Publications by authors named "M L Gustafson"

Arctic habitats are changing rapidly and altering trophic webs and ecosystem functioning. Understanding how species' abundances and distributions differ among Arctic habitats is important in predicting future species shifts and trophic-web consequences. We aimed to determine the habitat-abundance relationships for three small herbivores on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska, USA by fitting data from 983 point counts (collected during 2019, 2021, and 2022) with N-mixture models that account for imperfect detection.

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CAR-T cell therapies have been successful in treating numerous hematologic malignancies as the T cell can be engineered to target a specific antigen associated with the disease. However, translating CAR-T cell therapies for solid cancers is proving more challenging due to the lack of truly tumor-associated antigens and the high risk of off-target toxicities. To combat this, numerous synthetic biology mechanisms are being incorporated to create safer and more specific CAR-T cells that can be spatiotemporally controlled with increased precision.

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  • The study investigates the immune profiles of patients with follicular cell-derived thyroid cancer to better understand their prognosis and potential treatment options.
  • A total of 32 patients were monitored, revealing that those with advanced cancer stages had lower counts of key immune cells like T cells and higher levels of suppressive cells, indicating an altered immune environment.
  • Findings suggest that these immune characteristics could serve as biomarkers for predicting outcomes and guide future development of targeted immunotherapies for advanced thyroid cancer.
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Reports of T cell malignancies after CAR-T cell therapy should be investigated, but existing data from follow-up studies suggest a low risk compared with other cancer treatments.

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Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a rare neurologic disorder that presents with variable symptoms and symmetrical abnormal white matter signaling most commonly of the occipital and parietal lobes on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). PRES, also known as reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome (RPLS) is commonly associated with hypertension. Hypomagnesemia's association with PRES has been rarely reported.

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