School of Medicine Publications and Presentations
Open access research published by the UTRGV School of Medicine-affiliated faculty, residents, fellows, and students. For all publications, please visit this page.
Submissions from 2023
Understanding the Burden of Traumatic Injuries at the United States-Mexico Border: A Scoping Review of the Literature, Benjamin A. Keller, Jeffrey Skubic, Monica Michelle Betancourt-Garcia, Romeo C. Ignacio, Jason S. Radowsky, Alan H. Tyroch, Carlos Palacio Lascano, Bellal Joseph, Collin Stewart, and Aaron Silva
Curative Effects of Triphala Extract against Swim Stress-Induced Gastric Ulcers via Reduced Ulcer Index, Strengthened Gastric Mucosa and Improved Redox State in Rats, M Khushtar, H H. Siddiqui, R K. Dixit, and Sahir Sultan Alvi
Detecting clinical practice guideline-recommended wheelchair propulsion patterns with wearable devices following a wheelchair propulsion intervention, Pin-Wei Chen, Joe Klaesner, Igor Zwir, and Kerri A. Morgan
Functional and Safety Outcomes of Carotid Artery Stenting and Mechanical Thrombectomy for Large Vessel Occlusion Ischemic Stroke With Tandem Lesions, Mudassir Farooqui, Osama Zaidat, Ameer E. Hassan, Darko Quispe-Orozco, Nils Petersen, Afshin A. Divani, Marc Ribo, Michael Abraham, Johanna Fifi, and Waldo R. Guerrero
Home Away From Home: Mentorship and Research in Private Practices for Students Without Home Programs, Arianna Victoria Ramirez, Victor Espinoza, Macaulay A. Ojeaga Jr., Alexis Garza, Blake Hensler, and Vincent Honrubia
Neuroarquitectura: percepción de cambios de la atmósfera, Gladys E. Maestre and Yohany Albornoz
Potential miRNA biomarkers and therapeutic targets for early atherosclerotic lesions, Genesio M. Karere, Jeremy P. Glenn, Ge Li, Ayati Konar, John L. VandeBerg, and Laura A. Cox
Single-neuron whole genome sequencing identifies increased somatic mutation burden in Alzheimer's disease related genes, Zongchang Li, Shishi Min, Ney Alliey-Rodriguez, Gina Giase, Lijun Cheng, David Wesley Craig, Geoffrey J. Faulkner, Huma Asif, and Chunyu Liu
Volume of subcortical brain regions in social anxiety disorder: mega-analytic results from 37 samples in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group, Nynke A. Groenewold, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Alyssa R. Amod, Max A. Laansma, Laura S. Van Velzen, Moji Aghajani, Kevin Hilbert, Hyuntaek Oh, Ramiro Salas, and Anderson M. Winkler
Phytochemicals Profiling of Blue-Green Alga Nostoc sp. HANL07: Antioxidant, Antibacterial Activity and GC-MS Analysis, Ritu Chauhan, Ashutosh Tripathi, Abhishek Chauhan, Anuj Ranjan, Hardeep Singh Tuli, Hadi Sajid Abdulabbas, Subhash C. Chauhan, and Tanu Jindal
First‐Pass Effect With Aspiration Thrombectomy With the Penumbra System in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Core Laboratory–Adjudicated Subset Analysis of the COMPLETE Registry, Johanna T. Fifi, Stavros Matsoukas, Ameer E. Hassan, and Osama O. Zaidat
Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety and Subsequent Use of Nicotine and THC in Electronic Cigarettes, Stephanie Clendennen, Jacob Smith, Aslesha Sumbe, Baojiang Chen, and Anna Wilkinson
Uncovering the complex genetic architecture of human plasma lipidome using machine learning methods, Miikael Lehtimäki, Binisha H. Mishra, Coral Del-Val, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Mika Kähönen, C. Robert Cloninger, Olli T. Raitakari, Reijo Laaksonen, Igor Zwir, Terho Lehtimäki, and Pashupati P. Mishra
