Jun Zhang

Summary

Affiliation: University of Michigan
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Perspective-taking and depth of theory-of-mind reasoning in sequential-move games
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1109, USA
    Cogn Sci 36:560-73. 2012
  2. ncbi Decomposing stimulus and response component waveforms in ERP
    J Zhang
    Department of Psychology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 1109, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 80:49-63. 1998
  3. ncbi Divergence function, duality, and convex analysis
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Neural Comput 16:159-95. 2004
  4. ncbi Method of unconfounding orientation and direction tunings in neuronal response to moving bars and gratings
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 1109, USA
    J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 22:2246-56. 2005
  5. ncbi Adaptive learning via selectionism and Bayesianism, Part I: connection between the two
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor 48109 1043, USA
    Neural Netw 22:220-8. 2009
  6. ncbi Adaptive learning via selectionism and Bayesianism, Part II: the sequential case
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor 48109 1043, USA
    Neural Netw 22:229-36. 2009
  7. ncbi A neural computational model of incentive salience
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    PLoS Comput Biol 5:e1000437. 2009
  8. ncbi Sensorimotor locus of the buildup activity in monkey lateral intraparietal area neurons
    Joonkoo Park
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    J Neurophysiol 103:2664-74. 2010
  9. ncbi Maternal prepregnancy overweight and obesity and the pattern of labor progression in term nulliparous women
    Anjel Vahratian
    Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Obstet Gynecol 104:943-51. 2004
  10. ncbi Methodological challenges in studying labour progression in contemporary practice
    Anjel Vahratian
    Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20:72-8. 2006

Detail Information

Publications78

  1. ncbi Perspective-taking and depth of theory-of-mind reasoning in sequential-move games
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1109, USA
    Cogn Sci 36:560-73. 2012
    ..We conclude that the depth of ToM recursion (related to perspective-taking mechanisms) and rational application of belief-desire to action (instrumental rationality) constitute separate cognitive processes in ToM reasoning...
  2. ncbi Decomposing stimulus and response component waveforms in ERP
    J Zhang
    Department of Psychology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 1109, USA
    J Neurosci Methods 80:49-63. 1998
    ....
  3. ncbi Divergence function, duality, and convex analysis
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Neural Comput 16:159-95. 2004
    ....
  4. ncbi Method of unconfounding orientation and direction tunings in neuronal response to moving bars and gratings
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 1109, USA
    J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 22:2246-56. 2005
    ..To conclude, a simple method is provided for appropriately separating the orientation and directional tuning in a neuron's response that is confounded as a result of the use of drifting oriented stimuli...
  5. ncbi Adaptive learning via selectionism and Bayesianism, Part I: connection between the two
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor 48109 1043, USA
    Neural Netw 22:220-8. 2009
    ..R., Dayan, P., & Sejnowski, T. J. (1996). A framework for mesencephalic dopamine systems based on predictive Hebbian learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 1936-1947])...
  6. ncbi Adaptive learning via selectionism and Bayesianism, Part II: the sequential case
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor 48109 1043, USA
    Neural Netw 22:229-36. 2009
    ....
  7. ncbi A neural computational model of incentive salience
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    PLoS Comput Biol 5:e1000437. 2009
    ..Computational models can adequately capture fluctuations in cue-triggered 'wanting' only by incorporating modulation of previously learned values by natural appetite and addiction-related states...
  8. ncbi Sensorimotor locus of the buildup activity in monkey lateral intraparietal area neurons
    Joonkoo Park
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    J Neurophysiol 103:2664-74. 2010
    ..Sensorimotor analysis on individual neurons also showed that the neuronal activation, as a population, represent pending saccadic direction and carry little information about the direction of the motion stimulus...
  9. ncbi Maternal prepregnancy overweight and obesity and the pattern of labor progression in term nulliparous women
    Anjel Vahratian
    Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Obstet Gynecol 104:943-51. 2004
    ..To examine the effect of maternal overweight and obesity on labor progression...
  10. ncbi Methodological challenges in studying labour progression in contemporary practice
    Anjel Vahratian
    Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 20:72-8. 2006
    ..Moreover, such detailed information could have important clinical implications towards reducing the rate of primary caesarean delivery in the United States...
  11. ncbi Maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity and the risk of cesarean delivery in nulliparous women
    Anjel Vahratian
    Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Ann Epidemiol 15:467-74. 2005
    ..To examine the effect of maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity on the risk of term cesarean delivery in nulliparous women...
  12. ncbi On decomposing stimulus and response waveforms in event-related potentials recordings
    Gang Yin
    School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
    IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 58:1534-45. 2011
    ..Our method is demonstrated using data from a Go/NoGo experiment about image classification and recognition...
  13. ncbi Ovariectomy does not induce osteopenia through interleukin-6 in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)
    E T Keller
    Department of Pathology, School of Medicine and Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
    Bone 26:55-62. 2000
    ..These data suggest that modulation of IL-6 is not the key mechanism through which estrogen deprivation mediates bone loss in rhesus monkeys...
  14. ncbi Prostate carcinoma skeletal metastases: cross-talk between tumor and bone
    E T Keller
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
    Cancer Metastasis Rev 20:333-49. 2001
    ..This review focuses on the interaction between the bone and the prostate carcinoma cells that allow for development and progression of prostate carcinoma skeletal metastases...
  15. ncbi The impact of chronic estrogen deprivation on immunologic parameters in the ovariectomized rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) model of menopause
    E T Keller
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, RM 5304 CCGCB, 1500 E Medical Center Drive, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0940, USA
    J Reprod Immunol 50:41-55. 2001
    ..These data demonstrate that E(2)-deprivation affects several aspects of immune function. These findings may have implications for menopause-associated changes of immune function that occur in women...
  16. ncbi Bone metastatic LNCaP-derivative C4-2B prostate cancer cell line mineralizes in vitro
    D L Lin
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0940, USA
    Prostate 47:212-21. 2001
    ..CONCLUSIONS: These data demonstrate a novel mechanism through which prostate cancer cells may directly contribute to the osteoblastic component that characterize their skeletal metastatic lesions. Prostate 47:212-221, 2001...
  17. ncbi Ventral pallidal neurons code incentive motivation: amplification by mesolimbic sensitization and amphetamine
    Amy J Tindell
    Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0607, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 22:2617-34. 2005
    ..Our results support incentive-sensitization predictions and suggest why cues temporally proximal to drug presentation may precipitate cue-triggered relapse in human addicts...
  18. ncbi What do you think I think you think?: Strategic reasoning in matrix games
    Trey Hedden
    Department of Psychology, Cognition and Perception Area, University of Michigan, 525 E University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1109, USA
    Cognition 85:1-36. 2002
    ..Predictions about this other player's behavior are, in general, used consistently in decision-making, though the opponent tends to be modeled, by default, to behave in a myopic fashion not anticipating the participant's own action...
  19. ncbi Chronic medication does not affect hyperactive error responses in obsessive-compulsive disorder
    Emily R Stern
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, USA
    Psychophysiology 47:913-20. 2010
    ..The absence in patients of a relationship between ERN amplitude and anxiety/depression, as was found in controls, suggests that elevated error signals in OCD may be disorder-specific...
  20. ncbi Osteoprotegerin inhibits prostate cancer-induced osteoclastogenesis and prevents prostate tumor growth in the bone
    J Zhang
    Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    J Clin Invest 107:1235-44. 2001
    ..These results emphasize the important role that osteoclast activity plays in the establishment of CaP skeletal metastases, including those with an osteoblastic component...
  21. ncbi RANKL inhibition is an effective adjuvant for docetaxel in a prostate cancer bone metastases model
    K M Woods Ignatoski
    Department of Urology, University of Michigan Health Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0940, USA
    Prostate 68:820-9. 2008
    ..Advanced PCa is typically accompanied by skeletal metastasis. Receptor activator of NFkB ligand (RANKL) is a key pro-osteoclastic factor. Targeting RANKL decreases establishment and progression of PCa growth in bone in murine models...
  22. ncbi Chronic alcohol ingestion induces osteoclastogenesis and bone loss through IL-6 in mice
    J Dai
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    J Clin Invest 106:887-95. 2000
    ..These findings demonstrate that ethanol induces bone loss through IL-6. Furthermore, they suggest that IL-6 achieves this effect by inducing RANKL and promoting CFU-GM formation and osteoclastogenesis...
  23. ncbi Hydrogen peroxide activates NFkappaB and the interleukin-6 promoter through NFkappaB-inducing kinase
    J Zhang
    Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, USA
    Antioxid Redox Signal 3:493-504. 2001
    ..Taken together, these results demonstrate that H2O2 induces the IL-6 promoter by activating NFkappaB through NIK. These data provide a candidate mechanism through which oxidant challenge induces IL-6 gene expression with age...
  24. ncbi Labor progression and risk of cesarean delivery in electively induced nulliparas
    Anjel Vahratian
    Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Obstet Gynecol 105:698-704. 2005
    ..Furthermore, elective induction in nulliparous women with an unfavorable cervix has a high rate of labor arrest and a substantially increased risk of cesarean delivery. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: II-2...
  25. ncbi White matter fiber tractography via anisotropic diffusion simulation in the human brain
    Ning Kang
    Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0046, USA
    IEEE Trans Med Imaging 24:1127-37. 2005
    ....
  26. ncbi Dynamics of learning near singularities in layered networks
    Haikun Wei
    RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, 3510198, Japan
    Neural Comput 20:813-43. 2008
    ..Detailed stability analysis of the dynamics of learning in radial basis function networks and multilayer perceptrons will be presented in separate work...
  27. ncbi Factors related to successful misoprostol treatment for early pregnancy failure
    Mitchell D Creinin
    Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Magee Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 3180, USA
    Obstet Gynecol 107:901-7. 2006
    ..To identify potential predictors for treatment success in medical management with misoprostol for early pregnancy failure...
  28. ncbi Nonlinear prediction for Gaussian mixture image models
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
    IEEE Trans Image Process 13:836-47. 2004
    ..Experimental results indicate that when the background texture is nonlinear, i.e., with fast-switching gray-level patches, it performs significantly better than the optimal linear predictor...
  29. ncbi Approximating anatomical brain connectivity with diffusion tensor MRI using kernel-based diffusion simulations
    Jun Zhang
    Laboratory for High Performance Scientific Computing and Computer Simulation, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0046, USA
    Inf Process Med Imaging 19:64-75. 2005
    ....
  30. ncbi Interactions between smoking and weight in pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia and small-for-gestational-age birth
    Roberta B Ness
    Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 168:427-33. 2008
    ..Obesity eliminated the inverse association between smoking and preeclampsia but did not substantially alter the positive association between smoking and SGA. A possible unifying biologic explanation is discussed in this paper...
  31. ncbi Misoprostol for treatment of early pregnancy failure in women with previous uterine surgery
    Beatrice A Chen
    Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Magee Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Am J Obstet Gynecol 198:626.e1-5. 2008
    ..Misoprostol use in early pregnancy may incur a risk of uterine rupture in women with previous uterine surgery...
  32. ncbi Partner change, birth interval and risk of pre-eclampsia: a paradoxical triangle
    Jun Zhang
    Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 21:31-5. 2007
    ..Controlling for or stratifying birth interval in the association between partner change and risk of pre-eclampsia could be inappropriate and may have produced a spurious association...
  33. ncbi Natural history of fetal position during pregnancy and risk of nonvertex delivery
    Catherine Takacs Witkop
    Department of General Preventive Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    Obstet Gynecol 111:875-80. 2008
    ..To examine the natural history of fetal position throughout pregnancy and the likelihood for nonvertex delivery...
