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    • Electrical Polarization of Titanium Surfacesfor the Enhancement of Osteoblast Differentiation 

      Gittens, Rolando A.; Olivares-Navarrete, Rene; Rettew, Robert; Butera, Robert J.; Alamgir, Faisal M.; Boyan, Barbara D.; Schwartz, Zvi (2013-08-29)
      Electrical stimulation has been used clinically to promote bone regeneration in cases of fractures with delayed union or nonunion, with several in vitro and in vivo reports suggesting its beneficial effects on bone formation. ...

    • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 

      Dicker, Daniel; Nguyen, Grant; Abate, Degu; Abate, Kalkidan Hassen; Abay, Solomon M; Abbafati, Cristiana; Abbasi, Nooshin; Abbastabar, Hedayat; Abd-Allah, Foad; Abdela, Jemal; Abdelalim, Ahmed; Abdel-Rahman, Omar; Abdi, Alireza; Abdollahpour, Ibrahim; Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Rizwan; Abdurahman, Ahmed Abdulahi; Abebe, Haftom Temesgen; Abebe, Molla; Abebe, Zegeye; Abebo, Teshome Abuka; Aboyans, Victor; Niguse Abraha, Haftom; Roba Abrham, Aklilu; Abu-Raddad, Laith Jamal; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen ME; Kokou Accrombessi, Manfred Mario; Acharya, Pawan; Adebayo, Oladimeji M; Akinkunmi Adedeji, Isaac; Adedoyin, Rufus Adesoji; Adekanmbi, Victor; Adetokunboh, Olatunji O; Meressa Adhena, Beyene; Adhikari, Tara Ballav; Adib, Mina G; Kouablan Adou, Arsène; Adsuar, Jose C; Afarideh, Mohsen; Afshin, Ashkan; Agarwal, Gina; Aggarwal, Rakesh; Aghayan, Sargis Aghasi; Agrawal, Sutapa; Agrawal, Anurag; Ahmadi, Mehdi; Ahmadi, Alireza; Ahmadieh, Hamid; Cheikh brahim Ahmed, Mohamed Lemine; Ahmed, Sayem; Ahmed, Muktar Beshir; Aichour, Amani Nidhal; Aichour, Ibtihel; Eddine Aichour, Miloud Taki; Akanda, Ali S; Akbari, Mohammad Esmaeil; Akibu, Mohammed; Akinyemi, Rufus Olusola; Akinyemiju, Tomi; Akseer, Nadia; Alahdab, Fares; Al-Aly, Ziyad; Alam, Khurshid; Alebel, Animut; Aleman, Alicia V; Addis Alene, Kefyalew; Al-Eyadhy, Ayman; Ali, Raghib; Alijanzadeh, Mehran; Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza; Aljunid, Syed Mohamed; Alkerwi, Ala'a; Alla, Francois; Allebeck, Peter; Allen, Christine A; Alonso, Jordi; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa M; Alsharif, Ubai; Altirkawi, Khalid; Alvis-Guzman, Nelson; Amare, Azmeraw T; Amini, Erfan; Ammar, Walid; Amoako, Yaw Ampem; Anber, Nahla Hamed; Andrei, Catalina Liliana; Androudi, Sofia; Animut, Megbaru Debalkie; Anjomshoa, Mina; Zelalem Anlay, Degefaye; Ansari, Hossein; Ansariadi, Ansariadi; Ansha, Mustafa Geleto; T Antonio, Carl Abelardo; Yaw Appiah, Seth Christopher; Aremu, Olatunde; Abera Areri, Habtamu; Ärnlöv, Johan; Arora, Megha; Artaman, Al; Aryal, Krishna K; Asadi-Lari, Mohsen; Asayesh, Hamid; Tsegay Asfaw, Ephrem; Weldegebreal Asgedom, Solomon; Assadi, Reza; Ataro, Zerihun; Mehari Atey, Tesfay Mehari; Shamsadin Athari, Seyyed; Atique, Suleman; Atre, Sachin R; Atteraya, Madhu Sudhan; Attia, Engi F; Ausloos, Marcel; Avila-Burgos, Leticia; Avokpaho, Euripide FGA; Awasthi, Ashish; Awuah, Baffour; Ayala Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina; Ayele, Henok Tadesse; Ayele, Yohanes; Ayer, Rakesh; Ayuk, Tambe B; Azzopardi, Peter S; Azzopardi-Muscat, Natasha; Badali, Hamid; Badawi, Alaa; Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Bali, Ayele Geleto; Banach, Maciej; Banstola, Amrit; Barac, Aleksandra; Barboza, Miguel A; Barquera, Simon; Barrero, Lope H; Basaleem, Huda; Bassat, Quique; Basu, Arindam; Basu, Sanjay; Baune, Bernhard T; Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad; Bedi, Neeraj; Beghi, Ettore; Behzadifar, Masoud; Behzadifar, Meysam; Bejot, Yannick; Begashaw Bekele, Bayu; Belachew, Abate Bekele; Gebreyesus Belay, Aregawi; Belay, Ezra; Belay, Saba Abraham (2018-11-10)
      Background Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and as part of ...

