Home | The Database, 1995 to Present

Weekly Listings Content Scope Notes
Questions? Comments? New Entries? Please contact the compiler: Mohamed Mekkawi, mmekkawi@gmail.com
(
M. Mekkawi has served as Director of Howard University Libraries from 1995 to his retirement in 2009.)

Health Sciences Faculty Publications, January-December 2015

Week Ending December 26, 2015

Lymph nodes’ evaluation in relation to colorectal cancer staging among African Americans. BMC Cancer, 16 December 2015. Hassan Ashktorab, Temitayo Ogundipe, Hassan Brim, Anahita Shahnazi, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Edward Lee, Babak Shokrani, Mehdi Nouraie.
Department of Medicine & Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Advances in the understanding of renal proximal tubular Na+/K+ ATPase Regulation by parathyroid hormone and dopamine. In: Regulation of Membrane Na+-K+ ATPase, Vol.15 of the series Advances in Biochemistry in Health and Disease (Springer 2015), 359-373. Syed J. Khundmiri, Rebecca D. Murray, Eleanor D. Lederer.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Targeting tumor microenvironment with PEG-based amphiphilic nanoparticles to overcome chemoresistance. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 17 December 2015. Shizhu Chen, Keni Yang, Ruslan G. Tuguntaev, Anbu Mozhi, Jinchao Zhang, Paul C. Wang, Xing-Jie Liang.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Morbidity or mortality? Variations in trauma centers in the rescue of older injured patients. Injury, 17 December 2015. Syed Nabeel Zafar, Adil A. Shah, Cheryl K. Zogg, Zain G. Hashmi, Wendy R. Greene, Elliott R. Haut, Edward E. Cornwell III, Adil H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Cause-specific mortality in male US veterans with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Care & Research, Vol.68, No.1 (January 2016): 36–45, Bryant R. England, Harlan Sayles, Kaleb Michaud, Liron Caplan, Lisa A. Davis, Grant W. Cannon, Brian C. Sauer, Elizabeth B. Solow, Andreas M. Reimold, Gail S. Kerr, Pascale Schwab, Josh F. Baker, Ted R. Mikuls.

African American participation in oncology clinical trials – focus on prostate cancer: Implications, barriers, and potential solutions. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, 17 December 2015. Chiledum Ahaghotu, Robert Tyler, Oliver Sartor.
Department of Urology, College of Medicine.

An evaluation of hepatitis C knowledge and correlations with health belief model constructs among African American “baby boomers.” Journal of Infection and Public Health, 22 December 2015. Mohamed E. Rashrash, Mary K. Maneno, Anthony K. Wutoh, Earl E. Ettienne, Monika B. Daftary.
College of Pharmacy.

Computer optimization of biodegradable nanoparticles fabricated by dispersion polymerization. Int J Environ Res Public Health, Vol.13, No.1 (22 December 2015). Emmanuel O. Akala, Simeon Adesina, Oluwasseun Ogunwuyi.
Center for Drug Research and Development, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Cellular mechanisms of action of drug abuse on olfactory neurons. Int J Environ Res Public Health, Vol.13, No.1 (22 December 2015). Thomas Heinbockel, Ze-Jun Wang.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Minority college women's views on condom negotiation. Int J Environ Res Public Health, Vol.13, No.1 (22 December 2015). TyWanda McLaurin-Jones, M.B. Lashley MB, Vanessa Marshall.
Department of Community & Family Medicine, College of Medicine.

Tissue conserving technique for reconstruction of nasal lining defects. Dermatol Surg., 22 December 2015.
Renato Goreshi, Ali Hendi.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Episode-specific drinking-to-cope motivation and next-day stress-reactivity. Anxiety Stress Coping, 21 December 2015. Armeli S, O'Hara RE, Covault J, Denise M. Scott, Tennen H.
Department of Pediatrics and Human Genetics and Alcohol Research Center, College of Medicine.

Plasma lipid profiles of transgenic mice expressing the human apob100xcetp are altered differentially by diets enriched with defined fatty acids. Curr Res Nutr Food Sci ., Vol.3, No.3 (2015). Wael Hatahet, Abdul Soofi, Oyonumo E. Ntekim, Thomas V. Fungwe.
College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Reactivation of latent HIV-1 provirus via targeting protein phosphatase-1. Retrovirology, Vol.12 (16 July 2015): 63. Tyagi M, Iordanskiy S, Tatiana Ammosova, Namita Kumari, Kahli Smith, Denitra Breuer, Ilatovskiy AV, Kont YS, Ivanov A, Üren A, Kovalskyy D, Petukhov M, Kashanchi F, Sergei Nekhai.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Are the conclusions of Z11 relevant to community practice? Clin Breast Cancer, Vol.15, No.4 (2015): 285-8. Jones GC, Tuo Dong, Simone CB 2nd, Stinson S.
Depratment of Oncology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending December 19, 2015

Innovation in medicine: Ignaz the reviled and Egas the regaled. Scientific Contribution: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 14 December 2015. Antonei Benjamin Csoka.
Epigenetics Laboratory, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

How quantum entanglement in DNA synchronizes double-strand breakage by type II restriction endonucleases. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 10 December 2015. Philip Kurian2,3, Georgia M. Dunston1, James Lindesay2,3.
1National Human Genome Center, College of Medicine, 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS, 3Computational Physics Laboratory, 4Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Origin, development, and evolution of primate muscles, with notes on human anatomical variations and anomalies. In: Julia C. Boughner and Campbell Rolian (eds.), Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution (John Wiley, 2016), Ch.8. Rui Diogo, Bernard Wood.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Prevalence and features of colorectal lesions among Hispanics: A hospital-based study. World J Gastroenterol., Vol.21, No..46 (14 December 2015): 13095-13100. Hassan Ashktorab, Adeyinka O Laiyemo, Edward Lee, Marcia Cruz-Correa, Amita Ghuman, Mehdi Nouraie, Hassan Brim.
Gastroenterology Division and Cancer Center, Pathology Department, College of Medicine.

Prolonged metformin treatment leads to reduced transcription of Nrf2 and neurotrophic factors without cognitive impairment in older C57BL/6 J mice. Behavioural Brain Research, Available online 14 December 2015. Joanne S. Allard, Evelyn J Perez, Koji Fukui, Priscilla Carpenter, Donald K. Ingram, Rafael de Cabo.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Memory difficulties and sitting screen time in the elderly. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol.11, No.7, Suppl. (2015): P452. Richard F. Gillum, Julius S. Ngwa, Isaac M.E. Dodd, Thomas O. Obisesan.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Best strategies to recruit and enroll African Americans into clinical and biomedical research. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol.11, No.7, Suppl. (2015): P575-P576. Lennox A. Graham, Julius S. Ngwa, Steven Johnson, Megan Johson, Oludolapo Ogunlana, Saba Wolday, Oyonumo Ntekim, Thomas O. Obisesan.
Division of Geratrics, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Inverse association between Alzheimer's disease and cancer? A study at the gene expression level. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol.11, No.7, Suppl. (2015): P629. Yuanxiu Chen, Thomas O. Obisesan.
Division of Geratrics, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Exercise-induced effects on serum and CSF BDNF levels in elderly african americans with mild cognitive impairment: Gene, exercise, and memory study (GEMS). Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol.11, No.7, Suppl. (2015): P721-P722. Joanne S. Allard, Oyonumo Ntekim, Julius S. Ngwa, Thomas V. Fungwe, Sheree M. Johnson, Richard F. Gillum, Thomas O. Obisesan.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Pulse pressure and systolic blood pressure associated with hippocampal volume by apolipoprotein (APO) carriers and Alzheimer disease status: Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol.11, No.7, Suppl. (2015): P730-P731. Julius S. Ngwa, Oyonumo Ntekim, Thomas V. Fungwe, Sheree M. Johnson, Joanne S. Allard, Chimene Castor, Richard F. Gillum, Thomas O. Obisesan.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Gene, Exercise, and Memory Study (GEMS): A randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effects of standardized aerobic exercise on cognition and neurodegeneration in African Americans with mild Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol.11, No.7, Suppl. (2015): P834. Thomas O. Obisesan.
Division of Geratrics, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Safety and efficacy of ledipasvir-sofosbuvir in black patients with hepatitis C virus infection: A retrospective analysis of phase 3 data. Hepatology, 18 December 2015. Julius M. Wilder, Lennox J. Jeffers, Natarajan Ravendhran, Mitchell L. Shiffman, John Poulos, Mark S. Sulkowski, Norman Gitlin, Kimberly Workowski, Yanni Zhu, Jenny C. Yang, Phillip S. Pang, John G. McHutchison, Andrew J. Muir, Charles D. Howell, Kris Kowdley, Nezam Afdhal and K. Rajender Reddy.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Lymph nodes' evaluation in relation to colorectal cancer staging among African Americans. BMC Cancer, Vol.15, No.1 (16 December 2015): 976. Hassan Ashktorab1, Temitayo Ogundipe1, Hassan Brim1, Anahita Shahnazi2, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo1, Edward Lee2, Babak Shokrani2, Mehdi Nouraie1.
1Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

REFINE-1, a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial with ATX-101, an injectable drug for submental fat reduction. Dermatol Surg., 15 December 2015. Jones DH1, Carruthers J, Joseph JH, Valerie D. Callender, Walker P, Lee DR, Subramanian M, Lizzul PF, Gross TM, Beddingfield FC 3rd.
§Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Kidney disease among patients with sickle cell disease, Hemoglobin SS and SC. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol., 15 December 2015. Drawz P, Ayyappan S, Mehdi Nouraie, Saraf S, Gordeuk V, Hostetter T, T Gladwin M, Little J.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Continuous combined estrogen plus progestin and endometrial cancer: The women's health initiative randomized trial. J Natl Cancer Inst., Vol.108, No.3 (14 December 2015). Chlebowski RT, Anderson GL, Sarto GE, Haque R, Runowicz CD, Aragaki AK, Thomson CA, Barbara V. Howard, Wactawski-Wende J, Chen C, Rohan TE, Simon MS, Reed SD, Manson JE.
College of Medicine.

Correction of symptomatic chronic nasal airway obstruction in conjunction with bimaxillary orthognathic surgery: Does it complicate recovery and is it effective? J Oral Maxillofac Surg., 5 November 2015. Jeffrey C. Posnick, Elbert Choi, Adachie A, Troost T.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry.


Week Ending December 12, 2015

Helping dental students make informed decisions about private practice employment options in a changing landscape. Journal of Dental Education, Vol.79, No.12 (1 December 2015): 1396-1401. Gary R. Badger, Cheryl E.S. Fryer, Peter J. Giannini, Janice A. Townsend and Sarandeep Huja.
College of Dentistry.

Race and colorectal cancer screening compliance among persons with a family history of cancer. World J Gastrointest Endosc., Vol.7, No.18 (10 December 2015): 1300-1305. Adeyinka O Laiyemo1, Nicole Thompson2, Carla D. Williams2, Kolapo A. Idowu2, Kathy Bull-Henry, Zaki A Sherif3, Edward L. Lee4, Hassan Brim4, Hassan Ashktorab1, Elizabeth A Platz, Duane T Smoot.
1Division of Gastroenterology, 2Cancer Center, 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 4Department of Pathology, College of Medicine. http://www.wjgnet.com/1948-5190/ejournals/WJGEv7i18.pdf#page=45

Reporting melanoma: A nationwide surveillance of state cancer registries. 2015. Kehinde Oladunni Raji, Lauren Payne, Suephy C. Chen.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending December 5, 2015

Duality of antidepressants and neuroprotectants. Neurotoxicity Research, 27 November 2015. Yousef Tizabi.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Adrenal interventions. In: Ardeshir R. Rastinehad et al. (eds.), Interventional Urology (Springer, 2015), 371-382. Mario A. Taylor, Adam R. Metwalli.
College of Medicine.

Where is the evo in Evo-Devo (evolutionary developmental biology)? Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 15 December 2015. Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

What is the effect of folic acid supplementation on the incidence or reduction of phenytoin-induced gingival overgrowth? A systematic review. International Journal of Dentistry and Oral Health, Vol.1, No.6 (2015). Heba Hussein and Ronald S. Brown.
Division of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology, Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, College of
Dentistry.

Subanesthetic ketamine infusions for the treatment of children and adolescents with chronic pain: a longitudinal study. BMC Pediatr., Vol.15, No.1 (1 December 2015): 198. Sheehy KA, Muller EA, Lippold C, Mehdi Nouraie, Finkel JC, Quezado ZM.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

Helping dental students make informed decisions about private practice employment options in a changing landscape. J Dent Educ., Vol.79, No.12 (December 2015): 1396-401. Badger GR, Cheryl E.S. Fryer, Giannini PJ, Townsend JA, Huja S.
College of Dentistry.

Assessment of first and second degree relatives of individuals with bipolar disorder shows increased genetic risk scores in both affected relatives and young at-risk individuals. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet., Vol.168, No.7 (October 2015): 617-629. Multiple co-authors and collaborators incl William B. Lawson, Evaristus A. Nwulia and Maria Hipolito. [Article researched and produced when William B. Lawson was affiliated with Howard University.]
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, College of Medicine.

Racial differences in antipsychotic use: Claims database analysis of Medicaid-insured patients with schizophrenia. American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists, November 2015. William B. Lawson, Stephen Johnston, Craig Karson, Steve Offord, John Docherty, Anna Eramo, Siddhesh Kamat, Christopher M. Blanchette, William Carson, and Henry A. Nasrallah. [Article researched and produced when William B. Lawson was affiliated with Howard University.]
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, College of Medicine.


Week Ending November 28, 2015

Is it safe to re-harvest the anterior iliac crest to manage Le Fort I interpositional defects in young adults with a repaired cleft? Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Vol.73, No.12, Suppl. (December 2015): S32-S39. Jeffrey C. Posnick, James A. Gray.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. College of Dentistry.

Resveratrol, sirtuins, and viruses. Reviews in Medical Virology, Vol.25, No.6 (November 2015): 431-445. Tao Yang, Shugang Li, Xuming Zhang, Xiaowu Pang, Qinlu Lin, Jianzhong Cao.
Department of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry.

Antimicrobial and cell viability measurement of bovine serum albumin capped silver nanoparticles (Ag/BSA) loaded collagen immobilized poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) film. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol.465 (21 November 2015): 140-148. Rotimi Bakare1, Samantha Hawthrone1, Carmen Vails1, Ayele Gugssa2, Alamgir Karim, John Stubbs III3, Dharmaraj Raghavan1.
1Departments of Chemistry, 2Biology, CoAS; 3Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Elevated transpulmonary gradient and cardiac magnetic resonance-derived right ventricular remodeling predict poor outcomes in sickle cell disease. Haematologica, 20 November 2015. Nguyen KL, Alam S, Tian X, Alem Mehari, Leung SW, Seamon C, Allen D, Minniti CP, Sachdev V, Arai AE, Kato GJ.
Division of Pulmonary Diseases, College of Medicine.

Alcohol and apoptosis: Friends or foes? Biomolecules, Vol.5, No.4 (19 November 2015): 3193-3203. Ana Rodriguez, Karan Chawla, Neini A. Umoh, Valerie M. Cousins, Assama Ketegou, Madhumati G. Reddy, Mustafa Al-Rubaiee, Georges E. Haddad, Mark W. Burke.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Evaluation of genome wide association study associated type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci in Sub Saharan Africans. Front. Genet., 24 November 2015. Multiple co-authors incl. Georgia M. Dunston.
Department of Microbiology, National Genome Center at Howard University, College of Medicine.

Stimulation of adipose tissue lipoprotein lipase activity improves glucose metabolism and increases high density lipoprotein cholesterol in the spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rat. Curr Res Nutr Food Sci., Vol.3, No.3 (2015). Wael Hatahet, Fahad Aldawood, Julius S. Ngwa, Thomas V. Fungwe.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Editorial: Image-guided radiotherapy for effective radiotherapy delivery. Front. Oncol., 18 November 2015. Nam P. Nguyen, Ulf Lennart Karlsson.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.

Artery of percheron infarction as an unusual cause of Korsakoff’s Syndrome. Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2015, Article ID 927809. Yongxing Zhou1, Derrick Fox1, Abhishek Anand1, Amal Elhaj1, Arushi Kapoor2, Faranak Najibi1, Han Kim3, Roger Weir1, and Annapurni Jayam-Trouth1.
1Department of Neurology, 2Department of Psychiatry, 3Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Genetic basis for colorectal cancer disparities. Current Colorectal Cancer Reports, Vol.11, No.6 (2015): 408-413. Rahul Nayani1, Hasan Ashktorab1, Hasan Brim2, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo1.
1Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

MicroRNA expression during demosponge dissociation, reaggregation, and differentiation and a evolutionarily conserved demosponge miRNA expression profile. Development Genes and Evolution, Vol.225, No.6 (2015): 341-351. Jeffrey M. Robinson.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine

Pharmacologic management of acute and chronic panic disorder. U.S. Pharmacist, Vol.40, No.11 (2015): HS24-HS30. Muideen Adigun, Lindsy Liu, Parth Vashi.
College of Pharmacy.

Association of long runs of with Alzheimer disease among African American individuals. JAMA Neurology, Vol.72, No.11 (2015): 1313-1323. Multiple co-authors incl Thomas O. Obisesan.
Division of Geratrics, College of Medicine.


Week Ending November 21, 2015

Iron restriction in sickle cell anemia: Time for controlled clinical studies. American Journal of Hematology, November 2015. Oswaldo Castro, Gregory J. Kato.
Department of Medicine, Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Effects of lifestyle modification on Telomerase gene expression in hypertensive patients: A pilot trial of stress reduction and health education programs in African Americans. PLoS One, Vol.10, No.11 (16 November 2015): e0142689. Duraimani S, Schneider RH, Randall OS, Nidich SI, Shichene Xu, Meluemebet Ketete, Rainforth MA, Gaylord-King C, Salerno JW, Fagan J.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, College of Medicine.

Analgesic access for acute abdominal pain in the emergency department among racial/rthnic minority Patients: A nationwide examination. Med Care, Vol.53, No.12 (December 2015): 1000-1009. Shah AA1, Zogg CK, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Schneider EB, Cooper LA, Chapital AB, Peterson SM, Havens JM, Thorpe RJ Jr, Roter DL, Castillo RC, Salim A, Adil H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Gonorynchiform interrelationships: Historic overview, analysis, and revised systematics of the group. 2015. Francisco José Poyato-Ariza, Terry Grande, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

A 38-year-old woman with loss of vision in the left eye. American Journal of Neuroradiology, Case of the Week, 16 November 2015. Kamyar Sartip, Frehiwot D. Temesgen, Han Kim.
College of Medicine.

Validation of mammography self-report of women veterans. October 2015. Cynthia Warrick, Deborah J. del Junco, Sally W. Vernpn, Sharon Coan.
College of Medicine.

Integrating mRNA and miRNA weighted gene co-expression networks with eQTLs in the nucleus accumbens of subjects with alcohol dependence. PLoS ONE, Vol.10, No.9 (2015): Art. no. e0137671. Multiple co-authors incl. Robert Emory Taylor.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Meicine.

Simultaneous versus staged total hip arthroplasty a review. Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Diseases, Vol.73, No.2 (2015): 78-82. Emmanuel N. Koli, G.S. Mittl, J.D. Zuckerman.
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine.


