University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications
This collection showcases journal articles, book chapters, and other publications and presentations written by faculty and researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Publications from 2013
Characterization of FUS mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using RNA-Seq, Marka van Blitterswijk, Eric T. Wang, Brad A. Friedman, Pamela J. Keagle, Ashley Lyn Leclerc, Leonard H. van den Berg, David E. Housman, Jan H. Veldink, John E. Landers, and Patrick Lowe
Reduction of coil mass artifacts in high-resolution flat detector conebeam CT of cerebral stent-assisted coiling, Imramsjah M. J. van der Bom, Samuel Y. Hou, Ajit S. Puri, Gabriela Spilberg, D. Ruijters, P. van de Haar, B. Carelsen, Srinivasan Vedantham, Matthew J. Gounis, and Ajay K. Wakhloo
Frameless multimodal image guidance of localized convection-enhanced delivery of therapeutics in the brain, Imramsjah M. J. van der Bom, Richard P. Moser, Guangping Gao, Miguel Sena-Esteves, Neil Aronin, and Matthew J. Gounis
Viral antigen density and confinement time regulate the reactivity pattern of CD4 T-cell responses to vaccinia virus infection, Vijay Vanguri, Christopher Govern, Rebecca Smith, and Eric Huseby
Bending the cost curve? Results from a comprehensive primary care payment pilot, Sonal Vats, Arlene S. Ash, and Randall P. Ellis
X-ray phase contrast imaging of the breast: analysis of tissue simulating materials, Srinivasan Vedantham and Andrew Karellas
Dedicated breast CT: geometric design considerations to maximize posterior breast coverage, Srinivasan Vedantham, Andrew Karellas, Margaret M. Emmons, Lawrence J. Moss, Sarwat Hussain, and Stephen P. Baker
Scaling-law for the energy dependence of anatomic power spectrum in dedicated breast CT, Srinivasan Vedantham, Linxi Shi, Stephen J. Glick, and Andrew Karellas
SU9518 inhibits proliferative vitreoretinopathy in fibroblast and genetically modified Muller cell-induced rabbit models, Gisela Velez, Alexa R. Weingarden, Hetian Lei, Andrius Kazlauskas, and Guangping Gao
Segment self-repulsion is the major driving force of influenza genome packaging, Sergey V. Venev and Konstantin B. Zeldovich
Retinal gene delivery by rAAV and DNA electroporation, Aditya Venkatesh, Shan Ma, Fernanda Langellotto, Guangping Gao, and Claudio Punzo
A truncation allele in vascular endothelial growth factor c reveals distinct modes of signaling during lymphatic and vascular development, Jacques A. Villefranc, Stefania Nicoli, Katie Bentley, Michael Jeltsch, Georgia Zarkada, John C. Moore, Holger Gerhardt, Kari Alitalo, and Nathan D. Lawson
Cement directed kyphoplasty reduces cement leakage as compared with vertebroplasty: results of a controlled, randomized trial, Thomas J. Vogl, Robert Pflugmacher, Johannes Hierholzer, Gerd Stender, Matthew J. Gounis, Ajay K. Wakhloo, Christian Fiebig, and Renate Hammerstingl
Exploring angular distance in protein-protein docking algorithms, Thom Vreven, Howook Hwang, and Zhiping Weng
Performance of ZDOCK in CAPRI rounds 20-26, Thom Vreven, Brian G. Pierce, Howook Hwang, and Zhiping Weng
A DNA break- and phosphorylation-dependent positive feedback loop promotes immunoglobulin class-switch recombination, Bao Q. Vuong, Kayleigh Herrick-Reynolds, Bharat Vaidyanathan, Joseph N. Pucella, Anna J. Ucher, Nina M. Donghia, Xiwen Gu, Laura Nicolas, Urszula Nowak, Numa Rahman, Matthew P. Strout, Kevin D. Mills, Janet Stavnezer, and Jayanta Chaudhuri
Oncogenic RAS directs silencing of tumor suppressor genes through ordered recruitment of transcriptional repressors, Narendra Wajapeyee, Sunil K. Malonia, Rajendra Kumar Palakurthy, and Michael R. Green
