Publications by authors named "B S McCourt"

Cytometry is an advanced technique for simultaneously identifying and quantifying many cell surface and intracellular proteins at a single-cell resolution. Analyzing high-dimensional cytometry data involves identifying and quantifying cell populations based on their marker expressions. This study provided a quantitative review and comparison of various ways to phenotype cellular populations within the cytometry data, including manual gating, unsupervised clustering, and supervised auto-gating.

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The United States system of solid organ transplantation is overseen by the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network (OPTN). Recent announcements from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) indicate their clear intention to reform the system. We suggest that the original intention of the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) to require one entity to oversee transplantation is critical to integrate policy with the complex realities of organ procurement and transplantation practice.

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Comensal () and are often linked to gut inflammation. However, the causes for variability of pro-inflammatory surface antigens that affect gut commensal/opportunistic dualism in remain unclear. By using the classical lipopolysaccharide/O-antigen ' operon' in as a surface antigen model (5-gene-cluster ), and a recent typing strategy for strain classification, we characterized the integrity and conservancy of the entire operon in .

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A mutation in is the most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Patients with ALS or FTD often develop autoimmunity and inflammation that precedes or coincides with the onset of neurological symptoms, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we knocked out murine in seven hematopoietic progenitor compartments by conditional mutagenesis and found that myeloid lineage prevents splenomegaly, loss of tolerance, and premature mortality.

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The causes for variability of pro-inflammatory surface antigens that affect gut commensal/opportunistic dualism within the phylum remain unclear (1, 2). Using the classical lipopolysaccharide/O-antigen ' operon' in as a surface antigen model (5-gene-cluster ), and a recent typing strategy for strain classification (3), we characterized the architecture/conservancy of the entire operon in . Analyzing complete genomes, we discovered that most have the operon fragmented into non-random gene-singlets and/or doublets/triplets, termed 'minioperons'.

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