Journal of Surgical Research
Volume 152, Issue 1 , Pages 3-17.e2 , March 2009

Gene Expression Profiling of Long-Term Changes in Rat Liver Following Burn Injury

  • Arul Jayaraman, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Shriners Hospitals for Children and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationTo whom correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed at Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3122
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  • Tim Maguire, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
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  • Murali Vemula, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Shriners Hospitals for Children and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Deukwoo W. Kwon, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
    • Current address: Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer, Epidemiology, and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
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  • Marina Vannucci, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
    • Current address: Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, TX.
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  • Francois Berthiaume, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Shriners Hospitals for Children and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Martin L. Yarmush, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Shriners Hospitals for Children and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 3 February 2007

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1 Arul Jayaraman and Tim Maguire contributed equally to this work.

PII: S0022-4804(07)00377-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.05.025

Journal of Surgical Research
Volume 152, Issue 1 , Pages 3-17.e2 , March 2009