Faculty Publications Aug. 7-14

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Aug. 7-14. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.

Cedars-Sinai in the News

Why Some Wounds Don’t Leave Scars | The Scientist
Ophir Klein, MD, PhD 

Try a Cardiologist's 10-Minute Practice to Reduce Stress | Today
Susan Cheng, MD 

Expert Q&A: Primary Biliary Cholangitis | WebMD
Walid Ayoub, MD 

Why Your Newborn is Snoring (And What to Do About It) | The Bump
Abhita Reddy, MD 

Strategies to Improve Cardiovascular Health, Manage Obesity are Evolving Rapidly | Pharmacy Times
Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD 

This Experimental Drug Might Put Crohn’s Disease Into Remission | HealthCentral
Dermot McGovern, MD, PhD 

Clinical Trials May not Differentiate, But Data Show Women More Likely to Report Issues With GLP-1s | Medscape
Martha Gulati, MD 

Faculty Publications

Biomedical Sciences

Valine-Niclosamide for Treatment of Androgen Receptor Splice Variant-Positive Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Hoelzen, Emma J., Hanna S. Radomska, Samuel K. Kulp, Adeoluwa A. Adeluola, Lauren A. Granchie, Jeffrey Cheng, Anees M. Dauki, Moray J. Campbell, Shabber Mohammed, Enming Xing, Min Hai, Mayu Fukuda, Xiaolin Cheng, Mitch A. Phelps, Pui-Kai Li, and Christopher C. Coss. Cancers 17 (15): 2535.

Targeted Proteomics Upon Treatment With Tofersen Identifies Novel Response Markers for Superoxide Dismutase 1-Linked Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Steffke, Christina, Karthik Baskar, Franziska Bachhuber, Maximilian Wiesenfarth, Johannes Dorst, Joachim Schuster, Florian Schöberl, Peter Reilich, Martin Regensburger, Alexander German, René Günther, Maximilian Vidovic, Susanne Petri, Thomas Meyer, Tim Hagenacker, Julian Grosskreutz, Ute Weyen, Patrick Weydt, Thomas Haarmeier, Paul Lingor, Joachim Wolf, Andreas Hermann, Johannes Prudlo, Kornelia Günther, Antje Knehr, Zeynep Elmas, Zeljko Uzelac, Simon Witzel, Wolfgang Philipp Ruf, Axel Freischmidt, Ritchie Ho, Albert C. Ludolph, Jochen H. Weishaupt, Hayrettin Tumani, Patrick Oeckl, David Brenner, and Alberto Catanese. Annals of Neurology, August.

The Myokine FGF21 Associates With Enhanced Survival in ALS and Mitigates Stress-Induced Cytotoxicity. Guha, Abhishek, Ying Si, Reed Smith, Brijesh K. Singh, Benisa Zogu, Angad Yadav, Katherine A. Smith, Mohamed Kazamel, Nan Jiang, Ritchie Ho, Anna Thalacker-Mercer, Shaida A. Andrabi, Joao D. Tavares Da Silva Pereira, Juliana S. Salgado, Manasi Agrawal, Emina Horvat Velic, and Peter H. King. Aging 17 (August).

Environmental Justice Index and Prevalence of Asthma and COPD in US Neighborhoods- a Population-Based Study. Khadke, Sumanth, Vidhatri Khadke, Ashish Kumar, Bhargav Makwana, Sourbha S. Dani, Sadeer Al-Kindi, Sanjay Rajagopalan, Yixin Kong, Khurram Nasir, Gary Adamkiewicz, Anju Nohria, Timothy N. Liesching, Sarju Ganatra, and Victor Pinto-Plata. Lancet Regional Health. Americas 49 (September): 101195.

The Efficacy of Hyperthermia-Based Multimodal Therapy Is Dependent on Gatekeeper Protein, BID. Helmueller, Sarah, Xinxin Song, Dong-Hyun Kim, and Yong J. Lee. International Journal of Hyperthermia, 42 (1): 2544017.

