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Goldstein A, Lanhers C, Gay C, Dubourg K, Grange L, Roques CF, Pereira B, Coudeyre E. Efficacy of self-management program associated with a spa therapy for knee osteoarthritis patients (GETT 2): a research protocol for a randomized trial. Trials 2023; 24:45. [PMID: 36658607 PMCID: PMC9854168 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-022-06879-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Osteoarthritis is a chronic pathology that involves multidisciplinary management. Self-management for patients is an essential element, present in all international guidelines. During the time of the spa therapy, the patient is receptive to take the advantage of self-management workshops. The aim of this study is to assess the effects of 18 days spa therapy associated with a self-management intervention in patients with knee osteoarthritis in comparison with spa therapy alone on a priority objective, personalized and determined with the patient, chosen in the list of 5 objectives determined during the self-management initial assessment. METHODS AND ANALYSIS Two hundred fifty participants with knee osteoarthritis will participate to this multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled study. All patients will benefit 18 days of spa therapy and patients randomized in the intervention group will participate to 6 self-management workshops. Randomization will be centralized. The allocation ratio will be 1:1. Data analysts and assessor will be blinded. The primary outcome is the effectiveness of the educational workshops associated with spa therapy in comparison with spa therapy alone on a priority objective, measured by Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS). The secondary outcomes are disability, health-related quality of life, and pain intensity. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION Ethics were approved by the CPP Sud-Méditerranée II. The results will be disseminated in a peer-reviewed journal and disseminated at PRM, rheumatology, and orthopedics conferences. The results will also be disseminated to patients. TRIAL REGISTRATION Trial registration number NCT03550547. Registered 8 June 2018. Date and version identifier of the protocol. Version N°6 of March 12, 2018.
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- A. Goldstein
- grid.494717.80000000115480420Service de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, UNH, F-63000 Clermont–Ferrand, France
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- grid.494717.80000000115480420Service de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, UNH, F-63000 Clermont–Ferrand, France
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- grid.494717.80000000115480420Service de Santé Publique, CHU de Clermont Ferrand, PEPRADE, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont–Ferrand, France
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- grid.412041.20000 0001 2106 639XUniversité de Bordeaux, Institut du Thermalisme, Dax, France
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- Service de Rhumatologie, C.H.U.G.A Hôpital Sud, Échirolles, France
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- grid.494717.80000000115480420Délégation Recherche Clinique et Innovation, CHU de Clermont Ferrand, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont–Ferrand, France
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- grid.494717.80000000115480420Service de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, UNH, F-63000 Clermont–Ferrand, France
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Krapf J, Mautz T, Lorenzini S, Holloway J, Goldstein A. Clinical Presentation of Clitorodynia associated with Clitoral Adhesions and Keratin Pearls. J Sex Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2022.05.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Goldstein I, Yee A, Uloko M, Goldstein A. Extent of surgical excision of the vestibule based on positive CD117 and PGP9.5 staining of mast cells in women with neuroproliferative vestibulodynia. J Sex Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2022.03.394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Beryani A, Goldstein A, Al-Rubaei AM, Viklander M, Hunt WF, Blecken GT. Survey of the operational status of twenty-six urban stormwater biofilter facilities in Sweden. J Environ Manage 2021; 297:113375. [PMID: 34325375 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This study evaluates the operational status of twenty-six biofilter facilities across nine cities in Sweden, with respect to their functional design criteria, engineered design features (filter media composition, hydraulic conductivity, and drawdown time), and includes a visual inspection of the biofilter components (pre-treatment, in/outlet structures, filter media, and vegetation). These indicators were used to examine the performance level of each biofilter in achieving their design objectives set by the operators. Furthermore, it was investigated whether the biofilter facilities had been properly maintained to meet the objectives. Results indicate that the soil media used was consistent with respect to percentage sand, fines, and organic matter and comparable to design recommendations used by municipalities in other countries. The field-tested hydraulic conductivity for the biofilters ranged from 30 to 962 mm/h. This range of values, along with noticeable sediment accumulation within the biofilter indicate that not all the sites were operating optimally. Pre-treatment stages in poor condition with high volumes of sediment and litter accumulation were the primary causes for, and indicators of, low hydraulic conductivity rates. The ponding volume calculations revealed that at least 40 % of facilities did not have enough capacity to retain every-day and/or design rainfall due to design and/or construction flaws. These analyses raise concerns that, for a considerable number of the biofilters surveyed, water retention and flood protection identified by operators as prioritised objectives are not being met. This raises significant concerns about the functionality of biofilter in practice. Finally, some suggestions are given for tackling the design and maintenance problems discovered.
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- Ali Beryani
- Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå Univ. of Technology, 97187, Luleå, Sweden.
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- Dept. of Biological and Agriculture Engineering, North Carolina State Univ., Campus Box 7625, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.
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- Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå Univ. of Technology, 97187, Luleå, Sweden; Dept. of Building and Construction Engineering, Univ. of Technology, 19006, Baghdad, Iraq.
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- Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå Univ. of Technology, 97187, Luleå, Sweden.
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- William Neal Reynolds Professor and Extension Specialist, Dept. of Biological and Agriculture Engineering, North Carolina State Univ., Campus Box 7625, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.
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- Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå Univ. of Technology, 97187, Luleå, Sweden.
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Alves CAPF, Goldstein A, Teixeira SR, Martin-Saavedra JS, de Barcelos IP, Fadda G, Caschera L, Kidd M, Gonçalves FG, McCormick EM, Falk MJ, Zolkipli-Cunningham Z, Vossough A, Zuccoli G. Involvement of the Spinal Cord in Primary Mitochondrial Disorders: A Neuroimaging Mimicker of Inflammation and Ischemia in Children. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2021; 42:389-396. [PMID: 33384291 PMCID: PMC7872189 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a6910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Little is known about imaging features of spinal cord lesions in mitochondrial disorders. The aim of this research was to assess the frequency, imaging features, and pathogenic variants causing primary mitochondrial disease in children with spinal cord lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective analysis included patients seen at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia between 2000 and 2019 who had a confirmed diagnosis of a primary (genetic-based) mitochondrial disease and available MR imaging of the spine. The MR imaging included at least both sagittal and axial fast spin-echo T2-weighted images. Spine images were independently reviewed by 2 neuroradiologists. Location and imaging features of spinal cord lesions were correlated and tested using the Fisher exact test. RESULTS Of 119 children with primary mitochondrial disease in whom MR imaging was available, only 33 of 119 (28%) had available spine imaging for reanalysis. Nineteen of these 33 individuals (58%) had evidence of spinal cord lesions. Two main patterns of spinal cord lesions were identified: group A (12/19; 63%) had white ± gray matter involvement, and group B (7/19; 37%) had isolated gray matter involvement. Group A spinal cord lesions were similar to those seen in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, multiple sclerosis, anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-IgG antibody disease, and leukoencephalopathy with brain stem and spinal cord involvement and lactate elevation. Group B patients had spinal cord findings similar to those that occur with ischemia and viral infections. Significant associations were seen between the pattern of lesions (group A versus group B) and the location of lesions in cervical versus thoracolumbar segments, respectively (P < .01). CONCLUSIONS Spinal cord lesions are frequently observed in children with primary mitochondrial disease and may mimic more common causes such as demyelination and ischemia.
