MWSPR Abstracts and Index: 46th Annual Midwest Society for Pediatric Research Scientific Meeting, St Louis, Missouri October 20-21 2005 in 2005

1 Bioengineering of Coagulation Factor VIII for Improved Secretion

• H Z Miao
• P F Kucab
• S W Pipe

3 Rituximab Therapy in Children with Chronic Refractory Immune Cytopenia: Long Term Efficacy and Immune Analysis.

• A Rao
• J Whitney
• S Shenoy

7 The Effect of a Child Pedestrian Safety Street Program on Improving Knowledge.

• R Kregenow
• D Jaffe

11 Modifier Genes in the Pathogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease.

• K Kaiser
• M Takematsu
• P Jay

9 Effects of Erythropoietin on Respiratory Epithelial Cell Growth and Function.

• P DeYoung
• A Kapur
• D Carlton

13 Comparison of Impedance Cardiography to Direct Fick and Echocardiographic Measurement of Cardiac Index in Children.

• C Lindblade
• M Schamberger
• A Batra

15 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Smooth Muscle Regulation Genes as Risk Factors for Spontaneous Preterm Delivery.

• N Lepp
• D Caprau
• J Murray

23 Outcome of Cardiac Thrombi in Infants.

• E A Bendaly
• A S Batra
• R A Hurwitz

25 Reduced Neonatal Candida Infection as a Result of Medical Practice Intervention

• Maliha J Shareef
• Kamlesh S Macwan
• Sharon Klein

27 Early Recurrence of Cresentric Glomerulonephritis After Pediatric Renal Transplantation

• S Jain
• E John
• E Benedetti

31 A Novel Screening Technique for Detecting Small Molecule Inhibitors of Shiga Toxin Trafficking.

• Malcolm Debaun
• David Haslam

29 School Bus-Related Injuries in St. Louis Children.

• K G Williams
• D Hodge

33 The Impact of Early Intervention to Decrease Chronic Lung Disease: One Institution'S Experience.

• J J Sha
• J A George
• D B Angst

2 Alterations in Expression of Neurotrophins and their Receptors in Response to Hyperoxic Lung Injury

• I I Ekekezie
• W E Truog
• D Xu

4 Iron Status, REM Deprivation and Spatial Watermaze Performance in Rats.

• A Hurst
• M Dimitrijevic
• B T Felt

10 Insulin Response to Glucose Predicts Endothelial Dysfunction in Adolescence

• Mary M Duck
• Robert P Hoffman

8 Galectin-1 is Located in Fibroblasts of Neonatal Mouse Lung and is up-Regulated by Retinoic Acid

• Jennifer J Foster
• Jeanne M Snyder

12 Impact of Hypoxia on Early Chick Embryo Growth and Cardiovascular Function.

• S K Sharma
• J L Lucitti
• B B Keller

14 Retrospective Screening for Hypertension/Pre-Hypertension in a Pediatric Sub-Specialty Clinic.

• P R Henderson
• I D Schwartz

22 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Pregnancy: Maternal and Fetal Outcomes and Considerations.

• N Kaushik
• F S Sherman