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Bouveret's Syndrome with Severe Esophagitis and a Purulent Fistula
(2014-04)
Bouveret's syndrome is a rare variant of gallstone ileus with an overall incidence of 1–3%. It is a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction resulting from the passage and impaction of a large gallstone through a ...
Mechanisms controlling the acquisition of a cardiac phenotype by liver stem cells
(East Carolina University, 2007-03-06)
The mechanisms underlying stem cell acquisition of a cardiac
phenotype are unresolved. We studied early events during the
acquisition of a cardiac phenotype by a cloned adult liver stem cell
line (WB F344) in a cardiac ...
Correction:Peer chart audits: A tool to meet Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competency in practice-based learning and improvement
(East Carolina University, 2007-07-27)
Background: The Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) supports chart audit as a method to track competency in Practice-Based Learning and Improvement. We
examined whether peer chart audits performed ...
The Tumor Suppressive Effects of T Cell Death-Associated Gene 8 in Blood Cancers
(East Carolina University, 2017-03-16)
In the early twentieth century Otto Warburg recognized a metabolic phenomenon that transpired in cancer cells, currently known as the Warburg Effect. Warburg discovered cancer cells favor glycolysis rather than oxidative ...
Sarcoidosis activates diverse transcriptional programs in bronchoalveolar lavage cells
(2016-07-26)
Abstract
Background
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem immuno-inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology that most commonly involves the lungs. We hypothesized that an unbiased ...
The M2a macrophage phenotype accompanies pulmonary granuloma resolution in Mmp12 knock-out mice instilled with multiwall carbon nanotubes
(MDPI, 2021-10-13)
Sarcoidosis is a chronic disease with unknown etiology and pathophysiology, characterized by granuloma formation. Matrix Metalloproteinase-12 (MMP12) is an elastase implicated in active granulomatous sarcoidosis. Previously, ...