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- C A P F Alves
- From the Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology (C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.S., L.C., F.G.G., A.V., G.Z.)
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics (A.G., E.M.M., M.J.F., Z.Z.-C.), Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program
- Pediatrics (A.G., M.J.F., Z.Z.-C.) University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- From the Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology (C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.S., L.C., F.G.G., A.V., G.Z.)
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- From the Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology (C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.S., L.C., F.G.G., A.V., G.Z.)
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- Division of Human Genetics (I. P.d.B.), Department of Pediatrics, Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Departments of Neurology (G.F.)
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- From the Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology (C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.S., L.C., F.G.G., A.V., G.Z.)
- Neuroradiology Unit (L.C.), Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via Francesco Sforza 35, Milan, Italy
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- Centre for Statistical Consultation (M.K.), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- From the Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology (C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.S., L.C., F.G.G., A.V., G.Z.)
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics (A.G., E.M.M., M.J.F., Z.Z.-C.), Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics (A.G., E.M.M., M.J.F., Z.Z.-C.), Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program
- Pediatrics (A.G., M.J.F., Z.Z.-C.) University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics (A.G., E.M.M., M.J.F., Z.Z.-C.), Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program
- Pediatrics (A.G., M.J.F., Z.Z.-C.) University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- From the Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology (C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.S., L.C., F.G.G., A.V., G.Z.)
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- From the Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology (C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.S., L.C., F.G.G., A.V., G.Z.)
- The Program for the Study of Neurodevelopment in Rare Disorders (G.Z.), Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Shirakov A, Burshtein Z, Goldstein A, Frumker E, Ishaaya AA. Use of Co 2+:MgAl 2O 4 transparent ceramics in passive Q-switching of an Er:Glass laser at 1.534 µm. Opt Express 2020; 28:21956-21970. [PMID: 32752466 DOI: 10.1364/oe.398246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We present the implementation of Co2+:MgAl2O4 transparent ceramics as passive Q-switching elements in an Er:Glass laser at 1.534 µm. Linearly polarized pulsed output was obtained by Brewster angle inclination of the material Q-switching plate relative to the laser axis. Separate pulses were ∼105 ns long (FWHM), exhibiting ∼6.2 kW peak power at near TEM00 quality. Several fundamental sample properties important for laser intracavity operation were measured; thermo-optic coefficient dn/dT = ( - 3.8 ± 1) × 10-5 °C-1, thermal lensing factor L-1d(nL)/dT = 2.59 × 10-5 °C-1, linear expansion coefficient α = (3.9 ± 0.6) × 10-5 °C-1, polarizability thermal coefficient ϕ = (7.2 ± 2.2) × 10-5 °C-1, and damage threshold ∼6.5 J/cm2.
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Goldstein A, Mitchell L, Tolson H, Krapf J. 027 Plasma Cell Mucositis of the Vagina and Cervix. J Sex Med 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2020.04.263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Gonçalves FG, Hill B, Guo Y, Muraresku CC, McCormick E, Alves CAPF, Teixeira SR, Martin-Saavedra JS, Zolkipli-Cunningham Z, Falk MJ, Vossough A, Goldstein A, Zuccoli G. The Perirolandic Sign: A Unique Imaging Finding Observed in Association with Polymerase γ-Related Disorders. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2020; 41:917-922. [PMID: 32381541 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a6514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Pathogenic variants in the polymerase γ gene (POLG) cause a diverse group of pathologies known as POLG-related disorders. In this report, we describe brain MR imaging findings and electroencephalogram correlates of 13 children with POLG-related disorders at diagnosis and follow-up. At diagnosis, all patients had seizures and 12 had abnormal MR imaging findings. The most common imaging findings were unilateral or bilateral perirolandic (54%) and unilateral or bilateral thalamic signal changes (77%). Association of epilepsia partialis continua with perirolandic and thalamic signal changes was present in 86% and 70% of the patients, respectively. The occipital lobe was affected in 2 patients. On follow-up, 92% of the patients had disease progression or fatal outcome. Rapid volume loss was seen in 77% of the patients. The occipital lobe (61%) and thalamus (61%) were the most affected brain regions. Perirolandic signal changes and seizures may represent a brain imaging biomarker of early-onset pediatric POLG-related disorders.
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- F G Gonçalves
- From the Departments of Radiology and Division of Neuroradiology (F.G.G., B.H., C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.-S., A.V., G.Z.)
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- From the Departments of Radiology and Division of Neuroradiology (F.G.G., B.H., C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.-S., A.V., G.Z.)
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- Departments of Pediatrics (Y.G., Z.Z.-C., M.J.F., A.G.)
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- Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program, Division of Human Genetics (C.C.M., E.M., Z.Z.-C., M.J.F., A.G.), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program, Division of Human Genetics (C.C.M., E.M., Z.Z.-C., M.J.F., A.G.), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- From the Departments of Radiology and Division of Neuroradiology (F.G.G., B.H., C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.-S., A.V., G.Z.)
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- From the Departments of Radiology and Division of Neuroradiology (F.G.G., B.H., C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.-S., A.V., G.Z.)
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- From the Departments of Radiology and Division of Neuroradiology (F.G.G., B.H., C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.-S., A.V., G.Z.)
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- Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program, Division of Human Genetics (C.C.M., E.M., Z.Z.-C., M.J.F., A.G.), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Departments of Pediatrics (Y.G., Z.Z.-C., M.J.F., A.G.)
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- Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program, Division of Human Genetics (C.C.M., E.M., Z.Z.-C., M.J.F., A.G.), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Departments of Pediatrics (Y.G., Z.Z.-C., M.J.F., A.G.)
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- From the Departments of Radiology and Division of Neuroradiology (F.G.G., B.H., C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.-S., A.V., G.Z.).,Radiology (A.V.), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program, Division of Human Genetics (C.C.M., E.M., Z.Z.-C., M.J.F., A.G.), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Departments of Pediatrics (Y.G., Z.Z.-C., M.J.F., A.G.)
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- From the Departments of Radiology and Division of Neuroradiology (F.G.G., B.H., C.A.P.F.A., S.R.T., J.S.M.-S., A.V., G.Z.).,The Program for the Study of Neurodevelopment in Rare Disorders (NDRD) (G.Z.), Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
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Wu CZ, Goldstein A, Klebanoff J, Moawad GN. 2196 Vulvar Vestibulectomy with Vaginal Advancement Flap for Neuroproliferative Vulvodynia. J Minim Invasive Gynecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2019.09.302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Dor-Ziderman Y, Lutz A, Goldstein A. Prediction-based neural mechanisms for shielding the self from existential threat. Neuroimage 2019; 202:116080. [PMID: 31401240 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2019] [Revised: 07/25/2019] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The human mind has an automatic tendency to avoid awareness of its mortality. How this protective mechanism is implemented at the neuronal level is unknown. Here we test the hypothesis that prediction-based mechanisms mediate death-denial by shielding the self from existential threat. We provide evidence that self-specific predictive processes are downregulated during the perception of death-related linguistic stimuli and that this mechanism can predict fear-of-death. Using a magnetoencephalography visual mismatch paradigm, we show that the brain's automatic prediction response to deviancy is eliminated when death words and self-face representations are coupled, but remains present when coupled to other-face or to negative words. We further demonstrate a functional link between how death impacts self-image vs. Other-image, and show that it predicts fear-of-death. Finally, we confirm this effect in a behavioral active inference experiment showing that death-related words bias perceptual judgment on facial self and other morphed video clips. Together these results lay out, for the first time, a plausible neural-based mechanism of death-denial.
