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Michels L, Villanueva J, O'Gorman R, Muthuraman M, Koirala N, Büchler R, Gantenbein AR, Sandor PS, Luechinger R, Kollias S, Riederer F. Interictal Hyperperfusion in the Higher Visual Cortex in Patients With Episodic Migraine. Headache 2019; 59:1808-1820. [PMID: 31680242 DOI: 10.1111/head.13646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Migraine pathophysiology is complex and probably involves cortical and subcortical alterations. Structural and functional brain imaging studies indicate alterations in the higher order visual cortex in patients with migraine. Arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging (ASL-MRI) is a non-invasive imaging method for assessing changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) in vivo. OBJECTIVE To examine if interictal CBF differs between patients with episodic migraine (EM) with or without aura and healthy controls (HC). METHODS We assessed interictal CBF using 2D pseudo-continuous ASL-MRI on a 3 Tesla Philips scanner (University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland) in EM (N = 17, mean age 32.7 ± 9.9, 13 females) and HC (N = 19, mean age 31.0 ± 9.3, 11 females). RESULTS Compared to HC, EM showed exclusively hyperperfusion in the right MT+ and Cohen's d effect size was 0.99 (HC mean CBF ± SD: 33.1 ± 5.9 mL/100 g/minutes; EM mean CBF: 40.9 ± 9.4 mL/100 g/minutes). EM with aura (N = 13, MwA) revealed hyperperfusion compared to HC in the right MT+ and superior temporal gyrus. For MT, Cohen's d effect size was 1.34 (HC mean CBF ± SD: 33.1 ± 5.9 mL/100 g/minutes; MwA mean CBF: 43.3 ± 8.6 mL/100 g/minutes). For the superior temporal gyrus, Cohen's d effect size was 1.28 (HC mean CBF ± SD: 40.1 ± 4.9 mL/100 g/minutes; MwA mean CBF: 47.4 ± 6.4 mL/100 g/minutes). In EM, anxiety was positively associated with CBF in the parietal operculum and angular gyrus. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that extrastriate brain regions probably involved in cortical spreading depression are associated with CBF changes in the interictal state. We conclude that ASL-MRI is a sensitive method to identify local neuro-functional abnormalities in CBF in patients with EM in the interictal state.
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Villanueva J, Meyer AH, Rinner MTB, Firsching VJ, Benoy C, Brogli S, Walter M, Bader K, Gloster AT. "Choose change": design and methods of an acceptance and commitment therapy effectiveness trial for transdiagnostic treatment-resistant patients. BMC Psychiatry 2019; 19:173. [PMID: 31182051 PMCID: PMC6558686 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-019-2109-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 04/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has been successfully established in hundreds of efficacy trials. It is less understood, however, how ACT works in real-world settings. Furthermore, little is known about how contextual variables such as treatment setting (inpatient vs. outpatient), social network and environment of the patient impact outcome. METHODS This paper describes the methods of the Choose Change study that compares transdiagnostic inpatients (n = 85) and outpatients (n = 85) with varying degrees of treatment experience and treatment success (i.e., no previous treatment vs. previous remission vs. treatment-resistant). Patients received ACT during an intensive treatment phase lasting approximately twelve treatment sessions, and were accompanied up to twelve months following intensive treatment. Main outcomes include symptoms, functioning, and well-being. Multiple levels of data are investigated, including treatment context, weekly assessments, a behavioral approach test, multiple follow-up phases, and ambulatory assessment using Event Sampling Methodology, to examine patients' daily context. DISCUSSION We aim to investigate antecedents, consequences, and inherent processes that contribute to the maintenance or fluctuations of psychological disorders and the efficacy of ACT treatment. Furthermore, this study intends to increase understanding of how accurately participants can report on their own experiences, in order to expand our knowledge of how to probe for such information in the future. The results of Choose Change will provide basic clinical theory and clinical care with important and meaningful insights into the effectiveness of ACT, trans diagnostically, in in- and outpatients, and in a naturalistic setting. TRIAL REGISTRATION This study was retrospectively registered in the ISRCTN Registry (registration number ISRCTN11209732 ) on May 20th 2016.