  34. ncbi Retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy without previous control of adrenal vein is feasible and safe for pheochromocytoma
    Xu Zhang
    Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People s Republic of China
    Urology 69:849-53. 2007
    ..To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of retroperitoneal laparoscopic adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma and report our experience in adrenalectomy without previous control of the adrenal vein...
  35. ncbi In vitro and in vivo toxicity of CdTe nanoparticles
    Yongbin Zhang
    Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
    J Nanosci Nanotechnol 7:497-503. 2007
    ....
  36. ncbi Evaluation of hepatic-metastasis risk of colorectal cancer upon the protein signature of PI3K/AKT pathway
    Bin Kang
    Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Airport Industrial Zone B 6, Shunyi District, Beijing, China
    J Proteome Res 7:3507-15. 2008
    ..And the HM occurrence of RKO cell (4/5) was dramatically higher than that of HT29 cell (1/5). Therefore, the protein signature derived from PI3K/AKT pathway is likely a promising multiplex biomarker for HM of CRC...
  37. ncbi Enhancing effects of SonoVue, a microbubble sonographic contrast agent, on high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation in rabbit livers in vivo
    Wen Luo
    Department of Ultrasound, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi an, China
    J Ultrasound Med 26:469-76. 2007
    ..The purpose of this study was to explore the enhancing biological effects of SonoVue (Bracco SpA, Milan, Italy), a sulfur hexafluoride sonographic contrast agent, on high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation in vivo...
  38. ncbi Exploring membrane domains using native membrane sheets and transmission electron microscopy
    Bridget S Wilson
    Dept of Pathology and Cancer Center, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, USA
    Methods Mol Biol 398:245-61. 2007
    ..Probe coordinates are extracted from digitized images and the distributions of the probes are analyzed with respect to each other and to membrane features like clathrin-coated pits, caveolae, and the cortical cytoskeleton...
  39. ncbi Partner change and perinatal outcomes: a systematic review
    Jun Zhang
    Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 21:46-57. 2007
    ..Whether birth interval should be controlled for in the association between partner change and pre-eclampsia warrants caution...
  40. ncbi Risks of CHD identified by different criteria of metabolic syndrome and related changes of adipocytokines in elderly postmenopausal women
    Qun Fang Ding
    Department of Geriatrics, Medicine in Growth and Aging, Program in Health and Community Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
    J Diabetes Complications 21:315-9. 2007
    ..The IDF definition for MetS is the most sensitive one with regard to metabolic disorders, whereas JPN and CDS definitions correlate better with CHD and changes of adipocytokines among the four criteria studied...
  41. ncbi Analysis of apoptosis and cell proliferation after high intensity-focused ultrasound ablation combined with microbubbles in rabbit livers
    Wen Luo
    Department of Ultrasound in Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, 17th Changle Xilu, Xi an, China
    Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 19:962-8. 2007
    ..To analyze apoptosis and expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) sequentially in the rabbit liver tissue after high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation combined with microbubbles...
  42. ncbi A common polymorphism is associated with body mass index in Uyghur population
    Jun Zhang
    MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    Diabetes Res Clin Pract 81:e11-3. 2008
    ..47 (95% CI 1.11-1.95, P=0.006) under a dominant model (CC+GC versus GG). The mean BMI of rs7566605 CC+GC was 0.59kg/m(2) higher than for GG genotype (P=0.024), regardless of sex and age...
  43. ncbi Effects of interpregnancy interval on blood pressure in consecutive pregnancies
    Rafael T Mikolajczyk
    Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 168:422-6. 2008
    ..However, it does not rule out the possibility that other mechanisms of cardiovascular adaptation persist longer...
  44. ncbi Cesarean delivery on maternal request in southeast China
    Jun Zhang
    National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    Obstet Gynecol 111:1077-82. 2008
    ..To estimate the incidence of overall cesarean delivery and cesarean delivery on maternal request in southeast China in the past decade...
  45. ncbi Harvested human neurons engineered as live nervous tissue constructs: implications for transplantation. Laboratory investigation
    Jason H Huang
    Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA
    J Neurosurg 108:343-7. 2008
    ..The authors chose to evaluate human dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons due to their robustness in culture...
  46. ncbi Placental characteristics and birthweight
    Carolyn M Salafia
    Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 22:229-39. 2008
    ..Analysis suggested that the impact of all maternal characteristics except smoking was consistent with mediation by placental characteristics...
  47. ncbi Protein folding in hydrophobic-polar lattice model: a flexible ant-colony optimization approach
    Xiao min Hu
    Department of Computer Science, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People s Republic of China
    Protein Pept Lett 15:469-77. 2008
    ..Collaborations of novel pheromone and heuristic strategies in the proposed algorithm make it more effective in predicting structures of proteins compared with other state-of-the-art algorithms...
  48. ncbi Reshaping the folding energy landscape of human carbonic anhydrase II by a single point genetic mutation Pro237His
    Yan Jiang
    Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, Sichuan, People s Republic of China
    Int J Biochem Cell Biol 40:776-88. 2008
    ..The results herein suggested that the correct positioning of the long loop around P237 might be crucial to the folding of HCA II, particularly the formation of the active site...
  49. ncbi The antiandrogenic activity of the fungicide N-(3, 5-dichlorophenyl) succinimide in in vivo and in vitro assays
    Jun Zhang
    Department of Toxicology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, P R China
    J Reprod Dev 53:535-43. 2007
    ..05) the expression of PBP C3 and had no effect on the level of TRPM-2 (P>0.05). In conclusion, NDPS is a moderate antiandrogen that elicits antiandrogenic effects at least partly by antagonizing AR and increasing the expression of PBP C3...
  50. ncbi Needle electromyography of the rectus abdominis in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Yingsheng Xu
    Department of Neurology, Peking University Third Hospital, 49 North Garden Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China
    Muscle Nerve 35:383-5. 2007
    ..Thus, conventional needle EMG of the RA is a valuable electrophysiological method to assess clinical and subclinical involvement of thoracic lower motor neurons in patients with suspected ALS...
  51. ncbi [Kinetic model for bioconcentration of No. 0 diesel water-accommodated fraction by phytoplankton]
    Jun Zhang
    College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
    Huan Jing Ke Xue 25:14-9. 2004
    ..The technique proposed in the present study is particularly well suited for the study on the bioconcentration of organic pollution toxins in the field for its convenience, simplicity, veracity and reliability...
  52. ncbi The effect of early epidural versus early intravenous analgesia use on labor progression: a natural experiment
    Anjel Vahratian
    Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:259-65. 2004
    ..CONCLUSION: Our data support recent American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidelines that the restraining use of epidural analgesia at <4 cm of cervical dilation is unnecessary...
  53. ncbi Small-for-gestational-age infants and risk of fetal death in subsequent pregnancies
    Jun Zhang
    Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
    N Engl J Med 350:754-6. 2004
  54. ncbi Isolated oligohydramnios is not associated with adverse perinatal outcomes
    Jun Zhang
    Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH/DHHS, NIH Building 6100, Room 7B03, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    BJOG 111:220-5. 2004
    ..CONCLUSION: Isolated oligohydramnios is not associated with impaired fetal growth or an increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes...
  55. ncbi [Detection of hepatitis E virus on a blood donor and its infectivity to rhesus monkey]
    Ning-Shao Xia
    The Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Cell Biology and Tumor Cell Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
    Zhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi 12:13-5. 2004
    ..CONCLUSION: Acute hepatitis E can be induced by plasma transfusion of HEV viremia, which indicate the possibility of transfusion transmitted hepatitis E..
  56. ncbi [Significance of serological markers and virological marker for hepatitis E in rhesus monkey model]
    Jun Zhang
    The Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Cell Biology and Tumor Cell Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
    Zhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi 12:7-10. 2004
    ..The seroconversion or titer elevation of GL-IgG and YES-IgG antibodies probably used to confirm the infection. The viral markers are optional for early diagnosis...
