Paediatrics Publications
Research in The Department of Paediatrics at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry is divided into eighteen areas of focus. These areas include cardiology, child development, critical care medicine, endocrinology/diabetes, genetics/metabolics, infectious disease, and neurology.
Submissions from 2016
Beyond the brain-Peripheral kisspeptin signaling is essential for promoting endometrial gland development and function, Silvia León, Daniela Fernadois, Alexandra Sull, Judith Sull, Michele Calder, Kanako Hayashi, Moshmi Bhattacharya, Stephen Power, George A. Vilos, Angelos G. Vilos, Manuel Tena-Sempere, and Andy V. Babwah
Rac1 signaling is required for anterior second heart field cellular organization and cardiac outflow tract development, Carmen Leung, Yin Liu, Xiangru Lu, Mella Kim, Thomas A. Drysdale, and Qingping Feng
Structural Conservation and E2F Binding Specificity within the Retinoblastoma Pocket Protein Family, Tyler J. Liban, Michael J. Thwaites, Frederick A. Dick, and Seth M. Rubin
Unravelling the mechanism of TrkA-induced cell death by macropinocytosis in medulloblastoma Daoy cells, Chunhui Li, James I.S. MacDonald, Asghar Talebian, Jennifer Leuenberger, Claudia Seah, Stephen H. Pasternak, Stephen W. Michnick, and Susan O. Meakin
Statin safety in chinese: A population-based study of older adults, Daniel Q. Li, Richard B. Kim, Eric McArthur, Jamie L. Fleet, Robert A. Hegele, Baiju R. Shah, Matthew A. Weir, and Amber O. Molnar
International Pediatric Otolaryngology Group (IPOG) consensus recommendations: Hearing loss in the pediatric patient, Bryan J. Liming, John Carter, Alan Cheng, Daniel Choo, John Curotta, Daniela Carvalho, John A. Germiller, Stephen Hone, Margaret A. Kenna, Natalie Loundon, Diego Preciado, Anne Schilder, Brian J. Reilly, Stephane Roman, Julie Strychowsky, Jean Michel Triglia, Nancy Young, and Richard J.H. Smith
Making the transition from video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery to chest tube with fibrinolytics for empyema in children: Any change in outcomes?, Michael H. Livingston, Sara Colozza, Kelly N. Vogt, Neil Merritt, and Andreana Bütter
COX-2 Induces Breast Cancer Stem Cells via EP4/PI3K/AKT/NOTCH/WNT Axis, Mousumi Majumder, Xiping Xin, Ling Liu, Elena Tutunea-Fatan, Mauricio Rodriguez-Torres, Krista Vincent, Lynne Marie Postovit, David Hess, Peeyush K. Dunne, Jürgen Harreiter, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Peter Damm, Elisabeth R. Mathiesen, Dorte M. Jensen, Lise Lotte Andersen, Mette Tanvig, Annunziata Lapolla, Maria Grazia Dalfra, Allessandra Bertolotto, Ewa Wender-Ozegowska, Agnieszka Zawiejska, David Hill, Gernot Desoye, and Frank J Snoek
Increased IGFBP-1 phosphorylation in response to leucine deprivation is mediated by CK2 and PKC, Niyati Malkani, Kyle Biggar, Majida Abu Shehab, Shawn Shun Cheng Li, Thomas Jansson, and Madhulika B. Gupta
Comparing the nutrition environment and practices of home- and centre-based child-care facilities, Olivia J.M. Martyniuk, Leigh M. Vanderloo, Jennifer D. Irwin, Shauna M. Burke, and Patricia Tucker
Impact of Transporter Polymorphisms on Drug Development: Is It Clinically Significant?, Cheynne McLean, Aze Wilson, and Richard B. Kim
Exposure-based Interventions for the management of individuals with high levels of needle fear across the lifespan: a clinical practice guideline and call for further research, C. Meghan McMurtry, Anna Taddio, Melanie Noel, Martin M. Antony, Christine T. Chambers, Gordon J.G. Asmundson, Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Vibhuti Shah, Noni E. MacDonald, Jess Rogers, Lucie M. Bucci, Patricia Mousmanis, Eddy Lang, Scott Halperin, Susan Bowles, Christine Halpert, Moshe Ipp, Michael J. Rieder, Kate Robson, Elizabeth Uleryk, Elizabeth Votta Bleeker, Vinita Dubey, Anita Hanrahan, Donna Lockett, and Jeffrey Scott
