Sentences with phrase «as first author of this study»

«This study demonstrates that a high - risk social environment can overwhelm the protective effect of a genetic variant associated with alcohol - related behaviors,» said Emily Olfson, an MD - PhD student at Washington University School of Medicine as well as first author of this study.

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I entreat all of you to read A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes novel — fiction, of course, but interesting that a very reputable and fact - driven author would choose to delve into the life of the antagonist as being helplessly tied up in an early Mormonist agenda...

Most studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding on common infections in the first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our study.24 Although the authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.

«This case presents scurvy as a new and severe complication of improper use of almond beverage in the first year of life,» the case study authors write.

The authors of the new study have proposed that the Haarlem specimen be assigned to a new genus, for which they suggest the name Ostromia — in honor of the American paleontologist John Ostrom, who first identified the fossil as a theropod dinosaur.

«Birth defects were seen when both males and females were exposed, as well as when only one parent was exposed,» said Hrubec, who is first author on the study and holds both a doctor of veterinary medicine degree and Ph.D. from the Virginia - Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.

«The presence of these elongated skulls in parts of eastern Europe is most commonly attributed to the nomadic Huns, led by Atilla, during their invasion of the Roman Empire from Asia, but the appearance of these skulls in western Europe is more mysterious, as this was very much the fringes of their territory,» said Dr. Krishna Veeramah, first author of the study.

The new study covers the entire U.S. West, from the High Plains states to the Pacific coast, and provides the first detailed look at how groundwater recharge may change as the climate changes, said senior author Thomas Meixner, UA professor and associate department head of hydrology and atmospheric sciences.

Joint first author of the study, microbiologist Dr Jo Fothergill said: «We have discovered that the nasopharynx acts as a silent reservoir for bacteria from which more serious infections in the lungs can develop.»

«Other studies have seen a relationship between tameness and stress responses in animals,» said Jessica Hekman, the first author of the paper who worked on the study as a graduate student in the laboratory of University of Illinois animal sciences professor Anna Kukekova.

«As our nation as a whole is learning, it's important to reduce risky opioid - related prescribing,» says Lewei Allison Lin, M.D., the first author of the new study and an addiction fellow in the U-M Department of Psychiatry who trained in the VA systeAs our nation as a whole is learning, it's important to reduce risky opioid - related prescribing,» says Lewei Allison Lin, M.D., the first author of the new study and an addiction fellow in the U-M Department of Psychiatry who trained in the VA systeas a whole is learning, it's important to reduce risky opioid - related prescribing,» says Lewei Allison Lin, M.D., the first author of the new study and an addiction fellow in the U-M Department of Psychiatry who trained in the VA system.

«For this purpose we have created molecules which act as an adapter between the virus and the tumor cell,» explains Markus Schmid, first author of the study.

«As far as I know, this is the first study to convincingly connect the tidal force of the moon with rainfall,» said corresponding author Tsubasa Kohyama, a UW doctoral student in atmospheric scienceAs far as I know, this is the first study to convincingly connect the tidal force of the moon with rainfall,» said corresponding author Tsubasa Kohyama, a UW doctoral student in atmospheric scienceas I know, this is the first study to convincingly connect the tidal force of the moon with rainfall,» said corresponding author Tsubasa Kohyama, a UW doctoral student in atmospheric sciences.

«Our results provide evidence for clinicians to consider HRT as compared with CRT as a preferred radiation treatment in men with intermediate - risk prostate cancer and at low risk of other complications,» stated Trevor Royce, MD, MPH, radiation oncologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and first author of the study.

These are the findings of a national study of Taiwanese youth led by Wei J. Chen of the National Taiwan University, with Chia - Hua Chan as first author.

«As a research community, we spend a lot of time searching for good resources and trying to link them together,» said TSRI Research Associate Tim Putman, who was first author of one of the studies.

Once CAT - tailed proteins are imported into the mitochondria, they form aggregates that may act as a seed, and ultimately bind proteins free of defects that have vital roles for the cell» explains Toshiaki Izawa, first author of the study, together with Sae - Hun Park.

«When we hear a sound, the normal aging brain keeps the sound in check during processing, but those with MCI have lost this inhibition and it was as if the flood gates were open since their neural response to the same sounds were over-exaggerated,» says Dr. Gavin Bidelman, first author on the study, a former RRI post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor at the University of Memphis.

«But our findings show that obesity can now be defined as a risk factor for developing multiple myeloma through this condition,» said the study's first author, Su - Hsin Chang, PhD, an assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University.

Now ancient DNA has rewritten the evolutionary history of this iconic group,» said first author Peter Heintzman, who led the study as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Cruz.

«The wing of Drosophila melanogaster has several morphogens, such as Dpp (BMP in humans) and Wingless (Wnt in humans), which are necessary for growth,» explains Lara Barrio, the first author of the study and postdoctoral fellow in the Development and Growth Control Lab at IRB Barcelona.

As the authors of the new research explain: «There are three main levels of analysis in the study of proteins: the first is the sequence of amino acids, the second is the three - dimensional structure that these filaments take on a very short time after they are synthesized, while the third regards their function.

«While randomized clinical trials are needed to test whether this is a causal relationship, these findings indicate doctors should consider using or re-starting ACEIs and ARBs as first - line blood pressure medications for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis,» said Jenny I. Shen, MD, an LA BioMed researcher and corresponding author of the study.

«Proper blood cell production is dependent on functioning hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells that are destroyed during conditioning procedures for transplantation or following bone marrow injury,» said the study's first author Kevin A. Goncalves, who performed this research as part of his PhD studies in cellular and molecular physiology at the Sackler School.

