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 2014
NFATs are good for your cartilage!, F. Beier
Case 1: A 16-year-old female with left lower-quadrant abdominal pain, Andreanne Benidir and Rodrick Lim
Early aggressive therapy for patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Are we there yet?, Roberta A. Berard and Ronald M. Laxer
Neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas causing biliary obstruction in a 12 year-old girl: A case report and literature review, Kimberly A. Bertens, Michael Livingston, Douglas Quan, Ken Leslie, Alexandra Zorzi, and Andreana Bütter
The p66Shc adaptor protein controls oxidative stress response in early bovine embryos, Dean H. Betts, Nathan T. Bain, and Pavneesh Madan
The Health Initiative Program for Kids (HIP Kids): Effects of a 1-Year Multidisciplinary Lifestyle Intervention on Adiposity and Quality of Life in Obese Children and Adolescents -- A Longitudinal Pilot Intervention Study, Dirk E. Bock, Tracy Robinson, Jamie A Seabrook, Meghan Rombeek, Kambiz Norozi, Guido Filler, Ralf Rauch, and Cheril L Clarson
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ agonist GW1516 attenuates diet-induced aortic inflammation, insulin resistance, and atherosclerosis in low-density lipoprotein receptor knockout mice, Lazar A. Bojic, Amy C. Burke, Sanjiv S. Chhoker, Dawn E. Telford, Brian G. Sutherland, Jane Y. Edwards, Cynthia G. Sawyez, Rommel G. Tirona, Hao Yin, J. Geoffrey Pickering, and Murray W. Huff
Neonatal morbidity associated with late preterm and early term birth: The roles of gestational age and biological determinants of preterm birth, Hilary K. Brown, Kathy Nixon Speechley, Jennifer Macnab, Renato Natale, and M. Karen Campbell
Changes in Smoking During Pregnancy in Ontario, 1995 to 2010: Results From the Canadian Community Health Survey, Hilary K. Brown and Piotr Wilk
Ataluren treatment of patients with nonsense mutation dystrophinopathy, Katharine Bushby, Richard Finkel, Brenda Wong, Richard Barohn, Craig Campbell, Giacomo P. Comi, Anne M. Connolly, and John W. Day
Gold mining on Mayan-Mam territory: Social unravelling, discord and distress in the Western highlands of Guatemala, C. Susana Caxaj, Helene Berman, Colleen Varcoe, Susan L. Ray, and Jean Paul Restoulec
A retinoblastoma allele that is mutated at its common E2F interaction site inhibits cell proliferation in gene-targeted mice, Matthew J. Cecchini, Michael J. Thwaites, Srikanth Talluri, James I. MacDonald, Daniel T. Passos, Jean Leon Chong, Paul Cantalupo, Paul M. Stafford, M. Teresa Sáenz-Robles, Sarah M. Francis, James M. Pipas, Gustavo Leone, Ian Welch, and Frederick A. Dick
Recurrent genomic alterations in sequential progressive leukoplakia and oral cancer: Drivers of oral tumorigenesis?, Nilva K. Cervigne, Jerry Machado, Rashmi S. Goswami, Bekim Sadikovic, Grace Bradley, Bayardo Perez-Ordonez, Natalie Naranjo Galloni, Ralph Gilbert, Patrick Gullane, Jonathan C. Irish, Igor Jurisica, Patricia P. Reis, and Suzanne Kamel-Reid
Counting on the motor system: Rapid action planning reveals the format- and magnitude-dependent extraction of numerical quantity, Craig S. Chapman, Jason P. Gallivan, Daniel K. Wood, Jennifer L. Milne, Daniel Ansari, Jody C. Culham, and Melvyn A. Goodale
Diagnosis by peritoneal scintigraphy of peritoneal dialysis–associated hydrothorax in an infant, M. Chavannes, A. P. Sharma, R. N. Singh, R. H. Reid, and G. Filler
Combination of AKT inhibition with autophagy blockade effectively reduces ascites-derived ovarian cancer cell viability, Rohann J.M. Correa, Yudith Ramos Valdes, Teresa M. Peart, Elena N. Fazio, Monique Bertrand, Jacob McGee, Michel Préfontaine, Akira Sugimoto, Gabriel E. DiMattia, and Trevor G. Shepherd
Haploinsufficiency of an RB-E2F1-Condensin II Complex Leads to Aberrant Replication and Aneuploidy, Courtney H. Coschi, Charles A. Ishak, David Gallo, Aren Marshall, Srikanth Talluri, Jianxin Wang, Matthew J. Cecchini, Alison L. Martens, Vanessa Percy, Ian Welch, Paul C. Boutros, Grant W. Brown, and Frederick A. Dick
Opening the door to new therapeutic options with open label studies for children with detrusor overactivity, Sumit Dave
Pregnancy complications in women with heart disease conceiving with fertility therapy, Natalie Dayan, Carl A. Laskin, Karen Spitzer, Jennifer Mason, Jacob A. Udell, Rachel M. Wald, Samuel C. Siu, Theodora Iten-Scott, and Candice K. Silversides
A method for investigating age-related differences in the functional connectivity of cognitive control networks associated with dimensional change card sort performance, Bianca DeBenedictis and J. Bruce Morton
A novel MC4R mutation associated with childhood-onset obesity: A case report, Manpreet Doulla, Adam D. McIntyre, Robert A. Hegele, and Patricia H. Callego
Determinants of Oral Corticosteroid Responsiveness in Wheezing Asthmatic Youth (DOORWAY): Protocol for a prospective multicentre cohort study of children with acute moderate-to-severe asthma exacerbations, Francine M. Ducharme, R. Zemek, J. Gravel, D. Chalut, N. Poonai, S. Laberge, C. Quach, M. Krajinovic, C. Guimont, C. Lemière, and M. C. Guertin
The sport concussion education project. a brief report on an educational initiative: From concept to curriculum, Paul S. Echlin, Andrew M. Johnson, Jeffrey D. Holmes, Annalise Tichenoff, Sarah Gray, Heather Gatavackas, Joanne Walsh, Tim Middlebro, Angelique Schachar, Jennifer Crosbie, Paul Arnold, Elizabeth Kelley, Muhammad Ayub, Robert Nicolson, Stelios Georgiades, Jason P. Lerch, and Evdokia Anagnostou
Guidelines for Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Comparisons From Around the World, Kelly R. Evenson, Ruben Barakat, Wendy J. Brown, Patricia Dargent-Molina, Megumi Haruna, Ellen M. Mikkelsen, Michelle F. Mottola, Katrine M. Owe, Emily K. Kim, Bandar Al-Judaibi, Ute I. Schwarz, Alnoor Ramji, Edward Tam, Colin J. Ross, and Bruce C. Carleton
Linkage analysis and exome sequencing identify a novel mutation in KCTD7 in patients with progressive myoclonus epilepsy with ataxia, Sali M.K. Farhan, Lisa M. Murphy, John F. Robinson, Jian Wang, Victoria M. Siu, C. Anthony Rupar, Asuri N. Prasad, Kym Boycott, Jan Friedman, Jacques Michaud, Francois Bernier, Michael Brudno, Bridget Fernandez, Bartha Knoppers, Mark Samuels, Steve Scherer, and Robert A. Hegele