Sentences with phrase «senior study author»

«These data should promote a re-evaluation of those diseases to see if this new function that we've identified contributes to those defects,» said senior study author Dr. Michael Buszczak, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and with the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine at UT Southwestern.

«Based on a better understanding of its origins, our study suggests new strategies for the prevention and early detection of ovarian cancer,» said senior study author Dr. Douglas Levine.

Brooker did the research in the lab of senior study author Dr. Jack Kessler, a professor of neurology at Feinberg and a Northwestern Medicine neurologist.

«The results of this study suggest there is little benefit to what is often considered a routine addition to the open - heart procedure of CABG for patients with moderate IMR,» said senior study author Robert Michler, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and co-director of The Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care.

The finding is exciting «because it suggests that the seasonal flu vaccine boosts antibody responses and may provide some measure of protection against a new pandemic strain that could emerge from the avian population,» said senior study author Paul G. Thomas, PhD, an Associate Member in the Department of Immunology at St. Jude.

«From purely looking at the DNA sequences we can conclude that snakes retain many enhancers that, based on mammalian studies, we thought were limb enhancers,» says senior study author Douglas Menke, a geneticist at the University of Georgia.

We have estimated that up to 15 percent of patients will be candidates for dose optimization,» explained senior study author Javier F.Torres - Roca, MD, director of Clinical Research and associate member of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Moffitt.

«We can now begin to think about engineering proteins to do things that nothing else is capable of doing,» said senior study author Brian Kuhlman, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

One fight doesn't determine the rest of your lives, says senior study author Igor Grossmann, PhD.

«Our findings suggest that social interactions that stimulate oxytocin production will recruit this newly identified circuit to help coordinate the complex behavioral responses elicited by changing social situations in all mammals, including humans,» says senior study author Nathaniel Heintz of The Rockefeller University.

«It sounds like science fiction, but Lin28a could be part of a healing cocktail that gives adults the superior tissue repair seen in juvenile animals,» says senior study author George Daley of Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

«Our results provide a large body of evidence demonstrating that the harmine drug class can make human beta cells proliferate at levels that may be relevant for diabetes treatment,» said senior study author Andrew Stewart, MD, Director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine.

«We have solved a fundamental problem that scientists had accepted would be part of vaccine production — that the virus is always going to mutate if it is grown in eggs,» said senior study author Nicholas S. Heaton, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine.

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

«These findings could lead physicians to advise women to avoid high pollution areas or use air filtration systems during the early stages of pregnancy,» says senior study author Judith Zelikoff, PhD, a professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at NYU School of Medicine.

«Our work suggests that latent infection with the toxoplasma gondii parasite may change brain chemistry in a fashion that increases the risk of aggressive behavior,» said senior study author Emil Coccaro, MD, Ellen.

Study findings were presented by senior study author Robert Michler, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and co-director of The Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2014 and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine.

said senior study author D. Allan Drummond, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago.

Simply put, «their brains grew too fast, compared to controls,» said senior study author Joe Piven.

Senior study author Stanley Watowich notes that weight loss and obesity drugs of this kind could help prevent conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

«Our results highlight the long - term health benefits of improving diet quality with an emphasis on overall dietary patterns rather than on individual foods or nutrients,» said senior study author Frank Hu, professor and chair of the Harvard Chan School Department of Nutrition.

«This is the first study that has looked at maltreatment,» senior study author Lane Strathearn said last week.

«There is no diagnostic substitute for a medical professional when it comes to evaluating an athlete for concussion, but physicians are not always on the sidelines during practice or a game when an injury might occur,» says senior study author Laura Balcer, MD, MSCE, Co-director of the NYU Langone Concussion Center and a professor of neurology, population health and ophthalmology at NYU Langone.

Senior study author Katsuhiko Yanagisawa, director general of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology in Japan, is convinced that enough amyloid penetrates the blood — brain barrier to make its way into the bloodstream to be a useful measure of cognitive function.

«Our current research sheds light on the effect that spinal surgery has on a patient's sex life and begins to describe the impact spinal disease has on this very important aspect of life,» said senior study author Shane Burch, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco.

«These findings provide an explanation for a long - standing and mysterious observation, namely that people with chronically disturbed day - night cycles due to repetitive jet lag or shift work have a tendency to develop obesity and other metabolic complications,» says senior study author Eran Elinav of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

«Many scientists, including us, had focused mostly on the mosquito antennae» for sensing human odors outside of exhaled carbon dioxide, says senior study author Anandasankar Ray, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside.