Week Ending November 14, 2015

The origin and divergence of Gobioninae fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 2015. Zhao, J., Xu, D., Zhao, K., Rui Diogo, Yang, J., Peng, Z.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Genetic basis for colorectal cancer disparities. Molecular Biology/Current Colorectal Cancer Reports, First online: 11 November 2015. Rahul Nayani1, Hassan Ashktorab1, Hassan Brim2, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo1.
1Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Artery of Percheron infarction as an unusual cause of Korsakoff's syndrome. 2015. Yongxing Zhou1, Derrick Fox1, Abhishek Anand1, Amal Elhaj1, Arushi Kapoor2, Faranak Najibi1, Han Kim3, Roger Weir1, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth1.
1Department of Neurology, 2Department of Psychiatry, 3Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Safety and efficacy of Ledipasvir-Sofosbuvir in African Americans with hepatitis C virus infection: A retrospective analysis of phase 3 data. Hepatology. 6 November 2015. Multiple co-authors incl. Charles D. Howell.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

MicroRNA expression during demosponge dissociation, reaggregation, and differentiation and a evolutionarily conserved demosponge miRNA expression profile. Dev Genes Evol., 9 November 2015. Jeffrey M. Robinson.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Calcium and vitamin D use among older adults in U.S.: Results from national survey. The journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 6 November 2015. S. Lee1, A. R. Teschemaker, M. Daniel, M. K. Maneno, A. A. Johnson2, Anthony K. Wutoh1, Euni Lee.
1Center for Minority Health Services Research, College of Pharmacy, 2Division of Allied Health Sciences, CNAHS.

Heme oxygenase-1, Ferroportin and SAMHD1 induction by heme inhibits HIV-1. American Society of Hematology, 57th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Orlando, FL, December 5-8, 2015. Namita Kumari, Tatiana Ammosova, Sergei Nekhai.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.


Week Ending November 7, 2015

Religion and menthol cigarette use in a US national sample. Preventive Medicine, 28 October 2015. Richard F. Gillum, B. West.
College of Medicine.

Nanotechnology approaches for the delivery of exogenous siRNA for HIV therapy. Mol. Pharmaceutics, Vol.12, No.12 (2015): 4175-4187. Simeon K. Adesina and Emmanuel O Akala.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Essentials of dermatology for the primary care provider. Consultant 360, Vol.55, No.10 (2015): 810-816. Mary P. Maiberger, Julia R. Nunley
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Novel tactics for neuroprotection in Parkinson's disease: Role of antibiotics, polyphenols and neuropeptides. Progress in Neurobiology, 2 November 2015. Dora Reglodi, Justine Renaud, Andrea Tamas, Youssef Tizabi, Benjamin Socías, Elaine Del-Bel, Rita Raisman-Vozari.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Predictive factors of patient satisfaction with pharmacy services in South Korea: A cross-sectional study of national level data. PLoS One, Vol.10, No.1 (5 November 2015): e0142269. Sunkyung Lee, Godwin OP, Kim K, Lee E.
Center for Minority Health Services Research, College of Pharmacy.

Determinants of quality of care and treatment initiation in Medicare disabled patients with chronic hepatitis C. Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol., November 2015. Chirikov VV1, Shaya FT1,2, Mullins CD1, dosReis S1, Onukwugha E1, Charles D. Howell.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.


Week Ending October 31, 2015

Religion and menthol cigarette use in a US national sample. Preventive Medicine, 28 October 2015. Richard Gillum, B. West.
College of Medicine.

Inflammation and suicidal behavior. In: Kaschka WP, Rujescu D (eds): Biological Aspects of Suicidal Behavior. Adv Biol Psychiatry. Vol.30 (2016): 123-144. Postolache T.T., P. Manalai, Brenner L.A., Brundin L.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Gender and racial variations of the nasolacrimal system. In: A.J. Cohen, M. Mercandetti, B. Brazzo (eds.), The Lacrimal System: Diagnosis, Management, and Surgery (2015), 29-33. R.E. Gausas, Usiwoma Abugo, S.R. Carter.
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine.

Competition, selectivity and efficacy of analogs of A-84543 for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors with repositioning of pyridine nitrogen. Neurochem Res. 27 October 2015. A.E. Ogunjirin1, J.M. Fortunak2, L.L. Brown1, Xiao Y3, M.I. Dávila-García3.
1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy; 2Department of Chemistry, CoAS; 3Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Does fractional exhaled nitric oxide vary by foreign-born status and years of US residence? Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 27 October 2015. Richard F. Gillum, Yewande Odeyemi, Chad Hines, Alem Mehari.
College of Medicine.

Therapeutic fetal-globin inducers reduce transcriptional repression in hemoglobinopathy erythroid progenitors through distinct mechanisms. Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases, 27 October 2015. Yan Dai, Jose Sangerman, Yuan Luo Hong, Suthat Fuchareon, David H.K. Chui, Douglas V. Faller, Susan P. Perrine.
Center for Hemoglobin Research in Minorities, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, College of Medicine.

Erythema multiforme major secondary to a cosmetic facial cream: First case report. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, Vol.121, No.1 (January 2016): e10-15. André A. Farquharson, Eric T. Stoopler, Alicia M. Houston, Ronald S. Brown*.
Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, College of Dentistry.

Gains in access to rehabilitation at age 65 years: a regression discontinuity analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Vol.221, No.4, Suppl.2 (October 2015): e37. Cheryl K. Zogg, John W. Scott, Adil A. Shah, Thomas C. Tsai, John A. Rose, Chris Frisch, Joel Weissman, Ali Salim, Adil H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Skin problems in diabetes: Often the first sign. Pharmacy Times, 15 October 2015. Clarence D. Moore.
College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending October 24, 2015

Obesity and pulmonary function in African Americans. PLoS One, Vol.10, No.10 (2015): e0140610. Alem Mehari1, Samina Afreen2, Julius Ngwa2, Rosanna Setse2, Alicia N. Thomas1, Vishal Poddar1, Wayne Davis1, Octavius D. Polk1, Sheik Hassan1, Alvin V. Thomas1.
1Howard University, Division of Pulmonary Diseases, 2Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

Messenger RNA exchange between scions and rootstocks in grafted grapevines. BMC Plant Biol., Vol.15, No.1 (19 October 2015): 251. Yang Y, Linyong Mao, Jittayasothorn Y, Kang Y, Jiao C, Fei Z, Zhong GY.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

A Bivalent recombinant immunotoxin with high potency against tumors with EGFR and EGFRvIII expression. Cancer Biology & Therapy, 15 October 2015. Jie Menga, Yuanyi Liub, Shuying Gaob, Stephen Lina, Xinbin Gu1, Martin G Pomperd, Paul C Wang2, Liang Shana.
1College of Dentistry, 2Molecular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Ensuring the health of children in disasters - Organizational principles to guide and define the child health care system and/or improve the health of all children. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2015. Lead authors: Scott Needle, Joseph Wright.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.

Retrospective analysis of diminished narcotic dependency and weight loss with prophylactic gabapentin use in patients undergoing radiation therapy for oropharyngeal cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, Vol.93, No.3, Suppl. (1 November 2015): E303. T. Dong, G.C. Jones, D. Scoble, G.K. Bajaj.
College of Medicine.

Managing adverse effects related to newer type 2 diabetes medications. AADE in Practice, Vol.3, No.6 (November 2015): 38-42. Oluwaranti Akiyode.
Department of Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Comparative analysis of QSAR-based vs. chemical similarity based predictors of GPCRs binding affinity. Molecular Informatics, October 2015. Man Luo, Xiang S. Wang, Alexander Tropsha.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Cognitive and behavior deficits in sickle cell mice are associated with profound neuropathologic changes in hippocampus and cerebellum. Neurobiology of Disease, Vol.85 (2016): 60-72. Li Wang, Luis E.F. Almeida, Celia M. de Souza Batista, Alfia Khaibullina, Nuo Xu, Sarah Albani, Kira A. Guth, Ji Sung Seo, Martha Quezado, Zenaide M.N. Quezado.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

The effectiveness and the effect of the obstetrics and gynecology medical school clerkship on future career choice by gender . Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, Vol.22, No.6, Suppl. (November–December 2015): S159-S160. EE Miller, KS Smith.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine.

Venous thromboembolism outcomes in bariatric surgery patients: the role of operative time. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, Vol.11, No.6, Suppl. (November–December 2015): S23-S24. Claudia Weeks, Gezzer Ortega, Tran Daniel, Terrence Fullum, Glen Dale, Amal Khoury, Navin Changoor, Rafael Acosta-Diaz, Fatimah Fahimuddin.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Revisional bariatric surgery in African Americans: Short term outcomes. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, Vol.11, No.6, Suppl. (November–December 2015): S183. Jamil Kendall, Gezzer Ortega, Kibileri Williams, Kakra Hughes, Edward Cornwell III, Terrence Fullum, Daniel Tran.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Successful outcomes after bariatric surgery in Black patients. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, Vol.11, No.6, Suppl. (November–December 2015): S186. Claudia Weeks, Terrence Fullum, Chijindu Emenari, Gezzer Ortega, Tiffany Preer, Monique Turner, Denia Tapscott, Navin Changoor, Daniel Tran, Sylvonne Layne, Neh Molyneaux.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Outcomes after bariatric surgery in Black male patients. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, Vol.11, No.6, Suppl. (November–December 2015): S188. Claudia Weeks, Gezzer Ortega, Terrence Fullum, Navin Changoor, Daniel Tran, Vanessa Pinard, Chijindu Emenari, Sarah Mohamedaly, Edward Bauer.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Should antihypertensive treatment recommendations differ in patients with and without coronary heart disease? (From the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial [ALLHAT]). The American Journal of Cardiology, 19 October 2015. Michael H. Alderman, Barry R. Davis, Linda B. Piller, Charles E. Ford, M. Sarah Baraniuk, Sara L. Pressel, Mahshid A. Assadi, Paula T. Einhorn, L. Julian Haywood, Ekambaram Ilamathi, Suzanne Oparil, Tamrat M. Retta, ALLHAT Collaborative Research Group.
College of Medicine.

Is there treatment for nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy. Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, Vol.26, No.6 (2015): 458-463. David M. Katz, J.D. Trobe.
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine.

Resveratrol, sirtuins, and viruses. Rev Med Virol., 19 October 2015. Yang T, Li S, Zhang X, Xiaowu Pang, Lin Q, Cao J.
College of Dentistry.

A review of e-cigarettes and related health issues. Dentistry Today, Vol.34, No.9 (2015) (9). Alison L. Glascoe, Ronald S. Brown.
College of Dentistry.

Uncontrolled dental caries in a young adult: A therapeutic perspective and case report. Dentistry Today, Vol.34, No.7 (2015). Cheryl E. Fryer, Ronald S. Brown, Sandra D. Osborne.
College of Dentistry.


Week Ending October 17, 2015

Amphetamine-related drugs neurotoxicity in humans and in experimental animals: Main mechanisms. Progress in Neurobiology, Available online 9 October 2015. Rosario Moratalla, Amit Khairnar, Nicola Simola, Noelia Granado, Jose Ruben García-Montes, Pier Francesca Porceddu, Yousef Tizabi, Giulia Costa, Micaela Morelli.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Cognitive and behavior deficits in sickle cell mice are associated with profound neuropathologic changes in hippocampus and cerebellum. Neurobiology of Disease, 14 October 2015. Li Wang, Luis E.F. Almeida, Celia M. de Souza Batista, Alfia Khaibullina, Nuo Xu, Sarah Albani, Kira A. Guth, Ji Sung Seo, Martha Quezado, Zenaide M.N. Quezado.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Poly (lactide)-based nanoparticles by free-radical dispersion polymerization: Fabrication, characterization and in vitro studies. Cancer Immunol Res, Vol.3 (October 2015): B90. Simeon K. Adesina, Emmanuel O. Akala.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Factors associated with exercise motivation among African-American men. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 13 October 2015: 1-9. Alana Mohammed1, Jules P. Harrell1, Kepher H. Makambi, Alfonso L. Campbell Jr1, Lloyd Ren Sloan1, Pamela L. Carter-Nolan2, Teletia R. Taylor2.
1Department of Psychology, CoAS; 2Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Differential mesocorticolimbic responses to palatable food in binge eating prone and binge eating resistant female rats. Physiology & Behavior, Vol.152 (2015): 249-256. Elaine B. Sinclair, Kristen M. Culbert, Dana R. Gradl, Kimberlei A. Richardson, Kelly L. Klump, Cheryl L. Sisk.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Pigmentation and skin of color. In: Zoe Diana Draelos (ed.), Cosmetic Dermatology: Products and Procedures (New York: Wiley, 2015), ch.3. Jasmine C. Hollinger, Chesahna Kindred, Rebat M. Halder.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Chronic Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol during adolescence differentially modulates striatal CB1 receptor expression and chronic effects on learning in adult rats. J Pharmacol Exp Ther., 13 October 2015. Weed PF, Catalin M. Filipeanu, Ketchum MJ, Winsauer PJ.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

As smooth as honey-The historical use of honey as topical medication. JAMA Dermatol., Vol.151, No.10 (1 October 2015): 1102. Raheel Zubair, Nasir Aziz.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

A bivalent recombinant immunotoxin with high potency against tumors with EGFR and EGFRvIII expression. Cancer Biol Ther., 15 October 2015. Meng J, Liu Y2, Gao S, Lin S, Gu X, Pomper MG, Paul C. Wang, Shan L.
Department of Molecular Imaging Laboratory; Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

A genome-wide association study of bipolar disorder with comorbid eating disorder replicates the SOX2-OT region. Journal of Affective Disorders, Vol.189 (2016): art. no. 7712, 141-149. Liu, X., Kelsoe, J.R., Greenwood, T.A., Kelsoe, J.R., Green-Wood, T.A., Nievergelt, C.M., McKinney, R., Shilling, P.D., Smith, E.N., Schork, N.J., Bloss, C.S., Nurnberger, J.I., Edenberg, H.J., Foroud, T., Koller, D.L., Gershon, E.S., Liu, C., Badner, J.A., Scheftner, W.A., William B. Lawson, Evaristus A. Nwulia, Maria Hipolito, Coryell, W., Potash, J.B., Rice, J., Byerley, W., McMahon, F.J., Schulze, T.G., Berrettini, W.H., Zandi, P.P., Mahon, P.B., McInnis, M.G., Zöllner, S., Zhang, P., Craig, D.W., Szelinger, S., Barrett, T.B.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Inhibition of Na<inf>v</inf>1.7 channels by methyl eugenol as a mechanism underlying its antinociceptive and anesthetic actions. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, Vol.36, No.7 (2015): 791-799. Wang, Z.-J., Tabakoff, B., Levinson, S.R., Thomas Heinbockel.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Psychiatric symptoms and antiretroviral nonadherence in US youth with perinatal HIV: A longitudinal study. AIDS, Vol.29, No.10 (2015): 1227-1237. Multiple co-authors incl. Soheil R. Rana.
Department of Pediatrics & Child Health, College of Medicine.

Child health disparities: What can a clinician do? Pediatrics, Vol.136, No.5 (2015): 962-968. Cheng TL, Emmanuel MA, Levy DJ, Renée R. Jenkins.
Department of Pediatrics & Child Health, College of Medicine.


Week Ending October 10, 2015

The origin and divergence of Gobioninae fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, October 2015. Zhao, D. Xu, K. Zhao, Rui Diogo, J. Yang and Z. Peng.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

On the serial homology of the pectoral and pelvic girdles of tetrapods. Evolution, Vol.69, No.10 (2015): 2543-2555. Karen E. Sears, Terence D. Capellini, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

The origin and divergence of Gobioninae fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 5 October 2015. J. Zhao, D. Xu, K. Zhao, Rui Diogo, J. Yang, Z. Peng1.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Anatomical network comparison of human upper and lower, newborn and adult, and normal and abnormal limbs, with notes on development, pathology and limb serial homology vs. homoplasy. PLoS One, Vol.10, No.10 (9 October 2015): e0140030. Rui Diogo, Borga Esteve-Altava, Christopher Smith, J.C. Boughner, D. Rasskin-Gutman
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

The effect of formulation variables on drug loading of antitubercular drugs in nanoparticle formulations. Mater. Res. Express, Vol.2 (2015): 095403. Simeon K Adesina, Uchechukwu Ezeonyebuchi, Emmanuel O. Akala.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Toward colorectal cancer control in Africa. International Journal of Cancer, 1 December 2015. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Otis Brawley, David Irabor, Adam Boutall, Rajkumar S. Ramesar, Thandinkosi E. Madiba.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Effect modification by race-ethnicity of environmental tobacco smoke exposure on airway inflammation in US children. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol., 3 October 2015. Alem Mehari, Ngozi Enwerem, Yewande Odeyemi, Richard F. Gillum.
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

Curcumin inhibits development and cell adhesion in Dictyostelium discoideum: Implications for YakA signaling and GST enzyme function. Biochem Biophys Res Commun., Vol.467, No.2 (2015): 275-281. Mamatha Garige, Eric Walters.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

When is bacterial endocarditis prophylaxis required for patients with mitral valve prolapse? Evidence-Based Practice, September 2015. Feremusu Kamara, Rose Griffin, Ihuoma Nwogu.
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.


Week Ending October 3, 2015

Analysis of internet information on lateral lumbar interbody fusion. The Spine Journal, Vol.15, No.10, Suppl. (October 2015): S246-S247. Addisu Mesfin, Rebekah Belayneh.
College of Medicine.

Six month and one year continuation rates following postpartum insertion of implants and intrauterine devices. Contraception, Available online 25 September 2015. Irene Woo, Sara Seifert, Dacia Hendricks, Roxanne M. Jamshidi, Anne E. Burke, Michelle C. Fox.
College of Medicine.

Deciphering the genetic code of gastrointestinal diseases among African Americans. Gastroenterology, Vl.149, No.6 (2015): 1323-1326. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Maria T. Abreu.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Research is needed on the difficult-to-cure population of hepatitis C virus patients with disability. Hepatology, October 2015. Viktor Chirikov, Fadia Shaya, C. Mullins, Susan dosReis, Eberechukwu Onukwugha, Charles Howell.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Three methods of delivering clinic-based training on syndromic management of sexually transmitted diseases in South Africa: a pilot study. Sex Transm Infect., 1 October 2015. Weaver MR, Pillay E, Jed SL, de Kadt J, Galagan S, Gilvydis J, Marumo E, Mawandia S, Naidoo E, Tamara Owens, Prongay V, O'Malley G.
Clinical Skills and Simulation Center, College of Medicine.

Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament: Imaging findings in the era of cross-sectional imaging. J Comput Assist Tomogr., Vol.39, No.6 (2015): 835-841. Sartip KA1, Dong T, Ndukwe M, East JE, Graves JA, Davis B, Midyett FA, André Duerinckx.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Development of preliminary remission criteria for gout using Delphi and 1000Minds® consensus exercises. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 28 September 2015. Multiple co-authors, incl. Gail S. Kerr.
Department of Rheumatology, College of Medicine.