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- Y Dor-Ziderman
- Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM, U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon 1 University, Lyon, 69500, France
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- Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Conforto I, Samir C, Chausse F, Goldstein A, Pereira B, Coudeyre E. Comparison of psychometric properties between the Labin, a new electronic dynamometer, and the Jamar: Preliminary results in healthy subjects. Hand Surg Rehabil 2019; 38:293-297. [PMID: 31386926 DOI: 10.1016/j.hansur.2019.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2019] [Revised: 07/25/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Many instruments exist for measuring grip strength. The Jamar hydraulic hand dynamometer is currently the gold standard. The Labin is a prototype electronic dynamometer that can also measure maximum grip strength. The main objective was to compare the Labin dynamometer with the gold standard instrument, the Jamar, in a healthy population, and secondarily to compare discomfort during use. A single-center exploratory study was conducted. The subjects enrolled had to be aged between 20 and 60, be volunteers and give consent. The required number of subjects was 30. The subjects were positioned according to American Society of Hand Therapists recommendations. Maximum grip force was measured in kilograms using the mean of three successive trials. The first dynamometer used was chosen randomly. The handle's discomfort during use was rated on a simple verbal scale from 0 to 10. Thirty-four subjects were included. The concordance coefficient for peak torque between the Labin and Jamar dynamometers was 0.90 for the dominant hand and 0.83 for the non-dominant hand. The intraclass correlation coefficient for peak torque with the Labin was 0.81 [0.69; 0.89] for the dominant hand and 0.86 [0.76; 0.92] for the non-dominant hand. In our study, we have shown that the Labin prototype has acceptable validity and reproducibility. The Labin will need to be tested in pathological conditions next.
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- I Conforto
- Service de médecine physique et réadaptation, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, INRA, université Clermont-Auvergne, Route de Chateaugay, 63118 Cébazat, France
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- Laboratoire LIMOS, université Clermont-Auvergne, 63178 Aubière cedex, France; Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, institut Pascal, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire LIMOS, université Clermont-Auvergne, 63178 Aubière cedex, France; Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, institut Pascal, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Service de médecine physique et réadaptation, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, INRA, université Clermont-Auvergne, Route de Chateaugay, 63118 Cébazat, France
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- University hospital Clermont-Ferrand, biostatistics unit (DRCI), 63003 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Service de médecine physique et réadaptation, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, INRA, université Clermont-Auvergne, Route de Chateaugay, 63118 Cébazat, France.
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Goldstein A, Catus F, Picaut P. 100 Rationale and Design for a Phase II Trial of Abobotulinumtoxina (Dysport) in the Management of Vulvodynia. J Sex Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2019.03.538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Govind V, Mitchell L, Tolson H, Barela K, Casey J, Goldstein A. 085 Exploring Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression in Vulvodynia with Associated Overactive Pelvic Floor Muscle Dysfunction. J Sex Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2019.03.526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Govind V, Mitchell L, Tolson H, Barela K, Casey J, Goldstein A. 089 Exploring Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression in Lichen Sclerosus. J Sex Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2019.03.530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Nissim M, Hutzler Y, Goldstein A. A walk on water: comparing the influence of Ai Chi and Tai Chi on fall risk and verbal working memory in ageing people with intellectual disabilities - a randomised controlled trial. J Intellect Disabil Res 2019; 63:603-613. [PMID: 30775818 DOI: 10.1111/jir.12602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Revised: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Aquatic motor intervention has been found to be effective in reducing falls and improving verbal working memory among the general population. However, effects among older adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) have never been explored. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of aquatic motor intervention on fall risk and verbal working memory among older adults with ID. METHODS Forty-one older adults with mild to moderate ID (age: 50-66 years) were randomly assigned to 14 weeks of aquatic motor intervention (Ai Chi: N = 19) or identical on-land motor intervention (Tai Chi: N = 22). Fall risk, measured with the Tinetti balance assessment tool (TBAT), and verbal working memory, measured with the digit span forward test, were assessed pre-intervention, after 7 weeks of intervention and post-intervention. RESULTS Study results indicate positive effects of both aquatic and on-land motor intervention on TBAT fall risk score, while the aquatic motor intervention group improved TBAT fall risk score quicker as compared with the on-land motor intervention group. Moreover, the lower the pre-intervention TBAT score was, the higher the improvement. In addition, study findings support the positive effects of aquatic motor intervention on verbal working memory ability as measured with the digit span forward test. CONCLUSIONS Motor intervention, and particularly in an aquatic environment, can potentially reduce fall risk. Aquatic motor intervention may help to improve verbal working memory among older adults with ID.
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- M Nissim
- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- The Academic College at Wingate, Netanya, Israel
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Goldstein A, Mitchell L, Govind V, Heller D. 007 A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Trial of Autologous Platelet Rich Plasma Intradermal Injections for the Treatment of Vulvar Lichen Sclerosus. J Sex Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2019.03.464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Goldstein A, Quintana Diez P, Kapanadze S, Cala M, Evans C, Whyte J, Christoph A. 119 The Vulvodynia Experience Questionnaire (VEQ): Qualitative Development of a New Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for Vulvodynia. J Sex Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2019.03.557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Cigna S, Mitchell L, Goldstein A. 025 Lysis of Vulvar Adhesions for Lichen Sclerosus: A Series of 5 Patients. J Sex Med 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.03.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cigna S, Mitchell L, Goldstein A. 079 Vulvar Crohn’s: A Rare Presentation of Crohn’s Disease. J Sex Med 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.03.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Fitch K, Cho E, Goldstein A, Weinstock M, Qureshi A, Li W. 308 Host characteristics and risk of atypical nevi. J Invest Dermatol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2018.03.314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Rubin R, Mitchell L, Winter A, Goldstein A, Goldstein I. 011 Successful Treatment of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/PBS) in Women with Provoked Vestibulodynia (PVD). J Sex Med 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.11.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Albers DJ, Elhadad N, Claassen J, Perotte R, Goldstein A, Hripcsak G. Estimating summary statistics for electronic health record laboratory data for use in high-throughput phenotyping algorithms. J Biomed Inform 2018; 78:87-101. [PMID: 29369797 PMCID: PMC5856130 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2017] [Revised: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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We study the question of how to represent or summarize raw laboratory data taken from an electronic health record (EHR) using parametric model selection to reduce or cope with biases induced through clinical care. It has been previously demonstrated that the health care process (Hripcsak and Albers, 2012, 2013), as defined by measurement context (Hripcsak and Albers, 2013; Albers et al., 2012) and measurement patterns (Albers and Hripcsak, 2010, 2012), can influence how EHR data are distributed statistically (Kohane and Weber, 2013; Pivovarov et al., 2014). We construct an algorithm, PopKLD, which is based on information criterion model selection (Burnham and Anderson, 2002; Claeskens and Hjort, 2008), is intended to reduce and cope with health care process biases and to produce an intuitively understandable continuous summary. The PopKLD algorithm can be automated and is designed to be applicable in high-throughput settings; for example, the output of the PopKLD algorithm can be used as input for phenotyping algorithms. Moreover, we develop the PopKLD-CAT algorithm that transforms the continuous PopKLD summary into a categorical summary useful for applications that require categorical data such as topic modeling. We evaluate our methodology in two ways. First, we apply the method to laboratory data collected in two different health care contexts, primary versus intensive care. We show that the PopKLD preserves known physiologic features in the data that are lost when summarizing the data using more common laboratory data summaries such as mean and standard deviation. Second, for three disease-laboratory measurement pairs, we perform a phenotyping task: we use the PopKLD and PopKLD-CAT algorithms to define high and low values of the laboratory variable that are used for defining a disease state. We then compare the relationship between the PopKLD-CAT summary disease predictions and the same predictions using empirically estimated mean and standard deviation to a gold standard generated by clinical review of patient records. We find that the PopKLD laboratory data summary is substantially better at predicting disease state. The PopKLD or PopKLD-CAT algorithms are not meant to be used as phenotyping algorithms, but we use the phenotyping task to show what information can be gained when using a more informative laboratory data summary. In the process of evaluation our method we show that the different clinical contexts and laboratory measurements necessitate different statistical summaries. Similarly, leveraging the principle of maximum entropy we argue that while some laboratory data only have sufficient information to estimate a mean and standard deviation, other laboratory data captured in an EHR contain substantially more information than can be captured in higher-parameter models.
