(2016-08-01)
An attractive molecular target for novel anti-cancer therapies is the
phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)
pathway which is commonly deregulated in many types of cancer. Nevertheless, ...
The Role of Retinoic Acid (RA) in Spermatogonial Differentiation
(2016)
Retinoic acid (RA) directs the sequential, but distinct, programs of spermatogonial differentiation and meiotic differentiation that are both essential for the generation of functional spermatozoa. These processes are ...
Veterans health administration hepatitis B testing and treatment with anti-CD20 antibody administration
(2016-05-21)
AIM: To evaluate pretreatment hepatitis B virus (HBV) testing, vaccination, and antiviral treatment rates in Veterans Affairs patients receiving anti-CD20 Ab for quality improvement.
METHODS: We performed a retrospective ...
Transcriptome sequencing of Crucihimalaya himalaica (Brassicaceae) reveals how Arabidopsis close relative adapt to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
(2016-02)
The extreme environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) provides an ideal natural laboratory for studies on adaptive evolution. Few genome/transcriptome based studies have been conducted on how plants adapt to the ...