Sentences with phrase «explained lead investigator»
Although the new findings do not contradict the widely accepted view that sleep apnea is a risk factor for heart disease that can lead to a heart attack, they do suggest that obstructive sleep apnea can provide some heart protection in the event of a heart attack, explained lead investigator Dr. Neomi Shah, associate director of the pulmonary sleep lab at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.
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«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.
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).
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.
«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.
«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.
Because the liver receives 70 % of its blood supply from the intestine, it is important to understand how the gut contributes to liver disease development,» explained lead investigator Yu - Jui Yvonne Wan, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UC Davis Health.
Our study helps to understand the link between genetic susceptibility and microbial alterations in the gut in IBD,» explained lead investigator André Bleich, PhD, Professor and Director, Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover (Germany).
«These results indicate that cell fusion generates chromosomal instability,» explained lead investigator Jeffrey L. Platt, M.D., professor of surgery and microbiology and immunology, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Surgery, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).
«This large sample provides the first national estimates of the prevalence of e-cigarette use among U.S. adults with medical comorbidities,» explained lead investigator Gina R. Kruse, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
The properties of these gaseous halos control the rate at which stars form in galaxies according to models of galaxy formation,» explained the lead investigator, Nicolas Lehner of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
«Dairies vary widely in the amount of water used to cool cows,» explained lead investigator Jennifer M. Chen, of the Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, but using more water results in diminishing returns and minimizing water use is a sustainability concern for US dairy production.
«In the clinical context, the enhanced recovery of grasp pattern suggests that inosine facilitates greater recovery from this type of cortical injury and motor impairment,» explained lead investigator Tara L. Moore, PhD, of the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology and the Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
«Using these risk factors, we can identify patients at the highest risk for ODO, and tailor specific pain and followup regimens for them that carry the least consequences,» explained lead investigator Gopal N. Gupta, MD, of the Department of Urology, Loyola University Medical Center.
«When researchers use video games as a tool for cognitive enhancement, they assume that game performance relies on specific cognitive / brain function, yet there is a little evidence that establishes such a connection,» explained lead investigator Chandramallika Basak, PhD, Assistant Professor at The Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas.
Our studies reveal that AHR is a novel target for treatment of this disease and potentially other diseases that manifest with excessive scarring,» explained lead investigator Richard P. Phipps, PhD, of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Flaum Eye Institute of the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Rochester (Rochester, New York).
«There have been studies into the benefits of breastfeeding on other diseases, but there is little information about benefits of breastfeeding linked to liver disease,» explained lead investigator Oyekoya T. Ayonrinde, MBBS, of the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, and Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia.
Similarly, remembering the precise pattern of pieces on the board during a previously successful opening or endgame may decide who will win or lose,» explained lead investigator Josef Bischofberger, PhD, Professor, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel (Switzerland).
«However, sparse data exist on the short term potential vasoprotective effects of red wine in smoking - healthy individuals,» explained lead investigator Viktoria Schwarz, MD, of the University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany.
«The main advantages of noninvasive treatments are good cosmetic outcome, preservation of surrounding tissue, and potential for home application of either creams,» explained lead investigator Marieke Roozeboom of the Department of Dermatology, Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
«Economic pressures, technological innovations, demographic shifts, consumer expectations, and an evolving regulatory framework have all contributed to the impetus for changes in the global dairy industry,» explained lead investigator Herman Barkema, DVM, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Infectious Diseases of Dairy Cattle, Department of Production Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, at the University of Calgary, Canada.
«Twin pregnancies are at substantially higher risk of early preterm birth than singleton pregnancies and this risk is inversely related to sonographically measured cervical length at 20 - 24 weeks» gestation,» explained lead investigator Kypros H Nicolaides, MD, Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, King's College Hospital, London.
«The aim of our study was to examine associations of pregnancy and offspring sugar consumption (sucrose, fructose) with child cognition,» explained lead investigator Juliana F.W. Cohen, ScD, School of Health Sciences, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, and Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
«We need to look outward to help us understand our own Solar System,» explains lead investigator Hannah Wakeford from the University of Exeter in the UK and the Space Telescope Science Institute in the USA.
«These changes have occurred in the context of substantial increases in the proportion of adults reporting no leisure - time physical activity, but in the absence of any significant population - level changes in average daily caloric intake,» explains lead investigator Uri Ladabaum, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology), Stanford University School of Medicine.
«Although many reports have addressed the effect of lactic acid bacteria on skin properties in subjects with skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, few studies have involved healthy humans,» explains lead investigator Hiromi Kimoto - Nira, PhD, of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science (NILGS), Tsukuba, Japan.
