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Chen F, Ullal T, Graves J, Ratcliff E, Naka A, McKenzie B, Carttar T, LaCroix-Fralish M. EVALUATING INSTRUMENTS FOR ASSESSING HEALTHSPAN: A MULTI-CENTER CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY IN THE COMPANION DOG. Innov Aging 2022. [PMCID: PMC9766982 DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igac059.2936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The companion dog is an emerging model in translational geroscience and offers novel opportunities to investigate aging biology and potential gerotherapeutics. However, there is a scarcity of validated tools and clinical outcome measures to characterize and understand the impact of aging in this translational species. Here we report on a multi-center, cross sectional veterinary clinical study, where we evaluated a clinical questionnaire (Canine Frailty Index; CFI; Banzato et al., 2019) to assess frailty and an owner assessment tool (VetMetrica HRQL) to evaluate HRQL in 451 adult companion dogs. Results support evidence of validity for the tools by confirming expectations that frailty and HRQL deteriorate with age. CFI scores were significantly higher (higher frailty) and HRQL scores significantly lower (worse HRQL) in old dogs (≥ 7 years of age) compared to young dogs (≥ 2 and < 6 years of age). Body size (small < 25lbs or large > 50lbs) was not associated with CFI or total HRQL score. However, older, larger dogs showed faster age-related decline in HRQL scores specific to owner-reported activity and comfort. Findings suggest that the clinician-assessed CFI and owner-reported VetMetrica HRQL may be useful tools to evaluate two determinants of healthspan in dogs: the accumulation of frailty and the progressive decline in quality of life. Establishing validated tools that operationalize the assessment of canine healthspan is critical for the linking pathophysiological mechanisms to aging phenotypes in the companion dog and for accelerating the development of gerotherapeutics that benefit both human and veterinary medicine.
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- Frances Chen
- Loyal, part of Cellular Longevity Inc, San Francisco, California, United States
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- University of CA, Davis, Davis, California, United States
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- Cellular Longevity Inc, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Cellular Longevity Inc, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Cellular Longevity Inc, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Cellular Longevity Inc, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Cellular Longevity Inc, San Francisco, California, United States
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Dearborn L, de Alvarez LR, Lemus R, Downey L, Rico-Mendez G, Maples J, Pesato M, Graves J. PSVI-10 Preliminary Evaluation of Small Ruminant Production Systems in Mississippi and the Southern US. J Anim Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/jas/skac247.735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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An online survey was used to collect farmer-level data about farm characteristics, number of animals and species, and farmer socio-demographic information, to evaluate small ruminant production systems in Mississippi (MS) and the Southern USA. Survey data was collected from July 2021 to March 2022 (IRB-21-202), with 243 participants, using the support of MS Sheep and Goat Associations, and MS State University social media. Responses include farmers located in MS (66.3%), TN (9.8%), AL (6.3%), NC (3.4%), KY (2.9%), FL (2%), GA (2%), LA (2%), OK (2%), TX (2%), AR (1%), and VA (0.5%). Respondents were 53.1% females and 46% males with an average age of 45 and 48.9 years, respectively. Ethnic distribution was 96.5% non-Hispanics and 2.5% Hispanics. Race distribution was 90.2% White, 2.9% African American, 2.9% American Indian/Alaska Native, and 0.5% Asian. Educational level was 25.9% Bachelor, 24.4% Associate, 21.5% High School, and 20.5% Postgraduate. Farming experience was 30.7% (0 to 5 yr), 23.4% (6 to 10 yr), 20.5% (11 to 20 yr), 10.2% (21 to30 yr), 9.3% (31 to 40 yr), and 5.9% (> 40 yr). Livestock present among farms was 70% goats, 29.6% beef, 24.7% sheep, 23.4% horses, and 4.1% dairy cattle. They indicated that 44.6% had 26 to 100 animals, 27.2% had 11 to 25, 16.8% had <10 sheep/goats, 5.4% 101-150, 3.5% 151-20, and 2.5% >250. Farm size in the 39% ranged from 21 to 100 ac, 24.9% < 10 ac, 18% from 11 to 20 ac, and 18% >100 ac. These results differ from USDA (2021) by suggesting that sheep and goat producers in the Southern US are predominantly middle-aged individuals, with medium to large size farms, and low number of years of experience in farming. These findings will be used to develop future outreach and educational programs that could help producers increase production efficiency.
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Hasler B, Wallace M, Graves J, Buysse D, Siegle G, Clark D. 0044 Pre-Pandemic Circadian Phase Predicts Pandemic Sleep, Depression, and Alcohol Use Among Adolescents. Sleep 2022. [PMCID: PMC9384167 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsac079.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Introduction Growing evidence links later circadian timing during adolescence to worse sleep, more severe depression, and greater alcohol involvement, perhaps due to circadian misalignment and sleep restriction imposed by early school start times. School schedules initially shifted later during the COVID-19 pandemic, which hypothetically should reduce circadian misalignment and sleep restriction for adolescents with later circadian timing, and thus may mitigate any problems with sleep, depression, and alcohol. Here we used the pandemic as a natural experiment to test whether adolescent drinkers with later circadian timing, relative to those with earlier circadian timing, showed improved sleep, depressive symptoms, and alcohol involvement. Methods We studied 42 high school students reporting alcohol use (aged 16-18; 27 female participants), assessing circadian phase via the dim light melatonin onset (DLMO) during pre-pandemic conditions, and then following them over four remote assessments every 3 months during the pandemic. Sleep characteristics were assessed via the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire, depressive symptoms were assessed via the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, and alcohol use was assessed via a 90-day Timeline Followback. Mixed-effect models focused on the pre-pandemic baseline, COVID baseline (Apr/May 2020), and COVID-9-mo (Jan/Feb 2021) timepoints, and covaried for age, time between pre-pandemic and COVID baselines, and current school/work status. Results In the pre-pandemic period, compared to those with earlier circadian timing, individuals with later circadian timing (later DLMO) got relatively less sleep (shorter total sleep time) on school nights. During the pandemic, earlier and later groups no longer differed on school night sleep. Over the course of the pandemic, compared to the earlier group, individuals with later circadian timing also reported larger increases in alcohol use (number of drinks, drinking days, and maximum drinks). Individuals with later circadian timing reported relatively greater depressive symptoms both pre-pandemic and 9-months into the pandemic. Conclusion While individuals with later circadian timing benefitted in terms of more school night sleep during the pandemic, this did not translate to mitigating depression or alcohol use. These findings suggest that later circadian timing may contribute to risk for depression and alcohol use over and above effects due to insufficient sleep. Support (If Any) Supported by grants from NIH (R01AA025626; P50DA046346).
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Hasler B, Wallace M, Graves J, Pedersen S. 083 Circadian Preference is Associated with Impulsivity at Both the Trait and State Level. Sleep 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab072.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Introduction
Impulsivity is a multifaceted construct with well-documented risk for substance use problems. A circadian preference towards eveningness has been linked to trait, global impulsivity. Here we extend existing literature by investigating whether eveningness is associated with multiple facets of impulsivity at both trait- and state-level impulsivity. We also examined these associations utilizing daily measures of sleep timing and duration.
