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
A framework for detecting noncoding rare-variant associations of large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies, Zilin Li, Xihao Li, Hufeng Zhou, Sheila M. Gaynor, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Theodore Arapoglou, Corbin Quick, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravindranath Duggirala, and Harald H. H. Goring
Endovascular Therapy vs Medical Management for Patients With Acute Stroke With Medium Vessel Occlusion in the Anterior Circulation, Hamidreza Saber, Shashvat M. Desai, Diogo C. Haussen, Alhamza R. Al-Bayati, Shahram Majidi, J. Mocco, Ameer E. Hassan, Gary Rajah, Muhammad Waqas, and Jason Davies
Association of fatal and non-fatal adverse health outcomes with urinary peptides reflecting collagen I turnover, Jesus Melgarejo, D. Wei, Agnieszka Latosinska, Thomas Vanassche, Stefan Janssens, H. Mischak, Jan A. Staessen, Peter Verhamme, and Z Y. Zhang
Lipoprotein profiles of fat distribution and its association with insulin sensitivity, Dongmei Wei, Vannina González Marrachelli, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Chia-Te Liao, Stefan Janssens, Peter Verhamme, Thomas Vanassche, Lucas Van Aelst, Daniel Monleon, Josep Redon, and Zhen-Yu Zhang
Monodelphis domestica Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Reveal Metatherian Pluripotency Architecture, Satish Kumar, Erica De Leon, Jose C. Granados, Deanne J. Whitworth, and Jane F. VandeBerg
Two Cases of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA): A Multifaceted Condition Calling for a Multidisciplinary Approach, Christine E. Loftis, Aidee Nunez, Mauricio De La Garza, and Emilia C. Dulgheru
Two Cases of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA): A Multifaceted Condition Calling for a Multidisciplinary Approach, Christine Loftis, Aidee C. Nunez, Mauricio De La Garza, and Emilia C. Dulgheru
Whole genome sequence analysis of blood lipid levels in >66,000 individuals, Margaret Sunitha Selvaraj, Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Akhil Pampana, David Y. Zhang, Joanne E. Curran, Ravi Duggirala, John Blangero, Juan M. Peralta, Harald HH Goring, and Michael Mahaney
Atherogenic lipoprotein profile associated with anthropometric indices of obesity and their association with cardiometabolic risk markers: a cross-sectional study in community, D. Wei, Jesus Melgarejo, Thomas Vanassche, L. Van Aelst, Stefan Janssens, Peter Verhamme, J. Redon, and Z. Y. Zhang
Shared brain and genetic architectures between mental health and physical activity, Wei Zhang, Sarah E. Paul, Anderson M. Winkler, Ryan Bogdan, and Janine D. Bijsterbosch
Meningococcal B vaccine-associated papillophlebitis and cilioretinal artery occlusion, Matthew Parvus, Mohammad Pakravan, Chaow Charoenkijkajorn, Jane Edmond, Andres Spinetti, and Andrew G. Lee
Predictive performance and clinical application of COV50, a urinary proteomic biomarker in early COVID-19 infection: a prospective multicentre cohort study, Jan A. Staessen, Ralph Wendt, Yu-Ling Yu, Sven Kalbitz, Lutgarde Thijs, Justyna Siwy, Julia Raad, Jochen Metzger, Barbara Neuhaus, and Gladys E. Maestre
tDCS induced GABA change is associated with the simulated electric field in M1, an effect mediated by grey matter volume in the MRS voxel, Tulika Nandi, Oula Puonti, William T. Clarke, Caroline Nettekoven, Helen C. Barron, James Kolasinski, Taylor Hanayik, Emily L. Hinson, Adam Berrington, and Anderson M. Winkler
Two Cases of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA): A Multifaceted Condition Calling for a Multidisciplinary Approach, Christine Loftis, Aidee C. Nunez, Mauricio De La Garza, and Emilia Dulgheru
The CCR2+ Monocyte Subsets Increase in Obese Boys but Not Girls with Abnormally High Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: A Pilot Study, María José Garcés-Hernández, Karen Pedraza-Escudero, Nayely Garibay-Nieto, Joselin Hernández-Ruiz, Jessica Lakshmi Prieto-Chávez, Lourdes Andrea Arriaga-Pizano, Eréndira Villanueva-Ortega, Galileo Escobedo, Aaron Noe Manjarrez-Reyna, and Juan C. Lopez-Alvarenga