  57. ncbi Evaluation of antibody-based and nucleic acid-based assays for diagnosis of hepatitis E virus infection in a rhesus monkey model
    Jun Zhang
    The Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Cell Biology and Tumor Cell Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian Province, 361005, China
    J Med Virol 71:518-26. 2003
    ..E2 IgG persisted in all animals for the entire duration of the experiment of up to 86 weeks and possibly beyond and, thus, can serve as a useful epidemiological marker of HEV infection...
  58. ncbi Differential synaptic organization of GABAergic bipolar cells and non-GABAergic (glutamatergic) bipolar cells in the tiger salamander retina
    Chen Yu Yang
    Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
    J Comp Neurol 455:187-97. 2003
    ..ON layers indicates a difference in the role of bipolar cells in the generation of receptive field properties, depending on whether or not they use GABA as well as glutamate for their transmitter...
  59. ncbi Analysis on performance and optimization of frequency-domain near-infrared instruments
    Tao Tu
    University of Pennsylvania, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    J Biomed Opt 7:643-9. 2002
    ..This kind of method can be used to design suitable instruments for various applications. We also analyze the selection of the instrument parameters to achieve optimal performance at an efficient cost using this analytical model...
  60. ncbi Reassessing the labor curve in nulliparous women
    Jun Zhang
    Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development NIH, Building 6100, Room 7B03, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Am J Obstet Gynecol 187:824-8. 2002
    ..Our purpose was to examine the pattern of labor progression in nulliparous parturients in contemporary obstetric practice...
  61. ncbi Multifetal pregnancy in older women and perinatal outcomes
    Jun Zhang
    Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
    Fertil Steril 78:562-8. 2002
    ..To examine multifetal pregnancy in older women and perinatal outcomes...
  62. ncbi Predictors of herbicide exposure in farm applicators
    Tye E Arbuckle
    Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada, A L 0701D, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0L2, Canada
    Int Arch Occup Environ Health 75:406-14. 2002
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  63. ncbi Delayed interval delivery and infant survival: a population-based study
    Jun Zhang
    Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health/DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:470-6. 2004
    ..CONCLUSION: Delayed delivery of the remaining fetus(es) before 30 weeks of gestation for 2 or more days was associated with improved infant survival...
  64. ncbi Method development for the quantitation of ABT-578 in rabbit artery tissue by 96-well liquid-liquid extraction and liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometric detection
    Qin C Ji
    Department of Drug Analysis, Abbott Laboratories, 100 Abbott Park Road, Abbott Park, IL 60064 6126, USA
    Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 18:2293-8. 2004
    ..3 and 7.0%, and analytical recovery was between 98.2 and 105.8% for blood QC samples. The %CVs for tissue QC samples were between 6.7 and 13.0%, and analytical recovery after correction was between 93.5 and 114.3%...
  65. ncbi Depth-resolved birefringence and differential optical axis orientation measurements with fiber-based polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography
    Shuguang Guo
    Beckman Laser Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92612, USA
    Opt Lett 29:2025-7. 2004
    ..Experimental results with beef tendon and rabbit tendon and muscle show that this technique has promising potential for imaging the birefringent structure of multiple-layer samples with varying optical axes...
  66. ncbi The impact of parity on course of labor in a contemporary population
    Anjel Vahratian
    Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Birth 33:12-7. 2006
    ..The difference in duration of the active phase between nulliparas and multiparas is substantially smaller in a contemporary population...
  67. ncbi [Effects of yinxing pingchan recipe and its components on activity of mitochondrial enzyme complex in brain of mice with Parkinson's disease]
    Hong-Mei Sun
    Department of Anatomy, Basal Medical College, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing
    Zhongguo Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi 25:1008-11. 2005
    ..05). CONCLUSION: YXPC and its components can maintain the mitochondrial function by partial inhibiting the activity of its enzyme complex, preventing DAn apoptosis to slow down the progress of Parkinson's disease...