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The primary sample included 78 moderate-to-heavy social drinkers (aged 21–35, 100% White men) with circadian preference data (Composite Scale of Morningness: CSM). Five facets of impulsivity were assessed via the UPPS-P, both at baseline (full scale) and up to 6 times per day over 10 days (reduced scale). Daily sleep timing (midsleep) and duration were assessed via self-report over 10 days. Multilevel models were used to examine between- and within-person associations, accounting for covariates and correcting for multiple comparisons.
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Between-person models found that eveningness was associated with multiple facets of impulsivity, at trait (lack of perseverance) and state levels (negative urgency, positive urgency, lack of perseverance, and lack of premeditation). However, average midsleep and duration were generally unrelated to impulsivity when accounting for circadian preference. Within-person models in the primary sample largely paralleled the between-person findings. In a larger, more diverse sample (29.1% self-identified as Black, 29.7% female) without CSM data, later midsleep timing was associated with greater mean state-level impulsivity across multiple facets. These effects largely appear to be driven by White women.
Conclusion
A circadian preference for eveningness is strongly associated with multiple facets of impulsivity, at both trait- and state-levels, potentially increasing risk for substance use. This association does not appear to be driven by actual daily sleep timing and/or duration. Future research with objective measures of sleep in larger, more diverse samples will be important to clarify implications for sleep-focused prevention and/or treatment of substance use.
Support (if any)
Supported by grants from NIH (R01AA026249; K01 AA021135), as well as a Foundation Grant from ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research.
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Hasler B, Graves J, Wallace M, Claudatos S, Baker F, Clark D. 610 Self-Reported Sleep and Circadian Characteristics Predict Future Substance Use: A Longitudinal Analysis from the NCANDA Study. Sleep 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab072.608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Introduction
Growing evidence indicates that sleep characteristics predict later substance use and related problems during adolescence and young adulthood. However, most prior studies have assessed a limited range of sleep characteristics, studied only a narrow age span, and included relatively few follow-up assessments. Here, we used multiple years of data from the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA) study, which spans the adolescent period with an accelerated longitudinal design, to examine whether multiple sleep characteristics in any year predict substance use the following year.
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The sample included 831 participants (423 females; age 12–21 years at baseline) from NCANDA. Sleep variables included the previous year’s circadian preference, sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, timing of midsleep (weekday and weekend), and sleep duration (weekday and weekend). Each sleep variable’s association with the subsequent year’s substance use (cannabis use or alcohol binge severity) across years 1–5 was tested separately using generalized linear mixed models (zero-inflated Negative Binomial for cannabis; ordinal for binge severity) with age, sex, race, visit, parental education, previous year’s substance use (yes/no) as covariates and subject as a random effect.
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With regard to cannabis use, greater eveningness and shorter weekday sleep duration predicted an increased risk for additional days of cannabis use the following year, while greater eveningness and later weekend midsleep predicted a greater likelihood of any cannabis use the following year. With regard to alcohol binge severity, greater eveningness, greater daytime sleepiness, and shorter sleep duration (weekday and weekend) all predicted an increased risk for more severe alcohol bingeing the following year. Post-hoc stratified analyses indicated that some of these associations may differ between high school-age and college-age participants.
Conclusion
Our findings extend prior work, indicating that eveningness and later sleep timing, as well as shorter sleep duration, especially on weekdays, are risk factors for future cannabis use and alcohol misuse. These results underscore a need for greater attention to sleep characteristics as potential risk factors for substance use in adolescents and young adults and may inform future areas of intervention.
Support (if any)
Grants from NIH: R01AA025626 (Hasler) and U01AA021690 (Clark) and UO1 AA021696 (Baker & Colrain)
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Graves J, Gmelin T, Boudreau R, Albert S, Newman A, Venditti E, Glynn N. Perceived Physical Fatigability Improves After a Weight Management Intervention. Innov Aging 2020. [PMCID: PMC7742561 DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The effects of a weight loss and physical activity (PA) intervention on improving perceived physical fatigability are unknown. We examined this question in a subset (n=79) of older adults who are obese enrolled in the 13-month Mobility and Vitality Lifestyle Program (mean□SD age 68.8±4.2 years, 83.5% female, 26.6% African American, body mass index 34.6±4.3 kg/m2). Accelerometer-assessed PA (mean/day vector magnitude) was measured with a wrist-worn triaxial GT3X+ ActiGraph for 7 full days. Perceived physical fatigability was measured using the 10-item self-administered Pittsburgh Fatigability Scale (PFS, 0-50; lower score= less fatigability). Baseline PFS was 18.7±8.5 with 69.6% having higher fatigability (PFS ≥15). At 13-months, PFS decreased by 15% (2.8 points) to 15.9±8.4 (p<0.01) and prevalence of higher fatigability declined to 60.8%. Concurrently, participants lost 6.2% of their body weight and PA increased by 2.4%. A lifestyle intervention may be effective at reducing fatigability, an important component in the age-related disablement pathway.
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- Jessica Graves
- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Park S, Chu LC, Fishman EK, Yuille AL, Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, Horton KM, Hruban RH, Zinreich ES, Fouladi DF, Shayesteh S, Graves J, Kawamoto S. Erratum to "Annotated normal CT data of the abdomen for deep learning: Challenges and strategies for implementation" [Diagn. Interv. Imaging. 101 (2020) 35-44]. Diagn Interv Imaging 2020; 101:427. [PMID: 32446597 DOI: 10.1016/j.diii.2020.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- S Park
- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Arts and Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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Park S, Chu LC, Fishman EK, Yuille AL, Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, Horton KM, Hruban RH, Zinreich ES, Fouladi DF, Shayesteh S, Graves J, Kawamoto S. Annotated normal CT data of the abdomen for deep learning: Challenges and strategies for implementation. Diagn Interv Imaging 2019; 101:35-44. [PMID: 31358460 DOI: 10.1016/j.diii.2019.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Revised: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 05/28/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to report procedures developed to annotate abdominal computed tomography (CT) images from subjects without pancreatic disease that will be used as the input for deep convolutional neural networks (DNN) for development of deep learning algorithms for automatic recognition of a normal pancreas. MATERIALS AND METHODS Dual-phase contrast-enhanced volumetric CT acquired from 2005 to 2009 from potential kidney donors were retrospectively assessed. Four trained human annotators manually and sequentially annotated 22 structures in each datasets, then expert radiologists confirmed the annotation. For efficient annotation and data management, a commercial software package that supports three-dimensional segmentation was used. RESULTS A total of 1150 dual-phase CT datasets from 575 subjects were annotated. There were 229 men and 346 women (mean age: 45±12years; range: 18-79years). The mean intra-observer intra-subject dual-phase CT volume difference of all annotated structures was 4.27mL (7.65%). The deep network prediction for multi-organ segmentation showed high fidelity with 89.4% and 1.29mm in terms of mean Dice similarity coefficients and mean surface distances, respectively. CONCLUSIONS A reliable data collection/annotation process for abdominal structures was developed. This process can be used to generate large datasets appropriate for deep learning.