The study authored by Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists John Coulston, David Wear, and Jim Vose is the first to isolate the impacts of forest disturbances, such as fire, disease, and cutting, as well as the impacts of land use change using permanent monitoring locations across the Southeast making it one of the most thorough carbon studies completed.

«The discovery introduces — for the first time — stem cell - based «biological resynchronization» as a novel means to treat cardiac dyssynchrony,» says Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study.

«Several studies and clinical evidence suggest AIM2 functions as a tumor suppressor, but until now, we've had very little direct evidence to explains how this occurs,» said Justin E. Wilson, PhD, the study's first author and a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Lineberger, the UNC School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Genetics.

However, their behaviour is a clear sign that six - year - old children as well as chimpanzees are eager to observe how uncooperative members of their community are punished,» adds Nikolaus Steinbeis, the other first author of the study and scientist at both MPI CBS and University College London.

«The imaging technique could shed light on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead author of the study and a researcher from the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.

«While tumor profiling holds the promise of improved therapeutics through personalized medicine, it is important that both clinicians and patients discuss the possibilities of incidental findings prior to ordering the testing, as the findings can have serious implications for both the patient and their family members,» said Melinda Yushak, M.D., M.P.H., first author on the study and a medical oncology fellow in Yale School of Medicine.

«This is the question we asked ourselves, particularly in the case of certain patients born with broken bones who, even as newborns, were neither able to move properly nor breathe unaided,» explains Dr. Ellen Knierim, a researcher at Charité's NeuroCure Clinical Research Center and the study's first author.

«Bone cells aren't solely studied in isolation in the lab as both local and systemic factors play an important role in their function, so it's important to unpick the multitude of biological factors that can affect their proliferation,» says Dr Pablo Roman - Garcia, a first author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

In the study, published in the current online edition of Cancer Letters, senior author Karine Cohen - Solal, PhD, and colleagues show for the first time that the RUNX2 transcription factor could also serve as a possible treatment target for melanoma.

«This came as a surprise,» said Farnaz Broushaki, first author of the study and a member of the JGU Palaeogenetics Group.

«We asked ourselves how the sensitive ultra-diffuse galaxies could survive at all in an environment as unsettled as a galaxy cluster,» explains Carolin Wittmann, first author of the study and PhD student at the Institute for Astronomical Computing (ARI) at the ZAH.

«As the date of first record is not available for most alien species, these numbers are clearly underestimating the full extent of alien species introductions,» says Dr. Franz Essl from the University of Vienna, Austria, senior author of the study.

As we are seeing more women survive breast cancer, we need to focus on long term survivorship issues and ensuring that women have access to this important part of treatment,» says study first author Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Simple measures such as BMI may fail to completely inform us of a patient's true cardiovascular risk,» said Mark Rabbat, MD, first author of the study and an assistant professor of medicine and radiology, Division of Cardiology, at Loyola University Medical Center.

«Overall, we found three cortisol profiles among the children, which were categorized as elevated, moderate, and low,» explains Jennifer H. Suor, doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Rochester, who is the study's first author.

«We're relying on the chemistry to generate the ground truth and act as the «supervisor» for a supervised learning algorithm,» said David Mayerich, first author of the study.

Blocking TAM receptors via different routes of administration, including giving it as an oral «pill», markedly reduced metastatic spreading in our model systems,» says Magdalena Paolino, first author of the study.

«As luck would have it, that was the first gene I tried, and that was the last gene I tried,» said Ubil, who conducted the research as a graduate student in the laboratory of former UNC faculty member and senior study author Arjun Deb, MDAs luck would have it, that was the first gene I tried, and that was the last gene I tried,» said Ubil, who conducted the research as a graduate student in the laboratory of former UNC faculty member and senior study author Arjun Deb, MDas a graduate student in the laboratory of former UNC faculty member and senior study author Arjun Deb, MD..

«Genomes from this migration seeped right across the continent, way beyond East Africa, from the Yoruba on the western coast to the Mbuti in the heart of the Congo — who show as much as 7 % and 6 % of their genomes respectively to be West Eurasian,» said Marcos Gallego Llorente, first author of the study, also from Cambridge's Zoology Department.

«This is a new application for an old pain medication that offers hope for reducing the development of acute pain in the first few days after surgery, as well as chronic postoperative pain and the need for opioid medications following discharge from the hospital,» said Glenn S. Murphy, M.D., lead study author and physician anesthesiologist at NorthShore University Health System in Evanston, Illinois.

«This study provides the first evidence that BPA exposure during pregnancy can induce a specific type of oxidative stress known as nitrosative stress in both the mother and offspring,» said the senior author, Vasantha Padmanabhan, MS, PhD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI.

«This is the first national study to identify specific regions of the United States where residents may be at an increased risk for poor clinical outcomes — including misdiagnoses and late detection — as a result of limited access to specialized gynecologic cancer care,» says David Shalowitz, MD, a fellow in the division of Gynecologic Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and lead author on the study.

Isabel Angelo, first author of the study and a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, worked on the study as part of her internship at JPL and adapted Hu's model to 55 Cancri e.

«Compared to conventional methods, such as fluorescent antibodies against certain surface proteins, we know how the cells will decide three cell generations earlier,» reports ICB scientist Dr. Felix Buggenthin, joint first author of the study together with Dr. Florian Büttner.

One such possibility is suggested by first author of the study Laura D. Lewis, Ph.D. «This technique now gives us a method for obtaining much more detailed information about the complex brain activity that takes place during sleep, as well as other dynamic switches in brain states, such as when under anesthesia and during hallucinations.»

«By reversing the cycle, we could even use the device as a single atom refrigerator and employ it to cool nano systems coupled to it,» explained Johannes Roßnagel, first author of the study.