Publications by authors named "George Kassis"

Oxygen (O) regulated pathways modulate B cell activation, migration and proliferation during infection, vaccination, and other diseases. Modeling these pathways in health and disease is critical to understand B cell states and ways to mediate them. To characterize B cells by their activation of O regulated pathways we develop pathway specific discrete state models using previously published single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets from isolated B cells.

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Combining walking with a demanding cognitive task is traditionally expected to elicit decrements in gait and/or cognitive task performance. However, it was recently shown that, in a cohort of young adults, most participants improved performance when walking was added to performance of a Go/NoGo response inhibition task. The present study aims to extend these previous findings to an older adult cohort, to investigate whether this improvement when dual-tasking is observed in healthy older adults.

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We investigated the effect of inhalation of vaporized marijuana on cardiac function in , a suitable genetic model for studying human diseases. Adult flies were exposed to marijuana for variable time periods and the effects on cardiac function were studied. Short treatment protocol incremented heart-rate variability.

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