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May 31, 2007
New Publications from UM SoD Faculty: May 07
PMID: 16922734
Bayne SC.
Why are the next steps in biomaterials research so difficult?.
Journal of Oral Rehabilitation. 33(9):631-3, 2006 Sep.
PMID: 16806584
Chai B. Li JY. Zhang W. Newman E. Ammori J. Mulholland MW.
Melanocortin-4 receptor-mediated inhibition of apoptosis in immortalized hypothalamic neurons via mitogen-activated protein kinase.
Peptides. 27(11):2846-57, 2006 Nov.
PMID: 17325210
Ge C. Xiao G. Jiang D. Franceschi RT.
Critical role of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase-MAPK pathway in osteoblast differentiation and skeletal development.
Journal of Cell Biology. 176(5):709-18, 2007 Feb 26.
PMID: 17356368
Hwang D. Wang HL.
Medical contraindications to implant therapy: Part II: Relative contraindications.
Implant Dentistry. 16(1):13-23, 2007 Mar.
PMID: 17305716
Iwata T. Yamakoshi Y. Simmer JP. Ishikawa I. Hu JC.
Establishment of porcine pulp-derived cell lines and expression of recombinant dentin sialoprotein and recombinant dentin matrix protein-1.
European Journal of Oral Sciences. 115(1):48-56, 2007 Feb.
PMID: 17384029
Izumi K. Tobita T. Feinberg SE.
Isolation of human oral keratinocyte progenitor/stem cells.
Journal of Dental Research. 86(4):341-6, 2007 Apr.
PMID: 17435132
Kinney JS. Ramseier CA. Giannobile WV.
Oral fluid-based biomarkers of alveolar bone loss in periodontitis.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1098:230-51, 2007 Mar.
PMID: 17425242
Ramseier CA. Bornstein MM. Saxer UP. Klingler K. Walter C.
[Tobacco use prevention and cessation in the dental practice]. [French, German]
Schweizer Monatsschrift fur Zahnmedizin. 117(3):253-78, 2007.
PMID: 17335380
Rogers JE. Li F. Coatney DD. Rossa C. Bronson P. Krieder JM. Giannobile WV. Kirkwood KL.
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans lipopolysaccharide-mediated experimental bone loss model for aggressive periodontitis.
Journal of Periodontology. 78(3):550-8, 2007 Mar.
PMID: 17331754
Smith MH. Brooks SL. Eldevik OP. Helman JI.
Anterior mandibular lingual salivary gland defect: a report of a case diagnosed with cone-beam computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology Oral Radiology & Endodontics. 103(5):e71-8, 2007 May.
PMID: 17218487
Vittal R. Zhang H. Han MK. Moore BB. Horowitz JC. Thannickal VJ.
Effects of the protein kinase inhibitor, imatinib mesylate, on epithelial/mesenchymal phenotypes: implications for treatment of fibrotic diseases.
Journal of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics. 321(1):35-44, 2007 Apr.
PMID: 17356370
Wang HL. Tsao YP.
Mineralized bone allograft-plug socket augmentation: rationale and technique.
Implant Dentistry. 16(1):33-41, 2007 Mar.
PMID: 17335384
Wang HL. Weber D. McCauley LK.
Effect of long-term oral bisphosphonates on implant wound healing: literature review and a case report.
Journal of Periodontology. 78(3):584-94, 2007 Mar.
PMID: 17409408
Wang Y. Woodgate R. McManus TP. Mead S. McCormick JJ. Maher VM.
Evidence that in xeroderma pigmentosum variant cells, which lack DNA polymerase eta, DNA polymerase iota causes the very high frequency and unique spectrum of UV-induced mutations.
Cancer Research. 67(7):3018-26, 2007 Apr 1.
PMID: 17239946
Wei G. Jin Q. Giannobile WV. Ma PX.
The enhancement of osteogenesis by nano-fibrous scaffolds incorporating rhBMP-7 nanospheres.
Biomaterials. 28(12):2087-96, 2007 Apr.
PMID: 16779502
Whitbeck LB. Hoyt D. Johnson K. Chen X.
Mental disorders among parents/caretakers of American Indian early adolescents in the Northern Midwest.
Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology. 41(8):632-40, 2006 Aug.
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May 30, 2007
Dentist Climbs Mount Everest
As a followup to our earlier exhibit on dentist athletes, you might be interested to hear of the 41-year-old Irish woman dentist, Hannah Shields, who climbed Mount Everest recently.
BBC News: Warm welcome for Everest climber (May 30, 2007): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6704367.stm
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Recruiting International Students
A survey was recently presented from Hobsons describing the key issues in recruiting and retaining students from outside America to academic institutions in the United States. A news summary is available from Inside Higher Ed.
