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 2022
Reply to the letter ‘Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against Omicron variant’, Vivek P. Chavda, Shailvi Soni, Riddhi Prajapati, Murali M. Yallapu, and Vasso Apostolopoulos
COVID-19 Vaccination Drive in a Low-Volume Primary Care Clinic: Challenges & Lessons Learned in Using Homegrown Self-Scheduling Web-Based Mobile Platforms, Reita N. Agarwal, Rajesh Aggarwal, Pridhviraj Nandarapu, Hersheth Aggarwal, Ashmit Verma, Absarul Haque, and Manish Tripathi
Assessment of a Comparative Bayesian-Enhanced Population-Based Decision Model for COVID-19 Critical Care Prediction in the Dominican Republic Social Security Affiliates, Amado A. Baez, Oscar J. Lopez, Maria Martinez, Colyn White, Pedro Ramirez-Slaibe, Leticia Martinez, and Pedro L. Castellanos
Inflammation subtypes in psychosis and their relationships with genetic risk for psychiatric and cardiometabolic disorders, Lusi Zhang, Paulo Lizano, Bin Guo, Yanxun Xu, Leah H. Rubin, S. Kristian Hill, Ney Alliey-Rodriguez, Adam M. Lee, Baolin Wu, and Sarah K. Keedy
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Depression: Evidence for Genotype × Environment Interaction in Mexican Americans, Eron G. Manusov, Vincent P. Diego, Khalid Sheikh, Sandra Laston, John Blangero, and Sarah Williams-Blangero
Preparation of zein-based nanoparticles : nanoprecipitation versus microfluidic-assisted manufacture, effects of PEGylation on nanoparticle characteristics and cellular uptake by melanoma cells, Jitkasem Meewan, Sukrut Somani, Jamal Almowalad, Partha Laskar, Margaret Mullin, Graeme MacKenzie, Swapnil Khadke, Yvonne Perrie, and Christine Dufès
Primary Middle Meningeal Artery Embolization for a Chronic Subdural Hematoma After Non-Accidental Trauma in a Child: A Case Report, Saisree Ravi, Sohum Desai, Ameer E. Hassan, and Wondwossen G. Tekle
Tannic Acid Exhibits Antiangiogenesis Activity in Nonsmall-Cell Lung Cancer Cells, Elham Hatami, Prashanth K.B. Nagesh, Mohammed Sikander, Anupam Dhasmana, Subhash C. Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, and Murali M. Yallapu
Identification of healthspan-promoting genes in Caenorhabditis elegans based on a human GWAS study, Nadine Saul, Ineke Dhondt, Mikko Kuokkanen, Markus Perola, Clara Verschuuren, Brecht Wouters, Henrik von Chrzanowski, Winnok H. De Vos, Liesbet Temmerman, and Walter Luyten
Molecular Modelling a Key Method for Potential Therapeutic Drug Discovery, Omar Karkoutly, Anupam Dhasmana, Vijian Dhevan, Subhash C. Chauhan, and Manish Tripathi
Multidrug Resistance in Cancer: Understanding Molecular Mechanisms, Immunoprevention and Therapeutic Approaches, Talha Bin Emran, Asif Shahriar, Aar Rafi Mahmud, Tanjilur Rahman, Mehedy Hasan Abir, Mohd Faijanur-Rob Siddiquee, Hossain Ahmed, Nova Rahman, Firzan Nainu, and Elly Wahyudin
Differential and shared genetic effects on kidney function between diabetic and non-diabetic individuals, Thomas W. Winkler, Humaira Rasheed, Alexander Teumer, Mathias Gorski, Bryce X. Rowan, Kira J. Stanzick, Laurent F. Thomas, Adrienne Tin, Anselm Hoppmann, and Mikko Kuokkanen
Experimental Rickettsia typhi Infection in Monodelphis domestica: Implications for Opossums as an Amplifying Host in the Suburban Cycle of Murine Typhus, Lucas S. Blanton, Bethany R. Quade, Alejandro Ramírez-Hernández, Nicole L. Mendell, Alejandro Villasante-Tezanos, Donald H. Bouyet, John L. VandeBerg, and David H. Walker
