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Human Genetic Variation in VAC14 Regulates Pathogen Entry and Risk of Infectious Disease

Alvarez, Monica Isabel (2017)

Human genetic variation can be leveraged to understand the subtleties of how common variants with small effect sizes can alter cellular phenotypes and ultimately affect susceptibility to pathogenic disease. By combining ...

Novel Methods of Mycobacterial Control via Manipulation of Host Lipid Bioavailability

McClean, Colleen Michelle (2020)

Lipids represent an important source of nutrition for infecting mycobacteria, accumulating within the necrotic core of granulomas and present in foamy macrophages associated with mycobacterial infection. In order to better ...

Postoperative statin use and risk of biochemical recurrence following radical prostatectomy: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) database.

Allott, EH; Howard, LE; Cooperberg, MR; Kane, CJ; Aronson, WJ; Terris, MK; Amling, CL; ... (8 authors) (BJU Int, 2014-11)

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of statin use after radical prostatectomy (RP) on biochemical recurrence (BCR) in patients with prostate cancer who never received statins before RP. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted ...