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Annina Baumgartner, Christoph Tausch, Stefanie Hosch, Bärbel Papassotiropoulos, Zsuzsanna Varga, Christoph Rageth, Astrid Baege
BACKGROUND: Accuracy in predicting pathologic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) in breast cancer is essential for the determination of therapeutic efficacy and surgical planning. This study aimed to assess the precision of ultrasound (US) for predicting pathologic complete response (pCR = ypT0) after NACT. METHODS: This retrospective mono-center study included 124 invasive breast cancer patients treated with NACT. Patients received US before and after NACT with documentation of clinical partial response (cPR) and clinical complete response (cCR)...
March 5, 2018: Breast: Official Journal of the European Society of Mastology
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Yudi T Pinilla, Stefanie C P Lopes, Vanderson S Sampaio, Francys S Andrade, Gisely C Melo, Alessandra S Orfanó, Nágila F C Secundino, Maria G V B Guerra, Marcus V G Lacerda, Kevin C Kobylinski, Karin S Escobedo-Vargas, Victor M López-Sifuentes, Craig A Stoops, G Christian Baldeviano, Joel Tarning, Gissella M Vasquez, Paulo F P Pimenta, Wuelton M Monteiro
BACKGROUND: The mosquito resistance to the insecticides threatens malaria control efforts, potentially becoming a major public health issue. Alternative methods like ivermectin (IVM) administration to humans has been suggested as a possible vector control to reduce Plasmodium transmission. Anopheles aquasalis and Anopheles darlingi are competent vectors for Plasmodium vivax, and they have been responsible for various malaria outbreaks in the coast of Brazil and the Amazon Region of South America...
February 14, 2018: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Quentin Carradec, Eric Pelletier, Corinne Da Silva, Adriana Alberti, Yoann Seeleuthner, Romain Blanc-Mathieu, Gipsi Lima-Mendez, Fabio Rocha, Leila Tirichine, Karine Labadie, Amos Kirilovsky, Alexis Bertrand, Stefan Engelen, Mohammed-Amin Madoui, Raphaël Méheust, Julie Poulain, Sarah Romac, Daniel J Richter, Genki Yoshikawa, Céline Dimier, Stefanie Kandels-Lewis, Marc Picheral, Sarah Searson, Olivier Jaillon, Jean-Marc Aury, Eric Karsenti, Matthew B Sullivan, Shinichi Sunagawa, Peer Bork, Fabrice Not, Pascal Hingamp, Jeroen Raes, Lionel Guidi, Hiroyuki Ogata, Colomban de Vargas, Daniele Iudicone, Chris Bowler, Patrick Wincker
While our knowledge about the roles of microbes and viruses in the ocean has increased tremendously due to recent advances in genomics and metagenomics, research on marine microbial eukaryotes and zooplankton has benefited much less from these new technologies because of their larger genomes, their enormous diversity, and largely unexplored physiologies. Here, we use a metatranscriptomics approach to capture expressed genes in open ocean Tara Oceans stations across four organismal size fractions. The individual sequence reads cluster into 116 million unigenes representing the largest reference collection of eukaryotic transcripts from any single biome...
January 25, 2018: Nature Communications
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Yoann Seeleuthner, Samuel Mondy, Vincent Lombard, Quentin Carradec, Eric Pelletier, Marc Wessner, Jade Leconte, Jean-François Mangot, Julie Poulain, Karine Labadie, Ramiro Logares, Shinichi Sunagawa, Véronique de Berardinis, Marcel Salanoubat, Céline Dimier, Stefanie Kandels-Lewis, Marc Picheral, Sarah Searson, Stephane Pesant, Nicole Poulton, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Peer Bork, Chris Bowler, Pascal Hingamp, Matthew B Sullivan, Daniele Iudicone, Ramon Massana, Jean-Marc Aury, Bernard Henrissat, Eric Karsenti, Olivier Jaillon, Mike Sieracki, Colomban de Vargas, Patrick Wincker
Single-celled eukaryotes (protists) are critical players in global biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and energy in the oceans. While their roles as primary producers and grazers are well appreciated, other aspects of their life histories remain obscure due to challenges in culturing and sequencing their natural diversity. Here, we exploit single-cell genomics and metagenomics data from the circumglobal Tara Oceans expedition to analyze the genome content and apparent oceanic distribution of seven prevalent lineages of uncultured heterotrophic stramenopiles...