Discovery of a novel HDAC2 inhibitor by a scaffold-merging hybrid query. Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening, Vol.18, No.7 (2015): 693-700. M. Luo, Terry-Elinor Reid, Xiang Simon Wang.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy,

Activation of HIV-1 with nanoparticle-packaged small-molecule protein phosphatase-1-targeting compound. Scientia Pharmaceutica, Vol.83, No.3 (2015): 535-548. Kahli A. Smith1, Xionghao Lin1, Oleg S. Bolshakov3, James Griffin2, Xiaomei Niu1, Dmytro B. Kovalskyy, A. Ivanov, M. Jerebtsova, Robert E. Taylor2, Emmanuel Akala3, Sergei Nekhai1
1Center for Sickle Cell Disease, 2Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, 3Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

A retrospective evaluation of the intrauterine device in a patient population in Buenos Aires, Argentina. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care, 2015. Sherani R Jagroep, Margaret S Pichardo, Lia Arribas, Graciela Heredia, Elina Coccio, Tia M Palermo.
College of Medicine.


Week Ending September 26, 2015

MicroRNA-203 induces apoptosis by upregulating Puma expression in colon and lung cancer cells. Int J Oncol., 22 September 2015. N. Funamizu, Curtis R. Lacy, M. Kamada, K. Yanaga, Y. Manome.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

The dynamics of bacteria population on the skin, throat, and gastrointestinal tract of HIV-seropositive patients. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, Vol.8, No.5 (2015): 164-176. Kwashie Ajibade Ako-Nai, Folasade M Adeyemi, Ebun A Adejuyigbe, Blessing I Ebhodaghe, Patrick O Osho, Olakunle O Kassim.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

An unusual case of invasive Kaposi’s sarcoma with primary effusion lymphoma in an HIV positive patient, case report and literature review. 2015. Alexandra Millet1, Sanmeet Singh1, Genelle Gittens-Backus1, William Green2, Babak Shokrani2.
1Department of Medicine, 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Hair loss due to cancer treatment. Pharmacy Times, 2015. Clarence D. Moore.
College of Pharmacy.

Modulation of social deficits and repetitive behaviors in a mouse model of autism: The role of the nicotinic cholinergic system. Psychopharmacology, Vol.232 (2015): 4303-4318. Li Wang, Luis E. F. Almeida, Nicholas A. Spornick, Nicholas Kenyon, Sayuri Kamimura, Alfia Khaibullina, Mehdi Nouraie, Zenaide M. N. Quezado
Department of Medicine and Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.


Week Ending September 19, 2015

Predicting mortality in the geriatric patient after blunt traumatic hemorrhagic shock. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Vol.221, No.4, Suppl.1 (October 2015): S166-S167. John O. Hwabejire, Christine E. Nembhard, Edward E. Cornwell, Suryanarayana M. Siram, Wendy R. Greene.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Transcriptional regulation of NHE3 and SGLT1 by the circadian clock protein Per1 in proximal tubule cells. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol., Vol.309, No.11 (2015): F933-F942. Solocinski K, Richards J, All SC, Cheng KY, Syed Jalal Khundmiri, Gumz ML.
College of Medicine.

Iron restriction in sickle cell anemia: Time for controlled clinical studies. Am J Hematol., 16 September 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. Oswaldo Castro, G.J. Kato.
Sickle Cell Center, College of Medicine.

On the serial homology of the pectoral and pelvic girdles of tetrapods. Evolution, 16 September 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. K.E. Sears, T.D. Capellini, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Introduction: State-of-the-art on child health disparities. Pediatrics, 14 September 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. Cheng TL, Moon R, Horn I, Renée Jenkins, DC-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities.
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine.

Cheminfomatic-based drug discovery of human tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Curr Top Med Chem., 15 September 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. Terry-Elinor Reid, Joseph M. Fortunak, Anthony K. Wutoh, Xiang Simon Wang.
College of Pharmacy.

Association of long runs of homozygosity with Alzheimer disease among African American individuals. JAMA Neurol., 14 September 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. Multiple co-authors, including Thomas O. Obisesan.
Division of Geriatrics, College of Medicine.

Inhibition of HIV-1 by curcumin A, a novel curcumin analog. Drug Design, Development and Therapy, Vol.9 (2015): 5051-5060. Namita Kumari1, Amol A. Kulkarni3, Xionghao Lin2, Charlee. McLean1, Tatiana Ammosova2, Andrei Ivanov2, Maria M. Hipolito1, Sergei Nekhai2, Evaristus A. Nwulia1,
1Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, 2Department of Medicine, Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine, 3College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending September 12, 2015

Comparative anatomy of primates. Basics in Human Evolution, 2015: 43-55. Rui Diogo, M.N. Muchlinski, A. Hartstone-Rose.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Muscadine grape skin extract can antagonize Snail-cathepsin L-mediated invasion, migration and osteoclastogenesis in prostate and breast cancer cells. Carcinogenesis, Vol.36, No.9 (2015): 1019-1027. Burton, L.J., Smith, B.A., Smith, B.N., Loyd, Q., Nagappan, P., McKeithen, D., Wilder, C.L., Platt, M.O., Tamaro S. Hudson, Odero-Marah, V.A.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

High rate of microbleed formation following primary intracerebral hemorrhage. International Journal of Stroke, 2015. Mackey, J., Wing, J.J., Norato, G., Sobotka, I., Menon, R.S., Burgess, R.E., Gibbons, M.C., Shara, N.M., Fernandez, S., Annapurni Jayam-Trouth, A., Russell, L., Edwards, D.F., Kidwell, C.S.
Department of Neurology, College of Medicine.

Trauma care does not discriminate: The association of race and health insurance with mortality following traumatic injury. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Vol.79, No.3 (2015): 515-516. Seyed Nabeel Zafar.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Towards colorectal cancer control in Africa. Int J Cancer, 10 September 2015. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, O. Brawley, D. Irabor, A. Boutall, R.S. Ramesar, T. E. Madiba.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Rare case of rapidly worsening REM sleep induced bradycardia. Case Rep Cardiol. (2015): 546712. Ayyappa S. Duba, Suneetha Jasty, Ankit Mahajan, Vijay Kodadhala, Raza Khan, Prithviraj Rai, Mohammad Ghazvini.
College of Medicine.

Claustrophobic tendencies and continuous positive airway pressure therapy non-adherence in adults with obstructive sleep apnea. Heart Lung., Vol.44, No.2 (March-April 2015): 100-106. Janalyn Cantey Edmonds, Yang H, King TS, Sawyer DA, Rizzo A, Sawyer AM.
Division of Nursing, CNAHS.

Knowledge, attitudes and awareness of food and drug interactions among nurses with different levels of experience. International Journal of Nursing, Vol.2, No.1 (June 2015): 1-9. Nkechi. M. Enwerem, Priscilla Okunji.
Division of Nursing, CNAHS.

In vivo tumor-targeted dual-modal fluorescence/CT imaging using a nanoprobe co-loaded with an aggregation-induced emission dye and gold nanoparticles. Biomaterials, Vol.42 (February 2015): 103-11. Zhang J, Li C, Zhang X, Huo S, Jin S, An FF, Wang X, Xue X, Okeke CI, Duan G, Guo F, Zhang X, Hao J, Paul C. Wang, Zhang J, Liang XJ.
Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Nanodrug formed by coassembly of dual anticancer drugs to inhibit cancer cell drug resistance. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol.7, No.34 (2015): 19295-19305. Zhao, Y., Chen, F., Pan, Y., Li, Z., Xue, X., Okeke, C.I., Wang, Y., Li, C., Peng, L., Paul C. Wang, Ma, X., Liang, X.-J.
Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Evolutionary developmental pathology and anthropology: A new field linking development, comparative anatomy, human evolution, morphological variations and defects, and medicine. Developmental Dynamics, Vol.244, No.11 (2015): 1357-1374. Rui Diogo, Christopher M. Smith, Janine M. Ziermann.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Emergency general surgery in a low-middle income health care setting: Determinants of outcomes. Presented at the Society of University Surgeons’ and Association of Academic Surgeons’ 10th Annual Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) February 3−5, 2015, in Las Vegas, NV. Surgery, 2015. Adil A. Shah, Asad Latif, Cheryl K. Zogg, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Robert Riviello, Muhammad Sohail Halim, Zia Rehman, Adil H. Haider, Hasnain Zafar.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

The impact of periodontal disease upon osteoporosis, cognitive impairment, respiratory diseases, kidney disease and cancer. International Journal of Dentistry and Oral Health, Vol.1, No.5 (2015). Alison Glascoe, Ronald Brown, Janice Mercer, Leslie Lawrence.
College of Dentistry.

Emergency general surgery in a low-middle income health care setting: Determinants of outcomes. Surgery, Available online 8 September 2015. Adil A. Shah, Asad Latif, Cheryl K. Zogg, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Robert Riviello, Muhammad Sohail Halim, Zia Rehman, Adil H. Haider, Hasnain Zafar.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Role of PTH in the renal handling of phosphate. AIMS Medical Science, Vol.2, No.3 (2015): 162-181. Rebecca D. Murray, Eleanor D. Lederer, Syed J. Khundmiri.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Modulation of social deficits and repetitive behaviors in a mouse model of autism: The role of the nicotinic cholinergic system. Psychopharmacology, 4 September 2015. Li Wang , Luis E. F. Almeida , Nicholas A. Spornick, Nicholas Kenyon, Sayuri Kamimura, Alfia Khaibullina, Mehdi Nouraie, Zenaide M. N. Quezado.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.


Week Ending September 5, 2015

Atrial fibrillation and colonic neoplasia in African Americans. PLoS One, Vol.10, No.8 (28 August 2015): e0135609. Mehdi Nouraie1, Vandana Kansal1, Cassius Belfonte, Mohammad Ghazvini2, Tahmineh Haidari1, Anahita Shahnazi1, Hassan Brim3, E.Z. Soliman, Hassan Ashktorab1.
1Cancer Research Center and Department of Medicine, 2Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, 3Cancer Research Center and Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Of mice and monkeys: Can animal models be utilized to study neurological consequences of pediatric HIV-1 infection? ACS Chemical Neuroscience, Vol.6, No.8 (2015): 1276-1289. Heather Carryl1, M. Swang2, Jerome Robin Lawrence2, Kimberly Curtis1, Herman Kamboj1, Van Rompay KKA, De Paris K, Mark William Burke1.
1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, 2Department of Biology, CoAS.

Development, metamorphosis, morphology, and diversity: The evolution of chordate muscles and the origin of vertebrates. Developmental Dynamics, Vol.244, No.9 (2015): 1046-1057. Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Letter to the editor. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Vol.26, No.3 (2015): xii. Bailus C. Walker.
College of Medicine.

Review of: Buying and Selling Information: A Guide for Information Professionals and Salespeople to Build Mutual Success, by Michael Gruenberg. Information Today, 2014), Journal of Web Librarianship, 2015. Kristen L. Young.
Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library.


Week Ending August 29, 2015

Rare case of rapidly worsening REM sleep induced bradycardia. Case Reports in Cardiology, Vol.2015, Article ID 546712. Ayyappa S. Duba, Suneetha Jasty, Ankit Mahajan, Vijay Kodadhala, Raza Khan, Prithviraj Rai, Mohammad Ghazvini.
College of Medicine.

What prognostic tools are helpful for assessing patients with late-stage Alzheimer’s disease for hospice care? Evidence-Based Practice, Vol.18, No.7 (2015): 9-10. Mariatu Koroma-Nelson, Anuj Bhatnagar, Oluwatoyin Falebita, Krishnan Narasimhan.
College of Medicine.

High rate of microbleed formation following primary intracerebral hemorrhage. International Journal of Stroke, September 2015. Jason Mackey, Jeffrey J. Wing, Gina Norato, Ian Sobotka, Ravi S. Menon, Richard E. Burgess, M. Chris Gibbons, Nawar M. Shara, Stephen Fernandez, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth, Laura Russell, Dorothy F. Edwards and Chelsea S. Kidwell.
Department of Neurology, College of Medicine.

Management of gallstones in the pediatric patient. In: Soumitra R. Eachempati, R. Lawrence Reed, II (eds), Acute Cholecystitis (Springer: 2015), 197-206. Ashanti L. Franklin, Faisal G. Qureshi, Evan P. Nadler.
Department of Pediatrics & Child Health, College of Medicine.

Uremic pruritus review. U.S. Pharmacist, Vol.40, No.8 (2015): HS12-HS15. Muideen Adigun, Lynette A. Badu*, Natalie M. Berner*, Alexander A. Oladele*.
Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Social support and sleep symptoms in US adults. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol.11, No.8 (2015): 957. Clarence Glenn; Ngozi Enwerem, Yewande Odeyemi; Alem Mehari, Richard F. Gillum.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus bloodstream coinfection among adults with candidemia in Atlanta, GA, 2008-2012. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol., 27 August 2015: 1-7. Reno J, Saumil Doshi, Tunali AK, Stein B, Farley MM, Ray SM, Jacob JT.
College of Medicine.

Trauma care does not discriminate: The association of race and health insurance with mortality following traumatic injury
. J Trauma Acute Care Surg., Vol.79, No.3 (2015): 515-6. Seyed Nabeel Zafar.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

The human brain and face: Mechanisms of cranial, neurological and facial development revealed through malformations of holoprosencephaly, cyclopia and aberrations in chromosome 18. Journal of Anatomy, Vol.227, No.3 (2015): 255-267. Margjorie C. Gondré-Lewis1, T. Gboluaje1, S.N. Reid1, S. Lin2, Paul C. Wang2, Wendy Green3, Rui Diogo3, Fidélia-Lambert4, M.N. Herman.
1Laboratory for Neurodevelopment, Department of Anatomy, 2Department of Radiology, 3Laboratory for Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, 4Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Apoptotic effects of novel dithiocarbamate analogs of emetine in prostate cancer cell lines. Anticancer Research, Vol.35, No.9 (2015): 4723-4732. Z.D. Bamji1, Kareem N. Washington1, Emmanuel S. Akinboye2 Oladapo Bakare2, Yasmine M. Kanaan2, Robert L. Copeland4.
1Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, 2Department of Chemistry, CoAS, 2Departments of Microbiology, 4Departments of Pharmacology, College of Medicine,

QbD approach to investigate product and process variabilities for brain targeting liposomes. Journal of Liposome Research, Vol.25, No.3 (2015): 175-190. N. Kamal, Cutie, A.J., MJ Habib, Zidan, A.S.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy.

Risk of prostate cancer in African-American men: Evidence of mixed effects of dietary quercetin by serum Vitamin D status. Prostate, Vol.75, No.13 (2015): 1376-1383. C.J. Paller, Yasmine M. Kanaan1, Desta A. Beyene1, Tammey J. Naab2, Robert L. Copeland3, H.L. Tsai, N.F. Kanarek, Tamaro S. Hudson2.
1Department of Microbiology & Cancer Center, 2Department of Pathology, 2Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine

General pain: Optimizing therapy. Pharmacy Times, Vol.81, No.8 (2015). Clarence Moore.
College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending August 22, 2015

Targeted cancer gene sequencing identifies potential causative novel candidate mutations among Caucasian colon carcinogenesis. Cancer Research, Vol.75 (2015): Abstract 3930. Hassan Ashktorab, Michael Nickerson, Sudhir Varma, Pooneh Mokarram, Fakhraddin Naghibalhossaini, Lee Moore, Joseph Boland, Sara Bass, Meredith Yeager, Wen-Yi Haung, Hassan Brim.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Whole genome hypo- and hyper-methylation sequencing among African American patients with colorectal cancer. Cancer Research, Vol.75 (2015): Abstract 4588. Hassan Ashktorab, Afnan Shakoori, Shatha Zarnogi, Xueguang Sun, Sudhir Varma, Edward Lee, Babak Shokrani, Adeinko O. Laiyemo, Kareem Washington, Hassan Brim.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

A microbiomic analysis in African American with colonic lesions reveals bacterial markers with potential diagnostic value. Cancer Research, Vol.75 (2015): Abstract 1532. Hassan Brim, Sudhir Varma, Adeinko Laiyemo, Zaki Sharif, Edward L. Lee, Hassan Ashktorab.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Investigation of the permeation and retention of biocompatible low-retention superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoclusters in tumors with magnetic resonance imaging. Cancer Research, Vol.75 (2015): Abstract 1479. Yushuang Wei1, Liang Shan, Paul C. Wang, and Qibing Zhou.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Nanodrug formed by co-assembling of dual anticancer drugs to inhibit cancer cell drug resistence. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 13 August 2015. Yuanyuan Zhao, Fei Chen, Yuanming Pan, Zhipeng Li, Xiangdong Xue, Chukwunweike Ikechukwu Okeke, Yifeng Wang, Chan Li, Ling Peng, Paul C. Wang, Xiaowei Ma, Xing-Jie Liang.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Self-carried curcumin nanoparticles for in vitro and in vivo cancer therapy with real-time monitoring of drug release. Nanoscale, Vol.7, No.32 (2015): 13503-13510. Zhang, J., Li, S., An, F.-F., Liu, J., Jin, S., Zhang, J.-C., Paul C. Wang, Zhang, X., Lee, C.-S., Liang, X.-J.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Geographic variation in cold ischemia time: Kidney versus liver transplantation in the United States, 2003 to 2011. Transplantation Direct, 13 August 2015. Naoru Koizumi, Debasree Das Gupta, Amit V. Patel, Tony E. Smith, Jeremy D. Mayer, Clive Callender, Joseph K. Melancon.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

The human brain and face: mechanisms of cranial, neurological and facial development revealed through malformations of holoprosencephaly, cyclopia and aberrations in chromosome 18. Journal of Anatomy, Vol.227, No.3 (September 2015): 255–267, Marjorie C. Gondré-Lewis1, Temitayo Gboluaje1, Shaina N. Reid1, Stephen Lin2, Paul C. Wang1, William Green3, Rui Diogo3, Marie N. Fidélia-Lambert4, Mary M. Herman.
1Laboratory for Neurodevelopment, 2Department of Radiology, 3Laboratory for Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, 4Department of Pathology, College of Medicine,

The impact of coagulopathy on traumatic splenic injuries. The American Journal of Surgery, Vol.210, No.4 (October 2015): 724-729. Norma Smalls, Augustine Obirieze, Imudia Ehan.
Department of Surgery, Colege of Medicine.

Evolutionary developmental pathology and anthropology: A new field linking development, comparative anatomy, human evolution, morphological variations and defects, and medicine. Dev Dyn., 21 August 2015. Rui Diogo, Christopher M. Smith, Janine Ziermann.
1Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine

Brodie's abscess in a patient presenting with sickle cell vasoocclusive crisis. Case Rep Med., 2015: 429876. Onyekachi Henry Ogbonna, Yonette Paul, Hasan Nabhani, Adriana Medina.
Division of Hematology and Oncology, College of Medicine.

Early cardiac tamponade in a patient with postsurgical hypothyroidism. Case Rep Cardiol., 2015: 310350. Archana Sinha, Sri Lakshmi Hyndavi Yeruva1, R. Kumar, Bryan H. Curry2.
1Division of Hematology and Oncology, 2Division of Cardiology, College of Medicine.

How to use biologic agents in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who have comorbid disease. BMJ, Vol.351 (17 August 2015): h3658. J.S. Richards, Sharon M. Dowell, Mercedes E. Quinones, Gail S. Kerr.
Department of Rheumatology, College of Medicine.

E. E. Just and Creativity in Science. The Importance of Diversity. Journal of African American Studies, Vol.19, No.3 (2015): 264-278. W. Malcolm Byrnes.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine. .

Give patients a workout in the 'ego gym' with mindfulness exercises. Current Psychiatry, Vol.14, No.8 (2015): 62-63. Ricchard Rosse.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.


