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Bouke de Jong et al use spoligotyping to demonstrate a high prevalence of M africanum among sputum smear-positive TB cases in The Gambia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2009 Apr;47(4):994-1001. Epub 2009 Feb 4.

Use of spoligotyping and large sequence polymorphisms to study the population structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in a cohort study of consecutive smear-positive tuberculosis cases in The Gambia.

de Jong BC, Antonio M, Awine T, Ogungbemi K, de Jong YP, Gagneux S, DeRiemer K, Zozio T, Rastogi N, Borgdorff M, Hill PC, Adegbola RA.

MRC Laboratories, P.O. Box 273, Banjul, The Gambia. bdejong@mrc.gm.

Laura Barisoni et al demonstrate that activation of AT1 receptors in glomerulus accelerates renal injury and inflammation in the absence of hypertension.

The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2009 Apr;119(4):943-53. doi: 10.1172/JCI34862. Epub 2009 Mar 16.

Glomerular type 1 angiotensin receptors augment kidney injury and inflammation in murine autoimmune nephritis.

Crowley SD, Vasievich MP, Ruiz P, Gould SK, Parsons KK, Pazmino AK, Facemire C, Chen BJ, Kim HS, Tran TT, Pisetsky DS, Barisoni L, Prieto-Carrasquero MC, Jeansson M, Foster MH, Coffman TM.

New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.

Simon Karpatkin et al find that thrombin is a growth factor that stimulates spontaneous prostate mitogenesis

Cancer Research. 2009 Apr 15;69(8):3374-81. Epub 2009 Apr 7.

Thrombin induces tumor cell cycle activation and spontaneous growth by down-regulation of p27Kip1, in association with the up-regulation of Skp2 and MiR-222.

Hu L, Ibrahim S, Liu C, Skaar J, Pagano M, Karpatkin S.