The Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM) was established in 1997 as a Center within Maine Medical Center Research Institute with the vision of performing cutting edge biomedical research to discover the molecular mechanisms of human disease, and to harness new knowledge in developmental biology and stem cells for regenerative medicine approaches. The investigators at CMM are committed to translating basic science discoveries to innovative approaches to diagnose and treat human disease.

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Submissions from 2020

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Integrating Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Substance Use into Prenatal Care., Jean C Hostage, Julia Brock, Wendy Craig, and Debra Sepulveda

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What is Quality End-of-Life Care for Patients With Heart Failure? A Qualitative Study With Physicians, Rebecca N. Hutchinson, Caitlin Gutheil, Benjamin S. Wessler, Hayley Prevatt, Douglas B. Sawyer, and Paul K. Han

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Canonical WNT/β-Catenin Signaling Activated by WNT9b and RSPO2 Cooperation Regulates Facial Morphogenesis in Mice, Yong-Ri Jin, Xiang Hua Han, Katsuhiko Nishimori, Dan Ben-Avraham, Youn Jeong Oh, Jae-Won Shim, and Jeong Kyo Yoon

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Functional study of CTHRC1 on skeletal muscle regeneration and skeletal muscle stem cells, Yong-Ri Jin, Qiaozeng Wang, Igor Prudovsky, and Volkhard Lindner

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MicroRNA199b regulates mouse hematopoietic stem cells maintenance, Aldona A. Karaczyn, Edward Jachimowicz, Jaspreet S. Kohli, and Pradeep Sathyanarayana

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Ten simple rules for women principal investigators during a pandemic., Pamela K Kreeger, Amy Brock, Holly C Gibbs, K Jane Grande-Allen, Alice H Huang, Kristyn S Masters, Padmini Rangamani, Michaela R. Reagan, and Shannon L Servoss

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Asynchronous mixing of kidney progenitor cells potentiates nephrogenesis in organoids, Ashwani Kumar Gupta, Prasenjit Sarkar, Jason A. Wertheim, Xinchao Pan, Thomas J. Carroll, and Leif Oxburgh

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Association of Beta Blocker Use With Bone Mineral Density in the Framingham Osteoporosis Study: A Cross-Sectional Study, Christine W. Lary, Alexandra C. Hinton, Kathleen T. Nevola, Theresa I. Shireman, Katherine J. Motyl, Karen L. Houseknecht, F Lee Lucas, Sarah Hallen, Andrew R. Zullo, Sarah D. Berry, and Douglas P. Kiel

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Observed emotional reactivity in response to frustration tasks in psychiatrically hospitalized youth with autism spectrum disorder, Jessie B. Northrup, Matthew Goodwin, Joshua Montrenes, Jessica Vezzoli, Josh Golt, Christine B. Peura, Matthew Siegel, and Carla Mazefsky

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Effect of a multi-component intervention on providers' HPV vaccine communication, Rebecca B. Perkins, Bolanle Banigbe, Anny T. Fenton, Amanda K. O'Grady, Emily M. Jansen, Judith L. Bernstein, Natalie P. Joseph, Terresa J. Eun, Dea L. Biancarelli, and Mari-Lynn Drainoni

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Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and maternal and neonatal thyroid function in the Project Viva Cohort: A mixtures approach, Emma V. Preston, Thomas F. Webster, Birgit Claus Henn, Michael D. McClean, Chris Gennings, Emily Oken, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Elizabeth N. Pearce, Antonia M. Calafat, Abby F. Fleisch, and Sharon K. Sagiv

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Infective Endocarditis During the Infectious Diseases and Substance Use Disorder Syndemic: A Six-Year Case Series, N P. Sankar, K Thakarar, and Kristina E. Rokas

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Limited Clinical Utility of Follow-up Blood Cultures in Patients With Streptococcal Bacteremia: An Opportunity for Blood Culture Stewardship., Emily A Siegrist, Minkey Wungwattana, Leyla Azis, Patricia Stogsdill, Wendy Craig, and Kristina E Rokas