Sex Differences in Psychiatric Comorbidities in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A National Inpatient Sample Analysis, Ramu Vadukapuram, Amir Bishay Elshokiry, Chintan Trivedi, Alaa Abouelnasr, Abdullah Bataineh, Sadia Usmani, Suhasini P. Rodrigues, Zeeshan Mansuri, and Shailesh Bobby Jain
Chronic neuropsychiatric sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: Protocol and methods from the Alzheimer's Association Global Consortium, Gabriel A. de Erausquin, Heather Snyder, Traolach S. Brugha, Sudha Seshadri, Maria Carrillo, Rajesh Sagar, Yueqin Huang, Charles Newton, Carmela Tartaglia, John Blangero, Gladys E. Maestre, and Sarah Williams Blangero
Metabolic syndrome predictors of brain gray matter volume in an age-stratified community sample of 776 Mexican- American adults: Results from the genetics of brain structure image archive, Eithan Kotkowski, Larry R. Price, Ralph A. DeFronzo, Crystal G. Franklin, Maximino Salazar, Amy S. Garrett, Mary Woolsey, John Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, David C. Glahn, and Peter T. Fox
Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention, Zhe Wang, Andrew Emmerich, Nicolas J. Pillon, Tim Moore, Daiane Hemerich, Marilyn C. Cornelis, Eugenia Mazzaferro, Siacia Broos, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, and John Blangero
Prolactin Expression in the Baboon (Papio hamadryas) Eye, María Lourdes Garza-Rodríguez, Iram Pablo Rodriguez-Sanchez, Rafael Gonzalez-Alvarez, Maricela Luna, Carlos H. Burciaga-Flores, Fernando Alcorta-Nuñez, Orlando Solis-Coronado, Victor Manuel Bautista de Lucio, Genaro A. Ramírez-Correa, Oscar Vidal-Gutierrez, and Diana Cristina Perez-Ibave
COVID-19 and vaccination: myths vs science, Vivek P. Chavda, Yangmin Chen, Jayant Dave, Zhe-Sheng Chen, Subhash C. Chauhan, Murali M. Yallapu, Vladimir N. Uversky, Rajashri Bezbaruah, Sandip Patel, and Vasso Apostolopoulos
Diagnosing a rare thoracic intramedullary spinal dermoid cyst using DWI with ADC mapping: Case report, Jennifer Adams, Daniel Habenicht, and Sohum Desai
microRNA-205 in prostate cancer: Overview to clinical translation, Neeraj Chauhan, Anjali Manojkumar, Meena Jaggi, Subhash C. Chauhan, and Murali M. Yallapu
Novel Automation of an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Spot Assay Testing Method: Comparable Diagnostic Performance of the T-SPOT.TB Test Using Manual Density Gradient Cell Isolation versus Automated Positive Selection with the T-Cell Select Kit, Shu-Hua Wang, Murgesean V. S. Rajaram, Andre Trollip, Qian Wu, Doris Ayala, Danyelle Garza, Marielena A. Benavidez, Kelsie Fox, Genesis P. Aguillón-Durán, and Blanca I. Restrepo
Periprosthetic knee infection after benign tumor excision complicated by carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae: A case report, Jennifer Adams, Daniel Habenicht, and Duncan Ramsey
Risk of Suicide in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder and Comorbid Chronic Pain Disorder: An Insight From National Inpatient Sample Data, Taranjeet Jolly, Ramu Vadukapuram, Chintan Trivedi, Zeeshan Mansuri, Mahwish Adnan, Steven P. Cohen, and To-Nho Vu
Structural Brain Correlates of Childhood Inhibited Temperament: An ENIGMA-Anxiety Mega-analysis, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Rachel Bernstein, Brenda E. Benson, Kristin A. Buss, Kelley E. Gunther, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Giovanni A. Salum, Andrea P. Jackowski, Rodrigo A. Bressan, and Anderson M. Winkler
The Relationship Between Segmental Pulse Wave Velocity And Hemodynamic Variables In Young Hispanic Individuals., Murat Karabulut, Jorge Bejar, Michael G. Bemben, Gladys Maestre, and Ulku S. Karabulut
Epithelial immunomodulation by aerosolized Toll-like receptor agonists prevents allergic inflammation in airway mucosa in mice, David L. Goldblatt, Gabriella Valverde Ha, Shradha Wali, Vikram V. Kulkarni, Michael K. Longmire, Ana M. Jaramillo, Rosha P. Chittuluru, Adrienne Fouts, Margarita Martinez-Moczygemba, and Jonathan T. Lei
Multi-OMICs analysis reveals metabolic and epigenetic changes associated with macrophage polarization, Mark L. Sowers, Hui Tang, Vipul K. Singh, Arshad Khan, Abhishek Mishra, Blanca I. Restrepo, Chinnaswamy Jagannath, and Kangling Zhang
