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Georgetown University
Education•Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States•
About: Georgetown University is a education organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Cancer. The organization has 23377 authors who have published 43718 publications receiving 1748598 citations. The organization is also known as: GU & Georgetown.
Topics: Population, Cancer, Breast cancer, Health care, Politics
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TL;DR: Investigating the role of PARP cleavage in apoptosis in human osteosarcoma cells and PARP −/− fibroblasts stably transfected with a vector encoding a caspase-3-resistant PARP mutant indicates that PARP activation and subsequent cleavage have active and complex roles in apoptotic process.
834 citations
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TL;DR: A new plan, for 1998-2003, is presented, in which human DNA sequencing will be the major emphasis, and an ambitious schedule has been set to complete the full sequence by the end of 2003, 2 years ahead of previous projections.
Abstract: The Human Genome Project has successfully completed all the major goals in its current 5-year plan, covering the period 1993–98. A new plan, for 1998–2003, is presented, in which human DNA sequencing will be the major emphasis. An ambitious schedule has been set to complete the full sequence by the end of 2003, 2 years ahead of previous projections. In the course of completing the sequence, a “working draft” of the human sequence will be produced by the end of 2001. The plan also includes goals for sequencing technology development; for studying human genome sequence variation; for developing technology for functional genomics; for completing the sequence of Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster and starting the mouse genome; for studying the ethical, legal, and social implications of genome research; for bioinformatics and computational studies; and for training of genome scientists.
833 citations
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TL;DR: This article found that repeated borrowing from the same lender affects loan contract terms and that such borrowing translates into a 10 to 17 bps lowering of loan spreads, and that the relationship borrowers obtain larger loans compared to non-relationship borrowers.
Abstract: Does repeated borrowing from the same lender affect loan contract terms? We find that such borrowing translates into a 10 to 17 bps lowering of loan spreads. These results hold using multiple approaches (Propensity Score Matching, Instrumental Variables, and Treatment Effects Model) that control for the endogeneity of relationships. We find that relationships are especially valuable when borrower transparency is low and the moral hazard among lending syndicate members is high. We also provide a demarcation line between relationship and transactional lending. We find that spreads charged for relationship loans and non-relationship loans become indistinguishable if the borrower is in the top 30% when ranked by asset size. Similar dissipation of relationship benefits occurs if the borrower has public rated debt or is part of the S&P 500 index. We find that past relationships reduce collateral requirements. Relationships are also associated with shorter debt maturity especially for the lowest quality borrowers. Our results are robust to an estimation methodology which allows loan spread, collateral requirements, and loan maturity to be determined jointly using an instrumental variables approach. We also find relationship borrowers obtain larger loans (scaled by the borrower's asset size) compared to non-relationship borrowers. Our results imply that, even for firms that have multiple sources of outside financing, borrowing from a prior lender obtains better loan terms.
832 citations
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City of Hope National Medical Center1, Loyola University Chicago2, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center3, State University of New York Upstate Medical University4, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center5, Georgetown University6, Virginia Commonwealth University7, University of California, Los Angeles8, University of Minnesota9, Amgen10
TL;DR: Palifermin reduced the duration and severity of oral mucositis after intensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy for hematologic cancers.
Abstract: background Oral mucositis is a complication of intensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy with no effective treatment. We tested the ability of palifermin (recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor) to decrease oral mucosal injury induced by cytotoxic therapy. methods This double-blind study compared the effect of palifermin with that of a placebo on the development of oral mucositis in 212 patients with hematologic cancers; 106 patients received palifermin (60 µg per kilogram of body weight per day) and 106 received a placebo intravenously for three consecutive days immediately before the initiation of conditioning therapy (fractionated total-body irradiation plus high-dose chemotherapy) and after autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. Oral mucositis was evaluated daily for 28 days after transplantation.
831 citations
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Joan B. Soriano1, Parkes J Kendrick2, Katherine R. Paulson2, Vinay Gupta2 +311 more•Institutions (178)
TL;DR: It is shown that chronic respiratory diseases remain a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with growth in absolute numbers but sharp declines in several age-standardised estimators since 1990.
829 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Cyrus Cooper | 204 | 1869 | 206782 |
David Cella | 156 | 1258 | 106402 |
Carl H. June | 156 | 835 | 98904 |
Ichiro Kawachi | 149 | 1216 | 90282 |
Judy Garber | 147 | 756 | 79157 |
Bernard J. Gersh | 146 | 973 | 95875 |
Edward G. Lakatta | 146 | 858 | 88637 |
Eugene C. Butcher | 146 | 446 | 72849 |
Mark A. Rubin | 145 | 699 | 95640 |
Richard B. Devereux | 144 | 962 | 116403 |
Robert H. Purcell | 139 | 666 | 70366 |
Eric P. Winer | 139 | 751 | 71587 |
Richard L. Huganir | 137 | 425 | 61023 |
Rasmus Nielsen | 135 | 556 | 84898 |
Henry T. Lynch | 133 | 925 | 86270 |