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January 2017

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Comparative analysis of the Rotarix™ vaccine strain and G1P[8] rotaviruses

Rotavirus strains & the Rotarix™ vaccine

January 3, 2017

Comparative analysis of the Rotarix™ vaccine strain and G1P[8] rotaviruses

G1P[8] rotaviruses are responsible for the majority of human rotavirus infections worldwide. However, the effect of universal mass vaccination with rotavirus vaccines on circulating G1P[8] rotaviruses is still poorly understood. New genomic research shows the possible impact of vaccination at the strain level for the first time.

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January 31, 2017

Identification of four potential predicting miRNA biomarkers for multiple myeloma from published datasets

Tian Xiang, Ai-Xin Hu, Peng Sun, Gao Liu, Gang Liu, Yan Xiao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2831 PubMed 28168095

January 3, 2017

A simple rat model of mild traumatic brain injury: a device to reproduce anatomical and neurological changes of mild traumatic brain injury

Ho Jeong Kim, Soo Jeong Han

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2818 PubMed 28070456

January 25, 2017

Retrospective study of prognostic factors in pediatric invasive pneumococcal disease

Nan-Chang Chiu, Hsin Chi, Chun-Chih Peng, Hung-Yang Chang, Daniel Tsung-Ning Huang, Lung Chang, Wei-Te Lei, Chien-Yu Lin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2941 PubMed 28149700

January 12, 2017

Upregulation of NOXA by 10-Hydroxycamptothecin plays a key role in inducing fibroblasts apoptosis and reducing epidural fibrosis

Jihang Dai, Yu Sun, Lianqi Yan, Jingcheng Wang, Xiaolei Li, Jun He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2858 PubMed 28097065

January 25, 2017

Polymorphism in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC class II B) genes of the Rufous-backed Bunting (Emberiza jankowskii)

Dan Li, Keping Sun, Yunjiao Zhao, Aiqing Lin, Shi Li, Yunlei Jiang, Jiang Feng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2917 PubMed 28149689

January 25, 2017

Validation of ultrasonographic muscle thickness measurements as compared to the gold standard of computed tomography in dogs

Lindsey E. Bullen, Maria G. Evola, Emily H. Griffith, Gabriela S. Seiler, Korinn E. Saker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2926 PubMed 28149695

January 31, 2017

The prognostic value of tumor length to resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective study

Xiangwei Zhang, Yang Wang, Cheng Li, Jing Helmersson, Yuanzhu Jiang, Guoyuan Ma, Guanghui Wang, Wei Dong, Shaowei Sang, Jiajun Du

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2943 PubMed 28168111

January 17, 2017

Cryoelectrolysis—electrolytic processes in a frozen physiological saline medium

Franco Lugnani, Matteo Macchioro, Boris Rubinsky

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2810 PubMed 28123904

January 18, 2017

Species-specific pharmacology of maximakinin, an amphibian homologue of bradykinin: putative prodrug activity at the human B₂ receptor and peptidase resistance in rats

Xavier Charest-Morin, Hélène Bachelard, Melissa Jean, Francois Marceau

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2911 PubMed 28133580

January 18, 2017

Comparison of different sample preparation methods for platinum determination in cultured cells by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry

Man Xiao, Zaiju Huang, Jing Cai, Jinghui Jia, Yuzeng Zhang, Weihong Dong, Zehua Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2873 PubMed 28123908

January 24, 2017

No apparent influence of psychometrically-defined schizotypy on orientation-dependent contextual modulation of visual contrast detection

Damien J. Mannion, Chris Donkin, Thomas J. Whitford

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2921 PubMed 28149692

January 11, 2017

Hepatic fibrosis and factors associated with liver stiffness in HIV mono-infected individuals

Mihály Sulyok, Tamás Ferenci, Mihály Makara, Gábor Horváth, János Szlávik, Zsófia Rupnik, Luca Kormos, Zsuzsanna Gerlei, Zita Sulyok, István Vályi-Nagy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2867 PubMed 28097068

January 10, 2017

Interferon-γ responses to Plasmodium falciparum vaccine candidate antigens decrease in the absence of malaria transmission

Cyrus Ayieko, Bilha S. Ogola, Lyticia Ochola, Gideon A.M. Ngwena, George Ayodo, James S. Hodges, Gregory S. Noland, Chandy C. John

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2855 PubMed 28097063

January 19, 2017

The impact of parental investment on lifetime reproductive success in Iceland

Robert F. Lynch, Emily C. Lynch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2904 PubMed 28133576

January 3, 2017

Metabolic phenotype of clinical and environmental Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis isolates

Andrea Sanchini, Flavia Dematheis, Torsten Semmler, Astrid Lewin