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Villanueva J, Salazar J, Alarcón A, Araya I, Yanine N, Domancic S, Carrasco-Labra A. Antiplatelet therapy in patients undergoing oral surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal 2019; 24:e103-e113. [PMID: 30573718 PMCID: PMC6344014 DOI: 10.4317/medoral.22708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Background The number of patients under antiplatelet therapy (APT) continues to raise as current recommendations foster this practice. Although some recommendations to manage this treatment during oral surgery procedures exist, these have methodological shortcomings that preclude them from being conclusive. Material and Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis of the best current evidence was carried out; The Cochrane Library, EMBASE and MEDLINE databases were searched for Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) concerning patients undergoing oral surgery with APT, other relevant sources were searched manually. Results 5 RCTs met the Inclusion criteria. No clear tendency was observed (RR= 0.97 CI 95%: 0,41–2,34; p=0,09; I2= 51%), moreover, they weren’t clinically significant. Conclusions According to these findings and as bleeding is a manageable complication it seems unreasonable to undermine the APT, putting the patient in danger of a thrombotic event and its high inherent morbidity, which isn’t comparable in severity and manageability to the former.” Key words:Antiplatelet therapy, aspirin, oral surgery, platelet aggregation inhibitors, oral surgical procedures, systematic reviews.
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Chew HC, Villanueva J, Gao L, Doyle A, Hicks M, Jabbour A, Dhital K, Macdonald P. Ischaemic Tolerance and the Effect of Ageing Using a Rodent Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) Model. Transplantation 2018. [DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000543654.45553.6f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Scheuer S, Gao L, Hicks M, Chew H, Villanueva J, Doyle A, Jabbour A, King G, Macdonald P, Dhital K. Putting Donor Heart Preservation to the Acid Test. Heart Lung Circ 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.06.746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Iyer A, Chew HC, Gao L, Villanueva J, Hicks M, Doyle A, Kumarasinghe G, Jabbour A, Jansz PC, Feneley MP, Harvey RP, Graham RM, Dhital KK, Macdonald PS. Pathophysiological Trends During Withdrawal of Life Support: Implications for Organ Donation After Circulatory Death. Transplantation 2017; 100:2621-2629. [PMID: 27861290 DOI: 10.1097/tp.0000000000001396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Donation after circulatory death (DCD) provides an alternative pathway to deceased organ transplantation. Although clinical DCD lung, liver, and kidney transplantation are well established, transplantation of hearts retrieved from DCD donors has reached clinical translation only recently. Progress has been limited by concern regarding the viability of DCD hearts. The aim of this study was to document the pathophysiological changes that occur in the heart and circulation during withdrawal of life (WLS) support. METHODS In a porcine asphyxia model, we characterized the hemodynamic, volumetric, metabolic, biochemical, and endocrine changes after WLS for up to 40 minutes. Times to circulatory arrest and electrical asystole were recorded. RESULTS After WLS, there was rapid onset of profound hypoxemia resulting in acute pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular distension. Concurrently, progressive systemic hypotension occurred with a fall in left atrial pressure and little change in left ventricular volume. Mean times to circulatory arrest and electrical asystole were 8 ± 1 and 16 ± 2 minutes, respectively. Hemodynamic changes were accompanied by a rapid fall in pH, and rise in blood lactate, troponin-T, and potassium. Plasma noradrenaline and adrenaline levels rose rapidly with dramatic increases in coronary sinus levels indicative of myocardial release. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide insight into the nature and tempo of the damaging events that occur in the heart and in particular the right ventricle during WLS, and give an indication of the limited timeframe for the implementation of potential postmortem interventions that could be applied to improve organ viability.