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BNIP3 mediated Mitophagy is essential for osteoblast differentiation, Li Tian, Victoria Van Berlo, Vivin Karthik, Joshua P. Passarelli, and Anyonya R. Guntur

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Loss of Spry1 in vascular smooth muscle cells promotes hypercholesterolemiainduced VSMC phenotypic transitions and regulates atherogenesis, Xuehui Yang, Shivangi Pande, and Robert Friesel

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Editorial: Identifying Individuals at Clinical High Risk of Psychosis in Different Cultures and Countries, TianHong Zhang, JiJun Wang, and Kristen A. Woodberry

Submissions from 2019

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Long-Term Culture of Nephron Progenitor Cells Ex Vivo., Aaron C Brown, Ashwani K Gupta, and Leif Oxburgh

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Characterization of smooth muscle cells from human atherosclerotic lesions and their responses to Notch signaling., Jessica Davis-Knowlton, Jacqueline E Turner, Anna Turner, Sydney Damian-Loring, Nicholas Hagler, Terry Henderson, Ivette F Emery, Kyle Bond, Christine W Duarte, Calvin P H Vary, Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, and Lucy Liaw

Submissions from 2018

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The HU177 Collagen Epitope Controls Melanoma Cell Migration and Experimental Metastasis by a CDK5/YAP-Dependent Mechanism., Jennifer M Caron, XiangHua Han, Liangru Contois, Calvin P H Vary, and Peter C Brooks

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Inactivation of MAP3K7 in FOXD1-expressing cells results in loss of mesangial PDGFRΒ and juvenile kidney scarring., Michele J Karolak, Justin A Guay, and Leif Oxburgh

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Variation in Sedation and Neuromuscular Blockade Regimens on Outcome After Cardiac Arrest., Teresa L May, Richard R Riker, Gilles L Fraser, Karen G Hirsch, Sachin Agarwal, Christine Duarte, Hans Friberg, Eldar Søreide, John McPherson, Robert Hand, David Kent, Niklas Nielsen, and David B Seder

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Mesoderm-specific transcript localization in the ER and ER-lipid droplet interface supports a role in adipocyte hypertrophy., Igor Prudovsky, Rea P Anunciado-Koza, Chester G Jacobs, Doreen Kacer, Matthew E Siviski, and Robert A Koza

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Loss of Spry1 attenuates vascular smooth muscle proliferation by impairing mitogen-mediated changes in cell cycle regulatory circuits., Xuehui Yang, Yan Gong, Qing He, Jonathan D Licht, Lucy Liaw, and Robert E Friesel

Submissions from 2017

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Effects of treadmill exercise on advanced osteoarthritis pain in rats., Joshua Allen, Ian Imbert, Joshua Havelin, Terry Henderson, Glenn Stevenson, Lucy Liaw, and Tamara King

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Diet-induced adipose tissue expansion is mitigated in mice with a targeted inactivation of mesoderm specific transcript (Mest)., Rea P Anunciado-Koza, Justin Manuel, Randall L Mynatt, Jingying Zhang, Leslie P Kozak, and Robert A Koza

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Exercise reverses pain-related weight asymmetry and differentially modulates trabecular bone microarchitecture in a rat model of osteoarthritis., Jim Cormier, Katherine Cone, Janell Lanpher, Abigail Kinens, Terry Henderson, Lucy Liaw, Edward J Bilsky, Tamara King, Clifford J Rosen, and Glenn W Stevenson

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Governing roles for Trib3 pseudokinase during stress erythropoiesis., Arvind Dev, Ruth Asch, Edward Jachimowicz, Nicole Rainville, Ashley Johnson, Emily Greenfest-Allen, and Don M Wojchowski

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Erratum to: Suppression of Spry4 enhances cancer stem cell properties of human MDA-MB-231 breast carcinoma cells., Hongyu Jing, Lucy Liaw, Robert Friesel, Calvin Vary, Shucheng Hua, and Xuehui Yang

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Inhibition of osteoclast differentiation and collagen antibody-induced arthritis by CTHRC1., Yong-Ri Jin, J Patrizia Stohn, Qiaozeng Wang, Kenichi Nagano, Roland Baron, Mary L Bouxsein, Clifford J Rosen, Vyacheslav A Adarichev, and Volkhard Lindner

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Human NUMB6 induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition and enhances breast cancer cells migration and Invasion., Aldona A. Karaczyn, Tamara L Adams, Robert Y S Cheng, Nicholas N Matluk, and Joseph M Verdi

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Novel roles for podocalyxin in regulating stress myelopoiesis, Rap1a, and neutrophil migration., Pan Li, Aldona A Karaczyn, Rose McGlauflin, Amanda J Favreau-Lessard, Edward Jachimowicz, Calvin P Vary, Kailin Xu, Don M Wojchowski, and Pradeep Sathyanarayana

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A novel role for dopamine signaling in the pathogenesis of bone loss from the atypical antipsychotic drug risperidone in female mice., Katherine J Motyl, Megan Beauchemin, Deborah Barlow, Phuong T Le, Kenichi Nagano, Annika Treyball, Anisha Contractor, Roland Baron, Clifford J Rosen, and Karen L Houseknecht

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Energy metabolism of bone., Katherine J Motyl, Anyonya R Guntur, Adriana Lelis Carvalho, and Clifford J Rosen

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Growth factor regulation in the nephrogenic zone of the developing kidney., Leif Oxburgh, Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan, and Aaron Brown

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New insights into fuel choices of nephron progenitor cells., Leif Oxburgh and Clifford J Rosen

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Bim expression in endothelial cells and pericytes is essential for regression of the fetal ocular vasculature., Shoujian Wang, Ismail S Zaitoun, Ryan P Johnson, Nasim Jamali, Zafer Gurel, Catherine M Wintheiser, Andreas Strasser, Volkhard Lindner, Nader Sheibani, and Christine M Sorenson

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Type 3 deiodinase role on central thyroid hormone action affects the leptin-melanocortin system and circadian activity., Zhaofei Wu, M Elena Martinez, Donald L St Germain, and Arturo Hernandez

Submissions from 2016

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Carbonic anhydrase IX is a marker of hypoxia and correlates with higher Gleason scores and ISUP grading in prostate cancer., Maria Raffaella Ambrosio, Claudia Di Serio, Giovanna Danza, Bruno Jim Rocca, Alessandro Ginori, Igor Prudovsky, Niccolò Marchionni, Maria Teresa Del Vecchio, and Francesca Tarantini

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Identification of an endogenously generated cryptic collagen epitope (XL313) that may selectively regulate angiogenesis by an integrin Yes-associated protein (YAP) mechano-transduction pathway, Jacquelyn J Ames, Liangru Contois, Jennifer M Caron, Eric Tweedie, Xuehui Yang, Robert Friesel, Calvin Vary, and Peter C Brooks

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Adipose tissue Mest and Sfrp5 are concomitant with variations of adiposity among inbred mouse strains fed a non-obesogenic diet., Rea P Anunciado-Koza, David C Higgins, and Robert A Koza

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Molecular correlates of fat mass expansion in C57BL/6J mice after short-term exposure to dietary fat., Rea P Anunciado-Koza, Justin Manuel, and Robert A Koza

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Inhibition of ovarian tumor growth by targeting the HU177 cryptic collagen epitope., Jennifer M M. Caron, Jacquelyn J. Ames, Liangru Contois, Leonard Liebes, Robert Friesel, Franco Muggia, Calvin PH Vary, Leif Oxburgh, and Peter C Brooks

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miR-199b, a novel tumor suppressor miRNA in acute myeloid leukemia with prognostic implications., Amanda J Favreau, Rose E McGlauflin, Christine W Duarte, and Pradeep Sathyanarayana

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Novel biological therapies targeting heart failure: myocardial rejuvenation., Amanda J. Favreau-Lessard, Sergey Ryzhov, and Douglas B. Sawyer

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Suppression of Spry1 inhibits triple-negative breast cancer malignancy by decreasing EGF/EGFR mediated mesenchymal phenotype., Qing He, Hongyu Jing, Lucy Liaw, Lindsey Gower, Calvin Vary, Shucheng Hua, and Xuehui Yang

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Suppression of Spry4 enhances cancer stem cell properties of human MDA-MB-231 breast carcinoma cells., Hongyu Jing, Lucy Liaw, Robert Friesel, Calvin Vary, Shucheng Hua, and Xuehui Yang

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Genomic imprinting of DIO3, a candidate gene for the syndrome associated with human uniparental disomy of chromosome 14., Maria Elena Martinez, David F. Cox, Brian P. Youth, and Arturo Hernandez

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Development: Unique genetic determinants of human kidney development., Leif Oxburgh

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The bioengineered kidney: science or science fiction?, Leif Oxburgh and Thomas J Carroll

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Multimodal Eph/Ephrin signaling controls several phases of urogenital development., Christiane Peuckert, Bejan Aresh, Pavlo Holenya, Derek Adams, Smitha Sreedharan, Annika Porthin, Louise Andersson, Hanna Pettersson, Stefan Wölfl, Rüdiger Klein, Leif Oxburgh, and Klas Kullander

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Cardiac dysfunction due to cancer therapy: finding new directions., Sergey Ryzhov, Sanjeev Francis, and Douglas B Sawyer

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Decreased anxiety- and depression-like behaviors and hyperactivity in a type 3 deiodinase-deficient mouse showing brain thyrotoxicosis and peripheral hypothyroidism., J Patrizia Stohn, M Elena Martinez, and Arturo Hernandez

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MCT8 deficiency in male mice mitigates the phenotypic abnormalities associated with the absence of a functional type 3 deiodinase., J Patrizia Stohn, M Elena Martinez, Kassey Matoin, Beatriz Morte, Juan Bernal, Valerie Anne Galton, Donald St Germain, and Arturo Hernandez

Submissions from 2015

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A synthetic niche for nephron progenitor cells., Aaron C Brown, Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan, and Leif Oxburgh

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A new role of SNAI2 in postlactational involution of the mammary gland links it to luminal breast cancer development., S Castillo-Lluva, L Hontecillas-Prieto, A Blanco-Gómez, M Del Mar Sáez-Freire, B García-Cenador, J García-Criado, M Pérez-Andrés, A Orfao, M Cañamero, J H Mao, T Gridley, A Castellanos-Martín, and J Pérez-Losada

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3,5-diiodo-L-thyronine (t2) in dietary supplements: what are the physiological effects?, Arturo Hernandez

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Snai1 regulates cell lineage allocation and stem cell maintenance in the mouse intestinal epithelium., Katja Horvay, Thierry Jardé, Franca Casagranda, Victoria M Perreau, Katharina Haigh, Christian M Nefzger, Reyhan Akhtar, Thomas Gridley, Geert Berx, Jody J Haigh, Nick Barker, Jose M Polo, Gary R Hime, and Helen E Abud

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AHNAK2 participates in the stress-induced nonclassical FGF1 secretion pathway., Aleksandr Kirov, Doreen Kacer, Barbara A Conley, Calvin P H Vary, and Igor Prudovsky

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Emerging EPO and EPO receptor regulators and signal transducers., David Kuhrt and Don M Wojchowski

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Emerging EPO and EPO receptor regulators and signal transducers., David Kuhrt and Don M Wojchowski