It Is Not Pneumocystis jiroveci (PCP), It Is Cyclophosphamide-Induced Pneumonitis, Mery Bartl, Yilen Karen Ng-Wong, Blesset Alexander, Jose Gomez Casanovas, Josenny L. Rodriguez-Paez, Andres Suarez, and Christine Loftis
Introducing second-year medical students to diagnostic reasoning concepts and skills via a virtual curriculum, Chelsea Chang, Nevin A. Varghese, and Michael Machiorlatti
Mortality of COVID-19 in patients with hematological malignancies versus solid tumors: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis, Nicole Hardy, Charan Thej Reddy Vegivinti, Mansi Mehta, Jade Thurnham, Alexander Mebane, John M. Pederson, Ranita Tarchand, Jeevan Shivakumar, Peace Olaniran, and Arup Ganguly
Blood transcriptome responses to PFOA and GenX treatment in the marsupial biomedical model Monodelphis domestica, Wenqi Cao, Katharine Horzmann, Bettina Schemera, Myra Petrofski, Trisha Kendall, Jennifer Spooner, Patricia E. Rynders, John Vandeberg, and Xu Wang
Evolutionary Couplings and Molecular Dynamic Simulations Highlight Details of GPCRs Heterodimers’ Interfaces, Karim Widad T Nchourupouo, Jules Nde, Yannick Joel Wadop Ngouongo, Serge Sylvain Zekeng, and Bernard Fongang
Impact of Paternal Depression on Child Neurodevelopmental Outcomes and Disorders, Sahar Ashraf, Kaushal Shah, Ramu Vadukapuram, Bhumika Shah, Shailesh Jaiswal, Zeeshan Mansuri, and Shailesh Jain
Association Of Brain Arterial Diameters With Demographic And Anatomical Factors In A Multinational Pooled Analysis Of Cohort Studies, Victor J. Del Brutto, Farid Khasiyev, Minghua Liu, Antonio Spagnolo-Allende, Ye Qiao, Jesus Melgarejo, Vanessa A. Guzman, Danurys Sanchez, Howard Andrews, and Gladys Maestre
Intracranial Artery Stenosis In Relation To Blood Pressure Components, Dhrumil Patil, Jose Gutierrez, Luis J. Mena, Reinier Leendertz, Carlos Chávez, Egle R. Silva, Joseph Lee, Joseph D. Terwilliger, Jesus Melgarejo, and Gladys Maestre
A Case Report of Subacute Combined Degeneration Due to Nitrous Oxide-Induced Vitamin B12 Deficiency, Jorge Nadal Bosch, Javier Malcolm, Mario Moya, Michael Menowsky, and Roberto A. Cruz
Association of Endovascular Thrombectomy vs Medical Management With Functional and Safety Outcomes in Patients Treated Beyond 24 Hours of Last Known Well: The SELECT Late Study, Amrou Sarraj, Timothy J. Kleinig, Ameer E. Hassan, Pere Cardona Portela, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, Michael G. Abraham, Nathan W. Manning, James E. Siegler, Nitin Goyal, and Laith Maali
F5_6755A>G, A Nonsynonymous Single-Nucleotide Variation That Substitutes Glycine For Aspartate At Residue 2,194 In The Plasma Blood Clotting Protein Factor V, Is Pleiotropically Associated With Reduced Factor V Coagulant Activity and A Decreased Frailty Index, Hoang Anh Thi Nguyen, Vincent P. Diego, Marcio Almeida, Shuchita Jhaveri, Juan M. Peralta, Joanne E. Curran, Donna M. Lehman, Ralph A. DeFronzo, Raja Rajalingam, Jerry S. Powell, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, John Blangero, and Tom Howard
Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing, Fang Cheng, Xingyan Wang, Seon-Kyeong Jang, Bryan C. Quach, J. Dylan Weissenkampen, Chachrit Khunsriraksakul, Lina Yang, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravindranath Duggirala, and Juan M. Peralta
Origin and Evolution of Marsupial-specific Imprinting Clusters Through Lineage-specific Gene Duplications and Acquisition of Promoter Differential Methylation, Wenqi Cao, Kory C. Douglas, Paul B. Samollow, John VandeBerg, Xu Wang, and Andrew G. Clark
SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS IN THE ABO BLOOD GROUP LOCUS ARE PLEIOTROPICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE PLASMA LEVELS OF FACTOR VIII COAGULANT ACTIVITY AND VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR ANTIGEN IN MEXICAN AMERICANS OF SOUTH TEXAS, Shuchita V. Jhaveri, Vincent P. Diego, Marcio Almeida, Hoang Anh T. Nguyen, Juan M. Peralta, Joanne E. Curran, Donna M. Lehman, Ralph A. DeFronzo, Miguel A. Escobar, Raja Rajalingam, Jerry S. Powell, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, John Blangero, and Tom Howard
Toxin Induced Parkinsonism and Hospitalization Related Adverse Outcome Mitigation for Parkinson’s Disease: A Comprehensive Review, Kenneth R. Dalton, Charles J. Kidd, and Nawaz Hack
At the Heart of the Diagnosis: A Case of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Presenting as Cardiac Tamponade, Jose Gomez Casanovas, Mery Bartl, Laura Rincon-Rueda, Christine E. Loftis, and Emilia Dulgheru
Pharmacognostical and Phytochemical Evaluation of a Unani Polyherbal Formulation: Dawa ul Kurkum by HPTLC, Meenakshi Gupta, Sajida Sumaiya, Sher Ali, Tanveer Naved, Archana Sharma, Ajaz Ahmad, Mohammed Sikander, and Maryam Sarwat
miRNA-205: a future therapeutic molecule for liver diseases, Marco A. Cabrera, Meghana Kolli, Meena Jaggi, Subhash C. Chauhan, and Murali M. Yallapu
Sexual Abuse and Its Impact on Suicidal Ideation and Attempts and Psychiatric Illness in Children and Adolescents With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Pranita Mainali, Fatima Motiwala, Chintan Trivedi, Ramu Vadukapuram, Zeeshan Mansuri, and Shailesh Jain
Treatment of recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome with fat grafting as an adjunct, Raysa Cabrejo, Alison Podsednik, and Joseph Rosen
MEKs/ERKs-mediated FBXO1/E2Fs interaction interference modulates G1/S cell cycle transition and cancer cell proliferation, Ga-Eun Lee, Dohyun Jeung, Weidong Chen, Jiin Byun, Joo Young Lee, Han Chang Kang, Hye Suk Lee, Dae Joon Kim, Jin-Sung Choi, and Cheol-Jung Lee
Toward a moral reckoning on structural racism: Examining structural factors, encouraging structural thinking, and supporting structural intervention, Shane McCarty, Megan Liskey, Deepu George, Natalie E. Cook, and Jonathan M. Metzl
Addressing high cervical cancer rates in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas–Mexico border: a community-based initiative focused on education, patient navigation, and medical provider training/telementoring, M. P. Salcedo, Rose Gowen, A. M. Rodriguez, S. Fisher-Hoch, M. Daheri, L. B. Guerra, P. Toscano, M. Gasca, L. Valdez, V.L.J. Nagle, B. Cavazos, Elena L. Marin, and Tony Ogburn
AW-NI-5: COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF INTENSIVE VERSUS STANDARD BLOOD-PRESSURE CONTROL AMONG HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS IN TAIWAN: A SIMULATION MODELLING STUDY, ChiaTe Liao, Han Siong Toh, Dongmei Wei, Jesus Melgarejo, WeiTing Chang, and Zhenyu Zhang
Cost-effectiveness of Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control Among Older Patients With Hypertension, Chia-Te Liao, Han Siong Toh, Li Sun, Chun-Ting Yang, Angie Hu, Dongmei Wei, Jesus D. Melgarejo, and Zhen-Yu Zhang
Dementia and cognitive impairment in French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: a comprehensive review on moving out of the shadows of neglect, Cyrille D. Nkouonlack, Wepnyu Y. Njamnshi, Samuel A. Angwafor, Joseph N. Siewe Fodjo, Michel K. Mengnjo, Leonard Ngarka, Maggy Mbede, Leonard N. Nfor, Carlson Abomate, and Gladys E. Maestre
Diabetic Retinopathy and the Role of VEGF, Aishwarya Gatiganti, Laura Valdez, and Andrew Tsin Ph.D.