  68. ncbi DDT serum concentration and menstruation among young Chinese women
    Aimin Chen
    Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
    Environ Res 99:397-402. 2005
    ..The study largely suggests no association between DDE and DDT concentrations and menstrual cycle characteristics in young Chinese women, though the weak-to-no correlation of DDE with menstrual cycle length merits further study...
  69. ncbi [A theoretical model study of open section effect on the mechanical properties of long bone]
    Wenzhi Zhao
    State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
    Sheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi 22:1052-4. 2005
    ..Shear stress peaked at the center of the open section. This conclusion provides an important theoretical ground for the operative methods and the dimension control of an open section in clinical orthopaedics...
  70. ncbi Study of the effects of mild hypothermia on cerebral PO2, PCO2 and pH and body temperature in patients with acute severe head injury
    Jun Jia
    Department of Neurosurgery, Shenzhen Longgang Central Hospital, Shenzhen 518116, China
    Chin J Traumatol 8:138-41. 2005
    ..To study the effects of mild hypothermia on cerebral oxygen partial pressure, carbon dioxide partial pressure, pH and body temperature (PbrO2, PbrCO2, pHbr and BT) in patients with acute severe head injury...
  71. ncbi Renal pedicle lymphatic disconnection for chyluria via retroperitoneoscopy and open surgery: report of 53 cases with followup
    Xu Zhang
    Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People s Republic of China
    J Urol 174:1828-31. 2005
    ..We present our experience with retroperitoneoscopic renal pedicle lymphatic disconnection. We compared the clinical efficacy of this treatment for chyluria with that of open surgery...
  72. ncbi Role of GABAB receptors in GABA and baclofen-induced inhibition of adult rat cerebellar interpositus nucleus neurons in vitro
    Kun Chen
    Department of Biological Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, Mailbox 426, Nanjing University, China
    Brain Res Bull 67:310-8. 2005
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  73. ncbi Perceived life stress and bacterial vaginosis
    Emily W Harville
    Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7435, USA
    J Womens Health (Larchmt) 14:627-33. 2005
    ..Because stress can suppress immune function, increased stress might increase the risk of BV. Our objective was to determine whether life stress was associated with risk of bacterial vaginosis in a cohort of nonpregnant women...
  74. ncbi Integrated numerical model of nitrogen transportation, absorption and transformation by two-dimension in soil-crop system
    Hong qi Wang
    College of Water Sciences, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
    J Environ Sci (China) 17:662-6. 2005
    ..Parameters and boundary conditions were identified and an effective computing method for optimizing watering and wastewater irrigating plans was provided...
  75. ncbi [Organotypic cerebral slice culture and the course of neuronal development in it]
    Mei Zheng
    Department of Neurology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100083, China
    Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao 37:406-9. 2005
    ..CONCLUSION: Orgaotypic cerebral culture can be used to study postnatal development for neocortex and build some in vitro models for neurodegenerative diseases...
  76. ncbi Regenerative and therapeutic effects of heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor on diabetes by gene transduction through retrograde pancreatic duct injection of adenovirus vector
    Junji Kozawa
    Department of Internal Medicine and Molecular Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
    Pancreas 31:32-42. 2005
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  77. ncbi Removal of a mirror image and enhancement of the signal-to-noise ratio in Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography using an electro-optic phase modulator
    Jun Zhang
    Beckman Laser Institute and the Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92612, USA
    Opt Lett 30:147-9. 2005
    ..The imaging range was doubled by cancellation of the mirror image. The elimination of low-frequency noises resulting from dc and autocorrelation terms increased the sensitivity by 20 dB...
  78. ncbi U.S. national trends in labor induction, 1989-1998
    Jun Zhang
    Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, NIH Building 6100, Room 7B03, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    J Reprod Med 47:120-4. 2002
    ..To examine the epidemiology of labor induction in the United States...