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- S Park
- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Arts and Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 601N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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Lehrer PM, Irvin CG, Lu SE, Scardella A, Roehmheld-Hamm B, Aviles-Velez M, Graves J, Vaschillo EG, Vaschillo B, Hoyte F, Nelson H, Wamboldt FS. Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Does Not Substitute for Asthma Steroid Controller Medication. Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 2019; 43:57-73. [PMID: 29124506 DOI: 10.1007/s10484-017-9382-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Despite previous findings of therapeutic effects for heart rate variability biofeedback (HRVB) on asthma, it is not known whether HRVB can substitute either for controller or rescue medication, or whether it affects airway inflammation. Sixty-eight paid volunteer steroid naïve study participants with mild or moderate asthma were given 3 months of HRVB or a comparison condition consisting of EEG alpha biofeedback with relaxing music and relaxed paced breathing (EEG+), in a two-center trial. All participants received a month of intensive asthma education prior to randomization. Both treatment conditions produced similar significant improvements on the methacholine challenge test (MCT), asthma symptoms, and asthma quality of life (AQOL). MCT effects were of similar size to those of enhanced placebo procedures reported elsewhere, and were 65% of those of a course of a high-potency inhaled steroid budesonide given to a sub-group of participants following biofeedback training. Exhaled nitric oxide decreased significantly only in the HRVB group, 81% of the budesonide effect, but with no significant differences between groups. Participants reported becoming more relaxed during practice of both techniques. Administration of albuterol after biofeedback sessions produced a large improvement in pulmonary function test results, indicating that neither treatment normalized pulmonary function as a potent controller medication would have done. Impulse oscillometry showed increased upper airway (vocal cord) resistance during biofeedback periods in both groups. These data suggest that HRVB should not be considered an alternative to asthma controller medications (e.g., inhaled steroids), although both biofeedback conditions produced some beneficial effects, warranting further research, and suggesting potential complementary effects. Various hypotheses are presented to explain why HRVB effects on asthma appeared smaller in this study than in earlier studies. Clinical Trial Registration NCT02766374.
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- Paul M Lehrer
- Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 671 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA.
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- University of Vermont, Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 671 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 671 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 671 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.,National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.,National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.,National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA
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OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess the utility of using body weight for age determination in kittens. METHODS Medical records were reviewed for serial body weight measurements collected from neonatal kittens (up to 8 weeks of age) from a breeding colony of specific pathogen-free domestic shorthair cats and for single-point body weight measurements of privately owned pediatric kittens (6-20 weeks of age) presenting for elective sterilization. Body weights were compared with known dates of birth and age assessed by dental eruption in combination with developmental characteristics. RESULTS The coefficient of determination (R2) between age and body weight in longitudinally sampled neonatal kittens was 0.88, while that for pediatric kittens sampled at a single time point was 0.54. Among neonatal kittens, predicted age based on the 1 lb (0.45 kg) of body weight gain per month of age guideline corresponded to within 1 week of actual age for 243 (98.8%), 234 (95.1%), 203 (82.5%) and 191 (77.6%) kittens at 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks of age, respectively. Among pediatric kittens, predicted age based on this guideline corresponded to within 1 week of actual age for 24 (77.4%), 411 (67.5%), 170 (57.0%), 96 (46.6%), 23 (28.8%), 15 (27.8%), one (25%) and five (17.9%) kittens at 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 weeks, respectively. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Body weight was an effective means of predicting age in kittens through 10 weeks of age. Factors other than body weight should be considered when estimating kitten age beyond that time point.
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- Brian A DiGangi
- Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Marsh GM, Buchanich JM, Graves J, Zimmerman S, Liu Y. Mortality among United States aerospace materials manufacturing workers. Am J Ind Med 2019; 62:192-204. [PMID: 30676651 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate long-term mortality rates among aerospace material manufacturing workers as follow-up to an earlier observed excess of nephritis/nephrosis. METHODS Subjects were 2020 workers ever employed in the facility during 1963-2014. Vital status through 2014 was determined for all subjects and cause of death for 99.2% of 492 deaths. We computed standard mortality ratios (SMR) and internal relative risks. RESULTS SMRs for nephritis/nephrosis were unremarkable. We observed statistically significant elevated SMRs for kidney cancer among all workers and for the category "other lymphatic hematopoietic tissue cancer" (4/5 deaths from multiple myeloma) among long-term workers with potential plant exposure. CONCLUSIONS We found no evidence of elevated mortality rates for nephritis/nephrosis. Study limitations precluded robust evaluation of whether the elevated rates for kidney cancer and other lymphatic hematopoietic tissue cancer were related to occupational factors at the study site. Our findings for these two cancers warrant continued mortality follow-up.
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- Gary M. Marsh
- Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology; University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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- Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology; University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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- Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology; University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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- Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology; University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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- Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology; University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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Dexter L, Price L, Graves J. Evaluating an intervention to improve the two-week wait pathway times for patients with radiologically suspected lung cancers in a district general hospital. Lung Cancer 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/s0169-5002(19)30055-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Graves J, Hillcox-Smith A, Burnham A. Firming up on pulmonary nodules: a nurse-led approach. Lung Cancer 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/s0169-5002(19)30066-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Krawczyk N, Czarnecka A, Ivanova-Stanik I, Zagórski R, Challis C, Frigione D, Giroud C, Graves J, Mantsinen MJ, Silburn S. Application of the VUV and the soft x-ray systems on JET for the study of intrinsic impurity behavior in neon seeded hybrid discharges. Rev Sci Instrum 2018; 89:10D131. [PMID: 30399789 DOI: 10.1063/1.5038930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This paper reports on impurity behavior in a set of hybrid discharges with Ne seeding-one of the techniques considered to reduce the power load on reactor walls. A series of experiments carried out with light gas injection on JET with the ITER-Like-Wall (ILW) suggests increased tungsten release and impurity accumulation [C. Challis et al., Europhysics Conference Abstracts 41F, 2.153 (2017)]. The presented method relies mainly on the measurements collected by vacuum-ultra-violet and soft X-ray (SXR) diagnostics including the "SOXMOS" spectrometer and the SXR camera system. Both diagnostics have some limitations. Consequently, only a combination of measurements from these systems is able to provide comprehensive information about high-Z [e.g., tungsten (W)] and mid-Z [nickel (Ni), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), and molybdenum (Mo)] impurities for their further quantitative diagnosis. Moreover, thanks to the large number of the SXR lines of sight, determination of a 2D radiation profile was also possible. Additionally, the experimental results were compared with numerical modeling based on integrated simulations with COREDIV. Detailed analysis confirmed that during seeding experiments, higher tungsten release is observed, which was also found in the past. Additionally, it was noticed that besides W, the contribution of molybdenum to SXR radiation was greater, which can be explained by the place of its origin.
