Osteoblast Differentiation Zhaoyong Li, Mohammad Q. Hassan, Mohammed Jafferji, Ramiro Garzon, Carlo M. Croce, Andre J. van Wijnen, Janet L. Stein, Gary S. Stein, Jane B. Lian From Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655; and Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohi...

The 17th century British physician Thomas Sydenham is credited with saying, “A man is as old as his arteries.” Indeed, aging is associated with myriad structural and functional changes in the cardiovascular system.1 In particular, thoracic aortic aneurysms are commonly found in people during the sixth or seventh decade of life and at a frequency of nearly 1 in 16 000 people per year.2 An aneury...

Spectroscopic imaging of a sample placed outside of both the radio frequency and the imaging gradient coils is presented. The sample is placed in a field with a permanent one-dimensional inhomogeneity. The imaging gradients used for phase encoding are designed to produce a static field that depends only on the transverse direction, uncoupling the effects associated with the single-sided nature ...