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January 2016

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Medicine Articles)

Shedding light on fibroblast growth factors as tissue repair and regeneration therapeutics

FGF-FGFR-heparin complex

January 12, 2016

Shedding light on fibroblast growth factors as tissue repair and regeneration therapeutics

Use of FGFs in clinical settings is still limited. New research now brings together disparite data on FGF applications may serve as an important reference for future studies.

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January 14, 2016

A prospective randomized trial examining health care utilization in individuals using multiple smartphone-enabled biosensors

Cinnamon S. Bloss, Nathan E. Wineinger, Melissa Peters, Debra L. Boeldt, Lauren Ariniello, Ju Young Kim, Judith Sheard, Ravi Komatireddy, Paddy Barrett, Eric J. Topol

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1554 PubMed 26788432

January 19, 2016

Characterisation of the human uterine microbiome in non-pregnant women through deep sequencing of the V1-2 region of the 16S rRNA gene

Hans Verstraelen, Ramiro Vilchez-Vargas, Fabian Desimpel, Ruy Jauregui, Nele Vankeirsbilck, Steven Weyers, Rita Verhelst, Petra De Sutter, Dietmar H. Pieper, Tom Van De Wiele

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1602 PubMed 26823997

January 26, 2016

Generating optimal control simulations of musculoskeletal movement using OpenSim and MATLAB

Leng-Feng Lee, Brian R. Umberger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1638 PubMed 26835184

January 12, 2016

Fibroblast growth factors as tissue repair and regeneration therapeutics

Quentin M. Nunes, Yong Li, Changye Sun, Tarja K. Kinnunen, David G. Fernig

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1535 PubMed 26793421

January 4, 2016

Odd versus even: a scientific study of the ‘rules’ of plating

Andy T. Woods, Charles Michel, Charles Spence

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1526 PubMed 26839741

January 11, 2016

Convex-hull mass estimates of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus): application of a CT-based mass estimation technique

Charlotte A. Brassey, Thomas G. O’Mahoney, Andrew C. Kitchener, Phillip L. Manning, William I. Sellers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1432 PubMed 26788418

January 11, 2016

One-step multiplex real-time RT-PCR assay for detecting and genotyping wild-type group A rotavirus strains and vaccine strains (Rotarix® and RotaTeq®) in stool samples

Rashi Gautam, Slavica Mijatovic-Rustempasic, Mathew D. Esona, Ka Ian Tam, Osbourne Quaye, Michael D. Bowen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1560 PubMed 26839745

January 28, 2016

Deficiencies of effectiveness of intervention studies in veterinary medicine: a cross-sectional survey of ten leading veterinary and medical journals

Nicola Di Girolamo, Reint Meursinge Reynders

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1649 PubMed 26835187

January 25, 2016

Structural strength of cancellous specimens from bovine femur under cyclic compression

Kaori Endo, Satoshi Yamada, Masahiro Todoh, Masahiko Takahata, Norimasa Iwasaki, Shigeru Tadano

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1562 PubMed 26855856

January 25, 2016

Immunohistochemistry for the detection of neural and inflammatory cells in equine brain tissue

Gretchen H. Delcambre, Junjie Liu, Jenna M. Herrington, Kelsey Vallario, Maureen T. Long

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1601 PubMed 26855862

January 21, 2016

Rat liver regeneration following ablation with irreversible electroporation

Alexander Golberg, Bote G. Bruinsma, Maria Jaramillo, Martin L. Yarmush, Basak E. Uygun

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1571 PubMed 26819842

January 7, 2016

Trends and topics in eye disease research in PubMed from 2010 to 2014

Christophe Boudry, Eric Denion, Bruno Mortemousque, Fréderic Mouriaux

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1557 PubMed 26819840

January 26, 2016

Sustained attention in skilled and novice martial arts athletes: a study of event-related potentials and current sources

Javier Sanchez-Lopez, Juan Silva-Pereyra, Thalia Fernandez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1614 PubMed 26855865

January 19, 2016

Mining integrated semantic networks for drug repositioning opportunities

Joseph Mullen, Simon J. Cockell, Hannah Tipney, Peter M. Woollard, Anil Wipat

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1558 PubMed 26844016

January 7, 2016

Impact of demographics on human gut microbial diversity in a US Midwest population

Jun Chen, Euijung Ryu, Matthew Hathcock, Karla Ballman, Nicholas Chia, Janet E Olson, Heidi Nelson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1514 PubMed 26839739

January 26, 2016

A method for histopathological study of the multifocal nature of spinal cord lesions in murine experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Katherine N. Gibson-Corley, Alexander W. Boyden, Mariah R. Leidinger, Allyn M. Lambertz, Georgina Ofori-Amanfo, Paul W. Naumann, J. Adam Goeken, Nitin J. Karandikar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1600 PubMed 26855861

January 21, 2016

The impact of freeze-drying infant fecal samples on measures of their bacterial community profiles and milk-derived oligosaccharide content

Zachery T. Lewis, Jasmine C.C. Davis, Jennifer T. Smilowitz, J. Bruce German, Carlito B. Lebrilla, David A. Mills

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1612 PubMed 26819854

January 25, 2016

Martina Von Böhl, Yijin Ren, Anne M. Kuijpers-Jagtman, Piotr S. Fudalej, Jaap C. Maltha

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1625 PubMed 26855867

January 7, 2016

The role of 2,4-dihydroxyquinoline (DHQ) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenicity

Jordon D. Gruber, Wei Chen, Stuart Parnham, Kevin Beauchesne, Peter Moeller, Patrick A. Flume, Yong-Mei Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1495 PubMed 26788419