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- N Krawczyk
- Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Hery 23, Warsaw 01-497, Poland
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- Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Hery 23, Warsaw 01-497, Poland
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- Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Hery 23, Warsaw 01-497, Poland
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- Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Hery 23, Warsaw 01-497, Poland
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- CCFE, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom
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- Associazione EURO-ENEA, C.R.E. Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- CCFE, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom
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- Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- CCFE, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom
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An auditory illusion caught the world's attention recently. For the same noisy speech utterance, different people reported hearing either 'Laurel' or 'Yanny'. The dichotomy highlights how perceptions are inferences from inherently ambiguous sensory information, even though ambiguity is often unnoticed.
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- D Pressnitzer
- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Département d'études cognitives, ENS, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France.
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Département d'études cognitives, ENS, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Département d'études cognitives, ENS, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Département d'études cognitives, ENS, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Département d'études cognitives, ENS, PSL University, CNRS, Paris, France
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Pakpoor J, Seminatore B, Graves J, Schreiner T, Waldman A, Lotze T, Belman A, Greenberg B, Weinstock-Guttman B, Aaen G, Tillema J, McDonald J, Hart J, Ness J, Harris Y, Rubin J, Candee M, Krupp L, Gorman M, Benson L, Rodriguez M, Chitnis T, Mar S, Kahn I, Rose J, Carmichael S, Roalstad S, Waltz M, Casper T, Waubant E. Dietary factors and pediatric multiple sclerosis: A case-control study. Mult Scler 2018; 24:1067-1076. [PMID: 28608728 PMCID: PMC5711616 DOI: 10.1177/1352458517713343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND The role of diet in multiple sclerosis (MS) is largely uncharacterized, particularly as it pertains to pediatric-onset disease. OBJECTIVE To determine the association between dietary factors and MS in children. METHODS Pediatric MS patients and controls were recruited from 16 US centers (MS or clinically isolated syndrome onset before age 18, <4 years from symptom onset and at least 2 silent lesions on magnetic resonance imaging). The validated Block Kids Food Screener questionnaire was administered 2011-2016. Chi-squared test compared categorical variables, Kruskal-Wallis test compared continuous variables, and multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed. RESULTS In total, 312 cases and 456 controls were included (mean ages 15.1 and 14.4 years). In unadjusted analyses, there was no difference in intake of fats, proteins, carbohydrates, sugars, fruits, or vegetables. Dietary iron was lower in cases ( p = 0.04), and cases were more likely to consume below recommended guidelines of iron (77.2% of cases vs 62.9% of controls, p < 0.001). In multivariable analysis, iron consumption below recommended guidelines was associated with MS (odds ratio = 1.80, p < 0.01). CONCLUSION Pediatric MS cases may be less likely to consume sufficient iron compared to controls, and this warrants broader study to characterize a temporal relationship. No other significant difference in intake of most dietary factors was found.
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- J. Pakpoor
- Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Neurology
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- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Neurology
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- Texas Children’s Hospital, Child Neurology
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- Stony Brook University Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Neurology
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- Loma Linda University, Neurology
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- Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- University of California, San Francisco, Regional Pediatric MS Center, Neurology
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Pediatrics
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Pediatrics
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- Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Neurology
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- Stony Brook University Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Neurology
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center
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- Washington University St. Louis, Neurology
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- Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C
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- University of Utah, Neurology
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- Department of Pediatrics Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA
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- Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA
- University of California, San Francisco, Regional Pediatric MS Center, Neurology
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Jacquet P, Van Eester D, Lerche E, Bobkov V, Blackman T, Colas L, Challis C, Czarnecka A, Dumortier P, Frigione D, Durodié F, Garzotti L, Goniche M, Graves J, Kazakov Y, Kirov K, Klepper CC, Krawczyk N, Krivska A, Mantsinen M, Monakhov I, Nunes I, Ongena J, Reinke M, Rimini F, Zhang W. ICRH physics and technology achievements in JET-ILW. EPJ Web Conf 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201715702004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ongena J, Kazakov Y, Baranov Y, Hellesen C, Eriksson J, Johnson T, Kiptily V, Mantsinen M, Nocente M, Bilato R, Cardinali A, Castaldo C, Crombé K, Czarnecka A, Dumont R, Faustin J, Giacomelli L, Goloborodko V, Graves J, Jacquet P, Krawczyk N, Lerche E, Meneses L, Nave M, Patten H, Schneider M, Van Eester D, Weisen H, Wright J. Synergetic heating of D-NBI ions in the vicinity of the mode conversion layer in H-D plasmas in JET with the ITER like wall. EPJ Web Conf 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201715702006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Lehrer P, Wamboldt F, Irvin C, Aviles M, Graves J, Lu SE, Scardella A, Hamm B, Nelson H. Preliminary analysis of data from a two-center trial of heart rate variability biofeedback to treat mild and moderate asthma. Biol Psychol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bourne T, Waltz M, Casper TC, Kavak K, Aaen G, Belman A, Benson L, Candee M, Chitnis T, Graves J, Greenberg B, Gorman M, Harris Y, Krupp L, Lotze T, Mar S, Ness J, Olsen C, Roalstad S, Rodriguez M, Rose J, Rubin J, Schreiner T, Tillema JM, Kahn I, Waldman A, Barcellos L, Waubant E, Weinstock-Guttman B. Evaluating the association of allergies with multiple sclerosis susceptibility risk and disease activity in a pediatric population. J Neurol Sci 2017; 375:371-375. [PMID: 28320170 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.02.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2016] [Revised: 02/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) and allergies are both considered to be related to imbalanced Th1 and Th2 immune responses. Previous studies evaluating the relationship between MS and allergies provide conflicting results. OBJECTIVE To assess allergies and asthma as risk factors for MS and as predictors of MS relapses in a pediatric cohort. METHODS The environment and genetic risk factors for pediatric MS study is a national case-control project with 16 participating US sites. An environmental questionnaire is used that includes history of allergies in the first five years of life. Case-control data are entered in the pediatric MS Network database and cases at 12 of the 16 sites enter relapse data prospectively. Annualized relapse rate was calculated for patients with follow-up and adjusted for age at disease onset, gender, race, ethnicity, and use of disease-modifying therapy (DMT). RESULTS We included 271 cases (mean age at disease onset of 15.7years and 62% female) and 418 controls. Relapse data were available for 193 cases. There was no difference in prevalence of allergies or asthma between cases and controls. Patients with food allergies had fewer relapses compared to patients without food allergies (0.14 vs 0.48, p=0.01). CONCLUSIONS While allergies and asthma are not associated with pediatric MS, cases with food allergies have fewer relapses compared to those without food allergies.
