Publications by authors named "John Feerick"

Essential thrombocythaemia (ET) is driven by somatic mutations involving the , and genes. Approximately 10% of patients lack driver mutations and are referred as 'triple-negative' ET (TN-ET). The diagnosis of TN-ET, however, relies on bone marrow examination that is not always performed in routine practice, and thus in the real-world setting, there are a group of cases with suspected TN-myeloproliferativeneoplasm.

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This article focuses on potential gaps caused by the absence from the Twenty-Fifth Amendment of provisions to deal with the disability of a Vice President and the omission from the statutory line of succession law of provisions comparable to Sections 3 and 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment for when there is an able Vice President. The analysis offers a critical review of the latent ambiguities in the succession provision to the United States Constitution, noting problems that have arisen from the time of the Constitutional Convention, to John Tyler's accession to office, to numerous disability crises that presented themselves throughout the twentieth century, to the present day. As the world becomes more complex and threats to the presidency more common, continued examination of our succession structure and its adequacy for establishing clear and effective presidential succession provisions under a broad range of circumstances is of paramount concern.

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We hypothesized that changes in the expression levels of genes in the mammalian target of rapamycin are involved in the hypoxia-induced growth retardation in the brain including hypomyelination. Microarray and proteomic studies showed a 2.3-fold increase in the expression levels of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-binding protein-1 and a 3-fold decrease in the levels of FK506-binding protein-1 in a neonatal model of hypoxia, indicating a signal transduction impairment through mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR).

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