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Integrated β-catenin, BMP, PTEN, and Notch signalling patterns the nephron., Nils O Lindström, Melanie L Lawrence, Sally F Burn, Jeanette A Johansson, Elvira R M Bakker, Rachel A Ridgway, C-Hong Chang, Michele J Karolak, Leif Oxburgh, Denis J Headon, Owen J Sansom, Ron Smits, Jamie A Davies, and Peter Hohenstein

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p53 Enables metabolic fitness and self-renewal of nephron progenitor cells., Yuwen Li, Jiao Liu, Wencheng Li, Aaron Brown, Melody Baddoo, Marilyn Li, Thomas Carroll, Leif Oxburgh, Yumei Feng, and Zubaida Saifudeen

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SMAD1 and SMAD5 expression is coordinately regulated by FLI1 and GATA2 during endothelial development., Jonathon Marks-Bluth, Anchit Khanna, Vashe Chandrakanthan, Julie Thoms, Thomas Bee, Christina Eich, Young Chan Kang, Kathy Knezevic, Qiao Qiao, Simon Fitch, Leif Oxburgh, Katrin Ottersbach, Elaine Dzierzak, Marella F T R de Bruijn, and John E Pimanda

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Concurrent BMP7 and FGF9 signalling governs AP-1 function to promote self-renewal of nephron progenitor cells., Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan, Xuehui Yang, Robert Friesel, and Leif Oxburgh

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Parent stem cells can serve as niches for their daughter cells., Ana Pardo-Saganta, Purushothama Rao Tata, Brandon M Law, Borja Saez, Ryan Dz-Wei Chow, Mythili Prabhu, Thomas Gridley, and Jayaraj Rajagopal

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DLL4/Notch1 and BMP9 interdependent signaling induces human endothelial cell quiescence via P27KIP1 and thrombospondin-1., Bahman Rostama, Jacqueline E Turner, Guy T Seavey, Christine R Norton, Thomas Gridley, Calvin P H Vary, and Lucy Liaw

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Cthrc1 controls adipose tissue formation, body composition, and physical activity., J Patrizia Stohn, Qiaozeng Wang, Matthew E Siviski, Kevin Kennedy, Yong-Ri Jin, Doreen Kacer, Victoria DeMambro, Lucy Liaw, Calvin P Vary, Clifford J Rosen, Igor Prudovsky, and Volkhard Lindner

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SLUG is a direct transcriptional repressor of PTEN tumor suppressor., Berna Uygur, Katrina Abramo, Evgenia Leikina, Calvin Vary, Lucy Liaw, and Wen-Shu Wu

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Loss of Snail2 favors skin tumor progression by promoting the recruitment of myeloid progenitors., Ana Villarejo, Patricia Molina-Ortiz, Yenny Montenegro, Gema Moreno-Bueno, Saleta Morales, Vanesa Santos, Tom Gridley, Mirna A Pérez-Moreno, Héctor Peinado, Francisco Portillo, Carmela Calés, and Amparo Cano

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Fibroblast growth factor signaling in the vasculature., Xuehui Yang, Lucy Liaw, Igor Prudovsky, Peter C Brooks, Calvin Vary, Leif Oxburgh, and Robert Friesel

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BMP9 crosstalk with the hippo pathway regulates endothelial cell matricellular and chemokine responses., Kira Young, Eric Tweedie, Barbara Conley, Jacquelyn Ames, MaryLynn FitzSimons, Peter Brooks, Lucy Liaw, and Calvin P H Vary

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Expression of adenosine receptors in monocytes from patients with bronchial asthma., Ksenia Yuryeva, Irina Saltykova, Ludmila Ogorodova, Natalya Kirillova, Evgeny Kulikov, Elena Korotkaya, Yulia Iakovleva, Igor Feoktistov, Alexey Sazonov, and Sergey Ryzhov

Submissions from 2014

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Improved survival outcomes in cancer patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia., Christine W Duarte, Kimberly Murray, F Lee Lucas, Kathleen Fairfield, Heather Miller, Peter Brooks, and Calvin P H Vary