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- University of Utah, Pediatrics, United States
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- State University of New York, Neurology, United States
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- Loma Linda University, Neurology, United States
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- SUNY Stony Brook, Neurology, United States
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center, United States
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- University of Utah, Pediatrics, United States
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Neurology, United States
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- Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- University of Texas Southwestern, Neurology, United States
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center, United States
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Pediatrics, United States
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- SUNY Stony Brook, Neurology, United States
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- Texas Children's Hospital, Child Neurology, United States
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- Washington University St. Louis, Neurology, United States
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Pediatrics, United States
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- University of Utah, Pediatrics, United States
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- University of Utah, Pediatrics, United States
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- University of Utah, Neurology, United States
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- Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Neurology, United States
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- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Neurology, United States
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- Children's National Medical Center, Washington, United States
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Neurology, United States
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- University of California Berkeley, United States
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- Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
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Lerche E, Lennholm M, Carvalho IS, Dumortier P, Durodie F, Van Eester D, Graves J, Jacquet P, Murari A. Sawtooth pacing with on-axis ICRH modulation in JET-ILW. EPJ Web Conf 2017. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201715703029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Maghzi AH, Graves J, Revirajan N, Spain R, Liu S, McCulloch CE, Pelletier D, Green AJ, Waubant E. Retinal axonal loss in very early stages of multiple sclerosis. Eur J Neurol 2015; 22:1138-41. [PMID: 25929276 DOI: 10.1111/ene.12722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2014] [Accepted: 02/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The lack of surrogates of clinical progression has limited the design of neuroprotection trials in multiple sclerosis (MS). Our aim was to study the association between time-domain optical coherence tomography measures and clinical and magnetic resonance imaging outcomes in early MS. METHODS Forty-three relapsing-remitting MS patients within 1 year of onset were followed for up to 3 years. RESULTS The peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) decreased annually by 2 μm (95% confidence interval -3.89, -0.11; P = 0.038). The RNFL tended to be associated with normalized normal appearing white matter volume in cross-sectional (P = 0.08) and longitudinal analyses (P = 0.06). CONCLUSIONS There is substantial RNFL loss even in very early MS. Our data suggest that retinal axonal atrophy is associated with atrophy in global white matter volume in early MS.
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- A-H Maghzi
- Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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This paper describes a five-visit heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback protocol we have used both clinically and in research. This protocol was refined in a study of biofeedback therapy for treating asthma. Similar, longer methods have been used for treating various conditions involving pain, anxiety, depression, and other psychophysiological disorders.
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- Paul Lehrer
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
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- Center for Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
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Satyamitra M, Ney P, Graves J, Mullaney C, Srinivasan V. Mechanism of radioprotection by δ-tocotrienol: pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and modulation of signalling pathways. Br J Radiol 2012; 85:e1093-103. [PMID: 22674714 DOI: 10.1259/bjr/63355844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the correlation between in vivo δ-tocotrienol (DT3) pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and radiation protection, and to evaluate the effect of DT3 pre-treatment on radiation-induced alterations in apoptotic and autophagic pathways. METHODS We evaluated pharmacokinetics (plasma, 0.5 to 12 h) and pharmacodynamics (peripheral blood indices; day 3, 7, 10 and 14) after a single subcutaneous injection of 300 mg kg(-1) DT3 in unirradiated CD2F1 mice. Next, we monitored 30-day post-irradiation survival (9.25 Gy) and haematopoietic recovery of DT3-treated mice (7 Gy) exposed to cobalt-60 γ-irradiation. The effects of DT3 on irradiated bone marrow apoptosis and autophagy were determined by analyses of key caspases (3, 7, 9 and 8), beclin-1 and light chain 3 conversion. RESULTS Plasma concentration of DT3 reached ∼195 µM (Cmax) 1 h after injection (Tmax), and DT3 was eliminated from plasma 12 h later. In unirradiated mice, DT3 significantly increased white blood cells (WBCs), neutrophils, lymphocytes (day 3 post DT3 injection) and platelets (day 7) by 1.5- to 2-fold, over vehicle-treated control. DT3 pre-treatment improved 30-day survival to 100% (∼15% in control) and accelerated recovery of reticulocytes, platelets, WBCs, neutrophils, lymphocytes and monocytes in peripheral blood. DT3 reduced activation of caspase-8, caspase-3 and caspase-7, inherent to apoptosis, while increasing autophagy-related beclin-1 expression in irradiated bone marrow. CONCLUSION These data indicate that DT3 stimulates multilineage haematopoiesis, protects against radiation-induced apoptosis downstream of the mitochondria and stimulates cytoprotective autophagy. Apart from a potent antioxidant activity, DT3 may elicit survival advantage following irradiation by enhancing haematopoiesis and modulating signalling pathways.
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- M Satyamitra
- Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20889, USA.
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Graves J, Krupp L, Weinstock-Guttman B, Strober J, Belman A, Yeh EA, Ness J, Gorman M, Rodriguez M, Chitnis T, Waubant E. EBV, CMV, and HSV IgG Titers Are Not Predictive of Subsequent Relapse Risk in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (P02.096). Neurology 2012. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.78.1_meetingabstracts.p02.096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Tay D, Boyd C, Imbus A, Ohanian A, Graves J, Au A. Abstract 2317: A Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Improving Laboratory Results and Thrombolytic Treatment in Acute Code Stroke Patients. Stroke 2012. [DOI: 10.1161/str.43.suppl_1.a2317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Despite improvement in acute stroke care, stroke remains the third major cause of death and leading cause of disability nationwide. An increase in the number of certified Primary Stroke Centers (PSC) over the past years has been credited for the improvement. Los Angeles County proactively implemented the Approved Stroke Center Network in which Emergency Medical Systems may passes non-certified PCS for acute stroke treatments. Our hospital’s journey towards building a stroke program began in early 2008, and in 2009 a CODE STROKE algorithm was implemented. Over the past two years, the team has strived to continuously improve ‘door to needle’ times. Opportunity to improve door-to-lab results was recognized so we sought to investigate and identify barrier(s)/reason(s) for delays.
Methods
The LEAN Six Sigma team guided our multidisciplinary committee for identifying contributing delays. A review of the clinical pathway from the patient’s arrival time (door) and activation of Code Stroke are time-stamped at every step. Phase I identified delays with phlebotomist transit times. The laboratory management addressed this issue by reinforcing the need to expedite the specimen collection, transit time and processing. Some improvement was noted in the door-to-lab results time but significant delays remained a problem. Phase II incorporated lab draws being performed prior to the patient going for their CT scan. Phase III involves utilization of an iStat unit within the emergency department for analysis of a CHEM 8 panel.
Results
Analysis of data initially showed door-to-lab results had a median time of 52 minutes, with 38% having results within 45 minutes. Ten patients received tPA within median times of 66 minutes, with 53% receiving tPA within 60 minutes. In 2010 action plans initiated yielded significant improvements with door-to-lab results median times of 44 minutes, 64% having lab results within 45 minutes. Twenty one patients received tPA within a median time of 55 minutes, and 70% having received tPA within 60 minutes.
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The multidisciplinary stroke team identified barriers and implemented process changes yielding improvements in door-to-lab results that in turn resulted in overall improvements in tPA treatment times. Data collection and process evaluation continue.
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- Huntington Memorial Hosp, Pasadena, CA
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Collette BB, Carpenter KE, Polidoro BA, Juan-Jordá MJ, Boustany A, Die DJ, Elfes C, Fox W, Graves J, Harrison LR, McManus R, Minte-Vera CV, Nelson R, Restrepo V, Schratwieser J, Sun CL, Amorim A, Brick Peres M, Canales C, Cardenas G, Chang SK, Chiang WC, de Oliveira Leite N, Harwell H, Lessa R, Fredou FL, Oxenford HA, Serra R, Shao KT, Sumaila R, Wang SP, Watson R, Yáñez E. High Value and Long Life—Double Jeopardy for Tunas and Billfishes. Science 2011; 333:291-2. [PMID: 21737699 DOI: 10.1126/science.1208730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- B B Collette
- National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA.
