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    • Synbiotics suppress colitis-induced tumorigenesis in a colon-specific cancer mouse model 
      Saito, Yasufumi; Hinoi, Takao; Adachi, Tomohiro; Miguchi, Masashi; Niitsu, Hiroaki; Kochi, Masatoshi; Sada, Haruki; Sotomaru, Yusuke; Sakamoto, Naoya; Sentani, Kazuhiro; Oue, Naohide; Yasui, Wataru; Tashiro, Hirotaka; Ohdan, Hideki (Plos One, 2019-06-26)
      Although synbiotics may be effective in maintaining remission of inflammatory bowel disease, their anticarcinogenic effects are still debated. To address this issue, we evaluated the effects of synbiotics, probiotics, and ...
    • Thermal Perceptual Thresholds are typical in Autism Spectrum Disorder but Strongly Related to Intra-individual Response Variability 
      Williams, Zachary J.; Failla, Michelle D.; Davis, Samona L.; Heflin, Brynna H.; Okitondo, Christian D.; Moore, David J.; Cascio, Carissa J. (Scientific Reports, 2019-08-29)
      Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often reported to exhibit an apparent indifference to pain or temperature. Leading models suggest that this behavior is the result of elevated perceptual thresholds for ...
    • Ticks home in on body heat: A new understanding of Haller's organ and repellent action 
      Carr, Ann L.; Salgado, Vincent L. (PLoS One, 2019-08-23)
      Ticks are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of disease to humans and animals. Tick host detection is mainly ascribed to Haller's organ, a complex sensory structure on the tick foreleg that detects odors, carbon dioxide ...
    • Towards A Microbead Occlusion Model of Glaucoma for a Non-Human Primate 
      Lambert, Wendi S.; Carlson, Brian J.; Ghose, Purnima; Vest, Victoria D.; Yao, Vincent; Calkins, David J. (2019-08-09)
      Glaucoma is a group of optic neuropathies associated with aging and sensitivity to intraocular pressure (IOP). The disease causes vision loss through the degeneration of retinal ganglion cell neurons and their axons in the ...
    • Two truncating variants in FANCC and breast cancer risk 
      Beeghly-Fadiel, Alicia; Brauch, Hiltrud; Long, Jirong; Mulligan, Anna Marie; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Xiao-Ou, Wei (Scientific Reports, 2019-08-29)
      Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder with 22 disease-causing genes reported to date. In some FA genes, monoallelic mutations have been found to be associated with breast cancer risk, while the risk ...
    • Zinc deficiency and advanced liver fibrosis among HIV and hepatitis C co-infected anti-retroviral naive persons with alcohol use in Russia 
      Barocas, Joshua A.; So-Armah, Kaku; Cheng, Debbie M.; Lioznov, Dmitry; Baum, Marianna; Gallagher, Kerrin; Fuster, Daniel; Gnatienko, Natalia; Krupitsky, Evgeny; Freiberg, Matthew S.; Samet, Jeffrey H. (PLoS One, 2019-06-27)
      Background and aims Liver disease in people living with HIV co-infected with hepatitis C virus is a source of morbidity and mortality in Russia. HIV accelerates liver fibrosis in the setting of HCV co-infection and ...