Antibody-Mediated LILRB2-Receptor Antagonism Induces Human Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells to Kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Vipul K. Singh, Arshad Khan, Yitian Xu, Sunny Mai, Licheng Zhang, Abhishek Mishra, Blanca I. Restrepo, Ping-Ying Pan, and Shu-Hsia Chen
Therapeutics to tackle Omicron outbreak, Vivek P. Chavda, Eswara Naga Hanuma Kumar Ghali, Murali M. Yallapu, and Vasso Apostolopoulos
Comprehensive genetic analysis of the human lipidome identifies loci associated with lipid homeostasis with links to coronary artery disease, Gemma Cadby, Corey Giles, Phillip E. Melton, Kevin Huynh, Natalie A. Mellett, Thy Duong, Anh Nguyen, Michelle Cinel, Alex Smith, and John Blangero
Characteristics of a COVID-19 Cohort With Large Vessel Occlusion: A Multicenter International Study, Pascal Jabbour, Adam A. Dmytriw, Ahmad Sweid, Michel Piotin, Kimon Bekelis, Nader Sourour, Eytan Raz, Italo Linfante, Guilherme Dabus, and Ameer E. Hassan
COVID-19 Disparities and Vaccine Hesitancy in Black Americans: What Ethical Lessons Can Be Learned?, Nicolas Restrepo and Helene J. Krouse
COVID-19 infection and treatment-resistant cocaine-induced pyoderma gangrenosum: A case report, Jennifer Adams, Daniel Habenicht, and Yaman Gibran
Evaluating Internal Medicine Resident Cardiology Knowledge by In-Service Training Exam Performance: A Four-Year Review, Schamma Salomon and Chelsea Chang
Extent of craniofacial fungal osteomyelitis in a ketoacidotic patient may predict optic nerve involvement: A case report, Jennifer Adams, Khalid Sheikh, and Adam Bender-Heine
First pass effect vs multiple passes complete reperfusion: A retrospective study, Ameer E. Hassan, Mahmoud Dibas, Amrou Sarraj, Sherief Ghozy, Amr Ehab El-Qushayri, Adam A. Dmytriw, and Wondwossen G. Tekle
Influence of the Human Lipidome on Epicardial Fat Volume in Mexican American Individuals, Ana C. Leandro, Laura F. Michael, Marcio Almeida, Mikko Kuokkanen, Kevin Huynh, Corey Giles, Thy Duong, Vincent P. Diego, Ravindranath Duggirala, Geoffrey D. Clarke, John Blangero, and Joanne E. Curran
Two-Year Responses of Renal Function to First Occupational Lead Exposure, Yu-Ling Yu, Lutgarde Thijs, Dong-Mei Wei, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Cai-Guo Yu, Wen-Yi Yang, Harry A. Roels, Zhen-Yu Zhang, Tim S. Nawrot, and Jan A. Staessen
Case of cryoglobulinaemia associated with chronic hepatitis B, Himabindu Kolli, Mukarram Jamat Ali, Karen J. Campoverde Reyes, and Daryl T-Y Lau
Duration of Ischemia Affects Outcomes Independent of Infarct Size in Stroke, Youngran Kim, Swapnil Khose, Osama Zaidat, Ameer E. Hassan, Johanna T. Fifi, Ashish Nanda, Benjamin Atchie, Britton Woodward, Arnd Doerfler, and Alejandro Tomasello
Human M1 macrophages express unique innate immune response genes after mycobacterial infection to defend against tuberculosis, Arshad Khan, Kangling Zhang, Vipul K. Singh, Abhishek Mishra, Priyanka Kachroo, Tian Bing, Jong Hak Won, Eder Ledezma-Campos, Genesis P. Aguillón-Durán, and Blanca I. Restrepo
Bromodomains in Human-Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders: A Model of Ferroptosis-Induced Neurodegeneration, Adonis Sfera, Karina G. Thomas, Christina V. Andronescu, Nyla Jafri, Dan O. Sfera, Sarvin Sasannia, Carlos Zapata-Martin del Campo, and Jose E. Campo Maldonado
Human Macrophages Exhibit GM-CSF Dependent Restriction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection via Regulating Their Self-Survival, Differentiation and Metabolism, Abhishek Mishra, Vipul K. Singh, Chinnaswamy Jagannath, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Selvakumar Subbian, Blanca I. Restrepo, Marie-Claire Gauduin, and Arshad Khan