    • Mycobacterial Lipids Induce Calcium Mobilization and Degranulation of Mast Cells 

      Torres-Atencio, Ivonne; Rosero, Sara; Ordoñez, Ciara; Ruiz, Michelle; Goodridge, Amador (2018-06-13)
      Cells and culture conditions. Murine MCs from line C1.MC/C57.1 (C57 MC) were kindly provided by Dr. Stephen Galli (Stanford University) and cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium according to standard methods (9). ...

    • Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 

      Murray, Christopher JL; Callender, Charlton SKH; Kulikoff, Xie Rachel; Srinivasan, Vinay; Abate, Degu; Hassen Abate, Kalkidan; Abay, Solomon M; Abbasi, Nooshin; Abbastabar, Hedayat; Abdela, Jemal; Abdelalim, Ahmed; Abdel-Rahman, Omar; Abdi, Alireza; Abdoli, Nasrin; Abdollahpour, Ibrahim; Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi; Abebe, Haftom Temesgen; Abebe, Molla; Abebe, Zegeye; Abuka Abebo, Teshome; Negesse Abejie, Ayenew; Aboyans, Victor; Abraha, Haftom Niguse; Xavier Abreu, Daisy Maria; Abrham, Aklilu Roba; Abu-Raddad, Laith Jamal; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen ME; Kokou Accrombessi, Manfred Mario; Acharya, Pawan; Adamu, Abdu A; Adebayo, Oladimeji M; Adedeji, Isaac Akinkunmi; Adekanmbi, Victor; Adetokunboh, Olatunji O; Meressa Adhena, Beyene; Adhikari, Tara Ballav; Adib, Mina G; Kouablan Adou, Arsène; Adsuar, Jose C; Afarideh, Mohsen; Afshin, Ashkan; Agarwal, Gina; Agesa, Kareha M; Aghayan, Sargis Aghasi; Agrawal, Sutapa; Ahmadi, Alireza; Ahmadi, Mehdi; Ahmed, Muktar Beshir; Ahmed, Sayem; Aichour, Amani Nidhal; Aichour, Ibtihel; Eddine Aichour, Miloud Taki; Akanda, Ali S; Akbari, Mohammad Esmaeil; Akibu, Mohammed; Akinyemi, Rufus Olusola; Akinyemiju, Tomi; Akseer, Nadia; Alahdab, Fares; Al-Aly, Ziyad; Alam, Khurshid; Alebel, Animut; Aleman, Alicia V; Addis Alene, Kefyalew; Al-Eyadhy, Ayman; Ali, Raghib; Alijanzadeh, Mehran; Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza; Aljunid, Syed Mohamed; Alkerwi, Ala'a; Alla, François; Allebeck, Peter; Almasi, Ali; Alonso, Jordi; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa M; Alsharif, Ubai; Altirkawi, Khalid; Alvis-Guzman, Nelson; Amare, Azmeraw T; Ammar, Walid; Hamed Anber, Nahla; Andrei, Catalina Liliana; Androudi, Sofia; Animut, Megbaru Debalkie; Ansari, Hossein; Ansha, Mustafa Geleto; T Antonio, Carl Abelardo; Yaw Appiah, Seth Christopher; Aremu, Olatunde; Abera Areri, Habtamu; Arian, Nicholas; Ärnlöv, Johan; Artaman, Al; Aryal, Krishna K; Asayesh, Hamid; Asfaw, Ephrem Tsegay; Weldegebreal Asgedom, Solomon; Assadi, Reza; Mehari Atey, Tesfay Mehari; Atique, Suleman; Atteraya, Madhu Sudhan; Ausloos, Marcel; Avokpaho, Euripide FGA; Awasthi, Ashish; Ayala Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina; Ayele, Yohanes; Ayer, Rakesh; Ayuk, Tambe B; Azzopardi, Peter S; Babalola, Tesleem Kayode; Babazadeh, Arefeh; Badali, Hamid; Badawi, Alaa; Bali, Ayele Geleto; Banach, Maciej; Barker-Collo, Suzanne Lyn; Bärnighausen, Till Winfried; Barrero, Lope H; Basaleem, Huda; Bassat, Quique; Basu, Arindam; Baune, Bernhard T; Wondifraw Baynes, Habtamu; Beghi, Ettore; Behzadifar, Masoud; Behzadifar, Meysam; Bekele, Bayu Begashaw; Belachew, Abate Bekele; Gebreyesus Belay, Aregawi; Belay, Ezra; Belay, Saba Abraham; Belay, Yihalem Abebe; Bell, Michelle L; Bello, Aminu K; Bennett, Derrick A; Bensenor, Isabela M; Bergeron, Gilles; Berhane, Adugnaw; Berman, Adam E; Bernabe, Eduardo; Bernstein, Robert S; Bertolacci, Gregory J; Beuran, Mircea; Bhattarai, Suraj; Bhaumik, Soumyadeep; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Biadgo, Belete; Bijani, Ali; Bikbov, Boris; Bililign, Nigus (2018-11-10)
      Background Population estimates underpin demographic and epidemiological research and are used to track progress on numerous international indicators of health and development. To date, internationally available estimates ...

