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«We'd turn the laser on and they'd jump on an object, hold it with their paws and intensively bite it as if they were trying to capture and kill it,» says lead investigator Ivan de Araujo, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and an Associate Fellow at the John B. Pierce Laboratory.
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«This study differs from what's been reported previously about brain neurons that control the gastrointestinal tract,» said R. Alberto Travagli, professor, Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, and lead investigator.
Her current research is focused on the identification of genes and molecular pathways for rare disorders and she is the Lead Investigator of the Genome Canada, CIHR funded «Finding of Rare Disease Genes in Canada» (FORGE Canada) and «Enhanced CARE for RARE Genetic Diseases in Canada» initiatives.
«We found that the immune system in a large group of patients reacted to a protein formed only in the prostate, namely the enzyme transglutaminase 4,» says lead investigator Dr Nils Landegren at SciLifeLab, Department of Medical Sciences at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medicine in Solna.
Dr. Hornig is also a lead investigator for the Autism Birth Cohort, a prospective birth cohort study in Norway that is identifying how genes and maturational factors interact with environmental agents to lead to autism.
Lead investigator Dr. Anne McTiernan of Public Health Sciences Division presented the findings at the third annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research.
«While optical technology can expand capacity, the most advanced optical discs developed so far have only 50 - year lifespans,» explained lead investigator Min Gu, a professor at RMIT and senior author of an open - access paper published in Nature Communications.
She has been a lead investigator in CAPRISA's clinical studies aimed at optimizing treatment strategies for TB - HIV co-infected patients.
In addition to being a member of CRI's Clinical Leadership Committee, Dr. Coukos is currently the lead investigator of a CRI - funded clinical trial that is treating ovarian cancer patients with two immunotherapies — MEDI4736, an anti-PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor, and motolimod, a TLR8 agonist.
«Already, the [latest] images hint at first surface structures such as craters,» said Andreas Nathues, lead investigator for the framing camera team at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany.
Lead investigator and study physician Dr. Anne McTiernan presented findings on breast density at an international conference last month in Seattle.
The study, «A Multi-Center Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Intermittent Hypoxia Therapy in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI),» is being conducted by an experienced team of scientists and clinicians at three leading SCI rehabilitation institutions: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (lead investigator, William Zev Rymer, MD, PhD), Kessler Foundation (Gail Forrest, PhD; Steven Kirshblum, MD), and the University of Miami (Monica A. Perez, PT, PhD).
«Conventional wisdom among coaches and managers is that restricting innings for young starting pitchers, and slowly increasing the number of innings pitched over several years, gives pitchers» tissues sufficient time to adapt to the workload of a major league season,» said Thomas Karakolis, lead investigator on the study.
It may be psychologically harmful for some women and play a significant role in the development of postpartum depression,» said Grace Lim, M.D., director of obstetric anesthesiology at Magee Women's Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and lead investigator on the study.
Yet labs in Germany, China, and Japan have replicated the results, notes Erkki Ruoslahti of the Sanford - Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in San Diego, California, the lead investigator on the original paper.
Therefore, doctors have suspected that testosterone may promote cardiovascular disease or that estrogen may protect against it, or both, according to Elaine Yu, MD, MSc, the study's lead investigator and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston.
* Update, 9 November, 3:51 p.m.: This story has been updated to clarify that Stuart Pimm is the lead investigator on the new study.
«Our research provides some reassuring evidence suggesting that there is no determinantal effect of infrequent, relatively light use of marijuana on kidney function among healthy adults under age 60,» commented lead investigator Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing preventive cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
«Chronic inflammatory diseases last for months and years, so you have to have a medicine that can be used for treating inflammation for the long term without having side effects,» said Dr. Jian - Dong Li, a lead investigator of the study and director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State and also a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.
«Our aim was to establish an adherence benchmark to enlighten further study of barriers to provider adherence and of patient outcomes related to guideline adherence,» explains lead investigator Gregory P. Auffenberg, MD, from the Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago.
«We now have compelling evidence that dengue can persist in China — in some cases up to six to eight years,» said Rubing Chen, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, and lead investigator of the study.
According to lead investigator Dr. Alexander Golberg, of TAU's Porter School of Environmental Studies, applying this process intermittently prevents bacteria proliferation in stored milk, potentially increasing its shelf life.
«At any given instant, the noise coming from the lab fault zone provides quantitative information on when the fault will slip,» said Paul Johnson, a Los Alamos National Laboratory fellow and lead investigator on the research, which was published today in Geophysical Research Letters.
«Results from the ADAPT - DES registry definitely demonstrate that high platelet reactivity after implantation of drug - eluting stents is an independent predictor of one - year stent thrombosis and heart attack, but it is also protective against major bleeding, both of which impact mortality,» said lead investigator Gregg W. Stone, MD..
«It is difficult to dissuade children from smoking if one or both parents are heavily dependent on cigarettes,» says the study's lead investigator, Darren Mays, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi.
A comprehensive approach to unequivocally identify PMS2 mutations remained to be developed,» explained lead investigator Lee - Jun C. Wong, PhD, of Baylor Miraca Genetic Laboratory and Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX).