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Pan Y, Haddad V, Sabin T, Baker N, Hei YJ, Galimi F, Graves J, Huang C, Cottrell S. Predictive value of Fc gamma receptor IIIa genotype in response to conatumumab in three phase II studies. J Clin Oncol 2011. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2011.29.15_suppl.3103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Graves J. Lost in translation. West J Med 2010. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Graves J, Sandrey V, Graves T, Smith DL. Effectiveness of a group opt-in session on uptake and graduation rates for pulmonary rehabilitation. Chron Respir Dis 2010; 7:159-64. [DOI: 10.1177/1479972310379537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an effective intervention in the treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Unfortunately some patients offered this treatment either fail to take up the offer or fail to complete the course. Studies have indicated a number of factors influencing uptake and completion rates. We describe the introduction of an intervention, the group opt-in session (GOIS), prior to individualised baseline assessment and entry to the PR course, with the intention being to improve uptake and completion rates. A 1.5-hour-long GOIS was offered as the first face-to-face contact to all patients referred for PR. Drop-out rates at all stages of the pathway from referral to graduation were collected on 200 patients prior to the introduction of the GOIS (non-GOIS group) and compared to the first 400 patients following introduction (the GOIS group). Possible independent predictors of course uptake and completion were examined in the GOIS group. The proportion of referred patients taking up the offer of individualised baseline assessment or a GOIS was similar (75% vs. 72.2%, p value not significant [ns]). However, since in the GOIS group the opt-in session preceded the individualised baseline assessment and some patients opted-out, a smaller proportion of referred patients underwent this assessment than in the non-GOIS group (58.7% vs. 75%, p < 0.001). In addition, dropouts following individualised baseline assessments were also reduced (7% vs. 22%, p < 0.001). Both of these factors reduced ‘wasted’ assessments. Similar proportions of patients referred began the PR course in both groups (53% vs. 51.7%, ns), but a higher proportion of patients graduated in the GOIS group (87.9% vs. 76.4%, p < 0.05). Drop-out rates due to illness were similar in both groups (8.5% pre vs. 6.8% post, ns). However, drop-out rates not due to illness were much higher in the non-GOIS group (15.1% vs. 5.3%, p < 0.001). In the GOIS group, patients who did not attend the GOIS were, on average, younger (64.6 years vs. 69.7 years, p < 0.001) and had a higher mean percent predicted Forced Expiratory Volume (50.6% vs. 43.8%, p < 0.05) than those that did attend. A greater proportion of patients who opted in to the GOIS and attended the PR course lived less than 25 minutes from the PR centre than either those who did not attend the GOIS or who attended and then opted out (77.4% vs. 63%, p<0.005). The GOIS improved the graduation rates at The North Bristol Lung Centre PR Course and reduced wasted assessments. There was no effect on initial uptake. Analysis of the behaviour of patients invited to a GOIS suggested that age, lung function and travel distance were important factors influencing patient choice.
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- Gloucester Royal Hospital, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, UK,
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- Southmead Hospital, NHS Trust, North Bristol, UK
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Lodise TP, Miller CD, Graves J, Evans A, Graffunder E, Helmecke M, Stellrecht K. Predictors of high vancomycin MIC values among patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia. J Antimicrob Chemother 2008; 62:1138-41. [PMID: 18694905 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Recent evidence suggests that vancomycin demonstrates reduced activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections when vancomycin MIC values are at the high end of the susceptibility range (> or = 1.5 mg/L). However, scant research exists on factors predictive of high vancomycin MICs (> or = 1.5 mg/L) among MRSA bacteraemic patients. Empirical therapy decisions would greatly benefit from such information. OBJECTIVES To identify the parameters predictive of high vancomycin MICs (> or = 1.5 mg/L) among MRSA bacteraemic patients and to develop an evidence-based clinical prediction tool. METHODS This observational cohort study included adult patients with MRSA bloodstream infections between January 2005 and May 2007. Demographics, co-morbid conditions, and microbiology and antibiotic exposure data were collected. Vancomycin MICs were determined by Etest. Stepwise logistic regression was used to identify independent predictors of high vancomycin MICs. RESULTS Of the 105 patients who met the inclusion criteria, 77 patients (73.3%) exhibited a high vancomycin MIC (> or = 1.5 mg/L). In the bivariate analysis, prior vancomycin exposure within 30 days of index culture collection [15 patients (19.5%) versus 1 patient (3.6%), P = 0.05] and residence in an intensive care unit (ICU) at the onset of infection [27 patients (35.1%) versus 3 patients (10.7%), P = 0.02] were both significantly associated with a high vancomycin MIC value and both were independent predictors of high MICs in the logistic regression. CONCLUSIONS Patients with MRSA bloodstream infections in the ICU or with a history of vancomycin exposure should be considered at high risk of infection with strains for which vancomycin MICs are elevated. Appropriate and aggressive empirical therapy is required for these patients.
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- Albany College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Albany, NY 12208-3492, USA.
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Furno I, Labit B, Podestà M, Fasoli A, Müller SH, Poli FM, Ricci P, Theiler C, Brunner S, Diallo A, Graves J. Experimental observation of the blob-generation mechanism from interchange waves in a plasma. Phys Rev Lett 2008; 100:055004. [PMID: 18352382 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.055004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The mechanism for blob generation in a toroidal magnetized plasma is investigated using time-resolved measurements of two-dimensional structures of electron density, temperature, and plasma potential. The blobs are observed to form from a radially elongated structure that is sheared off by the E x B flow. The structure is generated by an interchange wave that increases in amplitude and extends radially in response to a decrease of the radial pressure scale length. The dependence of the blob amplitude upon the pressure radial scale length is discussed.
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- Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas-Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Association EURATOM-Confédération Suisse, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Muniz LSB, Macedo RHF, Graves J. Isolation and characterization of dinucleotide microsatellite loci in communally breeding Guira cuckoos (Aves: Cuculidae). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00399.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Biordi D, Graves J. Taking it to the BANK. Building an Information Architecture of Nursing Knowledge. Reflect Nurs Leadersh 2002; 26:27-8. [PMID: 11987386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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- D Biordi
- Kent State University School of Nursing, Kent, Ohio, USA
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Graves J. The effect of increasing age on hypertension control rates. Am J Hypertens 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0895-7061(01)01914-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Graves J. Selective impairment of bradykinin-mediated endothelium-dependent relaxation in small arteries in healthy older people. Am J Hypertens 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0895-7061(01)01680-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Pellegrini JE, Bailey SL, Graves J, Paice JA, Shott S, Faut-Callahan M. The impact of nalmefene on side effects due to intrathecal morphine at cesarean section. AANA J 2001; 69:199-205. [PMID: 11759562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Nalmefene is a long-acting opioid antagonist that provides long-term relief from side effects of intrathecal morphine sulfate. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was conducted to determine whether prophylactic nalmefene could decrease side effects of intrathecal morphine given during cesarean section, without affecting analgesia. Sixty parturients were given 0.25 mg of intrathecal morphine, 12.5 micrograms of fentanyl, and 11.25 to 15 mg of bupivacaine. A dose of 0.25 microgram/kg of nalmefene or placebo was given by intravenous piggyback immediately after delivery of the neonate. Nausea, vomiting, pruritus, and level of sedation were assessed for a 24-hour period using a 4-point ordinal scoring system. Pain was assessed by using a 0- to 10-point verbal analogue scale. A 5-point analgesic satisfaction survey also was completed. Subjects who received nalmefene required supplemental analgesia at a median of 6.00 hours after intrathecal morphine, compared with 14.12 hours in the placebo group (P = .037). No differences were found between the groups in the incidence of pruritus, nausea and vomiting, level of sedation, or analgesic satisfaction. We concluded that nalmefene at a dose of 0.25 microgram/kg does not decrease the incidence of side effects but increases the need for supplemental analgesics.
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Luo S, Vieira M, Graves J, Zhong L, Moreno SN. A plasma membrane-type Ca(2+)-ATPase co-localizes with a vacuolar H(+)-pyrophosphatase to acidocalcisomes of Toxoplasma gondii. EMBO J 2001; 20:55-64. [PMID: 11226155 PMCID: PMC140201 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.1.55] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ca(2+)-ATPases are likely to play critical roles in the biochemistry of Toxoplasma gondii, since these protozoa are obligate intracellular parasites and the Ca(2+) concentration in their intracellular location is three orders of magnitude lower than in the extracellular medium. Here, we report the cloning and sequencing of a gene encoding a plasma membrane-type Ca(2+)-ATPase (PMCA) of T.gondii (TgA1). The predicted protein (TgA1) exhibits 32-36% identity to vacuolar Ca(2+)-ATPases of Trypanosoma cruzi, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Entamoeba histolytica and Dictyostelium discoideum. Sequencing of both cDNA and genomic DNA from T.gondii indicated that TgA1 contains two introns near the C-terminus. A hydropathy profile of the protein suggests 10 transmembrane domains. TgA1 suppresses the Ca(2+) hypersensitivity of a mutant of S.cerevisiae that has a defect in vacuolar Ca(2+) accumulation. Indirect immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy analysis indicate that TgA1 localizes to the plasma membrane and co-localizes with the vacuolar H(+)-pyrophosphatase to intracellular vacuoles identified morphologically and by X-ray microanalysis as the acidocalcisomes. This vacuolar-type Ca(2+)-ATPase could play an important role in Ca(2+) homeostasis in T.gondii.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001 South Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61802, USA
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Humble MC, Kouprina N, Noskov VN, Graves J, Garner E, Tennant RW, Resnick MA, Larionov V, Cannon RE. Radial transformation-associated recombination cloning from the mouse genome: isolation of Tg.AC transgene with flanking DNAs. Genomics 2000; 70:292-9. [PMID: 11161779 DOI: 10.1006/geno.2000.6384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Transformation-associated recombination (TAR) cloning allows entire genes and large chromosomal regions to be specifically, accurately, and quickly isolated from total genomic DNA. We report the first example of radial TAR cloning from the mouse genome. Tg.AC mice carry a zeta-globin promoter/v-Ha-ras transgene. Fluorescence in situ hybridization localized the transgene integrant as a single site proximal to the centromere of chromosome 11. Radial TAR cloning in yeast was utilized to create orientation-specific yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) to explore the possibility that cis-flanking regions were involved in transgene expression. YACs containing variable lengths of 5' or 3' flanking chromosome 11 DNA and the Tg.AC transgene were specifically chosen, converted to bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs), and assayed for their ability to promote transcription of the transgene following transfection into an FVB/N carcinoma cell line. A transgene-specific reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay was utilized to examine RNA transcripts from stably transfected clones. All Tg.AC BACs expressed the transgene in this in vitro system. This report describes the cloning of the v-Ha-ras transgene and suggests that transcriptional activity may not require cis elements flanking the transgene's integration site.
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- M C Humble
- Curriculum in Toxicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, USA
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Cho A, Graves J, Reidy MA. Mitogen-activated protein kinases mediate matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression in vascular smooth muscle cells. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2000; 20:2527-32. [PMID: 11116048 DOI: 10.1161/01.atv.20.12.2527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Expression of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 has been linked to the progression of plaque rupture and intimal formation in arterial lesions. In this study, we determined which factors and signaling pathways are involved in regulating the MMP-9 gene. Rat carotid arterial smooth muscle cells treated with tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha showed a marked increase in MMP-9 activity and mRNA level, whereas platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) showed a slight induction of the MMP-9 mRNA level. TNF-alpha treatment caused an increase in c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38 MAPK), and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) activities, whereas PDGF treatment caused an increase in ERKs and p38 MAPK activities without any effect on JNK activity. Treatment with either SB203580 (inhibitor of p38 MAPK) or U0126 (inhibitor of the ERK pathway) downregulated the TNF-alpha-induced MMP-9 expression in a dose-dependent manner. Treatment of cells with TNF-alpha and PDGF together stimulated the MMP-9 expression at a level higher than that observed with either factor alone, suggesting that TNF-alpha and PDGF have a synergistic effect on MMP-9 expression in arterial smooth muscle cells. Furthermore, suboptimal inhibitory concentrations of SB203580 and U0126 together almost completely inhibited the MMP-9 expression. These results suggest that p38 MAPK and ERK pathways contribute to the transcriptional regulation of MMP-9 in arterial smooth muscle cells.
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- Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
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The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) conducted a mercury-sampling program to provide data on the quantity and forms of Hg emitted and on the Hg removal efficiency of the existing air pollution control devices at two North Dakota power plants--Milton R. Young Station and Coal Creek Station. Minnkota Power Cooperative, Great River Energy, the North Dakota Industrial Commission, and EPRI funded the project. The primary objective was to obtain accurate measurements of Hg released from each plant, as verified by a material balance. A secondary objective was to evaluate the ability of a mercury continuous emission monitor (CEM) to measure total Hg at the stack. At both plants, speciated Hg measurements were made at the inlets and outlets of both the electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) and the flue gas desulfurization (FGD) systems. A Semtech Hg 2000 (Semtech Metallurgy AB) mercury CEM was used to measure the total Hg emissions at the stack in real time. Using these measurements and plant data, the measured Hg concentrations in the coal, FGD slurries, and ESP ash, a Hg mass flow rate was calculated at each sampling location. Excellent Hg mass balances were obtained (+/- 15%). It was also found that the Hg was mostly in the elemental phase (approximately 90%), and the small amount of oxidized Hg that was generated was removed by the FGD systems. Insignificant amounts of particulate-bound Hg were measured at both plants. However, 10-20% of the elemental Hg measured prior to the ESP was converted to oxidized Hg across the ESP. The data show that, at these facilities, almost all of the Hg generated is being emitted into the atmosphere as elemental Hg. Local or regional deposition of the Hg emitted from these plants is not a concern. However, the Hg does become part of the global Hg burden in the atmosphere. Also, the evidence appears to indicate that elemental Hg is more difficult to remove from flue gas than oxidized Hg is.
