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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
    by MARC and MRBS Faculty and Students
    (listed by institution)

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Markow TA, Coppola A, Watts TD. How Drosophila males make eggs: it is elemental. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2001;268:1527-32.

BARRY UNIVERSITY
D'Aniello G, Tolino A, D'Aniello A, Errico F, Fisher GH, Di Fiore MM. The role of D-aspartic acid and N-methyl-D-aspartic acid in the regulation of prolactin release. Endocrinology 2000;141:3862-70.

Fisher GH, Arias I, Quesada I, D'Aniello S, Errico F, Di Fiore MM, D'Aniello A. A fast and sensitive method for measuring picomole levels of total free amino acids in very small amounts of biological tissues. Amino Acids 2001;20:163-73.

Silva A, Montague JR, Lopez TF, Mudd LM. Growth factor effects on survival and development of calbindin immunopositive cultured septal neurons. Brain Res Bull 2000;51:35-42.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS
Musio C, Santillo S, Taddei-Ferretti C, Robles LJ, Vismara R, Barsanti L, Gualtieri P. First identification and localization of a visual pigment in Hydra (Cnidaria, Hydrozoe). J Comp Physiol A 2001;187:79-81.

Robles LJ, Clark YM, Mendoza J, Ramirez T, Rivas F. Localization and expression of myosin III in light and dark-adapted octopus retinas. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2001;42:S365.

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
Ye Z, Rodriguez R, Tran A, Hoang H, de los Santos D, Brown S, Vellanoweth RL. The developmental transition to flowering represses ascorbate peroxidase activity and induces enzymatic lipid peroxidation in leaf tissue in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Science 2000;158:115-27.

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY
Muneer E, Bell J, Doctor VM. Mechanism of enhancement by fucoidan and CNBr-fibrinogen digest of the activation of glu-plasminogen by tissue plasminogen activator. Eur J Drug Metab and Pharmacokinetics 2000;25:137-43.

SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
Lu H, Hu Y, Choy CJ, Mallari JP, Villanueva AF, Arrozal AF, Berkman CE. Synthesis of individual glutamate-containing phosphonamidothionate stereoisomers. Tetrahedron Lett 2001;42:4313-16.

Mirel DB, Estacio WF, Mathieu M, Olmsted E, Ramirez J, Marquez-Magana LM. Environmental regulation of Bacillus subtilis sigma(D)-dependent gene expression. J Bacteriol 2000;182:3055-62.

West JT, Estacio W, Marquez-Magana L. Relative roles of the fla/che P(A), P(D-3), and P(sigD) promoters in regulating motility and sigD expression in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 2000;182:4841-8.

SUNY COLLEGE AT OLD WESTBURY
Garg PK, Labaree DC, Hoyte RM, Hochberg RB. [7alpha-¹⁸F] Fluoro-17alpha-methyl-5alpha-dihydrotestosterone: a ligand for androgen receptor-mediated imaging of prostate cancer. Nucl Med Biol 2001;28:85-90.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Carrillo R, Thiemann OH, Alfonzo JD, Simpson L. Uridine insertion/deletion RNA editing in Leishmania tarentolae mitochondria shows cell cycle dependence. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2001;113:175-81.

Fratiello A, Kubo-Anderson V, Lee RA, Patrick M, Perrigan RD, Porras TR, Sharp AK, Wong K. A direct carbon-13 and nitrogen-15 NMR study of praseodymium(III)- and neodymium(III)-isothiocyanate complex formation in aqueous solvent mixtures. J Sol Chem 2001;30:77-97.

Ishimaru RS, Leung K, Hong L, LaPolt PS. Inhibitory effects of nitric oxide on estrogen production and cAMP levels in rat granulosa cell cultures. J Endocrinol 2001;168:249-55.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
Galvan CD, Hrachovy RA, Smith KL, Swann JW. Blockade of neuronal activity during hippocampal development produces a chronic focal epilepsy in the rat. J Neurosci 2000;20:2904-16.

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