• A Stochastic Spatiotemporal Model of Rat Ventricular Myocyte Calcium Dynamics Demonstrated Necessary Features for Calcium Wave Propagation 

  Hoang-Trong, Tuan Minh; Ullah, Aman; Lederer, William Jonathan; Jafri, Mohsin Saleet (MDPI, 2021-11)

  Calcium (Ca2+) plays a central role in the excitation and contraction of cardiac myocytes. Experi-ments have indicated that calcium release is stochastic and regulated locally suggesting the pos-sibility of spatially ...
• In silico Gene Set and Pathway Enrichment Analyses Highlight Involvement of Ion Transport in Cholinergic Pathways in Autism: Rationale for Nutritional Intervention 

  Olson, Audrey; Zhang, Fuquan; Baranova, Ancha; Slavin, Margaret (Frontiers, 2021-04-20)

  Food is the primary human source of choline, an essential precursor to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which has a central role in signaling pathways that govern sensorimotor functions. Most Americans do not consume ...
• Localization of Free and Bound Metal Species through X-Ray Synchrotron Fluoresence Microscopy in the Rodent Brain and Their Relation to Behavior 

  Neely, Caroline L.C.; Lippi, Stephen L.P.; Lanzirotti, Antonio; Flinn, Jane M. (Brain Sciences, 2019)

  Biometals in the brain, such as zinc, copper, and iron, are often discussed in cases of neurological disorders; however, these metals also have important regulatory functions and mediate cell signaling and plasticity. ...
• Haplotype Analysis of SERPINE1 Gene: Risk for Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Clinical Outcomes 

  Lin, Mingkuan; Griessenauer, Christoph J.; Starke, Robert M.; Tubbs, R. Shane; Shoja, Mohammadali M.; Foreman, Paul M.; Vyas, Nilesh A.; Walters, Beverly C.; Harrigan, Mark R.; Hendrix, Philipp; Fisher, Winfield S.; Pittet, Jean-Francois; Mathru, Mali; Lipsky, Robert H. (Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2019)

  Background: Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) has high fatality and permanent disability rates due to the severe damage to brain cells and inflammation. The SERPINE1 gene that encodes PAI‐1 for the regulation ...
• Investigating Fishing Impacts in Nigerian Coastal Waters For Peer Review Only Using Marine Trophic Index Analyses  

  Adebola, Tunde M; de Mutsert, Kim (Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 2019)

  In Nigerian coastal waters (NCW), fishing has increased steadily over the last seven decades. Artisanal fisheries cover the entire 850‐km length of the coast, where over 1 million fishermen exploit estuarine and oceanic ...
• Fully Dense UNet for 2D Sparse Photoacoustic Tomography Artifact Removal 

  Guan, Steven; Khan, Amir A.; Sikdar, Siddartha; Chitnis, Parag V. (Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2019)

  Photoacoustic imaging is an emerging imaging modality that is based upon the photoacoustic effect. In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), the induced acoustic pressure waves are measured by an array of detectors and used to ...
• The role of native phonology in spontaneous imitation: Evidence from Seoul Korean 

  Kwon, Harim (Journal of the Association of Laboratory Phonology, 2019)

  This study investigates the role of phonology in spontaneous imitation in Seoul Korean speakers’ imitation of aspirated stops by comparing the primary and non-primary cues. Seoul Korean aspirated stops are differentiated ...
• 40Ar/39Ar and paleomagnetic constraints on the age and areal extent of the Picabo volcanic field: Implications for the Yellowstone hotspot 

  Anders, Mark H.; DiVenere, Viktor J.; Hemming, Sidney R.; Gombiner, Joel (Geosphere, 2019)

  The Picabo volcanic field is one of the key silicic volcanic fields in the time-transgressive track of the Yellowstone hotspot. The Picabo volcanic field is also one of the most poorly defined volcanic fields along the ...
• Ups and Downs: Social Media Advocacy of Bipolar Disorder on World Mental Health Day 

  Nelson, Allister (Frontiers in Communication, 2019)

  Bipolar disorder is a serious illness that claims hundreds of lives each year. In a watershed movement as the framing of bipolar shifts, the disease is gaining more awareness after the diagnosis of Mariah Carey and advocacy ...
• Modeling the Tertiary Structure of the Rift Valley Fever Virus L Protein 

