Feeding the Fibrillating Heart: Dichloroacetate Improves Cardiac Contractile 1 Dysfunction following VF 2 Running Title: DCA Treatment for VF Arrest 3 4 Mohammed Ali Azam, Cory S. Wagg, Stéphane Massé, Talha Farid, 5 Patrick F.H. Lai, Marjan Kusha, John Asta, Rafael Jaimes III, Sarah Kuzmiak-Glancy, 6 Matthew W. Kay, Gary D. Lopaschuk, Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar. 7 The Hull Family Cardiac Fibrilla...

From the Divisions of Cardiology and Nephrology, Mount Sinai and University 9 Health Network and Saint Michael’s Hospitals and the Department of Pharmacology 10 and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Canada 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Running Title: Renal function in heart failure 21 22 23 24 25 For correspondence: 26 John D. Parker MD 27 Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai and University Hea...

1 1 The domain-3a of Munc18-1 plays a crucial role at the priming stage of exocytosis 2 3 4 5 Gayoung Anna Han, Na-Ryum Bin, Soo-Young Ann Kang, Liping Han and Shuzo Sugita 6 7 Address: Division of Fundamental Neurobiology, University Health Network, 399 Bathurst Street, 8 Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada; Departments of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of 9 Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation in different current directions activates separate cortical 1 circuits 2 Zhen Ni, Samer Charab, Carolyn Gunraj, Aimee J. Nelson, Kaviraja Udupa, I-Jin Yeh, Robert Chen 3 4 Division of Neurology, Krembil Neuroscience Centre and Toronto Western Research Institute, 5 University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 6 7 Running head: TMS a...

Defining the roles of human CEACAMs during neutrophil responses to Neisseria 1 gonorrhoeae 2 3 Helen Sarantis and Scott D. Gray-Owen* 4 5 Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 6 7 Running Title: Dissecting roles of neutrophil CEA family members 8 9 *Address for Correspondence: 10 Dr. Scott D. Gray-Owen 11 University of Toronto 12 Department of Molecul...

Changes in the Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Nuclear Proteome Induced by the EBNA1 1 Protein of Epstein-Barr Virus Reveal Potential Roles for EBNA1 in Metastasis and 2 Oxidative Stress Responses 3 Jennifer Yinuo Cao, Sheila Mansouri and Lori Frappier 4 5 Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 6 7 * Corresponding author: 8 Department of Molecular Genetics, U...

The distribution and subcellular localization of microtubules in rat brain cerebellum was analyzed by immunohistochemistry with antibodies prepared against 3 synthetic peptides corresponding to the C-terminal region of beta-tubulin. The peptides used correspond to amino acid positions 416-425 (peptide 1), 416-431 (peptide 2), and 426-445 (peptide 4). The antibodies thus obtained displayed a rem...

* Sports Injury & Rehabilitation Center, 2780 Jane Street, Suite 202, Downsview, Ontario M3N 2J2. Tel: (416) 745-2162. Fax: (416) 745-2168. © JCCA 1999. Lumbar disc herniations are rare in children. The etiology and clinical picture may be different in children than in adults. Conservative management is the treatment of choice. Tae Kwon Do is a Korean martial art which is notorious for its high...

BACKGROUND Accurate and rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is very important in a clinical laboratory setting to avoid treatment failure. Conventional methods were compared against the gold standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique to determine the best combination of the routine procedures. METHODOLOGY Methicillin resistance was investigated in 416 clinic...

1 Department of Laboratory Medicine, and the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Corresponding Author: George M. Yousef, St. Michael’s Hospital, 209 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON M5B1T8, Canada. ...