Integrative big transcriptomics data analysis implicates crucial role of MUC13 in pancreatic cancer, Anupam Dhasmana, Swati Dhasmana, Shivangi Agarwal, Sheema Khan, Shafiul Haque, Meena Jaggi, Murali M. Yallapu, and Subhash C. Chauhan
Multiple Sclerosis Followed by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder: From the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Case Conference Proceedings, Carolyn Goldschmidt, Steven L. Galetta, Robert P. Lisak, Laura J. Balcer, Andrew Hellman, Michael K. Racke, Amy E. Lovett-Racke, and Roberto A. Cruz
Neuro-Ophthalmology Diseases in Elderly, Aishwarya Gatiganti
Powerful, scalable and resource-efficient meta-analysis of rare variant associations in large whole genome sequencing studies, Xihao Li, Corbin Quick, Hufeng Zhou, Sheila M. Gaynor, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravindranath Duggirala, Harald H. H. Goring, Michael Mahaney, and Juan M. Peralta
PS-BPP03-3: CARDIOVASCULAR RISK AND METABOLIC CHARACTERIZATION OF METABOLICALLY HEALTHY OBESITY CLASSIFIED BY THE NEWLY PROPOSED DEFINITION: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY, Dongmei Wei, Vannina González Marrachelli, Jesus Melgarejo, ChiaTe Liao, Stefan Janssens, Peter Verhamme, Daniel Monleon, Josep Redon, Lucas Van Aelst, and Thomas Vanassche
PS-C12-3: OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMATOUS OPTIC DAMAGE IN RELATION TO SYSTEMIC AND OCULAR PERFUSION PRESSURE, Jesus Melgarejo, Jan V. Eijgen, Dongmei Wei, Gladys Maestre, Lama A Al Aswad, Luis J. Mena, Thomas Vanassche, Stefan Janssens, Peter Verhamme, and Zhenyu Zhang
PS-C12-4: OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMATOUS OPTIC DAMAGE ASSOCIATED WITH DAYTIME AND NOCTURNAL DIPS IN BLOOD PRESSURE, Jesus Melgarejo, Jan V. Eijgen, Dongmei Wei, Gladys Maestre, Lama A Al Aswad, Luis J. Mena, Thomas Vanassche, Stefan Janssens, Peter Verhamme, and Karel V. Keer
Serotonin regulation of behavior via large-scale neuromodulation of serotonin receptor networks, Piergiorgio Salvan, Madalena Fonseca, Anderson M. Winkler, Antoine Beauchamp, Jason P. Lerch, and Heidi Johansen-Berg
Synchronous Gastrointestinal Metastatic Large Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor and Metastatic Colon Adenocarcinoma: Case Report, Hari Movva, Giri Movva, Christian Pena, and Vijian Dhevan
The Value of Multiple Medication Trials Prior to Balloon Sinuplasty in the Management of Chronic Sinonasal Disease, Anand G. Shah, Macaulay Ojeaga, Josephine Novak, and Vincent Honrubia
Thrombectomy Outcomes With General vs Nongeneral Anesthesia: A Pooled Patient-Level Analysis From the EXTEND-IA Trials and SELECT Study, Amrou Sarraj, Gregory W. Albers, Peter J. Mitchell, Ameer E. Hassan, Michael G. Abraham, Spiros Blackburn, Gagan Sharma, Nawaf Yassi, Timothy J. Kleinig, and Wondwossen G. Tekle
Transferability of a European-derived Alzheimer’s Disease Genetic Risk Score across Multi-Ancestry Populations, Aude Nicolas, Benjamin Grenier-Boley, Richard Sherva, Yoontae Kim, Masataka Kikuchi, Itziar de Rojas, Carolina Dalmasso, Xiaopu Zhou, Yann Le Guen, and Bernard Fongang
Triterpenoid CDDO-EA inhibits lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory responses in skeletal muscle cells through suppression of NF-κB, Phoebe Fang-Mei Chang, Daniel Acevedo, Lawrence J. Mandarino, and Sara M. Reyna
