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
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
Breastfeeding and postpartum depression: Assessing the influence of breastfeeding intention and other risk factors, Carley J. Pope, Dwight Mazmanian, Michel Bédard, and Verinder Sharma
TGFβ signaling regulates Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity in ovarian cancer ascites-derived spheroids, Samah Rafehi, Yudith Ramos Valdes, Monique Bertrand, Jacob McGee, Michel Préfontaine, Akira Sugimoto, Gabriel E. Dimattia, and Trevor G. Shepherd
Expert consensus on dynamics of laboratory tests for diagnosis of macrophage activation syndrome complicating systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Angelo Ravelli, Francesca Minoia, Sergio Davì, Anna Carin Horne, Francesca Bovis, Angela Pistorio, Maurizio Aricò, Tadej Avcin, Edward M. Behrens, Fabrizio De Benedetti, Alexandra Filipovic, Alexei A. Grom, Jan Inge Henter, Norman T. Ilowite, Michael B. Jordan, Raju Khubchandani, Toshiyuki Kitoh, Kai Lehmberg, Daniel J. Lovell, Paivi Miettunen, Kim E. Nichols, Seza Ozen, Jana Pachlopnik Schmid, Athimalaipet V. Ramanan, Ricardo Russo, Rayfel Schneider, Gary Sterba, Yosef Uziel, and Carol Wallace
2016 Classification Criteria for Macrophage Activation Syndrome Complicating Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology/Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation Collaborative Initiative, Angelo Ravelli, Francesca Minoia, Sergio Davì, Annacarin Horne, Francesca Bovis, Angela Pistorio, Maurizio Aricò, Tadej Avcin, Edward M. Behrens, Fabrizio De Benedetti, Lisa Filipovic, Alexei A. Grom, Jan Inge Henter, Norman T. Ilowite, Michael B. Jordan, Raju Khubchandani, Toshiyuki Kitoh, Kai Lehmberg, Daniel J. Lovell, Paivi Miettunen, Kim E. Nichols, Seza Ozen, Jana Pachlopnik Schmid, Athimalaipet V. Ramanan, Ricardo Russo, Rayfel Schneider, Gary Sterba, Yosef Uziel, and Carol Wallace
Design and conduct of early phase drug studies in children: challenges and opportunities, Michael Rieder and Daniel Hawcutt
The effect of a full bladder on proportions of diagnostic ultrasound studies in children with suspected appendicitis, Marshall Ross, Sasha Selby, Naveen Poonai, Helena Liu, Shabnam Minoosepehr, Graham Boag, Robin Eccles, and Graham Thompson
Cardiac acetylcholine inhibits ventricular remodeling and dysfunction under pathologic conditions, Ashbeel Roy, Mouhamed Dakroub, Geisa C.S.V. Tezini, Yin Liu, Silvia Guatimosim, Qingping Feng, Helio C. Salgado, Vania F. Prado, Marco A.M. Prado, and Robert Gros
Characterization and immunomodulatory effects of canine adipose tissue- and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells, Keith A. Russell, Natalie H.C. Chow, David Dukoff, Thomas W.G. Gibson, Jonathan La Marre, Dean H. Betts, and Thomas G. Koch
Macrophage-derived extracellular vesicle-packaged WNTs rescue intestinal stem cells and enhance survival after radiation injury, Subhrajit Saha, Evelyn Aranda, Yoku Hayakawa, Payel Bhanja, Safinur Atay, N. Patrik Brodin, Jiufeng Li, Samuel Asfaha, Laibin Liu, Yagnesh Tailor, Jinghang Zhang, Andrew K. Godwin, Wolfgang A. Tome, Timothy C. Wang, Chandan Guha, and Jeffrey W. Pollard
Prediction of congenital hypothyroidism based on initial screening thyroid-stimulating-hormone, David S. Saleh, Sarah Lawrence, Michael T. Geraghty, Patricia H. Gallego, Karen McAssey, Diane K. Wherrett, and Pranesh Chakraborty
Alagille syndrome: Clinical perspectives, Maha Saleh, Binita M. Kamath, and David Chitayat
The differential effects of low birth weight and Western diet consumption upon early life hepatic fibrosis development in guinea pig, Ousseynou Sarr, Alexandra Blake, Jennifer A. Thompson, Lin Zhao, Katherine Rabicki, Joanna C. Walsh, Ian Welch, and Timothy R.H. Regnault
Integrin-Linked Kinase Is Indispensable for Keratinocyte Differentiation and Epidermal Barrier Function, Samar Sayedyahossein, Alena Rudkouskaya, Valerie Leclerc, and Lina Dagnino
Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing Pipeline Outperforms a Combined Approach Using Sanger Sequencing and Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification in Targeted Gene Panel Analysis, Laila C. Schenkel, Jennifer Kerkhof, Alan Stuart, Jack Reilly, Barry Eng, Crystal Woodside, Alexander Levstik, Christopher J. Howlett, Anthony C. Rupar, Joan H.M. Knoll, Peter Ainsworth, John S. Waye, and Bekim Sadikovic
Clinical Validation of Fragile X Syndrome Screening by DNA Methylation Array, Laila C. Schenkel, Charles Schwartz, Cindy Skinner, David I. Rodenhiser, Peter J. Ainsworth, Guillaume Pare, and Bekim Sadikovic
Increased Umbilical Cord PAI-1 Levels in Placental Insufficiency Are Associated with Fetal Hypoxia and Angiogenesis, Maxim D. Seferovic and Madhulika B. Gupta
Newborn With Scalp Swelling, Jade Séguin and Charisse Kwan
Expanded Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells Reselected for High Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Activity Demonstrate Islet Regenerative Functions, Ayesh K. Seneviratne, Gillian I. Bell, Stephen E. Sherman, Tyler T. Cooper, David M. Putman, and David A. Hess
Experiences of caregivers of children with inherited metabolic diseases: a qualitative study, Shabnaz Siddiq, Brenda J. Wilson, Ian D. Graham, Monica Lamoureux, Sara D. Khangura, Kylie Tingley, Laure Tessier, Pranesh Chakraborty, Doug Coyle, Sarah Dyack, Jane Gillis, Cheryl Greenberg, Robin Z. Hayeems, Shailly Jain-Ghai, Jonathan B. Kronick, Anne Marie Laberge, Julian Little, John J. Mitchell, Chitra Prasad, Komudi Siriwardena, Rebecca Sparkes, Kathy N. Speechley, Sylvia Stockler, Yannis Trakadis, Sarah Wafa, and Jagdeep Walia
CAEP 2015 Academic Symposium: Leadership within the emergency medicine academic community and beyond, Doug Sinclair, James R. Worthington, Gary Joubert, Brian R. Holroyd, James Stempien, Eric Letovsky, Tim Rutledge, and Constance LeBlanc
E2F1 interactions with hHR23A inhibit its degradation and promote DNA repair, Randeep K. Singh and Lina Dagnino
MKS1 regulates ciliary INPP5E levels in Joubert syndrome, Gisela G. Slaats, Christine R. Isabella, Hester Y. Kroes, Jennifer C. Dempsey, Hendrik Gremmels, Glen R. Monroe, Ian G. Phelps, Karen J. Duran, and Jonathan Litchfield
Nasal pain as an aura to a complex partial seizure, Egidio Spinelli, Abdullah Alkutbi, D. Barry Sinclair, and Helly Goez