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In vivo assessment of respiratory burst inhibition by xenobiotic exposure using larval zebrafish (2020) Immunotoxicology

Drake W. Phelps, Ashley A. Fletcher, Ivan Rodriguez-Nunez, Michele R. Balik-Meisner, Debra A. Tokarz, David M. Reif, Dori R. Germolec & Jeffrey A. Yoder (2020) In vivo assessment of respiratory burst inhibition by xenobiotic exposure using larval zebrafish, Journal of Immunotoxicology, 17:1, 94-104,…

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Adrian Green presents at Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute

Adrian will present his work on Deep Learning Neural Networks for Toxicology with Martin Mohlenkamp and the Novel Applications team.

https://www.samsi.info/programs-and-activities/semester-long-programs/past/2019-fall-semester-program-on-deep-learning/

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Paper on social behavior effects of flame retardants (Gillera et al.) recognized as NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month

https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/2020/1/papers/dert/index.htm

 

Gillera SEA, Marinello WP, Horman BM, Phillips AL, Ruis MT, Stapleton HM, Reif DM, Patisaul HB. 2019. Sex-specific effects of perinatal FireMaster 550 (FM 550) exposure on socioemotional behavior in prairie voles. Neurotoxicol Tera…

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HGBEnviroScreen: Enabling Community Action through Data Integration in the Houston–Galveston– Brazoria Region (2020) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Sharmila Bhandari, P. Grace Tee Lewis, Elena Craft, Skylar W. Marvel, David M. Reif, and Weihsueh A. Chiu. HGBEnviroScreen: Enabling Community Action through Data Integration in the Houston–Galveston–Brazoria Region. Int. J. …

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Concentration-response evaluation of ToxCast compounds for multivariate activity patterns of neural network function (2019) Arch Toxicol

Kosnik MB, Strickland JD, Marvel SW, Wallis DJ, Wallace K, Richard AM, Reif
DM, Shafer TJ. Concentration-response evaluation of ToxCast compounds for
multivariate activity patterns of neural network function. Arch Toxicol. 2019 Dec
10. doi: 10.1007/s00204-019-02636-x. [Epub ahead of print] PubM…

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Sex-specific effects of perinatal FireMaster® 550 (FM 550) exposure on socioemotional behavior in prairie voles (2019) Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Gillera SEA, Marinello WP, Horman BM, Phillips AL, Ruis MT, Stapleton HM, Reif
DM, Patisaul HB. Sex-specific effects of perinatal FireMaster® 550 (FM 550)
exposure on socioemotional behavior in prairie voles. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2019 
Nov 12:106840. doi: 10.1016/j.ntt.2019.106840. [Epub ahead…

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Multivariate modeling of engineered nanomaterial features associated with developmental toxicity (2019) NanoImpact

 

KT To, L Truong, S Edwards, RL Tanguay, DM Reif (2019) Multivariate modeling of engineered nanomaterial features associated with developmental toxicity, NanoImpact.

 

 

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Synergistic chemotherapy drug response is a genetic trait in lymphoblastoid cell lines (2019) Frontiers in Genetics

Kyle Roell, Tammy Havener, David Reif*, John Jack, Howard McLeod, Tim Wiltshire, Alison Motsinger-Reif*

Front. Genet. | doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00829

Synergistic chemotherapy drug response is a genetic trait in lymphoblastoid cell lines

Lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCL) are a high…

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Population-based toxicity screening in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (2019) Toxicol Appl Pharmacol

Burnett SD, Blanchette AD, Grimm FA, House JS, Reif DM, Wright FA, Chiu WA,
Rusyn I. Population-based toxicity screening in human induced pluripotent stem
cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2019 Aug 16;381:114711. doi:
10.1016/j.taap.2019.114711. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed P…

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Knockdown of arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase-like 2 in Drosophila melanogaster (2019) Arch Insect Biochem Physiol

Anderson RL, Wallis DJ, Aguirre A, Holliday D, Merkler DJ. Knockdown of
arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase-like 2 in Drosophila melanogaster. Arch Insect
Biochem Physiol. 2019 Aug 6:e21608. doi: 10.1002/arch.21608. [Epub ahead of
print] PubMed PMID: 31385627.

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g…

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Determination of chemical-disease risk values to prioritize connections between environmental factors, genetic variants, and human diseases (2019) Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Kosnik MB, Reif DM. Determination of chemical-disease risk values to
prioritize connections between environmental factors, genetic variants, and human
diseases. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2019 Jul 16:114674. doi:
10.1016/j.taap.2019.114674. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31323264.

Integration of curated and high-throughput screening data to elucidate environmental influences on disease pathways (2019) Computational Toxicology

Vaccines and science communication

A recent article by Sarah Zhang in The Atlantic illustrates the importance of science communication with regard to vaccinomics:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/05/vaccines-dna-23andme/589915/

 

Part of that article details how one of our past papers has been interpreted, …

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Reif co-authors National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report "A Class Approach to Hazard Assessment of Organohalogen Flame Retardants"

Systematic determination of the relationship between nanoparticle core diameter and toxicity for a series of structurally analogous gold nanoparticles in zebrafish (2019) Nanotoxicology

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17435390.2019.1592259

 

Truong, L.; Zaikova, T.; Baldock, B.L.; Balik-Meisner, M.; To, K.; Reif, D.M.; Kennedy, Z.C.; Hutchison, J.E.; Tanguay, R.L. “Systematic determination of the relationship between nanoparticle core diameter and toxicity for a…

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Associations between access to healthcare, environmental quality, and end-stage renal disease survival time: Proportional-hazards models of over 1,000,000 people over 14 years (2019) PLoS One

Kosnik MB, Reif DM, Lobdell DT, Astell-Burt T, Feng X, Hader JD, Hoppin JA.
Associations between access to healthcare, environmental quality, and end-stage
renal disease survival time: Proportional-hazards models of over 1,000,000 people
over 14 years. PLoS One. 2019 Mar 21;14(3):e0214094. doi:…

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Neonatal mice exposed to a high-fat diet in utero influence the behaviour of their nursing dam (2018) Proc R Sci B

Neonatal mice exposed to a high-fat diet in utero influence the behaviour of their nursing dam.

Baptissart M, Lamb HE, To K, Bradish C, Tehrani J, Reif D, Cowley M.

Proc Biol Sci. 2018 Nov 14;285(1891). pii: 20181237. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1237.

PMID: 30429298

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GxE publication named an NIEHS "Paper of the Month"

Michele's paper "Elucidating gene-by-environment interactions associated with differential susceptibility to chemical exposure" was cited in the NIEHS newsletter as a Paper of the Month!

https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/2018/9/papers/dert/index.htm

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Bm-iAANAT and its potential role in fatty acid amide biosynthesis in Bombyx mori (2018) Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids

Anderson RL, Battistini MR, Wallis DJ, Shoji C, O'Flynn BG, Dillashaw JE,
Merkler DJ. Bm-iAANAT and its potential role in fatty acid amide biosynthesis in 
Bombyx mori. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids. 2018 Aug;135:10-17. doi:
10.1016/j.plefa.2018.06.001. Epub 2018 Jun 15. PubMed PMID:…

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Elucidating Gene-by-Environment Interactions Associated with Differential Susceptibility to Chemical Exposure (2018) EHP

Full paper:

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/EHP2662/

PubMed:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29968567

News releases and press coverage:

https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/06/reif-genes-environment/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180629114700.htm
 
https://globalhealthnewswire.com/2018/…

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