Optical Redox Imaging of Ex Vivo Hippocampal Tissue Reveals Age-Dependent Alterations in the 5XFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease, He N. Xu, Sarah Gourmaud, Allison Podsednik, Xiaofan Li, Huaqing Zhao, Frances E. Jensen, Delia M. Talos, and Lin Z. Li
The Genetic contribution to solving the cocktail-party problem, Samuel R. Mathias, Emma Knowles, Josephine Mollon, Amanda Rodrigue, Mary K. Woolsey, Rene L. Olvera, Juan M. Peralta, Satish Kumar, Harald H. H. Goring, Ravi Duggirala, Joanne E. Curran, John Blangero, and David C. Glahn
Burden of Psychiatric Disorders in Moyamoya Disease: A National Inpatient Perspective From 2007–2014, Zeeshan Mansuri, Krupa Patel, Chintan Trivedi, Saral Desai, Shweta Patel, Rupak Desai, Ramu Vadukapuram, Ashutosh Lodhi, and Abhishek Reddy
Whole Genome Association Study of the Plasma Metabolome Identifies Metabolites Linked to Cardiometabolic Disease in Black Individuals, Usman A. Tahir, Daniel H. Katz, Julian Avila-Pachecho, Alexander G. Bick, Akhil Pampana, Jeremy M. Robbins, Zhi Yu, Zsu-Zsu Chen, Mark D. Benson, and John Blangero
Detection of Pancreatic Cancer miRNA with Biocompatible Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots, Ryan Ajgaonkar, Bong Lee, Alina Valimukhametova, Steven Nguyen, Roberto Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Jeffery Coffer, Giridhar R. Akkaraju, and Anton V. Naumov
Common Methods of Suicide and Self-Inflicted Poisoning/Injury by Individuals With Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder: A Nationwide Inpatient Sample Analysis, Ramu Vadukapuram, Chintan Trivedi, Zeeshan Mansuri, and Shailesh Jain
Keeping 21st Century Paleontology Grounded: Quantitative Genetic Analyses and Ancestral State Reconstruction Re-Emphasize the Essentiality of Fossils, Tesla A. Monson, Marianne F. Brasil, Michael Mahaney, Christopher A. Schmitt, Catherine E. Taylor, and Leslea J. Hlusko
Genetic substrates of bipolar disorder risk in Latino families, Michael Escamilla and Camille Merhi
Factors Contributing to SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Hesitancy of Hispanic Population in Rio Grande Valley, Athina Bikaki, Michael Machiorlatti, Loren Cliff Clark, Candace A. Robledo, and Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Impact of interhospital transfer vs. direct admission on acute ischemic stroke patients: A subset analysis of the COMPLETE registry, Ameer E. Hassan, Osama O. Zaidat, Ashish Nanda, Benjamin Atchie, Keith Woodward, Arnd Doerfler, Alejandro Tomasello, and Johanna T. Fifi
Radiographic Evaluation of Pediatric Patients with Patellofemoral Instability, Kevin J. Orellana, Morgan G. Batley, J. Todd R. Lawrence, Brendan A. Williams, and Jie C. Nguyen
Hepatic transcript signatures predict atherosclerotic lesion burden prior to a 2-year high cholesterol, high fat diet challenge, Sobha Puppala, Kimberly D. Spradling-Reeves, Jeannie Chan, Shifra Birnbaum, Deborah E. Newman, Anthony G. Comuzzie, Michael Mahaney, John L. VandeBerg, Michael Olivier, and Laura Cox
Rare genetic variants explain missing heritability in smoking, Seon-Kyeong Jang, Luke Evans, Allison Fialkowski, Donna K. Arnett, Allison E. Ashley-Koch, Kathleen C. Barnes, Diane M. Becker, Joshua C. Bis, John Blangero, and Eugene R. Bleecker
Acute intracranial stenting with mechanical thrombectomy is safe and efficacious in patients diagnosed with underlying intracranial atherosclerotic disease, Ameer E. Hassan, Victor M. Ringheanu, Laurie Preston, Wondwossen G. Tekle, and Adnan Qureshi
A Rare Case of Penile Mucosal Melanoma, Safiya-Hana Belbina, Sofia Gereta, Mia Rose Schmolze, James McLain Bradford, Christopher Yang, and Aaron A. Laviana
Correction of depression-associated circadian rhythm abnormalities is associated with lithium response in bipolar disorder, Monica Federoff, Michael J. McCarthy, Amit Anand, Wade H. Berrettini, Holli Bertram, Abesh Bhattacharjee, Cynthia V. Calkin, Carla Conroy, William H. Coryell, and Ney Alliey-Rodriguez
Genetic determinants of metabolic biomarkers and their associations with cardiometabolic traits in Hispanic/Latino adolescents, Daeeun Kim, Anne E. Justice, Geetha Chittoor, Estela Blanco, Marcio Almeida, Juan M. Peralta, Donna M. Lehman, Joanne E. Curran, Anthony G. Comuzzie, Ravi Duggirala, and John Blangero