Evidence of areca nut consumption in the United States mainland: a cross‑sectional study, Irene Tami‑Maury, Suzanne Nethan, Jessy Feng, Hongyu Miao, George Delclos, and Ravi Mehrotra
Combined treatment with niclosamide and camptothecin enhances anticancer effect in U87 MG human glioblastoma cells, Laura Valdez, Benxu Cheng, Daniela Gonzalez, Reanna Rodriguez, Paola Campano, Andrew Tsin, and Xiaoqian Fang
Thrombectomy for Large‐Vessel Occlusion With Pretreatment Intracranial Hemorrhage, Daniel A. Tonetti, Shashvat M. Desai, Stephanie Casillo, Sohum Desai, Ameer E. Hassan, Gabriel Flores-Milan, Maxim Mokin, Mudassir Farooqui, Santiago Ortega‐Gutierrez, and Ashutosh P. Jadhav
The Value of Rare Genetic Variation in the Prediction of Common Obesity in European Ancestry Populations, Zhe Wang, Shing Wan Choi, Nathalie Chami, Eric Boerwinkle, Myriam Fornage, Susan Redline, Joshua C. Bis, Jennifer A. Brody, Bruce M. Psaty, and John Blangero
An opportunity for primary prevention research in psychotic disorders, Elliot S. Gershon, S. Hong Lee, Xuan Zhou, John A. Sweeney, Carol Tamminga, Godfrey A. Pearlson, Brett A. Clementz, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Ney Alliey-Rodriguez, and Matthew Hudgens-Haney
Endoscopic Management of Polyps Arising From Diverticula, Mohammed Shakhatreh, Grigoriy L. Rapoport, and Asif Zamir
Hearing abnormalities in multiple sclerosis: clinical semiology and pathophysiologic mechanisms, Roberto A. Cruz, Thomas C. Varkey, Ana Flavia, Ana Paula Amatuzzi Samways, Alejandro Garza, Gabrielle Greenlee, Margaret Friess, Jayne Sconzert, Afaf Aijaz, and Walter Arruda
The Effects of Leadership Curricula With and Without Implicit Bias Training on Graduate Medical Education: A Multicenter Randomized Trial, Matt Hansen, Tabria Harrod, Nathan Bahr, Amanda Schoonover, Karen Adams, Josh Kornegay, Amy Stenson, Vivienne Ng, Jennifer Plitt, and Tony Ogburn
Nutrigenetic reprogramming of oxidative stress, Joseph Ryu, Huzeifa Gulamhusein, Jin Kyun Oh, Joseph H. Chang, Jocelyn Chen, and Stephen H. Tsang
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank, Gwenaëlle Douaud, Soojin Lee, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro, Christoph Arthofer, Chaoyue Wang, Paul McCarthy, Frederik Lange, Jesper L. R. Andersson, Ludovica Griffanti, and Anderson M. Winkler
Computational modeling of threat learning reveals links with anxiety and neuroanatomy in humans, Rany Abend, Diana Burk, Sonia G. Ruiz, Andrea L. Gold, Julia L. Napoli, Jennifer C. Britton, Kalina J. Michalska, Tomer Shechner, Anderson M. Winkler, and Ellen Leibenluft
Disease Severity and Response to Induction Therapy in Hispanic Patients With Antineutrophilic Cytoplasmic Autoantibody-Associated Vasculitis-Related Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage, Christine Loftis, Emilia C. Dulgheru, and Rosa White
Surgical management of vascular tumors and malformations of the Head and Neck in adults, Rachel A. Giese, Cristina Valero, and Jatin P. Shah
Complex chromosomal rearrangement involving 15q11-q13 interstitial triplication and duplication: A new case report of dysmorphic and neuropsychiatric features, Lekha Chilakamarri and Estrella Lizbeth Mellin-Sanchez
Acute Lower Extremity Posterior Compartment Syndrome: A Rare Complication of Apixaban Use, Jennifer Adams, Jose H. Ramos, Shyama Appareddy M.D., Hoang Anh Thi Nguyen, and Gustavo Garcia