Cardiac Surgery

Hydrogen Sulfide Deficiency and Therapeutic Targeting in Cardiometabolic HFpEF: Evidence for Synergistic Benefit With GLP-1/Glucagon Agonism. Doiron, Jake E., Mahmoud H. Elbatreek, Huijing Xia, Xiaoman Yu, Natalie D. Gehred, Tatiana Gromova, Jingshu Chen, Ian H. Driver, Naoto Muraoka, Martin Jensen, Smitha Shambhu, W. H. Wilson Tang, Kyle B. LaPenna, Thomas E. Sharp, Traci T. Goodchild, Ming Xian, Shi Xu, Heather Quiriarte, Timothy D. Allerton, Alexia Zagouras, Jennifer Wilcox, Sanjiv J. Shah, Josef Pfeilschifter, Karl-Friedrich Beck, Thomas M. Vondriska, Zhen Li, and David J. Lefer. JACC. Basic to Translational Science, June, 101297.

Beyond the Thresholds: Timing in the Warden Procedure. Viegas, Melita. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, August, S0003-4975(25)00726-X.

Cardiology

Prognostic Significance of Mitral Annular Calcification Assessed by Computed Tomography for Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair Outcomes. Nagasaka, Takashi, Vivek Patel, Kazuki Suruga, Yuchao Guo, Ofir Koren, Alon Shechter, Dhairya Patel, Tracy Salseth, Tarun Chakravarty, Aakriti Gupta, Hideki Ishii, Hasan Jilaihawi, Moody Makar, Mamoo Nakamura, and Raj R. Makkar. EuroIntervention: Journal of EuroPCR in Collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology 21 (15): e847–57.

The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Among Adults in the United States. Singh, Vidhi, Susan Cheng, Amanda Velazquez, Hirsh D. Trivedi, and Alan C. Kwan. Journal of Clinical Medicine 14 (15): 5484.

Response to Chang et al’s ‘Abrocitinib Versus Dupilumab: Impact on Skin Barrier Function and Proteomics in Atopic Dermatitis.’ Goleva, Elena, Evgeny Berdyshev, Simion Kreimer, and Donald Y. M. Leung. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, August, S0190-9622(25)02557-5.

Automated Coronary Artery Segmentation / Tissue Characterization and Detection of Lipid-Rich Plaque: An Integrated Backscatter Intravascular Ultrasound Study. Masuda, Yuto, Ryo Takeshita, Akiko Tsujimoto, Yuki Sahashi, Takatomo Watanabe, Daisuke Fukuoka, Takeshi Hara, Hiromitsu Kanamori, and Hiroyuki Okura. International Journal of Cardiology, August, 133744.

Lower Prepregnancy Cardiovascular Health Is Associated With Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: The CARDIA Study. Dodds, L. V., D. J. Feaster, C. I. Kiefe, E. P. Gunderson, N. A. Bello, T. Rundek, M. Paidas, S. Kulandavelu, and T. Elfassy. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex.: 1979), August.

Effects of Purified Eicosapentaenoic Acid Versus Mixed Eicosapentaenoic/Docosahexaenoic Acid Pharmacotherapies on Coronary Plaque Volume: Network Meta-Analysis of Prospective Coronary Imaging Trials. Sheppard, John P., Suvasini Lakshmanan, Leonard Palatnic, Suraj Dahal, Sion K. Roy, Deepak L. Bhatt, Matthew J. Budoff, and John R. Nelson. Acta Cardiologica, August, 1–13.

Revisiting the Effect of Udenafil on Exercise Performance in Patients With Fontan Circulation: Results of a Post Hoc Analysis of the FUEL Trial. Goldberg, David J., Victor Zak, Chenwei Hu, Adam M. Lubert, Rahul H. Rathod, Daniel J. Penny, Robert Whitehill, Kurt R. Schumacher, Salil Ginde, Michelle Ploutz, Gi Beom Kim, Todd T. Nowlen, Michael V. DiMaria, Benjamin P. Frischhertz, Jonathan B. Wagner, Kimberly E. McHugh, Brian W. McCrindle, Mark J. Cartoski, Jon Detterich, Anji T. Yetman, Anitha S. John, Marc E. Richmond, Matthew Files, R. Mark Payne, Andrew S. Mackie, Christopher K. Davis, William B. Orr, Ruchira Garg, Kevin D. Hill, Jennifer S. Yauck, Michael G. McBride, James Yeager, Gail D. Pearson, Stephen M. Paridon, and Bryan H. Goldstein. Journal of the American Heart Association, August, e041348.

The Evolving Risk of Infective Endocarditis After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. Alabbadi, Sundos H., Alexander Iribarne, Josep Rodés-Cabau, Torsten Doenst, Joanna Chikwe, Shinobu Itagaki, Nana Toyoda, Raj Makkar, Enoch F. Akowuah, Marissa Perez, W. Patricia Bandettini, Shahab A. Akhter, Sabine Bleiziffer, Markus Krane, Hirsh Makhija, Ranjit Deshpande, Annetine C. Gelijns, and Natalia N. Egorova. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, August, ezaf274.

Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon for the Treatment of Multilayer In-Stent Restenosis: AGENT IDE Subgroup Analysis. Kirtane, Ajay J., Richard Shlofmitz, Jeffrey Moses, William Bachinsky, Suhail Dohad, Steven Rudick, Robert Stoler, Brian K. Jefferson, William Nicholson, John Altman, Cinthia Bateman, Amar Krishnaswamy, J. Aaron Grantham, Francis J. Zidar, Jennifer A. Tremmel, Cindy Grines, Mustafa I. Ahmed, Azeem Latib, Behnam Tehrani, J. Dawn Abbott, Wayne Batchelor, Rafael Cavalcante, and Robert W. Yeh. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 86 (7): 502–11.

Computational Biomedicine

A Community-Based Approach to Ethical Decision-Making in Artificial Intelligence for Health Care. Senghor, Abdou S., Tiffani J. Bright, Saya Kakim, Keith C. Norris, Henry A. Antwi, Jasmine K. Cooper, C. Daniel Mullins, and Claudia Baquet. JAMIA Open 8 (4): ooaf076.

Leveraging Unstructured Data in Electronic Health Records to Detect Adverse Events From Pediatric Drug Use: A Scoping Review. Golder, Su, Karen O’Connor, Guillermo Lopez-Garcia, Nicholas P. Tatonetti, and Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez. Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science 8 (1): 227–50.

The Expanding Landscape of Neural Architectures and Their Impact in Biomedicine. Zhang, Zijun Frank, Huixin Zhan, Tinghui Wu, Robert Burns, Jasreet Hundal, and Helio A. Costa. Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science 8 (1): 101–24.

Evaluating Whole Health Engagement Among Homeless-Experienced Veterans in an Emergency Shelter: A Quality Improvement Study. Saleh, Tawny, Lillian Gelberg, Melissa Y. Chinchilla, Jennifer E. Allen, Kristen L. Connor, Lisa Altman, and Peter Capone-Newton. AJPM Focus 4 (5): 100383.

Imaging

Impact of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Visibility of Prostate Cancer on Partial Gland Ablation. Kaneko, Masatomo, Lorenzo Storino Ramacciotti, Yuta Inoue, Samuel Peretsman, Jessica Cummins, Jie Cai, Pierre Halteh, Suzanne Palmer, Manju Aron, Osamu Ukimura, Inderbir S. Gill, and Andre Luis Abreu. BJUI Compass 6 (8): e70065.

Neoadjuvant Chemoimmunotherapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Who Truly Benefits? Thomas, Mariam. AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology, August.

Medicine

Management of Recurrent and Aggressive Non-Functioning Pituitary Adenomas. Hefner, Nicole A., and Odelia Cooper. Journal of Clinical Medicine 14 (15): 5203.

Obesity Is a Thrombotic Risk Factor in Pregnant Women. Korolova, Daria, Andrea Suranyi, Anastasiia Pavlenko, Abel T. Altorjay, Svitlana Zhuk, Iryna Us, Yurii Melnyk, Volodymyr Chernyshenko, and Sandor G. Vari. Journal of Clinical Medicine 14 (15): 5310.