Inside Higher Ed: The Prospective (Foreign) Student: http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/05/30/nafsa
The interesting article compares preferences between and across countries and disciplines, as well as which countries students prefer for international study and why.
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May 22, 2007
Proposed Journal Cancellations
The UM Health Sciences Libraries must cancel subscriptions to resources including journals and databases, due to inflationary increases and budget reductions. This is the first year we will include dental journals on our list of proposed cancellations, so please review carefully. Your input is an extremely valuable factor in our decision-making process, and we are committed to supporting the clinical, educational and research information needs of the campus.
Please review the proposed cancellation list at http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/jcanc07/ and share your comments with us using the web form on this page or email hsl.collections@umich.edu by June 12, 2007.
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May 16, 2007
New Nanotech EBook (WOWIO)
Thanks to Deena (SoD) for mentioning WOWIO, a source of free e-books on a variety of topics. WOWIO offers many books as PDFs, which work on a variety of devices from computers to PDAs. Many of the books included in WOWIO come from major publishers, with Oxford University Press as one major contributor. WOWIO makes copyrighted books available for download with registration, but free of charge, both through partnerships and as a publisher in their own right.
One title they are currently highlighting is from Eric Drexler, who might be familiar as the co-author (with Marvin Minsky) of Engines of Creation, in addition to Nanosystems and Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution. WOWIO has published a 20th anniversary edition of Engines of Creation with new material included.
K. Eric Drexler: http://e-drexler.com/
WOWIO: http://www.wowio.com/
Drexler, K. Eric. Engines of Creation 2.0: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology - Updated and Expanded. WOWIO Books; ISBN: DREX-00001. 646 pages (February 2007). http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?bookid=503
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May 15, 2007
MI-Info: Public Health Informatics
MI-Info is an NIH grant funded project to bring core information and informatics skills to the public health workforce in Michigan through skills building tutorials and highlighted resources. Major tutorial topics include:
* Evidence Based Public Health
* Finding Health Statistics Online
* Searching the Internet
* Searching the Public Health Literature
* Staying Informed
* Health Education Resources
While the primary focus is on the public health workforce, these clear and easy-to-follow tutorials cover information skills much need by all health care workers and highlight both free resources as well as those limited to residents of the state Michigan. Highly recommended.
Michigan Informatics (MI-Info): informatics for the public health workforce: http://www.sph.umich.edu/mi-info/
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May 14, 2007
Craniofacial Summer Camps
This time of year, many parents are looking for summer activities for their schoolage children. What about those children with special needs who for one reason or another can't go to regular summer camps? Or what about the ever present question of, "How do I find more people like me?" at the childs level? As dentists, you may have patients who ask you for help with this type of question. Here is a great resource that collects information on summer camps for special needs children, and they even have a section specifically for children with craniofacial concerns.
BraveKids: Resources = Camps: Condition = Craniofacial: http://tinyurl.com/3774tq
Want to explore more on your own? Here is a web search to which you can add other specifications such as your location.
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May 09, 2007
Quick Answers to Quick Questions: FactBites, Answers.com, and more
Sometimes you don't need or want a big Web search for your question -- all you want are a few statistics or a quick definition. At those times, you might be better off not using Yahoo or Google or any of the other big search engines. Instead go right to one of the many quick reference tools available online.
You've probably all heard of Wikipedia already, so I won't talk much about that. Answers.com partners with Wikipedia, Thesaurus.com, and several other online reference tools to combine these various resources in one place. Do a search at Answers.com, and find encyclopedia articles, dictionary definitions, translations, thesaurus terms, and more. Another quick option is FactBites. Personally, I enjoy FactBites when I want a collection of stats and definitions without a lot of digging. They give you the information, bulleted and easy to read, with a link and reference to the original source. Very tidy and easy to use.
Answers: answers.com
FactBites: factbites.com
Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.com
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May 02, 2007
FAQ: Why Aren't My Articles Listed?
Q:
I just browsed the mblog entry for the dental faculty publication list, but my recent publications are not listed. One is not even on the PubMed yet! What should I do?
A:
First off, let me describe how these lists are generated.
The Library has automatic searches that run everytime the OVID Medline database is updated. We have two searches, because we found that there was no methodology for one search that was truly inclusive of all our faculty. Both search strategies retrieve very different lists of articles.
The first search looks through all the dental literature published, and limits it to that with primary author addresses in Ann Arbor Michigan. Those are skimmed by the librarian to ensure that the address or names are for people in the School of Dentistry. Since many of our faculty have joint appointments with other schools on campus, we did not want to limit to just publications listed the School of Dentistry for their address. The flaw of this search is that it may include articles by people no longer at the School, but who listed this address before they left, and it will not include articles by faculty who are not listed as first authors.
