IRINA PETRACHE,1 MARY E. CHOI,2,3 LEO E. OTTERBEIN,4 BEEK YOKE CHIN,4 LIN L. MANTELL,5 STUART HOROWITZ,5 AND AUGUSTINE M. K. CHOI2,6 6Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and 3Section of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven 06520; 2Connecticut Veterans Affairs HealthCare System, West Haven, Connecticut 06516; 5Departments of Thora...

MICHAEL T. BORCHERS,1 SCOTT WESSELKAMPER,1 SUSAN E. WERT,2 STEVEN D. SHAPIRO,3 AND GEORGE D. LEIKAUF1 1Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati 45267; 2Division of Pulmonary Biology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229-3039; and 3Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine...

Sterni, L. M., O. S. Bamford, M. J. Wasicko, and J. L. Carroll. Chronic hypoxia abolished the postnatal increase in carotid body type I cell sensitivity to hypoxia. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 21): L645–L652, 1999.—The O2 sensitivity of carotid chemoreceptor type I cells is low just after birth and increases with postnatal age. Chronic hypoxia during postnatal maturation blunt...

JANICE A. DYE,1 KENNETH B. ADLER,2 JUDY H. RICHARDS,1 AND KEVIN L. DREHER1 1National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Experimental Toxicology Division, Pulmonary Toxicology Branch, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park 27711; and 2Department of Anatomy, Physiological Sciences, and Radiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina Stat...

shahnameh, composed in the 10th century by ferdowsi, is one of the most significant classics of the world. it is about heroic tales of ancient persia. the contents and the poet's style in describing events takes the reader back to ancient times and makes him/her feel the events. ferdowsi worked for thirty years to complete this crown jewel of persian literature. publius vergilius maro know...

Description Zelig is an easy-to-use program that can estimate, and help interpret the results of, an enormous range of statistical models. It literally is ‘‘everyone’s statistical software’’ because Zelig’s simple unified framework incorporates everyone else’s (R) code. We also hope it will become ‘‘everyone’s statistical software’’ for applications and teaching, and so have designed Zelig so t...

#### Notable in Neurology This Week This issue features an article that examines the effects of recurrent concussions on cerebral blood flow and white matter microstructure midline brain structures; another compares effectiveness initial treatment options for children with infantile spasms. A featured Special Article use, abuse, ethical implications social media …