  Gogovi, Gideon K.; Almsned, Fahad; Bracci, Nicole; Kehn-Hall, Kylene; Shehu, Amarda; Blaisten-Barojas, Estela (Molecules, 2019)

  A tertiary structure governs, to a great extent, the biological activity of a protein in the living cell and is consequently a central focus of numerous studies aiming to shed light on cellular processes central to human ...
• De novo aggregation of Alzheimer’s Aβ25-35 peptides in a lipid bilayer 

  Smith, Amy K.; Klimov, Dmitri K. (Scientific Reports, 2019)

  A potential mechanism of cytotoxicity attributed to Alzheimer’s Aβ peptides postulates that their aggregation disrupts membrane structure causing uncontrollable permeation of Ca2+ ions. To gain molecular insights into ...
• Maternal stress and adolescent brain structure and function 

  Niehaus, Claire E.; Chaplin, Tara M.; Goncalves, Stefanie F.; Semelsberger, Robin; Thompson, James C. (Brain and Behavior, 2019)

  Introduction Adolescence is a time of heightened sensitivity in biological stress systems and the emergence of stress‐related psychopathology. Thus, understanding environmental factors in adolescence that might be associated ...
• Designing Wetlands as an Essential Infrastructural Element for Urban Development in the era of Climate Change 

  Ahn, Changwoo; Schmidt, Stephanie (Sustainability, 2019)

  The increasing development of urban infrastructure has led to the significant loss of natural wetlands and their ecosystem services. Many novel urban development projects currently attempt to incorporate environmental ...
• Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans 

  Peredo, Carlos Mauricio; Pyenson, Nicholas D.; Uhen, Mark D.; Marshall, Christopher D. (PLoS ONE, 2017)

  The evolution of filter feeding in baleen whales (Mysticeti) facilitated a wide range of ecological diversity and extreme gigantism. The innovation of filter feeding evolved in a shift from a mineralized upper and lower ...
• Robust Inference after Random Projections via Hellinger Distance for Location-Scale Family 

  Li, Lei; Vidyashankar, Anand N.; Diao, Guoqing; Ahmed, Ejaz (Entropy, 2019)

  Big data and streaming data are encountered in a variety of contemporary applications in business and industry. In such cases, it is common to use random projections to reduce the dimension of the data yielding compressed ...
• Methionine Oxidation Changes the Mechanism of Aβ Peptide Binding to the DMPC Bilayer 

  Lockhart, Christopher; Smith, Amy K.; Klimov, Dmitri K. (Scientific Reports, 2019)

  Using all-atom explicit solvent replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations with solute tempering, we study the efect of methionine oxidation on Aβ10–40 peptide binding to the zwitterionic DMPC bilayer. By comparing ...
• Alveoli, teeth, and tooth loss: Understanding the homology of internal mandibular structures in mysticete cetaceans 

  Peredo, Carlos Mauricio; Pyenson, Nicholas D.; Uhen, Mark D.; Marshall, Christopher D. (PLOS One, 2017)

  The evolution of filter feeding in baleen whales (Mysticeti) facilitated a wide range of ecological diversity and extreme gigantism. The innovation of filter feeding evolved in a shift from a mineralized upper and lower ...
• The Centennial Variation of El Niño Impact on Atlantic Tropical Cyclones 

  Yang, Ruixin; Fairley, Allison S.; Park, Wonsun (Earth Interactions, 2018)

  Predicting tropical cyclone (TC) activity becomes more important every year while the understanding of what factors impact them continues to be complicated. El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the primary factors ...
• Job Crafting: Older Workers’ Mechanism for Maintaining Person-Job Fit 

  Wong, Carol M.; Tetrick, Lois E. (Frontiers in Psychology, 2017)

  Aging at work is a dynamic process. As individuals age, their motives, abilities and values change as suggested by life-span development theories (Lang and Carstensen, 2002; Kanfer and Ackerman, 2004). Their growth and ...
• Child Care Experiences Among Dual Language Learners in the United States: Analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth Cohort 

  Espinosa, Linda M.; LaForett, Doré R.; Burchinal, Margaret; Winsler, Adam; Tien, Hsiao-Chuan; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S.; Castro, Dina C. (AERA Open, 2017)

  Although quality center-based child care is helpful in promoting school readiness for dual language learners (DLLs), little is known about the nonparental child care that young DLL children experience. DLL status is often ...

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