    • Both B-1a and B-1b cells exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis lipids differentiate into IgM antibody-secreting cells 

      Ordoñez, Ciara; Savage, Hannah P; Tarajia, Musharaf; Rivera, René; Weeks‐Galindo, Cheyenne; Sambrano, Dilcia; Riley, Lee; Fernandez, Patricia L; Baumgarth, Nicole; Goodridge, Amador (2018-02-08)
      Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The cellular immune response to mycobacteria has been characterized extensively, but the antibody response remains underexplored. The present study ...

    • Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 

      Fullman, Nancy; Yearwood, Jamal; Abay, Solomon M; Abbafati, Cristiana; Abd-Allah, Foad; Abdela, Jemal; Abdelalim, Ahmed; Abebe, Zegeye; Abuka Abebo, Teshome; Aboyans, Victor; Niguse Abraha, Haftom; Abreu, Daisy MX; Abu-Raddad, Laith J; Adane, Akilew Awoke; Adedoyin, Rufus Adesoji; Adetokunboh, Olatunji; Adhikari, Tara Ballav; Afarideh, Mohsen; Afshin, Ashkan; Agarwal, Gina; Agius, Dominic; Agrawal, Anurag; Agrawal, Sutapa; Kiadaliri, Aliasghar Ahmad; Eddine Aichour, Miloud Taki; Akibu, Mohammed; Akinyemi, Rufus Olusola; Akinyemiju, Tomi F; Akseer, Nadia; Al Lami, Faris Hasan; Alahdab, Fares; Al-Aly, Ziyad; Alam, Khurshid; Alam, Tahiya; Alasfoor, Deena; Albittar, Mohammed I; Addis Alene, Kefyalew; Al-Eyadhy, Ayman; Ali, Syed Danish; Alijanzadeh, Mehran; Aljunid, Syed M; Alkerwi, Ala'a; Alla, François; Allebeck, Peter; Allen, Christine; Alomari, Mahmoud A; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa; Alsharif, Ubai; Altirkawi, Khalid A; Alvis-Guzman, Nelson; Amare, Azmeraw T; Amenu, Kebede; Ammar, Walid; Ampem Amoako, Yaw; Anber, Nahla; Andrei, Catalina Liliana; Androudi, Sofia; T Antonio, Carl Abelardo; Araújo, Valdelaine EM; Aremu, Olatunde; Ärnlöv, Johan; Artaman, Al; Aryal, Krishna Kumar; Asayesh, Hamid; Tsegay Asfaw, Ephrem; Weldegebreal Asgedom, Solomon; Asghar, Rana Jawad; Ashebir, Mengistu Mitiku; Abera Asseffa, Netsanet; Atey, Tesfay Mehari; Atre, Sachin R; Atteraya, Madhu S; Avila-Burgos, Leticia; Arthur Avokpaho, Euripide Frinel G; Awasthi, Ashish; Ayala Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina; Alebel Ayalew, Animut; Ayele, Henok Tadesse; Ayer, Rakesh; Betrand Ayuk, Tambe; Azzopardi, Peter; Azzopardi-Muscat, Natasha; Babalola, Tesleem Kayode; Badali, Hamid; Badawi, Alaa; Banach, Maciej; Banerjee, Amitava; Banstola, Amrit; Barber, Ryan M; Barboza, Miguel A; Barker-Collo, Suzanne L; Bärnighausen, Till; Barquera, Simon; Barrero, Lope H; Bassat, Quique; Basu, Sanjay; Baune, Bernhard T; Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad; Bedi, Neeraj; Beghi, Ettore; Behzadifar, Masoud; Behzadifar, Meysam; Bekele, Bayu Begashaw; Belachew, Abate Bekele; Belay, Saba Abraham; Abebe Belay, Yihalem; Bell, Michelle L; Bello, Aminu K; Bennett, Derrick A; Bennett, James R; Bensenor, Isabela M; Berhe, Derbew Fikadu; Bernabé, Eduardo; Bernstein, Robert Steven; Beuran, Mircea; Bhalla, Ashish; Bhatt, Paurvi; Bhaumik, Soumyadeep; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Biadgo, Belete; Bijani, Ali; Bikbov, Boris; Birungi, Charles; Biryukov, Stan; Bizuneh, Hailemichael; Bolliger, Ian W; Bolt, Kaylin; Bou-Orm, Ibrahim R; Bozorgmehr, Kayvan; Brady, Oliver Jerome; Brazinova, Alexandra; Breitborde, Nicholas JK; Brenner, Hermann; Britton, Gabrielle; Brugha, Traolach S; Butt, Zahid A; Cahuana-Hurtado, Lucero; Campos-Nonato, Ismael Ricardo; Campuzano, Julio Cesar; Car, Josip; Car, Mate; Cárdenas, Rosario; Carrero, Juan Jesus; Carvalho, Felix; Castañeda-Orjuela, Carlos A; Castillo Rivas, Jacqueline; Catalá-López, Ferrán; Cercy, Kelly; Chalek, Julian; Chang, Hsing-Yi (2018-06-02)
      Background A key component of achieving universal health coverage is ensuring that all populations have access to quality health care. Examining where gains have occurred or progress has faltered ...

