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McGill University
Education•Montreal, Quebec, Canada•
About: McGill University is a education organization based out in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 72688 authors who have published 162565 publications receiving 6966523 citations. The organization is also known as: Royal institution of advanced learning & University of McGill College.
Topics: Population, Context (language use), Poison control, Health care, Cancer
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TL;DR: These findings provide a unique opportunity for understanding how environmental factors can lead to individual differences in brain development, and for improving the programmes and policies that are designed to alleviate SES-related disparities in mental health and academic achievement.
Abstract: Socioeconomic status (SES) influences brain development. Farah and colleagues discuss evidence that prenatal factors, parent–child interactions and cognitive stimulation mediate this effect, and consider implications for alleviating SES-related disparities in mental health and academic achievement. Human brain development occurs within a socioeconomic context and childhood socioeconomic status (SES) influences neural development — particularly of the systems that subserve language and executive function. Research in humans and in animal models has implicated prenatal factors, parent–child interactions and cognitive stimulation in the home environment in the effects of SES on neural development. These findings provide a unique opportunity for understanding how environmental factors can lead to individual differences in brain development, and for improving the programmes and policies that are designed to alleviate SES-related disparities in mental health and academic achievement.
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Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment1, University of California, Irvine2, Western Washington University3, State Street Corporation4, Virginia Institute of Marine Science5, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences6, National Autonomous University of Mexico7, University of British Columbia8, McGill University9
TL;DR: Several new questions must now be addressed if this field is going to evolve into a predictive science that can help conserve and manage ecological processes in ecosystems, including questions about how primary producer diversity influences the efficiency of resource use and biomass production in ecosystems.
Abstract: Over the past several decades, a rapidly expanding field of research known as biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has begun to quantify how the world's biological diversity can, as an independent variable, control ecological processes that are both essential for, and fundamental to, the functioning of ecosystems. Research in this area has often been justified on grounds that (1) loss of biological diversity ranks among the most pronounced changes to the global environment and that (2) reductions in diversity, and corresponding changes in species composition, could alter important services that ecosystems provide to humanity (e.g., food production, pest/disease control, water purification). Here we review over two decades of experiments that have examined how species richness of primary producers influences the suite of ecological processes that are controlled by plants and algae in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. Using formal meta-analyses, we assess the balance of evidence for eight fundamental questions and corresponding hypotheses about the functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems. These include questions about how primary producer diversity influences the efficiency of resource use and biomass production in ecosystems, how primary producer diversity influences the transfer and recycling of biomass to other trophic groups in a food web, and the number of species and spatial /temporal scales at which diversity effects are most apparent. After summarizing the balance of evidence and stating our own confidence in the conclusions, we outline several new questions that must now be addressed if this field is going to evolve into a predictive science that can help conserve and manage ecological processes in ecosystems.
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TL;DR: The c-Cbl protein acted as an E3 that can recognize tyrosine-phosphorylated substrates, such as the activated platelet-derived growth factor receptor, through its SH2 domain and that recruits and allosterically activates an E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme through its RING domain.
Abstract: Ubiquitination of receptor protein-tyrosine kinases (RPTKs) terminates signaling by marking active receptors for degradation. c-Cbl, an adapter protein for RPTKs, positively regulates RPTK ubiquitination in a manner dependent on its variant SRC homology 2 (SH2) and RING finger domains. Ubiquitin-protein ligases (or E3s) are the components of ubiquitination pathways that recognize target substrates and promote their ligation to ubiquitin. The c-Cbl protein acted as an E3 that can recognize tyrosine-phosphorylated substrates, such as the activated platelet-derived growth factor receptor, through its SH2 domain and that recruits and allosterically activates an E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme through its RING domain. These results reveal an SH2-containing protein that functions as a ubiquitin-protein ligase and thus provide a distinct mechanism for substrate targeting in the ubiquitin system.
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Harvard University1, University of Cambridge2, International Agency for Research on Cancer3, Utrecht University4, Osaka University5, University of Sydney6, Heidelberg University7, Dartmouth College8, University of Pisa9, Medical University of Vienna10, Karolinska Institutet11, University of Zurich12, McGill University13, Mayo Clinic14, Université de Montréal15, University of Hamburg16, Cancer Research UK17, Queen's University18
TL;DR: It is suggested that genotype-phenotype correlations do exist and, if made reliably absolute, could prove useful in the future in clinical management with respect to screening, surveillance, and prophylaxis, as well as provide insight into the genetic effects of particular mutations.
Abstract: Objective. —Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2) is an autosomal dominant disorder. The 3 recognized subtypes include MEN 2A, characterized by medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), pheochromocytoma (pheo), and hyperparathyroidism (HPT); MEN 2B, by MTC, pheo, and characteristic stigmata; and familial MTC (FMTC), by the presence of MTC only. The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between specific mutations and the presence of certain disease features in MEN 2 which could help in clinical decision making. Design. —Correlative survey study of 477 MEN 2 families. Setting. —Eighteen tertiary referral centers worldwide. Patients. —A total of 477 independent MEN 2 families. Main Outcome Measures. —Association between the position and type of germline mutation in the RET proto-oncogene and the presence or absence of MTC, pheo, HPT, and/or other features in a family. Results. —There is a statistically significant association between the presence of any mutation at a specific position (codon 634) and the presence of pheo and HPT. The presence of a specific mutation, CGC at codon 634, has yet to be associated with FMTC. Conversely, mutations at codons 768 and 804 are thus far seen only with FMTC, while codon 918 mutation is MEN 2B-specific. Rare families with both MEN 2 and Hirschsprung disease were found to have MEN 2-specific codon mutations. Patients with Hirschsprung disease presenting with such mutations should be monitored for the possible development of MEN 2 tumors. Conclusions. —This consortium analysis suggests that genotype-phenotype correlations do exist and, if made reliably absolute, could prove useful in the future in clinical management with respect to screening, surveillance, and prophylaxis, as well as provide insight into the genetic effects of particular mutations.
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TL;DR: The hydrogen storage properties of MgH 2 are significantly enhanced by a proper engineering of the microstructure and surface as discussed by the authors, which gives remarkable improvement of absorption/desorption kinetics.
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Karl J. Friston | 217 | 1267 | 217169 |
Yi Chen | 217 | 4342 | 293080 |
Yoshua Bengio | 202 | 1033 | 420313 |
Irving L. Weissman | 201 | 1141 | 172504 |
Mark I. McCarthy | 200 | 1028 | 187898 |
Lewis C. Cantley | 196 | 748 | 169037 |
Martin White | 196 | 2038 | 232387 |
Michael Marmot | 193 | 1147 | 170338 |
Michael A. Strauss | 185 | 1688 | 208506 |
Alan C. Evans | 183 | 866 | 134642 |
Douglas R. Green | 182 | 661 | 145944 |
David A. Weitz | 178 | 1038 | 114182 |
David L. Kaplan | 177 | 1944 | 146082 |
Hyun-Chul Kim | 176 | 4076 | 183227 |
Feng Zhang | 172 | 1278 | 181865 |