CFTR Gene Regulation in Human Pancreatic Duct, Bile Duct and Sweat Gland Epithelial Cells. Umrigar, Ayushi, Katreya Lovrenert, Jenny L. Kerschner, Neeraj Sharma, Britney Tian, Rebecca Melton, Kyu Shik Mun, Nirbhayaditya Vaghela, Mina Ogawa, Gedge D. Rosson, Shinichiro Ogawa, Anjaparavanda P. Naren, Kyle J. Gaulton, Shih-Hsing Leir, and Ann Harris. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 29 (15): e70751.

General Purpose Deep Learning Attenuation Correction Improves Diagnostic Accuracy of SPECT MPI: A Multicenter Study. Shanbhag, Aakash D., Robert J. H. Miller, Mark Lemley, Paul Kavanagh, Joanna X. Liang, Anna M. Marcinkiewicz, Valerie Builoff, Serge Van Kriekinge, Terrence D. Ruddy, Mathews B. Fish, Andrew J. Einstein, Monica Martins, Julian P. Halcox, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Christopher Buckley, Timothy M. Bateman, Daniel S. Berman, Damini Dey, and Piotr J. Slomka. JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging, August, S1936-878X(25)00331-6.

The REgistry of Flow and Perfusion Imaging for Artificial INtelligEnce With PET(REFINE PET): Rationale and Design. Ramirez, Giselle, Mark Lemley, Aakash Shanbhag, Jacek Kwiecinski, Robert J. H. Miller, Paul B. Kavanagh, Joanna X. Liang, Damini Dey, Leandro Slipczuk, Mark I. Travin, Erick Alexanderson, Isabel Carvajal-Juarez, René R. S. Packard, Mouaz Al-Mallah, Andrew J. Einstein, Attila Feher, Wanda Acampa, Stacey Knight, Viet T. Le, Steve Mason, Rupa Sanghani, Samuel Wopperer, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Ronny R. Buechel, Thomas L. Rosamond, Robert A. deKemp, Daniel S. Berman, Marcelo F. Di Carli, and Piotr J. Slomka. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, August, 102449.

Clarifying the Link Between IMO and Constipation. Mehravar, Sepideh, and Ali Rezaie. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, August, S1542-3565(25)00664-0.

Cost-Effectiveness of Opportunistic Osteoporosis Screening Using Chest Radiographs With Deep Learning in the United States. Hiligsmann, Mickael, Stuart L. Silverman, and Jean-Yves Reginster. Journal of the American College of Radiology: JACR, August, S1546-1440(25)00447-8.

Dd-cfDNA Significantly Improves Rejection Yield in Kidney Transplant Biopsies. Bromberg, Jonathan S., Daniel C. Brennan, David J. Taber, Matthew Cooper, Sanjiv Anand, Enver Akalin, Edmund Huang, Jeffrey A. Klein, Renata Glehn-Ponsirenas, Jeffrey Rogers, Peale Chuang, Ashish S. Kothari, Ling Shen, Robert N. Woodward, Dhiren Kumar, David Wojciechowski, Didier Mandelbrot, Nadiesda Costa, Lihong Bu, Matthew R. Weir, and KOAR investigators. American Journal of Transplantation, August, S1600-6135(25)02875-8.

Comparison, Agreement, and Significance Cutoffs of 18F-Flurpiridaz PET Myocardial Blood Flow Quantitation Methods and Software Packages. Packard, René R. Sevag, Christopher Buckley, C. David Cooke, Jonathan B. Moody, Jennifer M. Renaud, Piotr Slomka, David Thompson, Serge D. Van Kriekinge, Kenneth F. Van Train, Kristen A. Wangerin, and Jamshid Maddahi. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, August, jnumed.124.269398.