    • The global burden of tuberculosis: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 

      Kyu, Hmwe H; Maddison, Emilie R; Henry, Nathaniel J; Mumford, John Everett; Barber, Ryan; Shields, Chloe; Brown, Jonathan C; Nguyen, Grant; Carter, Austin; Wolock, Timothy M; Wang, Haidong; Liu, Patrick Y; Reitsma, Marissa; Ross, Jennifer M; Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu; Abate, Kalkidan Hassen; Abbas, Kaja; Abera, Mubarek; Abera, Semaw Ferede; Hareri, Habtamu Abera; Ahmed, Muktar; Alene, Kefyalew Addis; Alvis-Guzman, Nelson; Amo-Adjei, Joshua; Andrews, Jason; Ansari, Hossein; Antonio, Carl Abelardo; Anwari, Palwasha; Asayesh, Hamid; Atey, Tesfay Mehari; Atre, Sachin; Barac, Aleksandra; Beardsley, Justin; Bedi, Neeraj; Bensenor, Isabela; Beyene, Addisu Shunu; Butt, Zahid Ahmad; Cardona, Pere-Joan; Christopher, Devasahayam; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Deribe, Kebede; Deribew, Amare; Ehrenkranz, Rebecca; El Sayed Zaki, Maysaa; Endries, Aman; Feyissa, Tesfaye R; Fischer, Florian; Gai, Ruoyan; Garcia-Basteiro, Alberto L; Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde; Gesesew, Hailay; Getahun, Belete; Gona, Philimon; Goodridge, Amador; Gugnani, Harish; Haghparast-Bidgoli, Hassan; Bugssa Hailu, Gessessew; Hassen, Hamid Yimam; Hilawe, Esayas; Horita, Nobuyuki; Jacobsen, Kathryn H; Jonas, Jost B; Kasaeian, Amir; Kedir, Muktar Sano; Kemmer, Laura; Khader, Yousef; Khan, Ejaz; Khang, Young-Ho; Khoja, Abdullah T; Kim, Yun Jin; Koul, Parvaiz; Koyanagi, Ai; Krohn, Kristopher J; Kumar, G Anil; Kutz, Michael; Lodha, Rakesh; Magdy, Hassan; Razek, El; Majdzadeh, Reza; Manyazewal, Tsegahun; Memish, Ziad; Mendoza, Walter; Mezgebe, Haftay Berhane; Mohammed, Shafiu; Ogbo, Felix Akpojene; Oh, In-Hwan; Oren, Eyal; Osgood-Zimmerman, Aaron; Pereira, David; Plass, Dietrich; Pourmalek, Farshad; Qorbani, Mostafa; Rafay, Anwar; Rahman, Mahfuzar; Rai, Rajesh Kumar; Rao, Puja C; Ray, Sarah E; Reiner, Robert; Reinig, Nickolas; Safiri, Saeid; Salomon, Joshua A; Sandar, Logan; Sartorius, Benn; Shamsizadeh, Morteza; Shey, Muki; Shifti, Desalegn Markos; Shore, Hirbo; Singh, Jasvinder; Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T; Swaminathan, Soumya; Swartz, Scott J; Tadese, Fentaw; Tedla, Bemnet Amare; Tegegne, Balewgizie Sileshi; Tessema, Belay; Topor-Madry, Roman; Nnanna Ukwaja, Kingsley; Uthman, Olalekan A; Vlassov, Vasiliy; Vollset, Stein Emil; Wakayo, Tolassa; Weldegebreal, Solomon; Westerman, Ronny; Workicho, Abdulhalik; Yonemoto, Naohiro; Yoon, Seok-Jun; Yotebieng, Marcel; Naghavi, Mohsen; Hay, Simon I; Vos, Theo; Murray, Christopher JL (2018-03-01)
      Background The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are grounded in the global ambition of “leaving no one behind”. Understanding today’s gains and gaps for the health-related SDGs is essential for decision makers as ...