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- D J Albers
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University, 710 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Value Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital, 601 West 168th Street New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY, USA.
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Vernon H, Cohen J, De Nittis P, Fatemi A, McClellan R, Goldstein A, Malerba N, Guex N, Reymond A, Merla G. Intellectual developmental disorder with cardiac arrhythmia syndrome in a child with compound heterozygous GNB5 variants. Clin Genet 2018; 93:1254-1256. [PMID: 29368331 DOI: 10.1111/cge.13194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Revised: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Identification of a novel compound heterozygous of GNB5 in a patient with intellectual developmental disorder with cardiac arrhytmia (IDDCA), from non-consaguineous family. Three-dimensional modelling and in silico predictions suggest that GNB5 variants are causative of the phenotype, extending the number of IDDCA patients so far identified.
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- H Vernon
- Department of Neurogenetics, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Neurogenetics, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurogenetics, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Neurogenetics, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Medical Genetics, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy
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- Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Division of Medical Genetics, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy
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King M, Mitchell L, Belkin Z, Goldstein A. 036 Vulvar Vestibulectomy for Neuroproliferative Associated Vestibulodynia: A Retrospective Case-Control Study. J Sex Med 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.04.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Goldstein L, Goldstein A, Kellogg-Spadt S, Marfori C, Goldstein A. 002 Digital Cervicography for Quality Control of Visualization With Acetic Acid (VIA) for Cervical Dysplasia Screening. J Sex Med 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Bissaldi E, Connaughton V, Omodei N, Burns E, Goldstein A, Vianello G. The Fermi GBM and LAT follow-up of GW150914. EPJ Web Conf 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201713603020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Weizman N, Baidun K, Goldstein A, Amit U, Lawrence Y, Appel S, Benayun M, Dubinski S, Orion I, Alezra D, Gnessin H, Symon Z, Goldstein J. Effects of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) Used for Respiratory Motion Management in Patients Receiving Chest Radiation to the Heart: An Analysis of Size, Position, and Motion. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.06.2277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Perez-Losada M, Goldstein A, Alamri L, Crandall KA, Freishtat RJ. 20: NASOPHARYNX MICROBIOME COMPOSITION VARIES OVER TIME IN PEDIATRIC ASTHMA. J Investig Med 2016. [DOI: 10.1136/jim-2016-000080.36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Purpose of StudyThe application of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has shown that microbial communities in the respiratory airways (i.e., the microbiome) play a significant role in the onset, development and severity of asthma. However, little is known about their temporal dynamics (i.e., microbial succession), which poses a significant obstacle to identifying pulmotypes of disease and assessing inter-patient variation. Here, we couple NGS and 16S rRNA data to characterize the nasopharynx microbiome of children with asthma and determine its stability over time.Methods UsedWe collected nasal washes from 40 children with asthma enrolled in the AsthMaP-2 Project from two consecutive visits, six months apart. Total DNA was extracted and sequenced for the 16S-V4 rRNA gene region (∼250 bp) using the MySeq Illumina platform. Reads were analyzed in Mothur using the SILVAv119 reference database. Alpha diversity metrics and phylogenetic and count-base distance community indexes of beta diversity were compared across samples and time points. PCoA and NJ clustering analysis were used to assess community relatedness. Differences in alpha diversity and OTU abundance between sample pairs across time points were also compared.Summary of ResultsA mean of 27,479 clean 16S sequences corresponding to an average of 173 OTUs were sequenced and detected per sample, respectively. Representatives of Moraxella, Corynebacterium, Prevotella, Staphylococcus, Alloiococcus, Streptococcus, Peptoniphilus, Fusobacterium, and Haemophilus accounted for 36 to 99% of the reads across samples. These genera have been previously found in the nasopharynx of asthmatic and healthy children. A total of 61 OTUs from these genera were present in at least 50% of the samples (i.e., the nasal core microbiome). Significant differences in core microbiome composition were detected between sample pairs, but no directional trend (increase or decrease) was observed across sample pairs. Samples were randomly ordinated and did not cluster together.ConclusionsOur analysis of nasal microbiomes in 40 asthmatic children revealed significant differences in composition within individuals over six months. Future cross-sectional microbiome studies need to be aware of short span temporal dynamics in nasal microbiota.