Parathyroid Hormone Receptor Agonists in the Management of Osteoporosis. Fuggle, Nicholas, René Rizzoli, Charlotte Beaudart, Bernard Cortet, Elizabeth M. Curtis, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Jean-Marc Kaufman, Nicola Veronese, Ben Hur Albergaria, Nasser Al-Daghri, Majed Alokail, Maria Luisa Brandi, Olivier Bruyère, Nansa Burlet, Claudia Campusano, Enrique Casado, Etienne Cavalier, Manju Chandran, Cyrus Cooper, Patrizia D’Amelio, Bess Dawson-Hughes, Peter R. Ebeling, John A. Kanis, Andreas Kurth, Radmila Matijevic, Eugene McCloskey, Michael McClung, Ouafa Mkinsi, Ngozi Njeze, Régis P. Radermecker, François Rannou, Stuart Silverman, Şansın Tüzün, Leith Zakraoui, Jean-Yves Reginster, and Nicholas C. Harvey. Nature Reviews. Rheumatology, August.

Correlation Between Clinical and Pathological Nodal Status in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Identifying Risk Factors for Lymph Node Metastasis via the National Cancer Database. Lee, Huisong, Kyunguk Jung, Michael Luu, Kambiz Kosari, Nicholas Nissen, and Ju Dong Yang. World Journal of Surgical Oncology 23 (1): 311.

Intestinal Ultrasound for Monitoring Colonic Inflammation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Chugh, Rishika, Phillip Gu, and Michael Todd Dolinger. Current Gastroenterology Reports 27 (1): 61.

Consensus on Acromegaly Therapeutic Outcomes: An Update. Melmed, Shlomo, Luigi di Filippo, Maria Fleseriu, Moisés Mercado, Niki Karavitaki, Mark Gurnell, Roberto Salvatori, Stylianos Tsagarakis, Marco Losa, Pietro Maffei, Alberto M. Pereira, Eliza B. Geer, Andrea Giustina, et al. Nature Reviews. Endocrinology, August.

Impact of Metabolic Surgery on the Severity and Outcomes of Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study. Kerbage, Anthony, Vitor Ottoboni Brunaldi, Karim Al Annan, Rudy Mrad, Vinay Chandrasekhara, Randall K. Pearson, Ferga C. Gleeson, Aliana Bofill-Garcia, Shounak Majumder, Ryan Law, Omar M. Ghanem, John A. Martin, Bret T. Petersen, Santhi Swaroop Vege, Andrew Storm, Barham Abu Dayyeh, and Eric J. Vargas. Obesity Surgery, August.

Lenvatinib Plus Pembrolizumab for Patients With Previously Treated Select Solid Tumors: Results From the Phase 2 LEAP-005 Study Recurrent Glioblastoma Cohort. Rha, Sun Young, Eduardo Castanon, Sanjeev Gill, Helene Senellart, Juanita Lopez, Iván Márquez-Rodas, Iván Victoria, Tae Min Kim, Zarnie Lwin, Michael C. Burger, Matteo Simonelli, Philippe A. Cassier, Andrew E. Hendifar, Paolo A. Ascierto, Corina Dutcus, Chinyere E. Okpara, Razi Ghori, Fan Jin, Roman Groisberg, and Luis Villanueva. Cancer 131 (16): e70015.

Neurosurgery

Probing for Intentions: The Early Readiness Potential Does Not Reflect Awareness of Motor Preparation. Gavenas, Jake, Aaron Schurger, and Uri Maoz. Imaging Neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) 3: imag_a_00465.

Letter to the Editor. Ventral CSF Leak Repair via an Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion Approach. Nisson, Peyton L., and Wouter Schievink. Journal of Neurosurgery. Case Lessons 10 (6): CASE25259.

OBGYN

Travel Less, Learn More, Never Attend Alone! Adapting Minimally Invasive Surgery Meetings to Minimize the Environmental Impact While Maintaining Personal Interactions. Canis, Michel, Sukhbir S. Singh, Kathy Huang, Kelly Wright, Sassi Boughizane, Emmanuel Nzau, Prudence V. Aquino-Aquino, Pauline Chauvet, Agnaldo Lopes da Silva Filho, Pandit Palaskar, and Alan Lam. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, August, S1553-4650(25)00281-X.