Submissions from 2022
KLRF1, a novel marker of CD56bright NK cells, predicts improved survival for patients with locally advanced bladder cancer, Neelam Mukherjee, Niannian Ji, Xi Tan, Chun-Liang Chen, Onika D. V. Noel, Maria Rodriguez-Padron, Chun-Lin Lin, David G. Alonzo, Tim H. Huang, and Robert S. Svatek
Pharmacokinetic Study of Intranasal Dexamethasone and Methylprednisolone Compared with Intravenous Administration: Two Open-Label, Single-Dose, Two-Period, Two-Sequence, Cross-Over Study in Healthy Volunteers, Graciela Cárdenas, Raúl J. Bobes, Gladis Fragoso, Nicolas I. Pérez-Osorio, Marisela Hernández, Alejandro Espinosa, Agnes Fleury, José Flores, Juan Carlos Alvarenga, and Juan Pedro Laclette
Role of T cells in cancer immunotherapy: Opportunities and challenges, Hossain Ahmed, Aar Rafi Mahmud, Mohd. Faijanur - Rob – Siddiquee, Asif Shahriar, Partha Biswas, Md. Ebrahim Khalil Shimul, Shahlaa Zernaz Ahmed, Tanzila Ismail Ema, Nova Rahman, and Md. Arif Khan
The gut microbiome is associated with markers of cerebral small vessel disease, Bernard Fongang, Claudia Satizabal, Tiffany F. Kautz, Jayandra J. Himali, Xavier Ramnik, José E. Cavazos, Michael Mahaney, Gladys Maestre, Charles S. DeCarli, and Sudha Seshadri
Sinonasal Outcomes Using Oral Corticosteroids in Patients with Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps and Positive Sinonasal Cultures, Jhon F. Martinez Paredes, Angela M. Donaldson, Michael Marino, Garret Choby, Osarenoma Olomu, Razan Alfakir, Janalee K. Stokken, Erin O'Brien, and Devyani Lal
Stem cell therapy: a novel approach against emerging and re-emerging viral infections with special reference to SARS-CoV-2, Vishal Khandelwal, Tarubala Sharma, Saurabh Gupta, Shoorvir Singh, Manish K. Sharma, Deepak Parashar, and Vivek Kumar Kashyap
Differential Role of Type 2 Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Tuberculosis in the Elderly versus Younger Adults, Blanca I. Restrepo, Julia M. Scordo, Genesis P. Aguillón-Durán, Doris Ayala, Ana P. Quirino-Cerrillo, Raúl Loera-Salazar, America Cruz-González, Jose A. Caso, Mateo Joya-Ayala, Esperanza M. García-Oropesa, and Alejandra B. Salinas
RUSHing to the Diagnosis: Aortic Abdominal Aneurysm Detected Using the Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension (RUSH) Protocol in the Wards, Jose A. Rivera, Daniel Aragon, Percy M. Thomas, Paul Dominici, Michael Menowsky, and Olabiyi O. Akala
Association of sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Yu-Min Lin, Mei-Chuan Lee, Han Siong Toh, Wei-Ting Chang, Sih-Yao Chen, Fang-Hsiu Kuo, Hsin-Ju Tang, Yi-Ming Hua, Dongmei Wei, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Zhen-Yu Zhang, and Chia-Te Liao
Editorial: The biology and management of chronic diseases in Mexican Americans, Eron G. Manusov, Belinda M. Reininger, Alfredo Ulloa-Aguirre, and John Blangero
Whole genome sequencing identifies structural variants contributing to hematologic traits in the NHLBI TOPMed program, Marsha M. Wheeler, Adrienne M. Stilp, Shuquan Rao, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Doruk Beyter, Jia Wen, Anna V. Mihkaylova, Laura Almasy, John Blangero, and Joanne E. Curran
Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use, Gretchen R. B., Xingyan Wang, Fang Chen, Seon-Kyeong Jang, Mengzhen Liu, Chen Wang, Shuang Gao, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, and Ravindranath Duggirala
A Cross-Sectional Study of the Prevalence of Anal Dysplasia among Women with High-Grade Cervical, Vaginal, and Vulvar Dysplasia or Cancer: The PANDA Study, Samantha Batman, Craig A. Messick, Andrea Milbourne, Ming Guo, Mark F. Munsell, Joel Fokom-Domgue, Mila Salcedo, Ashish Deshmukh, Kristina R. Dahlstrom, and Mallory Ogburn
Co-alteration Network Architecture of Major Depressive Disorder: A Multi-modal Neuroimaging Assessment of Large-scale Disease Effects, Jodie P. Gray, Jordi Manuello, Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch, Cassandra Leonardo, Crystal Franklin, Sueng Choi, Franco Cauda, Tommaso Costa, John Blangero, David C. Glahn, Peter T. Fox, and Helen S. Mayberg
Translating Big Data to Clinical Outcomes in Anxiety: Potential for Multimodal Integration, Parmis Khosravi, André Zugman, Paia Amelio, Anderson M. Winkler, and Daniel S. Pine
Intracranial Carotid Arteriosclerosis Mediates the Association Between Blood Pressure and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Meike W. Vernooij, M. Arfan Ikram, Zhen-Yu Zhang, and Daniel Bos
Berberis aristata and its secondary metabolites: Insights into nutraceutical and therapeutical applications, Firdaus Jahan, Sahir Sultan Alvi, and Mohammad Hayatul Islam
Genetic insights of all-cause and vascular dementia through genome-wide association studies, Bernard Fongang, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Xueqiu Jian, Aniket Mishra, Joshua C. Bis, Kang-Hsien Fan, Gloria Li, Jingyun Yang, Saima Hilal, and Galit Weinstein
Glaucomatous optic neuropathy in relation to 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Karel V. Keer, Gladys E. Maestre, Jan A. Staessen, Ingeborg Stalmans, and Zhen-Yu Zhang
Target-Based Virtual and Biochemical Screening Against HMG-CoA Reductase Reveals Allium sativum-Derived Organosulfur Compound N-Acetyl Cysteine as a Cardioprotective Agent, Parvej Ahmad, Sahir Sultan Alvi, Johar Iqbal, and M. Salman Khan
Pregnancy Outcomes After Second-Generation Antipsychotic Exposure: Extracting More Information From the Data, Malathi Perugula, Ramu Vadukapuram, Chintan Trivedi, Darakhshan Adam, Zeeshan Mansuri, and Shailesh Jain
Editorial: Biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services: Interrelationship with environmental and human health, Yixin Zhang, Zhenhong Wang, Yonglong Lu, and Alex L. Zuo
Factors associated with meeting physical activity guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic, Natalia I. Heredia, Michael Machiorlatti, Belinda M. Reininger, and Candace Robledo
Treatment of cerebral aneurysms with flow diversion or stent assisted coiling in patients on concurrent oral anticoagulation, Hari Krishnakumar,; Justin Masticelli; Ameer E. Hassan; Jonathan Leary; and Colin Son
Assessment and risk stratification of ageing-related target organ damage and adverse health outcomes in the general population, Jesus D. Melgarejo