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Correger E, Villanueva J, Cardinal-Fernández P, Rios F. In reply to "Acute respiratory distress secondary to blood transfusion". Med Intensiva 2017; 41:445-446. [PMID: 28408100 DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2017.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2017] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Chew H, Cheong C, Fulton M, Shah M, Doyle A, Gao L, Villanueva J, Soto C, Hicks M, Connellan M, Granger E, Jansz P, Spratt P, Hayward C, Keogh A, Kotlyar E, Jabbour A, Dhital K, Macdonald P. Outcome After Warm Machine Perfusion (WMP) Recovery of Marginal Brain Dead (MBD) and Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) Heart Transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2017.01.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Flores J, Solís C, Huerta A, Ortiz M, Rodríguez-Ceja M, Villanueva J, Chávez E. Historic binnacle of 14 C/ 12 C concentration in Mexico City. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2017.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Chew HC, Gao L, Villanueva J, Hicks M, Dhital K, Macdonald P. Effect of Ageing on Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) Heart in Rodent Model. Heart Lung Circ 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2017.03.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Chew HC, Gao L, Villanueva J, Hicks M, Dhital K, Macdonald P. Banked Blood in the Recovery of Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) Hearts in a Porcine Model. Heart Lung Circ 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2017.03.114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Villanueva J, Gao L, Chew H, Hicks M, Doyle A, Macdonald P, Jabbour A. Investigating the Potential of Dantrolene Sodium Salt as a Cardioprotective Agent During Ischaemia-Reperfusion Injury. Heart Lung Circ 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2016.06.276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Morancho B, Martinez-Barriocanal A, Villanueva J, Arribas J. Proffered Paper: Role of ADAM17 in the non-cell autonomous effects of oncogene-induced senescence. Eur J Cancer 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(16)61009-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Kumarasinghe G, Gao L, Hicks M, Villanueva J, Doyle A, Rao P, Ru Qiu M, Jabbour A, Iyer A, Chew HC, Hayward CS, Macdonald P. Improved heart function from older donors using pharmacologic conditioning strategies. J Heart Lung Transplant 2016; 35:636-46. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2015.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2015] [Revised: 10/22/2015] [Accepted: 12/21/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Cardinal-Fernández P, Correger E, Villanueva J, Rios F. Acute Respiratory Distress: From syndrome to disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2015.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Chew H, Cao J, Fernandez K, Gao L, Villanueva J, Hicks M, Jabbour A, Pleass H, Dhital K, Macdonald P. Combined Heart and Liver Retrieval after Circulatory Death with Normothermic Machine Reperfusion in a Porcine Model. J Heart Lung Transplant 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2016.01.500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Muir-Paulik SA, Johnson LEA, Kennedy P, Aden T, Villanueva J, Reisdorf E, Humes R, Moen AC. Measuring laboratory-based influenza surveillance capacity: development of the 'International Influenza Laboratory Capacity Review' Tool. Public Health 2015; 130:72-7. [PMID: 26531044 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2015] [Revised: 08/12/2015] [Accepted: 09/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) emphasized the importance of laboratory capacity to detect emerging diseases including novel influenza viruses. To support IHR 2005 requirements and the need to enhance influenza laboratory surveillance capacity, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Influenza Division developed the International Influenza Laboratory Capacity Review (Tool). STUDY DESIGN Data from 37 assessments were reviewed and analyzed to verify that the quantitative analysis results accurately depicted a laboratory's capacity and capabilities. METHODS Subject matter experts in influenza and laboratory practice used an iterative approach to develop the Tool incorporating feedback and lessons learnt through piloting and implementation. To systematically analyze assessment data, a quantitative framework for analysis was added to the Tool. RESULTS The review indicated that changes in scores consistently reflected enhanced or decreased capacity. The review process also validated the utility of adding a quantitative analysis component to the assessments and the benefit of establishing a baseline from which to compare future assessments in a standardized way. CONCLUSIONS Use of the Tool has provided APHL, CDC and each assessed laboratory with a standardized analysis of the laboratory's capacity. The information generated is used to improve laboratory systems for laboratory testing and enhance influenza surveillance globally. We describe the development of the Tool and lessons learnt.
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García-Martínez V, Montes MA, Villanueva J, Gimenez-Molina Y, de Toledo GA, Gutiérrez LM. Sphingomyelin derivatives increase the frequency of microvesicle and granule fusion in chromaffin cells. Neuroscience 2015; 295:117-25. [PMID: 25813703 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.03.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2014] [Revised: 03/18/2015] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Sphingomyelin derivatives like sphingosine have been shown to enhance secretion in a variety of systems, including neuroendocrine and neuronal cells. By studying the mechanisms underlying this effect, we demonstrate here that sphingomyelin rafts co-localize strongly with synaptosomal-associated protein of 25Kda (SNAP-25) clusters in cultured bovine chromaffin cells and that they appear to be linked in a dynamic manner. In functional terms, when cultured rat chromaffin cells are treated with sphingomyelinase (SMase), producing sphingomyelin derivatives, the secretion elicited by repetitive depolarizations is enhanced. This increase was independent of cell size and it was significant 15min after initiating stimulation. Interestingly, by evaluating the membrane capacitance we found that the events in control untreated cells corresponded to two populations of microvesicles and granules, and the fusion of both these populations is clearly enhanced after treatment with SMase. Furthermore, SMase does not increase the size of chromaffin granules. Together, these results strongly suggest that SNARE-mediated exocytosis is enhanced by the generation of SMase derivatives, reflecting an increase in the frequency of fusion of both microvesicles and chromaffin granules rather than an increase in the size of these vesicles.
