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High-profile departure ends genome institute's charmed run p518

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/nm1594



News in brief pp520 - 521

doi:10.1038/nm0507-520


News feature: Bugs vs Drugs pp522 - 523

Douglas Braaten

doi:10.1038/nm0507-522



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Correspondence

Reply to 'Promotion of sleep by targeting the orexin system in rats, dogs and humans' pp525 - 526

Mehdi Tafti

doi:10.1038/nm0507-525


Reply to 'Promotion of sleep by targeting the orexin system in rats, dogs and humans' p526

Francois Jenck, Catherine Brisbare-Roch, Michael Scherz, Susan Flores, Ralf Koberstein, Oliver Nayler, Jasper Dingemanse & Martine Clozel

doi:10.1038/nm0507-526


The Tax protein of HTLV-1 promotes oncogenesis in not only immature T cells but also mature T cells pp527 - 528

Takeo Ohsugi, Toshio Kumasaka, Seiji Okada & Toru Urano

doi:10.1038/nm0507-527


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Book Review

Getting under the skin p529

Ian J Jackson reviews Skin: A Natural History

doi:10.1038/nm0507-529


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News and Views

Flushing bacteria out of the bladder pp531 - 532

Danelle S Eto & Matthew A Mulvey

doi:10.1038/nm0507-531

See also: Letter by Bishop et al.


The popcorn plaques pp532 - 534

Jagat Narula & H William Strauss

doi:10.1038/nm0507-532

See also: Technical Report by Hyafil et al.




A new way to regulate the NMJ pp538 - 539

Kay E Davies & Tejvir S Khurana

doi:10.1038/nm0507-538


Eat your heart out pp539 - 541

Richard N Kitsis, Chang-Fu Peng & Ana Maria Cuervo

doi:10.1038/nm0507-539

See also: Letter by Nakai et al.


MicroRNAs loom large in the heart p541

Michael Basson

doi:10.1038/nm0507-541


Research highlights p542

doi:10.1038/nm0507-542


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Commentary

Can experiments in nonhuman primates expedite the translation of treatments for spinal cord injury in humans? pp561 - 566

Grégoire Courtine, Mary Bartlett Bunge, James W Fawcett, Robert G Grossman, Jon H Kaas, Roger Lemon, Irin Maier, John Martin, Randolph J Nudo, Almudena Ramon-Cueto, Eric M Rouiller, Lisa Schnell, Thierry Wannier, Martin E Schwab & V Reggie Edgerton

doi:10.1038/nm1595


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Brief Communication

Antielastin autoimmunity in tobacco smoking–induced emphysema pp567 - 569

Seung-Hyo Lee, Sangeeta Goswami, Ariel Grudo, Li-zhen Song, Venkata Bandi, Sheila Goodnight-White, Linda Green, Joan Hacken-Bitar, Joseph Huh, Faisal Bakaeen, Harvey O Coxson, Sebastian Cogswell, Claudine Storness-Bliss, David B Corry & Farrah Kheradmand

doi:10.1038/nm1583


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Articles

Osteopontin has a crucial role in allergic airway disease through regulation of dendritic cell subsets pp570 - 578

Georgina Xanthou, Themis Alissafi, Maria Semitekolou, Davina C M Simoes, Erasmia Economidou, Mina Gaga, Bart N Lambrecht, Clare M Lloyd & Vily Panoutsakopoulou

doi:10.1038/nm1580

See also: News and Views by Shinohara & Cantor


Reverse signaling through GITR ligand enables dexamethasone to activate IDO in allergy pp579 - 586

Ursula Grohmann, Claudia Volpi, Francesca Fallarino, Silvia Bozza, Roberta Bianchi, Carmine Vacca, Ciriana Orabona, Maria L Belladonna, Emira Ayroldi, Giuseppe Nocentini, Louis Boon, Francesco Bistoni, Maria C Fioretti, Luigina Romani, Carlo Riccardi & Paolo Puccetti

doi:10.1038/nm1563


MIF is a noncognate ligand of CXC chemokine receptors in inflammatory and atherogenic cell recruitment pp587 - 596

Jürgen Bernhagen, Regina Krohn, Hongqi Lue, Julia L Gregory, Alma Zernecke, Rory R Koenen, Manfred Dewor, Ivan Georgiev, Andreas Schober, Lin Leng, Teake Kooistra, Günter Fingerle-Rowson, Pietro Ghezzi, Robert Kleemann, Shaun R McColl, Richard Bucala, Michael J Hickey & Christian Weber

doi:10.1038/nm1567


SIK1 is a class II HDAC kinase that promotes survival of skeletal myocytes pp597 - 603

Rebecca Berdeaux, Naomi Goebel, Laura Banaszynski, Hiroshi Takemori, Thomas Wandless, G Diane Shelton & Marc Montminy

doi:10.1038/nm1573


Sema3a maintains normal heart rhythm through sympathetic innervation patterning pp604 - 612

Masaki Ieda, Hideaki Kanazawa, Kensuke Kimura, Fumiyuki Hattori, Yasuyo Ieda, Masahiko Taniguchi, Jong-Kook Lee, Keisuke Matsumura, Yuichi Tomita, Shunichiro Miyoshi, Kouji Shimoda, Shinji Makino, Motoaki Sano, Itsuo Kodama, Satoshi Ogawa & Keiichi Fukuda

doi:10.1038/nm1570


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Letters

MicroRNA-133 controls cardiac hypertrophy pp613 - 618

Alessandra Carè, Daniele Catalucci, Federica Felicetti, Désirée Bonci, Antonio Addario, Paolo Gallo, Marie-Louise Bang, Patrizia Segnalini, Yusu Gu, Nancy D Dalton, Leonardo Elia, Michael V G Latronico, Morten Høydal, Camillo Autore, Matteo A Russo, Gerald W Dorn, II, Øyvind Ellingsen, Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, Kirk L Peterson, Carlo M Croce, Cesare Peschle & Gianluigi Condorelli

doi:10.1038/nm1582


The role of autophagy in cardiomyocytes in the basal state and in response to hemodynamic stress pp619 - 624

Atsuko Nakai, Osamu Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Takeda, Yoshiharu Higuchi, Shungo Hikoso, Masayuki Taniike, Shigemiki Omiya, Isamu Mizote, Yasushi Matsumura, Michio Asahi, Kazuhiko Nishida, Masatsugu Hori, Noboru Mizushima & Kinya Otsu

doi:10.1038/nm1574

See also: News and Views by Kitsis et al.




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Technical Reports

Noninvasive detection of macrophages using a nanoparticulate contrast agent for computed tomography pp636 - 641

Fabien Hyafil, Jean-Christophe Cornily, Jonathan E Feig, Ronald Gordon, Esad Vucic, Vardan Amirbekian, Edward A Fisher, Valentin Fuster, Laurent J Feldman & Zahi A Fayad

doi:10.1038/nm1571

See also: News and Views by Narula & Strauss


Derivation of engraftable skeletal myoblasts from human embryonic stem cells pp642 - 648

Tiziano Barberi, Michelle Bradbury, Zehra Dincer, Georgia Panagiotakos, Nicholas D Socci & Lorenz Studer

doi:10.1038/nm1533


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