Social Connectedness, Physical Distancing, and Anxiety in Complying with Shelter-In-Place Orders and Advisories during the Once-In-A-Century COVID-19 Pandemic in the US: A Study of Social Media and Internet Users, Dean Kyne, Candace Robledo, Cliff Clark, Ruby Charak, Meliha Salahuddin, and Jay Morrow
Homicidal ideation and psychiatric comorbidities in the inpatient adolescents aged 12–17, Ching-Fang Sun, Zeeshan Mansuri, Chintan Trivedi, Ramu Vadukapuram, and Abhishek Reddy
Alteration in tyrosine phosphorylation of cardiac proteome and EGFR pathway contribute to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Mingguo Xu, Kevin C. Bermea, Marzieh Ayati, Han Byeol Yang, Xiaomei Yang, Andres Medina, Zongming Fu, Amir Heravi, Xinyu Zhang, Chan Hyun Na, Allen Everett, Kathleen Gabrielson, D. Brian Foster, Nazareno Paolocci, Anne M. Murphy, and Genaro A. Ramirez-Correa
A Nonsynonymous-Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (ns-SNP) in TFPI, the Gene Encoding Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor (TFPI), is Pleiotropically Associated with Increased Plasma TFPI Levels and a Decreased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) in Mexican Americans of South Texas, Alberto D. Lopez, Vincent P. Diego, Kanisha Patel, Marcio Almeida, Joanne E. Curran, Miguel A. Escobar, Jerry S. Powell, Donna M. Lehman, Ralph A. DeFronzo, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, Laura Almasy, John Blangero, and Tom Howard
The Nonsynonymous-Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (ns-SNP) 353 R>q in the Coagulation Factor VII (FVII) Gene, F7, is Associated with Decreased Plasma FVII Levels and a Decreased Risk of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) in Mexican Americans of South Texas, Kanisha Patel, Vincent P. Diego, Alberto D. Lopez, Marcio Almeida, Joanne E. Curran, Miguel A. Escobar, Jerry S. Powell, Donna M. Lehman, Ralph A. DeFronzo, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, Laura Almasy, John Blangero, and Tom Howard
The role of metformin in treatment of weight gain associated with atypical antipsychotic treatment in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, Zeeshan Mansuri, Ramkrishna Makani, Chintan Trivedi, Mahwish Adnan, Ramu Vadukapuram, John Rafael, Ashutosh Lodhi, and Abhishek Reddy
Progression of functional and structural glaucomatous damage in relation to diurnal and nocturnal dips in mean arterial pressure, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Jan V. Eijgen, Dongmei Wei, Gladys E. Maestre, Lama A. Al-Aswad, Chia-Te Liao, Luis J. Mena, Thomas Vanassche, Stefan Janssens, and Peter Verhamme
IVIG for refractory dysphagia in Antisynthetase syndrome: A truth hard to swallow, Mais Alnoukari, Oziel Garza De La Garza, Karrar Al Gburi, Niral Patel, Henderson Lopez, Muhammad Shamim, and Henry Kwang
NF1 loss of function as an alternative initiating event in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, Gopalakrishnan Ramakrishnan, Parash Parajuli, Pura Singh, Creighton Friend, Eric Hurwitz, Celine Prunier, Mohammad S. Razzaque, Keli Xu, and Azeddine Atfi
Long COVID and the Neuroendocrinology of Microbial Translocation Outside the GI Tract: Some Treatment Strategies, Adonis Sfera, Carolina Osorio, Sabine Hazan, Zisis Kozlakidis, Jose Campo Maldonado, Carlos Manuel Zapata-Martín del Campo, Jonathan J. Anton, Leah Rahman, Christina V. Andronescu, and Garth L. Nicolson
