Microarray technology is a powerful tool for measuring RNA expression for thousands of
genes at once. Various studies have been published comparing competing platforms with …

Background More than 20,000 candidates for kidney transplantation in the United States
are sensitized to HLA and may have a prolonged wait for a transplant, with a reduced …

BACKGROUND: Excessive brain responsiveness to norepinephrine appears to contribute
to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), particularly at night. Prazosin, a brain active alpha-1 …

ContextBlood type and crossmatch incompatibility will exclude at least one third of patients
in need from receiving a live donor kidney transplant. Kidney paired donation (KPD) offers …

Background We describe the genome of the western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii,
one of the most widespread, abundant, and well-studied turtles. We place the genome into a …

Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid proliferation of statistical methods that infer
evolutionary and ecological processes from data on species distributions. These methods …

The majority of preconditioning protocols developed to allow ABO-incompatible (ABOi) renal
transplantation include concurrent splenectomy as a prerequisite to successful engraftment. …

School engagement is an important theoretical and practical cornerstone to the promotion
of academic accomplishments. This article used a tripartite—behavioral, emotional, and …

Environmental niche models, which are generated by combining species occurrence data
with environmental GIS data layers, are increasingly used to answer fundamental questions …

Maxent, one of the most commonly used methods for inferring species distributions and
environmental tolerances from occurrence data, allows users to fit models of arbitrary complexity. …