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Avery M, Augenstein V, Katzen M. P146 ROBOTIC REPAIR OF COMPLICATED INGUINAL HERNIAS. Br J Surg 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znab395.138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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In this video, the authors provide an educational demonstration on the use of robotic surgery in management of two patients with complicated and recurrent inguinal hernias. The two patients demonstrated in these videos show the benefits of use of robotics in the approach to a patient with a recurrent hernia after previous open repair with plug and patch method as well as repair in a very obese patient with large hernias causing obstruction of the left ureter.
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Robotic surgery is an emerging technology in surgery and can be a useful modality in treating patients with complex and recurrent inguinal hernias. Furthermore, the visualization in these complex cases can be helpful in identifying the important structures during dissection. Regardless of technique, the two videos presented demonstrate a complex dissection which may be needed when repairing recurrent or very large inguinal hernias.
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- Michael Avery
- Carolinas Medical Center-Atrium Health, General Surgery, Charlotte, United States
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- Carolinas Medical Center-Atrium Health, General Surgery, Charlotte, United States
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- Carolinas Medical Center, Gastrointestinal & Minimally Invasive Surgery, Charlotte, United States
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Khanna O, Velagapudi L, Das S, Sweid A, Mouchtouris N, Saiegh FA, Avery M, Chalouhi NE, Schmidt RF, Sajja K, Gooch MR, Tjoumakaris SI, Rosenwasser RH, Jabbour P. A Comparison of Radial versus Femoral Artery Access for Acute Stroke Interventions. Neurosurgery 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyaa447_396] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Garba K, Lwaleed B, Abdelwahab O, Yusuh M, Avery M, Birch B. Real world use of treatments in interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome: Outcome of an online survey. EUR UROL SUPPL 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/s2666-1683(20)32902-5] [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] Open
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Wentzel J, Taylor R, Zino C, Avery M, Muertos K, Sciarretta JD. Moped and Motorcycle Trauma: Injury Prevention and an Opportunity to Intervene. Am Surg 2020; 86:e113-e115. [PMID: 32223813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Wentzel J, Taylor R, Zino C, Avery M, Muertos K, Sciarretta JD. Moped and Motorcycle Trauma: Injury Prevention and an Opportunity to Intervene. Am Surg 2020. [DOI: 10.1177/000313482008600303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Jennifer Wentzel
- Grand Strand Medical Center University of South Carolina Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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- Prisma Health University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina
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- Grand Strand Medical Center University of South Carolina Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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- Grand Strand Medical Center University of South Carolina Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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- Grand Strand Medical Center University of South Carolina Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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- Grand Strand Medical Center University of South Carolina Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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Schoeberl MR, Jensen EJ, Pfister L, Ueyama R, Wang T, Selkirk H, Avery M, Thornberry T, Dessler AE. Water Vapor, Clouds, and Saturation in the Tropical Tropopause Layer. J Geophys Res Atmos 2019; 124:3984-4003. [PMID: 33868885 PMCID: PMC8051107 DOI: 10.1029/2018jd029849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2019] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The goal of this investigation is to understand the mechanism behind the observed high relative humidity with respect to ice (RHi) in the tropical region between ~14 km (150 hPa) and the tropopause, often referred to as the tropical tropopause layer (TTL). As shown by satellite, aircraft and balloon observations, high (>80%) RHi regions are widespread within the TTL. Regions with the highest RHi are co-located with extensive cirrus. During boreal winter, the TTL RHi is highest over the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) with a weaker maximum over South America and Africa. In the winter, TTL temperatures are coldest and upward motion is the greatest in the TWP. It is this upward motion, driving humid air into the colder upper troposphere that produces the persistent high RHi and cirrus formation. Back trajectory calculations show that comparable adiabatic and diabatic processes contribute to this upward motion. We construct a bulk model of TWP TTL water vapor transport that includes cloud nucleation and ice microphysics that quantifies how upward motion drives the persistent high RHi in the TTL region. We find that atmospheric waves triggering cloud formation regulate the RHi, and that convection dehydrates the TTL. Our forward domain-filling trajectory (FDF) model is used to more precisely simulate the TTL spatial and vertical distribution of RHi. The observed RHi distribution is reproduced by the model and we show that convection increases RHi below the base of the TTL with little impact on the RHi in the TTL region.
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- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
- Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
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- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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Ankney N, Avery M, Khain T, Scheel A. Pinning and depinning: From periodic to chaotic and random media. Chaos 2019; 29:013127. [PMID: 30709137 DOI: 10.1063/1.5056190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We study the propagation of dissipative structures in inhomogeneous media with a focus on pinning and depinning transitions. We model spatial complexity in the medium as generated by dynamical systems. We are thus able to capture transitions from periodic to quasiperiodic, to homoclinic and heteroclinic, and to chaotic media. Depinning bifurcations exhibit universal laws depending on extreme value statistics that are encoded in the dimension of ergodic measures, only. A key condition limiting this approach bounds spatial Lyapunov exponents in terms of interface localization, and we explore the breakdown of smoothness and universality when this condition is violated and fluctuations in the medium occur on length scales shorter than a typical interface width.
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- N Ankney
- Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, 619 Red Cedar Road, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 206 Church St., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 206 Church St., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Combi MR, Mäkinen TT, Bertaux JL, Quémerais E, Ferron S, Avery M, Wright C. Water Production Activity of Nine Long-Period Comets from SOHO/SWAN Observations of Hydrogen Lyman-alpha: 2013-2016. Icarus 2018; 300:33-46. [PMID: 28970625 PMCID: PMC5621766 DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.08.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Nine recently discovered long-period comets were observed by the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) Lyman-alpha all-sky camera on board the Solar and Heliosphere Observatory (SOHO) satellite during the period of 2013 to 2016. These were C/2012 K1 (PanSTARRS), C/2013 US10 (Catalina), C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden), C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), C/2014 E2 (Jacques), C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy), C/2015 G2 (MASTER), C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS) and C/2013 X1 (PanSTARRS). Of these 9 comets 6 were long-period comets and 3 were possibly dynamically new. Water production rates were calculated from each of the 885 images using our standard time-resolved model that accounts for the whole water photodissociation chain, exothermic velocities and collisional escape of H atoms. For most of these comets there were enough observations over a broad enough range of heliocentric distances to calculate power-law fits to the variation of production rate with heliocentric distances for pre- and post-perihelion portions of the orbits. Comet C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS), with a perihelion distance of only ~0.3 AU, showed the most unusual variation of water production rate with heliocentric distance and the resulting active area variation, indicating that when the comet was within 0.7 AU its activity was dominated by the continuous release of icy grains and chunks, greatly increasing the active sublimation area by more than a factor of 10 beyond what it had at larger heliocentric distances. A possible interpretation suggests that a large fraction of the comet's mass was lost during the apparition.
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- M R Combi
- Dept. of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
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- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Box 503, SF-00101 Helsinki, FINLAND
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- LATMOS/IPSL, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, 11, Boulevard d'Alembert, 78280, Guyancourt, FRANCE
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- LATMOS/IPSL, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, 11, Boulevard d'Alembert, 78280, Guyancourt, FRANCE
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- ACRI-st, Sophia-Antipolis, FRANCE
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- Dept. of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
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- Dept. of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
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Avery M, Yang J, Anderson M, Corradini M, Feldman E, Dunn F, Matos J. Critical Heat Flux in TRIGA-Fueled Reactors Cooled by Natural Convection. NUCL SCI ENG 2017. [DOI: 10.13182/nse11-69] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Michael Avery
- University of Wisconsin Madison, 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- University of Wisconsin Madison, 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- University of Wisconsin Madison, 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- University of Wisconsin Madison, 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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Nunn A, Fischer P, Sing R, Templin M, Avery M, Christmas AB. Improvement of Treatment Outcomes after Implementation of a Massive Transfusion Protocol: A Level I Trauma Center Experience. Am Surg 2017. [DOI: 10.1177/000313481708300429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We assessed the effectiveness of the implementation of an institutional massive transfusion protocol (MTP) for resuscitation with a 1:1:1 transfusion ratio of packed red blood cell (PRBC), fresh frozen plasma, and platelet units. In a Level I trauma center database, all trauma admissions (2004–2012) that received massive transfusions (≥10 units PRBCs in the first 24 hours) were reviewed retrospectively. Demographic data, transfusion ratios, and outcomes were compared before (PRE) and after (POST) MTP implementation in May 2008. Age, sex, and mechanism of injury were similar between 239 PRE and 208 POST trauma patients requiring massive transfusion. Transfusion ratios of fresh frozen plasma:PRBC and platelet:PRBC increased after MTP implementation. Among survivors, MTP implementation shortened hospital length of stay from 31 to 26 days (P = 0.04) and intensive care unit length of stay from 31 to 26 days (P = 0.02). Linear regression identified treatment after (versus before) implementation of MTP as an independent predictor of decreased ventilator days after adjusting for age, Glasgow Coma Scale, and chest Abbreviated Injury Score (P < 0.0001). Modest improvement in ratios likely does not account for all significant improvements in outcomes. Implementing a standardized protocol likely impacts automation, efficiency, and/or timeliness of product delivery.
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- Andrew Nunn
- Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, North Carolina
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- Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, North Carolina
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- Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, North Carolina
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- Dickson Advanced Analytics, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
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- Dickson Advanced Analytics, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
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Nunn A, Fischer P, Sing R, Templin M, Avery M, Christmas AB. Improvement of Treatment Outcomes after Implementation of a Massive Transfusion Protocol: A Level I Trauma Center Experience. Am Surg 2017; 83:394-398. [PMID: 28424137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We assessed the effectiveness of the implementation of an institutional massive transfusion protocol (MTP) for resuscitation with a 1:1:1 transfusion ratio of packed red blood cell (PRBC), fresh frozen plasma, and platelet units. In a Level I trauma center database, all trauma admissions (2004-2012) that received massive transfusions (≥10 units PRBCs in the first 24 hours) were reviewed retrospectively. Demographic data, transfusion ratios, and outcomes were compared before (PRE) and after (POST) MTP implementation in May 2008. Age, sex, and mechanism of injury were similar between 239 PRE and 208 POST trauma patients requiring massive transfusion. Transfusion ratios of fresh frozen plasma:PRBC and platelet:PRBC increased after MTP implementation. Among survivors, MTP implementation shortened hospital length of stay from 31 to 26 days (P = 0.04) and intensive care unit length of stay from 31 to 26 days (P = 0.02). Linear regression identified treatment after (versus before) implementation of MTP as an independent predictor of decreased ventilator days after adjusting for age, Glasgow Coma Scale, and chest Abbreviated Injury Score (P < 0.0001). Modest improvement in ratios likely does not account for all significant improvements in outcomes. Implementing a standardized protocol likely impacts automation, efficiency, and/or timeliness of product delivery.
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Yang J, Greenwood MS, Angelis MD, Avery M, Anderson M, Corradini M, Matos J, Dunn F, Feldman E. Study of Critical Heat Flux in Natural Convection–Cooled TRIGA Reactors with Single Annulus and Rod Bundle Geometries. NUCL SCI ENG 2017. [DOI: 10.13182/nse14-45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Jun Yang
- University of Wisconsin–Madison 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- University of Wisconsin–Madison 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- University of Wisconsin–Madison 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- University of Wisconsin–Madison 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- University of Wisconsin–Madison 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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- Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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- Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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Ozen G, Pedro S, Holmqvist ME, Avery M, Wolfe F, Michaud K. Risk of diabetes mellitus associated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and statins in rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis 2016; 76:848-854. [PMID: 27836820 DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2016-209954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [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: 05/24/2016] [Revised: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 10/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the rate of incident diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the impact of disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) and statin treatments. METHODS We studied patients with RA and ≥1 year participation in the National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases without baseline DM from 2000 through 2014. DM was determined by self-report or initiating DM medication. DMARDs were categorised into four mutually exclusive groups: (1) methotrexate monotherapy (reference); (2) any abatacept with or without synthetic DMARDs (3) any other DMARDs with methotrexate; (4) all other DMARDs without methotrexate; along with separate statin, glucocorticoid and hydroxychloroquine (yes/no) variables. Time-varying Cox proportional hazard models were used to adjust for age, sex, socioeconomic status, comorbidities, body mass index and RA severity measures. RESULTS During a median (IQR) 4.6 (2.5-8.8) years of follow-up in 13 669 patients with RA, 1139 incident DM cases were observed. The standardised incidence ratio (95% CI) of DM in patients with RA (1.37, (1.29 to 1.45)) was increased compared with US adult population. Adjusted HR (95% CI) for DM were 0.67 (0.57 to 0.80) for hydroxychloroquine, 0.52 (0.31 to 0.89) for abatacept (compared with methotrexate monotherapy), 1.31 (1.15 to 1.49) for glucocorticoids and 1.56 (1.36 to 1.78) for statins. Other synthetic/biological DMARDs were not associated with any risk change. Concomitant use of glucocorticoids did not alter DM risk reduction with hydroxychloroquine (HR 0.69 (0.51 to 0.93)). CONCLUSIONS In RA, incidence of DM is increased. Hydroxychloroquine and abatacept were associated with decreased risk of DM, and glucocorticoids and statins with increased risk.
