• Enhancing Safe Sleep Counseling by Pediatricians through a Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative 

  Scott, Emily K.; Downs, Stephen M.; Pottenger, Amy K.; Bien, James P.; Saysana, Michele S. (Wolters Kluwer, 2020-08-01)

  Background: Approximately, 3,500 infants die annually from sleep-related infant deaths in the United States. We sought to improve pediatricians’ counseling on safe sleep from birth through 6 months of age through a virtual ...
• Teacher Role in Absenteeism: Discrimination, Identity, and Intersectionality -- A Person-in-Environment Analysis 

  Gentle-Genitty, Carolyn; Kyere, Eric; Hong, Saahoon (Jerring Fonden, 2021)

  As parents play an integral role in students’ absenteeism, so do teachers. A large part of the day, for students, is spent in schools and with teachers. In this chapter, the focus is on discrimination in teacher-student ...
• Biliary damage and liver fibrosis are ameliorated in a novel mouse model lacking l-histidine decarboxylase/histamine signaling 

  Kennedy, Lindsey; Meadows, Vik; Demieville, Jennifer; Hargrove, Laura; Virani, Shohaib; Glaser, Shannon; Zhou, Tianhao; Rinehart, Evan; Jaeger, Victoria; Kyritsi, Konstantina; Pham, Linh; Alpini, Gianfranco; Francis, Heather (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-02-13)

  Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is characterized by biliary damage and fibrosis. Multidrug resistance-2 gene knockout (Mdr2−/−) mice and PSC patients have increased histamine (HA) levels (synthesized by l-histidine ...
• Multiple Myeloma and Bone: The Fatal Interaction 

  Marino, Silvia; Roodman, G. David (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2018-08-08)

  Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second-most-common hematologic malignancy and the most frequent cancer to involve bone. MM bone disease (MMBD) has devastating consequences for patients, including dramatic bone loss, severe ...
• miR-29a Is Repressed by MYC in Pancreatic Cancer and Its Restoration Drives Tumor-Suppressive Effects via Downregulation of LOXL2 

  Dey, Shatovisha; Kwon, Jason J.; Liu, Sheng; Hodge, Gabriel A.; Taleb, Solaema; Zimmers, Teresa A.; Wan, Jun; Kota, Janaiah (American Association for Cancer Research, 2020-02-01)

  Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an intractable cancer with a dismal prognosis. MicroRNA-29a (miR-29a) is commonly downregulated in PDAC, however, mechanisms for its loss and role still remain unclear. Here we ...

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