Sentences with phrase «first author on the study»

«In this case, the pathway involved the loss of a protein called MBD3 that allows tumor cells to become more like stem cells and persist,» said first author on the study Rakesh Verma, a postdoctoral associate in hematology.

Many of the cardiologists who contributed to the design, performance and analysis of the MRI scans in the METOCARD - CNIC trial, including Drs. Pizarro and Fernández - Friera (joint first authors on the study), received training on these programs, and now work at the CNIC, combining their research activity and their clinical work in the Spanish hospital network.

«What we've shown in the monkey model matches a lot of what people have observed in epidemiological studies of humans,» says Emma Mohr, a pediatric infectious disease fellow at UW — Madison and first author on the study with Matthew Aliota and Dawn Dudley, research scientists in UW — Madison's schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine and Public Health, respectively.

The samples were grown with single atomic layer precision using molecular beam epitaxy at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, by postdoctoral researcher and first author on the study Jason Hoffman.

«We've uncovered a fundamental role for Pol III in adult flies and worms: its activity negatively impacts stem cell function, gut health and the animal's survival,» says first author on the study, Danny Filer.

Baylin and Johns Hopkins scientist Michelle Vaz, Ph.D., first author on the study, suspected that the interplay of epigenetic and genetic changes may occur when normal lung cells develop into cancer, but, Baylin says, the timing of such changes was unknown.

«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.

One reason researchers didn't know that the cerebellum might be important in bipolar disorder, is because no one chose to look there, says Casey Johnson, PhD, UI postdoctoral researcher and first author on the study.

«The shortest boundary [between the components] is in the radial direction,» Dr. Angela White, first author on the study, explains.

Comprehensive neuropsychological testing could provide cardiac arrest survivors better support for the challenges they may face upon discharge, says Dr. Vess Stamenova, first author on the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the Women's College Hospital, who completed the research during her time as a fellow at the RRI.

Researchers Bence György and Cyrille Sage, first authors on the study, injected exo - AAV preloaded with the missing gene into the inner ears of mouse pups, shortly after birth.

«By simply administering nitroglycerin before the procedure, we can save patients from unnecessary risks related to stents such as blood clots and restenosis,» said Alec Vishnevsky, M.D., cardiology fellow and first author on the study.

Based on their results, Gigi Ebenezer, M.B.B.S., M.D., assistant professor of neurology and the first author on the study, reported that protein clumps were detected in 70 percent of cases and 20 percent of patients who carried disease - causing genes but hadn't yet developed symptoms.

«D. suzukii may act as an evolutionary bridge between fruit - centered and herbivorous species within the Drosophila family,» says Ian Keesey, first author on the study.

Cara Ebbeling of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital, first author on the study, and her colleagues have found that what you eat can significantly affect your metabolism rate.

Matteo Boretto, the first author on this study, commented that «we were very excited to see that we could not only robustly grow and amplify endometrial tissue in a dish, but that the tiny structures were also able to reproduce normal responses of the endometrium to hormones: oestrogen makes the tissue thicken, progesterone then induces maturation including folding (see picture), and subsequent removal of both hormones mimics the cell shedding of the menstrual period.»

«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.

«Identifying the correct, specific diagnosis often can be challenging for physicians who do not see a high volume of patients with spinal cord impairment,» says Nicholas Zalewski, M.D., a clinical fellow in the Department of Neurology at Mayo Clinic and first author on the study.

«Our analysis is the first to clearly demonstrate the improved survival that chemotherapy adds post-surgery for adult patients with medulloblastoma,» said Benjamin H. Kann, MD, first author on the study and a Resident in the Department of Therapeutic Radiology at Yale School of Medicine.

«A large portion of atmospheric river research has focused on the western coast of the United States, so the goal of this study was to improve our understanding of atmospheric river events throughout the Southeast,» said Neil Debbage, doctoral candidate in the UGA department of geography and first author on the study.

«Our findings suggest a strong relationship between higher - volume radiation therapy facilities and improved overall survival for patients treated with IMRT for locally advanced head and neck cancers,» said Henry S. Park, MD, MPH, first author on the study and a chief resident in the Department of Therapeutic Radiology at Yale School of Medicine.

«Patient age, cardiac risk, and disease recurrence risk should be considered when selecting candidates for hormone therapy in this patient population,» said Nataniel Lester - Coll, MD, first author on the study and a Resident in the Department of Therapeutic Radiology at Yale School of Medicine.

«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.

«A common problem in the field of single cell genomics is the inability to validate mutations that are detected in individual cells,» said Yong Wang, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics and first author on the study.