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- Gulsen Ozen
- University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.,Faculty of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, Kansas, USA
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- Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, Kansas, USA
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- University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.,National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, Kansas, USA
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Stankunas M, Czabanowska K, Smith T, Avery M, Macassa G, Tamulionyte K. The need for leadership skills development among health sector executives in Lithuania. Eur J Public Health 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckw166.016] [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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Ogilvy CS, Chua MH, Fusco MR, Griessenauer CJ, Harrigan MR, Sonig A, Siddiqui AH, Levy EI, Snyder K, Avery M, Mitha A, Shores J, Hoh BL, Thomas AJ. Validation of a System to Predict Recanalization After Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms. Neurosurgery 2016; 77:168-73; discussion 173-4. [PMID: 25850603 DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000000744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND With increasing use of endovascular techniques in the treatment of ruptured and unruptured aneurysms, the issue of obliteration efficacy has become increasingly important. We have previously reported the Aneurysm Recanalization Stratification Scale, which uses accessible predictors including aneurysm-specific factors (size, rupture, and intraluminal thrombosis) and treatment-related features (treatment modality and immediate angiographic result) to predict retreatment risk after endovascular therapy. OBJECTIVE To assess the external validity of the Aneurysm Recanalization Stratification Scale. METHODS External validity was assessed in independent cohorts from 4 centers in the United States and Canada where endovascular and open neurovascular procedures are performed, and in a multicenter cohort of 1543 patients. Probability of retreatment stratified by risk score was derived for each center and the combined multicenter cohort. RESULTS Despite moderate variability in retreatment rate among centers (29.5%, 9.9%, 9.6%, 26.3%, 19.7%, and 18.3%), the Aneurysm Recanalization Stratification Scale demonstrated good predictive value with C-statistics of 0.799, 0.943, 0.780, 0.695, 0.755, and 0.719 for each center and the combined cohort, respectively. Probability of retreatment stratified by risk score for the combined cohort is as follows: -2, 4.9%; -1, 5.7%; 0, 5.8%; 1, 13.1%; 2, 19.2%; 3, 34.9%; 4, 32.7%; 5, 73.2%; 6, 89.5%; and 7, 100.0%. CONCLUSION Surgical decision-making and patient-centered informed consent require comprehensive and accessible information on treatment efficacy. The Aneurysm Recanalization Stratification Scale is a valid prognostic index. This is the first comprehensive model that has been developed to quantitatively predict retreatment risk following endovascular therapy.
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- Christopher S Ogilvy
- *Neurosurgical Service, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brain Aneurysm Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; ‡Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; §Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; ¶Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology and Toshiba Stroke Research Center, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York; ‖Division of Neurosurgery, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; #University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida; **Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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Avery M, Chehab S, Wong JH, Mitha AP. Intraoperative indocyanine green videoangiography to guide decision making regarding need for vessel bypass: A case report and technical note. Surg Neurol Int 2016; 7:S36-9. [PMID: 26862459 PMCID: PMC4722519 DOI: 10.4103/2152-7806.173567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background: Indocyanine green (ICG) videoangiography is an intraoperative technique recently used in vascular neurosurgery to assess the presence or absence of blood flow during critical times of a procedure. These include, but are not limited to, detecting whether daughter branches or perforators are patent after placing a vascular clip or determining whether an aneurysm has been completely isolated from the cerebral circulation after clipping. We present a case of a less-commonly reported application of ICG videoangiography involving the selection of a vessel to act as the bypass recipient once the need is identified during the surgical treatment of a complex intracranial aneurysm. Case Description: A 51-year-old male presented with a ruptured dissecting superior cerebellar artery (SCA) aneurysm that had two branches arising from the dome. Due to the difficult morphology of this aneurysm, a superficial temporal artery to SCA bypass was planned. We used ICG videoangiography to identify the branch that had insufficient retrograde flow via collateral circulation, to which the bypass was performed, followed by the isolation of the aneurysm from the cerebral circulation using permanent surgical clips. Conclusion: Our case represents a possible use of ICG videoangiography during the operative treatment of a difficult aneurysm. Our patient suffered no infarcts postoperatively. In the correct clinical context, this method represents a possible treatment option for complex aneurysms requiring a bypass.
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- Michael Avery
- Division of Neurosurgery, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Stankunas M, Avery M, Jakaite R, Czabanowska K. The evaluation of self-reported leadership practices of chief executive officers of Lithuanian public health institutions. Eur J Public Health 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckv174.019] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Grigenas O, Labib M, Avery M, Lownie S, Ranger A. Cavernous hemangioma presenting during pregnancy: A detailed literature review. J Pediatr Neurol 2015. [DOI: 10.3233/jpn-2012-0523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Orest Grigenas
- Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, London Health Sciences Center, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, London Health Sciences Center, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London Health Sciences Center, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, London Health Sciences Center, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, London Health Sciences Center, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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Engeman R, Hershberger T, Orzell S, Felix R, Killian G, Woolard J, Cornman J, Romano D, Huddleston C, Zimmerman P, Barre C, Tillman E, Avery M. Impacts from control operations on a recreationally hunted feral swine population at a large military installation in Florida. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2014; 21:7689-7697. [PMID: 24622991 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2727-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2013] [Accepted: 02/28/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Feral swine were targeted for control at Avon Park Air Force Range in south-central Florida to avert damage to sensitive wetland habitats on the 40,000-ha base. We conducted a 5-year study to assess impacts from control to this population that had been recreationally hunted for many years. Control was initiated in early 2009. The feral swine population was monitored from 2008 to 2012 using a passive tracking index (PTI) during the dry and wet seasons and using recreational hunter take rates from the dry season. All three indices showed substantial feral swine declines after implementing control, with indices leveling for the final two study years. Military missions and recreational hunting seasons impacted temporal and spatial consistency of control application, thereby limiting further impacts of control efforts on the feral swine population. The PTI was also able to monitor coyotes, another invasive species on the base, and detect Florida black bear and Florida panther, species of particular concern.
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- Richard Engeman
- National Wildlife Research Center, USDA/APHIS/WS, 4101 LaPorte Ave, Fort Collins, CO, 80521-2154, USA,
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Cavernous haemangiomas, or cavernous malformations, have been reported during pregnancy, most of which have been either supratentorial or spinal lesions. We encountered a 15-year old pregnant patient with a rapidly progressive and haemorrhagic brainstem cavernous haemangioma. The case presented here describes the history and findings of this patient, as well as the less-commonly utilized technique we used to access the floor of the fourth ventricle via occipital craniotomy for complete macroscopic resection of this lesion, resulting in the gradual return of most of her neurological deficits.