Week Ending August 15, 2015

Apoptotic effects of novel dithiocarbamate analogs of Emetine in prostate cancer cell lines. Anticancer Res., Vol.35, No.9 (September 2015): 4723-4732. Zabalda D. Bamji1, Kareem N. Washington1, Emmanuel Akinboye2, Oladapo Bakare2, Yasmine M. Kanaan3, Robert L. Copeland Jr4.
1Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine; 2Department of Chemistry, Graduate School; 3Department of Microbiology, 4Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

α-lipoic acid reduces neurogenic hypertension by blunting oxidative stress-mediated increase in Adam17. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol., 7 August 2015. de Queiroz TM1, Xia H, Catalin M. Filipeanu, Braga VA4, Lazartigues E5.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Beverage intake preference and bowel preparation laxative taste preference for colonoscopy. World J Gastrointest Pharmacol Ther., Vol.6, No.3 (6 Augut 2015): 84-88. Adeyinka O Laiyemo, Clinton Burnside, Maryam A Laiyemo, John Kwagyan, Carla D Williams, Kolapo A Idowu, Hassan Ashktorab, Angesom Kibreab, Victor F Scott, and Andrew K Sanderson.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Ranibizumab: A review of its use in the treatment of diabetic retinopathy in patients with diabetic macular edema. Journal of Pharmacy Technology, August 12, 2015. Oluwaranti Akiyode, Nikeshia Dunkelly-Allen.
College of Pharmacy.

Plastmablastic lymphoma presenting as odontogenic infection. American Association of Oral and Maxilofacial Surgeons, 97th Annual Meeting, Scientific Sessions and Exhibition, Washington, DC, September 28-October 3, 2015. Sirish Makan.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry.

Characteristics of adult men who are willing to give HPV vaccine to their daughters in the United States: a national survey. Cancer Research, Vol.75 (2015): Proceedings: AACR 106th Annual Meeting 2015; April 18-22, 2015, Philadelphia, PA, Abstract 851. Jessica Rogers, Kolapo A. Idowu, Rahmatalai Coker, Hamidat Segunmaru, Mohammad Daremipouran, Clinton Burnside, Carla D. Williams, and Adeyinka O. Laiyemo.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Ethical and moral courage is distress among professional nurses: A workplace issue. ABNF Journal, Vol.26, No.3 (Summer 2015). Geradine Brown.
Division of Nursing, CNAHS.

Dysregulation of DLL4 gene expression in Li-Fraumeni syndrome and tumorigenesis. Cancer Research, Vol.75 (2015): Proceedings: AACR 106th Annual Meeting 2015; April 18-22, 2015, Philadelphia, PA, Abstract 800. Zhixing Yao and Zaki A. Sherif.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.


Week Ending August 8, 2015

Musculoskeletal anatomical changes that accompany limb reduction in lizards. J Morphol., 6 August 2015. [Epub ahead of print] Abdala V, Grizante MB, Rui Diogo, Molnar J, Kohlsdorf T.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Rapamycin increases fetal hemoglobin and ameliorates the nociception phenotype in sickle cell mice. Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases, Available online 5 August 2015. Alfia Khaibullinaa, Luis E.F. Almeida, Li Wanga, Sayuri Kamimura, Edward C.C. Wong, Mehdi Nouraie, Irina Maric, Sarah Albani, Julia Finkel, Zenaide M.N. Quezado.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

Quantum field theory treatment of magnetic effects on the spin and orbital angular momentum of a free electron. ArXiv, 1 August 2015. P. Kurian, C. Verzegnassi.
National Human Genome Center, College of Medicine.

Operative time, airway management, need for blood transfusions & in-hospital stay for bimaxillary, intranasal & osseous genioplasty surgery: Current clinical practices. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Available online 5 August 2015. Jeffrey C. Posnick, Elbert Choi, Anish Chavda.
Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry.

The role of trauma type in the risk for insomnia. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol.11, No.7 (2015): 735-739. Tyish S. Hall Brown, Ameenat Akeeb, Thomas A. Mellman.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Advancing the interdisciplinary collaborative health team model: applying democratic professionalism, implementation science, and therapeutic alliance to enact social justice practice. ANS Adv Nurs Sci., Vol.38, No.3 (July-September 2015): 215-26. Murphy Nancy.
College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, Graduate Nursing Program

Cancer care: The role of specialty pharmacy. Pharmacy Times, Vol.81, No.7 (2015). Clarence D. Moore.
College of Pharmacy.

Diarrhea: Preventable and treatable. Pharmacy Times, Vol.81, No.7 (2015). Clarence D. Moore.
College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending August 1, 2015

Predictors of self-reported family health history of breast cancer. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, July 2015. Luisel J. Ricks-Santi, Nicole Thompson1, Altovise Ewing, Barbara Harrison2, Kimberly Higginbotham1, Cherie Spencer1, Adeyinka Laiyemo1, Robert DeWitty1, Lori Wilson1, Sara Horton1, Jacqueline Dunmore-Griffith1, Carla Williams3, Wayne A.I. Frederick1.
1Cancer Center, 2Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, 3Department of Community and Family Medicine, College of Medicine.

Going full circle with teacher feedback: Conducting responsive evaluations in urban pre-K classrooms. Sage Open, July 2015. Jo-Anne L. Manswell Butty, Lucy A. Wakiaga, Brooke K. McKie, Veronica G. Thomas, Rodney D. Green, Neilabh Avasthi, Caryn L. Swierzbin.
Center for Urban Progress, CoAS.

A standardized randomized 6-month aerobic exercise-training down-regulated pro-inflammatory genes, but up-regulated anti-inflammatory, neuron survival and axon growth-related genes. Experimental Gerontology, 2015. Osigbemhe Iyalomhe1, Yuanxiu Chen2, Joanne Allard3, Oyonumo Ntekim4, Sheree Johnson3, Vernon Bond4, David Goerlitz, James Li, Thomas O. Obisesan1.
1Division of Geriatrics, 2Clinical Translational Science Center, 3Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine; 4Department of Health, Human Performance, and Leisure Studies, CoAS.

Urinary tract infection: A frequent diagnosis. Pharmacy Times, 15 June 2015. Clarence D. Moore.
College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending July 25, 2015

Renal malakoplakia mimicking a malignant renal carcinoma: A patient case with literature review. BMJ Case Reports 2015. Stephanie Daniela Knights Purnell1, Bonnie Davis2, Rhonda Burch-Smith3, Pamela Coleman4.
1Cancer Center, 2Department of Radiology, 3Department of Pathology, 4Department of Urology, College of Medicine.

Options in the management of sickle cell disease. U.S. Pharmacist, Vol.40, No.7 (2015): 4-7. Porscha L. Johnson, Fredric A. Lombardo, Clarence D. Moore.
College of Pharmacy

Diversity of mandibular morphology in some carnivorans. Vestnik zoologii, Vol.49, No.3 (2015): 267–284. Sulman J. Rahmat, Irina A. Koretsky.
Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Association between diverticular disease and pre-neoplastic colorectal lesions in an urban african-american population, Digestion, Vol.92 (2015): 60-65. Hassan Ashktorab1, H. Panchal,1 B. Shokrani2, M. Paydar1, A. Sanderson,1 E.L. Lee1, R. Begum1, T. Haidary1, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo1, S. McDonald-Pinkett1, Hassan Brim2, Mehdi Nouraie1.
1Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

The main reasons for excluding articles from systematic review and meta-analysis. April 2015. Nima Moradi Majd, Mohammad Jafar Eghbal, Hamed Homayouni, Sareh Aflaki.
College of Dentistry.

Adverse drug events in hospitalized children at Ethiopian University Hospital: A prospective observational study. BMC Pediatrics, Vol.15, No.1 (2015): art. no. 83. Eshetie, T.C., Bisrat Hailemeskel, Mekonnen, N., Paulos, G., Mekonnen, A.B., Girma, T.
College of Pharmacy.

Adverse drug events in hospitalized children at Ethiopian University Hospital: A prospective observational study. BMC Pediatrics, 2015. Eshetie, T.C., Bisrat Hailemeskel, Mekonnen, N., Paulos, G., Mekonnen, A.B., Girma, T.
College of Pharmacy.

Genome-wide mapping of structural variations reveals a copy number variant that determines reproductive morphology in cucumber. Plant Cell, Vol.27, No.6 (2015): 1595-1604. Zhang, Z., Linyong Mao, Chen, H., Bu, F., Li, G., Sun, J., Li, S., Sun, H., Jiao, C., Blakely, R., Pan, J., Cai, R., Luo, R., Van de Peer, Y., Jacobsen, E., Fei, Z., Huang, S.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Welcome to the brave new world: CRISPR mediated genome editing-pathway to designer babies? Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology, Vol.25, No.1 (2015): 143-154. Diana Elizondo1, Lourds Michelle Fernando1, Everett Oliver2, Keely Clinton Nicole Retland1, Henri Paturault1, Hemayet Ullah1.
1Department of Biology, CoAS, 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending July 18, 2015

Transient sixth nerve palsy and mydriasis following a temporal sculptra aesthetic (Poly-(L)-lactic acid) injection: A case report and literature review. American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery, Vol.32, No.2 (June 2015): 71-76. Usiwoma Abugo, Soheila Rostami.
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine.

Visual acuity in orbital floor fractures: Does surgical subspecialty management matter? Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, Vol.26, No.5 (July 2015): 1668–1672. Nikisha Q. Richards, Ninita H. Brown, Earl D.R. Kidwe Jr.
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine.

Adverse effects associated with newer diabetes therapies: A review article. Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 12 July 2015. Oluwaranti F. Akiyode, Adebola A. Adesoye.
College of Pharmacy.

pH imaging of mouse kidneys in vivo using a frequency-dependent paraCEST agent. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, July 2015. Yunkou Wu, Shanrong Zhang, Todd C. Soesbe, Jing Yu, Elena Vinogradov, Robert E. Lenkinski and A. Dean Sherry.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Comparison of functional variants in IFNL4 and IFNL3 for association with hepatitis C virus clearance. Journal of Hepatology, Available online 15 July 2015. Thomas R. O’Brien, Ruth M. Pfeiffer, Ashley Paquin, Krystle A. Lang Kuhs, Sabrina Chen, Herbert L. Bonkovsky, Brian R. Edlin, Charles D. Howell, Gregory D. Kirk, Mark H. Kuniholm, Timothy R. Morgan, Howard D. Strickler, David L. Thomas, Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

What is the best-suggested workup to diagnose septic pulmonary embolism (SPE)? Evidence-Based Practice, Vol.8, No.4 (April 2015): HDAs, 9. Onaopemipo B. Ajiboye, Michael Ajakaiye, Tramaine Davis, Krishnan Narasimhan, Howard Wilson.
College of Medicine.

RECQ1 interacts with FEN-1 and promotes binding of FEN-1 to telomeric chromatin. Biochemical Journal, Vol.468, No.2 (2015): 227-244. Furqan Sami, Xing Lu, Swetha Parvathaneni, Roy, R., Gary, R.K., Sudha Sharma.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Implant fracture after long-stemmed cemented hemiarthroplasty for oncologic indications. Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants, Vol.25, No.3 (2015): 171-178. Maheshwari, A.V., Corey Gilbert, Noveau, J., Pivec, R., Henshaw, R.M.
Department of Orthopaedics, College of Medicine.

Urinary tract infection: A frequent diagnosis. Pharmacy Times, Vol.81, No.6 (2015). Clarence D. Moore.
College of Pharmacy


Week Ending July 11, 2015

Association of cardiometabolic multimorbidity with mortality. JAMA, Vol.314, No.1 (7 July 2015): 52-60. Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration, Di Angelantonio E, Kaptoge S, Wormser D, Willeit P, Butterworth AS, Bansal N, O'Keeffe LM, Gao P, Wood AM, Burgess S, Freitag DF, Pennells L, Peters SA, Hart CL, Håheim LL, Richard F. Gillum, et ali.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Discovery of a novel HDAC2 inhibitor by a Scaffold-Merging Hybrid Query. Comb Chem High Throughput Screen, 5 July 2015. Nikita Basant, XionghaoLin, Terri-Elinor Reid, Pradeep K. Karla, Xiang S. Wang.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Understanding African American college students' H1N1 vaccination decisions. Health Psychol., 6 July 2015. Angela P. Cole, Janel M. Gill, Kyla D. Fletcher, Cassandra A. Shivers, Lauren C. Allen, Denée T. Mwendwa.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Dyschromias in renal disease. In: Julia R. Nunley, Edgar V. Lerma (eds), Dermatological Manifestations of Kidney Disease (New York: Springer, 2015), 91-96. Mwatsveruka N. Munhutu, Rebat M. Halder.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine

E. E. Just and creativity in science: The importance of diversity. Journal of African American Studies, 24 June 2015. W. Malcolm Byrnes.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending July 4, 2015

Estimation of glomerular filtration rate in patients with cirrhosis using new and conventional filtration markers and dimethylarginines. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 29 June 2015. Ayse L. Mindikoglu, Thomas C. Dowling, Laurence S. Magder, Robert H. Christenson, Matthew R. Weir, Stephen L. Seliger, William R. Hutson, Charles Howell.
College of Medicine.

Blood transfusion and 30-day readmission rate in adult patients hospitalized with sickle cell disease crisis. Transfusion, June 2015. Mehdi Nouraie, Victor R. Gordeuk.
Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.

Counterpoint: Diversity and inclusion: Works in progress. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 23 June 2015. Johnson B. Lightfoote, Julia R. Fielding, Curtiland Deville, Richard B. Gunderman, Gail N. Morgan, Pari V. Pandharipande, André J. Duerinckx, Raymond B. Wynn, Katarzyna J. Macura.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Effects of dietary salt on blood pressure. Endocrinol Metab Synd., Vol.4, No.2 (2015). Manzoor A Lala, Chaudary MJ Nazar, Bojrenu M Mauton, Hameem Lala.
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

Discovery of natural product-derived 5-HT1A receptor binders by cheminfomatics modeling of known binders, high throughput screening and experimental validation. Comb Chem High Throughput Screen., 3 July 2015. Man Luo, Terri-Elinor Reid, Xiang-Simon Wang.
Laboratory of Cheminfomatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Aromatase inhibitor-induced erythrocytosis in a patient undergoing hormonal treatment for breast cancer. Case Rep Hematol. (2 June 2015): 784783. Sri Lakshmi Hyndavi Yeruva, Stanley Madu Nwabudike, Onyekachi Henry Ogbonna, Patricia Oneal.
Division of Hematology and Oncology, College of Medicine.

SPINK1 promoter variants are associated with prostate cancer predisposing alterations in benign prostatic hyperplasia patients. Anticancer Res., Vol.35, No.7 (July 2015): 3811-3819. D. Winchester, Luisel Ricks-Santi2, Tshela Mason1, Muneer Abbas2, Robert L. Copeland3, Desta Beyene4, E.Y. Jingwi4, Georgia M. Dunston1,2, Yasmine M. Kanaan2.
1National Human Genome Center, 2Department of Microbiology, 3Department of Pharmacology, 4Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Antifibrinolytic drugs (aminocaproic acid and tranexamic acid): Treatment perspectives for dental surgery. Current Oral Health Reports, 1 July 2015. Ronald S. Brown.
Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, College of Dentistry.


Week Ending June 27, 2015

Co-administration with DNA encoding papillomavirus capsid proteins enhances the antitumor effects generated by therapeutic HPV DNA vaccination. Cell Biosci., Vol.5 (June 2015): 35. Yang B, Yang A, Peng S, Xiaowu Pang, Roden RB, Wu TC, Hung CF.
College of Dentistry.

A man with pruritic eruptions. JAAPA, Vol.28, No.7 (July 2015): 12-13. Watts P, Nasir Aziz, Amor Khachemoune
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Cause-specific mortality in us veteran men with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 19 June 2015 2015. England BR, Sayles H, Michaud K, Caplan L, Davis LA, Cannon GW, Sauer BC, Solow EB, Reimold AM, Gail S. Kerr, Schwab P, Baker JF, Mikuls TR.
Department of Rheumatology, College of Medicine.
 
Isolated talonavicular arthrodesis as an option for severe rocker bottom foot deformity: A case report. J Korean Foot Ankle Soc., Vol.19, No.2 (June 2015): 69-72. Stephanie Stephanie, Jun Young Choi, Abhishek Kumar and Jin Soo Suh.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Counterpoint: Diversity and inclusion: Works in progress. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 23 June 2015. Johnson B. Lightfoote, Julia R. Fielding, Curtiland Deville, Richard B. Gunderman, Gail N. Morgan, Pari V. Pandharipande, André J. Duerinckx, Raymond B. Wynn, Katarzyna J. Macura.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Polyethylene liner dissociation is a complication of the DePuy pinnacle cup: A report of 23 cases. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, June 2015. Andrew Yun, Emmanuel N. Koli, John Moreland, Richard Iorio, John F. Tilzey, J. Wesley Mesko, Gwo-Chin Lee, Mark Froimson.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine.

Role of diabetes and blood pressure in the advancement of renal disease. Endocrinology & Metabolic Syndrome, Vol.4, No.2 (2015). Chaudhary MJ Nazar, Bojerenu M Mauton, Manzoor A Lala.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-1017.1000176
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.


Week Ending June 20, 2015

The effect of acupuncture on the success of inferior alveolar nerve block for teeth with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis: A triple-blind randomized clinical trial. Journal of Endodontics. 16 June 2015. Shahrzad Jalali, Nima Moradi Majd, Samane Torabi, Mohammad Habibi, Hamed Homayouni, Navid Mohammadi.
Dental Research Laboratory, College of Dentistry.

Hormonal status and age differentially affect tolerance to the disruptive effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (?9-THC) on learning in female rats. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 15 June 2015. Peter J Winsauer, Catalin M Filipeanu, Peter F Weed and Jessie L Sutton.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Muscadine grape skin extract (mske) can antagonize snail-cathepsin l-mediated invasion, migration and osteoclastogenesis in prostate and breast cancer cells. Carcinogenesis, 10 June 2015. Liza J Burton, Basil A Smith, Bethany N Smith, Quentin Loyd, Peri Nagappan, Danielle McKeithen, Catera Wilder, Manu Platt, Tamaro Hudson, Valerie A Odero-Marah.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine

Multidimensional religious involvement and tobacco smoking patterns over 9–10 years: A prospective study of middle-aged adults in the United States. Social Science & Medicine, Vol.138 (August 2015): 128–135. Zinzi D. Bailey, Natalie Slopen, Michelle Albert, David R. Williams.
Department of Medicne, College of Medicine.

Novel treatment for Merkel cell carcinoma using surface high dose rate brachytherapy. Applied Radiation Oncology, 2015. By Mustafa Abugideiri, Zaker H. Rana, Robert L. Hong, Huaying Ji, Virginia Lorio, Nadim Nasr.
Department of Medicne, College of Medicine.

Motor vehicle collision-related injuries in the elderly: An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma evidence-based review of risk factors and prevention. J Trauma Acute Care Surg., Vol.79, No.1 (July 2015): 152-158. Crandall M, Streams J, Duncan T, Mallat A, Wendy Greene, Violano P, Christmas AB, Barraco R; Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Injury Control and Violence Prevention Committee.
Depatment of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Postoperative wound dehiscence: Predictors and associations. Wound Repair and Regeneration, Vol.23, No.2 (March-April 2015): 184–190, Victoria K. Shanmugam, Stephen J. Fernandez, Karen Kim Evans, Sean McNish, Anirban N. Banerjee, Kara S. Couch, Mihriye Mete and Nawar Shara.
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, College of Medicine.

