5 Chenggang Wu, Arunima Mishra, Melissa E. Reardon, I-Hsiu Huang, Sarah C. 6 Counts, Asis Das and Hung Ton-That* 7 8 Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center, 9 Houston, TX, USA. 10 Department of Molecular, Microbial & Structural Biology, University of Connecticut Health 11 Center, Farmington, CT, USA. 12 13 These authors contributed equally to ...

A native interactor scaffolds and stabilizes toxic Ataxin-1 oligomers in SCA1 1 C.A. Lasagna-Reeves, M.W.C. Rousseaux, M.J. Guerrero-Munoz, J. Park, 2 P. Jafar-Nejad,R. Richman, N. Lu, U.Sengupta, A. Litvinchuk, 3 H.T. Orr, R. Kayed and H.Y. Zoghbi * 4 5 1 Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030 6 2 Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Insti...

(Fam Med 2007;39(1):13-5.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Hershey Bell, MD, of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine discusses the importance of giving formative feedback to learners. He proposes a mnemonic FED to remind us of the appropriate content (feedback and direction) and an effective manner of communication (encouragement). I welcome your comments about this feature, whi...

1 Depressive Symptoms and Short Telomere Length Are Associated with Increased Mortality in Bladder Cancer Patients Jie Lin,* Janice A. Blalock,* Meng Chen, Yuanqing Ye, Jian Gu, Lorenzo Cohen, Paul M. Cinciripini, Xifeng Wu Departments of Epidemiology, 1155 Pressler, Unit Number 1340, Houston, TX 77030; Behavioral Science, 1155 Pressler, Unit Number 1330, Houston, TX 77030; General Oncology and...

Translocator protein (TSPO) is a biomarker for detecting neuroinflammation by PET. 11C-(R)-PK11195 has been used to image TSPO since the 1980s. Here, we compared the utility of four 11C-labeled ligands-(R)-PK11195, PBR28, DPA-713, and ER176-to quantify TSPO in healthy humans. For all of these ligands, BP ND (specific-to-non-displaceable ratio of distribution volumes) was measured by partially b...

Abstract Introduction In a regional centre for plastic surgery, it had been noted that operations were being delayed due to lack of pre-operative investigations. A investigation checklist was developed between anaesthetic and surgical staff semi-elective trauma surgery patients, based on NICE guidelines. The recommends which blood, radiology cardiopulmonary tests would be appropriate upon age, ...

Energetic neutral atoms (ENA’s) which are produced in the heliospheric interface can be used to remotely investigate this highly interesting, but poorly known region acting as buffer against the interstellar plasma. To optimally take advantage from this very promising observational technique, based on ENA flux measurements, one needs to know the spectral production rate of the ENA’s in the heli...

GASB 34 Compliance Using GIS and Asset Management Systems Track: State and Local Government Author(s): Brian Long, Brent Wilson GASB 34 requires state and local governments to establish a mechanism that reports infrastructure value, depreciation, and management practices. This paper illustrates the use of GIS in this accounting process. GIS processes include asset inventory and valuation models...