Regarding Hysteroscopy-Guided Endometrial Sampling Diagnostic Performance in Endometrial Intraepithelial Neoplasia Patients. Levin, Gabriel, and Raanan Meyer. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, August, S1553-4650(25)00292-4.

Tumour Extracellular Vesicle Surface Protein-mRNA Integration Assay for Early Detection of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. Yen, Ying-Tzu, Chen Zhao, Tian Gao, Jacqueline Ziqian Yang, Ning Kang, Jiahui Pu, Lei Qiu, Qixin Hu, Hyoyong Kim, Anmin Wang, Junseok Lee, Ryan Y. Zhang, Na Liu, Yue Ma, You-Ren Ji, Yong Ju, Lynn L. Zheng, James Lee-South, Vivian X. Zuo, Audrey Qian, Aaron Kwan, Yating Zhang, Shenghua Zhang, Zhili Wang, Jing Ren, Huaichao Liu, Zihan Wang, Yang Yue, Jina Kim, Jennifer Sun, Gabriella A. DiBernardo, Laura B. James-Allan, Ying Chen, Weipei Zhu, Guoyun Wang, Renjun Pei, Sanaz Memarzadeh, Sungyong You, Bobbie J. Rimel, Kate Lawrenson, Beth Y. Karlan, Myung Shin Sim, Shaohua Lu, Jipeng Wan, Na Sun, Hsian-Rong Tseng, and Yazhen Zhu. EBioMedicine 119 (August): 105884.

Orthopaedics 

Opinions Regarding Dual-Implant Fixation and Weight-Bearing in Distal Femur Fractures: A Survey From the 2022 Orthopaedic Trauma Association Traveling Fellowship. Thompson, Austen L., Ankur Khanna, Emily A. Wagstrom, Milton T. Little, and Brandon J. Yuan. The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, August.

Pitfalls and Strategies of CAR-T Therapy in Solid Tumors and Implications for Chordoma Treatment. Qi, M., G. Cattaneo, C. Camillo, E. Quattrocchi, L. Zhang, E. Tejeda-Polanco, C. Ferrone, Z. Chen, and J. Schwab. Immunotherapy, August, 1–13.

Biological Tendon Regeneration, Are We Almost There or Is It Still a Stretch? Pazarceviren, Ahmet Engin, Minoo Bastani, and Dmitriy Sheyn. Regenerative Medicine, August, 1–5.

Social Determinants Are Associated With Clinical Presentation of Acute Pathological Fracture in Metastatic Long-Bone Disease. Groot, Tom M. de, Lotte R. van der Linden, Angad D. S. Bedi, Andreea A. Lucaciu, Caleb C. Jang, Olivier Q. Groot, Job N. Doornberg, Paul C. Jutte, Santiago A. Lozano-Calderon, and J. H. Schwab. Journal of Bone Oncology 54 (October): 100707.

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence as Applied to the Field of Cytopathology: A Comprehensive Review. Emery, John F., Minh-Khang Le, Joshua Levy, Louis Vaickus, and Xiaoying Liu. Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology, July, S2213-2945(25)00083-3.

Recurrent BEND2 Fusion Genes Identified by Whole Transcriptome Sequencing of Non-Functional Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Correlate With Poor Patient Prognosis. Wood-Trageser, Michelle A., C. Tolson Nichols, Danielle A. Hutchings, Diana Bell, Abigail I. Wald, Katelyn Smith, Seung-Mo Hong, Claudio Luchini, Lodewijk A. A. Brosens, Anna Vera D. Verschuur, Michele Bevere, Rita T. Lawlor, Aatur D. Singhi, et al. Modern Pathology, Inc, August, 100863.

Histology-Based Virtual RNA Inference Identifies Pathways Associated With Metastasis Risk in Colorectal Cancer. Srinivasan, Gokul, Minh-Khang Le, Zarif Azher, Xiaoying Liu, Louis Vaickus, Harsimran Kaur, Fred Kolling, Scott Palisoul, Laurent Perreard, Ken S. Lau, Keluo Yao, and Joshua Levy. Modern Pathology, Inc, August, 100866.