Lymphomatoid papulosis in a young adult of African descent. JAAD Case Reports, Vol.1, No.4 (July 2015): 212-214. Kunal Angra, Lina J. Kennedy, Ife J. Rodney.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Global and local ancestry in African-Americans: Implications for Alzheimer's disease risk. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 16 June 2015. Timothy J. Hohman, Jessica N. Cooke-Bailey, Christiane Reitz, Gyungah Jun, Adam Naj, Gary W. Beecham, Zhi Liu, Regina M. Carney, Jeffrey M. Vance, Michael L. Cuccaro, Ruchita Rajbhandary, Badri Narayan Vardarajan, Li-San Wang, Otto Valladares, Chiao-Feng Lin, Eric B. Larson, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Denis Evans, Philip L. De Jager, Paul K. Crane, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Jill R. Murrell, Towfique Raj, Nilufer Ertekin-Taner, Mark W. Logue, Clinton T. Baldwin, Robert C. Green, Lisa L. Barnes, Laura B. Cantwell, M. Daniele Fallin, Rodney C.P. Go, Patrick Griffith, Thomas O. Obisesan, et ali.
Division of Gerontology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Hepatitis C infection is associated with an increase in cardiovascular diseases. Journal of Hepatology, Vol.62, Suppl.2 (April 2015): S612. F. Wubiee, C. Howell.
College of Medicine.


Week Ending June 13, 2015

Muscadine grape skin extract (MSKE) can antagonize Snail-Cathepsin L-Mediated invasion, migration and osteoclastogenesis in prostate and breast cancer cells. Carcinogenesis, 10 June 2015. Burton LJ, Smith BA, Smith BN, Loyd Q, Nagappan P, McKeithen D, Wilder C, Platt M, Tamaro Hudson, Odero-Marah VA.
Department of Medicine.

Autonomic and inflammatory consequences of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the link to cardiovascular disease. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol., 2015. Brudey C, Park J, Wiaderkiewicz J, Ihori Kobayashi, Thomas A. Mellman, Marvar PJ.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Inhibition of Nav1.7 channels by methyl eugenol as a mechanism underlying its antinociceptive and anesthetic actions. Acta Pharmacol Sin., 8 June 2015. Ze-Jun Wang, Tabakoff B, Levinson SR, Thomas Heinbockel.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Interordinal gene capture, the phylogenetic position of Steller's sea cow based on molecular and morphological data, and the macroevolutionary history of Sirenia. Mol Phylogenet Evol., 4 June 2015. Springer MS, Signore AV, Paijmans JL, Vélez-Juarbe J, Daryl P. Domning, Bauer CE, He K, Crerar L, Campos PF, Murphy WJ, Meredith RW, Gatesy J, Willerslev E, MacPhee RD, Hofreiter M, Campbell K.
Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Biologics, biosimilars, intended copies and the era of competitive medicine. Apollo Medicine, 6 June 2015. Canna Ghia, Disheet Shah, Gautam Rambhad, Asia Mubashir, Sundeep Upadhyaya.
Department of Rheumatologist, College of Medicine.

Molecular dynamics simulation and NMR investigation of the association of the β-blockers atenolol and propranolol with a Chiral molecular micelle. Chemical Physics, 6 June 2015. Kevin F. Morris, Eugene J. Billiot, Fereshteh H. Billiot, Charlene B. Hoffman, Ashley A. Gladis, Kenny B. Lipkowitz, William M. Southerland, Yayin Fang.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Multidimensional religious involvement and tobacco smoking patterns over 9-10 years: A prospective study of middle-aged adults in the United States. Social Science & Medicine, 10 June 2015. Zinzi D. Bailey, Natalie Slopen, Michelle Albert, David R. Williams.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Hepatitis C infection is associated with an increase in cardiovascular diseases. Journal of Hepatology, Vol.62, Suppl.2 (April 2015): S612. F. Wubiee, C. Howell.
College of Medicine.

Human cytomegalovirus infection dysregulates the localization and stability of NICD1 and Jag1 in neural progenitor cells. J Virol., 22 April 2015. Li XJ, Liu XJ, Yang B, Fu YR, Zhao F, Shen ZZ, Miao LF, Rayner S, Chavanas S, Zhu H, Britt WJ, Qiyi Tang, McVoy MA, Luo MH.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Aromatase inhibitor-induced erythrocytosis in a patient undergoing hormonal treatment for breast cancer. Case Reports in Hematology, 2015, Art.ID 784783. Sri Lakshmi Hyndavi Yeruva, StanleyMadu Nwabudike, Onyekachi Henry Ogbonna, Patricia Oneal.
Division of Hematology and Oncology, College of Medicine.

+ Using community based participatory research to explore marijuana use among 1.5 and 2nd generation Muslim adolescents and emerging adults. 143rd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 2015. Taqi Tirmazi1, Anthony Estreet1, Forough Saadatmand1, Takisha Carter2.
1Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine, 2School of Social Work.

+ Use of multiple intelligence modalities to convey genetic and genomic concepts in African American college biology students. Natural Science, Vol.7 (June 2015): 299-308. Jabril Johnson1, Fatimah Jackson2.
1Department of Genetics, College of Medicine, 2Department of Biology, CoAS.

Incorporating mobile health (mHealth) technology for monitoring physical activity and dietary intake into a community-based health and needs assessment: The Washington D.C. cardiovascular health and needs assessment. 143rd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 2015. Johnetta Saygbe, Gwenyth R. Wallen, Alyssa Todaro-Brooks, Marlene Peters-Lawrence, JaWanna Henry, Leah Yingling, Valerie Mitchell, Dana Sampson, Twanda Johnson, Kenneth Wiley Jr., Avis Graham, Lennox Graham, Allan Johnson, Tiffany Powell-Wiley.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

An assessment of community organization and information dissemination as a foundation for policy changes to improve cardiovascular health in African-American faith-based communities. 143rd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 2015. JaWanna Henry, Kendrick Curry, Allan Johnson, Twanda Johnson, Michael McClurkin, Valerie Mitchell, Marlene Peters-Lawrence, Johnetta Saygbe, Alyssa Todaro-Brooks, Gwenyth R. Wallen, Leah Yingling, Tiffany Powell-Wiley.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Assessment of community organization in designing a dissemination plan for community based participatory research (CBPR) findings to the faith-based community: The cardiovascular health and needs assessment, Washington D.C.143rd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 2015. JaWanna Henry, Kendrick Curry, Allan Johnson* Twanda Johnson, Michael McClurkin, Valerie Mitchell, Marlene Peters-Lawrence, Johnetta Saygbe, Alyssa Todaro-Brooks, Gwenyth R. Wallen, Leah Yingling, Tiffany Powell-Wiley.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Feasibility of mobile technology for monitoring dietary intake in resource-limited communities: Investigating the use of digital food records in the cardiovascular health and needs assessment in Washington, D.C. 143rd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 2015. Leah Yingling, Gwenyth R. Wallen, Twanda Johnson, Marlene Peters-Lawrence, Kenneth Wiley Jr., Kendrick Curry, Avis Graham, Lennox Graham, Allan Johnson, Alyssa Todaro-Brooks, Dana Sampson, JaWanna Valerie Mitchell, Johnetta Saygbe, Tiffany Powell-Wiley.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Mobile screenings - opening doors to improving cardiovascular health in high-risk communities. 143rd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 2015. Valerie Mitchell, Marlene Peters-Lawrence, Gwenyth Wallen, Leah Yingling, Alyssa Todaro-Brooks, Johnetta Saygbe, Dana Sampson, Allan Johnson, Tiffany Powell-Wiley.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Community pharmacists expanding access to diagnosis, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS and TB in Nigeria. 143rd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 2015. Iyeseun Asieba, Dorothy Oqua, Kenneth Agu, Nnenna Ekechukwu, Onuche Omeh, Zainab Adamu, Afusat Adesina, Samuel Ohiaeri, Pollock Ali, Rosalyn King, Anthony Wutoh.
SIDHAS, Howard University PACE, Abuja, Nigeria, College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending June 6, 2015

Exploration of developmental pediatrics: An interview with Dr. Peter Rosenbaum. University of Toronto Medical Journal, Vol.92, No.2 (2015): 14-15. A. Agarwal, Karan Chawla.
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine.

Interordinal gene capture, the phylogenetic position of Steller’s sea cow based on molecular and morphological data, and the macroevolutionary history of Sirenia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 4 June 2015. Mark S. Springer, Anthony V. Signore, Johanna L.A. Paijmans, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Daryl P. Domning, Cameron E. Bauer, Kai He, Lorelei Crerar, Paula F. Campos, William J. Murphy, Robert W. Meredith, John Gatesy, Eske Willerslev, Ross D.E. MacPhee, Michael Hofreiter, Kevin L. Campbell.
Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Sex-specific effects of prenatal exposure to VPA: Behavioral and anatomical evidence. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, Vol.49 (May–June 2015): 145-146. Sonya K. Sobrian1, Monee Mickens1, Natondra Powell2, Eva Polston2.
1Deptartment of Pharmacology, 2Department of Physiology, College of Medicine.

The enigmatic Carcot-Leyden cystal protein (Galectin-10): Speculative role(s) in the eosinophil biology and function. J Clin Cell Immunol., Vol.6, No.2 (2015). Christine A. Clarke1, Clarence M. Lee2, Paulette M. Furbert-Harris1.
1Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, 2Department of Biology, CoAS.

Genetic polymorphism of APOB is associated with diabetes mellitus in sickle cell disease. Human Genetics, 30 May 2015. Xu Zhang, Wei Zhang, Santosh L. Saraf, Mehdi Nouraie, Jin Han, Michel Gowhari, Johara Hassan, Galina Miasnikova, Adelina Sergueeva, Sergei Nekhai, et al.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

A phase I study of muscadine grape skin extract in men with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer: Safety, tolerability, and dose determination. The Prostate, 2015. Channing J. Paller, Michelle A. Rudek, Xian C. Zhou, William D. Wagner, Tamaro S. Hudson, Nicole Anders, Hans J. Hammers, Donna Dowling, Serina King, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, Charles G. Drake, Mario A. Eisenberger, Samuel R. Denmeade, Gary L. Rosner, Michael A. Carducci.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Enrichment assessment of multiple virtual screening strategies for toll‐like receptor 8 agonists based on a maximal unbiased benchmarking data set. Chemical Biology & Drug Design, Vol.86, No.5 (2015): 1226-1241. F Pei, H Jin, X Zhou, Jie Xia, L Sun, Z Liu, L Zhang.
Laboratory of Cheminfomatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Characterization of bacterial isolates cultured from the nasopharynx of children with sickle cell disease (SCD). International Archives of Medicine, Vol.8 No.99 (2015). Kwashie Ajibade Ako-Nai, Blessing Itohan Ebhodaghe, Adegoke Samuel Ademola, Kuti Bankole Peter, Olakunle O Kassim.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Risk of prostate cancer in African-American men: Evidence of mixed effects of dietary quercetin by serum vitamin D status. The Protate, 1 July 2015. C. J. Paller, Yasmine M. Kanaan1, Desta A. Beyene1, Tammey J. Naab2, Robert L. Copeland3, H. L. Tsai, N. F. Kanarek, Tamaro S. Hudson3.
1Department of Microbiology, 2Department of Pathology, 3Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending May 30, 2015

Genetically induced abnormal cranial development in human trisomy 18 with holoprosencephaly: Comparisons with the normal tempo of osteogenic-neural development. J Anat., June 2015. Shaina N. Reid, Janine N. Ziermann, Marjorie C. Gondré-Lewis.
Laboratory for Neurodevelopment, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Enrichment assessment of multiple virtual screening strategies for toll-like receptor 8 agonists based on a maximal unbiased benchmarking data set. Chem Biol Drug Des., 27 May 2015. Pei F, Jin H, Zhou X, Jie Xia, Sun L, Liu Z, Zhang L.
Laboratory of Cheminfomatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Updates in the understanding and treatments of skin & hair disorders in women of color. International Journal of Women's Dermatology, 27 May 2015. Christina N. Lawson, Jasmine Hollinger, Sumit Sethi, Ife Rodney, Rashmi Sarkar, Ncoza Dlova, Valerie D. Callender.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Enchondroma of the foot. The Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, 27 May 2015. Kyung Ah Chun, Stephanie Stephanie*, Jun Young Choi, Ji Ho Nam, Jin Soo Suh.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

A phase I study of muscadine grape skin extract in men with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer: Safety, tolerability, and dose determination. The Prostate, 1 July 2015. Channing J. Paller, Michelle A. Rudek, Xian C. Zhou, William D. Wagner, Tamaro S. Hudson, Nicole Anders, Hans J. Hammers, Donna Dowling, Serina King, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, Charles G. Drake, Mario A. Eisenberger, Samuel R. Denmeade, Gary L. Rosner and Michael A. Carducci.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.


Week Ending May 23, 2015

Consumer demographics and internet based health information search in the United States: The intersectionality of gender, race, and class. International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, Vol.6, No.1 (2015): 58-72. Allison Janeice Morgan, Yuvay Meyers Ferguson, Trauth, E.M.
College of Medicine.

Geriatric emergency general surgery: Survival and outcomes in a low-middle income country. Surgery, 18 May 2015. Shah AA, Haider AH, Riviello R, Zogg CK, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Latif A, Rios Diaz AJ, Rehman Z, Zafar H.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Unconscious race and class biases among registered nurses: Vignette-based study using implicit association testing. J Am Coll Surg. Vol.220, No.6 (June 2015): 1077-1086.e3. Haider AH, Schneider EB, Sriram N, Scott VK, Swoboda SM, Zogg CK, Dhiman N, Haut ER, Efron DT, Pronovost PJ, Freischlag JA, Lipsett PA, Edward E. Cornwell III, MacKenzie EJ, Cooper LA.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Anatomical network analysis shows decoupling of modular lability and complexity in the evolution of the primate skull. PLoS One, Vol.10, No.5 (19 May 2015): e0127653. Borja Esteve-Altava, Julia Boughner, Rui Diogo and Diego Rasskin-Gutman.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Case study: Use of GLP-1 receptor agonist in a patient on intensive insulin therapy. Diabetes Spectr., Vol.28, No.8 (May 2015): 121-126. Kenneth Calvin Wiley1, Ranti Akiyode1, Gail Nunlee-Bland2.
1College of Pharmacy, 2Department of Endocrinology, College of Medicine.

Quantitative mass spectrometry of urinary biomarkers. J Integr OMICS., Vol.4, No.2 (1 December 2014): 69-78. Marina Jerebtsova1, Sergei Nekhai2.
1Department of Microbiology, 2Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

A standardized randomized 6-month aerobic exercise-training down-regulated pro-inflammatory genes, but up-regulated anti-inflammatory, neuron survival and axon growth-related genes. Exp Gerontol., 15 May 2015. Osigbemhe Iyalomhe1, Yuanxiu Chen2, Joanne S. Allard3, Oyonumo Ntekim4, Sheree Johnson3, Vernon Bond4, David Goerlitz, James Li, Thomas O. Obisesan1.
1Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, 2Clinical Translational Science Center, College of Medicine, 3Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, 4Department of Health, Human Performance, and Leisure Studies, CoAS.

Ferritin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid predict Alzheimer’s disease outcomes and are regulated by APOE. Nature Communications, Vol.6 (May 2015): Art.6760. Scott Ayton, Noel G. Faux, Ashley I. Bush & Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative / Multiple authors and contributors, incl. Joanne S. Allard.
College of Medicine.

Impact of pharmacogenomic testing on therapeutic outcomes of major depressive disorder patients at Howard University Hospital. 2015. Earl B. Ettienne, Adaku Ofoegbu.
College of Pharmacy.

Racial disparities in surgical outcomes: Does the level of resident surgeon play a role? Surgery, 21 May 2015. Navin R. Changoor, Gezzer Ortega, Mina Ekladios, Cheryl K. Zogg, Edward E. Cornwell III, Adil H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Readmissions after major cancer surgery among older adults. Surgery, 21 May 2015. Russell C. Langan, Chun-Chih Huang, Scott Colton, Arnold L. Potosky, Lynt B. Johnson, Nawar M. Shara, Waddah B. Al-Refaie.
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, College of Medicine.


Week Ending May 16, 2015

Management of the eye in facial paralysis. Facial Plastic Surgery, Vol.31, No.2 (2015): 140-144. Mahsa Sohrab, Usiwoma Abugo, Michael Grant, Shannath Merbs.
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine.

Analyzing the association of polymorphisms in the CRYBB2 gene with prostate cancer risk in African Americans. Anticancer Research, Vol.35 No.5 (May 2015): 2565-2570, Mezbah U. Faruque1, Rabindra Paul2, Luisel Ricks-Santi, Emmanuel Y. Jingwi1, Chiledum A. Ahaghotu3, Georgia M. Dunston1.
1National Human Genome Center, College of Medicine, 2Department of Medicine, 3Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

An exercise trial targeting African-American women with metabolic syndrome and at high risk for breast cancer: Rationale, design, and methods. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 8 May 2015. Chiranjeev Dash, Kepher Makambi, Sherrie F. Wallington, Vanessa Sheppard, Teletia R. Taylor, Jennifer S. Hicks, Lucile L. Adams-Campbell.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Culturally competent strategies for recruitment and retention of African American populations into clinical trials. Clinical and Translational Science, April 2015. Jane Otado, John Kwagyan, Diana Edwards, Alice Ukaegbu, Faun Rockcliffe, Nana Osafo.
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS), College of Medicine.

Evidence-based guidelines for treating depressive disorders with antidepressants: A revision of the 2008 British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines. J Psychopharmacol, 12 May 2015. Anthony Cleare, CM Pariante, AH Young, IM Anderson, D Christmas, PJ Cowen, C Dickens, IN Ferrier, J Geddes, S Gilbody, PM Haddad, C Katona, G Lewis, A Malizia, RH McAllister-Williams, P Ramchandani, J Scott, D Taylor, R Uher, and the members of the Consensus Meeting.
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine.

Impact of atrial fibrillation and flutter in patients with pulmonary hypertension. 2015 ATS Conference Abstracts. Mestawet Teka, Isaac Biney, Prithviraj B. Rai, Alem Mehari.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Venous thromboembolism and outcomes in adults with sickle cell disease. 2015 ATS Conference Abstracts. Funmilola T. Adeyemo, Kalyan Kancherla, Navdeep Singh, Yordanos Habtegebriel, Alem Mehari.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis and diffuse alveolar hemorrhage complicating antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody associated vasculitis: A case report. 2015 ATS Conference Abstracts. Ahmar Malik, Isaac Biney, Vijay Kodadhala, Navdeep Singh, Fatima Khan, Carmen Coles, Marie N. Fidelia-Lambert, Vishal A. Poddar, Alicia N. Thomas.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Pulmonary complications of HIV: Autopsy findings. 2015 ATS Conference Abstracts. Yordanos A. Habtegebriel, Vijay Kodadhala, Navdeep Singh, Alicia N. Thomas, Wayne Davis, Vishal Poddar, Alvin V. Thomas, Alem Mehari.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Sarcoidosis associated pulmonary hypertension: Effects on functional capacity and mortality. 2015 ATS Conference Abstracts. Ahmar Malik, Navdeep Singh, Alicia N. Thomas, Wayne Davis, Alvin V. Thomas, Vishal A. Poddar, Octavius D. Polk, Alem Mehari.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Effect of aging on cardiopulmonary disease in sickle cell anemia. 2015 ATS Conference Abstracts. Swaroop Pinto, Seyed-Mehdi Nouraie*.
Department of Medicine and Sickle Cell Center, College of Medicine.

Unilateral pulmonary hypoplasia mimicking pneumothorax: an unusual case. 2015 ATS Conference Abstracts. Ahmar Malik, Lakshya Chandra, Fatima Khan, Navdeep Singh, Alicia N. Thomas.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Gender and trends in chronic obstructive lung disease prevalence, morbidity, and mortality among adults - United States, 1999-2010. 2015 ATS Conference Abstracts. Samina Afreen, Alicia N. Thomas, Wayne Davis, Vishal Poddar, Isaac Biney, Alem Mehari.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Impact of a multi-component SBIRT training curriculum on a medical residency program. Subst Abus., May 2015. Nnenna Kalu3, Gloria Cain3, Tywanda McLaurin-Jones2, Denise Scott3, John Kwagyan1, Catsim Fassassi1, Wendy Greene2, Robert E. Taylor3.
1Department of Medicine, 2Department of Surgery, 3Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending May 9, 2015

Next-generation sequencing in African Americans with colorectal cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015. Hassan Ashktorab, Sudhir Varma, Hassan Brim.
Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Genome-wide differentially methylated genes in prostate cancer tissues from African-American and Caucasian men. Epigenetics, Vol.10, No.4 (3 April 2015): 319-28. Devaney JM, S. Wang, Paulette M. Furbert-Harris, Victor Apprey, Ittmann M, Wang BD, Olender J, Lee NH, Bernard Kwabi-Addo.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Tree-based claims algorithm for measuring pre-treatment quality of care in medicare disabled hepatitis C patients. Value in Health, Vol.18, No.3 (May 2015): A20. V.V. Chirikov, F.T. Shaya, E. Onukwugha, C.D. Mullins, S. dosReis, Charles D. Howell.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

A cost-effectiveness analysis of alogliptin in comparison to saxagliptin. Value in Health, Vol.18, No.3 (May 2015): A61. LaMarcus T. Wingate, T.S. Oishi, N.S. Shubar Ali.
College of Pharmacy.

A cost-effectiveness analysis of dapagliflozin in comparison to dipeptidyl pepdtidase 4-inhibitors using a meta-analysis. Value in Health, Vol.18, No.3 (May 2015): A61. T.S. Oishi, N.S. Shubar Ali, LaMarcus T. Wingate.
College of Pharmacy.

Cost- effectiveness analysis of Nevirapine vs. Ritonavir-boosted Lopinavir in hiv-infected children with peripartum nevirapine exposure, in resource-constrained areas from a payer’s perspective. Value in Health, Vol.18, No.3 (May 2015): A240. O. Godwin, Earl .B. Ettienne, L.M. Brown.
College of Pharmacy.

Contextual analysis of determinants of late diagnosis of hepatitis C virus infection in medicare patients. Value in Health, Vol.18, No.3 (May 2015): A248. V.V. Chirikov, F.T. Shaya, Charles D. Howell.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.


Week Ending May 2, 2015

Anchoring effects of surface chemistry on gold nanorods: Modulating autophagy. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Vol.3, No.16 (2015): 3324-3330. Li, S., Zhang, C., Cao, W., Ma, B., Ma, X., Jin, S., Zhang, J., Paul C. Wang, Li, F., Liang, X.-J.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Assessment of chemical exchange in tryptophan–albumin solution through 19F multicomponent transverse relaxation dispersion analysis. Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 2015, 7p. Ping-Chang Lin.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

The first Central American chalicothere (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) and the paleobiogeographic implications for small-bodied schizotheriines. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2015. Aaron R. Wood, N.M. Ridgwell.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Is it safe and effective to lengthen a chin with interpositional allogenic (Iliac) graft? J Oral Maxillofac Surg., 12 February 2015. Jeffrey C. Posnick, Ali Sami.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry.

Sa1512 Mortality Outcome of Same-Day Versus Different-Day Esophagogastroduodenoscopy and Hemodialysis Among Patients With Renal Failure Admitted for Upper GI Bleeding. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Vol.81, No.5, Suppl. (May 2015): AB244. Firew M. Wubiee, Angesom Kibreab, Hassan Ashktorab, Victor F. Scott, Charles D. Howell, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.


Week Ending April 25, 2015

Age-related mortality in blunt traumatic hemorrhagic shock: the killers and the life savers. Journal of Surgical Research, Available online 23 April 2015. John O. Hwabejire, Christine E. Nembhard, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Theodros Seyoum, Olumayoma Pitan, Suryanarayana M. Siram, Edward E. Cornwell III, Wendy R. Greene
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Beyond incidence: Costs of complications in trauma and what it means for those who pay. Surgery, 18 April 2015. Adil H. Haider, Sonia Gupta, Cheryl K. Zogg, Mehreen T. Kisat, Alexander Schupper, David T. Efron, Elliott R. Haut, Augustine C. Obirieze, Eric B. Schneider, Peter J. Pronvost, Ellen J. MacKenzie, Edward E. Cornwell III.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Bilateral giant adrenal myelolipomas presenting as an enlarging ventral hernia: Radiologic-pathologic correlation and literature review. Radiology Case Reports. Vol.10, No.2 (2015): 985. Najeeb Crossley1, Mica Grantham2,Marie Fidelia-Lambert2, Andre Dureinckx1, Bryson Nicholson3, Lori Wilson3, Bonnie C. Davis3.
Departments of 1Radiology, 2Pathology, 3Surgery, College of Medicine.

Newly discovered cercopithecid, equid and other mammalian fossils from the Chorora Formation, Ethiopia. Anthropology Science, Vol.123, No. (2015): 19-39. G. Suwa, Y. Beyene, H. Nakaya, Raymond L. Bernor, J.-R. Boisserie, F. Bibi, S.H. Ambrose, K. Sano, S. Katoh and B. Asfaw.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

A new heart for a new head in vertebrate cardiopharyngeal evolution. Nature, Vol.570, No.7548 (23 April 2015): 466-473. Rui Diogo, R.G. Kelly, L. Christiaen, M. Levine, Janine M. Ziermann, Julia L. Molnar, D.M. Noden, and E. Tzahor.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Development, metamorphosis, morphology and diversity: the evolution of chordate muscles and the origin of vertebrates. Developmental Dynamics, 2015. Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Bone histology as a clue for resolving the puzzle of a dugong rib in the Pisco Formation, Peru. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol.35, No.3 (2015): e922981. E. Amson, C. de Muizon, Daryl P. Domning, C. Argot, V. de Buffrénil.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

A new species of the Subfamily Devinophocinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the Central Paratethys. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol.121, No.1 (2015): 31-47. Irina A. Koretsky, Sulman J. Rahmat.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Hippocampal neuron populations are reduced in vervet monkeys with fetal alcohol exposure. Developmental Psychobiology - Special Issue: Developmental plasticity in the control and functional recovery of motor behavior, Vol.57, No.4 (May 2015): 470–485. Mark W. Burke, Maurice Ptito, Frank R. Ervin, Roberta M. Palmour.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Optimal time for early laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis. JAMA Surg., Vol.150, No.2 (February 2015): 129-36. Seyed Nabeel Zafar1, Augustine C. Obirieze1, Babawande Adesibikan2, Edward E. Cornwell III1, Terrence M. Fullum1, Daniel D. Tran1.
1Department of Surgery, 2Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Abdominal gunshot wounds-a comparative assessment of severity measures. J Surg Res., 27 March 2015. Shah AA, Rehman A, Shah SJ, Haider AH, Zogg CK, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Hadi YB, Zia-Ur-Rehman, Zafar H.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Enhancement of Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection by seminal plasma and semen amyloids implicates a new target for the prevention of HSV infection. Viruses, Vol.7, No.4 (20 April 2015): 2057-73. Lilith Torres, Tatiana Ortiz, Qiyi Tang.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine,

Assessment of chemical exchange in tryptophan-albumin solution through 19F multicomponent transverse relaxation dispersion analysis. J Biomol NMR, 22 April 2015. Ping-Chang Lin.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Human cytomegalovirus infection dysregulates the localization and stability of NICD1 and Jag1 in neural progenitor cells. J Virol., 22 April 2015. Li XJ, Liu XJ, Yang B, Fu YR, Zhao F, Shen ZZ, Miao LF, Rayner S, Chavanas S, Zhu H, Britt WJ, Qiyi Tang, McVoy MA, Luo MH.
5Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Genome-wide differentially methylated genes in prostate cancer tissues from African-American and Caucasian men. Epigenetics, Vol.10, No.4 (2015): 319-328. Devaney, J.M., Wang, S., Paulette P. Furbert-Harris, Victor Apprey, Ittmann, M., Wang, B.-D., Olender, J., Lee, N.H., Kwabi-Addo, B.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine..


Week Ending April 18, 2015

Is evolutionary biology becoming too politically correct? A reflection on the scala naturae, phylogenetically basal clades, anatomically plesiomorphic taxa, and 'lower' animals. Biological Reviews, Vol.90, No.2 (2015): 502-521. Rui Diogo, Janine M. Ziermann, M. Linde-Medina.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

In-office use of the intrector for the removal of retained lens cortex. Retinal Cases and Brief Reports, Vol.9, No.2 (2015): 121-122. Saima M. Qureshi, S. Shaikh.
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine.

Oral effects associated with obesity and bariatric surgery. Dentistry Today, Vol.34, No.1 (2015). Alison L. Glascoe, Ronald S. Brown, Derrik K. Eiland, Cheryl E. Fryer.
College of Dentistry.

The continuing evolution of pediatric emergency care. JAMA Pediatr., 13 April 2015. Evaline A. Alessandrini, J.A. Wright.
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine.

Case studies evaluating transdermal continuous oxygen for the treatment of chronic sickle cell ulcers. Adv Skin Wound Care, Vol.28, No.5 (May 2015): 206-10. Igwegbe I1, Onojobi G, Margaret O. Fadojutimi-Akinsiku, Hirsh AM, Park NJ, Yao M, Driver VR.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Angiographic embolization for major trauma in a low-middle income healthcare setting – A retrospective review. International Journal of Surgery, Vol.18 (June 2015): 34-40. Adil Aijaz Shah, Abdul Rehman, Adil Hussain Haider, Raza Sayani, Raza Hasnain Sayyed, Kamran Ali, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Zia-ur Rehman, Hasnain Zafa.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. XI. Callistosiren boriquensis, gen. et sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol.35, No.1 (2015): e885034 (16 pp.). Jorge Vélez-Juarbe,* Daryl P. Domning.

Associations between sleep disturbances and diabetes mellitus among blacks with metabolic syndrome: Results from the Metabolic Syndrome Outcome Study (MetSO). Annals of Medicine, 9 April 2015. Alberto R. Ramos, Douglas M. Wallace, Seithikurippu Ratnas Pandi-Perumal, Natasha J. Williams, Chimene Castor, Mary Ann Sevick, Samy I. Mcfarlane, Girardin Jean-Louis
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

A phase II Study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of plasma replacement with 5[percnt] albumin in beta-amyloid peptide clearance in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma, and its clinical effects in patients with mild-moderate Alzheimer's disease. Neurology, Vol.84, No.14, Suppl.P7.107 (2015). Merce Boada, Oscar Lopez, Laura Nunez, Pilar Ortiz, Fernando Anaya, Isabel Hernandez, Javier Olazaran, Lluis Tarraga, Mar Buendia, Ramon Pla, Isidro Ferrer, Thomas Obisesan, Joshua Shua-Haim, Antonio Paez.
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, College of Medicine.

Quantitative Measurement of Vibration as a Clinical Biomarker of Neurodegeneration in MS.
Neurology, Vol.84, No.14, Suppl.P3.228 (2015). Sonya Bakshi, Brandon Loughridge, Sonya Steele Joan Ohayon, Tianxia Wu, Blake Dewey, Govind Nair, Daniel Reich, Irene Cortese.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Molecular characterization and antibiotic resistance profiles of bacterial isolates cultured from HIV seropositive Patients. Archives of Clinical Microbiology, Vol.6, No.1-2 (2015). Folasade M Adeyemi, Kwashie A Ako-nai, Ebun Adejuyigbe, Blessing I Ebhodaghe, Patrick O Osho, Tolulope T Oyeniyi, Olakunle O Kassim.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending April 11, 2015

Rapid pituitary apoplexy regression: What is the time course of clot resolution? Case Rep Radiol., Epub 15 March 2015. Devon L. Jackson, J.J. Van Gompel.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

+ Characteristics and health perceptions of complementary and alternative medicine users in the United States. Am J Med Sci., Vol.349, No.2 (February 2015): 140-4. Maryam A. Laiyemo1, Gail Nunlee-Bland2, Frederick A. Lombardo3, R. George Adams2, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo2.
1Department of Biology, CoAS; 2Department of Medicine, College of Medicine; 3Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Image-guided radiotherapy and -brachytherapy for cervical cancer. Front Oncol., 17 March 2015. Dutta S, Nam Phong Nguyen, Vock J, Kerr C, Godinez J, Bose S, Jang S, Chi A, Almeida F, Woods W, Desai A, David R, Karlsson UL, Altdorfer G13; International Geriatric Radiotherapy Group.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.

The role of race/ethnicity and gender in the association between inadequate sleep and hypercholesterolemia. J Sleep Disord Ther., Vol.4, No.2 (2015). Alethea N Hill, Natasha J Williams, Idoko Salifu, Chimene Castor, Jenna Gibilaro, Samy I. McFarlane. Girardin Jean-Louis.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, CNAHS.

Convergence of theories of alcohol administration postanabolic stimulation on mTOR signaling: Lessons for exercise regimen. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Vol.39, No.5 (2015): 787-789. Zebalda D. Bamji, Georges E. Haddad.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Differential exposure to chronic vs acute palatable food intake on rat renal orexin receptor 1 and NOX-4 liver expression. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1 Suppl. (2015): 818.9. Jasent Walker1, Simi Adeleye1, Tamaro Hudson2, Kimberlei Richardson2, Dexter Lee1.
1Department of Physiology & Biophysics, 2Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Chronic alcohol consumption and its effects on the cardiac apoptosis. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1 Suppl. (2015): 975.3. Clementine Etoundi, Georges E. Haddad, Burke Mark.
Department of Physiology & Biophsyics, College of Medicine.

Towards the resolution of a long-standing evolutionary question: muscle identity and attachments are mainly related to topological position and not to primordium or homeotic identity of digits. Journal of Anatomy, 2015, Early view. Rui Diogo, Sean Walsh, Christopher Smith, Janine M. Ziermann, Virginia Abdala.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Anatomical network analysis of primate skull morphology. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1 Suppl. (2015): 867.3. Borja Esteve-Altava, Julia Boughner, Rui Diogo and Diego Rasskin-Gutman.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction: Clinical characterization and preliminary assessment of contributory factors and dose-response relationship. J Clin Psychopharmacol., 26 March 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. Joseph Ben-Sheetrit, Dov Aizenberg, Antonei B. Csoka, Abraham Weizman, Haggai Hermesh.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Introducing the Comparative Atlas of Vertebrate Embryology online database. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1 Suppl. (2015): 867.19. Jayc Sedlmayr, R John Cork, Emma Schachner, Susan Rehorek, Timothy Smith, Margaret McNulty, Janine Ziermann, Caitlin Thorn, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Paradoxical roles of parp-1 in colon inflammation and tumorigenesis. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1 Suppl. (2015): 629.11. Abdelmetalab Tarhuni, Youssef Errami, Ali El-Bahrawy, Amir Al Khami, Amarjit Naura, Hassan Brim, Hassan Ashktorab, Paulo Rodriguez, Augusto Ochoa, Hamid Boulares.
Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Muscular and skeletal anomalies in human trisomy in an evo-devo context using 3-D imaging and anatomical dissections, with notes on down syndrome, cyclopia and medical implications. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1 Suppl. (2015): 870.1. Christopher Smith, Janine Ziermann, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Temperature sensitive interaction of α2c-adrenergic receptor and nucleophosmin in Raynaud's Phenomnenon. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1 Suppl. (2015): 772.9. Meyeneobong Inyang, Jessie Guidry, Catalin Filipeanu.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Cardiopharyngeal field, head & heart muscle development, and associated syndromes in humans. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1 Suppl. (2015): 872.3. Janine Ziermann, Fatimah Fahimuddin, Angelique Forrester, Simmi Singh, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Cephalic muscle evolution in chordates. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1 Suppl. (2015): 345.4. Janine Ziermann, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

The end of an old dogma with crucial implications for medical and biology students and for medicine: Regenerative, developmental, paleontological and evolutionary studies contradict the fore-hindlimb serial homology. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1 Suppl. (2015): 343.5. Rui Diogo, Janine Ziermann.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Travel patterns of cancer surgery patients in a regionalized system. Journal of Surgical Research, Available online 9 April 2015. Andrew K. Smith, Nawar M. Shara, Alexander Zeymo, Katherine Harris, Randy Estes, Lynt B. Johnson, Waddah B. Al-Refaie.
The Georgetown-Howard University Center for Clinical and Translational Science, College of Medicine.


Week Ending April 4, 2015

Sigmoid colectomy: Open technique. In: Daniel Albo (ed.), Operative Techniques in Colon and Rectal Surgery, Ch.19 (Wolters Kluer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2015). Wayne A.I. Frederick, Tolulope Oyetunji, Sheeva Seetahal.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Quantifying patient-physician communication and perceptions of risk during admissions for possible acute coronary syndromes, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2015. Newman, D.H., Ackerman, B., Kraushar, M.L., Lederhandler, M.H., Masri, A., Starikov, A., Daisy T. Tsao, Meyers, H.P., Shah, K.H.
Department ofEmergency Medicine, College of Medicine.

Putative role of glutathione S-transferases as mediators of cell growth, development, and differentiation in the eukaryotic model organism, Dictyostelium discoideum. The FASEB Journal, vol. 29 no. 1 Suppl. (2015): 896.9. Mamatha Garige, Eric Walters.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

An untold story: The important contributions of Muslim scholars for the discovery of human anatomy and the history of evolutionary thinking. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1, Suppl. (2015): 549.9. Malak Alghamdi, Aamina Malik, Janine Ziermann, Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Does Serca2a mediate the alcohol effects on the heart. The FASEB Journal, Vol.29, No.1, Suppl. (April 2015): 1043.10. Mustafa AlRubaiee, Bryan Dayton, Miara Jeffress, Nsini Umoh, Georges Haddad.
Department of Phsyiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Abdominal gunshot wounds – A comparative assessment of severity measures. JSR Journal of Surgical Research, March 2015. Adil Aijaz Shah, MDcorrespondenceemail, Abdul Rehman, Syed Jawad Shah, Adil H. Haider, Cheryl K. Zogg, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Yousaf Bashir Hadi, Zia-ur-Rehman, Hasnain Zafar.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2015.03.061

Disease characteristics and treatment patterns in veterans with rheumatoid aArthritis and concomitant hepatitis C infection. Arthritis Care & Research, Vol.67, No.4 (April 2015): 467–474, Ruchika Patel, Ted R. Mikuls, John S. Richards, Gail Kerr, Grant W. Cannon and Joshua F. Baker.
Department of Rheumatology, College of Medicine.

Temperature-sensitive intracellular traffic of α2C-adrenergic receptor. Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science, Available online 29 March 2015. Catalin M. Filipeanu.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Early Western observations of cutaneous Trichophyton concentricum infection in the Pacific and a history of its vernacular name, tokelau. Australasian Journal of Dermatology, March 2015. Kunal Angra, Scott A Norton.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Alternative for carpal tunnel injection: Palmar injection site (Rankin's Zone). J Surg Orthop Adv., Vol.24, No.1 (Spring 2015): 1-4. Violeta Gutierrez, Sekinat Kassim, Omar Bibi, Woodley Desir, Gezzer Ortega, E. Anthony Rankin, Kojo Marfo, Henry Paul Jr.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine.

Occurrence of distal colorectal neoplasia among Whites and Blacks following negative flexible sigmoidoscopy: An analysis of PLCO trial. J Gen Intern Med., 3 April 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Doubeni C, Pinsky PF, Doria-Rose VP, Bresalier R, Hickey T, Riley T, Church TR, Weissfeld J, Schoen RE, Marcus PM, Prorok PC.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.


Week Ending March 28, 2015

New species of praepusa (carnivora, phocidae, phocinae) from the Netherlands supports east to west neogene dispersal of true seals. Vestnik Zoologii, Vol.49, No.1 (2015): 57-66. Irina A. Koretsky, N. Peters, S. Rahmat.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Therapeutics for postexposure treatment of Ebola virus infection. Future Virology, Vol.10, No.3 (2015): 221-232. Marina Jerebtsova, Sergei Nekhai.
Sickle Cell Disease Center, College of Medicine.

Methylation in colorectal cancer. In: Parvin Mehdipour (ed.), Epigenetics Territory and Cancer (Springer, 2015), 373-455. Pooneh Mokarram, Mehrdad Asghari Estiar, Hassan Ashktorab.
Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Caspase activation and aberrant cell growth in a p53+/+ cell line from a Li-Fraumeni syndrome family. Genetics Research International, 2015, Art.789201. Zaki A. Sherif.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine.

Restoration of mitochondrial gene expression using a cloned human gene in Chinese hamster lung cell mutant. Advanced Techniques in Biology & Medicine, Vol.3, No.1 (2015). Zaki A Sherif, Carolyn W Broome.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, CoAS, College of Medicine.

An office-based procedure for hyphema treatment. Case Reports in Ophthalmological Medicine, 2015), Art.321076. Mikelson MomPremier, Divya Sadhwani, Saad Shaikh.
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine.

Response to Dr Khursheed Jeejeebhoy. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Vol.39, No.3 (2015): 271-272. Sheean, P.M., Peterson, S.J., Perez, S.G., Troy, K.L., Patel, A., Sclamberg, J.S., Folabomi C. Ajanaku, Braunschweig, C.A.
College of Medicine.


Week Ending March 21, 2015

Hair dye: A trichoscopy pitfall. J Am Acad Dermatology, Vol.72, No.4 (April 2015): e101-2. Kunal Angra, LaSenna CE, Nichols AJ, Tosti A.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Perceived racial discrimination and negative-mood-related drinking among african american college students. J Stud Alcohol Drugs, Vol.76, No.2 (March 2015): 229-236. O'hara RE, Armeli S, Denise M. Scott, Covault J, Tennen H.
Department of Pediatrics and Human Genetics and Alcohol Research Center, College of Medicine.

Unconscious race and social class bias among acute care surgical clinicians and clinical treatment decisions. JAMA Surg., March 2015. Haider AH, Schneider EB, Sriram N, Dossick DS, Scott VK, Swoboda SM, Losonczy L, Haut ER, Efron DT, Pronovost PJ, Lipsett PA, Edward E. Cornwell III, MacKenzie EJ, Cooper LA, Freischlag JA.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

RECQ1 interacts with FEN-1 and promotes binding of FEN-1 to telomeric chromatin. Biochem. J., 2015. Furqan Sami, Xing Lu, Swetha Parvathaneni, Rabindra Roy, Ronald K. Gary and Sudha Sharma.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Foreword. In: Deepak Kademani and Paul Tiwana (eds.), Atlas of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2016, ix. Jeffrey C. Posnick.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

+ Depressive symptomatology and respiratory sinus arrhythmia in a non-clinical sample of middle-aged African Americans. Biological Psychology, Available online 18 March 2015. Larry Keen Ii, Arlener D. Turner, Denee Mwendwa1, Clive Callender2, Alfonso Campbell Jr3.
1Department of Psychology, CoAS; 2National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Program, 3Department of Psychology, CoAS.

Household-level risk factors for influenza among young children in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A case–control study. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2015, Article first published online: 9 MAR 2015. Saumil Doshi, Benjamin J. Silk, Dhiman Dutt, Moshtaq Ahmed, Adam L. Cohen, Thomas H. Taylor, W. Abdullah Brooks, Doli Goswami, Stephen P. Luby, Alicia M. Fry, Pavani K. Ram.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Intraosseous calcaneal lipoma with subtalar perforation through cystic degeneration: A case report. J Korean Foot Ankle Soc., Vol.19, No.1 (March 2015): 27-31. Abhishek Kumar, Stephanie Stephanie, Jun Young Choi, Sunhee Chang, Jin Soo Suh.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Computational toxicology as an early drug assessment tool for cardiovascular toxicity and hepatotoxicity. 2015. Terry-Elinor Reid, Uduake Effiong, Milton Brown, Xiang Wang.
Laboratory of Cheminfomatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Anti-screening tools of hERG inhibitors for cadiovascular toxicity prediction. 2015. O Uzzi, M Oyewole, D Eguale, Terry-Elinor Reid, U Effiong, Milton Brown, Xiang Simon Wang.
Laboratory of Cheminfomatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Cheminformatic modeling of human CXC chemokine receptors. 2015. Sylvia Lee, Loan-Chi Nguyen, Bernadette Abadejos, Terry-Elinor Reid, Xiang Simon Wang.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Sirtuin benchmarking datasets in drug discovery. 2015. Joe Gonga, Sarah Ngeki, Abdoul Kader Salou Doudou, Jie Xia, Terry-Elinor Reid, Xiang Simon Wang.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

The microbiome: A contributor to health and disease. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Vol.26, No.1 (2015): 62-72. Bailus C. Walker, Kunle Kassim, L.D. Stokes.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Adopting physical activity lifestyle in a pharmacy curriculum. Pharmacy Education, Vol.15, No.1 (2015): 14-16. Oluwaranti Akiyode, Alex Nguyen, Jeronimo Augusto, Kenneth Wiley, Earl Ettienne.
Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy Sciences, College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending March 14, 2015

Comparative modeling and benchmarking data sets for human histone deacetylases and sirtuin families. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Vol.55, No.2 (2015): 374-388. Jie Xia, Ermias Lemma Tilahun, Eyob Hailu Kebede, Terry-Elinor Reid, Liangren Zhang†, Xiang Simon Wang.
Laboratory of Cheminformatics and Drug Design, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Functions of MiRNA-128 on the regulation of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma growth and apoptosis. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 12;10(3): e0116321. Belinda Hauser1, Yuan Zhao2, Xiaowu Pang2, Z. Ling, Ernest Myers3, Paul C. Wang4, J. Califano, Xinbin Gu1.
1Department of Genetics and Human Genetics, 2Department of Oral Pathology, 3Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 4Department of Radiology, Cancer Center, College of Medicine.

Contextual analysis of determinants of late diagnosis of hepatitis C virus infection in medicare patients. Hepatology, 2015. Viktor V. Chirikov, Fadia T. Shaya, Charles D. Howell.
College of Medicine.

Gastrokine 1 inhibits gastrin-induced cell proliferation. Gastric Cancer, March 2015. Olga Kim, Jung Hwan Yoon, Won Suk Choi, Hassan Ashktorab, Duane T. Smoot, Suk Woo Nam, Jung Young Lee, Won Sang Park.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

A life of real sweetness. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, Vol.49, No.2 (2015): 136-139. Edna Buckle.
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry.

Antiproliferative Activities of Fagara xanthoxyloides and Pseudocedrela kotschyi against prostate cancer cell lines. Anticancer Research, Vol.35 No.3 (March 2015): 1453-1458. Olakunle O. Kassim1, Robert L. Copeland2, Hilaire M. Kenguele1, Sergei Nekhai3, Kwashie A. Ako-Nai3, Yasmine M. Kanaan1.
1Department of Microbiology, 2Department of Pharmacology, 3Department of Medicine.

D-Optimal mixture experimental design for stealth biodegradable crosslinked docetaxel-loaded poly-ε-caprolactone nanoparticles manufactured by dispersion polymerization. Die Pharmazie - An International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vol.70, No.3 (March 2015): 165-176. O. Ogunwuyi, S. Adesina, Emmanuel O. Akala.

Vitamin D receptor genetic polymorphisms are associated with PSA level, Gleason score and prostate cancer risk in African-American men. Anticancer Research, Vol.35, No.3 (March 2015). Emmanuel Y. Jingwi1, Muneer Abbas2, Luisel Ricks-Santi4, Danyelle Winchester, Desta Beyene1, Agnes Day1, Tammey J. Naab5, Olakunle O. Kassim2, Georgia M. Dunston2, Robert L. Copeland Jr, Yasmine M. Kanaan1.
1Cancer Center, 2Department of Microbiology, 3Department of National Human Genome Center, 4Department of Biochemistry, 5Department of Pathology, College of Medicine.

Genetic and childhood trauma interaction effect on age of onset in bipolar disorder: An exploratory analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, Available online 9 March 2015. Amit Anand, Daniel L. Koller, William B. Lawson, Elliot S. Gershon, BiGS Collaborative, John I. Nurnberger.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Boko Haram insurgency: Implications for public health. The Lancet, Vol.385, No.9972 (14–20 March 2015): 941. Oluwatosin Omole, Hamira Welye, Seye Abimbola.
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine.

Quantifying patient-physician communication and perceptions of risk during admissions for possible acute coronary syndromes. Annals of Emergency Medicine, Available online 4 March 2015. David H. Newman, Brian Ackerman, Matthew L. Kraushar, Margo H. Lederhandler, Amal Masri, Anna Starikov, Daisy T. Tsao, H. Pendell Meyers, Kaushal H. Shah.
College of Medicine.

Upcoming biomarkers for the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease: A review. Clinical Biochemistry, Available online 4 March 2015. Pavithra Parthasarathy, Arnav Agarwal, Karan Chawla, Taraneh Tofighi, Tapas K. Mondal.
College of Medicine.


Week Ending March 7, 2015

Rare variants in neuronal excitability genes influence risk for bipolar disorder. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 17 February 2015. Multiple authors; Multiple collaborators, incl. William B. Lawson.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Joint analysis of psychiatric disorders increases accuracy of risk prediction for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. Am J Hum Genet., Vol.96, No.2 (5 February 2015): 283-94. Multiple authors; Multiple collaborators, incl. William B. Lawson.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Identification of pathways for bipolar disorder: A meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 2014. Multiple authors; Multiple collaborators, incl. William B. Lawson.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Claustrophobic tendencies and continuous positive airway pressure therapy non-adherence in adults with obstructive sleep apnea. Heart Lung., Vol.44, No.2 (March-April 2015): 100-106. Janalyn Cantey Edmonds, Yang H, King TS, Sawyer DA, Rizzo A, Sawyer AM.
College of Nursing & Allied Health Sciences.

Engineered biomaterials for development of nucleic acid vaccines. Biomaterials Research, Vol.19, No.5 (2015). Jun Yang, Yan Li1, Shubin Jin, Jing Xu, Paul C Wang, Xing-Jie Liang, and Xin Zhang.
Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Outcomes of trauma care at centers treating a higher proportion of older patients: The case for geriatric trauma centers. J Trauma Acute Care Surg., 4 March 2015. Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Augustine Obirieze, Eric B. Schneider, Zai G. Hashmi, Valerie K. Scott, Wendy R. Greene, David T. Efron, Ellen J. MacKenzie, Edward E. Cornwell III, Haider AH.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

The role of coronary microvascular disorder in congestive heart failure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol., 27 February 2015. Georges E. Haddad, Sana Chams, Nour Chams.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

An evidence-based review: Distracted driver. J Trauma Acute Care Surg., Vol.78, No.1 (January 2015): 147-152. Llerena LE, Aronow KV, Macleod J, Bard M, Salzman S, Wendy R. Greene, Haider A, Schupper A.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.


Week Ending February 28, 2015

Pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation in the postpneumonectomy population: A feasibility, safety, and outcomes study. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 2015. Arun Kanmanthareddy, Ajay Vallakati, Madhu Reddy Yeruva, Sanjay Dixit, Luigi Di Biase, Moussa Mansour, Hemant Boolani, Sampath Gunda, T. Jared Bunch, John D. Day, Jeremy N. Ruskin, Avanija Buddam, Sandeep Koripalli, Sudharani Bommana, Andrea Natale, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy.
Department of Cardiology, College of Medicine.

Individuals with a long face growth pattern and excess inferior scleral exposure: Is there improvement after maxillary (Le Fort I) advancement and vertical shortening? Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 26 February 2015. Jeffrey C. Posnick, Ali Sami.
Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry.

Dexmedetomidine ameliorates nocifensive behavior in humanized sickle cell mice. European Journal of Pharmacology, Available online 25 February 2015. Gabriela Calhoun, Li Wang, Luis E.F. Almeida, Nicholas Kenyon, Nina Afsar, Mehdi Nouraie, Julia C. Finkel, Zenaide M.N. Quezado.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

Recommendations concerning the new U.S. National Institutes of Health initiative to balance the sex of cells and animals in preclinical research. The FASEB Journal, 2015. Kathryn Sandberg, Jason G. Umans, the Georgetown Consensus Conference Work Group.
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, College of Medicine.

Muscular and skeletal anomalies in human trisomy in an evo-devo context. CRC Press, 2015. Rui Diogo, Christopher M. Smith, Janine M. Ziermann, Julia Molnar, Marjorie C. Gondre-Lewis, Corinne Sandone, Edward T. Bersu, Mohammed Ashraf Aziz.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in African- and European-American women: Morbidity, mortality and healthcare utilization in the USA. Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2015. Alem Mehari, Richard F Gillum.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Immobilization of xanthate agent on titanium dioxide and surface initiated RAFT polymerization. J Basic Clin Med., Vol.3, No.1 (2014): 1-3. Yanda Lei1, Tongxin Wang1, James W. Mitchell2, L.C. Chow.
1College of Dentistry, 2Crest Center for Nanomaterials, College of Engineering, CEACS.

Effects of inorganic fillers on the thermal and mechanical properties of poly(lactic acid). Int J Polym Sci., 2014. Xingxun Liu1, Tongxin Wang1, L.C. Chow, M. Yang, James W. Mitchell2.
1College of Dentistry, 2Crest Center for Nanomaterials, College of Engineering, CEACS.

National estimates of predictors of outcomes for emergency general surgery. J Trauma Acute Care Surg., Vol.78, No.3 (2014): 482-491. Shah AA1, Haider AH, Zogg CK, Schwartz DA, Haut ER, Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Schneider EB, Velopulos CG, Shafi S, Zafar H, Efron DT.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

The diverse surgeons' initiative: Longitudinal assessment of a successful national program. J Am Coll Surg., Vol.220, No.3 (March 2015): 362-369. P.D. Butler, L.D. Britt, C.E. Richard, B. Chang, J.M. Serletti, M.L. Green Jr, Terrence M. Fullum.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Potential applications of image-guided radiotherapy for radiation dose escalation in patients with early stage high-risk prostate cancer. Front Oncol., Vol.5 (2 February 2015): 18. Nam P. Nguyen, Davis R, Satya R. Bose, Dutta S, Vinh-Hung V, Chi A, Godinez J, Desai A, Woods W, Altdorfer G, D'Andrea M, Karlsson U, Vo RA, Sroka T; International Geriatric Radiotherapy Group.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending February 21, 2015

Molecular determinants of the human α2C-adrenergic receptor temperature-sensitive intracellular traffic. Mol Pharmacol., 13 February 2015. C.M. Filipeanu, A.K. Pullikuth, J.J. Guidry.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Household-level risk factors for influenza among young children in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Case-Control Study. Trop Med Int Health., 12 February 2015. Saumil Doshi, Benjamin J. Silk, Dhiman Dutt, Moshtaq Ahmed, Adam L. Cohen, Thomas H. Taylor, W. Abdullah Brooks, Doli Goswami, Stephen P. Luby, Alicia M. Fry, Pavani K. Ram.
College of Medicine.

Tuberculosis reactivation in hepatocellular carcinoma: Association with transarterial chemoembolization. Infectious Diseases, No.1-4 (2015). Ann M. Laake, Angelike P. Liappis, Elizabeth Guy, Gail S. Kerr, Debra A. Benator.
Department of Rheumatology, College of Medicine.

Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. XI. Callistosiren boriquensis, gen. et sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2015. Jorge Vélez-Juarbe, Daryl P. Domning.
Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

The 4th Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, 5-9 April 2014, Florence, Italy: A summary of topics and trends. Schizophrenia Research, Vol.159, No.2-3 (1 November 2014): e1-e22. Multiple authors, including Qortni A. Lang.

The skin microbiome: Is there a role in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis and psoriasis? Journal of Drugs in Dermatology, Vol.14, No.2 (1 February 2015): 127-130. David A. Sanchez, J.D. Nosanchuk, A.J. Friedman.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending February 14, 2015

Blood pressure dipping and urban stressors in young adult African Americans. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2015. Thomas A. Mellman1, Tyish S.H. Brown1, Ihori Kobayashi1, Soleman H. Abu-Bader2, Joseph Lavela1, Duaa Altaee1, Latesha McLaughlin1, Otelio S. Randall3.
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, 2School of Social Work, 3Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, College of Medicine.

Surveying the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of District of Columbia ACOG members related to breastfeeding. Breastfeeding Medicine, Vol.10, No.1 (2015): 63-68. A.M. Sims, S.A. Long, J.A.F. Tender, Michal A. Young,
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.

Morphology through ontogeny of Chinese Proboscidipparion and Plesiohipparion and observations on their Eurasian and African relatives. Vertebrata Palasiatica, Vol.53 (2015): 73-92. Raymond L. Bernor, Sun Bo-Yang.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

The Forgotten father of epigenetics: A theory put forward in the 1930s by E. E. Just, embryologist and African American, shares surprising connections with our emerging understanding of development. American Scientist, Vol.103, No.2 (March-April 2015). W. Malcolm Byrnes.
Department of Biochemistry, College of MedicineManagement of dual diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and a mental health disorder. U.S. Pharmacist, Vol.40, No.1 (1 January 2015): 34-38. J. Carpenter, Adepeju Awodipe, W. Brown.
Collge of Pharmacy.

The impact of leukoreduced red blood cell transfusion on mortality of neonates undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The Journal of surgical research, Vol.192, No.1 (2014): 6-11. Hope T. Jackson, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Alexandra Thomas, Aderonke O. Oyetunji, Miller Hamrick, Evan P. Nadler, Edward Wong, Faisal G. Qureshi.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Disparities in breast cancer surgery delay: The lingering effect of race. Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2015. Vanessa B. Sheppard, Bridget A. Oppong, Regina Hampton, Felicia Snead, Sara Horton, et al.
Department of Oncology, College of Medicine.

Anatomical networks reveal the musculoskeletal modularity of the human head. Scientific Reports, Vol.5 (6 February 2015): Article number 8298. Borja Esteve-Altava, Rui Diogo, Christopher Smith, Julia C. Boughner, Diego Rasskin-Gutman.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Laparoscopic surgery for trauma: the realm of therapeutic management. Am J Surg., 14 January 2015. Seyed Nabeel Zafar, Michael T. Onwugbufor, Kakra Hughes, Wendy R. Greene, Edward E. Cornwell III, Terrence M. Fullum, Daniel D. Tran..
Department of Surgey, College of Medicine.

Evaluating medication adherence and spirituality. Innovations in Pharmacy Planet (iP-Planet), 2015. Valerie Oji, Mousa Abkhezr, Patricia Noumedem, Crystal Waters.
Department of Clinical & Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy.

Minimum target prices for production of direct-acting antivirals and associated diagnostics to combat hepatitis C virus. Hepatology, February 2015.Nikolien van de Ven, Joeseph Fortunak, Bryony Simmons, Nathan Ford, Graham S. Cooke, Saye Khoo and Andrew Hill.
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending February 7, 2015

Development of genodynamic metrics for exploring the biophysics of DNA polymorphisms. J Comput Biol Bioinform Res., Vol.6, No.1 (November 2014). James Lindesay1, Tshela E. Mason2, William Hercules1, Georgia M. Dunston2.
1Computational Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, CoAS, 2Department of Microbiology and National Human Genome Center, College of Medicine.

Patient- and f amily-centered care of children in the ED. Pediatrics, Vol.135, No.1 (January 2015): e255-272. Dudley N, Ackerman A, Brown KM, Snow SK, and American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Joseph L. Wright et al.), American College of Emergency Physicians Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee, Emergency Nurses Association Pediatric Committee.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.

Best practices for improving care of pediatric patients in the emergency department. Pediatrics, Vol.135, No.1 (January 2015): e273-283. Isabel Barata, Kathleen M. Brown, Laura Fitzmaurice, Elizabeth Stone Griffin, Sally K. Snow, and American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Joseph L. Wright et al.), American College of Emergency Physicians Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee, Emergency Nurses Association Pediatric Committee.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.

Pediatric trauma priorities. In: D. Cone et al. (eds.), Emergency Medical Oversight: Clinical Practice & System Oversight, 2nd ed. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, 2015). Joseph L. Wright.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.

Emergency medical services for children. In: R. Kliegman et al. (eds.), Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 20th ed. (Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2015). Joseph L. Wright and S.E. Krug.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.

Preoperative evaluation of penetrating esophageal trauma in the current era: An analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank. Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, Vol.8, No.1 (2015): 30-33. Daniel Dante Yeh, John O Hwabejire, Marc de Moya, David R. King, Peter Fagenholz, Haytham M.A. Kaafarani, Eric N. Klein.
College of Medicine.

Classification of Histologically Scored Human knee: OsteochondralPlugsby Quantitative Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Images at 3T. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 2015. Vanessa A. Lukas, Kenneth W. Fishbein, Ping-Chang Lin, Michael Schär, Erika Schneider, Corey P. Neu, Richard G. Spencer and David A. Reiter.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Prevalence of Hypertension and Associated Risk Factors in Western Alaska Native People: The Western Alaska Tribal Collaborative for Health (WATCH) Study. Journal of Clinical Hypertension, January 2015. Stacey E. Jolly, Kathryn R. Koller, Jesse S. Metzger, Gretchen M. Day, Angela Silverman, Scarlett E. Hopkins, Melissa A. Austin, Bernadette Boden-Albala, Sven O. E. Ebbesson, Bert B. Boyer, Barbara V. Howard and Jason G. Umans.
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, College of Medicine.

Assessing the Value of Routine Upper Gastrointestinal Contrast Studies Following Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The American Journal of Surgery, Available online 2 February 2015. Tafari Mbadiwe, Edward Prevatt, Andre Duerinckx, Edward Cornwell III, Terrence Fullum, Bonnie Davis.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Open Abdominal Surgery: A Risk Factor for Future Laparoscopic Surgery? The American Journal of Surgery, Available online 2 February 2015. Shiva Seetahal, Augustine Obirieze, Edward E. Cornwell III, Terrence Fullum, Daniel Tran.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Imputation from 328 African Ancestry Genomes Reveals New Associations with Asthma in DPP10. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Vol.135, No.2, Suppl. (February 2015): AB162. Hironori Masuko, Nicholas M. Rafaels, Lili Huang, Sameer Chavan, James G. Wilson, L. Keoki Williams, Lorraine B. Ware, Carole Ober, Deborah A. Meyers, Tina V. Hartert, Marilyn Foreman, Jean G. Ford, Esteban Gonza Burchard, Eugene R. Bleecker, Georgia Dunston, Margaret Taub, Terri H. Beaty, Ingo Ruczinski, Rasika A. Mathias, Kathleen C. Barnes.
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine.

Comparison of European (ESR) and American (ACR) White Papers on Teleradiology: Patient Primacy Is Paramount. Journal of the American College of Radiology, Vol.12, No.2 (February 2015): 174-182. Erik R. Ranschaert, Giles W. Boland, Andre J. Duerinckx, Frits H. Barneveld Binkhuysen.
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.

Assessment of Racial and Sex Disparities in Open Femoral Fractures. The American Journal of Surgery, Available online 31 January 2015. Nisha N. Branch, Augustine Obirieze, Robert H. Wilson.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Tracheal Cancer Mortality Trends in the United States. The Internet Journal of Oncology, Vol.10, No.1 (2015). Alvin D. Thompson III, Yousef Talavari, Alem Mehari, Richard F. Gillum.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Iron, Expression of the Pattern Recognition Receptor-Inflammasome System, and Early Death in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease. Blood, Vol.124, No.21 (6 December 2015). Eduard J. van Beers, Yanqin Yang, Nalini Raghavachari, Xin Tian, Darlene Allen, James S. Nichols, Laurel Mendelsohn, Sergei A. Nekhai, Victor R. Gordeuk, James G. Taylor VI, and Gregory J. Kato.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Morphometric and Statistical Analysis of the Palmaris Longus Muscle in Human and Non-Human Primates. BioMed Research International, Vol.2014 (2014): Article 178906. Roqueline A.G.M.F. Aversi-Ferreira, Rafael Vieira Bretas, Rafael Souto Maior, Munkhzul Davaasuren, Carlos Alberto Paraguassú-Chaves, Hisao Nishijo, Tales Alexandre Aversi-Ferreira.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine,


Week Ending January 31, 2015

Pathway activation profiling reveals new insights into age-related macular degeneration and provides avenues for therapeutic interventions. Aging, Vol.6, No.12 (2014): 1064-1075. Makarev, E., Cantor, C., Zhavoronkov, A., Buzdin, A., Aliper, A., Anotonei Benjamin Csoka.
Epigenetics Laboratory, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

+ Single nucleotide polymorphisms: A window into the informatics of the living genome. Adv Biosci Biotechnol., Vol.5, No.7 (June 2014): :623-626. G.M. Dunston1, T.E. Mason1, W. Hercules2, J. Lindesay2.
1Department of Microbiology, National Human Genome Center, College of Medicine, 2Computational Physics Laboratory, CoAS.

Feasibility of image-guided radiotherapy and concurrent chemotherapy for locally advanced nonsmall Cell lung cancer. Cancer Invest., 29 January 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. Nam P. Nguyen, Kratz S, Chi A, Vock J, Vos P, Shen W, Vincent VH, Ewell L, Jang S, Altdorfer G, Karlsson U, Godinez J, Woods W, Dutta S, Ampil F; the International Geriatric Radiotherapy Group.
Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine.

+ Blood pressure dipping and Urban stressors in young Adult African Americans. Ann Behav Med, 27 January 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. Thomas A. Mellman1, Tyish S. Hall Brown1, Ihori Kobayashi1, Soleman H. Abu-Bader2, Joseph Lavela1, D. Altaee3, I. McLaughlin3, Otelio S. Randall3.
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, 2School of Social Work, 3Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Leadership, training, and educational opportunities. In: Robert L. Trestman, Kenneth L. Applebaum, and Jeffrey L. Metzner (eds.), Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015): 382-386. Raymond Patterson.
Department of Psychiatry & Behabioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Measuring physician adherence with gout quality indicators: A role for natural language processing. Arthritis Care & Research, Vol.67, No.2 (February 2015). 273–279. Gail S. Kerr, John S. Richards, Carl A. Nunziato, Olga V. Patterson, Scott L. DuVall, Mireille Aujero, David Maron and Richard Amdur.
Department of Rheumatology, College of Medicine.


Week Ending January 24, 2015

The sleepy surgeon: Does night time surgery for trauma affect mortality outcomes? The American Journal of Surgery, Available online 19 January 2015. Syed Nabeel Zafar, Laura Libuit, Zain G. Hashmi, Kakra Hughes, Wendy R. Greene, Edward E. Cornwell III, Adil H. Haider, Terrence M. Fullum, Daniel D. Tran.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Standardized patient assessment of medical student empathy: Ethnicity and gender effects in a multi-institutional study. Academic Medicine, Vol.90, No.1 (2015): 105-111. Berg, K., Blatt, B., Lopreiato, J., Jung, J., Schaeffer, A., Heil, D., Tamara Owens1, Pameka L. Carter-Nolan2, Berg, D., Veloski, J., Darby, E., Hojat, M.
1Clinical Skills and Simulation Center, 2Department of Community and Family Medicine, College of Medicine.

Laparoscopic lurgery for trauma: The realm of therapeutic management. American Journal of Surgery, 2015. Syed Nabeel Zafar, Michael T. Onwugbufor, Kakra Hughes, Wendy R. Greene, Edward E. Cornwell III, Terrence M. Fullum, Daniel D. Tran.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

+ Hospital stay of inpatients HIV/AIDS with mental and behavioral disorders: 2007 vs 2010 discharges in the United States. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 2015, Vol. 5, No. 3. Priscilla O. Okunji1, Johnnie Daniel2.
1Division of Nursing, College of Nursing & Allied Health Sciences, 2Department of Sociology & Anthropology, CoAS.

Pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation in the post-pneumonectomy population: A feasibility, safety and outcomes study. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 2015. Arun Kanmanthareddy, Ajay Vallakati, Madhu Reddy, Sanjay Dixit, Luigi Di Biase , Moussa Mansour, Hemant Boolani, Sampath Gunda. Jared Bunch, John D. Day, Jeremy N. Ruskin, Avanija Buddam Sandeep Koripalli, Sudharani Bommana, Andrea Natale, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy.
Department of Cardiology, College of Medicine.

Body mass index in blunt trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock: opposite ends of the BMI spectrum portend poor outcome. American Journal of Surgery, 2015. John O. Hwabejire, Christine E. Nembhard, Augustine C. Obirieze, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Daniel D. Tran, Terrence M. Fullum, Suryanarayana M. Siram, Edward E. Cornwell III, Wendy R. Greene.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Lower extremity arterial reconstruction in obese patients. American Journal of Surgery, 2015. Olumayowa Pitan, Mark Williams, Augustine Obirieze, Daniel Tran, David Rose, Terrence Fullum, Edward Cornwell III, Kakra Hughes.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Racial/ethnic disparities in emergency general surgery: Explained by hospital-level characteristics? American Journal of Surgery, 2015. Erin C. Hall, Zain G. Hashmi, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Edward E. Cornwell III, Adil Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Management of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. US Pharm., Vol.40, No.1 (21 January 2015): HS5-HS10. Rose N. Kajih*, Clarence D. Moore.
http://www.uspharmacist.com/content/d/feature/c/52640/
College of Pharmacy.

An evidence-based review: Distracted driver. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Vol.78, No.1 (13 January 2015): 147-152. L.E. Llerena, K.V. Aronow, J. Macleod, M. Bard, S. Salzman, Wendy Greene, A. Haider, A. Schupper.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Complications in children and adolescents with Chuvash polycythemia. Blood, Vol.125, No.2 (8 August 2015): 414-415. A.I. Sergueeva, G.Y. Miasnikova, L.A. Polyakova, Mehdi Nouraie, J.T. Prchal, V.R. Gordeuk.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Outcomes after emergency general surgery at teaching versus nonteaching hospitals. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Vol.78, No.1 (13 January 2015): 69-76. Syed Nabeel Zafar, A.A. Shah, Z.G. Hashmi, D.T. Efron, E.R. Haut, E.B. Schneider, D. Schwartz, C.G. Velopulos, Edward E. Cornwell III, A.H. Haider.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.


Week Ending January 17, 2015

Signaling pathway activation drift during aging: Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome fibroblasts are comparable to normal middle-age and old-age cells. Aging (Albany NY), 9 January 2015. Aliper AM, Antonei Benjamin Csoka, Buzdin A, Jetka T, Roumiantsev S, Moskalev A, Zhavoronkov A.
Epigenetics Laboratory, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Complications in children and adolescents with Chuvash polycythemia. Blood, Vol.125, No.2 (8 January 2015): 414-415. Sergueeva AI, Miasnikova GY, Polyakova LA, Mehdi Nouraie, Prchal JT, Gordeuk VR.
Center for Sickle Cell Disease, College of Medicine.

Management of dual diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and a mental health disorder. US Pharm, Vol.40, No.1 (2015): 34-38. Jasmine Carpenter, Adepeju Awodipe, Wendy Brown.
College of Pharmacy.

Prasugrel in children with sickle cell disease: Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data from an open-label, adaptive-design, dose-ranging study. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Vol.37, No.1 (3 January 2015): 1-9. Styles L, Heiselman D, Heath, LE, Moser BA, Small DS, Jakubowski JA, Zhou C, Redding-Lallinger R, Heeney MM, Quinn C, Soheil R. Rana, Kanter J, Winters K.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Medicine.


Week Ending January 10, 2015

Are the conclusions of Z11 relevant to community practice? Clinical Breast Cancer, Available online 7 January 2015. Guy C. Jones, Tuo Dong, Charles B. Simone, Susan Stinson.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

Cutaneous metallosis in patient with knee prosthesis composed of cobalt-chromium molybdenum alloy and titanium-aluminum-vanadium alloy. JAAD Case Reports, Vol.1, No.1 (January 2015): 36-37. Valerie D. Callender, Leah A. Cardwell, Mwatsveruka N. Munhutu, Ulric Bigby, Ife J. Rodney.
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine.

Racial disparities in the use of laparoscopic cholecystectomy still exist! American Surgeon, Vol.81, No.1 (January 2015): 1-2. Syed Nabeel Zafar, Laura Libuit, Stephanie P Stephanie, Ronald Atwater, Augustine Obirieze, Danel Tran, Kakra Hughes, Wendy R. Greene.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

CRF-amplified neuronal TLR4/MCP-1 signaling regulates alcohol self-administration. Neuropsychopharmacology, 8 January 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. Harry L. June, Juan Liu, Kaitlin T. Warnock, Kimberly A. Bell, Irina Balan, Dominique Bollino, A. Puche, L. Aurelian.
Neuropsychopharmacology Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Alcohol withdrawal‒ induced seizure susceptibility is associated with an upregulation of CaV1.3 channels in the rat inferior colliculus. Int J Neuropsychopharmacology, 2 January 2015. [Epub ahead of print]. P. N'Gouemo, L.R. Akinfiresoye, Joane S. Allard, D.M. Lovinger.
Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine.

Finding our way through phenotypes. PLoS Biol., Vol.13, No.1 (6 January 2015): e1002033. Multiple co-authors, including Rui Diogo.
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine.

Standardized patient assessment of medical student empathy: ethnicity and gender effects in a multi-institutional study. Acad Med., Vol.90, No.1 (January 2015): 105-11. Berg K1, Blatt B, Lopreiato J, Jung J, Schaeffer A, Heil D, Tamara Owens, Carter-Nolan PL, Berg D, Veloski J, Darby E, Hojat M.
Clinical Skills and Simulation Center, College of Medicine.

Glucokinase activators in development for antihyperglycemic purposes. Drugs of the Future, Vol.39, No.12 (1 December 2014): 849-855. Oluwaranti Akiyode, K. Wiley, H. Debellis. A. Dorion.
College of Pharmacy.


Week Ending January 3, 2015

Pediatric to adult transition: A quality improvement model for primary care. Journal of Adolescent Health, Vol.56, No.1 (1 January 2015): 73-78. McManus, M., White, P., Barbour, A., Billie Downing, Hawkins, K., Quion, N., Tuchman, L., Cooley, W.C., McAllister, J.W.
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine.

A randomized noninferiority trial of condensed protocols for genetic riskdisclosure of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's and Dementia, Vol.11, No.10 (2015): 1222-1230. Green, R.C., Christensen, K.D., Cupples, L.A., Relkin, N.R., Whitehouse, P.J., Royal, C.D.M., Thomas O. Obisesan, Cook-Deegan, R., Linnenbringer, E., Butson, M.B., Fasaye, G.-A., Levinson, E., Roberts, J.S.
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, College of Medicine.

An evidence-based review: Distracted driver. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Vol.78, No.1 (January 2015): 147-152. Llerena, Luis E.; Aronow, Kathy V.; Macleod, Jana; Bard, Michael; Salzman, Steven; Wendy Greene; Haider, Adil; Schupper, Alex.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Relevance of the anti-inflammatory properties of curcumin in neurodegenerative diseases and depression. Molecules, Vol.19, No.12 (1 December 2014): 20864-80879. Yusef Tizabi, Laura L. Hurley, Zakiya Qualls, Luli Akinfiresoye.
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine.

Overdiagnosis of schizophenia said to be Persistent among Black patients. Psychiatry Online, Vol.50, No.1 (January 2015): 1. William B. Lawson.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine.

Impact of an educational module on occupational therapists’ use of elderspeak and attitudes toward older adults. Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 30 December 30 2014. Jessica Alden, Susan Toth-Cohen.
Department of Occupational Therapy, CNAHS.

Outcomes after emergency general surgery at teaching versus nonteaching hospitals. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Vol.78, No.1 (January 2015): 69-77. Syed Nabeel Zaafar; Shah, Adil A.; Hashmi, Zain G.; Efron, David T.; Haut, Elliott R.; Schneider, Eric B.; Schwartz, Diane; Velopulos, Catherine G.; Edward E. Cornwell III; Haider, Adil H.
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine.

Association between interferon use and reduced metabolic and vascular complications among patients with hepatitis C. Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Vol.8, No.8 (November 2014): 973-983. Viktor V. Chirikov, Fadia T. Shaya, Charles D. Howell.
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine.

In vivo tumor-targeted dual-modal fluorescence/CT imaging using a nanoprobe co-loaded with an aggregation-induced emission dye and gold nanoparticles. Biomaterials, Vol.42 (2015): 103-111. Zhang, J., Li, C., Zhang, X., Huo, S., Jin, S., An, F.-F., Wang, X., Xue, X., Okeke, C.I., Duan, G., Guo, F., Zhang, X., Hao, J., Paul C. Wang, Zhang, J., Liang, X.-J.
Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'/