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- Energy & Environmental Research Center, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
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Shilkaitis A, Graves J, Mehta RR, Hu L, You M, Lubet R, Steele V, Kelloff G, Christov K. Bcl-2 and Bax are differentially expressed in hyperplastic, premalignant, and malignant lesions of mammary carcinogenesis. Cell Growth Differ 2000; 11:437-45. [PMID: 10965848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/15/2023]
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Previously, we found that vorozole (Vz), a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor, suppresses the development and progression of mammary tumors in rats. Here we evaluated for the first time the expression of cell death-related proteins Bcl-2 and Bax in hyperplastic, premalignant (carcinoma in situ), or malignant (carcinoma) lesions of mammary carcinogenesis; we also assessed whether these proteins are involved in mediating Vz-induced cell death in tumors. We found that Bcl-2 and Bax were equally expressed in epithelial cells of terminal end buds, ducts, and alveoli. However, in myoepithelial cells, the level of Bax expression was much higher than the level of Bcl-2 expression. Bcl-2 and Bax levels in hyperplastic lesions were similar to those of normal mammary epithelial cells but lower in most carcinomas in situ and carcinomas. In animals with established mammary tumors, Vz induced apoptotic cell death, which was primarily associated with a decrease in Bcl-2 and, to a lesser extent, with a decrease in Bax. These data support the hypothesis that Bcl-2 loss is more potent than Bax gain in regulating apoptotic cell death in mammary tumors.
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- A Shilkaitis
- Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612, USA
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Staub JM, Garcia B, Graves J, Hajdukiewicz PT, Hunter P, Nehra N, Paradkar V, Schlittler M, Carroll JA, Spatola L, Ward D, Ye G, Russell DA. High-yield production of a human therapeutic protein in tobacco chloroplasts. Nat Biotechnol 2000; 18:333-8. [PMID: 10700152 DOI: 10.1038/73796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 270] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Transgenic plants have become attractive systems for production of human therapeutic proteins because of the reduced risk of mammalian viral contaminants, the ability to do large scale-up at low cost, and the low maintenance requirements. Here we report a feasibility study for production of a human therapeutic protein through transplastomic transformation technology, which has the additional advantage of increased biological containment by apparent elimination of the transmission of transgenes through pollen. We show that chloroplasts can express a secretory protein, human somatotropin, in a soluble, biologically active, disulfide-bonded form. High concentrations of recombinant protein accumulation are observed (>7% total soluble protein), more than 300-fold higher than a similar gene expressed using a nuclear transgenic approach. The plastid-expressed somatotropin is nearly devoid of complex post-translational modifications, effectively increasing the amount of usable recombinant protein. We also describe approaches to obtain a somatotropin with a non-methionine N terminus, similar to the native human protein. The results indicate that chloroplasts are a highly efficient vehicle for the potential production of pharmaceutical proteins in plants.
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- J M Staub
- Monsanto Company, 700 Chesterfield Village Parkway North, St. Louis, MO 63198, USA.
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Good-genes hypotheses of sexual selection predict that offspring fathered by preferred males should have increased viability resulting from superior genetic quality. Several studies of birds have reported findings consistent with this prediction, but maternal effects are an important confounding variable. Those studies that have attempted to control for maternal effects have only considered differential maternal investment after egg laying. However, female birds differentially deposit testosterone in the eggs, and this influences the development of the chick. This study shows that female birds deposit higher amounts of testosterone and 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone in their eggs when mated to more attractive males.
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- School of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9TS, UK.
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Kouprina N, Nikolaishvili N, Graves J, Koriabine M, Resnick MA, Larionov V. Integrity of human YACs during propagation in recombination-deficient yeast strains. Genomics 1999; 56:262-73. [PMID: 10087193 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Several isogenic strains with defects in recombination/repair genes (RAD1, RAD50, RAD51, RAD52, RAD54, and RAD55) were examined for their ability to propagate accurately a variety of linear and circular yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) containing human DNA inserts. To assess YAC stability, the human DNA inserts were internally marked by an ADE2-pBR-URA3 cassette. Following selection for Ura- clones on 5-fluoroorotic acid containing medium, the following types of YAC deletions were identified: (i) those caused by homologous recombination with a telomeric pBR sequence; (ii) internal deletions, presumed to occur by recombination between commonly occurring DNA repeats such as Alu and LINE sequences; and (iii) deletions leading to loss of part of a YAC arm. rad52 host strains, but not other recombination-deficient strains, decreased the rate of all types of YAC deletions 25- to 400-fold. We have also developed and tested kar1 strains with a conditional RAD52 gene that allow transfer of a YAC from any host into a recombination-deficient background. These strains provide an efficient tool for stabilization of YACs and are useful for allowing additional recombinational modification of YACs.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709, USA.
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Kouprina N, Campbell M, Graves J, Campbell E, Meincke L, Tesmer J, Grady DL, Doggett NA, Moyzis RK, Deaven LL, Larionov V. Construction of human chromosome 16- and 5-specific circular YAC/BAC libraries by in vivo recombination in yeast (TAR cloning). Genomics 1998; 53:21-8. [PMID: 9787074 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Transformation-associated recombination (TAR) in yeast was exploited for the selective isolation of human DNAs as large circular yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) from two rodent/human hybrid cell lines containing human chromosomes 5 and 16. TAR cloning vectors containing the F-factor origin of replication were constructed for use in these experiments. Presence of the F-factor origin in TAR vectors provides the capability of transferring the YACs generated by in vivo recombination in yeast into Escherichia coli cells and propagating them as bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs). A high enrichment of human versus rodent YACs was observed during isolation of human DNA from the rodent/human hybrid cell lines. Although <3% of the DNA content in the hybrid cells was human, as many as 75% of the transformants contained human YACs. In contrast to the standard YAC cloning method based on in vitro ligation, no human/mouse chimeras were observed during TAR cloning. The constructed human chromosome 16 YAC library had approximately 2.6x coverage, represented by 4320 YAC clones with an average insert size of 80 kb. YAC clones generated from chromosome 16 were successfully converted into BACs by electroporation of DNA isolated from yeast transformants into E. coli. The BAC clones represent approximately 0.6x chromosomal coverage. Pilot YAC and BAC libraries of chromosome 5 have been also constructed. The chromosomal distribution of YAC/BACs from chromosome 5 and chromosome 16 was evaluated by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). The distribution of FISH signals appeared random along the length of each chromosome. We conclude that TAR cloning provides an efficient means for generating representative chromosome-specific YAC/BAC libraries.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5/genetics
- Cloning, Molecular/methods
- DNA, Circular/genetics
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Gene Library
- Genetic Vectors/genetics
- Humans
- Hybrid Cells
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Recombination, Genetic/genetics
- Rodentia
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
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- N Kouprina
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709, USA.
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