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- Adrianna M Ranger
- 1Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, London Health Sciences Center, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Avery M, Post E. Record of a Zoophthora sp. (Entomophthoromycota: Entomophthorales) pathogen of the irruptive noctuid moth Eurois occulta (Lepidoptera) in West Greenland. J Invertebr Pathol 2013; 114:292-4. [PMID: 24055649 DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2013.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 06/26/2013] [Revised: 09/05/2013] [Accepted: 09/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Eurois occulta undergoes extreme population fluctuations in Greenland, with long periods of low density punctuated by brief population explosions. During the summers of high E. occulta density in 2010 and 2011, large numbers of deceased late-instar larvae were observed in the summit disease position characteristic of entomophthoralean infection. Using genetic and morphological data, infected larvae from 2011 were determined to contain resting spores of a fungus of the genus Zoophthora, its first reported observation in the Arctic. In the absence of observation of primary spores or other identifying characters, a specific designation or description is not possible.
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- Michael Avery
- The Pennsylvania State University, The Polar Center and Department of Biology, 208 Mueller Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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This study aimed to identify the causes and contributing factors, neurologic presentation, and outcomes of central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis and to examine any trends in the presentation and course of these disorders over the past 50 years. Seventy-six pediatric cases were identified in the literature. Age, sex, decade of diagnosis, neurologic presentation, outcome, and attributed causes were extracted. The results showed that the diagnosis, course, and outcomes of central pontine and extrapontine myelinolysis clearly have changed over the past few decades. Early cases generally were diagnosed at autopsy as opposed to computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging more recently. Ninety-four percent of cases prior to 1990 and only 7% of cases from 1990 onward resulted in patient mortality. The decade in which the case was reported was the strongest predictor of outcome (P < .001), followed by sodium dysregulation (P = .045) and dehydration (P = .07).
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- Adrianna M Ranger
- Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Pediatric Neurosurgery, London, Ontario, Canada.
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Fall M, Avery M, Campbell T, Egan P, Engeman R, Pitt W, Shwiff S, Witmer G. Rodents and other vertebrate invaders in the United States. Biol Invasions 2011. [DOI: 10.1201/b10938-25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Hudman RC, Murray LT, Jacob DJ, Turquety S, Wu S, Millet DB, Avery M, Goldstein AH, Holloway J. North American influence on tropospheric ozone and the effects of recent emission reductions: Constraints from ICARTT observations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1029/2008jd010126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Livesey NJ, Filipiak MJ, Froidevaux L, Read WG, Lambert A, Santee ML, Jiang JH, Pumphrey HC, Waters JW, Cofield RE, Cuddy DT, Daffer WH, Drouin BJ, Fuller RA, Jarnot RF, Jiang YB, Knosp BW, Li QB, Perun VS, Schwartz MJ, Snyder WV, Stek PC, Thurstans RP, Wagner PA, Avery M, Browell EV, Cammas JP, Christensen LE, Diskin GS, Gao RS, Jost HJ, Loewenstein M, Lopez JD, Nedelec P, Osterman GB, Sachse GW, Webster CR. Validation of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder O3and CO observations in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1029/2007jd008805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Gamblin B, Toon OB, Tolbert MA, Kondo Y, Takegawa N, Irie H, Koike M, Hudson PK, Ballenthin JO, Hunton DE, Miller TM, Viggiano AA, Anderson BE, Avery M, Sachse GW, Guenther K, Sorenson C, Mahoney MJ. Nitric acid condensation on ice: 2. Kinetic limitations, a possible “cloud clock” for determining cloud parcel lifetime. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2005jd006049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Bousserez N, Attié JL, Peuch VH, Michou M, Pfister G, Edwards D, Emmons L, Mari C, Barret B, Arnold SR, Heckel A, Richter A, Schlager H, Lewis A, Avery M, Sachse G, Browell EV, Hair JW. Evaluation of the MOCAGE chemistry transport model during the ICARTT/ITOP experiment. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2006jd007595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- N. Bousserez
- Laboratoire d'Aérologie; Université Paul Sabatier; Toulouse France
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- Laboratoire d'Aérologie; Université Paul Sabatier; Toulouse France
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- Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques/Météo France; Toulouse France
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- Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques/Météo France; Toulouse France
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- Laboratoire d'Aérologie; Université Paul Sabatier; Toulouse France
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- Laboratoire d'Aérologie; Université Paul Sabatier; Toulouse France
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- Institute for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment; University of Leeds; Leeds UK
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- Institute of Environmental Physics; Bremen Germany
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- Institute of Environmental Physics; Bremen Germany
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- Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; Operpfaffenhofen, Wessling Germany
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- Department of Chemistry; University of York; York UK
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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Real E, Law KS, Weinzierl B, Fiebig M, Petzold A, Wild O, Methven J, Arnold S, Stohl A, Huntrieser H, Roiger A, Schlager H, Stewart D, Avery M, Sachse G, Browell E, Ferrare R, Blake D. Processes influencing ozone levels in Alaskan forest fire plumes during long-range transport over the North Atlantic. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2006jd007576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- E. Real
- Service d'Aéronomie du CNRS, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace; Université Pierre et Marie Curie; Paris France
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- Service d'Aéronomie du CNRS, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace; Université Pierre et Marie Curie; Paris France
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- Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; Wessling Germany
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- Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; Wessling Germany
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- Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; Wessling Germany
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- Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry; University of Cambridge; Cambridge UK
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- Department of Meteorology; University of Reading; Reading UK
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- School of Earth and Environment; University of Leeds; Leeds UK
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- Norwegian Institute for Air Research; Kjeller Norway
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- Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; Wessling Germany
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- Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; Wessling Germany
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- Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; Wessling Germany
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- School of Environmental Science; University of East Anglia; Norwich UK
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- Atmospheric Science Division; NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Atmospheric Science Division; NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Atmospheric Science Division; NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Atmospheric Science Division; NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California; Irvine California USA