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Connaughton V, Briggs MS, Goldstein A, Meegan CA, Paciesas WS, Preece RD, Wilson-Hodge CA, Gibby MH, Greiner J, Gruber D, Jenke P, Kippen RM, Pelassa V, Xiong S, Yu HF, Bhat PN, Burgess JM, Byrne D, Fitzpatrick G, Foley S, Giles MM, Guiriec S, van der Horst AJ, von Kienlin A, McBreen S, McGlynn S, Tierney D, Zhang BB. LOCALIZATION OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS USING THE
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GAMMA-RAY BURST MONITOR. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/216/2/32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Ackermann M, Ajello M, Asano K, Atwood WB, Axelsson M, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Baring MG, Bastieri D, Bechtol K, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Bonamente E, Bregeon J, Brigida M, Bruel P, Buehler R, Burgess JM, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caraveo PA, Cecchi C, Chaplin V, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Cheung CC, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Claus R, Cleveland W, Cohen-Tanugi J, Collazzi A, Cominsky LR, Connaughton V, Conrad J, Cutini S, D’Ammando F, de Angelis A, DeKlotz M, de Palma F, Dermer CD, Desiante R, Diekmann A, Di Venere L, Drell PS, Drlica-Wagner A, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Finke J, Fitzpatrick G, Focke WB, Franckowiak A, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gehrels N, Germani S, Gibby M, Giglietto N, Giles M, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Godfrey G, Granot J, Grenier IA, Grove JE, Gruber D, Guiriec S, Hadasch D, Hanabata Y, Harding AK, Hayashida M, Hays E, Horan D, Hughes RE, Inoue Y, Jogler T, Jóhannesson G, Johnson WN, Kawano T, Knödlseder J, Kocevski D, Kuss M, Lande J, Larsson S, Latronico L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, McEnery JE, Michelson PF, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Monzani ME, Moretti E, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Nemmen R, Nuss E, Ohno M, Ohsugi T, Okumura A, Omodei N, Orienti M, Paneque D, Pelassa V, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Petrosian V, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Racusin JL, Rainò S, Rando R, Razzano M, Razzaque S, Reimer A, Reimer O, Ritz S, Roth M, Ryde F, Sartori A, Parkinson PMS, Scargle JD, Schulz A, Sgrò C, Siskind EJ, Sonbas E, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Tajima H, Takahashi H, Thayer JG, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Tibaldo L, Tinivella M, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Usher TL, Vandenbroucke J, Vasileiou V, Vianello G, Vitale V, Winer BL, Wood KS, Yamazaki R, Younes G, Yu HF, Zhu SJ, Bhat PN, Briggs MS, Byrne D, Foley S, Goldstein A, Jenke P, Kippen RM, Kouveliotou C, McBreen S, Meegan C, Paciesas WS, Preece R, Rau A, Tierney D, van der Horst AJ, von Kienlin A, Wilson-Hodge C, Xiong S, Cusumano G, La Parola V, Cummings JR. Fermi-LAT Observations of the Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 130427A. Science 2014; 343:42-7. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1242353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- M. Ackermann
- Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-Ha, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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- Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Department of Physics, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Università di Pisa and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Laboratoire AIM, CEA-IRFU/CNRS/Université Paris Diderot, Service d’Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “G. Galilei,” Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, and Università di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin” dell’Università e del Politecnico di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, École Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
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- Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “G. Galilei,” Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEE-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- INAF–Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, College of Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA; resident at Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “G. Galilei,” Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana Science Data Center, I-00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica–Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, I-00040 Monte Porzio Catone (Roma), Italy
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD 21044, USA
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- Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS/IN2P3, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Research Fellow, funded by a grant from the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana Science Data Center, I-00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica–Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, I-00040 Monte Porzio Catone (Roma), Italy
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- INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Udine, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Gruppo Collegato di Udine, I-33100 Udine, Italy
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- Stellar Solutions Inc., 250 Cambridge Avenue, Suite 204, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin” dell’Università e del Politecnico di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Jacobs Technology, Huntsville, AL 35806, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin” dell’Università e del Politecnico di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, École Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin” dell’Università e del Politecnico di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Jacobs Technology, Huntsville, AL 35806, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin” dell’Università e del Politecnico di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Jacobs Technology, Huntsville, AL 35806, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin” dell’Università e del Politecnico di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Open University of Israel, Ra’anana 43537, Israel
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- Laboratoire AIM, CEA-IRFU/CNRS/Université Paris Diderot, Service d’Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, USA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEE-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, École Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Physics, Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Science Institute, University of Iceland, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- CNRS, IRAP, F-31028 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
- GAHEC, Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP, Toulouse, France
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin” dell’Università e del Politecnico di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Department of Physics and Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
- Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma “Tor Vergata,” I-00133 Roma, Italy
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS/IN2P3, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Department of Physics and Center for Space Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS/IN2P3, Montpellier, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “G. Galilei,” Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin” dell’Università e del Politecnico di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “G. Galilei,” Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Department of Physics, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Institut für Astro- und Teilchenphysik and Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Institut für Astro- und Teilchenphysik and Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Department of Physics, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- INAF–Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Department of Physics, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Space Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- NYCB Real-Time Computing Inc., Lattingtown, NY 11560, USA
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- Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD 21044, USA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Adyaman University, 02040 Adyaman, Turkey
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin” dell’Università e del Politecnico di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEE-CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Department of Physics and Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS/IN2P3, Montpellier, France
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale (CIFS), I-10133 Torino, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma “Tor Vergata,” I-00133 Roma, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata,” I-00133 Roma, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5258, Japan
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- Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD 21044, USA
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
- Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
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- University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
- Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD 21044, USA
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Astronomical Institute Änton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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- INAF–Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Via U. La Malfa 153, I-90146 Palermo, Italy
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- INAF–Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Via U. La Malfa 153, I-90146 Palermo, Italy
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
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- Department of Space Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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Straus OH, Goldstein A. ZONE BEHAVIOR OF ENZYMES : ILLUSTRATED BY THE EFFECT OF DISSOCIATION CONSTANT AND DILUTION ON THE SYSTEM CHOLINESTERASE-PHYSOSTIGMINE. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 26:559-85. [PMID: 19873367 PMCID: PMC2142573 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.26.6.559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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1. The kinetics of the reversible combination of one enzyme center with one molecule of a substrate or inhibitor is treated as a true bimolecular instead of a pseudomonomolecular reaction. The general equations describing such a reaction are presented and analyzed algebraically and graphically. 2. A new term, "specific concentration," is introduced to denote the concentration of reactants in units equal to the dissociation constant. Its use makes the kinetic equations universally applicable to all reversible systems of the given type. 3. It is shown that such a system exhibits three "zones" of behavior. Each zone is characterized and shown to exhibit significant differences in the function relating the concentrations of the components of the system at equilibrium. The zone boundaries are rigorously defined in terms of the specific enzyme concentration, for the mathematical error tolerable with a given experimental accuracy; and approximate boundaries for practical use are proposed. 4. The classical treatment of enzyme kinetics is shown to be a limiting case valid only for low specific enzyme concentrations (zone A) and to be inapplicable in a number of systems whose dissociation constants are very small or whose molar enzyme concentrations are very great, and in which, therefore, the specific enzyme concentrations are large. See Table I for a summary of zone differences. 5. In an enzyme system containing substrate or inhibitor, dilution before determination of reaction velocities is shown to be a crucial operation, entailing large changes in the fraction of enzyme in the form of a complex. The changes in fractional activity or inhibition with dilution are shown to be a function of specific enzyme concentration, the dilution factor, and the fraction of enzyme initially in the form of complex. Equations are given permitting the calculation of the state of the system at any concentration. The errors introduced into physiological work by failure to take the dilution effect into account are pointed out. 6. Experimental data are presented showing that the system composed of serum cholinesterase and physostigmine behaves as predicted by the dilution effect equations. 7. Two other conclusions of practical pharmacological importance are drawn from the theory of zone behavior: (a) The finding that a biological response is a linear function of the dose of a drug does not necessarily mean that the reaction is irreversible, but only that if reversible, the reactant with which the drug combines has a high specific concentration. (b) If a tissue enzyme has a high specific concentration, all reversible inhibitors will be equally potent in combining with it, regardless of their relative potency in dilute systems; provided only that their dissociation constants are within certain broad limits. 8. It is shown how the type of analysis here applied to bimolecular reactions can be applied in toto to systems of the type E + nX ⇋ EXn, where n molecules of substrate or inhibitor unite with one enzyme center. The zone boundaries and the magnitude of the dilution effect change with n, but the general characteristics of the zones are the same for all values of n. 9. Since the analysis is based only on mass law assumptions, it is applicable to any system that is formally analogous to the one here treated.