«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.
Not exact matches
As the leading investigator, Detective Constable Paul Constable, explained:
«Although wild, these monkeys are very acclimated to humans, who often feed them peanuts,» explained coauthor Martin Antonio, PhD, Unit Molecular Biologist & Principal Investigator, Vaccines and Immunity Theme, Medical Research Council Unit, Banjul, who led the work in The Gambia.
Lead investigator, Evan Matros, MD, FACS, explained that today plastic surgeons are more willing to perform reconstructive procedures in these patient groups — which include women age 65 and older or those who have had radiation therapy — than they were 15 years ago, and that patients themselves are more accepting of these reconstruction procedures.
Buchwald, the lead investigator, explains: «It's been very unclear what group is the best control for chronic fatigue syndrome.
«It's extraordinary; the cells just sit there as if in a state of suspended animation,» explains Professor Michael Lisanti, Chair of Translational Medicine and lead investigator.
«In general, using a prosthesis is an unnatural act that requires training, extra effort and can have a certain amount of awkwardness to it,» explains Douglas P. Murphy, MD; from Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center who is also an associate professor of PM&R at Virginia Commonwealth University and lead investigator (along with Ou Bai PhD from Florida International University) in a recent study that sought to establish the feasibility of manipulating a prosthetic knee with BCI.
However, no study has specifically assessed the risk of ASD in offspring of mothers with lupus, explains Evelyne Vinet, MD, FRCPC; assistant professor, Department of Rheumatology; McGill University Health Centre, Montreal; and lead investigator in the study.
Professor Philip Newsome, the lead investigator from the University of Birmingham, explained, «Because there are no licensed treatments available for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, there is a large unmet clinical need.
«Although treatable at the early stage, prostate cancer is prone to metastasis,» explain the team of authors, led by Xiaoyuan Chen, senior investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine at the U.S. National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
Borja Ibáñez — joint lead investigator on the study with Valentín Fuster — explains that «the possibility to reduce so dramatically the number of cases of chronic heart failure (with all the associated treatments and hospital readmissions) with such a cheap procedure (the metoprolol treatment costs less than two euros per patient) could generate enormous savings for health services across Europe.»
«For the first time, we were able to demonstrate, in surgically resected metastases, that treatment with bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy before metastasectomy also changes the clinical significance of the growth factors as potential biomarkers,» explains Stefan Stremitzer, one of the lead investigators from MedUni Vienna's Department of Surgery.
As with childhood type 1 diabetes, we can forecast the progression of the disease and adapt the therapeutic measures accordingly,» lead investigator Achenbach explains.
Dr Vivian Vignoles, Reader in Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, Principal Investigator of the Culture and Identity Research Network, and lead author on the project, explains:
This would have positive impacts on the treatment of circadian clock diseases, sleep problems and human health,» explains Fumika Hamada, PhD, Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Cincinnati Children's, one of the study's lead investigators.
Daniel Pauly, the study's lead author and principal investigator of the Sea Around Us at the Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries, explains that as fish grow into adulthood their demand for oxygen increases because their body mass becomes larger.
«Much of what we know about Zika virus was described in the first few reports about the virus in 1952,» explained Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, a senior investigator at Gladstone, who led the briefing.
«The striatum is the major site within the brain that controls movement,» explained Dr. Anatol Kreitzer, a lead investigator in the new program.
However, it did not appear to preferentially benefit ethnic and racial minorities who are typically the most vulnerable of America's poorest population,» explains the study's lead investigator, Waddah B. Al - Refaie, MD, surgeonin - chief at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and chief of surgical oncology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
Therefore, the hourly rain rate is stronger in urban regions,» explains Vasu Misra, the study's lead investigator and an associate professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, adding that this observation is particularly true during summer months.
Kelley, lead investigator on the study published today in Nature Chemistry, explained how her team has advanced a completely new approach using magnetic nanoparticles with DNA capture probes on their surface that can target circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in blood samples to see if the cells contains biomarkers associated with drug resistance.
«Our study focused on a class of enzymes called methyltransferases, which have emerged as key regulators of HIV latency,» explained Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, a senior investigator at Gladstone and lead author of the study published in the scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe.
The lead investigators, Dr. Zoltan Beck and Dr. Carl Alving, researchers with MHRP in the Division of Retrovirology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), explain that the data show that although infectious HIV - 1 virus particles that bind to red blood cells comprise only a small amount, perhaps as little as a mean of 2.3 % of a typical HIV - 1 preparation, erythrocyte - bound HIV - 1 is then approximately 100-fold more infectious than free (non-cell-bound) HIV - 1 for infection of target cells.