Burden of Type 2 Diabetes and Associated Cardiometabolic Traits and Their Heritability Estimates in Endogamous Ethnic Groups of India: Findings From the INDIGENIUS Consortium, Vettriselvi Venkatesan, Rector Arya, Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga, Krishna K. Sharma, Roy G. Resendez, Juliet A. Ezeilo, Marcio Almeida, Srinivas Mummidi, John Blangero, and Ravindranath Duggirala
Urinary Proteomic Profile of Arterial Stiffness Is Associated With Mortality and Cardiovascular Outcomes, Dongmei Wei, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Lutgarde Thijs, Xander Temmerman, Thomas Vanassche, Lucas Van Aelst, Stefan Janssens, Jan A. Staessen, Peter Verhamme, and Zhen-Yu Zhang
Bilateral chylothorax: A late complication of Kawashima procedure despite normal pulmonary pressures, Jennifer Adams, Tharak Yarrabolu, and Shekhar S. Raj
Routes of Stem Cell Administration, Sharmila Fagoonee, Shiv Poojan Shukla, Anupam Dhasmana, Alexander Birbrair, Shafiul Haque, and Rinaldo Pellicano
Brain charts for the human lifespan, R. A. I. Bethlehem, J. Seidlitz, S. R. White, J. W. Vogel, K. Anderson, C. Adamson, S. Adler, G. S. Alexopoulos, E. Anagnostou, and John Blangero
Mendelian randomization supports bidirectional causality between telomere length and clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, Tetsushi Nakao, Alexander G. Bick, Margaret A. Taub, Seyedeh M. Zekavat, Md M. Uddin, Abhishek Niroula, Juan M. Peralta, Joanne E. Curran, and John Blangero
Acute ischaemic stroke associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in North America, Adam A. Dmytriw, Mahmoud Dibas, Kevin Phan, Aslan Efendizade, Ospel Johanna, Clemens Schirmer, Fabio Settecase, Manraj K. S. Heran, Anna Luisa Kühn, and Ameer E. Hassan
Genetic variants in ALDH1L1 and GLDC influence serine to glycine ratio in Hispanic children, Sergey A. Krupenko, Shelley A. Cole, Ruixue Hou, Karin Haack, Sandra Laston, Nitesh R. Mehta, Anthony G. Comuzzie, Nancy F. Butte, and Venkata Saroja Voruganti
Midlife Vascular Factors and Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Late-Life in Mexico, Miguel Arce Renteria, Jennifer J. Manly, Jet M. J. Vonk, Silvia Mejía-Arango, Alejandra Michaels Obregon, Rafael Samper-Ternent, Rebeca Wong, Sandra Barral, and Giuseppe Tosto
Patients with chronic pain exhibit individually unique cortical signatures of pain encoding, Astrid Mayr, Pauline Jahn, Anne Stankewitz, Bettina Deak, Anderson M. Winkler, Viktor Witkovsky, Ozan Eren, Andreas Straube, and Enrico Schulz
The novel proteomic signature for cardiac allograft vasculopathy, Dongmei Wei, Sander Trenson, Jan M. Van Keer, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Ella Cutsforth, Lutgarde Thijs, Tianlin He, Agnieszka Latosinska, Agnieszka Ciarka, and Thomas Vanassche
Lactoferrin- and Dendrimer-Bearing Gold Nanocages for Stimulus-Free DNA Delivery to Prostate Cancer Cells, Jamal Almowalad, Partha Laskar, Sukrut Somani, Jitkasem Meewan, Rothwelle J. Tate, and Christine Dufès
Clinicians' perceptions of the health status of formerly detained immigrants, Kathryn Hampton, Ranit Mishori, Marsha Griffin, Claire Hillier, Elizabeth Pirrotta, and Nancy E. Wang
Blood-Based miRNA Biomarkers as Correlates of Brain-Based miRNA Expression, Mark Kos, Sobha Puppala, Dianne Cruz, Jennifer L. Neary, Ashish Kumar, Emma Dalan, Cun Li, Peter Nathanielsz, and Melanie A. Carless
Living Arrangements and Dementia Among the Oldest Old: A Comparison of Mexicans and Mexican Americans, Phillip A. Cantu, Jiwon Kim, Mariana López-Ortega, Sunshine Rote, Silvia Mejía-Arango, and Jacqueline L. Angel
Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits-The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Mariaelisa Graff, Victoria L . Buchanan, Anne E. Justice, Heather M. Highland, Xiuqing Guo, Wanying Zhu, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, and Ravindranath Duggirala
Fat as an Adjunct in Nerve Surgery, Allison Podsednik, Raysa Cabrejo, and Joseph Rosen
Withania somnifera: Progress towards a Pharmaceutical Agent for Immunomodulation and Cancer Therapeutics, Vivek K. Kashyap, Godwin Peasah Darkwah, Anupam Dhasmana, Meena Jaggi, Murali M. Yallapu, and Subhash C. Chauhan
Impact of polygenic risk for coronary artery disease and cardiovascular medication burden on cognitive impairment in psychotic disorders, Lusi Zhang, Scot Kristian Hill, Bin Guo, Baolin Wu, Ney Alliey-Rodriguez, Seenae Eum, Paulo Lizano, Elena I. Ivleva, James L. Reilly, and Richard S. E. Keefe
The Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) Mechanical Thrombectomy Registry: Methods and Primary Results, Diogo C. Haussen, Alhamza R. Al-Bayati, Mahmoud H. Mohammaden, Sunil A. Sheth, Sergio Salazar-Marioni, Italo Linfante, Guilherme Dabus, Amy K. Starosciak, Ameer E. Hassan, and Wondwossen G. Tekle
Interaction Analysis of MRP1 with Anticancer Drugs Used in Ovarian Cancer: In Silico Approach, Absarul Haque, Ghazanfar Ali Baig, Abdulelah Saleh Alshawli, Khalid Hussain Wali Sait, Bilal B. Hafeez, Manish Tripathi, Badrah Saeed Alghamdi, Hani S. H. Mohammed Ali, and Mahmood Rasool
Safety of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Aortic Aneurysm: A Propensity-Matched Analysis, Justin K. Ugwu, Jideofor K. Ndulue, Khaled A. Sherif, Samson Alliu, Ayman Elbadawi, Tuncay Taskesen, Doha Hussein, Judith N. Ugwu Erugo, Khaled F. Chatila, and Ahmed Almustafa
Safety and efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation in upper extremity rehabilitation after tetraplegia: protocol of a multicenter randomized, clinical trial, Tarun Arora, Kyle O’Laughlin, Kelsey Potter-Baker, Steven Kirshblum, Kevin Kilgore, Gail F. Forrest, Anne M. Bryden, Xiaofeng Wang, M. Kristi Henzel, and Manshi Li
Combined Oral Contraceptives Bringing to Light May-Thurner Syndrome, Dina Alnabwani, Nagapratap Ganta, Smriti Kochhar, Veera Jayasree Latha Bommu, Reham Majzoub, Sharon Hechter, Priya Patel, and Pramil Cheriyath
Development of the National Otolaryngology Interest Group: Conception to Implementation, Cameron J. Farsar, Jared Sperling, Pompeyo R. Quesada, Roberto N. Solis, Macaulay Ojeaga, Sarah N. Bowe, Matthew L. Carlson, Jason R. Brown, and Jessica R. Levi
Endovascular Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke With the Penumbra System in Routine Practice: COMPLETE Registry Results, Osama O. Zaidat, Johanna T. Fifi, Ashish Nanda, Benjamin Atchie, Keith Woodward, Arnd Doerfler, Alejandro Tomasello, Inder Paul Singh, Wondwossen G. Tekle, and Ameer E. Hassan
Epidemiological Algorithm for Early Detection of COVID-19 Cases in a Mexican Oncologic Center, Moisés González-Escamilla, Diana Cristina Pérez-Ibave, Carlos Horacio Burciaga-Flores, Vanessa Natali Ortiz-Murillo, Genaro A. Ramírez-Correa, Patricia Rodríguez-Niño, Rafael Piñeiro-Retif, Hazyadee Frecia Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, and Fernando Alcorta-Nuñez
Schizophrenia risk loci from xMHC region were associated with antipsychotic response in chronic schizophrenic patients with persistent positive symptom, Jiang Li, Akane Yoshikawa, Ney Alliey-Rodriguez, and Herbert Y. Meltzer
Blood biomarkers for cognitive decline and clinical progression in a Mexican American cohort, Mitzi M. Gonzales, Chen-Pin Wang, Meghan I. Short, Danielle M. Parent, Tiffany Kautz, Daniel MacCarthy, Claudia L. Satizabal, David Andrés González, Donald R. Royal, and Gladys E. Maestre