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- O H Straus
- Department of Pharmacology, The Harvard Medical School, Boston
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The mechanism of enzyme-inhibitor-substrate reactions has been analyzed from a theoretical standpoint and illustrated by data from the system cholinesterase-physostigmine-acetylcholine. This treatment is by no means limited to a single system but should be generally applicable to others of similar type. Competitive enzyme-inhibitor-substrate systems show the same characteristic "zones of behavior" already demonstrated for non-competitive systems by Straus and Goldstein. These zones, three in number, determine the mathematical function which relates activity of an enzyme to concentration of an added substrate or inhibitor or both. The effects of suboptimal substrate concentration in such systems have been considered, and the errors arising from various common simplifications of the descriptive equations have been pointed out. The zone behavior phenomenon has been shown to be useful in determining the number of molecules of substrate or inhibitor combining reversibly with a single enzyme center. The kinetics of competitive inhibition, dilution effect, combination of inhibitor or substrate with enzyme, and destruction of inhibitor or substrate by enzyme have been analyzed and experimentally verified, and absolute velocity constants have been determined. Theoretical conclusions have been discussed from the standpoint of their physiological significance. Specifically, it has been shown that: 1. The inhibition of cholinesterase by physostigmine is competitive. A single molecule of physostigmine or acetylcholine combines with one center of cholinesterase—n = 1; and the mechanism n = 2 has been. excluded. Numerical values of the constants for this system are as follows: KI = 3.11 x 10–8k1 (combination) = 8.3 x 105k2 (dissociation) = 0.026 KS = 1.25 x 10–3k3 (combination) = 260 k4 (dissociation) = 0.32 2. No definitive value can be assigned to E, the molar concentration of enzyme centers, but in 4.54 per cent dog serum, E < 1.8 x 10–8 (EI' < 0.58). The system therefore operates in (or nearly in) zone A at this concentration. 3. Competitive displacement of inhibitor by substrate and vice versa introduces considerable error in the usual 20 minute determination of the activity of an inhibited enzyme, unless properly corrected for. 4. Dissociation of the enzyme-inhibitor complex on dilution proceeds moderately slowly so that the full corrections for dilution cannot be applied unless time has been allowed for full dissociation. 5. Combination of physostigmine with cholinesterase is slow at all but large concentrations of inhibitor. 6. The destruction of physostigmine or acetylcholine by cholinesterase follows the predicted curve; kD for the destruction of physostigmine is found to be > 0.00182; kD for acetylcholine destruction is > 3500. There is no reason to assume inhibition of destruction by excess substrate or inhibitor. 7. The common assumption that enzymatic activity follows (or nearly follows) a monomolecular course is true only under limited conditions, which have been here defined. It is not valid, as a rule, for the enzymatic destruction of an inhibitor (e.g., physostigmine) and its application to such a case may lead to erroneous conclusions about the reaction mechanism.
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- A Goldstein
- Department of Pharmacology, The Harvard Medical School, Boston
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Travaglini L, Brancati F, Attie-Bitach T, Audollent S, Bertini E, Kaplan J, Perrault I, Iannicelli M, Mancuso B, Rigoli L, Rozet JM, Swistun D, Tolentino J, Dallapiccola B, Gleeson JG, Valente EM, Zankl A, Leventer R, Grattan-Smith P, Janecke A, D'Hooghe M, Sznajer Y, Van Coster R, Demerleir L, Dias K, Moco C, Moreira A, Kim CA, Maegawa G, Petkovic D, Abdel-Salam GMH, Abdel-Aleem A, Zaki MS, Marti I, Quijano-Roy S, Sigaudy S, de Lonlay P, Romano S, Touraine R, Koenig M, Lagier-Tourenne C, Messer J, Collignon P, Wolf N, Philippi H, Kitsiou Tzeli S, Halldorsson S, Johannsdottir J, Ludvigsson P, Phadke SR, Udani V, Stuart B, Magee A, Lev D, Michelson M, Ben-Zeev B, Fischetto R, Benedicenti F, Stanzial F, Borgatti R, Accorsi P, Battaglia S, Fazzi E, Giordano L, Pinelli L, Boccone L, Bigoni S, Ferlini A, Donati MA, Caridi G, Divizia MT, Faravelli F, Ghiggeri G, Pessagno A, Briguglio M, Briuglia S, Salpietro CD, Tortorella G, Adami A, Castorina P, Lalatta F, Marra G, Riva D, Scelsa B, Spaccini L, Uziel G, Del Giudice E, Laverda AM, Ludwig K, Permunian A, Suppiej A, Signorini S, Uggetti C, Battini R, Di Giacomo M, Cilio MR, Di Sabato ML, Leuzzi V, Parisi P, Pollazzon M, Silengo M, De Vescovi R, Greco D, Romano C, Cazzagon M, Simonati A, Al-Tawari AA, Bastaki L, Mégarbané A, Sabolic Avramovska V, de Jong MM, Stromme P, Koul R, Rajab A, Azam M, Barbot C, Martorell Sampol L, Rodriguez B, Pascual-Castroviejo I, Teber S, Anlar B, Comu S, Karaca E, Kayserili H, Yüksel A, Akcakus M, Al Gazali L, Sztriha L, Nicholl D, Woods CG, Bennett C, Hurst J, Sheridan E, Barnicoat A, Hennekam R, Lees M, Blair E, Bernes S, Sanchez H, Clark AE, DeMarco E, Donahue C, Sherr E, Hahn J, Sanger TD, Gallager TE, Dobyns WB, Daugherty C, Krishnamoorthy KS, Sarco D, Walsh CA, McKanna T, Milisa J, Chung WK, De Vivo DC, Raynes H, Schubert R, Seward A, Brooks DG, Goldstein A, Caldwell J, Finsecke E, Maria BL, Holden K, Cruse RP, Swoboda KJ, Viskochil D. Expanding CEP290 mutational spectrum in ciliopathies. Am J Med Genet A 2009; 149A:2173-80. [PMID: 19764032 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Ciliopathies are an expanding group of rare conditions characterized by multiorgan involvement, that are caused by mutations in genes encoding for proteins of the primary cilium or its apparatus. Among these genes, CEP290 bears an intriguing allelic spectrum, being commonly mutated in Joubert syndrome and related disorders (JSRD), Meckel syndrome (MKS), Senior-Loken syndrome and isolated Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). Although these conditions are recessively inherited, in a subset of patients only one CEP290 mutation could be detected. To assess whether genomic rearrangements involving the CEP290 gene could represent a possible mutational mechanism in these cases, exon dosage analysis on genomic DNA was performed in two groups of CEP290 heterozygous patients, including five JSRD/MKS cases and four LCA, respectively. In one JSRD patient, we identified a large heterozygous deletion encompassing CEP290 C-terminus that resulted in marked reduction of mRNA expression. No copy number alterations were identified in the remaining probands. The present work expands the CEP290 genotypic spectrum to include multiexon deletions. Although this mechanism does not appear to be frequent, screening for genomic rearrangements should be considered in patients in whom a single CEP290 mutated allele was identified.
