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Editorial

Uninformed consent? p999

doi:10.1038/nm0907-999


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News

Alternative therapies finding acceptance in mainstream medicine p1001

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1001


Allegations of bias cloud conflicting reports on bisphenol A's effects p1002

Cassandra Willyard

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1002a


DDT's ability to repel mosquitoes trumps resistance, scientists say pp1002 - 1003

Alisa Opar

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1002b


Bone marrow transplant paper revives contentious debate on fertility p1003

Kendall Powell

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1003


Lack of training in biodefense research leading to dangerous leaks p1004

Cassandra Willyard

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1004


Arsenic patent keeps drug for rare cancer out of reach of many p1005

David Cyranoski

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1005


News in brief pp1006 - 1007

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1006


Therapy on trial pp1008 - 1009

Virginia Hughes

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1008


Straight talk from... James Love p1010

Apoorva Mandavilli

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1010


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Correspondence

State of clinical research ethics in Pakistan p1011

Muhammad N Ghayur, Ayesha Ghayur & Luke J Janssen

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1011


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Book Review

Angels and demons; heroes and villains p1013

Michael J Zigmond reviews The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture by Richard J DeGrandpre

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1013


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News and Views

The clot thickens—oxidized lipids and thrombosis pp1015 - 1016

Shaun P Jackson & Anna C Calkin

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1015

See also: Article by Podrez et al.


Muscle growth learns new tricks from an old dog pp1016 - 1018

Gustavo A Nader

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1016


Schizophrenia drug says goodbye to dopamine pp1018 - 1019

Daniel R Weinberger

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1018

See also: Letter by Patil et al.


Diseased red blood cells topple iron balance pp1020 - 1021

Stella T Chou & Mitchell J Weiss

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1020

See also: Letter by Tanno et al.


A skeleton key to metabolism pp1021 - 1023

T John Martin

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1021


Malaria's journey through the lymph node pp1023 - 1024

Michael F Good & Denise L Doolan

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1015

See also: Article by Chakravarty et al.


Sparking consciousness p1025

Katherine Stevens

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1025


Research Highlights pp1026 - 1027

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1026


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Brief Communications

Clearance of amyloid-beta by circulating lipoprotein receptors pp1029 - 1031

Abhay Sagare, Rashid Deane, Robert D Bell, Bradley Johnson, Katie Hamm, Ronan Pendu, Andrew Marky, Peter J Lenting, Zhenhua Wu, Troy Zarcone, Alison Goate, Kevin Mayo, David Perlmutter, Mireia Coma, Zhihui Zhong & Berislav V Zlokovic

doi:10.1038/nm1635


Broad HIV-1 neutralization mediated by CD4-binding site antibodies pp1032 - 1034

Yuxing Li, Stephen A Migueles, Brent Welcher, Krisha Svehla, Adhuna Phogat, Mark K Louder, Xueling Wu, George M Shaw, Mark Connors, Richard T Wyatt & John R Mascola

doi:10.1038/nm1624


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Articles

CD8+ T lymphocytes protective against malaria liver stages are primed in skin-draining lymph nodes pp1035 - 1041

Sumana Chakravarty, Ian A Cockburn, Salih Kuk, Michael G Overstreet, John B Sacci & Fidel Zavala

doi:10.1038/nm1628

See also: News and Views by Good & Doolan


Mrp8 and Mrp14 are endogenous activators of Toll-like receptor 4, promoting lethal, endotoxin-induced shock pp1042 - 1049

Thomas Vogl, Klaus Tenbrock, Stephan Ludwig, Nadja Leukert, Christina Ehrhardt, Marieke A D van Zoelen, Wolfgang Nacken, Dirk Foell, Tom van der Poll, Clemens Sorg & Johannes Roth

doi:10.1038/nm1638


Toll-like receptor 4–dependent contribution of the immune system to anticancer chemotherapy and radiotherapy pp1050 - 1059

Lionel Apetoh, François Ghiringhelli, Antoine Tesniere, Michel Obeid, Carla Ortiz, Alfredo Criollo, Grégoire Mignot, M Chiara Maiuri, Evelyn Ullrich, Patrick Saulnier, Huan Yang, Sebastian Amigorena, Bernard Ryffel, Franck J Barrat, Paul Saftig, Francis Levi, Rosette Lidereau, Catherine Nogues, Jean-Paul Mira, Agnès Chompret, Virginie Joulin, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Jean Bourhis, Fabrice André, Suzette Delaloge, Thomas Tursz, Guido Kroemer & Laurence Zitvogel

doi:10.1038/nm1622


The E3 ligase HACE1 is a critical chromosome 6q21 tumor suppressor involved in multiple cancers pp1060 - 1069

