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January 3, 2006; 103 (1)
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FROM THE COVER
Structure of phytobilin synthesis enzyme
Fucosylation and neuron morphology
Noninvasive hypoxia imaging
Prefrontal cortex inhibitory signal
Androgen receptor role in ovarian failure
Commentaries
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Roger M. Burnett
More barrels from the viral tree of life
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Alan Feduccia
Mesozoic aviary takes form
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Profile of Xiaodong Wang
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry
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Takahito Ohshiro
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Yoshio Umezawa
Complementary base-pair-facilitated electron tunneling for electrically pinpointing complementary nucleobases
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Cheng-Yuan Huang
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Desiree A. Thayer
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Aileen Y. Chang
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Michael D. Best
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Julia Hoffmann
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Steve Head
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Chi-Huey Wong
Carbohydrate microarray for profiling the antibodies interacting with Globo H tumor antigen
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Fenglou Mao
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Zhengchang Su
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Victor Olman
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Phuongan Dam
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Zhijie Liu
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Ying Xu
Mapping of orthologous genes in the context of biological pathways: An application of integer programming
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Eric T. Wang
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Greg Kodama
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Pierre Baldi
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Robert K. Moyzis
Global landscape of recent inferred Darwinian selection for Homo sapiens
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C. Loring Brace
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Noriko Seguchi
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Conrad B. Quintyn
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Sherry C. Fox
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A. Russell Nelson
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Sotiris K. Manolis
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Pan Qifeng
The questionable contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European craniofacial form
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Heather E. Murrey
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Cristal I. Gama
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Stacey A. Kalovidouris
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Wen.-I. Luo
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Edward M. Driggers
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Barbara Porton
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Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson
From the Cover: Protein fucosylation regulates synapsin Ia/Ib expression and neuronal morphology in primary hippocampal neurons
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Yoshinori Hagiwara
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Masakazu Sugishima
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Yasuhiro Takahashi
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Keiichi Fukuyama
From the Cover: Crystal structure of phycocyanobilin:ferredoxin oxidoreductase in complex with biliverdin IXα, a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of phycocyanobilin
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Baolin Wang
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Yanyun Li
Evidence for the direct involvement of βTrCP in Gli3 protein processing
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Letizia Brandi
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Attilio Fabbretti
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Anna La Teana
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Monica Abbondi
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Daniele Losi
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Stefano Donadio
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Claudio O. Gualerzi
Specific, efficient, and selective inhibition of prokaryotic translation initiation by a novel peptide antibiotic
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Ville Hietakangas
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Julius Anckar
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Henri A. Blomster
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Mitsuaki Fujimoto
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Jorma J. Palvimo
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Akira Nakai
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Lea Sistonen
PDSM, a motif for phosphorylation-dependent SUMO modification
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Jong-Hwan Park
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L. Aravind
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Edith C. Wolff
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Jörn Kaevel
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Yeon Sook Kim
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Myung Hee Park
Molecular cloning, expression, and structural prediction of deoxyhypusine hydroxylase: A HEAT-repeat-containing metalloenzyme
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O. M. Grbovic
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A. D. Basso
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A. Sawai
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Q. Ye
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P. Friedlander
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D. Solit
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N. Rosen
V600E B-Raf requires the Hsp90 chaperone for stability and is degraded in response to Hsp90 inhibitors
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Qiaozhu Su
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Shuo Wang
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Dionissios Baltzis
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Li-Ke Qu
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Andrew Hoi-Tao Wong
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Antonis E. Koromilas
Tyrosine phosphorylation acts as a molecular switch to full-scale activation of the eIF2α RNA-dependent protein kinase
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Jiusheng Yan
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Genji Kurisu
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William A. Cramer
Intraprotein transfer of the quinone analogue inhibitor 2,5-dibromo-3-methyl-6-isopropyl- p -benzoquinone in the cytochrome b 6 f complex
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Janeen L. Vanhooke
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Jean M. Prahl
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Christine Kimmel-Jehan
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Monica Mendelsohn
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Eric W. Danielson
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Kevin D. Healy
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Hector F. DeLuca
CYP27B1 null mice with LacZ reporter gene display no 25-hydroxyvitamin D 3 -1α-hydroxylase promoter activity in the skin
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Dirk Roeser
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Andrea Preusser-Kunze
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Bernhard Schmidt
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Kathrin Gasow
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Julia G. Wittmann
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Thomas Dierks
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Kurt von Figura
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Markus Georg Rudolph
A general binding mechanism for all human sulfatases by the formylglycine-generating enzyme
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M. Capitanio
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M. Canepari
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P. Cacciafesta
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V. Lombardi
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R. Cicchi
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M. Maffei
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F. S. Pavone
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R. Bottinelli
Two independent mechanical events in the interaction cycle of skeletal muscle myosin with actin
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Mai Suan Li
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Chin-Kun Hu
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Dmitri K. Klimov
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D. Thirumalai
Multiple stepwise refolding of immunoglobulin domain I27 upon force quench depends on initial conditions
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Joerg Gsponer
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Harri Hopearuoho
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Sara B.-M. Whittaker
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Graham R. Spence
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Geoffrey R. Moore
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Emanuele Paci
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Sheena E. Radford
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Michele Vendruscolo
Determination of an ensemble of structures representing the intermediate state of the bacterial immunity protein Im7
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Michal Safran
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William Y. Kim
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Fionnuala O'Connell
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Lee Flippin
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Volkmar Günzler
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James W. Horner
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Ronald A. DePinho
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William G. Kaelin, Jr.