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Elevated plasma levels of the pituitary hormone Cthrc1 in individuals with red hair but not in patients with solid tumors., Christine W Duarte, J Patrizia Stohn, Qiaozeng Wang, Ivette F Emery, Andrew Prueser, and Volkhard Lindner

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Cryptic collagen IV promotes cell migration and adhesion in myeloid leukemia., Amanda J Favreau, Calvin P H Vary, Peter C Brooks, and Pradeep Sathyanarayana

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FOXD1 promotes nephron progenitor differentiation by repressing decorin in the embryonic kidney., Jennifer L Fetting, Justin A Guay, Michele J Karolak, Renato V Iozzo, Derek C Adams, David E Maridas, Aaron C Brown, and Leif Oxburgh

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Overview of genetic tools and techniques to study Notch signaling in mice., Thomas Gridley and Andrew K Groves

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Lightening up a notch: notch regulation of energy metabolism., Thomas Gridley and Shingo Kajimura

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Regulation of the follistatin gene by RSPO-LGR4 signaling via activation of the WNT/β-catenin pathway in skeletal myogenesis., Xiang Hua Han, Yong-Ri Jin, Leonard Tan, Tatiana Kosciuk, Jin-Seon Lee, and Jeong Kyo Yoon

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Deficiency of Sef is associated with increased postnatal cortical bone mass by regulating Runx2 activity., Qing He, Xuehui Yang, Yan Gong, Dmitry Kovalenko, Ernesto Canalis, Clifford J Rosen, and Robert E Friesel

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Effect of sustained postnatal systemic inflammation on hippocampal volume and function in mice., Shadi N Malaeb, Jonathan M Davis, Ilka M Pinz, Jennifer L Newman, Olaf Dammann, and Maribel Rios

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Genomic imprinting variations in the mouse type 3 deiodinase gene between tissues and brain regions., M Elena Martinez, Marika Charalambous, Aabida Saferali, Steven Fiering, Anna K Naumova, Donald St Germain, Anne C Ferguson-Smith, and Arturo Hernandez

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Bone morphogenetic protein signaling in nephron progenitor cells., Leif Oxburgh, Aaron C. Brown, Sree Deepthi Muthukrishnan, and Jennifer L. Fetting

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Common features of microRNA target prediction tools., Sarah M Peterson, Jeffrey A Thompson, Melanie L Ufkin, Pradeep Sathyanarayana, Lucy Liaw, and Clare Bates Congdon

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Transitory FGF treatment results in the long-lasting suppression of the proliferative response to repeated FGF stimulation., Ashleigh Poole, Nicholas Knowland, Emily Cooper, Rebecca Cole, Hongchuan Wang, Lucas Booth, Doreen Kacer, Francesca Tarantini, Robert Friesel, and Igor Prudovsky

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Notch signal integration in the vasculature during remodeling., Bahman Rostama, Sarah M Peterson, Calvin P H Vary, and Lucy Liaw

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miR-125a regulates cell cycle, proliferation, and apoptosis by targeting the ErbB pathway in acute myeloid leukemia., Melanie L Ufkin, Sarah Peterson, Xuehui Yang, Heather Driscoll, Christine Duarte, and Pradeep Sathyanarayana

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Transfer of intracellular HIV Nef to endothelium causes endothelial dysfunction., Ting Wang, Linden A Green, Samir K Gupta, Chul Kim, Liang Wang, Sharilyn Almodovar, Sonia C Flores, Igor A Prudovsky, Paul Jolicoeur, Ziyue Liu, and Matthias Clauss

Submissions from 2010

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Two novel human NUMB isoforms provide a potential link between development and cancer., Aldona Karaczyn, Mahmud Bani-Yaghoub, Roger Tremblay, Chris Kubu, Rebecca Cowling, Tamara L Adams, Igor Prudovsky, Douglas Spicer, Robert Friesel, Calvin Vary, and Joseph M Verdi