Liyong Zhang, Michael S Anglesio, Maureen O'Sullivan, Fan Zhang, Ge Yang, Renu Sarao, Mai P Nghiem, Shane Cronin, Hiromitsu Hara, Nataliya Melnyk, Liheng Li, Teiji Wada, Peter P Liu, Jason Farrar, Robert J Arceci, Poul H Sorensen & Josef M Penninger

doi:10.1038/nm1621


Death-receptor O-glycosylation controls tumor-cell sensitivity to the proapoptotic ligand Apo2L/TRAIL pp1070 - 1077

Klaus W Wagner, Elizabeth A Punnoose, Thomas Januario, David A Lawrence, Robert M Pitti, Kate Lancaster, Dori Lee, Melissa von Goetz, Sharon Fong Yee, Klara Totpal, Ling Huw, Viswanatham Katta, Guy Cavet, Sarah G Hymowitz, Lukas Amler & Avi Ashkenazi

doi:10.1038/nm1627


Lack of Fas antagonism by Met in human fatty liver disease pp1078 - 1085

Chunbin Zou, Jihong Ma, Xue Wang, Lida Guo, Zhenqi Zhu, John Stoops, Amanda E Eaker, Carla J Johnson, Stephen Strom, George K Michalopoulos, Marie C DeFrances & Reza Zarnegar

doi:10.1038/nm1625


Platelet CD36 links hyperlipidemia, oxidant stress and a prothrombotic phenotype pp1086 - 1095

Eugene A Podrez, Tatiana V Byzova, Maria Febbraio, Robert G Salomon, Yi Ma, Manojkumar Valiyaveettil, Eugenia Poliakov, Mingjiang Sun, Paula J Finton, Brian R Curtis, Juhua Chen, Renliang Zhang, Roy L Silverstein & Stanley L Hazen

doi:10.1038/nm1626

See also: News and Views by Jackson & Calkin


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Letters

High levels of GDF15 in thalassemia suppress expression of the iron regulatory protein hepcidin pp1096 - 1101

Toshihiko Tanno, Natarajan V Bhanu, Patricia A Oneal, Sung-Ho Goh, Pamela Staker, Y Terry Lee, John W Moroney, Christopher H Reed, Naomi LC Luban, Rui-Hong Wang, Thomas E Eling, Richard Childs, Tomas Ganz, Susan F Leitman, Suthat Fucharoen & Jeffery L Miller

doi:10.1038/nm1629

See also: News and Views by Chou & Weiss


Activation of mGlu2/3 receptors as a new approach to treat schizophrenia: a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial pp1102 - 1107

Sandeep T Patil, Lu Zhang, Ferenc Martenyi, Stephen L Lowe, Kimberley A Jackson, Boris V Andreev, Alla S Avedisova, Leonid M Bardenstein, Issak Y Gurovich, Margarita A Morozova, Sergey N Mosolov, Nikolai G Neznanov, Alexander M Reznik, Anatoly B Smulevich, Vladimir A Tochilov, Bryan G Johnson, James A Monn & Darryle D Schoepp

doi:10.1038/nm1632

See also: News and Views by Weinberger


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Technical Reports

A ligand-receptor fusion of growth hormone forms a dimer and is a potent long-acting agonist pp1108 - 1113

Ian R Wilkinson, Eric Ferrandis, Peter J Artymiuk, Marc Teillot, Chantal Soulard, Caroline Touvay, Sarbendra L Pradhananga, Sue Justice, Zida Wu, Kin C Leung, Christian J Strasburger, Jon R Sayers & Richard J Ross

doi:10.1038/nm1610


Molecular imaging of Akt kinase activity pp1114 - 1119

Limin Zhang, Kuei C Lee, Mahaveer S Bhojani, Amjad P Khan, Alla Shilman, Eric C Holland, Brian D Ross & Alnawaz Rehemtulla

doi:10.1038/nm1608


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Corrigendum

Corrigenda: Neuropeptide Y acts directly in the periphery on fat tissue and mediates stress-induced obesity and metabolic syndrome p1120

Lydia E Kuo, Joanna B Kitlinska, Jason U Tilan, Lijun Li, Stephen B Baker, Michael D Johnson, Edward W Lee, Mary Susan Burnett, Stanley T Fricke, Richard Kvetnansky, Herbert Herzog & Zofia Zukowska

doi:10.1038/nm0907-1120


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