Giant Gastroduodenal Duplication Cyst with Juxta-Pancreatic Communication, Jhon F. Martinez Paredes, Daniel G. Plata-Diaz, and Adriana Pinilla
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 H. Lee, Joseph D. Terwilliger, Michele Petitto, and Carlos A. Chavez
Patients Achieving 90°/45°/0° Intraoperative Stability Do Not Require Hip Precautions Following Posterior Approach Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Prospective Randomized Study, Marlie R. Mounts, Rachael Turner, Nimesh B. Patel, Erin N. Snelling, Raquel E. Phillips, Dean A. levesque, and Jared R.H. Foran
Psychiatric Comorbidities in Adults with DiGeorge Syndrome, Hiren Patel, Ramu Vadukapuram, Zeeshan Mansuri, Chintan Trivedi, Kanwarjeet Singh Brar, Uzma Beg, Jigar Patel, Aalamgeer Ibrahim, and Muhammad Khalid Zafar
Whole genome sequence association analysis of fasting glucose and fasting insulin levels in diverse cohorts from the NHLBI TOPMed program, Daniel DiCorpo, Sheila M. Gaynor, Emily M. Russell, Kenneth E. Westerman, Laura M. Raffield, Marcio Almeida, Juan M. Peralta, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, and Ravindranath Duggirala
Endoscopic outcomes in patients with AERD treated with topical antibiotics and intranasal corticosteroids, Jhon F. Martinez Paredes, Garret Choby, Michael Marino, Devyani Lal, Osarenoma Olomu, Razan Alfakir, Janalee K. Stokken, Erin O’Brien, and Angela M. Donaldson
The virtual peripheral nerve academy: education for the identification and treatment of peripheral nerve disorders, Erica B. Lee, Allison Podsednik, Kimberly Khoo, Amal Cheema, Raysa Cabrejo, Chen Shen, Joseph Rosen, and A Lee Dellon
Urinary matrix Gla protein is associated with mortality risk in Flemish population: A prospective study, Dongmei Wei, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Thomas Vanassche, Lucas Van Aelst, Stefan Janssens, Peter Verhamme, and Zhen-Yu Zhang
Collar-button abscess as a complication of infected hematoma in the setting of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, Jennifer Adams, Daniel Habenicht, and Savvas Poulos
Emerging Roles and Potential Applications of Non-Coding RNAs in Cervical Cancer, Deepak Parashar, Anupama Singh, Saurabh Gupta, Aishwarya Sharma, Manish K. Sharma, Kuldeep K. Roy, Subhash C. Chauhan, and Vivek K. Kashyap
Lipidomic profiling in the Strong Heart Study identified American Indians at risk of chronic kidney disease, Wenjie Zeng, Habtamu B. Beyene, Mikko Kuokkanen, Guanhong Miao, Dianna J. Magliano, Jason G. Umans, Nora Franceschini, Joanne E. Curran, and John Blangero
Homelessness in the Child and Adolescent Population: A Study Evaluating Trends and Demographics in Regions of the United States, 2013-2018, Sahar Ashraf, Kaushal Shah, Ramu Vadukapuram, Jatminderpal Bhela, Gaurav Chaudhari, Zeeshan Mansuri, and Shailesh Jain
Subclinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging Markers of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in Relation to Office and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurements, Jesus D. Melgarejo, Gladys E. Maestre, Jose Gutierrez, Lutgarde Thijs, Luis J. Mena, Ciro Gaona, Reinier Leendertz, Joseph H. Lee, Carlos A. Chavez, and Gustavo Calmon
International controlled study of revascularization and outcomes following COVID-positive mechanical thrombectomy, Adam A. Dmytriw, Sherief Ghozy, Ahmad Sweid, Michel Piotin, Kimon Bekelis, Nader Sourour, Eytan Raz, Daniel Vela-Duarte, Ameer E. Hassan, and Abolghasem Mortazavi
Tuberculosis Phenotypic and Genotypic Drug Susceptibility Testing and Immunodiagnostics: A Review, Kizil A. Yusoof, Juan Ignacio Garcia, Alyssa Schami, Andreu Garcia-Vilanova, Holden V. Kelley, Shu-Hua Wang, Adrian Rendon, Blanca I. Restrepo, Marcel Yotebieng, and Jordi B. Torrelles
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
205-LB: ERK Is Required for LPS-Induced TLR4 Internalization in Macrophages, Phoebe Fang-Mei Chang and Sara M. Reyna
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
Non-compartmental toxicokinetic studies of the Nigerian Naja nigricollis venom, Auwal A. Bala, Sani Malami, Yusuf Abubakar Muhammad, Binta Kurfi, Ismaila Raji, Sanusi Muhammad Salisu, Mustapha Mohammed, George Oche Ambrose, Murtala Jibril, and Jacob Galan
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