Open-Angle Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy is Related to Dips Rather than Increases in the Mean Arterial Pressure Over 24-H, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Jan V. Eijgen, Gladys E. Maestre, Lama A. Al-Aswad, Lutgarde Thijs, Luis J. Mena, Joseph D. Terwilliger, Michele Petitto, Carlos A. Chavez, and Miguel Brito
Addressing the disparities in dementia risk, early detection and care in Latino populations: Highlights from the second Latinos & Alzheimer's Symposium, Yakeel T. Quiroz, Michele Solis, María P. Aranda, Alicia I. Arbaje, Mirna Arroyo-Miranda, Laura Y. Cabrera, Minerva Maria Carrasquillo, Maria M. Corrada, Gladys E. Maestre, and Rosa V. Pirela
Surgical stabilization versus nonoperative treatment for flail and non-flail rib fracture patterns in patients with traumatic brain injury, Jonne T. H. Prins, Esther M. M. Van Lieshout, Francis Ali-Osman, Zachary M. Bauman, Eva-Corina Caragounis, Jeff Choi, D. Benjamin Christie III, Peter A. Cole, William B. DeVoe, and Julie Whitis
A global picture: therapeutic perspectives for COVID-19, Vivek P. Chavda, Carron Kapadia, Shailvi Soni, Riddhi Prajapati, Subhash C. Chauhan, Murali M. Yallapu, and Vasso Apostolopoulos
Dose-Intensified Stereotactic Ablative Radiation for Localized Prostate Cancer, Lily Chen, Bhavani S. Gannavarapu, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Michael R. Folkert, Michael Dohopolski, Ang Gao, Chul Ahn, Jeffrey Cadeddu, and Aditya Bagrodia
Endovascular Thrombectomy versus Medical Management in Isolated M2 Occlusions: Pooled Patient-Level Analysis from the EXTEND-IA Trials, INSPIRE and SELECT Studies, Amrou Sarraj, Mark Parsons, Andrew Bivard, Ameer E. Hassan, Michael G. Abraham, Teddy Wu, Timothy Kleinig, Longting Lin, Chushuang (Amy) Chen, and Christopher Levi
Clinical Symptoms Contributing to Zenker's Diverticulum Repair: A Retrospective Review, Jhon F. Martinez Paredes, Razan Al Fakir, and Amy L. Rutt
Limited Impact of the Protein Corona on the Cellular Uptake of PEGylated Zein Micelles by Melanoma Cancer Cells, Jitkasem Meewan, Sukrut Somani, Partha Laskar, Craig Irving, Margaret Mullin, Stuart Woods, Craig W. Roberts, Abdullah R. Alzahrani, Valerie A. Ferro, and Suzanne McGill
Intranasal dexamethasone: a new clinical trial for the control of inflammation and neuroinflammation in COVID-19 patients, Graciela Cárdenas, María Chávez-Canales, Ana María Espinosa, Antonio Jordán-Ríos, Daniel Anica Malagon, Manlio Fabio Márquez Murillo, Laura Victoria Torres Araujo, Ricardo Leopoldo Barajas Campos, Rosa María Wong, and Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga
A Comprehensive Review of Neuromuscular Manifestations of COVID-19 and Management of Pre-Existing Neuromuscular Disorders in Children, Daniel J. Goetschius, Yunsung Kim, Ashutosh Kumar, Dustin J. Paul, and Sunil Naik
Risk Association of TOX3 and MMP7 Gene Polymorphisms with Sporadic Breast Cancer in Mexican Women, Orlando Solis-Coronado, Mónica Patricia Villarreal-Vela, Hazyadee Frecia Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, Juan Francisco González-Guerrero, Ricardo M. Cerda-Flores, Fernando Alcorta-Núñez, Karen Paola Camarillo-Cárdenas, Diana Cristina Pérez-Ibave, Oscar Vidal-Gutiérrez, Genaro A. Ramírez-Correa, and María Lourdes Garza-Rodríguez
Breakthrough medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic era, Eswara Naga Hanuma Kumar Ghali, Vijian Dhevan, Shravan K. Narmala, Meena Jaggi, Subhash C. Chauhan, and Murali M. Yallapu
