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Volume 4(5);  May 2007
Correspondence
Undertaking Research in Other Countries: Further Considerations
Adamson Muula
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e187. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040187.
PMCID: PMC1880855
Undertaking Research in Other Countries: Author's Reply
Loane Skene
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e188. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040188.
PMCID: PMC1880856
Natural Ventilation for Prevention of Airborne Contagion: Conclusions Overgeneralized
Hal Levin
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e189. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040189.
PMCID: PMC1880857
Natural Ventilation for Prevention of Airborne Contagion: Authors' Reply
Adrian Roderick Escombe, David A. J Moore, Jon S Friedland, Carlton A Evans, and Robert H Gilman
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e195. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040195.
PMCID: PMC1880860
Editorial
How Is WHO Responding to Global Public Health Threats?
The PLoS Medicine Editors
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e197. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040197.
PMCID: PMC1880862
Essay
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Growing but Neglected Global Epidemic
Peter J Barnes
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e112. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040112.
PMCID: PMC1865560
Perspectives
Migrating Ovaries: Early Life Influences on Later Gonadal Function
Peter D Gluckman and Alan S Beedle
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e190. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040190.
PMCID: PMC1865559
Time Scales of CD4+ T Cell Depletion in HIV Infection
Rob J De Boer
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e193. Published online 2007 May 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040193.
PMCID: PMC1872039
Health in Action
Using Clinical Evidence in a National Continuing Medical Education Program in Italy
Lorenzo Moja, Ivan Moschetti, Alessandro Liberati, Roberto Manfrini, Christian Deligant, Roberto Satolli, Antonio Addis, Nello Martini, and Pietro Dri
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e113. Published online 2007 May 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040113.
PMCID: PMC1872040
Transparent Development of the WHO Rapid Advice Guidelines
Holger J Schünemann, Suzanne R Hill, Meetali Kakad, Gunn E Vist, Richard Bellamy, Lauren Stockman, Torbjørn Fosen Wisløff, Chris Del Mar, Frederick Hayden, Timothy M Uyeki, Jeremy Farrar, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Howard Zucker, John Beigel, Tawee Chotpitayasunondh, Tran Tinh Hien, Bülent Özbay, Norio Sugaya, and Andrew D Oxman
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e119. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040119.
PMCID: PMC1877972
HIV Treatment in a Conflict Setting: Outcomes and Experiences from Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Heather Culbert, David Tu, Daniel P O'Brien, Tom Ellman, Clair Mills, Nathan Ford, Tina Amisi, Keith Chan, Sarah Venis, and Médecins Sans Frontières
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e129. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040129.
PMCID: PMC1880839
Policy Forum
Responsible Oversight of Human Stem Cell Research: The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine's Medical and Ethical Standards
Geoffrey P Lomax, Zach W Hall, and Bernard Lo
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e114. Published online 2007 May 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040114.
PMCID: PMC1858709
Research in Translation
Malnutrition and Infection: Complex Mechanisms and Global Impacts
Ulrich E Schaible and Stefan H. E Kaufmann
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e115. Published online 2007 May 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040115.
PMCID: PMC1858706
Research Articles
Muscle Mitochondrial ATP Synthesis and Glucose Transport/Phosphorylation in Type 2 Diabetes
Julia Szendroedi, Albrecht I Schmid, Marek Chmelik, Christian Toth, Attila Brehm, Martin Krssak, Peter Nowotny, Michael Wolzt, Werner Waldhausl, and Michael Roden
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e154. Published online 2007 May 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040154.
PMCID: PMC1858707
Traditional Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy: A Drug–Drug Interaction?
Luis Alberto García Rodríguez, Karine Egan, and Garret A FitzGerald
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e157. Published online 2007 May 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040157.
PMCID: PMC1872041
TXNIP Regulates Peripheral Glucose Metabolism in Humans
Hemang Parikh, Emma Carlsson, William A Chutkow, Lovisa E Johansson, Heidi Storgaard, Pernille Poulsen, Richa Saxena, Christine Ladd, P. Christian Schulze, Michael J Mazzini, Christine Bjørn Jensen, Anna Krook, Marie Björnholm, Hans Tornqvist, Juleen R Zierath, Martin Ridderstråle, David Altshuler, Richard T Lee, Allan Vaag, Leif C Groop, and Vamsi K Mootha
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e158. Published online 2007 May 1. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040158.
PMCID: PMC1858708
Childhood Conditions Influence Adult Progesterone Levels
Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora, Robert T Chatterton, Osul A Choudhury, Dora A Napolitano, and Gillian R Bentley
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e167. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040167.