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Hudman RC, Jacob DJ, Turquety S, Leibensperger EM, Murray LT, Wu S, Gilliland AB, Avery M, Bertram TH, Brune W, Cohen RC, Dibb JE, Flocke FM, Fried A, Holloway J, Neuman JA, Orville R, Perring A, Ren X, Sachse GW, Singh HB, Swanson A, Wooldridge PJ. Surface and lightning sources of nitrogen oxides over the United States: Magnitudes, chemical evolution, and outflow. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2006jd007912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 247] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Singh HB, Salas L, Herlth D, Kolyer R, Czech E, Avery M, Crawford JH, Pierce RB, Sachse GW, Blake DR, Cohen RC, Bertram TH, Perring A, Wooldridge PJ, Dibb J, Huey G, Hudman RC, Turquety S, Emmons LK, Flocke F, Tang Y, Carmichael GR, Horowitz LW. Reactive nitrogen distribution and partitioning in the North American troposphere and lowermost stratosphere. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2006jd007664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Kim S, Huey LG, Stickel RE, Tanner DJ, Crawford JH, Olson JR, Chen G, Brune WH, Ren X, Lesher R, Wooldridge PJ, Bertram TH, Perring A, Cohen RC, Lefer BL, Shetter RE, Avery M, Diskin G, Sokolik I. Measurement of HO2NO2in the free troposphere during the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment–North America 2004. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1029/2006jd007676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Methven J, Arnold SR, Stohl A, Evans MJ, Avery M, Law K, Lewis AC, Monks PS, Parrish DD, Reeves CE, Schlager H, Atlas E, Blake DR, Coe H, Crosier J, Flocke FM, Holloway JS, Hopkins JR, McQuaid J, Purvis R, Rappenglück B, Singh HB, Watson NM, Whalley LK, Williams PI. Establishing Lagrangian connections between observations within air masses crossing the Atlantic during the International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation experiment. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1029/2006jd007540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- J. Methven
- Department of Meteorology; University of Reading; Reading UK
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- School of Earth and Environment; University of Leeds; Leeds UK
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- Norwegian Institute for Air Research; Kjeller Norway
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- School of Earth and Environment; University of Leeds; Leeds UK
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Service d'Aéronomie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Université Pierre et Marie Curie; Paris France
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- Department of Chemistry; University of York; York UK
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Leicester; Leicester UK
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- Earth System Research Laboratory; NOAA; Boulder Colorado USA
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- School of Environmental Sciences; University of East Anglia; Norwich UK
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- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; Oberpfaffenhofen Germany
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- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science; University of Miami; Miami Florida USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California; Irvine California USA
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- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences; University of Manchester; Manchester UK
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- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences; University of Manchester; Manchester UK
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Division; National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- Earth System Research Laboratory; NOAA; Boulder Colorado USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of York; York UK
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- School of Earth and Environment; University of Leeds; Leeds UK
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- Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements; Cranfield UK
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research; Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe; Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
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- NASA Ames Research Center; Moffett Field California USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of York; York UK
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- School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences; University of Manchester; Manchester UK
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Gamblin B, Toon OB, Tolbert MA, Kondo Y, Takegawa N, Irie H, Koike M, Ballenthin JO, Hunton DE, Miller TM, Viggiano AA, Anderson BE, Avery M, Sachse GW, Podolske JR, Guenther K, Sorenson C, Mahoney MJ. Nitric acid condensation on ice: 1. Non-HNO3constituent of NOYcondensing cirrus particles on upper tropospheric. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1029/2005jd006048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Lee SD, Wasan KM, Calcagni A, Avery M, McCush F, Chen C. The in Vitro Plasma Distribution of a Novel Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Inhibitor, Torcetrapib, Is Influenced by Differences in Plasma Lipid Concentrations. Pharm Res 2006; 23:1025-30. [PMID: 16715393 DOI: 10.1007/s11095-006-9908-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2005] [Accepted: 01/05/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE To determine the lipoprotein distribution of Torcetrapib in normolipidemic or hyperlipidemic human plasma and assess any changes in distribution due to lipid profile. METHODS Torcetrapib was incubated with human plasma samples, and the distribution was measured across four fractions: triglyceride-rich lipoprotein (TRL), low-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein, and lipoprotein-deficient plasma fraction. Two stocks of human plasma were used, one considered normolipidemic (total cholesterol concentration = 164 mg/dL, triglycerides concentration = 139 mg/dL, protein concentration = 912 mg/dL), the other hyperlipidemic (total cholesterol = 260 mg/dL, triglycerides = 775 mg/dL, protein = 917 mg/dL). The plasma samples were incubated with Torcetrapib at 37 degrees C, and the incubation was stopped with the addition of sodium bromide and cooling to 4 degrees C. The plasma samples were then separated by density gradient ultracentrifugation to their lipoprotein fractions. The resulting lipoprotein fractions and an aliquot of incubated plasma were analyzed by a validated gas chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry analytical method. The distribution of Torcetrapib was determined first with varying incubation times, then with several concentrations. RESULTS At concentrations of 250 and 500 ng/mL, Torcetrapib distributed evenly across the four fractions in normolipidemic plasma. At the same concentrations in hyperlipidemic plasma, approximately 84% of Torcetrapib was found in the TRL fraction, with the remaining 16% evenly partitioned between the low-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein, and lipoprotein-deficient plasma fractions. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that lipid profile affects the distribution of Torcetrapib in hyperlipidemic human plasma lipoprotein fractions. The preferential distribution of Torcetrapib into the TRL fraction in hyperlipidemic plasma needs to be investigated to see if it will affect the pharmacological effect of Torcetrapib in vivo.
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- S D Lee
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2146 East Mall Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3
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Fossa AA, Wisialowski T, Wolfgang E, Wang E, Avery M, Raunig DL, Fermini B. Differential effect of HERG blocking agents on cardiac electrical alternans in the guinea pig. Eur J Pharmacol 2004; 486:209-21. [PMID: 14975710 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2003.12.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2003] [Accepted: 12/19/2003] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Beat-to-beat alternations of the cardiac monophasic action potential, known as electrical alternans, were studied at drug concentrations that have known arrhythmogenic outcomes. Electrical alternans were elicited from the heart of anesthetized guinea pigs, both in the absence and presence of drugs that inhibit the delayed rectifier K(+) channel encoded by the human ether a-go-go related-gene (HERG), and are associated with the fatal arrhythmia, Torsade de Pointes. Two other HERG inhibiting drugs not associated with Torsade de Pointes were also studied. At concentrations known to be proarrhythmic, E-4031 and bepridil increased mean alternans 10 and 40 ms at pacing frequencies </=160 ms. Terfenadine and cisapride both increased mean alternans up to 20 and 21 ms, respectively, at pacing frequencies of </=150 ms. On the other hand, verapamil and risperidone showed no increase in mean alternans while risperidone significantly reduced alternans at concentrations up to 74 times its therapeutic level. The magnitude of effect on rate-dependent alternans may allow the differentiation of proarrhythmia and non-arrhythmic HERG blockers at clinically relevant concentrations.
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- Anthony A Fossa
- Pfizer Global Research and Development, Eastern Point Rd., Bldg. 118, MS 4036 Groton, CT 06340, USA.
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Nakamura K, Kondo Y, Chen G, Crawford JH, Takegawa N, Koike M, Kita K, Miyazaki Y, Shetter RE, Lefer BL, Avery M, Matsumoto J. Measurement of NO2by the photolysis conversion technique during the Transport and Chemical Evolution Over the Pacific (TRACE-P) campaign. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1029/2003jd003712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- K. Nakamura
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology; University of Tokyo; Tokyo Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology; University of Tokyo; Tokyo Japan
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta Georgia USA
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology; University of Tokyo; Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science; University of Tokyo; Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science; Ibaraki University; Mito Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology; University of Tokyo; Tokyo Japan
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering; Tokyo Metropolitan University; Hachioji Japan
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Carmichael GR, Tang Y, Kurata G, Uno I, Streets D, Woo JH, Huang H, Yienger J, Lefer B, Shetter R, Blake D, Atlas E, Fried A, Apel E, Eisele F, Cantrell C, Avery M, Barrick J, Sachse G, Brune W, Sandholm S, Kondo Y, Singh H, Talbot R, Bandy A, Thorton D, Clarke A, Heikes B. Regional-scale chemical transport modeling in support of the analysis of observations obtained during the TRACE-P experiment. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1029/2002jd003117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- G. R. Carmichael
- Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research; University of Iowa; Iowa City Iowa USA
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- Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research; University of Iowa; Iowa City Iowa USA
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- Department of Ecological Engineering; Toyohashi University of Technology; Toyohashi Japan
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- Research Institute for Applied Mechanics; Kyushu University; Fukuoka Japan
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- Decision and Information Sciences Division; Argonne National Laboratory; Argonne Illinois USA
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- Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research; University of Iowa; Iowa City Iowa USA
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- Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research; University of Iowa; Iowa City Iowa USA
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- Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research; University of Iowa; Iowa City Iowa USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California, Irvine; Irvine California USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- NASA Langley Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- NASA Langley Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- NASA Langley Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Department of Meteorology; Pennsylvania State University; University Park Pennsylvania USA
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- Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta Georgia USA
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology; University of Tokyo; Tokyo Japan
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- NASA Ames Research Center; Moffett Field California USA
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- Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space; University of New Hampshire; Durham New Hampshire USA
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- Chemistry Department; Drexel University; Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
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- Chemistry Department; Drexel University; Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
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- School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology; University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu Hawaii USA
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- Graduate School of Oceanography; University of Rhode Island; Kingston Rhode Island USA
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Pierce RB, Al-Saadi JA, Schaack T, Lenzen A, Zapotocny T, Johnson D, Kittaka C, Buker M, Hitchman MH, Tripoli G, Fairlie TD, Olson JR, Natarajan M, Crawford J, Fishman J, Avery M, Browell EV, Creilson J, Kondo Y, Sandholm ST. Regional Air Quality Modeling System (RAQMS) predictions of the tropospheric ozone budget over east Asia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1029/2002jd003176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- R. B. Pierce
- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Space Science and Engineering Center; University of Wisconsin; Madison Wisconsin USA
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- Space Science and Engineering Center; University of Wisconsin; Madison Wisconsin USA
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- Space Science and Engineering Center; University of Wisconsin; Madison Wisconsin USA
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- Space Science and Engineering Center; University of Wisconsin; Madison Wisconsin USA
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- Space Science and Engineering Center; University of Wisconsin; Madison Wisconsin USA
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- Science Applications International Corporation; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Space Science and Engineering Center; University of Wisconsin; Madison Wisconsin USA
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- Space Science and Engineering Center; University of Wisconsin; Madison Wisconsin USA
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- Space Science and Engineering Center; University of Wisconsin; Madison Wisconsin USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Science Applications International Corporation; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Center for Advanced Science and Technology; University of Tokyo; Tokyo Japan
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- Center for Advanced Science and Technology; Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta Georgia USA
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Crawford J, Olson J, Davis D, Chen G, Barrick J, Shetter R, Lefer B, Jordan C, Anderson B, Clarke A, Sachse G, Blake D, Singh H, Sandolm S, Tan D, Kondo Y, Avery M, Flocke F, Eisele F, Mauldin L, Zondlo M, Brune W, Harder H, Martinez M, Talbot R, Bandy A, Thornton D. Clouds and trace gas distributions during TRACE-P. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1029/2002jd003177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- J. Crawford
- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta Georgia USA
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta Georgia USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Division; National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Division; National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology; University of Hawaii; Honolulu Hawaii USA
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Department of Chemistry; University of California; Irvine California USA
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- NASA Ames Research Center; Moffett Field California USA
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta Georgia USA
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta Georgia USA
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology; University of Tokyo; Tokyo Japan
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- NASA Langley Research Center; Hampton Virginia USA
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Division; National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Division; National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Division; National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- Atmospheric Chemistry Division; National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder Colorado USA
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- Department of Meteorology; Pennsylvania State University; University Park Pennsylvania USA
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- Department of Meteorology; Pennsylvania State University; University Park Pennsylvania USA
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- Department of Meteorology; Pennsylvania State University; University Park Pennsylvania USA
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- Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space; University of New Hampshire; Durham New Hampshire USA
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- Department of Chemistry; Drexel University; Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
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- Department of Chemistry; Drexel University; Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
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Davis D, Grodzinsky G, Chen G, Crawford J, Eisele F, Mauldin L, Tanner D, Cantrell C, Brune W, Tan D, Faloona I, Ridley B, Montzka D, Walega J, Grahek F, Sandholm S, Sachse G, Vay S, Anderson B, Avery M, Heikes B, Snow J, O'Sullivan D, Shetter R, Lefer B, Blake D, Blake N, Carroll M, Wang Y. Marine latitude/altitude OH distributions: Comparison of Pacific Ocean observations with models. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1029/2001jd900141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Tan D, Faloona I, Simpas JB, Brune W, Olson J, Crawford J, Avery M, Sachse G, Vay S, Sandholm S, Guan HW, Vaughn T, Mastromarino J, Heikes B, Snow J, Podolske J, Singh H. OH and HO2in the tropical Pacific: Results from PEM-Tropics B. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1029/2001jd900002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Primus TM, Kohler DJ, Avery M, Bolich P, Way MO, Johnston JJ. Novel field sampling procedure for the determination of methiocarb residues in surface waters from rice fields. J Agric Food Chem 2001; 49:5706-5709. [PMID: 11743751 DOI: 10.1021/jf010540v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Methiocarb was extracted from surface water samples collected at experimental rice field sites in Louisiana and Texas. The sampling system consisted of a single-stage 90-mm Empore extraction disk unit equipped with a battery-powered vacuum pump. After extraction, the C-18 extraction disks were stored in an inert atmosphere at -10 degrees C and shipped overnight to the laboratory. The disks were extracted with methanol and the extracts analyzed by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with a methanol/water mobile phase. Methiocarb was detected by ultraviolet absorption at 223 nm and quantified with the use of calibration standards. Recoveries from control surface water samples fortified at 5.0, 10, 50, and 100 ng/mL methiocarb averaged 92 +/- 7%. A method limit of detection for methiocarb in rice field surface water was estimated to be 0.23 ng/mL at 223 nm.