January 22, 2018: Nature Communications
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Moritz H Albrecht, John W Nance, U Joseph Schoepf, Brian E Jacobs, Richard R Bayer, Sheldon E Litwin, Michael A Reynolds, Katharina Otani, Stefanie Mangold, Akos Varga-Szemes, Domenico De Santis, Marwen Eid, Georg Apfaltrer, Christian Tesche, Markus Goeller, Thomas J Vogl, Carlo N De Cecco
OBJECTIVES: To compare the diagnostic accuracy between low-kilovolt peak (kVp) (≤ 100) and high-kVp (> 100) third-generation dual-source coronary CT angiography (CCTA) using a kVp-tailored contrast media injection protocol. METHODS: One hundred twenty patients (mean age = 62.6 years, BMI = 29.0 kg/m2 ) who underwent catheter angiography and CCTA with automated kVp selection were separated into two cohorts (each n = 60, mean kVp = 84 and 117). Contrast media dose was tailored to the kVp level: 70 = 40 ml, 80 = 50 ml, 90 = 60 ml, 100 = 70 ml, 110 = 80 ml, and 120 = 90 ml...
November 27, 2017: European Radiology
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Tony Picoli, Cristina Mendes Peter, João Luíz Zani, Stefanie Bressan Waller, Matheus Gomes Lopes, Kamilla Neutzling Boesche, Gilberto D Ávila Vargas, Silvia de Oliveira Hübner, Geferson Fischer
Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa stand out in veterinary and human medicine for their role in opportunistic infections and their pathogenic mechanisms, including the biofilms formation. It was investigated the antibacterial activity of melittin and antibiofilm of such bacteria. Twelve strains of these microorganisms isolated from bovine milk were used, as well as the strains S. aureus ATCC 12600, E. coli ATCC 8739 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 15442. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) were determined by broth microdilution technique...
September 21, 2017: Microbial Pathogenesis
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Johannes Brägelmann, Marcel A Dammert, Felix Dietlein, Johannes M Heuckmann, Axel Choidas, Stefanie Böhm, André Richters, Debjit Basu, Verena Tischler, Carina Lorenz, Peter Habenberger, Zhizhou Fang, Sandra Ortiz-Cuaran, Frauke Leenders, Jan Eickhoff, Uwe Koch, Matthäus Getlik, Martin Termathe, Muhammad Sallouh, Zoltán Greff, Zoltán Varga, Hyatt Balke-Want, Christopher A French, Martin Peifer, H Christian Reinhardt, László Örfi, György Kéri, Sascha Ansén, Lukas C Heukamp, Reinhard Büttner, Daniel Rauh, Bert M Klebl, Roman K Thomas, Martin L Sos
Kinase inhibitors represent the backbone of targeted cancer therapy, yet only a limited number of oncogenic drivers are directly druggable. By interrogating the activity of 1,505 kinase inhibitors, we found that BRD4-NUT-rearranged NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) cells are specifically killed by CDK9 inhibition (CDK9i) and depend on CDK9 and Cyclin-T1 expression. We show that CDK9i leads to robust induction of apoptosis and of markers of DNA damage response in NMC cells. While both CDK9i and bromodomain inhibition over time result in reduced Myc protein expression, only bromodomain inhibition induces cell differentiation and a p21-induced cell-cycle arrest in these cells...