Post-translational intracellular trafficking determines the type of immune response elicited by DNA vaccines expressing Gag antigen of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1), Aaron Wallace, Kim West, Alan L. Rothman, Francis A. Ennis, Shan Lu, and Shixia Wang
Validation of anaphylaxis in the Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel, Kathleen E. Walsh, Sarah L. Cutrona, Sarah Foy, Meghan A. Baker, Susan Forrow, Azadeh Shoaibi, Pamala A. Pawloski, Michelle Conroy, Andrew M. Fine, Lise E. Nigrovic, Nandini Selvam, Mano S. Selvan, William O. Cooper, and Susan E. Andrade
Inflammation in mice ectopically expressing human Pyogenic Arthritis, Pyoderma Gangrenosum, and Acne (PAPA) Syndrome-associated PSTPIP1 A230T mutant proteins, Donghai Wang, Susanne Hoing, Heide Christine Patterson, Umtul M. Ahmad, Vijay A. K. Rathinam, Klaus Rajewsky, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, and Douglas T. Golenbock
Challenges in sodium intake reduction and meal consumption patterns among participants with metabolic syndrome in a dietary trial, Jinsong Wang, Barbara C. Olendzki, Nicole M. Wedick, Gioia M. Persuitte, Annie L. Culver, Wenjun Li, Philip A. Merriam, James Carmody, Hua Julia Fang, Zhiying Zhang, Gin-Fei Olendzki, Liang Zheng, and Yunsheng Ma
Dietary Magnesium Intake Improves Insulin Resistance among Non-Diabetic Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome Participating in a Dietary Trial, Jinsong Wang, Gioia M. Persuitte, Barbara C. Olendzki, Nicole M. Wedick, Zhiying Zhang, Philip A. Merriam, Hua Julia Fang, James Carmody, Gin-Fei Olendzki, and Yunsheng Ma
Identification of Map4k4 as a novel suppressor of skeletal muscle differentiation, Mengxi Wang, Shinya U. Amano, Rachel J. Roth Flach, Anil Chawla, Myriam Aouadi, and Michael P. Czech
Beverage-consumption patterns and associations with metabolic risk factors among low-income Latinos with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, Monica L. Wang, Stephenie C. Lemon, Barbara C. Olendzki, and Milagros C. Rosal
Dietary and physical activity factors related to eating disorder symptoms among middle school youth, Monica Wang, Courtney E. Walls, Karen E. Peterson, Tracy K. Richmond, Jennifer L. Spadano-Gasbarro, Mary L. Greaney, Emily Blood, Solomon Mezgebu, Marie C. McCormick, S. V. Subramanian, and S. Bryn Austin
DNA immunization, Shixia Wang and Shan Lu
Detection of Aspergillus fumigatus pulmonary fungal infections in mice with (99m)Tc-labeled MORF oligomers targeting ribosomal RNA, Yuzhen Wang, Ling Chen, Xinrong Liu, Dengfeng Cheng, Guozheng Liu, Yuxia Liu, Shuping Dou, Donald J. Hnatowich, and Mary Rusckowski
A histone acetylation switch regulates H2A.Z deposition by the SWR-C remodeling enzyme, Shinya Watanabe, Marta Radman-Livaja, Oliver J. Rando, and Craig L. Peterson
Working as a team to improve patient care in the intensive care unit, Nicholas C. Watson and Johnny L. Isenberger
Dynamic Nucleosome Organization at hox Promoters during Zebrafish Embryogenesis, Steven Weicksel, Jia Xu, and Charles G. Sagerstrom
NK cells controlling virus-specific T cells: Rheostats for acute vs. persistent infections, Raymond M. Welsh and Stephen N. Waggoner
Closing the Feedback Loop: An Interactive Voice Response System to Provide Follow-up and Feedback in Primary Care Settings, James H. Willig, Marc Krawitz, Anantachai Panjamapirom, Midge N. Ray, Christa R. Nevin, Thomas M. English, Mark P. Cohen, and Eta S. Berner
Fever in the pediatric patient, Robyn Wing, Maya R. Dor, and Patricia A. McQuilkin
Pediatric head injury and concussion, Robyn Wing and Catherine A. James
Outcomes following resection of pancreatic cancer, Elan R. Witkowski, Jillian K. Smith, and Jennifer F. Tseng