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- T M Primus
- Analytical Chemistry Project, APHIS/National Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 4101 LaPorte Avenue, Ft. Collins, Colorado 80521, USA
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Kaas MJ, Block DE, Avery M, Lindeke L, Kubik M, Duckett L, Vellenga B. Technology-enhanced distance education: from experimentation to concerted action. J Prof Nurs 2001; 17:135-40. [PMID: 11391559 DOI: 10.1053/jpnu.2001.23378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Despite the rush to embrace technology-enhanced learning (TEL), descriptions of how schools of nursing move toward systemwide implementation of this type of teaching are scarce. There is a wide gap between sporadic dabbling by individual instructors in specific courses and adoption and implementation of TEL throughout a program. This article describes the experiences of a group of nursing faculty who helped move one school of nursing from experimentation with TEL in distance education to concerted action toward a strategic schoolwide plan. J Prof Nurs 17:135-140, 2001.
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- M J Kaas
- University of Minnesota School of Nursing, 308 Harvard St., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Makagiansar IT, Avery M, Hu Y, Audus KL, Siahaan TJ. Improving the selectivity of HAV-peptides in modulating E-cadherin-E-cadherin interactions in the intercellular junction of MDCK cell monolayers. Pharm Res 2001; 18:446-53. [PMID: 11451030 DOI: 10.1023/a:1011094025008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [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: 11/12/2022]
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PURPOSE The objective of this work is to understand the sequence specificity of HAV peptides and to improve their selectivity in regulating E-cadherin-E-cadherin interactions in the intercellular junctions. METHODS Peptide 1 was modified using an alanine scanning method to give peptides 2-6. The ability of these peptides to modulate intercellular junctions was evaluated using Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cell monolayers on Transwell membranes from either the apical (AP) or the basolateral (BL) side. Modulation of the intercellular junctions was measured by the ability to lower the transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER) of MDCK monolayers and by the increase in mannitol flux. Molecular docking experiments were performed to model the binding properties of these peptides to the EC1 domain of E-cadherin. RESULTS Peptides 5 (Ac-SHAVAS-NH2) and 6 (Ac-SHAVSA-NH2) were found to be more effective than the parent peptide 1 in decreasing the resistance of the cell monolayer. Furthermore, comparative studies with the control and the weak inhibitor peptide 2 indicate that peptide 5 displayed a significant increase in mannitol flux. Molecular docking of peptides 1, 2 and 5 to the EC1 domain suggests that peptide 5 has the lowest binding energy. CONCLUSIONS HAV peptides have the ability to modulate E-cadherin-E-cadherin interactions in the intercellular junctions of the MDCK cell monolayer, thus indirectly increasing the permeability of the tight junctions. This observation indicates that residues flanking the HAV sequence are important in the binding selectivity of HAV peptides to E-cadherin. Molecular docking can further aid in the design of peptides with better selectivity to the EC1 domain of E-cadherin.
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- I T Makagiansar
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, The University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045, USA
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The objective of this study was to investigate the functional expression of the efflux transporter, P-glycoprotein (P-gp), in primary cultures of human cytotrophoblasts and BeWo cell monolayers. Uptake studies with primary cultures of human cytotrophoblasts or BeWo cells were conducted with calcein-AM and vinblastine (P-gp markers) or fluorescein (MRP marker) in the presence of specific P-gp or MRP inhibitors. Results showed that the accumulation of P-gp substrates calcein-AM and vinblastine by BeWo cells or primary cultures of human cytotrophoblasts was significantly enhanced in the presence of a typical P-gp inhibitor, cyclosporin-A, or other inhibitors such as quinidine, verapamil, and dipyridamole. MRP inhibitors had no effect on the accumulation of calcein or fluorescein by BeWo cells. Western blots confirmed the presence of multidrug resistant gene product 1 (MDR1) in both primary cultures of human cytotrophoblasts and BeWo cells. This study demonstrates functional P-gp in term human trophoblasts and further supports the use of primary cultures of human cytotrophoblasts and BeWo cells as in vitro models of the trophoblast to investigate mechanisms regulating drug distribution across the placenta.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/antagonists & inhibitors
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/genetics
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/metabolism
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/antagonists & inhibitors
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters/metabolism
- Adult
- Blotting, Western
- Choriocarcinoma/metabolism
- Culture Media, Conditioned/chemistry
- Cyclosporine/pharmacology
- Dipyridamole/pharmacology
- Drug Resistance, Multiple
- Female
- Fluoresceins/metabolism
- Fluorescent Dyes/metabolism
- Humans
- Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins
- Pregnancy
- Quinidine/pharmacology
- Trophoblasts/drug effects
- Trophoblasts/metabolism
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Verapamil/antagonists & inhibitors
- Vinblastine/pharmacology
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- N Utoguchi
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2095 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA
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BACKGROUND Breast-feeding is the recommended method of infant feeding because it is clearly associated with health benefits for infants and their mothers. Yet, many women who initiate breast-feeding fail to meet their own personal goals or recommended standards for duration of breast-feeding. OBJECTIVE To refine a Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)-based structural model for explaining variability in breast-feeding intention and duration. METHOD The study design was prospective, multicorrelational, and longitudinal. Out of the total sample of 635 women, 602 mothers of healthy, full-term infants provided complete datasets over the entire course of their breast-feeding experience and these datasets were used in the modeling analyses. Simultaneous multisample analysis of covariance structures was used to develop the model. RESULTS The resulting TPB for Breast-Feeding (TPB-BrF) describes the rational, motivational processes of the original TPB, but reconfigures the relationships among them, for homemakers (TPB-BrF/H), women employed half-time or less (TPB-BrF/EL), and women employed more than half-time (TPB-BrF/EM). Mothers' early postpartum ratings of adequacy of milk supply and stimulus conditions of maternal education and breast-feeding knowledge were included in the TPB-BrF to better explain breast-feeding outcomes. Model complexity increased with employment effort. CONCLUSION The TPB-BrF is a comprehensive, theoretically based, empirically verified model that can serve as a useful heuristic for understanding the personal motivational components of breast-feeding behavior.