    • Compositions and methods for detecting mycobacterium 

      Riley, Lee W; Mathies, Richard A; Goodridge, Amador; Kim, Jungkyu; Snyder, Robert Eugene (2017-12-05)
      The present disclosure provides methods of detecting mycobacterium in an individual, generally involving detecting antibody to a mycobacterial lipid in a biological sample obtained from the individual. The present disclosure ...

    • Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 

      Fullman, Nancy; Barber, Ryan M; Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu; Abate, Kalkidan Hassen; Abbafati, Cristiana; Abbas, Kaja M; Abd-Allah, Foad; Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Rizwan; Abdulle, Abdishakur M; Abera, Semaw Ferede; Aboyans, Victor; Abu-Raddad, Laith J; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen ME; Adedeji, Isaac Akinkunmi; Adetokunboh, Olatunji; Afshin, Ashkan; Agrawal, Anurag; Agrawal, Sutapa; Kiadaliri, Aliasghar Ahmad; Ahmadieh, Hamid; Ahmed, Muktar Beshir; Eddine Aichour, Miloud Taki; Aichour, Amani Nidhal; Aichour, Ibtihel; Aiyar, Sneha; Akinyemi, Rufus Olusola; Akseer, Nadia; Al-Aly, Ziyad; Alam, Khurshid; Alam, Noore; Alasfoor, Deena; Alene, Kefyalew Addis; Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza; Alkerwi, Ala'a; Alla, François; Allebeck, Peter; Allen, Christine; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa; Alsharif, Ubai; Altirkawi, Khalid A; Alvis-Guzman, Nelson; Amare, Azmeraw T; Amini, Erfan; Ammar, Walid; Ansari, Hossein; T Antonio, Carl Abelardo; Anwari, Palwasha; Arora, Megha; Artaman, Al; Aryal, Krishna Kumar; Asayesh, Hamid; Weldegebreal Asgedom, Solomon; Assadi, Reza; Atey, Tesfay Mehari; Atre, Sachin R; Avila-Burgos, Leticia; Arthur Avokpaho, Euripide Frinel G; Awasthi, Ashish; Azzopardi, Peter; Bacha, Umar; Badawi, Alaa; Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Bannick, Marlena S; Barac, Aleksandra; Barker-Collo, Suzanne L; Bärnighausen, Till; Barrero, Lope H; Basu, Sanjay; Battle, Katherine E; Baune, Bernhard T; Beardsley, Justin; Bedi, Neeraj; Beghi, Ettore; Béjot, Yannick; Bell, Michelle L; Bennett, Derrick A; Bennett, James R; Bensenor, Isabela M; Berhane, Adugnaw; Berhe, Derbew Fikadu; Bernabé, Eduardo; Demtsu Betsu, Balem; Beuran, Mircea; Beyene, Addisu Shunu; Bhala, Neeraj; Bhansali, Anil; Bhatt, Samir; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Bicer, Burcu Kucuk; Haghparast Bidgoli, Hassan; Bikbov, Boris; Bilal, Arebu I; Birungi, Charles; Biryukov, Stan; Bizuayehu, Habtamu Mellie; Blosser, Christopher D; Boneya, Dube Jara; Bose, Dipan; Bou-Orm, Ibrahim R; Brauer, Michael; Breitborde, Nicholas JK; Brugha, Traolach S; Bulto Bulto, Lemma Negesa; Butt, Zahid A; Cahuana-Hurtado, Lucero; Cameron, Ewan; Campuzano, Julio Cesar; Carabin, Hélène; Cárdenas, Rosario; Carrero, Juan Jesus; Carter, Austin; Casey, Daniel C; Castañeda-Orjuela, Carlos A; Castro, Ruben Estanislao; Catalá-López, Ferrán; Cercy, Kelly; Chang, Hsing-Yi; Chang, Jung-Chen; Charlson, Fiona J; Chew, Adrienne; Chisumpa, Vesper Hichilombwe; Chitheer, Abdulaal A; Christensen, Hanne; Christopher, Devasahayam Jesudas; Cirillo, Massimo; Cooper, Cyrus; Criqui, Michael H; Cromwell, Elizabeth A; Crump, John A; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Dargan, Paul I; Neves, José das; Davitoiu, Dragos V; de Courten, Barbora; De Steur, Hans; Kuate Defo, Barthelemy; Degenhardt, Louisa; Deiparine, Selina; Deribe, Kebede; Gabrielle, A deVeber; Ding, Eric L; Djalalinia, Shirin; Phuc Do, Huyen; Dokova, Klara; Doku, David Teye; Donkelaar, Aaron van; Ray Dorsey, E; Driscoll, Tim R; Dubey, Manisha (2017-09-16)
      Background The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are grounded in the global ambition of “leaving no one behind”. Understanding today’s gains and gaps for the health-related SDGs is essential for decision makers as ...