«Finding the insula may not be surprising in a way, because there was knowledge that preceded that and it makes sense,» says senior study author Antoine Bechara, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California and the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine.

«Our study reveals a new mechanism that could be harnessed for biological therapies for lupus and other autoimmune diseases, where the immune system mistakenly targets the body's own cells,» says senior study author Boris Reizis, PhD, professor of Pathology and Medicine at NYU Langone.

«Chronic rhinosinusitis is a common upper respiratory infectious and inflammatory disorder that impacts nearly 35 million Americans, with related health care costs exceeding $ 6 billion annually,» said senior study author Noam Cohen, MD, PhD, associate professor of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery at Penn and staff surgeon at the Philadelphia VAMC.

It suggests an opportunity to educate both patients and providers to decrease complications and improve outcomes,» says senior study author Megan R. Haymart, M.D., assistant professor of metabolism, endocrinology and diabetes at Michigan Medicine.

«The GI microbiota are the great crowd - sourcers of chemistry, using a dizzying array of enzymes to process drugs and other chemicals, occasionally with terrible consequences,» says senior study author Matthew Redinbo, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

«Our work suggests that the neural pathology of autism manifests in the earliest cortical circuits, formed by a cell type called subplate neurons,» said UMD Biology Professor and senior study author Patrick Kanold.

«However, studies have shown that HDL doesn't work as well in people at high risk for heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, and that the functional ability of HDL matters as much as its quantity,» said senior study author Montserrat Fitó, M.D., Ph.D., and coordinator of the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Ciber of Physipathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Spain.

The work, published this week in mBio ®, an online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, suggests that immunizing pregnant women against HSV and similar infections could prevent serious brain disease related to these conditions in fetuses and newborns, said senior study author David A. Leib, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at the medical school.

«With chromosomal integration, all cells have the virus from the beginning,» says senior study author Caroline Hall, a pediatrician at the University of Rochester.

Still, «despite the lack of controlled data, there are some things that appear so frequently and prominently in Ebola virus disease survivors that we feel comfortable attributing them to [Ebola],» says senior study author Daniel Bausch, a physician on WHO's Clinical Care Team for Ebola.

Previous studies have linked high levels of PFCs to infertility in animals, but this is the first one to show such an effect on humans, says senior study author Jorn Olsen, who heads the epidemiology department at the University of California in Los Angeles.

«While the short - term effects of cleaning chemicals on asthma are becoming increasingly well documented, we lack knowledge of the long - term impact,» said senior study author Cecile Svanes, MD, PhD, a professor at the university's Centre for International Health.

Because environmental exposures have not had time to impact IBD progression in children, researchers have a clearer genetic picture of the disease allowing them to pick out additional genes overlooked in adult research, says senior study author Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The financial burden hits hard,» says senior study author Arden M. Morris, M.D., M.P.H., chief of colorectal surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School and associate professor of health behavior and health education at the School of Public Health.

More generally, this research reveals that a neurodegenerative disease may have its origins in the gut, and not only in the brain as had been previously thought,» says senior study author Sarkis Mazmanian of the California Institute of Technology.

«What we're observing from the combined dietary intervention is a reduction in systolic blood pressure as high as, if not greater than, that achieved with prescription drugs,» says senior study author Lawrence Appel, M.D., M.P.H., professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Treatment regimes for advanced colorectal cancer involve combination chemotherapies that are toxic and largely ineffective, yet have remained the backbone of therapy over the last decade,» says senior study author Scott Lowe of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

«Despite the overwhelming evidence linking dietary salt to disease in humans, the potential evolutionary advantage of storing so much salt in the body has not been clear,» says senior study author Jens Titze, who studies the link between sodium metabolism and disease at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

«Our study is the first to demonstrates unambiguously the conversion of a specific subtype of glia, the so - called NG2 glia, into induced neurons in living animals,» says senior study author Benedikt Berninger of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

«The misalignment of resources in biomedical research could be likened to poor budgeting of household finances,» said senior study author Andrey Rzhetsky, PhD, professor of genetic medicine and senior fellow at the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology at the University of Chicago.

It's unclear how these changes occur, said senior study author Maria Dominguez - Bello, PhD, an associate professor of medicine at the university, «if these bacteria are transferred from the fingers to the lens and to the eye surface, or if the lenses exert selective pressures on the eye bacterial community in favor of skin bacteria.»