Acute Hypersensitivity Reaction After Casirivimab/Imdevimab Infusion in a COVID-19-Positive Young Male: Myopericarditis or Kounis Syndrome?, Jose A. Rivera, Daniel Aragon, Jose Gomez, Hector Arredondo, Paul Dominici, Olabiyi O. Akala, and Michael Menowsky
Reprogramming of pancreatic adenocarcinoma immunosurveillance by a microbial probiotic siderophore, Mehdi Chaib, Bilal B. Hafeez, Hassan Mandil, Deidre Daria, Ajeeth K. Pingili, Sonam Kumari, Mohammed Sikander, Vivek K. Kashyap, Emmanuel Anning, Manish Tripathi, Sheema Khan, Stephen Behrman, Murali M. Yallapu, Meena Jaggi, and Subhash C. Chauhan
A Multicenter Analysis of the Early Impact of COVID-19 on Junior Resident Operative Case Volume, Benjamin Kramer, Gilman Plitt, Judith C. French, Rachel M. Nygaard, Sebastiano Cassaro, David A. Edelman, Jason S. Lees, Andreas H. Meier, Amit R.T. Joshi, Meredith P. Johnson, and Jose Chavez
Assessing urinary phenol and paraben mixtures in pregnant women with and without gestational diabetes mellitus: a case-control study, Wei-Jen Chen, Candace Robledo, Erin M. Davis, Jean R. Goodman, Chao Xu, Jooyeon Hwang, Amanda E. Janitz, Tabitha Garwe, Antonia M. Calafat, and Jennifer D. Peck
Association of Texas’ 2021 Ban on Abortion in Early Pregnancy With the Number of Facility-Based Abortions in Texas and Surrounding States, Kari White, Gracia Sierra, Klaira Lerma, Anitra Beasley, Lisa G. Hofler, Kristina Tocce, Vinita Goyal, Tony Ogburn, Joseph E. Potter, and Samuel L. Dickman
Bitten to the Bone: A Case of Anxiety-Induced Osteomyelitis, Jose A. Rivera, Daniel Aragon, Percy M. Thomas, Michael Menowsky, Olabiyi O. Akala, Paul Dominici, and Daniela Hernandez
Developing a risk profile for spontaneous preterm birth and short interval to delivery among patients with threatened preterm labor, Ashten B. Waks, Carolina L. Martinez-King, Gisselle Santiago, Louise C. Laurent, and Marni B. Jacobs
Getting Ahead: A Resident Led Quality Improvement Project to Increase Diabetic Nephropathy Screening in an Underserved Hispanic-Predominant Population, Stephanie Luu, Jose Rivera, Daniel Aragon, Victor Zamora-Legoff, Irma Huayanay, Reham Majzoub, Andreina Baird, Cristina Excobar Espinoza, Eric Sanchez, Juan C. Lopez-Alvarenga, Daniela Hernandez, and Chelsea Chang
Predictive power of 24-h ambulatory pulse pressure and its components for mortality and cardiovascular outcomes in 11 848 participants recruited from 13 populations, Benjamin Gavish, Michael Bursztyn, Lutgarde Thijs, Dong-Mei Wei, Jesus Melgarejo, Zhen-Yu Zhang, José Boggia, Tine W. Hansen, Kei Asayama, and Gladys E. Maestre
Rituximab for steroid-resistant organising pneumonia in a woman with rheumatoid arthritis, Christine E. Loftis, Emilia C. Dulgheru, and Adolfo Kaplan
The Importance of Radiologic Imaging Modalities in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease, Jorge Nadal Bosch, Javier Malcolm, Mario Moya, Michael Menowsky, and Paul Dominici
Data Mining Framework For Discovering and Clustering Phenotypes of Atypical Diabetes, Hemang M. Parikh, Cassandra L. Remedios, Christiane S. Hampe, Ashok Balasubramanyam, Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, Ye Ji Choi, Sanjeet Patel, Joseph B. Mccormick, Maria J. Redondo, and Jeffrey P. Krischer