Piperlongumine, a piper alkaloid, enhances the efficacy of doxorubicin in breast cancer: involvement of glucose import, ROS, NF-κB and lncRNAs, Nikee Awasthee, Anusmita Shekher, Vipin Rai, Sumit S. Verma, Shruti Mishra, Anupam Dhasmana, and Subash C. Gupta
Depressed and awkward: Is it more than that?, Lubnaa Abdullah, Ali Khan, and Alcides Amador
In silico CD4 + T-cell multiepitope prediction and HLA distribution analysis for Marburg Virus—A strategy for vaccine designing, Anupam Dhasmana, Swati Dhasmana, Ahmad Alsulimani, Sudhir Kotnala, Vivek Kumar Kashyap, Shafiul Haque, Meena Jaggi, Murali M. Yallapu, and Subhash C. Chauhan
Photography: A culturally sensitive bereavement aid?, Rebecca M. Reséndiz Rodriguez
Rare coding variants in RCN3 are associated with blood pressure, Karen Y. He, Tanika N. Kelly, Heming Wang, Jingjing Liang, Luke Zhu, Brian E. Cade, Themistocles L. Assimes, Lewis C. Becker, Amber L. Beitelshees, and Ravi Duggirala
The CTSA University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) Northeast—Tyler and Rio Grande Valley Success Story: How Rural, Underserved Academic Communities Rapidly Built a Robust Engine for Collaborative COVID-19 Clinical Research, Steven Idell, David D. McPherson, Jessica Martin, Andrew N. Dentino, Luis Ostrosky- Zeichner, Julia V. Philley, Paul McGaha, Megan Devine, Jacqueline Bronicki, and Daniel D. Karp
Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of the Plasma Proteome in Black Adults Provides Novel Insights Into Cardiovascular Disease, Daniel H. Katz, Usman A. Tahir, Alexander G. Bick, Akhil Pampana, Debby Ngo, Mark D. Benson, Zhi Yu, Jeremy M. Robbins, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravi Duggirala, Michael C. Mahaney, and Juan M. Peralta
Physical activity level and stroke risk in US population: A matched case-control study of 102,578 individuals, Sherief Ghozy, Ahmad Helmy Zayan, Amr Ehab El-Qushayri, Kate Elizabeth Parker, Joseph Varney, Kevin M. Kallmes, Sara Morsy, Alzhraa Salah Abbas, Jose Danilo B Diestro, and Ameer E. Hassan
The Impact of Aging on the Lung Alveolar Environment, Predetermining Susceptibility to Respiratory Infections, Jordi B. Torrelles, Blanca I. Restrepo, Yidong Bai, Corinna Ross, Larry S. Schlesinger, and Joanne Turner
Phage-Encoded Cationic Antimicrobial Peptide Required for Lysis, Ashley Holt, Jesse Cahill, Jolene Ramsey, Cody Martin, Chandler O’Leary, Russell Moreland III, Lori T. Maddox, Thushara Galbadage, Riti Sharan, and Preeti Sule
FBXW7-mediated ERK3 degradation regulates the proliferation of lung cancer cells, Hyun-Jung An, Cheol-Jung Lee, Ga-Eun Lee, Youngwon Choi, Dohyun Jeung, Weidong Chen, Hye Suk Lee, Han Chang Kang, Joo Young Lee, and Dae Joon Kim
Adipose Tissue Uses in Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Allison Podsednik, Raysa Cabrejo, and Joseph Rosen
Rare coding variants in 35 genes associate with circulating lipid levels-A multi-ancestry analysis of 170,000 exomes, George Hindy, Peter Dornbos, Mark D. Chaffin, Dajiang J. Liu, Minxian Wang, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravi Duggirala, and Juan M. Peralta
Genetic influences on dentognathic morphology in the Jirel population of Nepal, Anna M. Hardin, Ryan P. Knigge, Dana L. Duren, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Janardan Subedi, Michael Mahaney, and Richard J. Sherwood
Developing a Rural Psychiatry Training Program on The Texas-Mexico Border: A Chance for Innovation, Arden D. Dingle, Francisco Fernandez, and Gabriel A. de Erausquin