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Does Market Structure Affect Access to Ambulatory Care?: The Relationship Between Provider Supply, Inter-organizational Relationships, and Ambulatory Care Sensitive Hospitalizations.
(2009)
Adequate access to health services remains a fundamental challenge for the U.S. health care system. Ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations (ACSH) are increasingly used as indicators of access in health services research. ...
The Spatial and Environmental Predictors of Adult Mortality in the Northern Mexico Border Region.
(2009)
The Northern Mexico Border Region, bolstered by the growth of export processing factories (maquiladoras) and cross-border travel and migration, has experienced rapid population expansion and urbanization in the past 50 ...
The Genetic Architecture of Echocardiographically Determined Measures of Left Ventricular Remodeling in African-Americans of the Genetic Epidimiology Network of Arteriopathy (GENOA) Study.
(2009)
Echocardiographic measures of left ventricular remodeling, including left ventricular mass (LVM) and relative wall thickness (RWT), are powerful, independent predictors of heart disease morbidity and mortality. LVM and ...
Changes in Gait Variability Across the Lifespan in Persons with Down Syndrome.
(2009)
Variability is always present during repetitive movements. Scholars have studied human movement patterns for years, but have only recently begun to focus on variability as something other than noise or error. I followed ...
Hox Function in Mammalian Kidney Development.
(2009)
The Hox gene complexes encode an evolutionarily conserved set of transcription factors important for the anteroposterior (AP) patterning of the body plan, and are essential for the proper development of many organ systems, ...
Molecular Epidemiology, Racial/Ethnic Differences and Chemoprevention of Breast Cancer: Population-based Studies from Metropolitan Detroit.
(2009)
Breast cancer affects more women than any other cancer and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among this group. Despite progress in our understanding of brest cancer risks and treatment improvements, there remain ...
Role of B-Catenin Signaling in Adrenocortical Development and Tumorigenesis
(2009)
Wnt/β-catenin signaling plays many important roles during mammalian development. In the adrenal cortex, perturbations in the signaling pathway are associated with abnormal development and adrenocortical tumorigenesis. Loss- ...
Herpesvirus Infection Augments the Response to a Subsequent Fibrotic Challenge in the Lung Via the Recruitment of Fibrocytes and the Induction of Pro-fibrotic Factors.
(2009)
No effective treatment currently exists for pulmonary fibrosis. The cause of pulmonary fibrosis is unknown, and little is known about its pathobiology. While pulmonary fibrosis is likely multifactorial, evidence is ...
On Improving the Effectiveness of Control Signals from Chronic Microelectrodes for Cortical Neuroprostheses.
(2009)
Using microelectrodes, we can record neural signals which can eventually be used to control cortical neuroprostheses for assisting people with spinal-cord trauma, stroke deficits, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and ...
The Role of Lipoate Dependent Metabolism During Intracellular Growth and Pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes.
(2009)
The Gram-positive bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes replicates rapidly in the host cytosol, indicating it efficiently utilizes host-derived nutrients. The critical co-factor lipoate is one nutrient this bacterium ...