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Caveolin-1 overexpression accelerates tumor growth and metastasis of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
Full text linkCaveolin-1 (Cav-1) is a plasma membrane scaffolding protein that was shown to control the ERK pathway in muscle satellite cells. Oncogenic transformation of satellite cells is responsible of the generation of rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), a soft tissue tumor affecting childhood and adolescence. We previously reported that Cav-1 is a marker of proliferating RMS cell lines and that its overexpression promotes increased malignancy of RMS cells in vitro and in vivo. Here we show that tail vein injection of the human embryonal RD cells with Cav-1 overexpression (RD Cav-1) into NOD/SCID mice resulted in formation of lung metastasis in about 9 weeks as compared to control cells that did not form metastasis. After performing ex vivo transplantation of lung metastases we isolated one cell population, termed lung metastatic RD1, which injected in mice again gave rise to lung metastases in 5 weeks; from these disseminated lungs we were able to isolate the lung metastatic RD2 cell population. All the distinct cell populations, including RD Cav-1 and lung metastatic RD1 and RD2 clones, retained high Cav-1 expression and showed high phosphorylation levels of ERK1/2, which completely prevented their ability to undergo myogenic differentiation. In addition, lung metastatic RD1 and RD2 clones exhibited an increased migration, adhesion and production of angiogenic stimuli in comparison to non-metastatic control RD and RD Cav-1 lines. Taken together, these data suggest a key role of Cav-1 in promoting both local tumor growth and metastasis of RMS through cooperation of the ERK signalling pathway
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
sj-pdf-1-cep-10.1177_03331024211058205 - Supplemental material for Chronic cluster headache: A study of the telencephalic and cerebellar cortical thickness
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-cep-10.1177_03331024211058205 for Chronic cluster headache: A study of the telencephalic and cerebellar cortical thickness by Greta Demichelis, Chiara Pinardi, Luca Giani, Jean Paul Medina, Ruben Gianeri, Maria Grazia Bruzzone, Benjiamin Becker, Alberto Proietti, Massimo Leone, Luisa Chiapparini, Stefania Ferraro and Anna Nigri in Cephalalgia</p
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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