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Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2, Pages 131-396 (August 2009)
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The evolution of the SUS
Diane M. Simeone
pages 131-137
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Society of University Surgeons


Both endogenous and exogenous testosterone decrease myocardial STAT3 activation and SOCS3 expression after acute ischemia and reperfusion, 26 June 2009
Meijing Wang, Yue Wang, Aaron Abarbanell, Jiangjing Tan, Brent Weil, Jeremy Herrmann, Daniel R. Meldrum
pages 138-144
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Acute postischemic treatment with estrogen receptor-α agonist or estrogen receptor-β agonist improves myocardial recovery
Nicholas D. Vornehm, Meijing Wang, Aaron Abarbanell, Jeremy Herrmann, Brent Weil, Jiangjing Tan, Yue Wang, Megan Kelly, Daniel R. Meldrum
pages 145-154
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Orally administered nitrite attenuates cardiac allograft rejection in rats
Jianghua Zhan, Atsunori Nakao, Ryujiro Sugimoto, Rajeev Dhupar, Yinna Wang, Zhiliang Wang, Timothy R. Billiar, Kenneth R. McCurry
pages 155-165
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Allospecific CD154+ T cells identify rejection-prone recipients after pediatric small-bowel transplantation, 29 June 2009
Chethan Ashokkumar, Ankit Gupta, Qing Sun, Mylarappa B. Ningappa, Brandon W. Higgs, George Mazariegos, Tamara Fazzolare, Lisa Remaley, Kyle Soltys, Geoffrey Bond, Kareem Abu-Elmagd, Rakesh Sindhi
pages 166-173
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The negative effect of pretransplant overweight and obesity on the rate of improvement in physical quality of life after liver transplantation
Victor Zaydfudim, Irene D. Feurer, Derek E. Moore, Panarut Wisawatapnimit, J. Kelly Wright, C. Wright Pinson
pages 174-180
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Donor graft interferon regulatory factor-1 gene transfer worsens liver transplant ischemia/reperfusion injury
Kee-Hwan Kim, Rajeev Dhupar, Shinya Ueki, Jon Cardinal, Pinhua Pan, Zongxian Cao, Sung W. Cho, Noriko Murase, Allan Tsung, David A. Geller
pages 181-189
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Mesenchymal stem cells enhance the viability and proliferation of human fetal intestinal epithelial cells following hypoxic injury via paracrine mechanisms
Brent R. Weil, Troy A. Markel, Jeremy L. Herrmann, Aaron M. Abarbanell, Daniel R. Meldrum
pages 190-197
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MEK mediates the novel cross talk between TNFR2 and TGF-EGFR in enhancing vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) secretion from human mesenchymal stem cells, 26 June 2009
Yue Wang, Meijing Wang, Aaron M. Abarbanell, Brent R. Weil, Jeremy L. Herrmann, Jiangning Tan, Nathan M. Novotny, Arthur C. Coffey, Daniel R. Meldrum
pages 198-205
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Targeting the gut barrier: Identification of a homing peptide sequence for delivery into the injured intestinal epithelial cell
Todd W. Costantini, James G. Putnam, Ritsuko Sawada, Andrew Baird, William H. Loomis, Brian P. Eliceiri, Vishal Bansal, Raul Coimbra
pages 206-212
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ERBB2 suppression decreases cell growth via apoptosis in gastrointestinal adenocarcinomas
Amanda K. Arrington, Peter S. Dahlberg, Julia Davydova, Selwyn M. Vickers, Masato Yamamoto
pages 213-219
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Eukaryotic initiation factor 4E overexpression in triple-negative breast cancer predicts a worse outcome
Anthony Flowers, Quyen D. Chu, Lori Panu, Carol Meschonat, Gloria Caldito, Mary Lowery-Nordberg, Benjamin D.L. Li
pages 220-226
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Genetic and molecular diversity of colon cancer hepatic metastases
Craig A. Messick, Julian Sanchez, Kathryn L. DeJulius, James M. Church, Matthew F. Kalady
pages 227-231
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Expression of a prometastatic splice variant of osteopontin, OPNC, in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Jennifer Sullivan, Laurel Blair, Amer Alnajar, Tamer Aziz, Chee Yuan Ng, Galina Chipitsyna, Qiaoke Gong, Agnes Witkiewicz, Georg F. Weber, David T. Denhardt, Charles J. Yeo, Hwyda A. Arafat
pages 232-240
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An antiendothelial combination therapy strategy to increase survival in experimental pancreatic cancer
Roderich E. Schwarz, Srivani Konduri, Niranjan Awasthi, Danielle Cafasso, Margaret A. Schwarz
pages 241-249
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Depth of tumor invasion better predicts prognosis than the current American Joint Committee on Cancer T classification for distal bile duct carcinoma
Seung-Mo Hong, Timothy M. Pawlik, HyungJun Cho, Bhuvnesh Aggarwal, Michael Goggins, Ralph H. Hruban, Robert A. Anders
pages 250-257
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Obesity potentiates the growth and dissemination of pancreatic cancer
Nicholas J. Zyromski, Abhishek Mathur, Henry A. Pitt, Terrence E. Wade, Sue Wang, Poornima Nakshatri, Deborah A. Swartz-Basile, Harikrishna Nakshatri
pages 258-263
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A simple formula to calculate the liver drainage volume of the accessory right hepatic vein using its diameter alone
Jun Hanaoka, Mitsuo Shimada, Hideaki Uchiyama, Toru Ikegami, Satoru Imura, Yuji Morine, Hirofumi Kanemura
pages 264-268
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Circadian variation in intestinal dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) expression: A potential mechanism for benefits of 5FU chrono-chemotherapy
Kamran Abolmaali, Anita Balakrishnan, Adam T. Stearns, Jan Rounds, David B. Rhoads, Stanley W. Ashley, Ali Tavakkolizadeh
pages 269-273
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Incidental PET/CT findings in the cancer patient: How should they be managed?
