Physiology and Pharmacology Publications
Excelling in the study of biological processes on a cellular-molecular and integrative-systemic level and drugs impact on these processes, Research in Physiology and Pharmacology Publications also looks at cardiovascular sciences, cell development and cancer, reproductive biology and endocrinology, and neuroscience.
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Submissions from 2010
MicroRNA profiling reveals new aspects of HIV neurodegeneration: Caspase-6 regulates astrocyte survival, Farshid Noorbakhsh, Rithwik Ramachandran, Nicola Barsby, Kristofor K. Ellestad, Andrea LeBlanc, Peter Dickie, Glen Baker, Morley D. Hollenberg, Éric A. Cohen, and Christopher Power
Molecular Mechanisms and Treatment Strategies for Dupuytren's Disease, David B. O'Gorman, Linda Vi, and Bing Siang Gan
Hair Cortisol and the Risk for Acute Myocardial Infarction in Adult Men, David Pereg, Rachel Gow, Morris Mosseri, Michael Lishner, Michael Rieder, Stan Van Uum, and Gideon Koren
Human Cord Blood Progenitors with High Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Activity Improve Vascular Density in a Model of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Claus S. Sondergaard, David A. Hess, Dustin J. Maxwell, Carla Weinheimer, Ivana Rosová, Michael H. Creer, David Piwnica-Worms, Attila Kovacs, Lene Pedersen, and Jan A. Nolta
A Paramagnetic Chemical Exchange-based MRI Probe Metabolized by Cathepsin D: Design, Synthesis and Cellular Uptake Studies, Mojmír Suchý, Robert Ta, Alex X. Li, Filip Wojciechowski, Stephen H. Pasternak, Robert Bartha, and Robert H. E. Hudson
De Novo Sequencing and Analysis of the American Ginseng Root Transcriptome Using a GS FLX Titanium Platform to Discover Putative Genes Involved in Ginsenoside Biosynthesis, Chao Sun, Ying Li, Qiong Wu, Hongmei Luo, Yongzhen Sun, Jingyuan Song, Edmund M. K. Lui, and Shilin Chen
Controlled Deposition of Highly Oriented Type I Collagen Mimicking In Vivo Collagen Structures, Annabell Tenboll, Behafarid Darvish, Weimin Hou, Anne-Sophie Duwez, S. Jeffrey Dixon, Harvey A. Goldberg, Bernd Grohe, and Silvia Mittler
Synthetic Triterpenoids Target the Arp2/3 Complex and Inhibit Branched Actin Polymerization, Ciric To, Brian H. Shilton, and Gianni M. Di Guglielmo
Regulation of Gene Expression by PI3K in Mouse Growth Plate Chondrocytes, Veronica Ulici, Claudine G. James, Katie D. Hoenselaar, and Frank Beier
The Potential Roles of Cell Migration and Extra-cellular Matrix Interactions in Dupuytren's Disease Progression and Recurrence, Linda Vi, Bing Siang Gan, and David B. O'Gorman
WNT2 Regulates DNA Synthesis in Mouse Granulosa Cells through Beta-catenin, Hong-Xing Wang, Tony Y. Li, and Gerald M. Kidder
Mapping Proprioception across a 2D Horizontal Workspace, Elizabeth T. Wilson, Jeremy Wong, and Paul L. Gribble
Submissions from 2009
Activation of P2X7 Receptors Causes Isoform-specific Translocation of Protein Kinase C in Osteoclasts, Souzan Armstrong, Alexey Pereverzev, S. Jeffrey Dixon, and Stephen M. Sims
SNAI1 and SNAI2 Are Asymmetrically Expressed at the 2-Cell Stage and Become Segregated to the TE in the Mouse Blastocyst, Christine E. Bell and Andrew J. Watson
Keloid Scarring, but Not Dupuytren's Contracture, Is Associated with Unexplained Carotid Atherosclerosis, Sankalp Bhavsar, Andre Nimigan, Daniel G. Hackam, David B. O'Gorman, Bing Siang Gan, and J. David Spence
NAD+, Sirtuins, and Cardiovascular Disease, Nica M. Borradaile and J. Geoffrey Pickering
Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone-regulated Chemokine Expression in Human Placentation, P. Craig Cavanagh, Caroline Dunk, Macarena Pampillo, Jacob M. Szereszewski, Jay E. Taylor, Caroline Kahiri, Victor Han, Stephen Lye, Moshmi Bhattacharya, and Andy V. Babwah
Tissue Engineering Scaffolds for the Regeneration of Craniofacial Bone, Wailan D. Chan, Hiran Perinpanayagam, Harvey A. Goldberg, Graeme K. Hunter, S. Jeffrey Dixon, Gildo C. Santos, and Amin S. Rizkalla
Skeletal Biology Research at the University of Western Ontario: Successful Synergy among Dental and Medical Scientists, S. Jeffrey Dixon and Graeme K. Hunter
Expression, Signaling, and Function of P2X7 Receptors in Bone, Matthew W. Grol, Nattapon Panupinthu, Jasminka Korcok, Stephen M. Sims, and S. Jeffrey Dixon
Integrin-linked Kinase Interactions with ELMO2 Modulate Cell Polarity, Ernest Ho, Tames Irvine, Gregory J. A. Vilk, Gilles Lajoie, Kodi S. Ravichandran, Sudhir J. A. D'Souza, and Lina Dagnino
Identification of a Novel Zn2+-binding Domain in the Autosomal Recessive Juvenile Parkinson-related E3 Ligase Parkin, Ventzislava A. Hristova, Steven A. Beasley, Jane Rylett, and Gary S. Shaw
Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Reduces the Severity of Cerulein-Induced Pancreatitis in Mice, Charis L. Johnson, Jacqueline Y. Weston, Sami A. Chadi, Elena N. Fazio, Murray W. Huff, Alexei Kharitonenkov, Anja Köester, and Christopher L. Pin
Met receptor tyrosine kinase transactivation is involved in proteinase-activated receptor-2-mediated hepatocellular carcinoma cell invasion, Roland Kaufmann, Claudia Oettel, Antje Horn, Karl Jürgen Halbhuber, Annett Eitner, Reimar Krieg, Kathrin Katenkamp, Peter Henklein, Martin Westermann, Frank D. Böhmer, Rithwik Ramachandran, Mahmoud Saifeddine, Morley D. Hollenberg, and Utz Settmacher
Retinoic Acid Enhances Skeletal Muscle Progenitor Formation and Bypasses Inhibition by Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 but not Dominant Negative β-catenin, Karen A. M. Kennedy, Tammy Porter, Virja Mehta, Scott D. Ryan, Feodor Price, Vian Peshdary, Christina Karamboulas, Josée Savage, Thomas A. Drysdale, Shun-Cheng Li, Steffany A. L. Bennett, and Ilona S. Skerjanc