PIK3CA-associated developmental disorders exhibit distinct classes of mutations with variable expression and tissue distribution, Ghayda Mirzaa, Andrew E. Timms, Valerio Conti, Evan August Boyle, Katta M. Girisha, Beth Martin, Martin Kircher, Carissa Olds, Jane Juusola, Sarah Collins, Kaylee Park, Melissa Carter, Ian Glass, Inge Krägeloh-Mann, David Chitayat, Aditi Shah Parikh, Rachael Bradshaw, Erin Torti, Stephen Braddock, Leah Burke, Sondhya Ghedia, Mark Stephan, Fiona Stewart, Chitra Prasad, Melanie Napier, and Sulagna Saitta
Abdominal cystic echinococcosis treated with albendazole. A pediatric cohort study, Samanta Moroni, Guillermo Moscatelli, Facundo García Bournissen, Nicolás González, Griselda Ballering, Héctor Freilij, Fabián Salgueiro, and Jaime Altcheh
Nutrition in pregnancy: Optimising maternal diet and fetal adaptations to altered nutrient supply, Janna L. Morrison and Timothy R.H. Regnault
Bronchodilators for the prevention and treatment of chronic lung disease in preterm infants, Geraldine Ng, Orlando da Silva, and Arne Ohlsson
Five things to know about...: Myotonic dystrophy type 1, Cam Tu Emilie Nguyen and Craig Campbell
Serological based monitoring of a cohort of patients with chronic chagas disease treated with benznidazole in a highly endemic area of Northern Argentina, Leticia L. Niborski, Vanina Grippo, Sonia O. Lafón, Gabriela Levitus, Facundo García-Bournissen, Juan C. Ramirez, Juan M. Burgos, Margarita Bisio, Natalia A. Juiz, Vilma Ayala, María Coppede, Verónica Herrera, Crescencia López, Ana Contreras, Karina A. Gómez, Juan C. Elean, Hugo D. Mujica, Alejandro G. Schijman, Mariano J. Levin, and Silvia A. Longhi
Mitochondrial calpain-1 disrupts ATP synthase and induces superoxide generation in type 1 diabetic hearts: A novel mechanism contributing to diabetic cardiomyopathy, Rui Ni, Dong Zheng, Sidong Xiong, David J. Hill, Tao Sun, Richard B. Gardiner, Guo Chang Fan, and Yanrong Lu
Menkes disease: What a multidisciplinary approach can do, Rahul Ojha and Asuri N. Prasad
A novel ICK mutation causes ciliary disruption and lethal endocrine-cerebro-osteodysplasia syndrome, Machteld M. Oud, Carine Bonnard, Dorus A. Mans, Umut Altunoglu, Sumanty Tohari, Alvin Yu Jin Ng, Ascia Eskin, Hane Lee, C. Anthony Rupar, Nathalie P. Wagenaar, Ka Man Wu, Piya Lahiry, Gregory J. Pazour, Stanley F. Nelson, Robert A. Hegele, Ronald Roepman, Hülya Kayserili, Byrappa Venkatesh, Victoria M. Siu, Bruno Reversade, and Heleen H. Arts
EULAR recommendations for the management of familial Mediterranean fever, Seza Ozen, Erkan Demirkaya, Burak Erer, Avi Livneh, Eldad Ben-Chetrit, Gabriella Giancane, Huri Ozdogan, Illana Abu, Marco Gattorno, Philip N. Hawkins, Sezin Yuce, Tilmann Kallinich, Yelda Bilginer, Daniel Kastner, and Loreto Carmona
11β-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1(11β-HSD1) mediates insulin resistance through JNK activation in adipocytes, Kesong Peng, Yong Pan, Jieli Li, Zia Khan, Mendi Fan, Haimin Yin, Chao Tong, and Yunjie Zhao
Comparison of the efficacy of once- and twice-daily colchicine dosage in pediatric patients with familial Mediterranean fever - a randomized controlled noninferiority trial, Adem Polat, Cengizhan Acikel, Betul Sozeri, Ismail Dursun, Ozgur Kasapcopur, Nesrin Gulez, Dogan Simsek, Mehmet Saldir, Ipek Dokurel, Hakan Poyrazoglu, Sevcan Bakkaloglu, Ali Delibas, Zelal Ekinci, Nuray A. Ayaz, Yasar Kandur, Harun Peru, Yasemin G. Kurt, Safiye R. Polat, Erbil Unsal, Balahan Makay, Faysal Gok, Seza Ozen, and Erkan Demirkaya
Reported provision of analgesia to patients with acute abdominal pain in Canadian paediatric emergency departments, Naveen Poonai, Allyson Cowie, Chloe Davidson, Andréanne Benidir, Graham C. Thompson, Philippe Boisclair, Stuart Harman, Michael Miller, Andreana Butter, Rod Lim, and Samina Ali