    • Rough titanium alloys regulate osteoblast production of angiogenic factors 

      Olivares-Navarrete, Rene; DDS; PhD; Hyzy, Sharon L.; MS; Gittens, Rolando A.; I, I; Schneider, Jennifer M.; MS; Haithcock, David A.; BS, BS; Ullrich, Peter F.; Slosar, Paul J.; MD, MD; Schwartz, Zvi; DMD; PhD; Boyan, Barbara D.; PhD (2013-05-14)
      Multiple biomaterials are clinically available to spine surgeons for performing interbody fusion. Poly-ether-ether-ketone (PEEK) is used frequently for lumbar spine interbody fusion, but alternative materials are also used, ...

    • Differential responses of osteoblast lineage cells to nanotopographically-modified, microroughened titaniumealuminumevanadium alloy surfaces 

      Gittens, Rolando A.; Olivares-Navarrete, Rene; McLachlan, Taylor; Cai, Ye; Hyzy, Sharon L.; Schneider, Jennifer M.; Schwartz, Zvi; Sandhage, Kenneth H.; Boyan, Barbara D. (2012-09-16)
      Surface structural modifications at the micrometer and nanometer scales have driven improved success rates of dental and orthopaedic implants by mimicking the hierarchical structure of bone. However, how initial ...

    • Osteoblasts exhibit a more differentiated phenotype and increased bone morphogenetic protein production on titanium alloy substrates than on poly-ether-ether-ketone 

      Olivares-Navarrete, Rene; PhD, DDS; Gittens, Rolando A.; MS; Schneider, Jennifer M.; MS; Hyzy, Sharon L.; BS; Haithcock, David A.; Ullrich, Peter F. MD; Schwartz, Zvi; Boyan, Barbara D. (2012-01-12)
      Multiple biomaterials are clinically available to spine surgeons for performing interbody fusion. Poly-ether-ether-ketone (PEEK) is used frequently for lumbar spine interbody fusion, but alternative materials are also used, ...

    • Effects of structural properties of electrospun TiO2 nanofiber meshes on their osteogenic potential 

      Wang, Xiaokun; Gittens, Rolando A.; Song, Rosemary; Tannenbaum, Rina; Olivares-Navarrete, Rene; Schwartz, Zvi; Chen, Haifeng; Boyan, Barbara D. (2011-10-31)
      Ideal outcomes in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine involve biomaterials that can enhance cell differentiation and production of local factors for natural tissue regeneration without the use of ...

    • The effects of combined micron-/submicron-scale surface roughness and nanoscale features on cell proliferation and differentiation 

      Gittens, Rolando A.; McLachlan, Taylor; Olivares-Navarrete, Rene; Cai, Ye; Berner, Simon; Tannenbaum, Rina; Schwartz, Zvi; Sandhage, Kenneth H.; Boyan, Barbara D. (2011-02-08)
      Titanium (Ti) osseointegration is critical for the success of dental and orthopedic implants. Previous studies have shown that surface roughness at the micro- and submicro-scales promotes osseointegration by enhancing ...

    • Regulating in vivo calcification of alginate microbeads 

      S.D. Lee, Christopher; Moyer, Hunter R.; Gittens I, Rolando A.; Williams, Joseph K.; Boskey, Adele L.; Boyan, Barbara D.; Schwartz, Zvi (2010-04-02)
      Alginate calcification has been previously reported clinically and during animal implantation; however no study has investigated the mechanism, extensively characterized the mineral, or evaluated multiple methods to regulate ...

    • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 

      Hay, Simon I; Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu; Abate, Kalkidan Hassen; Abbafati, Cristiana; Abbas, Kaja M; Abd-Allah, Foad; Abdulkader, Rizwan Suliankatchi; Abdulle, Abdishakur M; Abebo, Teshome Abuka; Abera, Semaw Ferede; Aboyans, Victor; Abu-Raddad, Laith J; Ackerman, Ilana N; Adedeji, Isaac A; Adetokunboh, Olatunji; Afshin, Ashkan; Aggarwal, Rakesh; Agrawal, Sutapa; Agrawal, Anurag; Ahmed, Muktar Beshir; Eddine Aichour, Miloud Taki; Aichour, Amani Nidhal; Aichour, Ibtihel; Aiyar, Sneha; Akinyemiju, Tomi F; Akseer, Nadia; Al Lami, Faris Hasan; Alahdab, Fares; Al-Aly, Ziyad; Alam, Khurshid; Alam, Noore; Alam, Tahiya; Alasfoor, Deena; Alene, Kefyalew Addis; Ali, Raghib; Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza; Alkaabi, Juma M; Alkerwi, Ala'a; Alla, Francois; Allebeck, Peter; Allen, Christine; Al-Maskari, Fatma; AlMazroa, Mohammad AbdulAziz; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa; Alsharif, Ubai; Alsowaidi, Shirina; Althouse, Benjamin M; Altirkawi, Khalid A; Alvis-Guzman, Nelson; Amare, Azmeraw T; Amini, Erfan; Ammar, Walid; Amoako, Yaw Ampem; Ansha, Mustafa Geleto; T Antonio, Carl Abelardo; Anwari, Palwasha; Ärnlöv, Johan; Arora, Megha; Artaman, Al; Aryal, Krishna Kumar; Asgedom, Solomon W; Atey, Tesfay Mehari; Atnafu, Niguse Tadele; Avila-Burgos, Leticia; Arthur Avokpaho, Euripide Frinel G; Awasthi, Ashish; Awasthi, Shally; Azarpazhooh, Mahmoud Reza; Azzopardi, Peter; Babalola, Tesleem Kayode; Bacha, Umar; Badawi, Alaa; Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Bannick, Marlena S; Barac, Aleksandra; Barker-Collo, Suzanne L; Bärnighausen, Till; Barquera, Simon; Barrero, Lope H; Basu, Sanjay; Battista, Robert; Battle, Katherine E; Baune, Bernhard T; Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad; Beardsley, Justin; Bedi, Neeraj; Béjot, Yannick; Bekele, Bayu Begashaw; Bell, Michelle L; Bennett, Derrick A; Bennett, James R; Bensenor, Isabela M; Benson, Jennifer; Berhane, Adugnaw; Berhe, Derbew Fikadu; Bernabé, Eduardo; Betsu, Balem Demtsu; Beuran, Mircea; Beyene, Addisu Shunu; Bhansali, Anil; Bhatt, Samir; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Biadgilign, Sibhatu; Bicer, Burcu Kucuk; Bienhoff, Kelly; Bikbov, Boris; Birungi, Charles; Biryukov, Stan; Bisanzio, Donal; Bizuayehu, Habtamu Mellie; Blyth, Fiona M; Boneya, Dube Jara; Bose, Dipan; Bou-Orm, Ibrahim R; Bourne, Rupert RA; Brainin, Michael; Brayne, Carol; Brazinova, Alexandra; Breitborde, Nicholas JK; Briant, Paul S; Britton, Gabrielle; Brugha, Traolach S; Buchbinder, Rachelle; Bulto Bulto, Lemma Negesa; Bumgarner, Blair R; Butt, Zahid A; Cahuana-Hurtado, Lucero; Cameron, Ewan; Campos-Nonato, Ismael Ricardo; Carabin, Hélène; Cardenas, Rosario; Carpenter, David O; Carrero, Juan Jesus; Carter, Austin; Carvalho, Felix; Casey, Daniel; Castañeda-Orjuela, Carlos A; Castle, Chris D; Catalá-López, Ferrán; Chang, Jung-Chen; Charlson, Fiona J; Chaturvedi, Pankaj; Chen, Honglei; Chibalabala, Mirriam; Chibueze, Chioma Ezinne; Chisumpa, Vesper Hichilombwe; Chitheer, Abdulaal A; Chowdhury, Rajiv; Christopher, Devasahayam Jesudas; Ciobanu, Liliana G (2017-09-16)
      Background Measurement of changes in health across locations is useful to compare and contrast changing epidemiological patterns against health system performance and identify specific needs for resource allocation in ...

    • Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 

      Barber, Ryan M; Fullman, Nancy; Sorensen, Reed JD; Bollyky, Thomas; McKee, Martin; Nolte, Ellen; Abajobir, Amanuel Alemu; Abate, Kalkidan Hassen; Abbafati, Cristiana; Abbas, Kaja M; Abd-Allah, Foad; Abdulle, Abdishakur M; Abdurahman, Ahmed Abdulahi; Abera, Semaw Ferede; Abraham, Biju; Abreha, Girmatsion Fisseha; Adane, Kelemework; Adelekan, Ademola Lukman; Adetifa, Ifedayo Morayo O; Afshin, Ashkan; Agarwal, Arnav; Agarwal, Sanjay Kumar; Agarwal, Sunilkumar; Agrawal, Anurag; Kiadaliri, Aliasghar Ahmad; Ahmadi, Alireza; Ahmed, Kedir Yimam; Ahmed, Muktar Beshir; Akinyemi, Rufus Olusola; Akinyemiju, Tomi F; Akseer, Nadia; Al-Aly, Ziyad; Alam, Khurshid; Alam, Noore; Alam, Sayed Saidul; Alemu, Zewdie Aderaw; Alene, Kefyalew Addis; Alexander, Lily; Ali, Raghib; Ali, Syed Danish; Alizadeh-Navaei, Reza; Alkerwi, Ala'a; Alla, François; Allebeck, Peter; Allen, Christine; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa; Alsharif, Ubai; Altirkawi, Khalid A; Alvarez Martin, Elena; Alvis-Guzman, Nelson; Amare, Azmeraw T; Amini, Erfan; Ammar, Walid; Amo-Adjei, Joshu; Amoako, Yaw Ampem; Anderson, Benjamin O; Androudi, Sofia; Ansari, Hossein; Ansha, Mustafa Geleto; T Antonio, Carl Abelardo; Ärnlöv, Johan; Artaman, Al; Asayesh, Hamid; Assadi, Reza; Astatkie, Ayalew; Atey, Tesfay Mehari; Atique, Suleman; Atnafu, Niguse Tadele; Atre, Sachin R; Avila-Burgos, Leticia; Arthur Avokpaho, Euripide Frinel G; Ayala Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina; Awasthi, Ashish; Ayele, Nebiyu Negussu; Azzopardi, Peter; Ba Saleem, Huda Omer; Bärnighausen, Till; Bacha, Umar; Badawi, Alaa; Banerjee, Amitava; Barac, Aleksandra; Barboza, Miguel A; Barker-Collo, Suzanne L; Barrero, Lope H; Basu, Sanjay; Baune, Bernhard T; Baye, Kaleab; Bayou, Yibeltal Tebekaw; Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad; Bedi, Neeraj; Beghi, Ettore; Béjot, Yannick; Bello, Aminu K; Bennett, Derrick A; Bensenor, Isabela M; Berhane, Adugnaw; Bernabé, Eduardo; Bernal, Oscar Alberto; Beyene, Addisu Shunu; Beyene, Tariku Jibat; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A; Biadgilign, Sibhatu; Bikbov, Boris; Birlik, Sait Mentes; Birungi, Charles; Biryukov, Stan; Bisanzio, Donal; Bizuayehu, Habtamu Mellie; Bose, Dipan; Brainin, Michael; Brauer, Michael; Brazinova, Alexandra; Breitborde, Nicholas JK; Brenner, Hermann; Butt, Zahid A; Cárdenas, Rosario; Cahuana-Hurtado, Lucero; Campos-Nonato, Ismael Ricardo; Car, Josip; Carrero, Juan Jesus; Casey, Daniel; Caso, Valeria; Castañeda-Orjuela, Carlos A; Castillo Rivas, Jacqueline; Catalá-López, Ferrán; Cecilio, Pedro; Cercy, Kelly; Charlson, Fiona J; Chen, Alan Z; Chew, Adrienne; Chibalabala, Mirriam; Chibueze, Chioma Ezinne; Chisumpa, Vesper Hichilombwe; Chitheer, Abdulaal A; Chowdhury, Rajiv; Christensen, Hanne; Christopher, Devasahayam Jesudas; Ciobanu, Liliana G; Cirillo, Massimo; Coggeshall, Megan S; Cooper, Leslie Trumbull; Cortinovis, Monica; Crump, John A; Dalal, Koustuv; Danawi, Hadi; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Dargan, Paul I; Neves, Jose Das; Davey, Gail (2017-07-15)
      Background National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable mortality). ...

    • Ascertaining fetal Zika virus infection based on IgM antibody test in endemic settings 

      Herrera, TT; Goodridge, A; Britton, GB (2017-06-01)
      First, the authors' rationale to include a Zika virus (ZIKV)‐specific IgM antibody test as part of the positive case definition, despite the test's cross‐reactivity with other Flavivirus infections and immunizations, is ...

    • Evaluation of phytotoxic, cytotoxic and antiparasitic in vitro activities of Borreria verticillata, a weed of Panamanian coffee crops. 

      Cherigo, L.; Lezcano, J.; Spadafora, Carmenza; Martínez-Luis, Sergio (2012-01-01)
      In recent years, there have been significant changes in weed populations in different agricultural production systems. Coffee production is economically important in the Republic of Panama, and the specie Borreria verticillata ...

    • Water quality effects of intermittent water supply in Arraiján, Panama 

      Erickson, John J; Smith, Charlotte D; Goodridge, Amador; Nelson, Kara L. (2017-05-01)
      Intermittent drinking water supply is common in low- and middle-income countries throughout the world and can cause waterquality to degrade in the distribution system.In this study,we characterized waterquality in one study ...