The second search is a list of faculty names limited to addresses in Michigan. The School of Dentistry provided the Dentistry Library with a list of faculty associated with the School. This was a large search, and obviously can become dated as soon as people leave the school or new people arrive. If you are a new faculty member, please introduce yourself and we will try to add you to this search. The flaw of this search strategy, aside from datedness, is that many faculty names are similar or identical to names of other authors from other institutions. Because of authoring partnerships that cross institutional boundaries is not always possible to verify that two authors with the same last name and initials are or are not different people. Thus some articles might be listed that are by authors not from the School of Dentistry, or articles may not be listed that are from the School of Dentistry.
If you skim the dates of the articles that are listed, you may notice that many of them are a bit older than you might expect. This is because I wait to post them until they appear on Medline.
OVID Medline is often a month behind PubMed, and articles will appear on PubMed first. For dental articles, PubMed can range from immediate listing to up to 18 months post-publication. This depends in part on how busy things are at NLM, and in another part on the prestige and publication practices of the journal.
Basically, some journals provide pre-publication data to PubMed. Those articles will be listed in PubMed almost immediately, and will reach OVID Medline when they are fully cataloged. I don't know for certain, but I suspect that the catalogers might do these sooner since they have partial data and might be faster to complete. For those dental journals that do not provide pre-publication data to NLM, they will not appear in PubMed until after they have been fully cataloged. This can take several months. Some years ago, information available suggested you might wait 18 months before really worrying, but this may have changed since then. In any case, this delay is an excellent justification for hand searching when doing a systematic review.
What can you do about it? At the level of the individual article, you can't do much at all. While PubMed does have a way to contact them, this is useful primarily for reporting errors of the database content -- when there is a typo that is different than what was actually published in the journal, or when the cataloging doesn't match that for other similar articles. More information on how to contact NLM about PubMed is here.
PubMed: Contact the Help Desk: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/contacts/contact_pubmed.html
The most useful action you can take is to encourage the journals in which you publish and the professional associations of which you are a member to provide their pre-publication data to NLM for PubMed.
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Dental Nanotech in the News
Being highlighted in news reports, a new article from JDR on the use of nanocomposites in dental fillings to improve caries protection and durability.
Scientist Live: Nanocomposites Improve Dental Fillings:
http://www.scientistlive.com/17596/nanocomposites-improve-dental-fillings.thtml
"American researchers show that nanotechnology can help produce tooth restorations that are both stronger than any fillings available today, and more effective at preventing secondary decay."
H.H.K. Xu, M.D. Weir, L. Sun, S. Takagi and L.C. Chow. Effects of calcium phosphate nanoparticles on Ca-PO4 composite, The Journal of Dental Research 86(4):378-383m 2007.
http://jdr.iadrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/86/4/378
NOTE: If you have trouble getting into the article from off-campus, please first login to a Library service such as Mirlyn.
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May 01, 2007
New Publications from UM SoD Faculty: April 07
PMID: 16966894
Bernstein S. Cooke J. Fotek P. Wang HL.
Vertical bone augmentation: where are we now?. [Review] [54 refs]
Implant Dentistry. 15(3):219-28, 2006 Sep.
PMID: 16616828
Carayol N. Wang CY.
IKKalpha stabilizes cytosolic beta-catenin by inhibiting both canonical and non-canonical degradation pathways.
Cellular Signalling. 18(11):1941-6, 2006 Nov.
PMID: 17188372
Chai B. Li JY. Zhang W. Ammori JB. Mulholland MW.
Melanocortin-3 receptor activates MAP kinase via PI3 kinase.
Regulatory Peptides. 139(1-3):115-21, 2007 Mar 1.
PMID: 17365663
Chen RR. Snow JK. Palmer JP. Lin AS. Duvall CL. Guldberg RE. Mooney DJ.
Host immune competence and local ischemia affects the functionality of engineered vasculature.
Microcirculation. 14(2):77-88, 2007 Feb.
PMID: 17340905
Chung DM. Oh TJ. Lee J. Misch CE. Wang HL.
Factors affecting late implant bone loss: a retrospective analysis.
International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Implants. 22(1):117-26, 2007 Jan-Feb.
PMID: 16950934
Fasbinder DJ.
Clinical performance of chairside CAD/CAM restorations. [Review] [31 refs]
Journal of the American Dental Association. 137 Suppl:22S-31S, 2006 Sep.
PMID: 16580643
Hutsler JJ. Love T. Zhang H.
Histological and magnetic resonance imaging assessment of cortical layering and thickness in autism spectrum disorders.