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Zacarias Fluck M, Morancho B, Angelini P, Vicario R, Villarreal L, Aura C, Nuciforo P, Villanueva J, Rubio I, Arribas J. 303: A role for senescent cell-derived IL6 in HER2+ breast cancer progression. Eur J Cancer 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(14)50269-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Lo RS, Ribas A, Long GV, Ballotti R, Berger M, Willy H, Gibney GT, Bosenberg M, Bernstein E, Villanueva J, Smalley KSM. Meeting report from the Society for Melanoma Research 2012 Congress, Hollywood, California. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 2013; 26:E1-7. [PMID: 23551976 DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Vultur A, Villanueva J, Krepler C, Rajan G, Chen Q, Xiao M, Li L, Gimotty PA, Wilson M, Hayden J, Keeney F, Nathanson KL, Herlyn M. MEK inhibition affects STAT3 signaling and invasion in human melanoma cell lines. Oncogene 2013; 33:1850-61. [PMID: 23624919 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2013.131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2012] [Revised: 01/17/2013] [Accepted: 02/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Elevated activity of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling cascade is found in the majority of human melanomas and is known to regulate proliferation, survival and invasion. Current targeted therapies focus on decreasing the activity of this pathway; however, we do not fully understand how these therapies impact tumor biology, especially given that melanoma is a heterogeneous disease. Using a three-dimensional (3D), collagen-embedded spheroid melanoma model, we observed that MEK and BRAF inhibitors can increase the invasive potential of ∼20% of human melanoma cell lines. The invasive cell lines displayed increased receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) activity and activation of the Src/FAK/signal transducers and activators of transcription-3 (STAT3) signaling axis, also associated with increased cell-to-cell adhesion and cadherin engagement following MEK inhibition. Targeting various RTKs, Src, FAK and STAT3 with small molecule inhibitors in combination with a MEK inhibitor prevented the invasive phenotype, but only STAT3 inhibition caused cell death in the 3D context. We further show that STAT3 signaling is induced in BRAF-inhibitor-resistant cells. Our findings suggest that MEK and BRAF inhibitors can induce STAT3 signaling, causing potential adverse effects such as increased invasion. We also provide the rationale for the combined targeting of the MAPK pathway along with inhibitors of RTKs, SRC or STAT3 to counteract STAT3-mediated resistance phenotypes.
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Sokalska A, Anderson M, Villanueva J, Bruner-Tran K, Osteen K, Duleba A. Simvastatin modulates action of retinoic acid on human endometrial stromal cells. Fertil Steril 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.07.238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Cataldo Y, Toledo N, Araya I, Yanine N, Villanueva J. Rate of infection in orthognathic surgery, a comparative study between rigid and wire fixation, during the 1997–2010 period. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2011.07.607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Burkhart SC, Bliss E, Di Nicola P, Kalantar D, Lowe-Webb R, McCarville T, Nelson D, Salmon T, Schindler T, Villanueva J, Wilhelmsen K. National Ignition Facility system alignment. APPLIED OPTICS 2011; 50:1136-1157. [PMID: 21394186 DOI: 10.1364/ao.50.001136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the world's largest optical instrument, comprising 192 37 cm square beams, each generating up to 9.6 kJ of 351 nm laser light in a 20 ns beam precisely tailored in time and spectrum. The Facility houses a massive (10 m diameter) target chamber within which the beams converge onto an ∼1 cm size target for the purpose of creating the conditions needed for deuterium/tritium nuclear fusion in a laboratory setting. A formidable challenge was building NIF to the precise requirements for beam propagation, commissioning the beam lines, and engineering systems to reliably and safely align 192 beams within the confines of a multihour shot cycle. Designing the facility to minimize drift and vibration, placing the optical components in their design locations, commissioning beam alignment, and performing precise system alignment are the key alignment accomplishments over the decade of work described herein. The design and positioning phases placed more than 3000 large (2.5 m×2 m×1 m) line-replaceable optics assemblies to within ±1 mm of design requirement. The commissioning and alignment phases validated clear apertures (no clipping) for all beam lines, and demonstrated automated laser alignment within 10 min and alignment to target chamber center within 44 min. Pointing validation system shots to flat gold-plated x-ray emitting targets showed NIF met its design requirement of ±50 μm rms beam pointing to target chamber. Finally, this paper describes the major alignment challenges faced by the NIF Project from inception to present, and how these challenges were met and solved by the NIF design and commissioning teams.
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Sokalska A, Cress A, Villanueva J, Duleba A. Simvastatin reduces estrogen receptor alpha gene expression in human endometrial stromal cells. Fertil Steril 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.07.156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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