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• Intrahepatic bile ducts develop according to a new mode of tubulogenesis regulated by the transcription factor SOX9.

  BACKGROUND & AIMS: A number of diseases are characterized by defective formation of the intrahepatic bile ducts. In the embryo, hepatoblasts different…

  Authors: Aline Antoniou, Peggy Raynaud, Sabine Cordi, Yiwei Zong, François Tronche, Ben Z Stanger, Patrick Jacquemin, Christophe E Pierreux, Frederic Clotman, Frederic P Lemaigre

  Source: Gastroenterology. 2009 Jun

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• Gene duplication and exon shuffling by helitron-like transposons generate intraspecies diversity in maize.

  We report a whole-genome comparison of gene content in allelic BAC contigs from two maize inbred lines. Genic content polymorphisms involve as many as…

  Authors: Michele Morgante, Stephan Brunner, Giorgio Pea, Kevin Fengler, Andrea Zuccolo, Antoni Rafalski

  Source: Nature genetics. 2005 Sep

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• Polygenic susceptibility to breast cancer and implications for prevention.

  The knowledge of human genetic variation that will come from the human genome sequence makes feasible a polygenic approach to disease prevention, in w…

  Authors: Paul D P Pharoah, Antonis Antoniou, Martin Bobrow, Ron L Zimmern, Douglas F Easton, Bruce A J Ponder

  Source: Nature genetics. 2002 May

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• The Rod and the Serpent: History's Ultimate Healing Symbol.

  The snake has served as a medical emblem for more than 2400 years, since its association with the ancient Greek god of medicine and healing, Asclepius…

  Authors: Stavros A Antoniou, George A Antoniou, Robert Learney, Frank A Granderath, Athanasios I Antoniou

  Source: World journal of surgery. 2010 Jun 17

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• Cancer risk models: translating family history into clinical management.

  Authors: Susan M Domchek, Antonis Antoniou

  Source: Annals of internal medicine. 2007 Oct 2

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• Transcriptional activators HAP/NF-Y rescue a cytochrome c oxidase defect in yeast and human cells.

  Cell survival and energy production requires a functional mitochondrial respiratory chain. Biogenesis of cytochrome c oxidase (COX), the last enzyme o…

  Authors: Flavia Fontanesi, Can Jin, Alexander Tzagoloff, Antoni Barrientos

  Source: Human molecular genetics. 2008 Mar 15

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• Neural differences in the mapping of verb and noun concepts onto novel words.

  A dissociation between noun and verb processing has been found in brain damaged patients leading to the proposal that different word classes are suppo…

  Authors: Anna Mestres-Missé, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Thomas F Münte

  Source: NeuroImage. 2010 Feb 1

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• The Leu33Pro polymorphism in the ITGB3 gene does not modify BRCA1/2-associated breast or ovarian cancer risks: results from a multicenter study among 15,542 BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.

  Integrins containing the beta(3) subunit are key players in tumor growth and metastasis. A functional Leu33Pro polymorphism (rs5918) in the beta(3) su…

  Authors: Anna Jakubowska, Dominik Rozkrut, Antonis Antoniou, Ute Hamann, Jan Lubinski

  Source: Breast cancer research and treatment. 2010 Jun

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• The role of matrix metalloproteinases in the pathogenesis of abdominal wall hernias.

  Surgical treatment of abdominal wall hernia has been based for many decades on observational evidence, as the disease physiopathology was ambiguous. T…

  Authors: S A Antoniou, G A Antoniou, F A Granderath, C Simopoulos

  Source: European journal of clinical investigation. 2009 Nov

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• Traditional and laparoscopic appendectomy in adults: outcomes in English NHS hospitals between 1996 and 2006.

  OBJECTIVE: This study investigated length of stay, readmission rates, and postoperative mortality in adult patients undergoing traditional and laparos…

  Authors: Omar Faiz, Jeremy Clark, Tim Brown, Alex Bottle, Anthony Antoniou, Paul Farrands, Ara Darzi, Paul Aylin

  Source: Annals of surgery. 2008 Nov

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