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• Lean, but not obese, fat is enriched for a unique population of regulatory T cells that affect metabolic parameters.

  Obesity is accompanied by chronic, low-grade inflammation of adipose tissue, which promotes insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes. These findings rai…

  Authors: Markus Feuerer, Laura Herrero, Daniela Cipolletta, Afia Naaz, Jamie Wong, Ali Nayer, Jongsoon Lee, Allison B Goldfine, Christophe Benoist, Steven Shoelson,…

  Source: Nature medicine. 2009 Aug

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• TCR-based lineage tracing: no evidence for conversion of conventional into regulatory T cells in response to a natural self-antigen in pancreatic islets.

  Foxp3-expressing regulatory T (T reg) cells derive primarily from selection in the thymus. Yet conversion of mature conventional CD4(+) T (T conv) cel…

  Authors: Jamie Wong, Diane Mathis, Christophe Benoist

  Source: The Journal of experimental medicine. 2007 Sep 3

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• Adaptation of TCR repertoires to self-peptides in regulatory and nonregulatory CD4+ T cells.

  Currently, it is not understood how the specificity of the TCR guides CD4(+) T cells into the conventional lineage (Tconv) vs directing them to become…

  Authors: Jamie Wong, Reinhard Obst, Margarida Correia-Neves, Grigoriy Losyev, Diane Mathis, Christophe Benoist

  Source: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2007 Jun 1

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• Ig heavy chain promotes mature B cell survival in the absence of light chain.

  Survival of mature B cells is thought to depend on the BCR signaling (BCR) because ablation of either H chain (HC) expression or BCR signaling causes …

  Authors: Pedro Geraldes, Michelle Rebrovich, Kai Herrmann, Jamie Wong, Hans-Martin Jäck, Matthias Wabl, Marilia Cascalho

  Source: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2007 Aug 1

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• Merkel cell carcinoma of the eyelid: a report of 2 cases.

  Authors: Isabel Bleyen, Jamie Wong, Quynh Nguyen, Jean Paul Blanc, Isabelle Hardy

  Source: Canadian journal of ophthalmology. Journal canadien d'ophtalmologie. 2010 Feb

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• Therapeutic RNAi targeting PCSK9 acutely lowers plasma cholesterol in rodents and LDL cholesterol in nonhuman primates.

  Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) regulates low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) protein levels and function. Loss of PCSK9 inc…

  Authors: Maria Frank-Kamenetsky, Aldo Grefhorst, Norma N Anderson, Timothy S Racie, Birgit Bramlage, Akin Akinc, David Butler, Klaus Charisse, Robert Dorkin, Yupeng Fan,…

  Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008 Aug 19

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• Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the eyelid: a rare cutaneous tumor treated with Mohs micrographic surgery.

  Authors: Rita Sammour, Philippe Lafaille, Valérie Joncas, Mark Krasny, Jamie Wong, Guy Allaire, Steven Bernstein

  Source: Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.]. 2009 Jun

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• Maintaining normal blood glucose concentrations with total parenteral nutrition: is it necessary to taper total parenteral nutrition?

  Authors: Rex Speerhas, Jamie Wong, Douglas Seidner, Ezra Steiger

  Source: Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. 2003 Oct

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