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WANG Y, Lim C, Allen J, Chan C, Kwek J, Coffman T, Bee Y, Jafar T. POS-317 GENDER DISPARITIES BY AGE AND KIDNEY FUNCTION ON RISKS OF ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY AMONG PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES. Kidney Int Rep 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2022.01.337] [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] Open
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Full iD RJ, Bhatti HA, Jennings P, Ruopp R, Jafar T, Matsui J, Flores LA, Estrada M. i4's Toward Tomorrow Program Enhancing Collaboration, Connections, and Community Using Bioinspired Design. Integr Comp Biol 2021; 61:1966-1980. [PMID: 34459487 PMCID: PMC8699102 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icab187] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The goal of our i4's Toward Tomorrow Program is to enrich the future workforce with STEM by providing students with an early, inspirational, interdisciplinary experience fostering inclusive excellence. We attempt to open the eyes of students who never realized how much their voice is urgently needed by providing an opportunity for involvement, imagination, invention, and innovation. Students see how what they are learning, designing, and building matters to their own life, community, and society. Our program embodies convergence by obliterating artificially created, disciplinary boundaries to go far beyond STEM or even STEAM by including artists, designers, social scientists, and entrepreneurs collaborating in diverse teams using scientific discoveries to create inventions that could shape our future. Our program connects two recent revolutions by amplifying Bioinspired Design with the Maker Movement and its democratizing effects empowering anyone to innovate and change the world. Our course is founded in original discovery. We explain the process of biological discovery and the importance of scaling, constraints, and complexity in selecting systems for bioinspired design. By spotlighting scientific writing and publishing, students become more science literate, learn how to decompose a biology research paper, extract the principles, and then propose a novel design by analogy. Using careful, early scaffolding of individual design efforts, students build the confidence to interact in teams. Team building exercises increase self-efficacy and reveal the advantages of a diverse set of minds. Final team video and poster project designs are presented in a public showcase. Our program forms a student-centered creative action community comprised of a large-scale course, student-led classes, and a student-created university organization. The program structure facilitates a community of learners that shifts the students' role from passive knowledge recipients to active co-constructors of knowledge being responsible for their own learning, discovery, and inventions. Students build their own shared database of discoveries, classes, organizations, research openings, internships, and public service options. Students find next step opportunities so they can see future careers. Description of our program here provides the necessary context for our future publications on assessment that examine 21st century skills, persistence in STEM, and creativity.
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- Robert J Full iD
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720
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- Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education (SESAME), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA 94118
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA 94118
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Wang Y, Nguyen F, Allen J, Lew J, Tan N, Jafar T. SUN-123 VALIDATION AND RECALIBRATION OF THE KIDNEY FAILURE RISK EQUATION FOR END-STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Kidney Int Rep 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2020.02.650] [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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Gupta V, Singh AK, Gupta V, Kumar S, Srivastava N, Jafar T, Pant AB. Association of circulating resistin with metabolic risk factors in Indian females having metabolic syndrome. Toxicol Int 2011; 18:168-72. [PMID: 21976825 PMCID: PMC3183627 DOI: 10.4103/0971-6580.84272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [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] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Role of resistin in insulin sensitivity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) is controversial till date. Increased serum resistin levels are associated with MetS and insulin resistance. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between serum resistin levels with markers of the MetS in females. In a cross-sectional study, a total of 170 healthy female subjects were selected for the study. Out of which 71 (age 31.59 ± 4.88 years) were with MetS and 99 (age 31.75 ± 6.34 years) were without MetS. Different parameters of MetS and serum resistin level were measured according to the standard protocols as given in NCEP ATP III 2001 guideline. Serum resistin levels were significantly higher in subjects with MetS when compared with subjects without MetS [13.54 ± 4.14 ng/ml (n = 71) vs. 7.42 ± 2.31 ng/ml (n = 99); P ≤ 0.001]. Resistin levels were positively associated with waist circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, plasma glucose, waist/hip ratio, serum triglycerides, serum cholesterol, serum VLDL, plasma insulin, and insulin resistance, while it was negatively associated with high-density lipoprotein. This study demonstrates a positive correlation between resistin and factors of MetS except high-density lipoprotein which was found to be negatively correlated in Indian female subjects.
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- V Gupta
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and RIMS and R Saifai, Etawha Uttar Pradesh, India
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Ejaz M, Ahmed E, Hatcher J, Jafar T. P2-70 Prevalence and associated risk factors of persistent albuminuria among hypertensive urban population of Karachi Pakistan. Br J Soc Med 2011. [DOI: 10.1136/jech.2011.142976i.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: 11/03/2022]
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Prasun P, Prasad N, Tripathi G, Jafar T, Sharda S, Gulati S, Agrawal S. Association of angiotensin-converting enzyme gene I/D polymorphism with steroid responsiveness in childhood nephrotic syndrome. Indian J Nephrol 2011; 21:26-9. [PMID: 21655166 PMCID: PMC3109779 DOI: 10.4103/0971-4065.75215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The aim of the study was to study the distribution of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism, and its association with steroid responsiveness in children with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS). One hundred twenty-five children with INS were classified into two groups: steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (SSNS: n = 90) and steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS: n=35). The control group consisted of 150 unrelated healthy children. Genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral leucocytes by the standard salting-out method. ACE genotyping was performed and ACE genotypes DD, ID, and II were compared between different groups. The frequency distribution of the DD genotype was significantly increased in children with INS compared to control subjects (P = 0.0012) while the difference was not significant (P = 0.071) between SSNS and control subjects. The frequency distribution of the DD genotype was significantly high in the SRNS group compared to control subjects (P < 0.0001). The distribution of the DD genotype was high in SRNS compared to SSNS group patients (P = 0.016). In conclusion, the presence of the DD genotype may predict risk for steroid resistance in childhood INS.
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- P Prasun
- Department of Medical Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Iqbal N, Seshadri P, Stern L, Loh J, Kundu S, Jafar T, Samaha FF. Serum resistin is not associated with obesity or insulin resistance in humans. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2005; 9:161-5. [PMID: 16080635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Resistin has proposed link with obesity related insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. The physiologic role of resistin in humans remains unknown. It is suggested that circulating resistin levels are not associated with obesity or insulin resistance in humans. However, the effects of weight loss on serum resistin concentration has not been studied. In order to better understand the physiologic role of resistin in human obesity, we measured the serum resistin concentration in subjects with severe obesity (before and after 6-months of dietary intervention) to test the hypothesis that serum resistin concentrations are elevated amongst individuals with severe obesity and weight loss would reduce these levels. METHODS Seventy-one obese subjects (defined as BMI > 35 kg/m2) who were randomized to low fat (LF) vs low carbohydrates (LC) diets and who completed the 6-month follow-up were studied. Their baseline demographic information was collected and serum resistin, insulin, glucose were measured at baseline and at 6-months. RESULTS Subjects in LC diet lost more weight than LF (-19.54 +/- 7.87 lbs vs -7.83 +/- 11.23 lbs., p = 0.001). Insulin sensitivity (HOMA) improved in LC group compared with LF group [-3.72 +/- 9.84 (LC) vs +1.31 +/- 7.31 (LF), p = 0.006]. Serum resistin levels did not decrease in either diet. CONCLUSIONS Our study found that despite a significant weight loss and improvement in insulin sensitivity there was no reduction in serum resistin concentration in morbidly obese men with metabolic syndrome suggesting that resistin does not play a central role in obesity related insulin resistance.
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- N Iqbal
- Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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