| | Research Articles HIV-1 Activates Macrophages Independent of Toll-Like Receptors Joseph N. Brown, James J. Kohler, Carter R. Coberley, John W. Sleasman, and Maureen M. Goodenow PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3664. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003664.PMCID: PMC2585009 Ecological Niche of the 2003 West Nile Virus Epidemic in the Northern Great Plains of the United States Michael C. Wimberly, Michael B. Hildreth, Stephen P. Boyte, Erik Lindquist, and Lon Kightlinger PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3744. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003744.PMCID: PMC2586649 Colon-Derived Liver Metastasis, Colorectal Carcinoma, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Can Be Discriminated by the Ca2+-Binding Proteins S100A6 and S100A11 Christian Melle, Günther Ernst, Bettina Schimmel, Annett Bleul, and Ferdinand von Eggeling PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3767. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003767.PMCID: PMC2585013 Engineering a Novel Multifunctional Green Fluorescent Protein Tag for a Wide Variety of Protein Research Takuya Kobayashi, Nobuhiro Morone, Taku Kashiyama, Hideto Oyamada, Nagomi Kurebayashi, and Takashi Murayama PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3822. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003822.PMCID: PMC2585475 Interplay of Ribosomal DNA Loci in Nucleolar Dominance: Dominant NORs Are Up-Regulated by Chromatin Dynamics in the Wheat-Rye System Manuela Silva, H. Sofia Pereira, Miguel Bento, Ana Paula Santos, Peter Shaw, Margarida Delgado, Nuno Neves, and Wanda Viegas PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3824. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003824.PMCID: PMC2585015 In Vivo Assessment of Cold Adaptation in Insect Larvae by Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Daniel Mietchen, Bertram Manz, Frank Volke, and Kenneth Storey PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3826. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003826.PMCID: PMC2586655 Differentially Evolved Genes of Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands: Insights into the Mechanism of Host Specificity in Salmonella Sandeepa M. Eswarappa, Jessin Janice, Arvindhan G. Nagarajan, Sudhagar V. Balasundaram, Guruswamy Karnam, Narendra M. Dixit, and Dipshikha Chakravortty PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3829. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003829.PMCID: PMC2585142 Functional Connectivity in Tactile Object Discrimination—A Principal Component Analysis of an Event Related fMRI-Study Susanne Hartmann, John H. Missimer, Cornelia Stoeckel, Eugenio Abela, Jon Shah, Rüdiger J. Seitz, and Bruno J. Weder PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3831. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003831.PMCID: PMC2585476 If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping Valeria I. Petkova and H. Henrik Ehrsson PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3832. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003832.PMCID: PMC2585011 Multifactor Effects and Evidence of Potential Interaction between Complement Factor H Y402H and LOC387715 A69S in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Sanna P. Seitsonen, Päivi Onkamo, Gang Peng, Momiao Xiong, Petri V. Tommila, Päivi H. Ranta, Juha M. Holopainen, Jukka A. Moilanen, Tapani Palosaari, Kai Kaarniranta, Seppo Meri, Ilkka R. Immonen, and Irma E. Järvelä PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3833. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003833.PMCID: PMC2585793 The Effect of Polyhydramnios on Cervical Length in Twins: A Controlled Intervention Study in Complicated Monochorionic Pregnancies Neelam Engineer, Keelin O'Donoghue, Ruwan C. Wimalasundera, and Nicholas M. Fisk PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3834. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003834.PMCID: PMC2584788 Time-of-Day-Dependent Enhancement of Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus So-ichi Tamai, Kamon Sanada, and Yoshitaka Fukada PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3835. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003835.PMCID: PMC2585014 Gene Order Phylogeny of the Genus Prochlorococcus Haiwei Luo, Jian Shi, William Arndt, Jijun Tang, and Robert Friedman PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3837. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003837.PMCID: PMC2585141 The Evolution of Invasiveness in Garden Ants Sylvia Cremer, Line V. Ugelvig, Falko P. Drijfhout, Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner, Florian M. Steiner, Bernhard Seifert, David P. Hughes, Andreas Schulz, Klaus S. Petersen, Heino Konrad, Christian Stauffer, Kadri Kiran, Xavier Espadaler, Patrizia d'Ettorre, Nihat Aktaç, Jørgen Eilenberg, Graeme R. Jones, David R. Nash, Jes S. Pedersen, and Jacobus J. Boomsma PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3838. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003838.PMCID: PMC2585788 Transcriptome-Wide Identification of Novel Imprinted Genes in Neonatal Mouse Brain Xu Wang, Qi Sun, Sean D. McGrath, Elaine R. Mardis, Paul D. Soloway, and Andrew G. Clark PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3839. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003839.PMCID: PMC2585789 Pattern Recognition in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Defined by High Content Peptide Microarray Chip Analysis Representing 61 Proteins from M. tuberculosis Simani Gaseitsiwe, Davide Valentini, Shahnaz Mahdavifar, Isabelle Magalhaes, Daniel F. Hoft, Johannes Zerweck, Mike Schutkowski, Jan Andersson, Marie Reilly, and Markus J. Maeurer PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3840. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003840.PMCID: PMC2588537 Cell Surface Sialylation and Fucosylation Are Regulated by L1 via Phospholipase Cγ and Cooperate to Modulate Neurite Outgrowth, Cell Survival and Migration Ya-li Li, Guang-zhi Wu, Gavin S. Dawe, Li Zeng, Shu-sen Cui, Gabriele Loers, Thomas Tilling, Li Sun, Melitta Schachner, and Zhi-Cheng Xiao PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3841. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003841.PMCID: PMC2585790 CTLA-4 Activation of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase (PI 3-K) and Protein Kinase B (PKB/AKT) Sustains T-Cell Anergy without Cell Death Helga Schneider, Elke Valk, Rufina Leung, and Christopher E. Rudd PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3842. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003842.PMCID: PMC2585791 Sampling-Based Approaches to Improve Estimation of Mortality among Patient Dropouts: Experience from a Large PEPFAR-Funded Program in Western Kenya Constantin T. Yiannoutsos, Ming-Wen An, Constantine E. Frangakis, Beverly S. Musick, Paula Braitstein, Kara Wools-Kaloustian, Daniel Ochieng, Jeffrey N. Martin, Melanie C. Bacon, Vincent Ochieng, and Sylvester Kimaiyo PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3843. Published online 2008 December 2. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003843.PMCID: PMC2585792 Identification and Characterization of σS, a Novel Component of the Staphylococcus aureus Stress and Virulence Responses Lindsey N. Shaw, Catharina Lindholm, Tomasz K. Prajsnar, Halie K. Miller, Melanie C. Brown, Ewa Golonka, George C. Stewart, Andrej Tarkowski, and Jan Potempa PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3844. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003844.PMCID: PMC2585143 Neural Dynamics of Learning Sound—Action Associations Adam McNamara, Giovanni Buccino, Mareike M. Menz, Jan Gläscher, Thomas Wolbers, Annette Baumgärtner, and Ferdinand Binkofski PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3845. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003845.PMCID: PMC2585816 β-Lactam Effects on Mixed Cultures of Common Respiratory Isolates as an Approach to Treatment Effects on Nasopharyngeal Bacterial Population Dynamics David Sevillano, Lorenzo Aguilar, Luis Alou, María-José Giménez, Natalia González, Martha Torrico, Fabio Cafini, Pilar Coronel, and José Prieto PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3846. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003846.PMCID: PMC2587697 Systems Analysis Unfolds the Relationship between the Phosphoketolase Pathway and Growth in Aspergillus nidulans Gianni Panagiotou, Mikael R. Andersen, Thomas Grotkjær, Torsten B. Regueira, Gerald Hofmann, Jens Nielsen, and Lisbeth Olsson PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3847. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003847.PMCID: PMC2585806 IQGAP1-Dependent Signaling Pathway Regulates Endothelial Cell Proliferation and Angiogenesis Rosana D. Meyer, David B. Sacks, and Nader Rahimi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3848. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003848.PMCID: PMC2585478 High Diversity of vacA and cagA Helicobacter pylori Genotypes in Patients with and without Gastric Cancer Yolanda López-Vidal, Sergio Ponce-de-León, Gonzalo Castillo-Rojas, Rafael Barreto-Zúñiga, and Aldo Torre-Delgadillo PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3849. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003849.PMCID: PMC2585809 Mutations in UCP2 in Congenital Hyperinsulinism Reveal a Role for Regulation of Insulin Secretion M. Mar González-Barroso, Irina Giurgea, Fredéric Bouillaud, Andrea Anedda, Christine Bellanné-Chantelot, Laurence Hubert, Yves de Keyzer, Pascale de Lonlay, and Daniel Ricquier PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3850. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003850.PMCID: PMC2588657 Delayed Postconditioning Protects against Focal Ischemic Brain Injury in Rats Chuancheng Ren, Xuwen Gao, Gang Niu, Zhimin Yan, Xiaoyuan Chen, and Heng Zhao PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3851. Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003851.PMCID: PMC2588536 Lack of Association between the Tagging SNP A+930→G of SOCS3 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Meta-Analysis of Four Independent Study Populations Antje Fischer-Rosinsky, Eva Fisher, Peter Kovacs, Matthias Blüher, Matthias Möhlig, Andreas F. H. Pfeiffer, Heiner Boeing, and Joachim Spranger PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3852. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003852.PMCID: PMC2585796 Contrasting Microbial Community Assembly Hypotheses: A Reconciling Tale from the Río Tinto Carmen Palacios, Erik Zettler, Ricardo Amils, and Linda Amaral-Zettler PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3853. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003853.PMCID: PMC2587236 Biochemical Properties of Gastrokine-1 Purified from Chicken Gizzard Smooth Muscle Karim Hnia, Cécile Notarnicola, Pascal de Santa Barbara, Gérald Hugon, François Rivier, Dalila Laoudj-Chenivesse, and Dominique Mornet PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3854. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003854.PMCID: PMC2588339 Role of CAP350 in Centriolar Tubule Stability and Centriole Assembly Mikael Le Clech PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3855. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003855.PMCID: PMC2586089 Central Exercise Action Increases the AMPK and mTOR Response to Leptin Eduardo R. Ropelle, Maria Fernanda A. Fernandes, Marcelo B. S. Flores, Mirian Ueno, Silvana Rocco, Rodrigo Marin, Dennys E. Cintra, Lício A. Velloso, Kleber G. Franchini, Mario J. A. Saad, and José B. C. Carvalheira PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3856. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003856.PMCID: PMC2585815 Concordance in a World without a Gold Standard: A New Non-Invasive Methodology for Improving Accuracy of Fibrosis Markers Thierry Poynard, Patrick Ingiliz, Laure Elkrief, Mona Munteanu, Pascal Lebray, Rachel Morra, Djamila Messous, Francoise Imbert Bismut, Dominique Roulot, Yves Benhamou, Dominique Thabut, and Vlad Ratziu PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3857. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003857.PMCID: PMC2586659 GPRC6A Null Mice Exhibit Osteopenia, Feminization and Metabolic Syndrome Min Pi, Ling Chen, Min-Zhao Huang, Wenyu Zhu, Brian Ringhofer, Junming Luo, Lane Christenson, Benyi Li, Jianghong Zhang, P. David Jackson, Pieter Faber, Kurt R. Brunden, John J. Harrington, and L. Darryl Quarles PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3858. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003858.PMCID: PMC2585477 Prdm Proto-Oncogene Transcription Factor Family Expression and Interaction with the Notch-Hes Pathway in Mouse Neurogenesis Emi Kinameri, Takashi Inoue, Jun Aruga, Itaru Imayoshi, Ryoichiro Kageyama, Tomomi Shimogori, and Adrian W. Moore PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3859. Published online 2008 December 3. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003859.PMCID: PMC2585159 A Novel Method Incorporating Gene Ontology Information for Unsupervised Clustering and Feature Selection Shireesh Srivastava, Linxia Zhang, Rong Jin, and Christina Chan PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3860. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003860.PMCID: PMC2585795 An Experimental and Computational Study of Effects of Microtubule Stabilization on T-Cell Polarity Arie Baratt, Sergey N. Arkhipov, and Ivan V. Maly PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3861. Published online 2008 December 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003861.PMCID: PMC2586653 Analysis of East Asia Genetic Substructure Using Genome-Wide SNP Arrays Chao Tian, Roman Kosoy, Annette Lee, Michael Ransom, John W. Belmont, Peter K. Gregersen, and Michael F. Seldin PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3862. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003862.PMCID: PMC2587696 Metabolic Profiling Reveals Distinct Variations Linked to Nicotine Consumption in Humans — First Results from the KORA Study Rui Wang-Sattler, Yao Yu, Kirstin Mittelstrass, Eva Lattka, Elisabeth Altmaier, Christian Gieger, Karl H. Ladwig, Norbert Dahmen, Klaus M. Weinberger, Pei Hao, Lei Liu, Yixue Li, H.-Erich Wichmann, Jerzy Adamski, Karsten Suhre, and Thomas Illig PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3863. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003863.PMCID: PMC2588343 Telomeric Position Effect—A Third Silencing Mechanism in Eukaryotes J. Greg Doheny, Randy Mottus, and Thomas A. Grigliatti PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3864. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003864.PMCID: PMC2587703 Robust Spatial Sensing of Mating Pheromone Gradients by Yeast Cells Travis I. Moore, Ching-Shan Chou, Qing Nie, Noo Li Jeon, and Tau-Mu Yi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3865. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003865.PMCID: PMC2586657 Large Differences in Aging Phenotype between Strains of the Short-Lived Annual Fish Nothobranchius furzeri Eva Terzibasi, Dario Riccardo Valenzano, Mauro Benedetti, Paola Roncaglia, Antonino Cattaneo, Luciano Domenici, and Alessandro Cellerino PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3866. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003866.PMCID: PMC2585814 Acute-Phase-HDL Remodeling by Heparan Sulfate Generates a Novel Lipoprotein with Exceptional Cholesterol Efflux Activity from Macrophages Shui-Pang Tam, Robert Kisilevsky, and John B. Ancsin PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3867. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003867.PMCID: PMC2588651 Why Do Dolphins Carry Sponges? Janet Mann, Brooke L. Sargeant, Jana J. Watson-Capps, Quincy A. Gibson, Michael R. Heithaus, Richard C. Connor, and Eric Patterson PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3868. Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003868.PMCID: PMC2587914 Enhanced and Enduring Protection against Tuberculosis by Recombinant BCG-Ag85C and Its Association with Modulation of Cytokine Profile in Lung Ruchi Jain, Bappaditya Dey, Neeraj Dhar, Vivek Rao, Ramandeep Singh, Umesh D. Gupta, V. M. Katoch, V. D. Ramanathan, and Anil K. Tyagi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3869. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003869.PMCID: PMC2586085 Urinary α1-Antichymotrypsin: A Biomarker of Prion Infection Gino Miele, Harald Seeger, Denis Marino, Ralf Eberhard, Mathias Heikenwalder, Katharina Stoeck, Max Basagni, Richard Knight, Alison Green, Francesca Chianini, Rudolf P. Wüthrich, Christoph Hock, Inga Zerr, and Adriano Aguzzi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3870. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003870.PMCID: PMC2586086 Role of Myosin Va in the Plasticity of the Vertebrate Neuromuscular Junction In Vivo Ira Verena Röder, Yvonne Petersen, Kyeong Rok Choi, Veit Witzemann, John A. Hammer, III, and Rüdiger Rudolf PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3871. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003871.PMCID: PMC2587709 The POM Monoclonals: A Comprehensive Set of Antibodies to Non-Overlapping Prion Protein Epitopes Magdalini Polymenidou, Rita Moos, Mike Scott, Christina Sigurdson, Yong-zhong Shi, Bill Yajima, Iva Hafner-Bratkovič, Roman Jerala, Simone Hornemann, Kurt Wuthrich, Anne Bellon, Martin Vey, Graciela Garen, Michael N. G. James, Nat Kav, and Adriano Aguzzi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3872. Published online 2008 December 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003872.PMCID: PMC2592702 The N-Terminal Domain of ERK1 Accounts for the Functional Differences with ERK2 Matilde Marchi, Angela D'Antoni, Ivan Formentini, Riccardo Parra, Riccardo Brambilla, Gian Michele Ratto, and Mario Costa PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3873. Published online 2008 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003873.PMCID: PMC2585810 GeneDistiller—Distilling Candidate Genes from Linkage Intervals Dominik Seelow, Jana Marie Schwarz, and Markus Schuelke PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3874. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003874.PMCID: PMC2587712 The Role of Medical Language in Changing Public Perceptions of Illness Meredith E. Young, Geoffrey R. Norman, and Karin R. Humphreys PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3875. Published online 2008 December 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003875.PMCID: PMC2587237 Survival of Infants Born to HIV-Positive Mothers, by Feeding Modality, in Rakai, Uganda Joseph Kagaayi, Ronald H. Gray, Heena Brahmbhatt, Godfrey Kigozi, Fred Nalugoda, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, David Serwadda, Nelson Sewankambo, Veronica Ddungu, Darix Ssebagala, Joseph Sekasanvu, Grace Kigozi, Fredrick Makumbi, Noah Kiwanuka, Tom Lutalo, Steven J. Reynolds, and Maria J. Wawer PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3877. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003877.PMCID: PMC2588542 Survival in Nuclear Waste, Extreme Resistance, and Potential Applications Gleaned from the Genome Sequence of Kineococcus radiotolerans SRS30216 Christopher E. Bagwell, Swapna Bhat, Gary M. Hawkins, Bryan W. Smith, Tapan Biswas, Timothy R. Hoover, Elizabeth Saunders, Cliff S. Han, Oleg V. Tsodikov, and Lawrence J. Shimkets PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3878. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003878.PMCID: PMC2587704 Allergen Uptake, Activation, and IL-23 Production by Pulmonary Myeloid DCs Drives Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Asthma-Susceptible Mice Ian P. Lewkowich, Stephane Lajoie, Jennifer R. Clark, Nancy S. Herman, Alyssa A. Sproles, and Marsha Wills-Karp PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3879. Published online 2008 December 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003879.PMCID: PMC2586658 Inter-Species Complementation of the Translocon Beta Subunit Requires Only Its Transmembrane Domain Alexandre Leroux and Luis A. Rokeach PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3880. Published online 2008 December 5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003880.PMCID: PMC2586087 Ecosystem Overfishing in the Ocean Marta Coll, Simone Libralato, Sergi Tudela, Isabel Palomera, and Fabio Pranovi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3881. Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003881.PMCID: PMC2587707 Cytogenetic Characterization and AFLP-Based Genetic Linkage Mapping for the Butterfly Bicyclus anynana, Covering All 28 Karyotyped Chromosomes Arjen E. Van't Hof, František Marec, Ilik J. Saccheri, Paul M. Brakefield, and Bas J. Zwaan PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3882. Published online 2008 December 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003882.PMCID: PMC2588656 Cost-Effectiveness of New Cardiac and Vascular Rehabilitation Strategies for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Sandra Spronk, Johanna L. Bosch, Constance Ryjewski, Judith Rosenblum, Guido C. Kaandorp, John V. White, and M. G. Myriam Hunink PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3883. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003883.PMCID: PMC2587698 BK Channels Regulate Spontaneous Action Potential Rhythmicity in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Jack Kent and Andrea L. Meredith PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3884. Published online 2008 December 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003884.PMCID: PMC2586654 Association of a Bacteriophage with Meningococcal Disease in Young Adults Emmanuelle Bille, Roisin Ure, Stephen J. Gray, Edward B. Kaczmarski, Noel D. McCarthy, Xavier Nassif, Martin C. J. Maiden, and Colin R. Tinsley PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3885. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003885.PMCID: PMC2587699 Extinction Risk Escalates in the Tropics Jana C. Vamosi and Steven M. Vamosi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3886. Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003886.PMCID: PMC2586650 Heritability of P. falciparum and P. vivax Malaria in a Karen Population in Thailand Waraphon Phimpraphi, Richard Paul, Bhee Witoonpanich, Chairat Turbpaiboon, Chayanon Peerapittayamongkol, Chalisa Louicharoen, Isabelle Casademont, Sumalee Tungpradabkul, Srivicha Krudsood, Jaranit Kaewkunwal, Thanyachai Sura, Sornchai Looareesuwan, Pratap Singhasivanon, and Anavaj Sakuntabhai PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3887. Published online 2008 December 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003887.PMCID: PMC2588340 Production and Initial Characterization of Dad1p, a Component of the Dam1-DASH Kinetochore Complex Jennifer Waldo and Michael Scherrer PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3888. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003888.PMCID: PMC2587702 Bullying of Medical Students in Pakistan: A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Survey Syed Ahmer, Abdul Wahab Yousafzai, Naila Bhutto, Sumira Alam, Amanullah Khan Sarangzai, and Arshad Iqbal PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3889. Published online 2008 December 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003889.PMCID: PMC2586648 Prefrontal Cortex Glutamate Correlates with Mental Perspective-Taking Christiane Montag, Florian Schubert, Andreas Heinz, and Jürgen Gallinat PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3890. Published online 2008 December 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003890.PMCID: PMC2586651 A Metasystem of Framework Model Organisms to Study Emergence of New Host-Microbe Adaptations Suresh Gopalan and Frederick M. Ausubel PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3891. Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003891.PMCID: PMC2588659 Decoding Face Information in Time, Frequency and Space from Direct Intracranial Recordings of the Human Brain Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Hiroto Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Oya, Matthew A. Howard, III, and Ralph Adolphs PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3892. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003892.PMCID: PMC2588533 Inhibition of Drosophila Wg Signaling Involves Competition between Mad and Armadillo/β-Catenin for dTcf Binding Yi Arial Zeng, Maryam Rahnama, Simon Wang, Wendy Lee, and Esther M. Verheyen PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3893. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003893.PMCID: PMC2587708 Oncologic Trogocytosis of an Original Stromal Cells Induces Chemoresistance of Ovarian Tumours Arash Rafii, Pejman Mirshahi, Mary Poupot, Anne-Marie Faussat, Anne Simon, Elodie Ducros, Eliane Mery, Bettina Couderc, Raphael Lis, Jerome Capdet, Julie Bergalet, Denis Querleu, Francoise Dagonnet, Jean-Jacques Fournié, Jean-Pierre Marie, Eric Pujade-Lauraine, Gilles Favre, Jeanine Soria, and Massoud Mirshahi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3894. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003894.PMCID: PMC2597737 Ecto-Phosphorylation of CD98 Regulates Cell-Cell Interactions Hang Thi Thu Nguyen, Guillaume Dalmasso, Yutao Yan, Tracy S. Obertone, Shanthi V. Sitaraman, and Didier Merlin PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3895. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003895.PMCID: PMC2587710 Enhanced Proliferation of Monolayer Cultures of Embryonic Stem (ES) Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes Following Acute Loss of Retinoblastoma Satoshi Yamanaka, Ihor Zahanich, Robert P. Wersto, and Kenneth R. Boheler PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3896. Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003896.PMCID: PMC2588539 Identification of Biofilm-Associated Cluster (bac) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Involved in Biofilm Formation and Virulence Camille Macé, Damien Seyer, Chanez Chemani, Pascal Cosette, Patrick Di-Martino, Benoit Guery, Alain Filloux, Marc Fontaine, Virginie Molle, Guy-Alain Junter, and Thierry Jouenne PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3897. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003897.PMCID: PMC2587700 Cyclophosphamide-Induced Cystitis Increases Bladder CXCR4 Expression and CXCR4-Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor Association Pedro L. Vera, Kenneth A. Iczkowski, Xihai Wang, and Katherine L. Meyer-Siegler PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3898. Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003898.PMCID: PMC2588654 Computational Analysis and Experimental Validation of Gene Predictions in Toxoplasma gondii Joseph M. Dybas, Carlos J. Madrid-Aliste, Fa-Yun Che, Edward Nieves, Dmitry Rykunov, Ruth Hogue Angeletti, Louis M. Weiss, Kami Kim, and Andras Fiser PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3899. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003899.PMCID: PMC2587701 Patterns of Reproductive Isolation in Toads John H. Malone and Brian E. Fontenot PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3900. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003900.PMCID: PMC2588652 Is IP-10 a Better Biomarker for Active and Latent Tuberculosis in Children than IFNγ? Elizabeth Whittaker, Andrea Gordon, and Beate Kampmann PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3901. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003901.PMCID: PMC2588495 Elephant (Loxodonta africana) Home Ranges in Sabi Sand Reserve and Kruger National Park: A Five-Year Satellite Tracking Study Bindi Thomas, John D. Holland, and Edward O. Minot PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3902. Published online 2008 December 9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003902.PMCID: PMC2587706 UPF201 Archaeal Specific Family Members Reveal Structural Similarity to RNA-Binding Proteins but Low Likelihood for RNA-Binding Function Krishnamurthy N. Rao, Stephen K. Burley, and Subramanyam Swaminathan PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3903. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003903.PMCID: PMC2596488 The Host-Dependent Interaction of α-Importins with Influenza PB2 Polymerase Subunit Is Required for Virus RNA Replication Patricia Resa-Infante, Núria Jorba, Noelia Zamarreño, Yolanda Fernández, Silvia Juárez, and Juan Ortín PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3904. Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003904.PMCID: PMC2588535 STOX1 Overexpression in Choriocarcinoma Cells Mimics Transcriptional Alterations Observed in Preeclamptic Placentas Virginie Rigourd, Caroline Chauvet, Sonia T. Chelbi, Régis Rebourcet, Françoise Mondon, Franck Letourneur, Thérèse-Marie Mignot, Sandrine Barbaux, and Daniel Vaiman PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3905. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003905.PMCID: PMC2592700 Quantitative Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms within Copy Number Variation Soohyun Lee, Simon Kasif, Zhiping Weng, and Charles R. Cantor PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3906. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003906.PMCID: PMC2600609 Distinct Genetic Loci Control Plasma HIV-RNA and Cellular HIV-DNA Levels in HIV-1 Infection: The ANRS Genome Wide Association 01 Study Cyril Dalmasso, Wassila Carpentier, Laurence Meyer, Christine Rouzioux, Cécile Goujard, Marie-Laure Chaix, Olivier Lambotte, Véronique Avettand-Fenoel, Sigrid Le Clerc, Laure Denis de Senneville, Christiane Deveau, Faroudy Boufassa, Patrice Debré, Jean-François Delfraissy, Philippe Broet, and Ioannis Theodorou PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3907. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003907.PMCID: PMC2603319 Early Detection of Erlotinib Treatment Response in NSCLC by 3′-Deoxy-3′-[18F]-Fluoro-L-Thymidine ([18F]FLT) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Roland T. Ullrich, Thomas Zander, Bernd Neumaier, Mirjam Koker, Takeshi Shimamura, Yannic Waerzeggers, Christa L. Borgman, Samir Tawadros, Hongfeng Li, Martin L. Sos, Heiko Backes, Geoffrey I. Shapiro, Jürgen Wolf, Andreas H. Jacobs, Roman K. Thomas, and Alexandra Winkeler PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3908. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003908.PMCID: PMC2592703 Acute Myeloid Leukemia-Targeted Toxin Activates Both Apoptotic and Necroptotic Death Mechanisms Henrick Horita, Arthur E. Frankel, and Andrew Thorburn PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3909. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003909.PMCID: PMC2592546 Premature Aging in Skeletal Muscle Lacking Serum Response Factor Charlotte Lahoute, Athanassia Sotiropoulos, Marilyne Favier, Isabelle Guillet-Deniau, Claude Charvet, Arnaud Ferry, Gillian Butler-Browne, Daniel Metzger, David Tuil, and Dominique Daegelen PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3910. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003910.PMCID: PMC2593784 Human Gene Coexpression Landscape: Confident Network Derived from Tissue Transcriptomic Profiles Carlos Prieto, Alberto Risueño, Celia Fontanillo, and Javier De Las Rivas PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3911. Published online 2008 December 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003911.PMCID: PMC2597745 Anticipatory Cortical Activation Precedes Auditory Events in Sleeping Infants Tamami Nakano, Fumitaka Homae, Hama Watanabe, and Gentaro Taga PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3912. Published online 2008 December 10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003912.PMCID: PMC2588543 Effects of Intracellular Calcium and Actin Cytoskeleton on TCR Mobility Measured by Fluorescence Recovery Omer Dushek, Sabina Mueller, Sebastien Soubies, David Depoil, Iris Caramalho, Daniel Coombs, and Salvatore Valitutti PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3913. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003913.PMCID: PMC2593776 3640 Unique EST Clusters from the Medaka Testis and Their Potential Use for Identifying Conserved Testicular Gene Expression in Fish and Mammals Lijan Lo, Zhenhai Zhang, Ni Hong, Jinrong Peng, and Yunhan Hong PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3915. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003915.PMCID: PMC2603314 A Snapshot of CNVs in the Pig Genome João Fadista, Marianne Nygaard, Lars-Erik Holm, Bo Thomsen, and Christian Bendixen PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3916. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003916.PMCID: PMC2596487 Olig2-Induced Neural Stem Cell Differentiation Involves Downregulation of Wnt Signaling and Induction of Dickkopf-1 Expression Sung-Min Ahn, Kyunghee Byun, Deokhoon Kim, Kiyoung Lee, Jong Shin Yoo, Seung U. Kim, Eek-hoon Jho, Richard J. Simpson, and Bonghee Lee PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3917. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003917.PMCID: PMC2602983 Three Generic Nevirapine-Based Antiretroviral Treatments in Chinese HIV/AIDS Patients: Multicentric Observation Cohort Taisheng Li, Yi Dai, Jiqiu Kuang, Jingmei Jiang, Yang Han, Zhifeng Qiu, Jing Xie, Lingyan Zuo, and Yanling Li PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3918. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003918.PMCID: PMC2597744 Reference Intervals in Healthy Adult Ugandan Blood Donors and Their Impact on Conducting International Vaccine Trials Leigh Anne Eller, Michael A. Eller, Benson Ouma, Peter Kataaha, Denis Kyabaggu, Richard Tumusiime, Joseph Wandege, Ronald Sanya, Warren B. Sateren, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Hannah Kibuuka, Merlin L. Robb, Nelson L. Michael, and Mark S. de Souza PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3919. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003919.PMCID: PMC2593783 A Novel Gene, fudoh, in the SCCmec Region Suppresses the Colony Spreading Ability and Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus Chikara Kaito, Yosuke Omae, Yasuhiko Matsumoto, Makiko Nagata, Hiroki Yamaguchi, Taiji Aoto, Teruyo Ito, Keiichi Hiramatsu, and Kazuhisa Sekimizu PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3921. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003921.PMCID: PMC2593785 Synergistic Actions of Hematopoietic and Mesenchymal Stem/Progenitor Cells in Vascularizing Bioengineered Tissues Eduardo K. Moioli, Paul A. Clark, Mo Chen, James E. Dennis, Helaman P. Erickson, Stanton L. Gerson, and Jeremy J. Mao PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3922. Published online 2008 December 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003922.PMCID: PMC2597748 Media Ion Composition Controls Regulatory and Virulence Response of Salmonella in Spaceflight James W. Wilson, C. Mark Ott, Laura Quick, Richard Davis, Kerstin Höner zu Bentrup, Aurélie Crabbé, Emily Richter, Shameema Sarker, Jennifer Barrila, Steffen Porwollik, Pui Cheng, Michael McClelland, George Tsaprailis, Timothy Radabaugh, Andrea Hunt, Miti Shah, Mayra Nelman-Gonzalez, Steve Hing, Macarena Parra, Paula Dumars, Kelly Norwood, Ramona Bober, Jennifer Devich, Ashleigh Ruggles, Autumn CdeBaca, Satro Narayan, Joseph Benjamin, Carla Goulart, Mark Rupert, Luke Catella, Michael J. Schurr, Kent Buchanan, Lisa Morici, James McCracken, Marc D. Porter, Duane L. Pierson, Scott M. Smith, Max Mergeay, Natalie Leys, Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Dominic Gorie, and Cheryl A. Nickerson PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3923. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003923.PMCID: PMC2592540 Multiple Doses of Erythropoietin Impair Liver Regeneration by Increasing TNF-α, the Bax to Bcl-xL Ratio and Apoptotic Cell Death Katja Klemm, Christian Eipel, Daniel Cantré, Kerstin Abshagen, Michael D. Menger, and Brigitte Vollmar PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3924. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003924.PMCID: PMC2592699 Fluctuation Induces Evolutionary Branching in a Mathematical Model of Ecosystems Masashi Tachikawa PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3925. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003925.PMCID: PMC2593779 Duplication of the IGFBP-2 Gene in Teleost Fish: Protein Structure and Functionality Conservation and Gene Expression Divergence Jianfeng Zhou, Wenhong Li, Hiroyasu Kamei, and Cunming Duan PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3926. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003926.PMCID: PMC2593780 Haploinsufficiency of Activation-Induced Deaminase for Antibody Diversification and Chromosome Translocations both In Vitro and In Vivo Isora V. Sernández, Virginia G. de Yébenes, Yair Dorsett, and Almudena R. Ramiro PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3927. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003927.PMCID: PMC2592691 Connectivity of the Primate Superior Colliculus Mapped by Concurrent Microstimulation and Event-Related fMRI Courtney B. Field, Kevin Johnston, Joseph S. Gati, Ravi S. Menon, and Stefan Everling PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3928. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003928.PMCID: PMC2592545 The Enhancement of the N1 Wave Elicited by Sensory Stimuli Presented at Very Short Inter-Stimulus Intervals Is a General Feature across Sensory Systems An Li Wang, André Mouraux, Meng Liang, and Gian Domenico Iannetti PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3929. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003929.PMCID: PMC2597742 Settling Decisions and Heterospecific Social Information Use in Shrikes Martin Hromada, Marcin Antczak, Thomas J. Valone, and Piotr Tryjanowski PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3930. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003930.PMCID: PMC2592541 Glaucoma Alters the Circadian Timing System Elise Drouyer, Ouria Dkhissi-Benyahya, Christophe Chiquet, Elizabeth WoldeMussie, Guadalupe Ruiz, Larry A. Wheeler, Philippe Denis, and Howard M. Cooper PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3931. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003931.PMCID: PMC2592693 Stat3 and c-Myc Genome-Wide Promoter Occupancy in Embryonic Stem Cells Benjamin L. Kidder, Jim Yang, and Stephen Palmer PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3932. Published online 2008 December 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003932.PMCID: PMC2592696 Safety and Immunogenicity of H5N1 Influenza Vaccine Based on Baculovirus Surface Display System of Bombyx mori Rongzhong Jin, Zhengbing Lv, Qin Chen, Yanping Quan, Haihua Zhang, Si Li, Guogang Chen, Qingliang Zheng, Lairong Jin, Xiangfu Wu, Jianguo Chen, and Yaozhou Zhang PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3933. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003933.PMCID: PMC2592543 An Examination of Morphometric Variations in a Neotropical Toad Population (Proceratophrys cristiceps, Amphibia, Anura, Cycloramphidae) Kleber S. Vieira, Cristina Arzabe, Malva I. M. Hernández, and Washington L. S. Vieira PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3934. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003934.PMCID: PMC2600616 A Central Role of Abscisic Acid in Stress-Regulated Carbohydrate Metabolism Stefan Kempa, Julia Krasensky, Silvia Dal Santo, Joachim Kopka, and Claudia Jonak PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3935. Published online 2008 December 12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003935.PMCID: PMC2593778 Phosphorylation by Cdk1 Increases the Binding of Eg5 to Microtubules In Vitro and in Xenopus Egg Extract Spindles Julie Cahu, Aurelien Olichon, Christian Hentrich, Henry Schek, Jovana Drinjakovic, Cunjie Zhang, Amanda Doherty-Kirby, Gilles Lajoie, and Thomas Surrey PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3936. Published online 2008 December 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003936.PMCID: PMC2592692 Inducing Cross-Clade Neutralizing Antibodies against HIV-1 by Immunofocusing Michael Humbert, Robert A. Rasmussen, Helena Ong, Fabian M. P. Kaiser, Shiu-Lok Hu, and Ruth M. Ruprecht PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3937. Published online 2008 December 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003937.PMCID: PMC2597739 Non-Natural and Photo-Reactive Amino Acids as Biochemical Probes of Immune Function Marta Gómez-Nuñez, Kurtis J. Haro, Tao Dao, Deming Chau, Annie Won, Sindy Escobar-Alvarez, Victoriya Zakhaleva, Tatyana Korontsvit, David Y. Gin, and David A. Scheinberg PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3938. Published online 2008 December 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003938.PMCID: PMC2592539 Size Variation in Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia Andrew Gallagher PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3939. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003939.PMCID: PMC2596964 The Pace of Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia Development Is Determined by the Timing of Pten Tumor Suppressor Gene Excision H. Artee Luchman, Hallgrimur Benediktsson, Michelle L. Villemaire, Alan C. Peterson, and Frank R. Jirik PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3940. Published online 2008 December 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003940.PMCID: PMC2597775 Ixodes ricinus Tick Lipocalins: Identification, Cloning, Phylogenetic Analysis and Biochemical Characterization Jérôme Beaufays, Benoît Adam, Yves Decrem, Pierre-Paul Prévôt, Sébastien Santini, Robert Brasseur, Michel Brossard, Laurence Lins, Luc Vanhamme, and Edmond Godfroid PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3941. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003941.PMCID: PMC2601031 Heterosubtypic Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibodies Cross-Protective against H5N1 and H1N1 Recovered from Human IgM+ Memory B Cells Mark Throsby, Edward van den Brink, Mandy Jongeneelen, Leo L. M. Poon, Philippe Alard, Lisette Cornelissen, Arjen Bakker, Freek Cox, Els van Deventer, Yi Guan, Jindrich Cinatl, Jan ter Meulen, Ignace Lasters, Rita Carsetti, Malik Peiris, John de Kruif, and Jaap Goudsmit PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3942. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003942.PMCID: PMC2596486 Identification of G1-Regulated Genes in Normally Cycling Human Cells Maroun J. Beyrouthy, Karen E. Alexander, Amy Baldwin, Michael L. Whitfield, Hank W. Bass, Dan McGee, and Myra M. Hurt PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3943. Published online 2008 December 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003943.PMCID: PMC2600614 mKikGR, a Monomeric Photoswitchable Fluorescent Protein Satoshi Habuchi, Hidekazu Tsutsui, Anna B. Kochaniak, Atsushi Miyawaki, and Antoine M. van Oijen PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3944. Published online 2008 December 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003944.PMCID: PMC2592542 Nicotine Acts on Growth Plate Chondrocytes to Delay Skeletal Growth through the α7 Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Atsuo Kawakita, Kazuki Sato, Hatsune Makino, Hiroyasu Ikegami, Shinichiro Takayama, Yoshiaki Toyama, and Akihiro Umezawa PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3945. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003945.PMCID: PMC2596484 Ultraconserved Elements in the Olig2 Promoter Christina T. L. Chen, David I. Gottlieb, and Barak A. Cohen PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3946. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003946.PMCID: PMC2596485 Cholinergic Neuromodulation Changes Phase Response Curve Shape and Type in Cortical Pyramidal Neurons Klaus M. Stiefel, Boris S. Gutkin, and Terrence J. Sejnowski PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3947. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003947.PMCID: PMC2596483 Field Application of a Subunit Vaccine against an Enteric Protozoan Disease Michael G. Wallach, Udi Ashash, Amnon Michael, and Nicholas C. Smith PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3948. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003948.PMCID: PMC2596963 BRAF Activation Initiates but Does Not Maintain Invasive Prostate Adenocarcinoma Joseph H. Jeong, Zhenxiong Wang, Alexander S. Guimaraes, Xuesong Ouyang, Jose L. Figueiredo, Zhihu Ding, Shan Jiang, Isil Guney, Gyeong Hoon Kang, Eyoung Shin, William C. Hahn, Massimo F. Loda, Cory Abate-Shen, Ralph Weissleder, and Lynda Chin PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3949. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003949.PMCID: PMC2597248 Modulation of Macrophage Activation State Protects Tissue from Necrosis during Critical Limb Ischemia in Thrombospondin-1-Deficient Mice Nicolas Bréchot, Elisa Gomez, Marine Bignon, Jamila Khallou-Laschet, Michael Dussiot, Aurélie Cazes, Cécile Alanio-Bréchot, Mélanie Durand, Josette Philippe, Jean-Sébastien Silvestre, Nico Van Rooijen, Pierre Corvol, Antonino Nicoletti, Bénédicte Chazaud, and Stéphane Germain PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3950. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003950.PMCID: PMC2597179 Pyrvinium Targets the Unfolded Protein Response to Hypoglycemia and Its Anti-Tumor Activity Is Enhanced by Combination Therapy De-Hua Yu, James Macdonald, Guohong Liu, Amy S. Lee, Mimi Ly, Timothy Davis, Ning Ke, Demin Zhou, Flossie Wong-Staal, and Qi-Xiang Li PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3951. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003951.PMCID: PMC2597738 Mucin Dynamics in Intestinal Bacterial Infection Sara K. Lindén, Timothy H. J. Florin, and Michael A. McGuckin PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3952. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003952.PMCID: PMC2601037 The Impact of Changing Medicaid Enrollments on New Mexico's Immunization Program Michael A. Schillaci, Howard Waitzkin, Tom Sharmen, and Sandra J. Romain PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3953. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003953.PMCID: PMC2602595 New Insight in Loss of Gut Barrier during Major Non-Abdominal Surgery Joep P. M. Derikx, Dick A. van Waardenburg, Geertje Thuijls, Henriëtte M. Willigers, Marianne Koenraads, Annemarie A. van Bijnen, Erik Heineman, Martijn Poeze, Ton Ambergen, André van Ooij, Lodewijk W. van Rhijn, and Wim A. Buurman PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3954. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003954.PMCID: PMC2599890 Coupled Contagion Dynamics of Fear and Disease: Mathematical and Computational Explorations Joshua M. Epstein, Jon Parker, Derek Cummings, and Ross A. Hammond PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3955. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003955.PMCID: PMC2596968 Gaze Strategy in the Free Flying Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) Dennis Eckmeier, Bart R. H. Geurten, Daniel Kress, Marcel Mertes, Roland Kern, Martin Egelhaaf, and Hans-Joachim Bischof PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3956. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003956.PMCID: PMC2600564 BRED: A Simple and Powerful Tool for Constructing Mutant and Recombinant Bacteriophage Genomes Laura J. Marinelli, Mariana Piuri, Zuzana Swigoňová, Amrita Balachandran, Lauren M. Oldfield, Julia C. van Kessel, and Graham F. Hatfull PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3957. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003957.PMCID: PMC2597740 Reduced Basal ATP Synthetic Flux of Skeletal Muscle in Patients with Previous Acromegaly Julia Szendroedi, Elisabeth Zwettler, Albrecht Ingo Schmid, Marek Chmelik, Giovanni Pacini, Gertrud Kacerovsky, Gerhard Smekal, Peter Nowotny, Oswald Wagner, Christoph Schnack, Guntram Schernthaner, Klaus Klaushofer, and Michael Roden PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3958. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003958.PMCID: PMC2599885 Essential Role of TGF-β/Smad Pathway on Statin Dependent Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Regulation Juan Rodríguez-Vita, Eva Sánchez-Galán, Beatriz Santamaría, Elsa Sánchez-López, Raquel Rodrigues-Díez, Luís Miguel Blanco-Colio, Jesús Egido, Alberto Ortiz, and Marta Ruiz-Ortega PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3959. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003959.PMCID: PMC2597201 Safety and Immunogenicity of a Recombinant Plasmodium falciparum AMA1 Malaria Vaccine Adjuvanted with Alhydrogel™, Montanide ISA 720 or AS02 Meta Roestenberg, Ed Remarque, Erik de Jonge, Rob Hermsen, Hildur Blythman, Odile Leroy, Egeruan Imoukhuede, Soren Jepsen, Opokua Ofori-Anyinam, Bart Faber, Clemens H. M. Kocken, Miranda Arnold, Vanessa Walraven, Karina Teelen, Will Roeffen, Quirijn de Mast, W. Ripley Ballou, Joe Cohen, Marie Claude Dubois, Stéphane Ascarateil, Andre van der Ven, Alan Thomas, and Robert Sauerwein PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3960. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003960.PMCID: PMC2602972 Analysis of STAT1 Activation by Six FGFR3 Mutants Associated with Skeletal Dysplasia Undermines Dominant Role of STAT1 in FGFR3 Signaling in Cartilage Pavel Krejci, Lisa Salazar, Tamara A. Kashiwada, Katarina Chlebova, Alena Salasova, Leslie Michels Thompson, Vitezslav Bryja, Alois Kozubik, and William R. Wilcox PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3961. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003961.PMCID: PMC2597732 Polymorphisms within the Novel Type 2 Diabetes Risk Locus MTNR1B Determine β-Cell Function Harald Staiger, Fausto Machicao, Silke A. Schäfer, Kerstin Kirchhoff, Konstantinos Kantartzis, Martina Guthoff, Günther Silbernagel, Norbert Stefan, Hans-Ulrich Häring, and Andreas Fritsche PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3962. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003962.PMCID: PMC2597741 Distinct Determinants in HIV-1 Vif and Human APOBEC3 Proteins Are Required for the Suppression of Diverse Host Anti-Viral Proteins Wenyan Zhang, Gongying Chen, Anna Maria Niewiadomska, Rongzhen Xu, and Xiao-Fang Yu PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3963. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003963.PMCID: PMC2597746 The Cerebral Microvasculature in Schizophrenia: A Laser Capture Microdissection Study Laura W. Harris, Matthew Wayland, Martin Lan, Margaret Ryan, Thomas Giger, Helen Lockstone, Irene Wuethrich, Michael Mimmack, Lan Wang, Mark Kotter, Rachel Craddock, and Sabine Bahn PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3964. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003964.PMCID: PMC2597747 RIG-I and dsRNA-Induced IFNβ Activation Stéphane Hausmann, Jean-Baptiste Marq, Caroline Tapparel, Daniel Kolakofsky, and Dominique Garcin PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3965. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003965.PMCID: PMC2607022 The Toll→NFκB Signaling Pathway Mediates the Neuropathological Effects of the Human Alzheimer's Aβ42 Polypeptide in Drosophila Lihua Tan, Paul Schedl, Ho-Juhn Song, Dan Garza, and Mary Konsolaki PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3966. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003966.PMCID: PMC2597734 Express Attentional Re-Engagement but Delayed Entry into Consciousness Following Invalid Spatial Cues in Visual Search Benoit Brisson and Pierre Jolicœur PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3967. Published online 2008 December 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003967.PMCID: PMC2597733 Cytoplasmic CUG RNA Foci Are Insufficient to Elicit Key DM1 Features Warunee Dansithong, Cordula M. Wolf, Partha Sarkar, Sharan Paul, Andy Chiang, Ian Holt, Glenn E. Morris, Dorothy Branco, Megan C. Sherwood, Lucio Comai, Charles I. Berul, and Sita Reddy PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3968. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003968.PMCID: PMC2597774 CB1 Expression Is Attenuated in Fallopian Tube and Decidua of Women with Ectopic Pregnancy Andrew W. Horne, John A. Phillips, III, Nicole Kane, Paula C. Lourenco, Sarah E. McDonald, Alistair R. W. Williams, Carlos Simon, Sudhansu K. Dey, and Hilary O. D. Critchley PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3969. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003969.PMCID: PMC2601032 Release of sICAM-1 in Oocytes and In Vitro Fertilized Human Embryos Monica Borgatti, Roberta Rizzo, Maria Beatrice Dal Canto, Daniela Fumagalli, Mario Mignini Renzini, Rubens Fadini, Marina Stignani, Olavio Roberto Baricordi, and Roberto Gambari PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3970. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003970.PMCID: PMC2599884 UP States Protect Ongoing Cortical Activity from Thalamic Inputs Brendon O. Watson, Jason N. MacLean, and Rafael Yuste PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3971. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003971.PMCID: PMC2597736 Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion William E. Banks, Francesco d'Errico, A. Townsend Peterson, Masa Kageyama, Adriana Sima, and Maria-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3972. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003972.PMCID: PMC2600607 Protective Antiviral Immunity Conferred by a Nonintegrative Lentiviral Vector-Based Vaccine Frédéric Coutant, Marie-Pascale Frenkiel, Philippe Despres, and Pierre Charneau PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3973. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003973.PMCID: PMC2600612 Bitter Taste Receptors Influence Glucose Homeostasis Cedrick D. Dotson, Lan Zhang, Hong Xu, Yu-Kyong Shin, Stephan Vigues, Sandra H. Ott, Amanda E. T. Elson, Hyun Jin Choi, Hillary Shaw, Josephine M. Egan, Braxton D. Mitchell, Xiaodong Li, Nanette I. Steinle, and Steven D. Munger PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3974. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003974.PMCID: PMC2597743 Polymorphisms in the Regulatory Region of the Cyclophilin A Gene Influence the Susceptibility for HIV-1 Infection Maarten A. N. Rits, Karel A. van Dort, and Neeltje A. Kootstra PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3975. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003975.PMCID: PMC2599883 A Nitrile Hydratase in the Eukaryote Monosiga brevicollis Konrad U. Foerstner, Tobias Doerks, Jean Muller, Jeroen Raes, and Peer Bork PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3976. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003976.PMCID: PMC2603476 Perinatal Caffeine, Acting on Maternal Adenosine A1 Receptors, Causes Long-Lasting Behavioral Changes in Mouse Offspring Olga Björklund, Johan Kahlström, Peter Salmi, and Bertil B. Fredholm PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3977. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003977.PMCID: PMC2597749 Task-Specific Codes for Face Recognition: How they Shape the Neural Representation of Features for Detection and Individuation Adrian Nestor, Jean M. Vettel, and Michael J. Tarr PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3978. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003978.PMCID: PMC2607027 Ecological Thresholds in the Savanna Landscape: Developing a Protocol for Monitoring the Change in Composition and Utilisation of Large Trees Dave J. Druce, Graeme Shannon, Bruce R. Page, Rina Grant, and Rob Slotow PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3979. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003979.PMCID: PMC2597735 Male Weaponry in a Fighting Cricket Kevin A. Judge and Vanessa L. Bonanno PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3980. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003980.PMCID: PMC2601036 Steady State Bioequivalence of Generic and Innovator Formulations of Stavudine, Lamivudine, and Nevirapine in HIV-Infected Ugandan Adults Jayne Byakika-Tusiime, Leslie W. Chinn, Jessica H. Oyugi, Celestino Obua, David R. Bangsberg, and Deanna L. Kroetz PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3981. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003981.PMCID: PMC2602850 Rapid Perceptual Switching of a Reversible Biological Figure Stuart Jackson, Fred Cummins, and Nuala Brady PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3982. Published online 2008 December 18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003982.PMCID: PMC2601034 Statistical Significance of Precisely Repeated Intracellular Synaptic Patterns Yuji Ikegaya, Wataru Matsumoto, Huei-Yu Chiou, Rafael Yuste, and Gloster Aaron PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3983. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003983.PMCID: PMC2599887 Never Resting Brain: Simultaneous Representation of Two Alpha Related Processes in Humans Eti Ben-Simon, Ilana Podlipsky, Amos Arieli, Andrey Zhdanov, and Talma Hendler PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3984. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003984.PMCID: PMC2602982 Interpersonal Trust and Quality-of-Life: A Cross-Sectional Study in Japan Yasuharu Tokuda, Masamine Jimba, Haruo Yanai, Seiji Fujii, and Takashi Inoguchi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3985. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003985.PMCID: PMC2600613 CD8+ T-Cell Interleukin-7 Receptor Alpha Expression as a Potential Indicator of Disease Status in HIV-Infected Children Tanvi S. Sharma, Jane Hughes, Amarylis Murillo, Joanne Riley, Andreia Soares, Francesca Little, Charles D. Mitchell, and Willem A. Hanekom PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3986. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003986.PMCID: PMC2599882 Ir-LBP, an Ixodes ricinus Tick Salivary LTB4-Binding Lipocalin, Interferes with Host Neutrophil Function Jérôme Beaufays, Benoît Adam, Catherine Menten-Dedoyart, Laurence Fievez, Amélie Grosjean, Yves Decrem, Pierre-Paul Prévôt, Sébastien Santini, Robert Brasseur, Michel Brossard, Michel Vanhaeverbeek, Fabrice Bureau, Ernst Heinen, Laurence Lins, Luc Vanhamme, and Edmond Godfroid PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3987. Published online 2008 December 19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003987.PMCID: PMC2600610 Estimating Haplotype Frequency and Coverage of Databases Thore Egeland and Antonio Salas PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3988. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003988.PMCID: PMC2602601 Role of Cajal Bodies and Nucleolus in the Maturation of the U1 snRNP in Arabidopsis Zdravko J. Lorković and Andrea Barta PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3989. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003989.PMCID: PMC2600615 Gamma Power Is Phase-Locked to Posterior Alpha Activity Daria Osipova, Dora Hermes, and Ole Jensen PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3990. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003990.PMCID: PMC2602598 Pasteurellaceae ComE1 Proteins Combine the Properties of Fibronectin Adhesins and DNA Binding Competence Proteins Lisa M. Mullen, Janine T. Bossé, Sean P. Nair, John M. Ward, Andrew N. Rycroft, Giles Robertson, Paul R. Langford, and Brian Henderson PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3991. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003991.PMCID: PMC2601033 HCV Coinfection Associated with Slower Disease Progression in HIV-Infected Former Plasma Donors Naïve to ART Xiaoyan Zhang, Jianqing Xu, Hong Peng, Yan Ma, Lifeng Han, Yuhua Ruan, Bing Su, Ning Wang, and Yiming Shao PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3992. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003992.PMCID: PMC2602976 Epidemiological Characteristics of Classical Scrapie Outbreaks in 30 Sheep Flocks in the United Kingdom K. Marie McIntyre, Simon Gubbins, Wilfred Goldmann, Nora Hunter, and Matthew Baylis PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3994. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003994.PMCID: PMC2601035 Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Experience-Driven Formation of Visual Object Categories in Human Ventral Temporal Cortex Marieke van der Linden, Jaap M. J. Murre, and Miranda van Turennout PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3995. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003995.PMCID: PMC2600611 A Method for the Simultaneous Estimation of Selection Intensities in Overlapping Genes Niv Sabath, Giddy Landan, and Dan Graur PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3996. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003996.PMCID: PMC2601044 The Growth and Tumor Suppressors NORE1A and RASSF1A Are Targets for Calpain-Mediated Proteolysis Sergey Kuznetsov and Andrei V. Khokhlatchev PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3997. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003997.PMCID: PMC2602596 Home Range Utilisation and Territorial Behaviour of Lions (Panthera leo) on Karongwe Game Reserve, South Africa Monika B. Lehmann, Paul J. Funston, Cailey R. Owen, and Rob Slotow PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3998. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003998.PMCID: PMC2602599 Cytotoxicity Mechanism of Two Naphthoquinones (Menadione and Plumbagin) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Frederico Augusto Vieira Castro, Diana Mariani, Anita Dolly Panek, Elis Cristina Araújo Eleutherio, and Marcos Dias Pereira PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e3999. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003999.PMCID: PMC2600608 Seasonal Intermittent Preventive Treatment for the Prevention of Anaemia and Malaria in Ghanaian Children: A Randomized, Placebo Controlled Trial Margaret Kweku, Dongmei Liu, Martin Adjuik, Fred Binka, Mahmood Seidu, Brian Greenwood, and Daniel Chandramohan PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4000. Published online 2008 December 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004000.PMCID: PMC2602973 TranscriptomeBrowser: A Powerful and Flexible Toolbox to Explore Productively the Transcriptional Landscape of the Gene Expression Omnibus Database Fabrice Lopez, Julien Textoris, Aurélie Bergon, Gilles Didier, Elisabeth Remy, Samuel Granjeaud, Jean Imbert, Catherine Nguyen, and Denis Puthier PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4001. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004001.PMCID: PMC2602602 Fine-Scale Phylogeographic Structure of Borrelia lusitaniae Revealed by Multilocus Sequence Typing Liliana R. Vitorino, Gabriele Margos, Edward J. Feil, Margarida Collares-Pereira, Libia Zé-Zé, and Klaus Kurtenbach PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4002. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004002.PMCID: PMC2602731 Strong Association of a Common Dihydropyrimidine Dehydrogenase Gene Polymorphism with Fluoropyrimidine-Related Toxicity in Cancer Patients Eva Gross, Birgit Busse, Matthias Riemenschneider, Steffi Neubauer, Katharina Seck, Hanns-Georg Klein, Marion Kiechle, Florian Lordick, and Alfons Meindl PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4003. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004003.PMCID: PMC2602733 Genomic Organization and Expression Demonstrate Spatial and Temporal Hox Gene Colinearity in the Lophotrochozoan Capitella sp. I Andreas C. Fröbius, David Q. Matus, and Elaine C. Seaver PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4004. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004004.PMCID: PMC2603591 A Small Community Model for the Transmission of Infectious Diseases: Comparison of School Closure as an Intervention in Individual-Based Models of an Influenza Pandemic George J. Milne, Joel K. Kelso, Heath A. Kelly, Simon T. Huband, and Jodie McVernon PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4005. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004005.PMCID: PMC2602849 Estimating the Confidence Level of White Matter Connections Obtained with MRI Tractography Xavier Gigandet, Patric Hagmann, Maciej Kurant, Leila Cammoun, Reto Meuli, and Jean-Philippe Thiran PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4006. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004006.PMCID: PMC2603475 Enforced Expression of the Transcriptional Coactivator OBF1 Impairs B Cell Differentiation at the Earliest Stage of Development Alain Bordon, Nabil Bosco, Camille Du Roure, Boris Bartholdy, Hubertus Kohler, Gabriele Matthias, Antonius G. Rolink, and Patrick Matthias PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4007. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004007.PMCID: PMC2603323 Ethanol/Naltrexone Interactions at the mu-Opioid Receptor. CLSM/FCS Study in Live Cells Vladana Vukojević, Yu Ming, Claudio D'Addario, Rudolf Rigler, Björn Johansson, and Lars Terenius PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4008. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004008.PMCID: PMC2602977 Clofazimine Inhibits Human Kv1.3 Potassium Channel by Perturbing Calcium Oscillation in T Lymphocytes Yunzhao R. Ren, Fan Pan, Suhel Parvez, Andrea Fleig, Curtis R. Chong, Jing Xu, Yongjun Dang, Jin Zhang, Hongsi Jiang, Reinhold Penner, and Jun O. Liu PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4009. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004009.PMCID: PMC2602975 A Meta-Analysis of Local Adaptation in Plants Roosa Leimu and Markus Fischer PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4010. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004010.PMCID: PMC2602971 Dendritic Spike Saturation of Endogenous Calcium Buffer and Induction of Postsynaptic Cerebellar LTP Marco Canepari and Kaspar E. Vogt PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4011. Published online 2008 December 23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004011.PMCID: PMC2603473 Comparing Platforms for C. elegans Mutant Identification Using High-Throughput Whole-Genome Sequencing Yufeng Shen, Sumeet Sarin, Ye Liu, Oliver Hobert, and Itsik Pe'er PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4012. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004012.PMCID: PMC2603312 Primordial Germ Cell Specification from Embryonic Stem Cells Wei Wei, Tingting Qing, Xin Ye, Haisong Liu, Donghui Zhang, Weifeng Yang, and Hongkui Deng PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4013. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004013.PMCID: PMC2602984 The FERM and PDZ Domain-Containing Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, PTPN4 and PTPN3, Are Both Dispensable for T Cell Receptor Signal Transduction Timothy J. Bauler, Wiljan J. A. J. Hendriks, and Philip D. King PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4014. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004014.PMCID: PMC2602985 The Effect of Oxidant and the Non-Oxidant Alteration of Cellular Thiol Concentration on the Formation of Protein Mixed-Disulfides in HEK 293 Cells Jasen Lee Gilge, Michael Fisher, and Yuh-Cherng Chai PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4015. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004015.PMCID: PMC2603474 Wind, Waves, and Wing Loading: Morphological Specialization May Limit Range Expansion of Endangered Albatrosses Robert M. Suryan, David J. Anderson, Scott A. Shaffer, Daniel D. Roby, Yann Tremblay, Daniel P. Costa, Paul R. Sievert, Fumio Sato, Kiyoaki Ozaki, Gregory R. Balogh, and Noboru Nakamura PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4016. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004016.PMCID: PMC2602987 Global Expression Profiling in Atopic Eczema Reveals Reciprocal Expression of Inflammatory and Lipid Genes Annika M. Sääf, Maria Tengvall-Linder, Howard Y. Chang, Adam S. Adler, Carl-Fredrik Wahlgren, Annika Scheynius, Magnus Nordenskjöld, and Maria Bradley PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4017. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004017.PMCID: PMC2603322 Keep Your Options Open: An Information-Based Driving Principle for Sensorimotor Systems Alexander S. Klyubin, Daniel Polani, and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4018. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004018.PMCID: PMC2607028 Lions and Prions and Deer Demise Michael W. Miller, Heather M. Swanson, Lisa L. Wolfe, Fred G. Quartarone, Sherri L. Huwer, Charles H. Southwick, and Paul M. Lukacs PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4019. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004019.PMCID: PMC2602978 Phosphorylation Regulates SIRT1 Function Tsutomu Sasaki, Bernhard Maier, Katarzyna D. Koclega, Maksymilian Chruszcz, Wendy Gluba, P. Todd Stukenberg, Wladek Minor, and Heidi Scrable PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4020. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004020.PMCID: PMC2602979 Harmonic Allocation of Authorship Credit: Source-Level Correction of Bibliometric Bias Assures Accurate Publication and Citation Analysis Nils T. Hagen PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4021. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004021.PMCID: PMC2603311 Effectiveness of Action to Reduce Exposure of Free-Ranging California Condors in Arizona and Utah to Lead from Spent Ammunition Rhys E. Green, W. Grainger Hunt, Christopher N. Parish, and Ian Newton PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4022. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004022.PMCID: PMC2603582 Porphyrin Homeostasis Maintained by ABCG2 Regulates Self-Renewal of Embryonic Stem Cells Jimmy Susanto, Yu-Hsing Lin, Yun-Nan Chen, Chia-Rui Shen, Yu-Ting Yan, Sheng-Ta Tsai, Chung-Hsuan Chen, and Chia-Ning Shen PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4023. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004023.PMCID: PMC2602981 A Simple Detection Method for Low-Affinity Membrane Protein Interactions by Baculoviral Display Toshiko Sakihama, Takato Sato, Hiroko Iwanari, Toshio Kitamura, Shimon Sakaguchi, Tatsuhiko Kodama, and Takao Hamakubo PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4024. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004024.PMCID: PMC2602974 Compositional Genome Contexts Affect Gene Expression Control in Sea Urchin Embryo Abdullah Al Mahmud, Gabriele Amore, and Giorgio Bernardi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4025. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004025.PMCID: PMC2603317 HSP60 as a Target of Anti-Ergotypic Regulatory T Cells Francisco J. Quintana, Avishai Mimran, Pnina Carmi, Felix Mor, and Irun R. Cohen PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4026. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004026.PMCID: PMC2602852 A Systematic Survey of Mini-Proteins in Bacteria and Archaea Fengyu Wang, Jingfa Xiao, Linlin Pan, Ming Yang, Guoqiang Zhang, Shouguang Jin, and Jun Yu PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4027. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004027.PMCID: PMC2602986 Safety, Humoral and Cell Mediated Immune Responses to Two Formulations of an Inactivated, Split-Virion Influenza A/H5N1 Vaccine in Children Tawee Chotpitayasunondh, Usa Thisyakorn, Chitsanu Pancharoen, Stephanie Pepin, and Nolwenn Nougarede PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4028. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004028.PMCID: PMC2605261 The Inhibition of the Highly Expressed Mir-221 and Mir-222 Impairs the Growth of Prostate Carcinoma Xenografts in Mice Neri Mercatelli, Valeria Coppola, Desirée Bonci, Francesca Miele, Arianna Costantini, Marco Guadagnoli, Elena Bonanno, Giovanni Muto, Giovanni Vanni Frajese, Ruggero De Maria, Luigi Giusto Spagnoli, Maria Giulia Farace, and Silvia Anna Ciafrè PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4029. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004029.PMCID: PMC2603596 An Insight into the Relationships between Hepcidin, Anemia, Infections and Inflammatory Cytokines in Pediatric Refugees: A Cross-Sectional Study Sarah Cherian, David A. Forbes, Angus G. Cook, Frank M. Sanfilippo, Erwin H. Kemna, Dorine W. Swinkels, and David P. Burgner PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4030. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004030.PMCID: PMC2603326 High Risk of Severe Anaemia after Chlorproguanil-Dapsone+Artesunate Antimalarial Treatment in Patients with G6PD (A-) Deficiency Caterina I. Fanello, Corine Karema, Pamela Avellino, Germana Bancone, Aline Uwimana, Sue J. Lee, Umberto d'Alessandro, and David Modiano PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4031. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004031.PMCID: PMC2603295 Human Polycomb 2 Protein Is a SUMO E3 Ligase and Alleviates