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- School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455-0342, USA
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OBJECTIVES The major objective of this study was to identify predictor variables that accurately differentiated breastfeeding women who weaned during the first 4 weeks, those who weaned between 5 and 26 weeks, and those who weaned after 26 weeks. Predictors were demographic variables, Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) variables, breastfeeding knowledge, and difficulties experienced during the first month. METHODS Primiparas who delivered healthy infants in an urban midwestern hospital provided initial data prior to discharge. Follow-up occurred at 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. Following appropriate bivariate analyses, polychotomous logistic regression was used to determine predictors of weaning group. Linear multiple regression was used to predict intended duration. RESULTS Most of the 84 women who weaned very early had intended to breastfeed considerably longer. According to the multivariate analysis, women who weaned earlier were younger, had completed fewer years of education, had a more positive bottle-feeding attitude and a less positive breastfeeding attitude, intended to breastfeed less time, had lower knowledge scores, had higher perceived insufficient milk scores, and planned to work outside the home. Variables postulated by the TPB to be direct predictors of intention explained 36% of the variance in intended duration. CONCLUSIONS Women at risk for early weaning can be identified with reasonable accuracy using a TPB-based conceptual framework expanded to include breastfeeding specific variables. Casefinding using empirically derived screening methods and careful postpartum follow-up, along with professional intervention, should be used to avert unintended early weaning.
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- M Avery
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455-0342, USA.
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Shi F, Soares MJ, Avery M, Liu F, Zhang X, Audus KL. Permeability and metabolic properties of a trophoblast cell line (HRP-1) derived from normal rat placenta. Exp Cell Res 1997; 234:147-55. [PMID: 9223380 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.3603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 02/04/2023]
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The HRP-1 cell line is derived from normal rat placenta and appears morphologically similar to and retains characteristic expression of cellular markers of labyrinthine trophoblast cells. In this study, monolayers of HRP-1 cells grown on permeable supports were evaluated as a potential in vitro system to study trophoblast transport and metabolism. The cell line was shown to express and retain functional activity of the predominant placental cytochrome P450 isozyme, CYP1A1. Additionally, the HRP-1 cells retain functional activity of angiotensin I converting enzyme and carboxypeptidase N-like enzyme, peptidases characteristic of the trophoblast. The permeation of several hydrophilic, inert markers across the HRP-1 monolayers was observed to be dependent on effective molecular size and to be passive in nature. Functional asymmetry of the HRP-1 cells was illustrated by the predominant permeation of linoleic acid in the apical-to-basolateral direction across the monolayers. Transferrin passage across HRP-1 monolayers was concentration-dependent, was bidirectional, and could be inhibited by unlabeled transferrin, features typical of the trophoblast transport system for transferrin. Collectively, these properties suggest that the HRP-1 cell line may provide a useful tool for evaluating some of the permeability and metabolic properties of the trophoblast.
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- F Shi
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, The University of Kansas, Lawrence 66047, USA
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Nathanson SD, Anaya P, Avery M, Hetzel FW, Sarantou T, Havstad S. Sentinel lymph node metastasis in experimental melanoma: relationships among primary tumor size, lymphatic vessel diameter and 99mTc-labeled human serum albumin clearance. Ann Surg Oncol 1997; 4:161-8. [PMID: 9084854 DOI: 10.1007/bf02303800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate the relationships among primary tumor size, lymphatic vessel diameters, the incidence of sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastasis and lymphatic clearance from murine footpad melanomas. METHODS Lymphatic clearance (LC) of [99mTc]HSA from the middle of the footpad of syngeneic C57BL/6 mice, with or without primary melanomas (sizes varying from 1 to 5 mm in anteroposterior diameter), was quantitated using a gamma scintillation detection system. Lymphatic vessel diameters (LD) were measured after injection of aniline blue dye into footpad tumors. The incidence of SLN, femoral lymph node (FLN), and lung metastases was recorded. RESULTS Metastasis to SLNs increased as tumor growth progressed (r = 0.976, p = 0.001), and there was a correlation between tumor size and both FLN (p = 0.041) and lung (p = 0.055) metastases. There was also a correlation between lymph node metastasis and LC (r = 0.83, p = 0.04) and LD (r = 0.84, p = 0.04). CONCLUSIONS These studies support the hypothesis that lymph flow and LD is increased in experimental murine melanomas and this relates to both primary tumor size and to lymphatic and hematogenous metastasis.
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- S D Nathanson
- Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
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OBJECTIVES To determine the clearance of a radionuclide from various sizes of footpad melanomas via lymphatics and to measure the diameters of these vessels. DESIGN Nonrandomized animal study. SETTING A hospital research laboratory. SUBJECTS C57BL/6 mice. INTERVENTIONS Female mice were injected in the right rear footpad with B16 F10 cells that were allowed to grow to either 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 mm in anteroposterior diameter. Clearance from feet with or without tumors of injected technetium Tc 99m human serum albumin (99mTcHSA) was assessed for 200 minutes. Calf lymphatic diameters were measured using aniline blue dye. RESULTS The clearance of the injected 99mTcHSA from mouse footpads without tumors was 1.26 +/- 0.18 x 10(-4) mL/min x cm3 of tissue. Clearance increased 2.24-fold to 2.82 +/- 0.12 x 10(-4) mL/min x cm3 of tissue from 1-mm tumors and to 6.20 +/- 0.08, 6.11 +/- 0.13, 6.91 +/- 0.58, and 7.23 +/- 0.48 x 10(-4) mL/min x cm3 of tissue from 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-mm tumors, respectively (P < .05). Calf lymphatic diameters increased from 75.41 +/- 9.72 microns in naive nontumor-bearing mice to 93.51 +/- 7.12, 111.61 +/- 27.07, 126.69 +/- 25.20, 124.43 +/- 24.75, and 127.44 +/- 25.35 microns in mice bearing 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-mm tumors, respectively (P < .01). CONCLUSIONS There was a size-dependent, direct correlation between increasing tumor size in the footpad and increasing diameter of lymphatics draining the footpad. Clearance of injected 99mTcHSA from these tumors also exhibited a similar positive correlation with tumor size.
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- S D Nathanson
- Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Mich., USA
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