From the Cover: Mouse model for noninvasive imaging of HIF prolyl hydroxylase activity: Assessment of an oral agent that stimulates erythropoietin production
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Matthias Groszer
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Rebecca Erickson
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Deirdre D. Scripture-Adams
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Joseph D. Dougherty
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Janel Le Belle
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Jerome A. Zack
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Daniel H. Geschwind
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Xin Liu
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Harley I. Kornblum
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Hong Wu
PTEN negatively regulates neural stem cell self-renewal by modulating G 0 -G 1 cell cycle entry
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Sun-Hee Hong
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John Bunge
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Sun-Ok Jeon
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Slava S. Epstein
Predicting microbial species richness
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Daniel Teupser
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Marietta Tan
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Adam D. Persky
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Jan L. Breslow
Atherosclerosis quantitative trait loci are sex- and lineage-dependent in an intercross of C57BL/6 and FVB/N low-density lipoprotein receptor –/– mice
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Fenglou Mao
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Zhengchang Su
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Victor Olman
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Phuongan Dam
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Zhijie Liu
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and
Ying Xu
Mapping of orthologous genes in the context of biological pathways: An application of integer programming
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Eric T. Wang
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Greg Kodama
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Pierre Baldi
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Robert K. Moyzis
Global landscape of recent inferred Darwinian selection for Homo sapiens
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Cheng-Yuan Huang
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Desiree A. Thayer
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Aileen Y. Chang
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Michael D. Best
,
Julia Hoffmann
,
Steve Head
,
and
Chi-Huey Wong
Carbohydrate microarray for profiling the antibodies interacting with Globo H tumor antigen
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Mikhail A. Gavrilin
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Imad J. Bouakl
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Nina L. Knatz
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Michelle D. Duncan
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Mark W. Hall
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John S. Gunn
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and
Mark D. Wewers
Internalization and phagosome escape required for Francisella to induce human monocyte IL-1β processing and release
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Jianping Yang
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Stephanie P. Huck
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Rebecca S. McHugh
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Ian F. Hermans
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Franca Ronchese
Perforin-dependent elimination of dendritic cells regulates the expansion of antigen-specific CD8 + T cells in vivo
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Yuko Kawakami
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Naoki Inagaki
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Shahram Salek-Ardakani
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Jiro Kitaura
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Hiroyuki Tanaka
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Koichi Nagao
,
Yu Kawakami
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Wenbin Xiao
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Hiroichi Nagai
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Michael Croft
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Toshiaki Kawakami
Regulation of dendritic cell maturation and function by Bruton's tyrosine kinase via IL-10 and Stat3
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Ilia Fishbein
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Ivan S. Alferiev
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Origene Nyanguile
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Richard Gaster
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John M. Vohs
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Gordon S. Wong
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Howard Felderman
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I-Wei Chen
,
Hoon Choi
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Robert L. Wilensky
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Robert J. Levy
Bisphosphonate-mediated gene vector delivery from the metal surfaces of stents
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Lawrence A. Klobutcher
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Katerina Ragkousi
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Peter Setlow
The Bacillus subtilis spore coat provides “eat resistance” during phagocytic predation by the protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila
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Isabelle Ventre
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Andrew L. Goodman
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Isabelle Vallet-Gely
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Perrine Vasseur
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Chantal Soscia
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Søren Molin
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Sophie Bleves
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Andrée Lazdunski
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Stephen Lory
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Alain Filloux
Multiple sensors control reciprocal expression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa regulatory RNA and virulence genes
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Frank P. Mockenhaupt
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Lutz Hamann
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Miriam S. Stegemann
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Jana Eckert
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Na-Ri Oh
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Rowland N. Otchwemah
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Ekkehart Dietz
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Stephan Ehrhardt
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Nicolas W. J. Schröder
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Ulrich Bienzle
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Ralf R. Schumann
Toll-like receptor (TLR) polymorphisms in African children: Common TLR-4 variants predispose to severe malaria
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Jason I. Kass
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Silent plateau potentials, rhythmic bursts, and pacemaker firing: Three patterns of activity that coexist in quadristable subthalamic neurons
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M. D. Hunter
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S. B. Eickhoff
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T. W. R. Miller
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T. F. D. Farrow
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I. D. Wilkinson
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P. W. R. Woodruff
Neural activity in speech-sensitive auditory cortex during silence
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Stefan Berger
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David P. Wolfer
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Oliver Selbach
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Heike Alter
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Gitta Erdmann
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Holger M. Reichardt
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Aisa N. Chepkova
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Hans Welzl
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Helmut L. Haas
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Hans-Peter Lipp
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Günther Schütz
Loss of the limbic mineralocorticoid receptor impairs behavioral plasticity
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