Publications by authors named "Tiasha Barik Letostak"

Unlabelled: Although recommended, adolescent depression screening with appropriate initial management is challenging. This project aimed to improve adolescent depression screening rates during preventive care visits in 12 primary care clinics from 65.4% to 80%, increase the proportion of documented initial management for those with a positive screen from 69.

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Context: Anxiety is common, screening tools are available, and treatment can be effective. Recently, anxiety screening has been recommended for adolescent girls beginning at 13 years of age.

Objective: To evaluate the evidence regarding anxiety screening test accuracy in primary care for children and adolescents and assess the effectiveness of treatment of individuals identified through screening.

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HSP40 family member MRJ (DNAJB6) has been in the spot light for its relevance to Huntington's, Parkinson's diseases, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, placental development, neural stem cells, cell cycle and malignancies such as breast cancer and melanoma. This gene has two spliced variants coding for 2 distinct proteins with significant homology. However, MRJ(L) (large variant) is predominantly localized to the nucleus whereas MRJ(S) (small variant) is predominantly cytoplasmic.

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