Anti-IFN-gamma and peptide-tolerization therapies inhibit acute lung injury induced by cross-reactive influenza A-specific memory T cells, Myriam F. Wlodarczyk, Anke R. Kraft, Hong D. Chen, Laurie L. Kenney, and Liisa K. Selin
Identification of a novel variant of LMP-1 of EBV in patients with endemic Burkitt lymphoma in western Kenya, Eric M. Wohlford, Amolo S. Asito, Kiprotich Chelimo, Peter Odada Sumba, Paul C. Baresel, Rebecca A. Oot, Ann M. Moormann, and Rosemary A. Rochford
Structural basis of the relaxed state of a Ca2+-regulated myosin filament and its evolutionary implications, John L. Woodhead, Fa-Qing Zhao, and Roger W. Craig
Randomized trial of a family-based, automated, conversational obesity treatment program for underserved populations, Julie A. Wright, Barrett D. Phillips, B. L. Watson, P. K. Newby, G. J. Norman, and W. G. Adams
Disclosure of adverse events in the United States and Canada: an update, and a proposed framework for improvement, Albert W. Wu, Dennis J. Boyle, Gordon Wallace, and Kathleen M. Mazor
Progressive bilateral lipoma arborescens of the knee complicated by juvenile spondyloarthropathy: a case report and review of the literature, Jing Xue, Anthony J. Alario, Scott D. Nelson, and Huaxiang Wu
Evidence for biphasic uncoating during HIV-1 infection from a novel imaging assay, Hongzhan Xu, Tamera Franks, Gregory Gibson, Kelly Huber, Nadia Rahm, Caterina Strambio De Castilla, Jeremy Luban, Christopher Aiken, Simon Watkins, Nicolas Sluis-Cremer, and Zandrea Ambrose
Mesenchymal Stem Cells as a Treatment for Peripheral Arterial Disease: Current Status and Potential Impact of Type II Diabetes on Their Therapeutic Efficacy, Jinglian Yan, Guodong Tie, Ting Yu Xu, Katharine Cecchini, and Louis M. Messina
The Tec kinase ITK regulates thymic expansion, emigration, and maturation of gammadelta NKT cells, Catherine C. Yin, Ok Hyun Cho, Katelyn E. Sylvia, Kavitha Narayan, Amanda L. Prince, John W. Evans, Joonsoo Kang, and Leslie J. Berg
CD4+ T Cells Provide Intermolecular Help To Generate Robust Antibody Responses in Vaccinia Virus-Vaccinated Humans, Liusong Yin, J. Mauricio Calvo-Calle, John Cruz Jr., Frances K. Newman, Sharon E. Frey, Francis A. Ennis, and Lawrence J. Stern
Immortalized myogenic cells from congenital muscular dystrophy type1A patients recapitulate aberrant caspase activation in pathogenesis: a new tool for MDC1A research, Soonsang Yoon, Guido Stadler, Mary Lou Beermann, Eric V. Schmidt, James A. Windelborn, Peter Schneiderat, Woodring E. Wright, and Jeffrey Boone Miller
Differential requirement for SUB1 in chromosomal and plasmid double-strand DNA break repair, Lijian Yu and Michael R. Volkert
UV damage regulates alternative polyadenylation of the RPB2 gene in yeast, Lijian Yu and Michael R. Volkert
A Case of LV "Pseudo" Pseudodyskinesis, Michael Zacharias, Dennis A. Tighe, and Gerard P. Aurigemma
Design of the Vitesse Intracranial Stent Study for Ischemic Therapy (VISSIT) trial in symptomatic intracranial stenosis, Osama O. Zaidat, Alicia C. Castonguay, Brian-Fred Fitzsimmons, Britton Keith Woodward, Zhigang Wang, Monika Killer-Oberpfalzer, Ajay K. Wakhloo, Rishi Gupta, Howard Kirshner, Misha Eliasziw, J. Thomas Megerian, Sujith Shetty, Meg Yoklavich Guilhermier, Stanley Barnwell, Wade S. Smith, and Daryl R. Gress
hnRNP A1 and secondary structure coordinate alternative splicing of Mag, Nancy R. Zearfoss, Emily S. Johnson, and Sean P. Ryder
Incidence, in-hospital case-fatality rates, and management practices in Puerto Ricans hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction, Juan C. Zevallos, Jorge L. Yarzebski, Juan A. Gonzalez, Hector L. Banchs, Mario Garcia-Palmieri, Hernando Mattei, Jose Ayala, Marijesmar Gonzalez, Vanessa Torres, Iris N. Ramos, Luis R. Pericchi, David A. Torres, Maria C. Gonzalez, and Robert J. Goldberg
The cellular and molecular basis of bitter tastant-induced bronchodilation, Cheng-Hai Zhang, Lawrence M. Lifshitz, Karl Uy, Mitsuo Ikebe, Kevin E. Fogarty, and Ronghua ZhuGe
Potent monoclonal antibodies against Clostridium difficile toxin A elicited by DNA immunization, Chunhua Zhang, Ke Jin, Yanling Xiao, Ying Cheng, Zuhu Huang, Shixia Wang, and Shan Lu
Molecular mechanisms for survival regulation of chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells, Haojian Zhang and Shaoguang Li
IFN-gamma production by human natural killer cells in response to HCV-infected hepatoma cells is dependent on accessory cells, Shuye Zhang, Banishree Saha, Karen Kodys, and Gyongyi Szabo
GW182 controls Drosophila circadian behavior and PDF-receptor signaling, Yong Zhang and Patrick Emery
A role for Drosophila ATX2 in activation of PER translation and circadian behavior, Yong Zhang, Jinli Ling, Chunyan Yuan, Raphaelle Dubruille, and Patrick Emery
HOX antisense lincRNA HOXA-AS2 is an apoptosis repressor in all trans retinoic acid treated NB4 promyelocytic leukemia cells, Hang Zhao, Xueqing Zhang, Josias Brito Frazao, Antonio Condino-Neto, and Peter E. Newburger
Stem cell labeling using polyethylenimine conjugated (alpha-NaYbF4:Tm3+)/CaF2 upconversion nanoparticles, Liang Zhao, Artem Kutikov, Jie Shen, Chunying Duan, Jie Song, and Gang Han
Tailored system to deliver behavioral intervention and manage data in randomized trials, Hua Zheng, Milagros C. Rosal, Carol A. Oatis, Wenjun Li, and Patricia D. Franklin
Chemical exchange saturation transfer effect in blood, Shaokuan Zheng, Imramsjah M. J. van der Bom, Zhongliang Zu, Guoxing Lin, Yansong Zhao, and Matthew J. Gounis
Vector sequences are not detected in tumor tissue from research subjects with ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency who previously received adenovirus gene transfer, Li Zhong, Shaoyong Li, Mengxin Li, Jun Xie, Yu Zhang, Brendan Lee, Mark L. Batshaw, James M. Wilson, and Guangping Gao
Recombinant adeno-associated virus integration sites in murine liver after ornithine transcarbamylase gene correction, Li Zhong, Nirav Malani, Mengxin Li, Troy Brady, Jun Xie, Peter Bell, Shaoyong Li, Haven Jones, James M. Wilson, Terence R. Flotte, Frederic D. Bushman, and Guangping Gao
Clinical implications of current developments in genitourinary pathology, Amy G Zhou, Christopher L. Owens, Ediz F. Cosar, and Zhong Jiang
Individual N-glycans added at intervals along the stalk of the Nipah virus G protein prevent fusion but do not block the interaction with the homologous F protein, Qiyun Zhu, Scott B. Biering, Anne M. Mirza, Brittany Grasseschi, Paul J. Mahon, Benhur Lee, Hector C. Aguilar, and Ronald M. Iorio
Newborn screening for hepatorenal tyrosinemia-I by tandem mass spectrometry using pooled samples: a four-year summary by the New England newborn screening program, Thomas H. Zytkovicz, Inderneel Sahai, Amii Rush, Adedoyin Odewale, Donna M. Johnson, Eileen F. Fitzgerald, Deborah Britton, and Roger B. Eaton
Publications from 2012
New rules governing synaptic plasticity in core nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons, Xincai Ji and Gilles E. Martin
Atrial fibrillation detection using an iPhone 4S, Jinseok Lee, Bersain A. Reyes, David D. McManus, Oscar Maitas, and Ki H. Chon
Nicotine persistently activates ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons via nicotinic acetylcholine receptors containing alpha4 and alpha6 subunits, Liwang Liu, Rubing Zhao-Shea, J. Michael McIntosh, Paul D. Gardner, and Andrew R. Tapper
Publications from 2011
Penalized maximum likelihood reconstruction for improved microcalcification detection in breast tomosynthesis, Mini Das, Howard C. Gifford, J. Michael O'Connor, and Stephen J. Glick
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors containing the alpha4 subunit are critical for the nicotine-induced reduction of acute voluntary ethanol consumption, Linzy M. Hendrickson, Paul D. Gardner, and Andrew R. Tapper
A point process model of respiratory dynamics in early physiological development, Premananda Indic, David Paydarfar, and Riccardo Barbieri
Publications from 2010
Police-induced confessions, risk factors, and recommendations: looking ahead, Saul M. Kassin, Steven A. Drizin, Thomas Grisso, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Richard A. Leo, and Allison D. Redlich
A transcriptional regulatory element critical for CHRNB4 promoter activity in vivo, Michael D. Scofield, Andrew R. Tapper, and Paul D. Gardner
Publications from 2008
Interaction between Heart Rate Variability and Respiration in Preterm Infants, P. Indic, E. B. Salisbury, David Paydarfar, E. N. Brown, and R. Barbieri
Publications from 2007
Impact of Mismatched Detector-Blur Models on Ga SPECT Tumor Detection, Howard C. Gifford and Michael A. King
Choosing anatomical-prior strength for MAP SPECT reconstruction to maximize lesion detectability, Andre Lehovich, Howard C. Gifford, Peter B. Schneider, and Michael A. King
Impact of respiratory motion on the detection of small pulmonary nodules in SPECT imaging, Mark S. Smyczynski, Howard C. Gifford, A. Lehovich, J. E. McNamara, W. P. Segars, B. M.W. Tsui, and Michael A. King
The Influence of Photon Attenuation on Tumor-to-Background and Signal-to-Noise Ratios for SPECT Imaging, Edward J. Soares, Michael A. King, Charles L. Byrne, Howard C. Gifford, and Andre Lehovich
Publications from 2006
A Multiclass Model Observer for Multislice-Multiview Images, Howard C. Gifford, A. Lehovich, and Michael A. King
Factors Influencing Lesion Detection in SPECT Lung Images, Howard C. Gifford, X. M. Zheng, Robert Licho, P. Hendrik Pretorius, P. B. Schneider, P. H. Simkin, and Michael A. King
Human-observer LROC study of lesion detection in Ga-67 SPECT images reconstructed using MAP with anatomical priors, Andre Lehovich, Philippe P. Bruyant, Howard C. Gifford, Peter B. Schneider, Shane Squires, Robert Licho, Gene Gindi, and Michael A. King
Location-known-exactly human-observer ROC studies of attenuation and other corrections for SPECT lung imaging, Andre Lehovich, Howard C. Gifford, and Michael A. King
Angiographic assessment of the performance of flow divertors to treat cerebral aneurysms, Chander Sadasivan, Baruch B. Lieber, Liliana Cesar, Laszlo Miskolczi, Jaehoon Seong, and Ajay K. Wakhloo
Publications from 2005
Nonclassical, distinct endocytic signals dictate constitutive and PKC-regulated neurotransmitter transporter internalization, Katherine L. Holton, Merewyn K. Loder, and Haley Melikian
Publications from 2004
Neurotransmitter transporter trafficking: endocytosis, recycling, and regulation, Haley Melikian
Publications from 2003
Clozapine inhibits isolated N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors expressed in xenopus oocytes in a subunit specific manner, John B. Levine, Gilles E. Martin, Andrew Wilson, and Steven N. Treistman
The dopamine transporter constitutively internalizes and recycles in a protein kinase C-regulated manner in stably transfected PC12 cell lines, Merewyn K. Loder and Haley Melikian
Publications from 2000
RNAi: double-stranded RNA directs the ATP-dependent cleavage of mRNA at 21 to 23 nucleotide intervals, Phillip D. Zamore, Thomas Tuschl, Phillip A. Sharp, and David P. Bartel
Publications from 1983
Visual cortical neurons as localized spatial frequency filters, Daniel A. Pollen and Steven F. Ronner