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- Lorena Travaglini
- CSS-Mendel Institute, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Abdo AA, Ackermann M, Arimoto M, Asano K, Atwood WB, Axelsson M, Baldini L, Ballet J, Band DL, Barbiellini G, Baring MG, Bastieri D, Battelino M, Baughman BM, Bechtol K, Bellardi F, Bellazzini R, Berenji B, Bhat PN, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bogaert G, Bogart JR, Bonamente E, Bonnell J, Borgland AW, Bouvier A, Bregeon J, Brez A, Briggs MS, Brigida M, Bruel P, Burnett TH, Burrows D, Busetto G, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caraveo PA, Casandjian JM, Ceccanti M, Cecchi C, Celotti A, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Cheung CC, Chiang J, Ciprini S, Claus R, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cominsky LR, Connaughton V, Conrad J, Costamante L, Cutini S, DeKlotz M, Dermer CD, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Digel SW, Dingus BL, do Couto e Silva E, Drell PS, Dubois R, Dumora D, Edmonds Y, Evans PA, Fabiani D, Farnier C, Favuzzi C, Finke J, Fishman G, Focke WB, Frailis M, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Gehrels N, Germani S, Giebels B, Giglietto N, Giommi P, Giordano F, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Goldstein A, Granot J, Greiner J, Grenier IA, Grondin MH, Grove JE, Guillemot L, Guiriec S, Haller G, Hanabata Y, Harding AK, Hayashida M, Hays E, Hernando Morat JA, Hoover A, Hughes RE, Jóhannesson G, Johnson AS, Johnson RP, Johnson TJ, Johnson WN, Kamae T, Katagiri H, Kataoka J, Kavelaars A, Kawai N, Kelly H, Kennea J, Kerr M, Kippen RM, Knödlseder J, Kocevski D, Kocian ML, Komin N, Kouveliotou C, Kuehn F, Kuss M, Lande J, Landriu D, Larsson S, Latronico L, Lavalley C, Lee B, Lee SH, Lemoine-Goumard M, Lichti GG, Longo F, Loparco F, Lott B, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Madejski GM, Makeev A, Marangelli B, Mazziotta MN, McBreen S, McEnery JE, McGlynn S, Meegan C, Mészáros P, Meurer C, Michelson PF, Minuti M, Mirizzi N, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Monte C, Monzani ME, Moretti E, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Nakamori T, Nelson D, Nolan PL, Norris JP, Nuss E, Ohno M, Ohsugi T, Okumura A, Omodei N, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Ozaki M, Paciesas WS, Paneque D, Panetta JH, Parent D, Pelassa V, Pepe M, Perri M, Pesce-Rollins M, Petrosian V, Pinchera M, Piron F, Porter TA, Preece R, Rainò S, Ramirez-Ruiz E, Rando R, Rapposelli E, Razzano M, Razzaque S, Rea N, Reimer A, Reimer O, Reposeur T, Reyes LC, Ritz S, Rochester LS, Rodriguez AY, Roth M, Ryde F, Sadrozinski HFW, Sanchez D, Sander A, Saz Parkinson PM, Scargle JD, Schalk TL, Segal KN, Sgrò C, Shimokawabe T, Siskind EJ, Smith DA, Smith PD, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Stamatikos M, Starck JL, Stecker FW, Steinle H, Stephens TE, Strickman MS, Suson DJ, Tagliaferri G, Tajima H, Takahashi H, Takahashi T, Tanaka T, Tenze A, Thayer JB, Thayer JG, Thompson DJ, Tibaldo L, Torres DF, Tosti G, Tramacere A, Turri M, Tuvi S, Usher TL, van der Horst AJ, Vigiani L, Vilchez N, Vitale V, von Kienlin A, Waite AP, Williams DA, Wilson-Hodge C, Winer BL, Wood KS, Wu XF, Yamazaki R, Ylinen T, Ziegler M. Fermi Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from GRB 080916C. Science 2009; 323:1688-93. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1169101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 478] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Wild P, Schill W, Goldstein A, Andrieu N. Une variante flexible du protocole en deux phases pour l’étude d’expositions rares. Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2008.06.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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When human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) differentiate into capillary-like tubes, there is a five-fold upregulation of the mRNA for thymosin beta4 (Tbeta4) (Grant et al. J Cell Sci 1995; 108: 3685-94 [1]) and this endogenous expression plays an important role in endothelial cell attachment to and spreading on matrix components. We now show that exogenous addition of thymosin beta4 (in the ng-microg range) to HUVEC in culture can induce several biological responses. These responses include increased tube formation in vitro. Additionally, exogenous thymosin beta4 enhances vascular sprouting in the coronary artery ring angiogenesis assay. Measurements of these vascular sprouts show a doubling of the vessel area (via increased branching) with as little as 100 ng of synthetic thymosin beta4. These processes appear to involve the binding of thymosin beta4 to an unknown cell surface receptor and internalization of the protein. This cell surface-binding appears not to be mediated through the thymosin beta4-actin binding domain LKTET. An increase in thymosin beta4 cytoplasmic staining in HUVEC exposed 10 microg of the peptide appears to occur without increased mRNA translation. In summary Tbeta4 induces an increase in cell-matrix attachment, proliferation, tube formation, internalization of the peptide and rearrangement of the actin cytoskeleton. The data now defines both an autocrine and paracrine role for thymosin beta4 in vessel formation.
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- D S Grant
- The Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA.
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Merlin J, Goldstein A, Goldstein P. Three-Dimensional Ultrastructural Karyotype Analysis from the Meiotic Parthenogenetic Nematode Heterodera betulae. J Nematol 2003; 35:228-231. [PMID: 19266000 PMCID: PMC2620618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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Meiotic chromosome structure and function are described in the plant-parasitic nematode Heterodera betulae. Twelve synaptonemal complexes (SCs) were reconstructed from pachytene nuclei; therefore, n=12 is predicted for this species. Morphologically distinct sex chromosomes were not observed. Only one end of the SC is attached to the nuclear envelope, and there is no bouquet arrangement at pachytene. The structure of the SC in this meiotic parthenogenetic nematode was different than in other nematodes that reproduce via amphimixis; a striated central element with transverse filaments was not observed. Multiple SCs, or polycomplexes, were present in the nucleus. Recombination nodules were not observed. The centrioles were comprised of nine doublet microtubules connected by a ring, which is a distinct modification from the typical nine triplet microtubules without any interconnecting structure.
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Merlin J, Goldstein A, Goldstein P. Meiotic Structures in the Animal-Parasitic Nematode Ascaris megalocephala: Synaptonemal Complexes, Recombination Nodules, and Centrioles. J Nematol 2003; 35:223-227. [PMID: 19265999 PMCID: PMC2620616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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Two synaptonemal complexes (SCs) were present in the pachytene nuclei of Ascaris megalocephala. The SC was tripartite and comprised of two lateral elements (25 nm) with a striated central element (25 nm) and a central region of 65 nm. Spherical recombination nodules were observed to be associated only with the central element, although they are non-existent in the related A. lumbricoides var. suum (Goldstein, 1977). The SCs were attached to the nuclear envelope at only one end, while the other end was free in the nucleoplasm. This lack of bouquet formation of the chromosomes is consistent with all other nematodes studied. Morphologically distinct sex chromosomes were not observed, which differs from the presence of five Y-chromosomes present in A. lumbricoides var. suum (Goldstein and Moens, 1976). Centrioles (0.2 microm wide) reproduced by budding off the parental centriole. The centrioles consisted of nine singlet microtubules connected by an electron-dense proteinaceous ring. This structure is consistent with centrioles described in other nematodes, yet distinctly different from the centriole structure observed in most organisms in which it consists of nine triplet microtubules without any connecting ring. Multiple synaptonemal complexes, or polycomplexes, are found in A. megalocephala and A. lumbriocoides var. suum. They appear as stacked SC and are present inside the nucleus during zygotene and in the cytoplasm at pachytene.