September 19, 2017: Cell Reports
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Adriana Alberti, Julie Poulain, Stefan Engelen, Karine Labadie, Sarah Romac, Isabel Ferrera, Guillaume Albini, Jean-Marc Aury, Caroline Belser, Alexis Bertrand, Corinne Cruaud, Corinne Da Silva, Carole Dossat, Frédérick Gavory, Shahinaz Gas, Julie Guy, Maud Haquelle, E'krame Jacoby, Olivier Jaillon, Arnaud Lemainque, Eric Pelletier, Gaëlle Samson, Mark Wessner, Silvia G Acinas, Marta Royo-Llonch, Francisco M Cornejo-Castillo, Ramiro Logares, Beatriz Fernández-Gómez, Chris Bowler, Guy Cochrane, Clara Amid, Petra Ten Hoopen, Colomban De Vargas, Nigel Grimsley, Elodie Desgranges, Stefanie Kandels-Lewis, Hiroyuki Ogata, Nicole Poulton, Michael E Sieracki, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Matthew B Sullivan, Jennifer R Brum, Melissa B Duhaime, Bonnie T Poulos, Bonnie L Hurwitz, Stéphane Pesant, Eric Karsenti, Patrick Wincker
A unique collection of oceanic samples was gathered by the Tara Oceans expeditions (2009-2013), targeting plankton organisms ranging from viruses to metazoans, and providing rich environmental context measurements. Thanks to recent advances in the field of genomics, extensive sequencing has been performed for a deep genomic analysis of this huge collection of samples. A strategy based on different approaches, such as metabarcoding, metagenomics, single-cell genomics and metatranscriptomics, has been chosen for analysis of size-fractionated plankton communities...
August 1, 2017: Scientific Data
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Damiano Caruso, Marwen Eid, U Joseph Schoepf, Domenico De Santis, Akos Varga-Szemes, Stefanie Mangold, Christian Canstein, Virginia W Lesslie, Stephen R Fuller, B Devon Ball, Andrea Laghi, Carlo N De Cecco
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the minimum iodine delivery rate (IDR) and contrast media (CM) volume required for diagnostic contrast enhancement of 350 HU (Hounsfield units) in the ascending aorta at different kV settings. METHODS: Dynamic computed tomography acquisitions from 70 to 150 kV were performed in a circulation phantom. First, injections with IDR ranging from 0.1 to 2.0 g I/s were tested for each kV. In the second part, the IDR was held constant, whereas the CM volume was reduced from 50 to 10 mL...
September 2017: Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
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Thomas R Webb, Jeanette Erdmann, Kathleen E Stirrups, Nathan O Stitziel, Nicholas G D Masca, Henning Jansen, Stavroula Kanoni, Christopher P Nelson, Paola G Ferrario, Inke R König, John D Eicher, Andrew D Johnson, Stephen E Hamby, Christer Betsholtz, Arno Ruusalepp, Oscar Franzén, Eric E Schadt, Johan L M Björkegren, Peter E Weeke, Paul L Auer, Ursula M Schick, Yingchang Lu, He Zhang, Marie-Pierre Dube, Anuj Goel, Martin Farrall, Gina M Peloso, Hong-Hee Won, Ron Do, Erik van Iperen, Jochen Kruppa, Anubha Mahajan, Robert A Scott, Christina Willenborg, Peter S Braund, Julian C van Capelleveen, Alex S F Doney, Louise A Donnelly, Rosanna Asselta, Pier A Merlini, Stefano Duga, Nicola Marziliano, Josh C Denny, Christian Shaffer, Nour Eddine El-Mokhtari, Andre Franke, Stefanie Heilmann, Christian Hengstenberg, Per Hoffmann, Oddgeir L Holmen, Kristian Hveem, Jan-Håkan Jansson, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Thorsten Kessler, Jennifer Kriebel, Karl L Laugwitz, Eirini Marouli, Nicola Martinelli, Mark I McCarthy, Natalie R Van Zuydam, Christa Meisinger, Tõnu Esko, Evelin Mihailov, Stefan A Escher, Maris Alver, Susanne Moebus, Andrew D Morris, Jarma Virtamo, Majid Nikpay, Oliviero Olivieri, Sylvie Provost, Alaa AlQarawi, Neil R Robertson, Karen O Akinsansya, Dermot F Reilly, Thomas F Vogt, Wu Yin, Folkert