Publications by authors named "Andrey Kuzmichev"

Objective: Publication science is the scholarly study of various aspects of the academic publishing process. Its applications to COVID-19 literature have been limited. Here, we describe COVID-19 submissions to, and resulting articles published by, the journal (), an important resource for US public health practice.

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Objectives: (), the official journal of the Office of the US Surgeon General and US Public Health Service, is the oldest public health journal in the United States. Considering its heritage through the eyes of its past editors in chief (EICs), many of whom have been influential public health figures, can provide a fresh point of view on US public health history, of which the journal has been an integral part. Here, we reconstruct the timeline of past EICs and identify women among them.

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Objective: () is the oldest public health journal in the United States and has reported on viral epidemics since the 19th century. We describe the creation and analysis of a collection of historic articles on emerging viral epidemics in the United States to inform public health response to COVID-19 and future epidemics.

Methods: We searched databases from 1878 through 2021 using custom search strings and conducted a manual search for articles published under previously used names for .

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  • The paper summarizes current practices in the design and analysis of group-randomized trials focused on cancer-related factors, highlighting significant methodological shortcomings in recent studies.
  • In a review of 123 articles from 2011-2015, only 53.7% reported adequate sample size estimation methods, and 51.2% used appropriate analysis methods, indicating a lack of attention to methodological rigor.
  • To enhance the integrity of these trials, the Office of Disease Prevention at NIH is taking steps such as offering training, increasing methodology expertise in grant reviews, and providing resources for better understanding of trial design issues.
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The National Alzheimer's Project Act, signed into law in 2011, mandates a National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease that is updated annually. In the Plan, the term Alzheimer disease includes not only Alzheimer disease (AD) proper, but also several specified related dementias, namely, frontotemporal, Lewy body, vascular, and mixed dementia. In response to a specific action item in the 2012 National Plan, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, in collaboration with the National Institute on Aging, convened panels of experts and conducted a 2-day public conference to develop research priorities and timelines for addressing Alzheimer disease-related dementias (ADRD) in 5 topic areas: multiple etiology dementias, health disparities, Lewy body dementias including dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson disease dementia, frontotemporal dementia and related tauopathies, and vascular contributions to ADRD.

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Sox2 is an important transcriptional regulator in embryonic and adult stem cells. Recently, Sox2 was identified as an oncogene in many endodermal cancers, including colon cancer. There is great interest in how Sox2 cooperates with other transcription factors to regulate stem cell renewal, differentiation, and reprogramming.

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The generation of new neurons in the olfactory bulb (OB) persists into adulthood and is a multistep process that includes proliferation, fate choice, migration, survival, and differentiation. Neural precursor cells destined to form olfactory interneurons arise in the subventricular zone (SVZ) and migrate along the rostral migratory stream (RMS) to the OB. Recently, some factors classically known from their effects on the vascular system have been found to influence different steps of adult neurogenesis.

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