Search Results - "B. Bray"

The tetrapeptide sequence of IL-18 and IL-1β regulates their recruitment and activation by inflammatory caspases by Exconde, Patrick M., Hernandez-Chavez, Claudia, Bourne, Christopher M., Richards, Rachel M., Bray, Mark B., Lopez, Jan L., Srivastava, Tamanna, Egan, Marisa S., Zhang, Jenna, Yoo, William, Shin, Sunny, Discher, Bohdana M., Taabazuing, Cornelius Y.

“…Inflammasomes are multiprotein signaling complexes that activate the innate immune system. Canonical inflammasomes recruit and activate caspase-1, which then…”
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Vascular access type and risk of mortality in a national prospective cohort of haemodialysis patients by BRAY, B. D, BOYD, J, SHILLIDAY, I, SIMPSON, K, STEWART, G. A, TRAYNOR, J, METCALFE, W, DALY, C, DONALDSON, K, DOYLE, A, FOX, J. G, INNES, A, KHAN, I, PEEL, R. K, SEVERN, A

“…Central venous catheters (CVC) are a potential source of bacteraemia and have been associated with increased mortality in haemodialysis patients. We aimed to…”
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Electron pressure balance in the SOL through the transition to detachment by McLean, A.G., Leonard, A.W., Makowski, M.A., Groth, M., Allen, S.L., Boedo, J.A., Bray, B.D., Briesemeister, A.R., Carlstrom, T.N., Eldon, D., Fenstermacher, M.E., Hill, D.N., Lasnier, C.J., Liu, C., Osborne, T.H., Petrie, T.W., Soukhanovskii, V.A., Stangeby, P.C., Tsui, C., Unterberg, E.A., Watkins, J.G.

“…Upgrades to core and divertor Thomson scattering (DTS) diagnostics at DIII-D have provided measurements of electron pressure profiles in the lower divertor…”
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Identification of risk factors associated with acute kidney injury in patients admitted to acute medical units by Finlay, S, Bray, B, Lewington, AJ, Hunter-Rowe, CT, Banerjee, A, Atkinson, JM, Jones, MC

“…In 2009, the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) report identified significant deficiencies in the management of acute kidney…”
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Heat flux management via advanced magnetic divertor configurations and divertor detachment by Kolemen, E., Allen, S.L., Bray, B.D., Fenstermacher, M.E., Humphreys, D.A., Hyatt, A.W., Lasnier, C.J., Leonard, A.W., Makowski, M.A., McLean, A.G., Maingi, R., Nazikian, R., Petrie, T.W., Soukhanovskii, V.A., Unterberg, E.A.

“…The snowflake divertor (SFD) control and detachment control to manage the heat flux at the divertor are successfully demonstrated at DIII-D. Results of the…”
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Tamoxifen and epigallocatechin gallate are synergistically cytotoxic to MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells by Chisholm, K, Bray, B. J, Rosengren, R. J

“…High concentrations of specific catechins [epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), epigallocatechin (EGC) and epicatechin gallate (ECG)] inhibit the proliferation of…”
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Drug use and phylogenetic clustering of hepatitis C virus infection among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: A latent class analysis approach by Jacka, B., Bray, B. C., Applegate, T. L., Marshall, B. D. L., Lima, V. D., Hayashi, K., DeBeck, K., Raghwani, J., Harrigan, P. R., Krajden, M., Montaner, J. S. G., Grebely, J.

“…Summary This study estimated latent classes (ie, unobserved subgroups in a population) of people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada, and examined how these…”
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Resonant pedestal pressure reduction induced by a thermal transport enhancement due to stochastic magnetic boundary layers in high temperature plasmas by Schmitz, O, Evans, T E, Fenstermacher, M E, Unterberg, E A, Austin, M E, Bray, B D, Brooks, N H, Frerichs, H, Groth, M, Jakubowski, M W, Lasnier, C J, Lehnen, M, Leonard, A W, Mordijck, S, Moyer, R A, Osborne, T H, Reiter, D, Samm, U, Schaffer, M J, Unterberg, B, West, W P

“…Good alignment of the magnetic field line pitch angle with the mode structure of an external resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) field is shown to induce…”
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Correlation of submicron dust production in DIII-D to impulsive wall heating from ELMs by Bray, B.D., West, W.P., Rudakov, D.

“…Submicron dust particles are observed by Rayleigh/Mie scattering from ND:YAG laser light during plasma discharges at DIII-D. The observed dust density…”
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St. John's Wort Extract Induces CYP3A and CYP2E1 in the Swiss Webster Mouse by Bray, B. J., Perry, N. B., Menkes, D. B., Rosengren, R. J.

“…This investigation was designed to determine the ability of St. John's wort (SJW), a readily available antidepressant, to induce various hepatic drug…”
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OEDGE modeling of DIII-D density scan discharges leading to detachment by Elder, J.D., Stangeby, P.C., Bray, B.D., Brooks, N., Leonard, A.W., McLean, A.G., Unterberg, E.A., Watkins, J.G.

“…The OEDGE code is used to model the outer divertor plasma for discharges from a density scan experiment on DIII-D with the objective of assessing EIRENE and…”
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Sex- and strain-dependent effects of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and epicatechin gallate (ECG) in the mouse by Goodin, M.G., Bray, B.J., Rosengren, R.J.

“…We have previously demonstrated that 50 mg/kg of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) is hepatotoxic to female Swiss Webster mice, while lower doses of EGCG and…”
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Influence of cross-field drifts and chemical sputtering on simulations of divertor particle and heat loads in ohmic and L-mode plasmas in DIII-D, AUG, and JET using UEDGE by Groth, M., Porter, G.D., Rensink, M.E., Rognlien, T.D., Wiesen, S., Wischmeier, M., Eich, T., Herrmann, A., Jachmich, S., Lasnier, C.J., Müller, H.W., Watkins, J.G., Beurskens, M.N.A., Bray, B.D., Brezinsek, S., Brooks, N.H., Fenstermacher, M.E., Fuchs, C., Huber, A., Kallenbach, A., Leonard, A.W., Meigs, A., Rudakov, D.L.

“…Measurements and simulations with the UEDGE code of radiated power, and ion saturation currents and power loads to the target plates have been compared for…”
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Countering imbalanced datasets to improve adverse drug event predictive models in labor and delivery by Taft, L.M., Evans, R.S., Shyu, C.R., Egger, M.J., Chawla, N., Mitchell, J.A., Thornton, S.N., Bray, B., Varner, M.

“…The IOM report, Preventing Medication Errors, emphasizes the overall lack of knowledge of the incidence of adverse drug events (ADE). Operating rooms,…”
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Correlation of submicron dust observed in DIII-D during plasma operation with plasma operating parameters by West, W.P., Bray, B.D.

“…A database of dust events observed using the Thomson scattering systems on DIII-D has recently been expanded to incorporate over 2500 discharges over a 9-month…”
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Multi-Scale Forest Governance, Deforestation, and Violence in Two Regions of Guerrero, Mexico by DURÁN, E., BRAY, D.B., VELÁZQUEZ, A., LARRAZÁBAL, A.

“…It has been suggested that weaknesses in rights and land tenure is one of the important causes of forest-related violence. We go beyond rights and tenure to…”
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Primary Human T Lymphocytes Engineered with a Codon-Optimized IL-15 Gene Resist Cytokine Withdrawal-Induced Apoptosis and Persist Long-Term in the Absence of Exogenous Cytokine by Hsu, Cary, Hughes, Marybeth S, Zheng, Zhili, Bray, Regina B, Rosenberg, Steven A, Morgan, Richard A

“…IL-15 is a common gamma-chain cytokine that has been shown to be more active than IL-2 in several murine cancer immunotherapy models. Although T lymphocytes do…”
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The Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Results of a New Photodetector for the DIII-D Thomson Scattering Diagnostic by Deterly, T M, Bray, B D, Hsieh, C.-L, Kulchar, J A, Liu, C, Ponce, D M

“…A redesign of the Thomson scattering data acquisition system located on the DIII-D tokamak is undergoing its trial phase. The redesign was made necessary by…”
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Resonant Pedestal Pressure Reduction Induced by a Thermal Transport Enhancement due to Stochastic Magnetic Boundary Layers in High Temperature Plasmas by Schmitz, O., Evans, T. E., Fenstermacher, M. E., Unterberg, E. A., Austin, M. E., Bray, B. D., Brooks, N. H., Frerichs, H., Groth, M., Jakubowski, M. W., Lasnier, C. J., Lehnen, M., Leonard, A. W., Mordijck, S., Moyer, R. A., Osborne, T. H., Reiter, D., Samm, U., Schaffer, M. J., Unterberg, B., West, W. P.

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Quantification of chemical erosion in the DIII-D divertor and implications for ITER by McLean, A.G., Stangeby, P.C., Bray, B.D., Brezinsek, S., Brooks, N.H., Davis, J.W., Isler, R.C., Kirschner, A., Laengner, R., Lasnier, C.J., Mu, Y., Munoz, J., Rudakov, D.L., Schmitz, O., Unterberg, E.A., Watkins, J.G., Whyte, D.G., Wong, C.P.C.

“…The Porous Plug Injector (PPI) has proven to be an invaluable diagnostic for in situ characterization and quantification of erosion phenomena in DIII-D…”
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