Medicine - Table of Contents

January 12, 2017

In vitro effect of direct current electrical stimulation on rat mesenchymal stem cells

Sahba Mobini, Liudmila Leppik, Vishnu Thottakkattumana Parameswaran, John Howard Barker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2821 PubMed 28097053

January 12, 2017

Effects of an 8-week yoga program on sustained attention and discrimination function in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Chien-Chih Chou, Chung-Ju Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2883 PubMed 28097075

January 24, 2017

Evolutionary origins of the emergent ST796 clone of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium

Andrew H. Buultjens, Margaret M.C. Lam, Susan Ballard, Ian R. Monk, Andrew A. Mahony, Elizabeth A. Grabsch, M. Lindsay Grayson, Stanley Pang, Geoffrey W. Coombs, J. Owen Robinson, Torsten Seemann, Paul D.R. Johnson, Benjamin P. Howden, Timothy P. Stinear

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2916 PubMed 28149688

January 25, 2017

Antibiotic resistance potential of the healthy preterm infant gut microbiome

Graham Rose, Alexander G. Shaw, Kathleen Sim, David J. Wooldridge, Ming-Shi Li, Saheer Gharbia, Raju Misra, John Simon Kroll

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2928 PubMed 28149696

January 24, 2017

Exploration of immunoglobulin transcriptomes from mice immunized with three-finger toxins and phospholipases A₂ from the Central American coral snake, Micrurus nigrocinctus

Andreas H. Laustsen, Mikael Engmark, Christopher Clouser, Sonia Timberlake, Francois Vigneault, José María Gutiérrez, Bruno Lomonte

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2924 PubMed 28149694

January 3, 2017

The concurrent validity and reliability of the Leg Motion system for measuring ankle dorsiflexion range of motion in older adults

Carlos Romero Morales, César Calvo Lobo, David Rodríguez Sanz, Irene Sanz Corbalán, Beatriz Ruiz Ruiz, Daniel López López

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2820 PubMed 28070457

January 26, 2017

Causal events enter awareness faster than non-causal events

Pieter Moors, Johan Wagemans, Lee de-Wit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2932 PubMed 28149698

January 5, 2017

miR-21 increases c-kit⁺ cardiac stem cell proliferation in vitro through PTEN/PI3K/Akt signaling

Bei Shi, Wenwen Deng, Xianping Long, Ranzun Zhao, Yan Wang, Wenming Chen, Guanxue Xu, Jin Sheng, Dongmei Wang, Song Cao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2859 PubMed 28168101

January 3, 2017

Pre- versus post-exercise protein intake has similar effects on muscular adaptations

Brad Jon Schoenfeld, Alan A. Aragon, Colin Wilborn, Stacie L. Urbina, Sara E. Hayward, James Krieger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2825 PubMed 28070459

January 24, 2017

History of kidney stones and risk of chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis

Weifeng Shang, Lixi Li, Yali Ren, Qiangqiang Ge, Ming Ku, Shuwang Ge, Gang Xu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2907 PubMed 28149686

January 19, 2017

Accelerometer-measured physical activity is not associated with two-year weight change in African-origin adults from five diverse populations

Lara R. Dugas, Stephanie Kliethermes, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Liping Tong, Pascal Bovet, Terrence E. Forrester, Estelle V. Lambert, Dale A. Schoeller, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, David A. Shoham, Guichan Cao, Soren Brage, Ulf Ekelund, Richard S. Cooper, Amy Luke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2902 PubMed 28133575

January 24, 2017

Developing the Leuven Embedded Figures Test (L-EFT): testing the stimulus features that influence embedding

Lee de-Wit, Hanne Huygelier, Ruth Van der Hallen, Rebecca Chamberlain, Johan Wagemans

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2862 PubMed 28149677

January 31, 2017

Investigation of Helicobacter pylori infection among symptomatic children in Hangzhou from 2007 to 2014: a retrospective study with 12,796 cases

Xiaoli Shu, Mingfang Ping, Guofeng Yin, Mizu Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2937 PubMed 28168109

January 12, 2017

Italian and Swedish adolescents: differences and associations in subjective well-being and psychological well-being

Danilo Garcia, Elisabetta Sagone, Maria Elvira De Caroli, Ali Al Nima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2868 PubMed 28097069

January 19, 2017

Panel strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae for beta-lactam antibiotic evaluation: their phenotypic and genotypic characterization

Roshan Dsouza, Naina Adren Pinto, InSik Hwang, YoungLag Cho, Dongeun Yong, Jongrak Choi, Kyungwon Lee, Yunsop Chong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2896 PubMed 28133574

January 3, 2017

Comparative analysis of the Rotarix™ vaccine strain and G1P[8] rotaviruses detected before and after vaccine introduction in Belgium

Mark Zeller, Elisabeth Heylen, Sana Tamim, John K. McAllen, Ewen F. Kirkness, Asmik Akopov, Sarah De Coster, Marc Van Ranst, Jelle Matthijnssens

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2733 PubMed 28070453

January 12, 2017

Resources available for autism research in the big data era: a systematic review

Reem Al-jawahiri, Elizabeth Milne

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2880 PubMed 28097074

January 11, 2017

Handling stress may confound murine gut microbiota studies

Cary R. Allen-Blevins, Xiaomeng You, Katie Hinde, David A. Sela

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2876 PubMed 28097073

January 17, 2017

Detecting communicative intent in a computerised test of joint attention

Nathan Caruana, Genevieve McArthur, Alexandra Woolgar, Jon Brock

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2899 PubMed 28123912

January 12, 2017

Phalangeal joints kinematics during ostrich (Struthio camelus) locomotion

Rui Zhang, Qiaoli Ji, Gang Luo, Shuliang Xue, Songsong Ma, Jianqiao Li, Lei Ren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2857 PubMed 28097064

January 10, 2017

CTLA-4 polymorphisms associate with breast cancer susceptibility in Asians: a meta-analysis

Zhiming Dai, Tian Tian, Meng Wang, Xinghan Liu, Shuai Lin, Pengtao Yang, Kang Liu, Yi Zheng, Peng Xu, Meng Liu, Xuewen Yang, Zhijun Dai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2815 PubMed 28097051

January 18, 2017

Skeletal pathology and variable anatomy in elephant feet assessed using computed tomography

Sophie Regnault, Jonathon J.I. Dixon, Chris Warren-Smith, John R. Hutchinson, Renate Weller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2877 PubMed 28123909

January 4, 2017

Characterization of adipose tissue macrophages and adipose-derived stem cells in critical wounds

Bong-Sung Kim, Pathricia V. Tilstam, Katrin Springenberg-Jung, Arne Hendrick Boecker, Corinna Schmitz, Daniel Heinrichs, Soo Seok Hwang, Jan Philipp Stromps, Bergita Ganse, Ruedger Kopp, Matthias Knobe, Juergen Bernhagen, Norbert Pallua, Richard Bucala

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2824 PubMed 28070458

January 17, 2017

Prevalence and correlates of psychological distress among diabetes mellitus adults in the Jilin province in China: a cross-sectional study

Shuang Qiu, Hongxuan Sun, Yawen Liu, Joseph Sam Kanu, Ri Li, Yaqin Yu, Xufeng Huang, Bo Li, Xiangyang Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2869 PubMed 28123907

January 3, 2017

The acceptability of TV-based game platforms as an instrument to support the cognitive evaluation of senior adults at home

Carlos Rivas Costa, Manuel José Fernández Iglesias, Luis Eulogio Anido Rifón, Miguel Gómez Carballa, Sonia Valladares Rodríguez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2845 PubMed 28070464