Biological Psychiatry. 61(4):449-57, 2007 Feb 15.
PMID: 17172952
Hwang D. Wang HL.
Medical contraindications to implant therapy: part I: absolute contraindications. [Review] [37 refs]
Implant Dentistry. 15(4):353-60, 2006 Dec.
PMID: 17197401
Inglehart MR. Peters MC. Flamenbaum MH. Eboda NN. Feigal RJ.
Chemomechanical caries removal in children: an operator's and pediatric patients' responses.
Journal of the American Dental Association. 138(1):47-55, 2007 Jan.
PMID: 17189355
Lee JY. Janes BK. Passalacqua KD. Pfleger BF. Bergman NH. Liu H. Hakansson K. Somu RV. Aldrich CC. Cendrowski S. Hanna PC. Sherman DH.
Biosynthetic analysis of the petrobactin siderophore pathway from Bacillus anthracis.
Journal of Bacteriology. 189(5):1698-710, 2007 Mar.
PMID: 17073428
Liu H. Hakansson K.
Electron capture dissociation of tyrosine O-sulfated peptides complexed with divalent metal cations.
Analytical Chemistry. 78(21):7570-6, 2006 Nov 1.
PMID: 17370659
Oh TJ. Shotwell J. Billy E. Byun HY. Wang HL.
Flapless implant surgery in the esthetic region: advantages and precautions.
International Journal of Periodontics & Restorative Dentistry. 27(1):27-33, 2007 Feb.
PMID: 17274716
Park CH. Abramson ZR. Taba M Jr. Jin Q. Chang J. Kreider JM. Goldstein SA. Giannobile WV.
Three-dimensional micro-computed tomographic imaging of alveolar bone in experimental bone loss or repair.
Journal of Periodontology. 78(2):273-81, 2007 Feb.
PMID: 17244137
Patel RR. Tootla R. Inglehart MR.
Does oral health affect self perceptions, parental ratings and video-based assessments of children's smiles?.
Community Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology. 35(1):44-52, 2007 Feb.
PMID: 17258633
Pinsky HM. Champleboux G. Sarment DP.
Periapical surgery using CAD/CAM guidance: preclinical results.
Journal of Endodontics. 33(2):148-51, 2007 Feb.
PMID: 17366757
Ramseier CA. Leiggener I. Lang NP. Bagramian RA. Inglehart MR.
Short-term effects of hygiene education for preschool (kindergarten) children: a clinical study.
Oral Health & Preventive Dentistry. 5(1):19-24, 2007.
PMID: 17213266
Shelburne CE. An FY. Dholpe V. Ramamoorthy A. Lopatin DE. Lantz MS.
The spectrum of antimicrobial activity of the bacteriocin subtilosin A.
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 59(2):297-300, 2007 Feb.
PMID: 17013858
Smith MK. Mooney DJ.
Hypoxia leads to necrotic hepatocyte death.
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A. 80(3):520-9, 2007 Mar 1.
PMID: 15987102
Song JW. Gu W. Futai N. Warner KA. Nor JE. Takayama S.
Computer-controlled microcirculatory support system for endothelial cell culture and shearing.
Analytical Chemistry. 77(13):3993-9, 2005 Jul 1.
PMID: 17172948
Wang HL. Ormianer Z. Palti A. Perel ML. Trisi P. Sammartino G.
Consensus conference on immediate loading: the single tooth and partial edentulous areas. [48 refs]
Implant Dentistry. 15(4):324-33, 2006 Dec.
PMID: 17346127
Wang Y. Wang DH.
Neural control of blood pressure: focusing on capsaicin-sensitive sensory nerves.
Cardiovascular & Hematological Disorders Drug Targets. 7(1):37-46, 2007 Mar.
PMID: 16089393
Xue C. Chen Z. Wen Y. Luo FT. Chen J. Liu H.
Synthesis of ferrocene-grafted poly(p-phenylene-ethynylenes) and control of electrochemical behaviors of their thin films.
Langmuir. 21(17):7860-5, 2005 Aug 16.
PMID: 16408947
Zhang H. Meyerhoff ME.
Gold-coated magnetic particles for solid-phase immunoassays: enhancing immobilized antibody binding efficiency and analytical performance.
Analytical Chemistry. 78(2):609-16, 2006 Jan 15.
PMID: 17376977
Zhang RL. LeTourneau Y. Gregg SR. Wang Y. Toh Y. Robin AM. Zhang ZG. Chopp M.
Neuroblast division during migration toward the ischemic striatum: a study of dynamic migratory and proliferative characteristics of neuroblasts from the subventricular zone.
Journal of Neuroscience. 27(12):3157-62, 2007 Mar 21.
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