Dr Andy Grierson, fellow lead investigator, added: «Diseases such as ALS and FTD are commonly associated with large protein clumps that accumulate in affected nerve cells.
Transcription factors are inside cell nuclei and difficult to reach,» said Vladimir Kalinichenko, MD, PhD, the study's lead investigator and a member of the Division of Pulmonary Biology.
«As the world's population ages, it is becoming increasingly important to develop ways to support successful prospective memory functioning so that older adults can continue to live independently at home without the need for assisted care,» said Nathan Rose, lead investigator of the study and now a research fellow in the School of Psychology at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.
«Our study suggests that microRNAs are an important factor that modify bone remodeling and promote tumor growth in metastatic prostate cancer,» lead investigator Shingo Sato concludes.
«In runners, the association of higher impact loading rates and injury risk has been demonstrated in previous studies,» says Robert Diaz, MD, resident physician at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital / Harvard Medical School and lead investigator in the study.
The team, led by astronomer and lead investigator David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, announced their conclusion yesterday.
«ADRCs consist of multiple cell types with multiple potential benefits,» said Timothy D. Henry, MD, MSCAI, director, division of cardiology at the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute and the study's lead investigator.
«Cities tend to be warmer than their rural surroundings; they retain more heat,» says Jason Schatz, a graduate student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and affiliate of the Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) project, who co-authored the study with WSC lead investigator, Chris Kucharik.
«Research suggests that people may be using cannabis as an exit drug to reduce use of substances that are potentially more harmful, such as opioid pain medication,» said the study's lead investigator Zach Walsh, associate professor of psychology at UBC's Okanagan campus.
«Many researchers have been working on such a diagnostic test for a long time — for me, it has been 20 years,» says lead investigator Massimo Raimondo, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida.
Nevertheless, our observations warrant confirmation in other settings and the biological mechanisms by which statin treatment may protect against this type of infection should be explored further,» explained lead investigator Jesper Smit, MD, PhD, of the Department of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Aalborg University Hospital, and Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
«Our results show that prostate cancer mortality was 20 percent lower in counties with the highest incidence of prostate cancer, indicating an early and rapid uptake of PSA testing, compared with counties with a slow and late increase in PSA testing,» says Pär Stattin, lead investigator of the study.
«eNoses have been studied in various medical applications, including early detection of cancer, especially from exhaled air,» says lead investigator Niku KJ.
«To our knowledge this is the first report of HRQoL outcomes of men on AS for prostate cancer compared to men without prostate cancer in a prospective, multi-institutional study,» explained lead investigator Christopher R. Porter, MD, FACS, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA.
«The interaction between fkbp5 and dexamethasone could enable us to enhance fear extinction,» says Isaac Galatzer - Levy, PhD, a research assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone and its Steven and Alexandra Cohen Veterans Center, and the lead investigator on the study.
«Problems with memory, executive function, and processing speed are common symptoms of bipolar disorder, and have a direct and negative impact on an individual's daily functioning and overall quality of life,» said lead investigator Eve Lewandowski, PhD, director of clinical programming for one of McLean's schizophrenia and bipolar disorder programs and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
«It's a new technology that will require new costs,» lead investigator Dr. George Saade, professor and division chief in the UTMB department of obstetrics and gynecology, said of STAN.
«Evidence indicates that the fatty and inflamed liver expresses several pro-inflammatory and procoagulant factors, as well as genes involved in accelerated atherogenesis,» explained lead investigator Raluca Pais, MD, PhD, of the Pierre and Marie Curie University, INSERM, and the CDR Saint Antoine, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France.
«This case demonstrates the novel application of wearable devices for display of CTA data sets in the catheterization laboratory that can be used for better planning and guidance of interventional procedures, and provides proof of concept that wearable devices can improve operator comfort and procedure efficiency in interventional cardiology,» explained lead investigator Maksymilian P. Opolski, MD, PhD, of the Department of Interventional Cardiology and Angiology at the Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.
«The first year results from the CoreValve US Pivotal Trial support the safety and efficacy of this therapy in patients unsuitable for surgical aortic valve replacement,» said lead investigator Steven Yakubov, MD..
The lead investigator, psychologist C. Nathan DeWall of the University of Kentucky, hypothesized that the neural overlap between physical and emotional pain might enable a drug designed to alleviate physical pain to cushion emotional pain.
According to lead investigator Gerald Brock, MD, of the Department of Surgery, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, «Results from this study demonstrate that long - term treatment with T - sol successfully supplements testosterone levels in the majority of recipients.
«The findings of this study are exciting because they support the idea that combining these two targeted oral therapies results in significant activity in ovarian cancer, more so than olaparib alone,» said Joyce Liu, M.D., MPH, the lead investigator and medical oncologist at the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.
«There is consensus to treat subclinical hypothyroidism because it is generally believed that the potential benefits of treatment outweigh the potential risks of overtreatment,» said Tim Korevaar, MD, the study's lead investigator and a PhD student at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.