W Asselbergs, Charles Kooperberg, Rebecca D Jackson, Eli Stahl, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Konstantin Strauch, Tibor V Varga, Melanie Waldenberger, Lingyao Zeng, Rajiv Chowdhury, Veikko Salomaa, Ian Ford, J Wouter Jukema, Philippe Amouyel, Jukka Kontto, Børge G Nordestgaard, Jean Ferrières, Danish Saleheen, Naveed Sattar, Praveen Surendran, Aline Wagner, Robin Young, Joanna M M Howson, Adam S Butterworth, John Danesh, Diego Ardissino, Erwin P Bottinger, Raimund Erbel, Paul W Franks, Domenico Girelli, Alistair S Hall, G Kees Hovingh, Adnan Kastrati, Wolfgang Lieb, Thomas Meitinger, William E Kraus, Svati H Shah, Ruth McPherson, Marju Orho-Melander, Olle Melander, Andres Metspalu, Colin N A Palmer, Annette Peters, Daniel J Rader, Muredach P Reilly, Ruth J F Loos, Alex P Reiner, Dan M Roden, Jean-Claude Tardif, John R Thompson, Nicholas J Wareham, Hugh Watkins, Cristen J Willer, Nilesh J Samani, Heribert Schunkert, Panos Deloukas, Sekar Kathiresan
BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have so far identified 56 loci associated with risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). Many CAD loci show pleiotropy; that is, they are also associated with other diseases or traits. OBJECTIVES: This study sought to systematically test if genetic variants identified for non-CAD diseases/traits also associate with CAD and to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the extent of pleiotropy of all CAD loci. METHODS: In discovery analyses involving 42,335 CAD cases and 78,240 control subjects we tested the association of 29,383 common (minor allele frequency >5%) single nucleotide polymorphisms available on the exome array, which included a substantial proportion of known or suspected single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with common diseases or traits as of 2011...
February 21, 2017: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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Akos Varga-Szemes, Rob J van der Geest, U Joseph Schoepf, Bruce S Spottiswoode, Carlo N De Cecco, Giuseppe Muscogiuri, Julian L Wichmann, Stefanie Mangold, Stephen R Fuller, Pal Maurovich-Horvat, Bela Merkely, Sheldon E Litwin, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, Pal Suranyi
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the influence of inversion time (TI) on the precision of myocardial late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) quantification using synthetic inversion recovery (IR) imaging in patients with myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS: Fifty-three patients with suspected prior MI underwent 1.5-T cardiac MRI with conventional magnitude (MagIR) and phase-sensitive IR (PSIR) LGE imaging and T1 mapping at 15 min post-contrast. T1-based synthetic MagIR and PSIR images were calculated with a TI ranging from -100 to +150 ms at 5-ms intervals relative to the optimal TI (TI0)...
August 2017: European Radiology
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Stefanie Mangold, Carlo N De Cecco, U Joseph Schoepf, Taylor S Kuhlman, Akos Varga-Szemes, Damiano Caruso, Taylor M Duguay, Christian Tesche, Thomas J Vogl, Konstantin Nikolaou, Daniel H Steinberg, Julian L Wichmann
PURPOSE: To assess image quality and accuracy of CT angiography (CTA) for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) planning performed with 3rd generation dual-source CT (DSCT). MATERIAL AND METHODS: We evaluated 125 patients who underwent TAVR-planning CTA on 3rd generation DSCT. A two-part protocol was performed including retrospectively ECG-gated coronary CTA (CCTA) and prospectively ECG-triggered aortoiliac CTA using 60mL of contrast medium. Automated tube voltage selection and advanced iterative reconstruction were applied...
January 2017: European Journal of Radiology
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Matheus D Baldissera, Carine F Souza, Guerino B Júnior, Agueda C de Vargas, Aline A Boligon, Marli M A de Campos, Lenita M Stefani, Bernardo Baldisserotto
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of M. alternifolia essential oil used to treat silver catfish (Rhamdia quelen) experimentally infected by Aeromonas hydrophila on oxidative stress variables, and for the first time, on hepatic enzymes of the cholinergic and adenosinergic systems. For that, fish were divided into six groups (A-F), each containing seven animals. Groups A, B and C were composed of uninfected animals, while animals in groups D, E and F were intramuscularly inoculated with A. hydrophila...
February 2017: Fish & Shellfish Immunology
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Damiano Caruso, Ashley H Parinella, U Joseph Schoepf, Maxwell H Stroebel, Stefanie Mangold, Julian L Wichmann, Akos Varga-Szemes, B Devon Ball, Domenico De Santis, Andrea Laghi, Carlo N De Cecco
OBJECTIVES: To determine the optimal window setting for displaying virtual monoenergetic reconstructions of third generation dual-source, dual-energy CT (DECT) angiography of the abdomen. METHODS: Forty-five patients were evaluated with DECT angiography (90/150 kV, 180/90 ref. mAs). Three datasets were reconstructed: standard linear blending (M_0.6), 70 keV traditional virtual monoenergetic (M70), and 40 keV advanced noise-optimized virtual monoenergetic (M40+)...
March 2017: Abdominal Radiology
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Stefanie Duvigneau, Niharika Sharma-Chawla, Alessandro Boianelli, Sabine Stegemann-Koniszewski, Van Kinh Nguyen, Dunja Bruder, Esteban A Hernandez-Vargas
In the course of influenza A virus (IAV) infections, a secondary bacterial infection frequently leads to serious respiratory conditions provoking high hospitalization and death tolls. Although abundant pro-inflammatory responses have been reported as key contributing factors for these severe dual infections, the relative contributions of cytokines remain largely unclear. In the current study, mathematical modelling based on murine experimental data dissects IFN-γ as a cytokine candidate responsible for impaired bacterial clearance, thereby promoting bacterial growth and systemic dissemination during acute IAV infection...
November 22, 2016: Scientific Reports
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Helmut Fuchs, Sibylle Sabrautzki, Gerhard K H Przemeck, Stefanie Leuchtenberger, Bettina Lorenz-Depiereux, Lore Becker, Birgit Rathkolb, Marion Horsch, Lillian Garrett, Manuela A Östereicher, Wolfgang Hans, Koichiro Abe, Nobuho Sagawa, Jan Rozman, Ingrid L Vargas-Panesso, Michael Sandholzer, Thomas S Lisse, Thure Adler, Juan Antonio Aguilar-Pimentel, Julia Calzada-Wack, Nicole Ehrhard, Ralf Elvert, Christine Gau, Sabine M Hölter, Katja Micklich, Kristin Moreth, Cornelia Prehn, Oliver Puk, Ildiko Racz, Claudia Stoeger, Alexandra Vernaleken, Dian Michel, Susanne Diener, Thomas Wieland, Jerzy Adamski, Raffi Bekeredjian, Dirk H Busch, John Favor, Jochen Graw, Martin Klingenspor, Christoph Lengger, Holger Maier, Frauke Neff, Markus Ollert, Tobias Stoeger, Ali Önder Yildirim, Tim M Strom, Andreas Zimmer, Eckhard Wolf, Wolfgang Wurst, Thomas Klopstock, Johannes Beckers, Valerie Gailus-Durner, Martin Hrabé de Angelis
The vertebrate Scube (Signal peptide, CUB, and EGF-like domain-containing protein) family consists of three independent members, Scube1-3, which encode secreted cell surface-associated membrane glycoproteins. Limited information about the general function of this gene family is available, and their roles during adulthood. Here, we present the first Scube3 mutant mouse line (Scube3N294K/N294K ), which clearly shows phenotypic alterations by carrying a missense mutation in exon 8, and thus contributes to our understanding of SCUBE3 functions...
