A month-long meteorological field campaign VTMX (Vertical Transport and MiXing), sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Environmental Meteorology Program, was conducted during October 2000 in the Salt Lake Valley to perform complex investigation of vertical transport and mixing in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) [1]. Approximately 100 people from 9 research laboratories and two universiti...

Cara T. Mai,* Tiffany Riehle-Colarusso, Alissa O’Halloran, Janet D. Cragan, Richard S. Olney, Angela Lin, Marcia Feldkamp, Lorenzo D. Botto, Russel Rickard, Marlene Anderka, Mary Ethen, Carol Stanton, Joan Ehrhardt, and Mark Canfield, for the National Birth Defects Prevention Network National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atl...

Bart Deplancke, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Wanyuan Ao, Ahmed M. Elewa, Christian A. Grove, Natalia J. Martinez, Reynaldo Sequerra, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, John S. Reece-Hoyes, Ian A. Hope, Heidi A. Tissenbaum, Susan E. Mango, and Albertha J.M. Walhout* Program in Gene Function and Expression and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA Huntsman C...

The Lahontan Mountains quadrangle is located 11 km east of Fallon, Nevada at the southeastern margin of the Carson Sink (Fig. 1). Principal physiographic features include the Lahontan Mountains, collectively consisting of Sehoo, Eetza, Salt Wells, and Rainbow mountains. This quadrangle is part of the greater Lake Lahontan area that in part occupied the southern Carson Desert, previously mapped ...

Effects of magnesium (Mg) supplementation on nine mild type 2 diabetic patients with stable glycemic control were investigated. Water from a salt lake with a high natural Mg content (7.1%) (MAG21) was used for supplementation after dilution with distilled water to 100mg/100mL; 300mL/day was given for 30 days. Fasting serum immunoreactive insulin level decreased significantly, as did HOMA square...

Shanshan Liu, Zhanjun Jia, Li Zhou, Ying Liu, Hong Ling, Shu-Feng Zhou, Aihua Zhang, Yaomin Du, Guangju Guan,* and Tianxin Yang* Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; Department of Nephrology, 2nd Affiliated Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China; Institute of Hypertension, Sun Yat-Sen University Sc...

Introduction During the winter months, Utah experiences a temperature inversion which traps pollutants, such as fine particle pollution (PM 2.5), in the Salt Lake Valley. A previous study determined the impact of inversion on ED visits for asthma,1 however similar phenomena have yet to be examined using the BioSense 2.0 syndromic surveillance system. While similar studies utilize a time-stratif...

From the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and the Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (L.N.); the VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Hines, Ill. (A.G.-H., D.R.); the Department of Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago (O.J.); the Department of Surgery, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebr. (R.F.); the Institute for Health Services R...

Role of COX-2 in Unilateral Ureteral Obstruction: What Is New? 2 3 4 Tianxin Yang 2 and Chunling Li 5 6 7 Department of Medicine, University of Utah and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake 8 City, Utah, USA; Institute of Hypertension, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen 9 University, Guangzhou, China 510080 10 11 12 Address correspondence to: 13 Tianxin Yang, M.D., Ph.D. 14 Univers...