«We didn't know for sure we could make these materials,» said Argonne postdoctoral researcher Junjie Zhang, the first author on the study.

«That big a drop actually reduced the risk levels to those of about 20 years ago,» says Peter Ravdin of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, the first author on that study.

«Since the Mendelian diseases are associated with known genetic loci, we have essentially created a genetic map for complex disease using Mendelian disorders as markers,» said David Blair, a graduate student at the University of Chicago and first author on the study.

«We found that change in BMI did not reflect changes in body fat or obesity,» said Etan Orgel, MD, first author on the study and an attending physician in the Survivorship & Supportive Care Program at the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at CHLA.

«The resulting electrophysiological signal of the Calyx of Held was significantly altered,» explains Le Xiao, first author on the study.

«Traditionally, they live on houseboats and come to land only occasionally,» says Melissa Ilardo, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Utah and first author on the study.

«There's been a great deal of scholarly and policy attention toward incarceration, and rightfully so, as it has very distinct consequences for people that have that experience, as well as their communities and families,» said Sarah Shannon, assistant professor of sociology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and first author on the study.

«Our study suggests that the disease process and antibiotic treatment could have a far greater impact on intestinal microbial diversity than surgical intervention,» said Minna Wieck, MD, an investigator and surgical resident at CHLA and first author on the study.

«For the first time, we have been able to show that light pulses can also create static contractions,» says Dr. Tobias Bruegmann, the first author on the study.

«This plant has taken a unique overall tack in evolution, presumably related to its parasitic lifestyle,» said Elizabeth Skippington, a postdoctoral fellow at IU who is first author on the study.

Dr. Gonzalo Pizarro, one of the first authors on the study, comments that «it has been possible to demonstrate the beneficial and sustained effect of this acute treatment thanks to the realization of advanced cardiac magnetic resonance analysis of almost all the patients in this clinical trial.»

«Identifying MF as a master hormone in the worm brain came as quite a surprise,» explains Sven Schenk, first author on the study.

The UI team, including Young - Cho Kim, PhD, first author on the study and a postdoctoral fellow in Narayanan's lab, genetically altered the mice so that the D1 neurons could be artificially activated using pulses of light.

«If we want natural gas to be the cleanest fossil fuel source, methane emissions have to be reduced,» says Gabrielle Pétron, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA and at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and first author on the study, currently in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research.

«We might have expected that the neurons that are active when we perceive a visual object are the same ones that memorize it; or, on the contrary, that one group of neurons perceives the object and a completely different group memorizes it; but instead, we found that all of the above are true to a certain extent,» said Mendoza - Halliday, first author on the study.

«Based on recommendations from organizations, literature and research, it is becoming clear that identifying mental health needs is part of quality medical care,» said Alan L. Nager, MD, MHA, director of Emergency and Transport Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and first author on the study.

The study shows that better coordination of care between surgeons and primary care physicians is important to help reduce hospital readmissions within 30 days for those high - risk surgery patients who have post-operative complications or live with a chronic disease, according to Benjamin S. Brooke, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine and first author on the study.

«This study shows the Arctic Ocean was very brackish and had reduced salinity back then,» said University of Chicago postdoctoral researcher Sora Kim, first author on the study.

«A key implication of this finding is the potential to manipulate DNA2 to improve the survival of FANCD2 - deficient cells, and hopefully, by extension, the survival of FA patients,» says Kenneth Karanja, a former postdoctoral scholar in Campbell's laboratory and first author on the study.

The population structure there is complex and interesting from a variety of perspectives, including the genetic one,» said Gillian Belbin, MS, a graduate student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) and first author on the study.

To create the 3D avatars, «we used X-ray microtomography, or micro-CT, which is comparable to when you go to the doctor and get a CT scan but at much higher resolution, to scan very small insects,» explains Dr. Francisco Hita Garcia, first author on the study and a member of the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit at OIST.

This knowledge, the Nature Medicine paper states, is «one essential step» toward developing an effective treatment for this devastating disease — «hopefully sooner than later,» says Eunsil Hahm, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Rush and first author on the study.

For Foll, first author on the study, «the risk is real, and we need to investigate further.»

However, our study has shown that this other type of degradation is having a severe impact on the forest, with enormous quantities of previously stored carbon being lost into the atmosphere,» said Erika Berenguer, researcher from the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom, first author on the study.

«In general, lupus patients commonly have a broad range of neuropsychiatric symptoms, including anxiety, depression, headaches, seizures, even psychosis,» says Allison Bialas, PhD, first author on the study and a research fellow working in the lab of Michael Carroll, PhD, senior author on the study, who are part of the Boston Children's Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine.