• Altered microRNA expression patterns during the initiation and promotion stages of neonatal diethylstilbestrol-induced dysplasia/neoplasia in the hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) uterus 

  Padmanabhan, Ramesh; Hendry, Isabel R.; Knapp, Jennifer R.; Shuai, Bin; Hendry, William J. (Springer Netherlands, 2017-10)

  Treatment of Syrian hamsters on the day of birth with the prototypical endocrine disruptor and synthetic estrogen, diethylstilbestrol (DES), leads to 100% occurrence of uterine hyperplasia/dysplasia in adulthood, a large ...

• Fabrication and characterization of microspheres encapsulating astrocytes for neural regeneration 

  Berndt, Marcus; Li, Yongchao; Seyedhassantehrani, Negar; Yao, Li (American Chemical Society, 2017-07)

  Astrocytes play a critical role in supporting the normal physiological function of neurons. Recent studies have revealed that astrocyte transplantation can promote axonal regeneration and functional recovery after spinal ...

• Prevalence of sucretolerant bacteria in common soils and their isolation and characterization 

  Fredsgaard, Casper; Moore, Donald B.; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Springer, 2017-08)

  Sucretolerant microbes grow in the presence of sugar concentrations high enough to substantially lower water activities. Natural habitats high in sugars are mainly limited to dried fruit, floral nectar, honey, sugarcane, ...

• Bacterial growth tolerance to concentrations of chlorate and perchlorate salts relevant to Mars 

  Alsoudi, Amer F.; Farhat, Omar; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Cambridge University Press, 2017-07)

  The Phoenix lander at Mars polar cap found appreciable levels of (per)chlorate salts, a mixture of perchlorate and chlorate salts of Ca, Fe, Mg and Na at levels of similar to 0.6% in regolith. These salts are highly ...

• A new cryptic species and review of the east-Andean leaf chafer genus Mesomerodon Ohaus, 1905 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae) 

  Seidel, Matthias; Jameson, Mary Liz; Stone, Rachel L. (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-04-26)

  The Neotropical scarab beetle genus Mesomerodon Ohaus (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini) is distributed in the western (lowland) Amazonian region from Colombia to Bolivia. Based on our research, the genus includes three ...

• Synopsis of the pelidnotine scarabs (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae, Rutelini) and annotated catalog of the species and subspecies 

  Moore, Matthew Robert; Jameson, Mary Liz; Garner, Beulah H.; Audibert, Cedric; Smith, Andrew B. T.; Seidel, Matthias (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-04-06)

  The pelidnotine scarabs (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Rutelini) are a speciose, paraphyletic assemblage of beetles that includes spectacular metallic species ("jewel scarabs") as well as species that are ecologically important ...

• Phylogeny of the genus Yumtaax Boucher (Coleoptera, Passalidae, Proculini): taxonomic and evolutionary implications with descriptions of three new species 

  Beza-Beza, Cristian F.; Beck, James B.; Reyes-Castillo, Pedro; Jameson, Mary Liz (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-04-10)

  Yumtaax Boucher (Coleoptera: Passalidae) is an endemic genus from the temperate sierras of Mexico and includes six narrowly distributed species. Yumtaax species have been assigned to several genera of Passalidae throughout ...

• Relationships between sucretolerance and salinotolerance in bacteria from hypersaline environments and their implications for the exploration of Mars and the icy worlds 

  Fredsgaard, Casper; Moore, Donald B.; Alsoudi, Amer F.; Crisler, James D.; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Cambridge University Press, 2017-04)

  The most extremely osmotolerant microbial isolates are fungi from high-sugar environments that tolerate the lowest water activity (0.61) for growth yet reported. Studies of osmotolerant bacteria have focused on halotolerance ...

• Assessing wind and mammals as seed dispersal vectors in an invasive legume 

  Zachary I., Quick; Houseman, Gregory R.; Bueyuektahtakin, I. Esra (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017-02)

  While some plants have modified seed structures to facilitate dispersal, many lack such specialised adaptations, making their mode of dispersal unclear. This can be particularly problematic for predicting shifts in species ...

• Boechera microsatellite website: an online portal for species identification and determination of hybrid parentage 

  Li, Fay-Wei; Rushworth, Catherine A.; Beck, James B.; Windham, Michael D. (Oxford University Press, 2017-02-27)

  Boechera (Brassicaceae) has many features to recommend it as a model genus for ecological and evolutionary research, including species richness, ecological diversity, experimental tractability and close phylogenetic proximity ...

• Differentiation of nerve-derived adult pluripotent stem cells into osteoblastic and endothelial cells 

  Yang, Shang-You; Strong, Nora; Gong, Xuan; Heggeness, Michael H. (Elsevier B.V., 2017-02)

  BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Stem cell-involved tissue engineering has gained dramatic attention as a therapeutic strategy for tissue regeneration including bone repair. However, the currently available possibilities to use embryonic ...

• Quiescent pluripotent stem cells reside within murine peripheral nerves that can be stimulated to proliferate by recombinant human bone morphogenic protein 2 or by nerve trauma 

  Heggeness, Michael H.; Strong, Nora; Wooley, Paul H.; Yang, Shang-You (Elsevier B.V., 2017-02)

  BACKGROUND: The clinical use of recombinant human bone morphogenic protein 2 (rhBMP2, Infuse) has been associated with nerve-related complications including new-onset sciatica, and retrograde ejaculation. PURPOSE: To ...

• Demographic structure and genetic variability throughout the distribution of Platte thistle (Cirsium canescens Asteraceae) 

  McMinn, Robby L.; Russell, F. Leland; Beck, James B. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017-02)

  AimUnderstanding spatial variation in the demographic and genetic structure of populations is central to explaining causes of species range limits and to species conservation. The Abundant Centre Hypothesis (ACH) predicts ...

• Microsphere - encapsulated astrocytes expressing Ngf promote axonal growth 

  Yao, Li; Berndt, Marcus; Li, Yongchao; Seyedhassantehrani, Negar (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2016-12)

  Astrocytes, the most abundant glial cells in the central nervous system, play a critical role in supporting the normal physiological function of neurons. Recent studies have revealed that astrocyte transplantation can ...

• Therapeutic effects of naringin on degenerative human nucleus pulposus cells for discogenic low back pain 

  Li, Nianhu; Whitaker, Camden; Xu, Zhanwang; Heggeness, Michael H.; Yang, Shang-You (Elsevier B.V., 2016-10)

  BACKGROUND: Over half the population of the world will suffer from moderate or severe low back pain (LBP) during their life span. Studies have shown that naringin, a major flavonoid in grapefruit and an active compound ...

• Evaluation of in vivo bioactivities of recombinant hypo- (FSH21/18) and fully- (FSH24) glycosylated human FSH glycoforms in Fshb null mice 

  Wang, Huizhen; May, Jacob; Butnev, Viktor Y.; Shuai, Bin; May, Jeffrey V.; Bousfield, George R.;; Kumar, T. Rajendra (Elsevier, Ireland LTD, 2016-12-05)

  The hormone - specific FSH beta subunit of the human FSH heterodimer consists of N-linked glycans at Asn(7) and Asn(24) residues that are co-translationally attached early during subunit biosynthesis. Differences in the ...

• Development of microsatellite markers for Buffalograss (Buchloë dactyloides; Poaceae), a drought-tolerant turfgrass alternative 

  Hadle, Jacob J.; Konrade, Lauren A.; Beasley, Rochelle R.; Lance, Stacey L.; Jones, Kenneth L.; Beck, James B. (Botanical Society of America, 2016-08)

  Premise of the study: Buchloe dactyloides (Poaceae) is an important component of Great Plains prairies and a popular droughttolerant turfgrass alternative in North America. This species comprises an autopolyploid series, ...

• Adaptation to warmer climates by parallel functional evolution of CBF genes in Arabidopsis thaliana 

  Monroe, J. Grey; McGovern, Cullen; Lasky, Jesse R.; Grogan, Kelsi; Beck, James B.; McKay, John K. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016-08)

  The evolutionary processes and genetics underlying local adaptation at a specieswide level are largely unknown. Recent work has indicated that a frameshift mutation in a member of a family of transcription factors, C-repeat ...

• Isolation and characterization of bacteria from the feathers of wild Dark-eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis) 

  Dille, John Wesley; Rogers, Christopher M.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (American Ornithologists' Union, 2016-04)

  We dislodged microbes from samples of composites of ventral feathers from different birds of overwintering Dark-eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis) after mist-net capture in south-central Kansas, USA. Bacterial loads were measured ...

• The role of direct current electric field-guided stem cell migration in neural regeneration 

  Yao, Li; Li, Yongchao (Springer International Publishing AG, 2016-06)

  Effective directional axonal growth and neural cell migration are crucial in the neural regeneration of the central nervous system (CNS). Endogenous currents have been detected in many developing nervous systems. Experiments ...

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