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• Influence of credentials of clinical laboratory professionals on proficiency testing performance.

  The influence of the training, experience, and credentials of testing personnel in the increasingly complex laboratory is a significant concern. A ret…

  Authors: Maria Dannessa Delost, W Greg Miller, G Andy Chang, William J Korzun, Teresa S Nadder

  Source: American journal of clinical pathology. 2009 Oct

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• Testicular compartment syndrome: a new approach to conceptualizing and managing testicular torsion.

  OBJECTIVES: Decompression of compartment syndrome is known to salvage tissues in numerous organ systems. To demonstrate evidence that testes exposed t…

  Authors: Alexander Kutikov, Pasquale Casale, Michael A White, Wesley A Meyer, Andy Chang, Rafael Gosalbez, Douglas A Canning

  Source: Urology. 2008 Oct

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• Age of inhalant first time use and its association to the use of other drugs.

  Inhalants are the 4th most commonly abused drugs after alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. Although inhalants are often referred as Gateway Drugs this hy…

  Authors: Kele Ding, G Andy Chang, Ron Southerland

  Source: Journal of drug education. 2009

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• Social stress in mice induces voiding dysfunction and bladder wall remodeling.

  Several studies have anecdotally reported the occurrence of altered urinary voiding patterns in rodents exposed to social stress. A recent study chara…

  Authors: Andy Chang, Stephan Butler, Joanna Sliwoski, Rita Valentino, Douglas Canning, Stephen Zderic

  Source: American journal of physiology. Renal physiology. 2009 Oct

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• Deletion of one SERCA2 allele confers protection against bladder wall hypertrophy in a murine model of partial bladder outlet obstruction.

  The sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase2 (SERCA2) is downregulated in cardiac hypertrophy with decompensation. We sought to determine whether m…

  Authors: Jenny Lassmann, Joanna Sliwoski, Andy Chang, Douglas A Canning, Stephen A Zderic

  Source: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology. 2008 Jan

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• Angiomyolipoma of the kidney: expanding disease spectrum demonstrated by 3 cases.

  We report 3 recent cases of angiomyolipoma of the kidney. Although generally regarded as a benign neoplasm, angiomyolipoma rarely behaves in an aggres…

  Authors: Shahin Chandrasoma, Neda Moatamed, Andy Chang, Siamak Daneshmand, Yanling Ma

  Source: Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology : AIMM / official publication of the Society for Applied Immunohistochemistry. 2004 Sep

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• Bidirectional interactions between viral respiratory illnesses and cytokine responses in the first year of life.

  BACKGROUND: Viral infections are the major cause of acute wheezing illnesses in childhood. Variations in immunologic responses at birth may be determi…

  Authors: James E Gern, G Daniel Brooks, Patricia Meyer, Andy Chang, Kunling Shen, Michael D Evans, Chris Tisler, Douglas Dasilva, Kathy A Roberg, Lance D Mikus,…

  Source: The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology. 2006 Jan

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• Usefulness of CA 125 as a preoperative prognostic marker for transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.

  PURPOSE: We evaluated the role of CA 125 as a prognostic marker in patients with transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder undergoing uniform r…

  Authors: Andy Chang, Jie Cai, Gus Miranda, Susan Groshen, Donald Skinner, John P Stein

  Source: The Journal of urology. 2004 Dec

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• Re: Prepubertal orchiopexy for cryptorchidism may be associated with lower risk of testicular cancer.

  Authors: Ellenie Tuazon, Kimberly Banks, Chester J Koh, Roger E De Filippo, Andy Chang, Brian E Hardy, Victoria K Cortessis

  Source: The Journal of urology. 2008 Aug

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