Artificial Intelligence-Based Quality Control of Cell Lines. Gramatiuk, Svetlana, Igor A. Kryvoruchko, Yulia V. Ivanova, Emily Hubbard, Maria Noebauer-Babenko, and Karine Sargsyan. Biopreservation and Biobanking, August.

Increased ErbB2 Signaling Is an Early Adaptation to Androgen Signaling Inhibition and Persists in Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer. Owiredu, Jude, Betul Ersoy-Fazlioglu, Larysa Poluben, Carla Calagua, Christopher Dennehy, Anastasia-Maria Stavridi, Liyang Wang, Olga Voznesensky, Fang Xie, Huihui Ye, Yue Sun, David J. Einstein, Xin Gao, Charlene Mantia, Mary-Ellen Taplin, William J. Muller, Steven P. Balk, and Joshua W. Russo. Clinical Cancer Research, August.

Pediatrics

A Narrative Review of Neonatal Echocardiography Simulator Training (NEST): Role of Simulators in Acquiring Neonatal Echocardiography Skills Effectively. Singh, Yogen, Rangasamy Ramanathan, Mahmood Ebrahimi, and Shahab Noori. Pediatric Research, August.

Gut Reactions and Gut Instincts: Regulation of Intestinal Homeostasis by Receptor Guanylyl Cyclase C (GC-C). Bose, Avipsa, and Sandhya S. Visweswariah. The Biochemical Journal 48 (16): BCJ20253055.

Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Sleep-Wake Disorders: Systematic Review of Approved Psychiatric Medications (2008 to 2024) and Pipeline Phase-3 Medications. Dugan, Lauren, Aasim Naqvi, Ashley Ngor, Jayant Totlani, Tiffany Chang, Drew Hirsch, Salma Abdelmoteleb, Thomas Parrish, Piyush Nayyar, Kyla Truman, Michael Irwin, Robert N. Pechnick, Itai Danovitch, and Waguih W. IsHak. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, August.

Surgery 

The Future Role of Mitochondrial Drugs in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation: A Short Review. Knoedler, Leonard, Daniel H. Mendelsohn, Loïc Van Dieren, Thomas Schaschinger, Cosima C. Hoch, Max Heiland, Jasper Iske, Felix J. Klimitz, Maxime Jeljeli, Korkut Uygun, Curtis L. Cetrulo, and Alexandre G. Lellouch. Cell Transplantation 34: 9636897251347749.

Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery Curriculum: Elevating Skills in General Surgery Residency. Perez, Claire, Lucas Weiser, Hoover Wu, Andrew R. Brownlee, Yufei Chen, and Kulmeet Sandhu. American Journal of Surgery, July, 116547.

PCBP2 Mediates Olaparib Resistance in Breast Cancer by Inhibiting m6A Methylation to Stabilize PARP1 mRNA. Qi, Zhaochang, Lifang He, Zemei Xu, Xi Luo, Likeng Ji, Chenting Lin, Armando E. Giuliano, Xiaojiang Cui, Zihao Deng, Jundong Wu, Stanley Li Lin, and Yukun Cui. Cancer Research, August.

Molecular Basis for Targeting TBK1 in CAR-T Cell Therapies for Cancer. Cattaneo, Giulia, Marco Ventin, Luke Maggs, Yi Sun, Cristina R. Ferrone, and Russell W. Jenkins. Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets, August.

Impact of Neoadjuvant Treatment on Functional Outcomes After Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision (taTME)-a Case Series. Donovan, Katherine F., Elisa Paoluzzi Tomada, Heather Carmichael, Alison Ricardo, Natalie Berger, Antoinette Bonaccorso, Karim Alavi, Karen Zaghiyan, Alessio Pigazzi, Dana Sands, Theresa DeBeche-Adams, Sami A. Chadi, Elisabeth C. McLemore, John H. Marks, Justin A. Maykel, Sherief F. Shawki, Scott R. Steele, Matthew Albert, Mark H. Whiteford, Steven D. Wexner, and Patricia Sylla. Surgical Endoscopy, August.

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