PMCID: PMC1868040
Isoform-Specific Potentiation of Stem and Progenitor Cell Engraftment by AML1/RUNX1
Shinobu Tsuzuki, Dengli Hong, Rajeev Gupta, Keitaro Matsuo, Masao Seto, and Tariq Enver
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e172. Published online 2007 May 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040172.
PMCID: PMC1868041
Hyperoxic Brain Effects Are Normalized by Addition of CO2
Paul M Macey, Mary A Woo, and Ronald M Harper
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e173. Published online 2007 May 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040173.
PMCID: PMC1872042
Vaccinating to Protect a Vulnerable Subpopulation
Jonathan Dushoff, Joshua B Plotkin, Cecile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Mark Miller, Mark Loeb, and David J. D Earn
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e174. Published online 2007 May 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040174.
PMCID: PMC1872043
Down-Regulation of the Interferon Signaling Pathway in T Lymphocytes from Patients with Metastatic Melanoma
Rebecca J Critchley-Thorne, Ning Yan, Serban Nacu, Jeffrey Weber, Susan P Holmes, and Peter P Lee
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e176. Published online 2007 May 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040176.
PMCID: PMC1865558
Understanding the Slow Depletion of Memory CD4+ T Cells in HIV Infection
Andrew Yates, Jaroslav Stark, Nigel Klein, Rustom Antia, and Robin Callard
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e177. Published online 2007 May 22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040177.
PMCID: PMC1872038
Prophylactic and Therapeutic Efficacy of Human Monoclonal Antibodies against H5N1 Influenza
Cameron P Simmons, Nadia L Bernasconi, Amorsolo L Suguitan, Jr., Kimberly Mills, Jerrold M Ward, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Tran Tinh Hien, Federica Sallusto, Do Quang Ha, Jeremy Farrar, Menno D de Jong, Antonio Lanzavecchia, and Kanta Subbarao
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e178. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040178.
PMCID: PMC1880850
Association of Human Herpesvirus-6B with Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Julie Fotheringham, Donatella Donati, Nahid Akhyani, Anna Fogdell-Hahn, Alexander Vortmeyer, John D Heiss, Elizabeth Williams, Steven Weinstein, Derek A Bruce, William D Gaillard, Susumu Sato, William H Theodore, and Steven Jacobson
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e180. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040180.
PMCID: PMC1880851
HIV Impairs Opsonic Phagocytic Clearance of Pregnancy-Associated Malaria Parasites
Jessica Keen, Lena Serghides, Kodjo Ayi, Samir N Patel, John Ayisi, Anne van Eijk, Richard Steketee, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, and Kevin C Kain
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e181. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040181.
PMCID: PMC1880852
Lithium Therapy Improves Neurological Function and Hippocampal Dendritic Arborization in a Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 Mouse Model
Kei Watase, Jennifer R Gatchel, Yaling Sun, Effat Emamian, Richard Atkinson, Ronald Richman, Hidehiro Mizusawa, Harry T Orr, Chad Shaw, and Huda Y Zoghbi
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e182. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040182.
PMCID: PMC1880853
Cost-Effectiveness of Rapid Syphilis Screening in Prenatal HIV Testing Programs in Haiti
Bruce R Schackman, Christopher P Neukermans, Sandy N. Nerette Fontain, Claudine Nolte, Patrice Joseph, Jean W Pape, and Daniel W Fitzgerald
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e183. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040183.
PMCID: PMC1880854
Corrections
Correction: A Challenge for the Development of Malaria Vaccines: Polymorphic Target Antigens
Colin Sutherland
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e175. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040175.
PMCID: PMC1880847
Corrects: Colin Sutherland. A Challenge for the Development of Malaria Vaccines: Polymorphic Target Antigens. PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e116.
Correction: Clonal Waves of Neisseria Colonisation and Disease in the African Meningitis Belt: Eight-Year Longitudinal Study in Northern Ghana
Julia Leimkugel, Abraham Hodgson, Abudulai Adams Forgor, Valentin Pflüger, Jean-Pierre Dangy, Tom Smith, Mark Achtman, Sébastien Gagneux, and Gerd Pluschke
PLoS Med. 2007 May; 4(5): e196. Published online 2007 May 29. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040196.
PMCID: PMC1880861
Corrects: Julia Leimkugel, et al. Clonal Waves of Neisseria Colonisation and Disease in the African Meningitis Belt: Eight- Year Longitudinal Study in Northern Ghana. PLoS Med. 2007 March; 4(3): e101.
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