Publications by authors named "Alan Hernandez"

Article Synopsis
  • JAK3 is important for making and managing immune cells in our body.
  • A new discovery showed that a specific part of JAK3, called Y841, helps it change shapes and become more flexible when it binds to ATP, a type of energy.
  • When Y841 is "activated," JAK3 likes to grab onto ATP better than ADP, which helps us understand how JAK3 works and could lead to better treatments in the future.
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Of the numerous infectious diseases afflicting humans, anthrax disease, caused by , poses a major threat in its virulence and lack of effective treatment. The currently lacking standards of care, as well as the lengthy drug approval process, demonstrate the pressing demand for treatment for infections. The present study screened 1586 clinically approved drugs in an attempt to identify repurposable compounds against , a relative strain that shares many physical and genetic characteristics with .

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Two experiments examined blocking and entrenchment using a word fragment completion task. After incidental priming tasks in which varying numbers of red herring stimuli (i.e.

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It has often been shown that intentional recollection is influenced by context manipulations, such as context reinstatement (e.g., Smith, 2013; Smith & Vela, 2001), but whether or not automatic retrieval (e.

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