December 7, 2016: G3: Genes—Genomes—Genetics
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Alexa Shull, Stefanie E Mayer, Ellen McGinnis, Elisa Geiss, Ivan Vargas, Nestor L Lopez-Duran
There is a growing realization that cognitive processes associated with stress coping, such as rumination and distraction, can impact the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-axis (HPA-axis). Yet, little is known about what aspects of the HPA-axis stress response (rate of activation, duration of activation, rate of recovery) is impacted by such cognitive processes. This study examines the impact of both ruminative trait tendencies and experimentally induced rumination on salivary cortisol responses to a social evaluative stress task...
December 2016: Psychoneuroendocrinology
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Giuseppe Muscogiuri, Wolfgang G Rehwald, U Joseph Schoepf, Pal Suranyi, Sheldon E Litwin, Carlo N De Cecco, Julian L Wichmann, Stefanie Mangold, Damiano Caruso, Stephen R Fuller, Richard R Bayer Nd, Akos Varga-Szemes
PURPOSE: To evaluate a new dark-blood late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) technique called "T(Rho) And Magnetization transfer and INvErsion Recovery" (TRAMINER) for the ability to detect myocardial LGE versus standard "bright-blood" inversion recovery (SIR) imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This Institutional Review Board (IRB)-approved, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant prospective study included 40 patients (62 ± 14 years [mean ± standard deviation (SD)], 29 males) with suspected myocardial infarction (MI) referred for the assessment of myocardial viability...
May 2017: Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: JMRI
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Stefanie Mangold, Julian L Wichmann, U Joseph Schoepf, Damiano Caruso, Christian Tesche, Daniel H Steinberg, Akos Varga-Szemes, Andrew C Stubenrauch, Richard R Bayer, Matthew Biancalana, Konstantin Nikolaou, Carlo N De Cecco
PURPOSE: To investigate diagnostic accuracy of 3rd -generation dual-source CT (DSCT) coronary angiography in obese and non-obese patients. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed 76 patients who underwent coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and invasive coronary angiography. Prospectively ECG-triggered acquisition was performed with automated tube voltage selection (ATVS). Patients were dichotomized based on body mass index in groups A (<30 kg/m2 , n = 37) and B (≥30 kg/m2 , n = 39) and based on tube voltage in groups C (<120 kV, n = 46) and D (120 kV, n = 30)...
June 2017: European Radiology
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Sibylle Sabrautzki, Michael A Sandholzer, Bettina Lorenz-Depiereux, Robert Brommage, Gerhard Przemeck, Ingrid L Vargas Panesso, Alexandra Vernaleken, Lillian Garrett, Katharina Baron, Ali O Yildirim, Jan Rozman, Birgit Rathkolb, Christine Gau, Wolfgang Hans, Sabine M Hoelter, Susan Marschall, Claudia Stoeger, Lore Becker, Helmut Fuchs, Valerie Gailus-Durner, Martin Klingenspor, Thomas Klopstock, Christoph Lengger, Leuchtenberger Stefanie, Eckhard Wolf, Tim M Strom, Wolfgang Wurst, Martin Hrabě de Angelis
Animal models resembling human mutations are valuable tools to research the features of complex human craniofacial syndromes. This is the first report on a viable dominant mouse model carrying a non-synonymous sequence variation within the endothelin receptor type A gene (Ednra c.386A>T, p.Tyr129Phe) derived by an ENU mutagenesis program. The identical amino acid substitution was reported recently as disease causing in three individuals with the mandibulofacial dysostosis with alopecia (MFDA, OMIM 616367) syndrome...
December 2016: Mammalian Genome: Official Journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society
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