John S. Beatty, Hadyn T. Williams, Beau A. Aldridge, Matthew P. Hughes, Viren S. Vasudeva, Angela L. Gucwa, George S. David, D. Scott Lind, E. James Kruse, James M. McLoughlin
pages 274-281
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Triptolide therapy for neuroblastoma decreases cell viability in vitro and inhibits tumor growth in vivo
Mara B. Antonoff, Rohit Chugh, Daniel Borja-Cacho, Vikas Dudeja, Kimberly A. Clawson, Steven J. Skube, Brent S. Sorenson, Daniel A. Saltzman, Selwyn M. Vickers, Ashok K. Saluja
pages 282-290
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Intestinal lengthening in rats after massive small intestinal resection, 22 June 2009
Shant Shekherdimian, Andrew Scott, Andrea Chan, James C.Y. Dunn
pages 291-295
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Two hundred and two consecutive operations for secondary hyperparathyroidism: Has medical management changed the profiles of patients requiring parathyroidectomy?, 29 June 2009
Wen T. Shen, Electron Kebebew, Insoo Suh, Quan-Yang Duh, Orlo H. Clark
pages 296-299
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Access to emergency operative care: A comparative study between the Canadian and American health care systems, 29 June 2009
Susan A. Krajewski, S. Morad Hameed, Douglas S. Smink, Selwyn O. Rogers
pages 300-307
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Females have fewer complications and lower mortality following trauma than similarly injured males: A risk adjusted analysis of adults in the National Trauma Data Bank
Adil H. Haider, Joseph G. Crompton, Tolulope Oyetunji, Kent A. Stevens, David T. Efron, Alicia N. Kieninger, David C. Chang, Edward E. Cornwell, Elliott R. Haut
pages 308-315
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Daptomycin for the treatment of surgical site infections
Ronald S. Chamberlain, Darren L. Culshaw, Brian J. Donovan, Kenneth C. Lamp
pages 316-324
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Surviving blood loss without blood transfusion in a swine poly-trauma model, 26 June 2009
Hasan B. Alam, Fahad Shuja, Muhammad U. Butt, Michael Duggan, Yongqing Li, Nikolaos Zacharias, Eugene Y. Fukudome, Baoling Liu, Marc deMoya, George C. Velmahos
pages 325-333
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Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor is essential for preservation of gut barrier function after hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation in mice
Hong-yi Zhang, Andrei Radulescu, Gail E. Besner
pages 334-339
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Restoration of skeletal muscle ischemia-reperfusion injury in humanized immunodeficient mice
Eric G. Sheu, Sean M. Oakes, Cyrus Ahmadi-Yazdi, Jalil Afnan, Michael C. Carroll, Francis D. Moore
pages 340-346
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Proteome and system ontology of hemorrhagic shock: Exploring early constitutive changes in postshock mesenteric lymph, 26 June 2009
Erik D. Peltz, Ernest E. Moore, Ashley A. Zurawel, Janeen R. Jordan, Sagar S. Damle, Jasmina S. Redzic, Tomohiko Masuno, John Eun, Kirk C. Hansen, Anirban Banerjee
pages 347-357
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Outcomes following cholecystectomy in pregnant and nonpregnant women
SreyRam Kuy, Sanziana A. Roman, Rani Desai, Julie Ann Sosa
pages 358-366
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Is the growth in laparoscopic surgery reproducible with more complex procedures?
Anand Singla, YouFu Li, Sing Chau Ng, Nicholas G. Csikesz, Jennifer F. Tseng, Shimul A. Shah
pages 367-374
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Recent trends in bariatric surgery case volume in the United States
Geoffrey P. Kohn, Joseph A. Galanko, D. Wayne Overby, Timothy M. Farrell
pages 375-380
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A method to characterize the learning curve for performance of a fundamental laparoscopic simulator task: Defining “learning plateau” and “learning rate”, 26 June 2009
Liane S. Feldman, Jiguo Cao, Amin Andalib, Shannon Fraser, Gerald M. Fried
pages 381-386
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Maintaining proficiency after Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery training: A 1-year analysis of skill retention for surgery residents
Antonio O. Castellvi, Lisa A. Hollett, Abu Minhajuddin, Deborah C. Hogg, Seifu T. Tesfay, Daniel J. Scott
pages 387-393
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Acknowledgment of peer reviewers
pages 394-396
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