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Gupta K, Goldstein A, MacDonald A, Meer L, Chakrapani A. Maternal hepatic dysfunction in the third trimester of pregnancy in an infant with fatty oxidation defect. J OBSTET GYNAECOL 2003; 23:203. [PMID: 12751514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/02/2023]
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- K Gupta
- Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK
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Sinclair AM, Lee JA, Goldstein A, Xing D, Liu S, Ju R, Tucker PW, Neufeld EJ, Scheuermann RH. Lymphoid apoptosis and myeloid hyperplasia in CCAAT displacement protein mutant mice. Blood 2001; 98:3658-67. [PMID: 11739170 DOI: 10.1182/blood.v98.13.3658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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CCAAT displacement protein (cux/CDP) is an atypical homeodomain protein that represses expression of several developmentally regulated lymphoid and myeloid genes in vitro, including gp91-phox, immunoglobulin heavy chain, the T-cell receptor beta and gamma chains, and CD8. To determine how this activity affects cell development in vivo, a hypomorphic allele of cux/CDP was created by gene targeting. Homozygous mutant mice (cux/CDP(Delta HD/Delta HD)) demonstrated a partial neonatal lethality phenotype. Surviving animals suffered from a wasting disease, which usually resulted in death between 2 and 3 weeks of age. Analysis of T lymphopoiesis demonstrated that cux/CDP(Delta HD/Delta HD) mice had dramatically reduced thymic cellularity due to enhanced apoptosis, with a preferential loss of CD4(+)CD8(+) thymocytes. Ectopic CD25 expression was also observed in maturing thymocytes. B lymphopoiesis was also perturbed, with a 2- to 3-fold reduction in total bone marrow B-lineage cells and a preferential loss of cells in transition from pro-B/pre-BI to pre-BII stages due to enhanced apoptosis. These lymphoid abnormalities were independent of effects related to antigen receptor rearrangement. In contrast to the lymphoid demise, cux/CDP(Delta HD/Delta HD) mice demonstrated myeloid hyperplasia. Bone marrow reconstitution experiments identified that many of the hematopoietic defects were linked to microenvironmental effects, suggesting that underexpression of survival factors or overexpression of death-inducing factors accounted for the phenotypes observed. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) levels were elevated in several tissues, especially thymus, suggesting that TNF may be a target gene for cux/CDP-mediated repression. These data suggest that cux/CDP regulates normal hematopoiesis, in part, by modulating the levels of survival and/or apoptosis factors expressed by the microenvironment.
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, 75390-9072, USA
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Goldstein A, Haelyon U, Krolik E, Sack J. Comparison of body weight and height of Israeli schoolchildren with the Tanner and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts. Pediatrics 2001; 108:E108. [PMID: 11731635 DOI: 10.1542/peds.108.6.e108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To examine the suitability of the growth charts that are currently used in Israel and consider their replacement with a recent standard. In a sample of schoolchildren, the current Tanner and Whitehouse standards were compared with the new growth charts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). METHOD A total of 746 Israeli healthy children (368 boys and 378 girls) aged 6 to 14 years were sampled from 2 super-regional schools (from the Jewish population). Height was measured using the Leicester height measure, and weight was measured using scales calibrated by the researchers. RESULTS In height, 75% of the boys and 81% of the girls fell in the 10th to 90th percentile range of the Tanner standards. In weight, 71% of the boys and 81% of the girls were in the 10th to 90th percentile range. Israeli boys were taller (chi2(1) = 30.53) and heavier (chi2(1) = 29.39), and girls were taller (chi2(1) = 13.81) than predicted by the Tanner standards. The CDC 10th to 90th percentile range included 81% of the boys and 83% of the girls for height and 78% of the boys and 81% of the girls for weight. The girls in our sample were slightly shorter (chi2(1) = 11.87) and lighter (chi2(1) = 9.52) than predicted from the CDC charts. Nevertheless, neither boys' nor girls' body mass index measures (kg/h2) differed from the CDC charts. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that the CDC growth charts are adequate for assessing Israeli children and slightly better than the current standard. Thus, in the absence of local standards, we recommend the use of the revised CDC growth charts, which include the additional body mass index measure.
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- A Goldstein
- Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Sheba Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
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A series of experiments using the lexical decision task was conducted in order to investigate the functional differences between the upper and lower visual fields (UVF, LoVF) in word recognition. Word-nonword discrimination was swifter and more accurate for word stimuli presented in the UVF. Changing the eccentricity did not affect the UVF advantage over the LoVF. UVF superiority over LoVF was found to be equivalent for both right and left visual hemifield (RVF, LVF). In general, presenting related word primes enhanced all visual field differences in a similar manner (UVF over LoVF and RVF over LVF). However, primes consisting of semantically constraining sentences enhanced the RVF advantage over the LVF, but did not affect the UVF and LoVF differentially. The argument is made that UVF superiority cannot be due to perceptual or attentional differences alone, but must also reflect top-down information flow.
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- A Goldstein
- Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
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Radulescu EG, Lewin PA, Goldstein A, Nowicki A. Hydrophone spatial averaging corrections from 1 to 40 MHz. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2001; 48:1575-80. [PMID: 11800120 DOI: 10.1109/58.971709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The purpose of this study was to develop and experimentally verify a practical spatial averaging model for frequencies up to 40 MHz. The model is applicable to focused sources of circular geometry, accounts for the effects of hydrophone probe finite aperture, and allows calibration by substitution to be performed when the active elements of reference and tested hydrophone probes differ significantly. Several broadband sources with focal numbers between 3 and 20 were used to produce ultrasound fields with frequencies up to 40 MHz. The effective diameters of the ultrasonic hydrophone probes calibrated in the focal plane of the sources ranged from 150 to 500 microm. Prior to application of the spatial averaging corrections, the hydrophones with diameters smaller than that of the reference hydrophone exhibited experimentally determined absolute sensitivities higher than the true ones. This discrepancy increased with decreasing focal numbers and increasing frequency. It was determined that the error was governed by the cross-section of the beam in the focal plane and the ratio of the effective diameters of the reference and tested hydrophone probes. In addition, the error was found to be reliant on the frequency-dependent effective hydrophone radius. After applying the spatial averaging correction, the overall uncertainty in the hydrophone calibration was on the order of +/-1 dB. The model developed is being extended to be applicable to frequencies beyond 40 MHz, which are becoming increasingly important in diagnostic ultrasound imaging applications.
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Goldstein A. [Medical nomenclature in Hebrew from historical point of view]. Korot 2001:1. [PMID: 11678129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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