Substrate-Induced Inhibition of Cystathionine β-Synthase Sumoylation Nitish Agrawal and Ruma Banerjee PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4032. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004032.PMCID: PMC2606060 Genome-Wide Co-Expression Analysis in Multiple Tissues Ian C. Grieve, Nicholas J. Dickens, Michal Pravenec, Vladimir Kren, Norbert Hubner, Stuart A. Cook, Timothy J. Aitman, Enrico Petretto, and Jonathan Mangion PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4033. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004033.PMCID: PMC2603584 Identification and Characterization of Novel MicroRNAs from Schistosoma japonicum Xiangyang Xue, Jun Sun, Qingfeng Zhang, Zhangxun Wang, Yufu Huang, and Weiqing Pan PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4034. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004034.PMCID: PMC2603315 Evidence of Repeated and Independent Saltational Evolution in a Peculiar Genus of Sphinx Moths (Proserpinus: Sphingidae) Daniel Rubinoff and Johannes J. Le Roux PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4035. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004035.PMCID: PMC2603316 The Impact of Different Antibiotic Regimens on the Emergence of Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria Erika M. C. D'Agata, Myrielle Dupont-Rouzeyrol, Pierre Magal, Damien Olivier, and Shigui Ruan PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4036. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004036.PMCID: PMC2603320 Is Replication the Gold Standard for Validating Genome-Wide Association Findings? Yong-Jun Liu, Christopher J. Papasian, Jian-Feng Liu, James Hamilton, and Hong-Wen Deng PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4037. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004037.PMCID: PMC2605260 Norepinephrine Controls Both Torpor Initiation and Emergence via Distinct Mechanisms in the Mouse Steven J. Swoap and David Weinshenker PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4038. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004038.PMCID: PMC2602851 BMP-7 Does Not Protect against Bleomycin-Induced Lung or Skin Fibrosis Lynne A. Murray, Tillie L. Hackett, Stephanie M. Warner, Furquan Shaheen, Rochelle L. Argentieri, Paul Dudas, Francis X. Farrell, and Darryl A. Knight PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4039. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004039.PMCID: PMC2603595 Looking for Myself: Current Multisensory Input Alters Self-Face Recognition Manos Tsakiris PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4040. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004040.PMCID: PMC2603324 Normalization of Voltage-Sensitive Dye Signal with Functional
Activity Measures Kentaroh Takagaki, Michael Thomas Lippert, Benjamin Dann, Tim Wanger, and Frank W. Ohl PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4041. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004041.PMCID: PMC2612132 Myocardial Hypertrophy Overrides the Angiogenic Response to Hypoxia Yeong-Hoon Choi, Douglas B. Cowan, Meena Nathan, Dimitrios Poutias, Christof Stamm, Pedro J. del Nido, and Francis X. McGowan, Jr PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4042. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004042.PMCID: PMC2603310 Optic Flow Stimuli in and Near the Visual Field Centre: A Group fMRI Study of Motion Sensitive Regions Sabine Ohlendorf, Andreas Sprenger, Oliver Speck, Sven Haller, and Hubert Kimmig PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4043. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004043.PMCID: PMC2603585 Long-Term Cycles in the History of Life: Periodic Biodiversity in the Paleobiology Database Adrian L. Melott PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4044. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004044.PMCID: PMC2603586 On the Mechanics of Cardiac Function of Drosophila Embryo Mingming Wu and Thomas N. Sato PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4045. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004045.PMCID: PMC2602980 Direct Inhibition of GSK3β by the Phosphorylated Cytoplasmic Domain of LRP6 in Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Shunfu Piao, Sun-Hye Lee, Hyunjoon Kim, Soohwan Yum, Jennifer L. Stamos, Yongbin Xu, Su-Jin Lee, Jaewon Lee, Sangtaek Oh, Jin-Kwan Han, Bum-Joon Park, William I. Weis, and Nam-Chul Ha PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4046. Published online 2008 December 24. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004046.PMCID: PMC2603313 Chromosomal Inversions between Human and Chimpanzee Lineages Caused by Retrotransposons Jungnam Lee, Kyudong Han, Thomas J. Meyer, Heui-Soo Kim, and Mark A. Batzer PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4047. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004047.PMCID: PMC2603318 The Effects of Aging on Researchers' Publication and Citation Patterns Yves Gingras, Vincent Larivière, Benoît Macaluso, and Jean-Pierre Robitaille PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4048. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004048.PMCID: PMC2603321 Use of Integrated Malaria Management Reduces Malaria in Kenya Bernard A. Okech, Isaac K. Mwobobia, Anthony Kamau, Samuel Muiruri, Noah Mutiso, Joyce Nyambura, Cassian Mwatele, Teruaki Amano, and Charles S. Mwandawiro PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4050. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004050.PMCID: PMC2603594 Angiogenesis-Related Gene Expression Profile with Independent Prognostic Value in Advanced Ovarian Carcinoma Marta Mendiola, Jorge Barriuso, Andrés Redondo, Adrián Mariño-Enríquez, Rosario Madero, Enrique Espinosa, Juan Ángel Fresno Vara, Iker Sánchez-Navarro, Ginés Hernández-Cortes, Pilar Zamora, Elia Pérez-Fernández, María Miguel-Martín, Asunción Suárez, José Palacios, Manuel González-Barón, and David Hardisson PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4051. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004051.PMCID: PMC2605264 In C. elegans, High Levels of dsRNA Allow RNAi in the Absence of RDE-4 Jeffrey W. Habig, P. Joseph Aruscavage, and Brenda L. Bass PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4052. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004052.PMCID: PMC2603325 A Recalibrated Molecular Clock and Independent Origins for the Cholera Pandemic Clones Lu Feng, Peter R. Reeves, Ruiting Lan, Yi Ren, Chunxu Gao, Zhemin Zhou, Yan Ren, Jiansong Cheng, Wei Wang, Jianmei Wang, Wubin Qian, Dan Li, and Lei Wang PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4053. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004053.PMCID: PMC2605724 Reduction of Orc6 Expression Sensitizes Human Colon Cancer Cells to 5-Fluorouracil and Cisplatin Elaine J. Gavin, Bo Song, Yuan Wang, Yaguang Xi, and Jingfang Ju PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4054. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004054.PMCID: PMC2603583 Comparative Developmental Expression Profiling of Two C. elegans Isolates Emily J. Capra, Sonja M. Skrovanek, and Leonid Kruglyak PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4055. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004055.PMCID: PMC2605249 Sex-Differential Effect on Infant Mortality of Oral Polio Vaccine Administered with BCG at Birth in Guinea-Bissau. A Natural Experiment Christine Stabell Benn, Ane Bærent Fisker, Amabelia Rodrigues, Henrik Ravn, Erliyani Sartono, Hilton Whittle, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, and Peter Aaby PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4056. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004056.PMCID: PMC2605256 Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Culture for Diagnosis of
Tuberculosis in HIV-Infected Brazilian Adults David W. Dowdy, Maria C. Lourenço, Solange C. Cavalcante, Valeria Saraceni, Bonnie King, Jonathan E. Golub, David Bishai, Betina Durovni, Richard E. Chaisson, and Susan E. Dorman PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4057. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004057.PMCID: PMC2614861 Transmission Dynamics of Schistosoma japonicum in the Lakes and Marshlands of China Darren J. Gray, Gail M. Williams, Yuesheng Li, and Donald P. McManus PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4058. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004058.PMCID: PMC2605259 Origins of the Xylella fastidiosa Prophage-Like Regions and Their Impact in Genome Differentiation Alessandro de Mello Varani, Rangel Celso Souza, Helder I. Nakaya, Wanessa Cristina de Lima, Luiz Gonzaga Paula de Almeida, Elliot Watanabe Kitajima, Jianchi Chen, Edwin Civerolo, Ana Tereza Ribeiro Vasconcelos, and Marie-Anne Van Sluys PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4059. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004059.PMCID: PMC2605562 Asthma Is Inversely Associated with Helicobacter pylori Status in an Urban Population Joan Reibman, Michael Marmor, Joshua Filner, Maria-Elena Fernandez-Beros, Linda Rogers, Guillermo I. Perez-Perez, and Martin J. Blaser PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4060. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004060.PMCID: PMC2603593 SDF1 Gene Variation Is Associated with Circulating SDF1α Level and Endothelial Progenitor Cell Number–The Bruneck Study Qingzhong Xiao, Shu Ye, Friedrich Oberhollenzer, Agnes Mayr, Marjan Jahangiri, Johann Willeit, Stefan Kiechl, and Qingbo Xu PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4061. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004061.PMCID: PMC2605263 Antidepressants of the Serotonin-Antagonist Type Increase Body Fat and Decrease Lifespan of Adult Caenorhabditis elegans Kim Zarse and Michael Ristow PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4062. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004062.PMCID: PMC2605556 Neural Representations of Airflow in Drosophila Mushroom Body Akira Mamiya, Jennifer Beshel, Chunsu Xu, and Yi Zhong PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4063. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004063.PMCID: PMC2603598 TRAF6 Autoubiquitination-Independent Activation of the NFκB and MAPK Pathways in Response to IL-1 and RANKL Matthew C. Walsh, Gregory K. Kim, Paul L. Maurizio, Elizabeth E. Molnar, and Yongwon Choi PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4064. Published online 2008 December 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004064.PMCID: PMC2603309 Rapid Acoustic Survey for Biodiversity Appraisal Jérôme Sueur, Sandrine Pavoine, Olivier Hamerlynck, and Stéphanie Duvail PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4065. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004065.PMCID: PMC2605254 Aging Alters Functionally Human Dermal Papillary Fibroblasts but Not Reticular Fibroblasts: A New View of Skin Morphogenesis and Aging Solène Mine, Nicolas O. Fortunel, Hervé Pageon, and Daniel Asselineau PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4066. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004066.PMCID: PMC2605251 Mild Electrical Stimulation with Heat Shock Ameliorates Insulin Resistance via Enhanced Insulin Signaling Saori Morino, Tatsuya Kondo, Kazunari Sasaki, Hironori Adachi, Mary Ann Suico, Erika Sekimoto, Tomoko Matsuda, Tsuyoshi Shuto, Eiichi Araki, and Hirofumi Kai PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4068. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004068.PMCID: PMC2603588 Reassessment of CXCR4 Chemokine Receptor Expression in Human Normal and Neoplastic Tissues Using the Novel Rabbit Monoclonal Antibody UMB-2 Thomas Fischer, Falko Nagel, Stefan Jacobs, Ralf Stumm, and Stefan Schulz PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4069. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004069.PMCID: PMC2605258 Akt Regulates Drug-Induced Cell Death through Bcl-w Downregulation Michela Garofalo, Cristina Quintavalle, Ciro Zanca, Assunta De Rienzo, Giulia Romano, Mario Acunzo, Loredana Puca, Mariarosaria Incoronato, Carlo M. Croce, and Gerolama Condorelli PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4070. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004070.PMCID: PMC2603590 A Survey of Honey Bee Colony Losses in the U.S., Fall 2007 to Spring 2008 Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Jerry Hayes, Jr., Robyn M. Underwood, and Jeffery Pettis PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4071. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004071.PMCID: PMC2606032 Function and Assembly of a Chromatin-Associated RNase P that Is Required for Efficient Transcription by RNA Polymerase I Robert Reiner, Natalie Krasnov-Yoeli, Yana Dehtiar, and Nayef Jarrous PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4072. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004072.PMCID: PMC2605565 In Vitro and In Vivo Human Herpesvirus 8 Infection of Placenta Mariantonietta Di Stefano, Maria Luisa Calabrò, Iole Maria Di Gangi, Santina Cantatore, Massimo Barbierato, Elisa Bergamo, Anfumbom Jude Kfutwah, Margherita Neri, Luigi Chieco-Bianchi, Pantaleo Greco, Loreto Gesualdo, Ahidjo Ayouba, Elisabeth Menu, and Josè Ramòn Fiore PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4073. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004073.PMCID: PMC2603597 Negative Regulation of Syntaxin4/SNAP-23/VAMP2-Mediated Membrane Fusion by Munc18c In Vitro Fiona M. Brandie, Veronica Aran, Avani Verma, James A. McNew, Nia J. Bryant, and Gwyn W. Gould PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4074. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004074.PMCID: PMC2605266 Genetic Variation Stimulated by Epigenetic Modification W. Jason Cummings, David W. Bednarski, and Nancy Maizels PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4075. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004075.PMCID: PMC2605549 Exploratory Analysis of the Copy Number Alterations in Glioblastoma Multiforme Pablo Freire, Marco Vilela, Helena Deus, Yong-Wan Kim, Dimpy Koul, Howard Colman, Kenneth D. Aldape, Oliver Bogler, W. K. Alfred Yung, Kevin Coombes, Gordon B. Mills, Ana T. Vasconcelos, and Jonas S. Almeida PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4076. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004076.PMCID: PMC2605252 SERPINA3K Prevents Oxidative Stress Induced Necrotic Cell Death by Inhibiting Calcium Overload Bin Zhang and Jian-xing Ma PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4077. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004077.PMCID: PMC2605247 Model of For3p-Mediated Actin Cable Assembly in Fission Yeast Hui Wang and Dimitrios Vavylonis PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4078. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004078.PMCID: PMC2605553 Low Density Lipoproteins as Circulating Fast Temperature Sensors Ruth Prassl, Magdalena Pregetter, Heinz Amenitsch, Manfred Kriechbaum, Robert Schwarzenbacher, John M. Chapman, and Peter Laggner PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4079. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004079.PMCID: PMC2603587 Gamma-Secretase-Dependent and -Independent Effects of Presenilin1 on β-Catenin·Tcf-4 Transcriptional Activity Imma Raurell, Montserrat Codina, David Casagolda, Beatriz del Valle, Josep Baulida, Antonio García de Herreros, and Mireia Duñach PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4080. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004080.PMCID: PMC2603589 Differential RhoA Dynamics in Migratory and Stationary Cells Measured by FRET and Automated Image Analysis John Paul Eichorst, Shaoying Lu, Jing Xu, and Yingxiao Wang PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4082. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004082.PMCID: PMC2603592 Evolutionary Patterns and Selective Pressures of Odorant/Pheromone Receptor Gene Families in Teleost Fishes Yasuyuki Hashiguchi, Yoshimi Furuta, and Mutsumi Nishida PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4083. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004083.PMCID: PMC2605262 Testing the Goodness of Supplementary Feeding to Enhance Population Viability in an Endangered Vulture Daniel Oro, Antoni Margalida, Martina Carrete, Rafael Heredia, and José Antonio Donázar PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4084. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004084.PMCID: PMC2605265 Symptomatic Acute Hepatitis C in Egypt: Diagnosis, Spontaneous Viral Clearance, and Delayed Treatment with 12 Weeks of Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2a Noha Sharaf Eldin, Soheir Ismail, Hala Mansour, Claire Rekacewicz, Moustafa El-Houssinie, Sherif El-Kafrawy, Saeed El Aidi, Mohamed Abdel-Hamid, Gamal Esmat, Stanislas Pol, Arnaud Fontanet, and Mostafa K. Mohamed PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4085. Published online 2008 December 30. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004085.PMCID: PMC2605267 Insect Brains Use Image Interpolation Mechanisms to Recognise Rotated Objects Adrian G. Dyer and Quoc C. Vuong PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4086. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004086.PMCID: PMC2605253 Demographic and Clinical Factors Associated with Response to Smallpox Vaccine in Preimmunized Volunteers Philippe Bossi, Frédérick Gay, Imène Fouzai, Béhazine Combadière, Geneviève Brousse, Bénédicte Lebrun-Vignes, Jean-Marc Crance, Brigitte Autran, Daniel Garin, and for the IMMUVAR group PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4087. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004087.PMCID: PMC2605250 Gap Junction Mediated Intercellular Metabolite Transfer in the Cochlea Is Compromised in Connexin30 Null Mice Qing Chang, Wenxue Tang, Shoeb Ahmad, Binfei Zhou, and Xi Lin PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4088. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004088.PMCID: PMC2605248 Concurrent Generation of Effector and Central Memory CD8 T Cells during Vaccinia Virus Infection Amale Laouar, Monika Manocha, Viraga Haridas, and N. Manjunath PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4089. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004089.PMCID: PMC2605255 Opposing Effects of Sirtuins on Neuronal Survival: SIRT1-Mediated Neuroprotection Is Independent of Its Deacetylase Activity Jason A. Pfister, Chi Ma, Brad E. Morrison, and Santosh R. D'Mello PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4090. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004090.PMCID: PMC2605257 The Maestro (Mro) Gene Is Dispensable for Normal Sexual Development and Fertility in Mice Lee Smith, John Willan, Nick Warr, Frances A. Brook, Michael Cheeseman, Richard Sharpe, Pam Siggers, and Andy Greenfield PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4091. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004091.PMCID: PMC2605558 Lrp4 Modulates Extracellular Integration of Cell Signaling Pathways in Development Atsushi Ohazama, Eric B. Johnson, Masato S. Ota, Hong J. Choi, Thantrira Porntaveetus, Shelly Oommen, Nobuyuki Itoh, Kazuhiro Eto, Amel Gritli-Linde, Joachim Herz, and Paul T. Sharpe PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4092. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004092.PMCID: PMC2605561 Morphine Exacerbates HIV-1 Tat-Induced Cytokine Production in Astrocytes through Convergent Effects on [Ca2+]i, NF-κB Trafficking and Transcription Nazira El-Hage, Annadora J. Bruce-Keller, Tatiana Yakovleva, Igor Bazov, Georgy Bakalkin, Pamela E. Knapp, and Kurt F. Hauser PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4093. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004093.PMCID: PMC2605563 Genome Scan of M. tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Ugandans Catherine M. Stein, Sarah Zalwango, LaShaunda L. Malone, Sungho Won, Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Roy D. Mugerwa, Dmitry V. Leontiev, Cheryl L. Thompson, Kevin C. Cartier, Robert C. Elston, Sudha K. Iyengar, W. Henry Boom, and Christopher C. Whalen PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4094. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004094.PMCID: PMC2605555 Large-Scale Differential Proteome Analysis in Plasmodium falciparum under Drug Treatment Judith Helena Prieto, Sasa Koncarevic, Sung Kyu Park, John Yates, III, and Katja Becker PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4098. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004098.PMCID: PMC2605551 Genetically-Directed, Cell Type-Specific Sparse Labeling for the Analysis of Neuronal Morphology Thomas Rotolo, Philip M. Smallwood, John Williams, and Jeremy Nathans PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4099. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004099.PMCID: PMC2605552 Differential Requirements of Two recA Mutants for Constitutive SOS Expression in Escherichia coli K-12 Jarukit Edward Long, Nicholas Renzette, Richard C. Centore, and Steven J. Sandler PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4100. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004100.PMCID: PMC2605550 Spent Culture Medium from Virulent Borrelia burgdorferi Increases Permeability of Individually Perfused Microvessels of Rat Mesentery Xueping Zhou, Michael R. Miller, Md Motaleb, Nyles W. Charon, and Pingnian He PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4101. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004101.PMCID: PMC2605548 A Naturally Occurring Mutation in ropB Suppresses SpeB Expression and Reduces M1T1 Group A Streptococcal Systemic Virulence Andrew Hollands, Ramy K. Aziz, Rita Kansal, Malak Kotb, Victor Nizet, and Mark J. Walker PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4102. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004102.PMCID: PMC2605554 Topoisomerase IIβ Activates a Subset of Neuronal Genes that Are Repressed in AT-Rich Genomic Environment Kuniaki Sano, Mary Miyaji-Yamaguchi, Kimiko M. Tsutsui, and Ken Tsutsui PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4103. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004103.PMCID: PMC2605559 Validating Discovered Cis-Acting Regulatory Genetic Variants: Application of an Allele Specific Expression Approach to HapMap Populations Susana Campino, Julian Forton, Srilakshmi Raj, Bert Mohr, Sarah Auburn, Andrew Fry, Valentina D. Mangano, Claire Vandiedonck, Anna Richardson, Kirk Rockett, Taane G. Clark, and Dominic P. Kwiatkowski PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4105. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004105.PMCID: PMC2605564 An Epididymis-Specific Secretory Protein HongrES1 Critically Regulates Sperm Capacitation and Male Fertility Yuchuan Zhou, Min Zheng, Qixian Shi, Li Zhang, Wei Zhen, Wenying Chen, and Yonglian Zhang PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(12): e4106. Published online 2008 December 31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004106.PMCID: PMC2606034 A Novel and Critical Role for Oct4 as a Regulator of the
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