by MORE Faculty and Students (listed by institution)

BARRY UNIVERSITY

Bingham SM, Mudd LM, Lopez TF, Montague JR. Effects of ethanol on cultured embryonic neurons from the cerebral cortex of the rat. Alcohol 2004;32:129-35.

Lin YP, Petrino TR, Wallace RA. Fundulus heteroclitus gonado tropins. 5: Small scale chromatographic fractionation of pituitary extracts into components with different steroidogenic activities using homologousbioassays. Reprod Biol Endocrinol 2004;2:14.

CITY UNIVERISTY OF NEW YORK, YORK COLLEGE

Dubrovsky EB, Dubrovskaya VA, Levinger L, Schiffer S, Marchfelder A. Drosophila RNase Z processes mitochondrial and nuclear pre-tRNA 3' ends in vivo. Nucleic Acids Res 2004;32:255-62.

Levinger L, Oestreich I, Florentz C, Morl M. A pathogenesis-associated mutation in human mitochondrial tRNA ^Leu(UUR) leads to reduced 3'-end processing and CCA addition. J Mol Biol 2004; 337:535-44.

Toompuu M, Levinger LL, Nadal A, Gomez J, Jacobs HT. The 7472insC mtDNA mutation impairs 5' and 3' processing of tRNA^Ser(UCN). Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004;322:803-13.

CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Kwan ML, Battiste MA, Macala MK, Aybar SC, James NC, Haoui JJ. Diethylaluminum chloride mediated vinylsilane synthesis: comparison of different solvent systems. Synthetic Comm 2004;34:1943-50.

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Martinez L, Almagro JC, Coll JL, Herrera RJ. Sequence variability in the fibroin-H intron of domesticated and wild silk moths. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 2004;34:343-52.

Pereira-Simon S, Sierra-Montes JM, Ayesh K, Martinez L, Socorro A, Herrera RJ. Variants of U1 small nuclear RNA assemble into spliceosomal complexes. Insect Mol Biol 2004;13:189-94.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Nguyen DM, Reynald RL, Gittis AG, Lattman EE. X-ray and thermodynamic studies of staphylococcal nuclease variants I92E and I92K: insights into polarity of the protein interior. J Mol Biol 2004;341:565-74.

MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE

Hu L, Xu X, Valenzuela MS. Initiation sites for human DNA replication at a putative ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase gene. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004;320:648-55.

Shi M, Yang H, Motley ED, Guo Z. Overexpression of Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase and/or catalase in mice inhibits aorta smooth muscle cell proliferation. Am J Hypertens 2004;17:450-6.

Wormley DD, Ramesh A, Hood DB. Environmental contaminant-mixture effects on CNS development, plasticity, and behavior. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2004;197:49-65.

MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Bayorh MA, Ganafa AA, Socci RR, Silvestrov N, Abukhalaf IK. The role of oxidative stress in salt-induced hypertension. Am J Hypertens 2004;17:31-6.

Gharavi AE, Vega-Ostertag M, Espinola RG, Liu X, Cole L, Cox NT, Romagnoli P, Labat K, Pierangeli SS. Intrauterine fetal death in mice caused by cytomegalovirus-derived peptide induced by aPL antibodies. Lupus 2004;13:17-23.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Lacayo CI, Theriot JA. Listeria mono-cytogenes actin-based motility varies depending on subcellular location: a kinematic probe for cytoarchitecture. Mol Biol Cell 2004;15:2164-75.

STILLMAN COLLEGE

Neggers YH, Singh J. Effect of dietary protein, zinc, and carbon monoxide on fetal zinc concentration in mice. Biol Trace Elem Res 2004;98:171-9.

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, KINGSVILLE

Bhattacharya A, Purohit VC, Beller NR. Benzoin condensation: monitoring a chemical reaction by high-pressure liquid chromatography. J Chem Ed 2004;81:1020-22.

UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Nath N, Pokharia S, Eng G, Song X, Kumar A, Gielen M, Willem R, Biesemans M. New trimethyltin (IV) derivatives of dipeptides: synthesis, characteristic spectral studies and biological activity. Appl Organometal Chem 2004;18:460-70.

Song X, Duong Q, Mitrojorgji E, Zapata A, Nguyen N, Strickman D, Glass J, Eng G. Synthesis, structure characterization and larvicidal activity of some tris-(para-substituted phenyl)tins. Appl Organometal Chem 2004;18:363-8.

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Aileru AA, Logan E, Callahan M, Ferrario CM, Ganten D, Diz DI. Alterations in sympathetic ganglionic transmission in response to angiotensin II in (mRen2)27 transgenic rats. Hypertension 2004;43:270.

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