Disease relevance of New Jersey

• The second patient was a 66-year-old man with diabetes in New Jersey. A bloodstream infection due to S. aureus with intermediate resistance to glycopeptides developed after 18 weeks of vancomycin treatment for recurrent methicillin-resistant S. aureus bacteremia [1].
• Before and four weeks after immunization with a single 0.5-ml dose of influenza virus vaccine, sera from 36 children with renal diseases were tested for serum hemagglutinating-inhibiting antibody (HAI) titers to A/New Jersey/76, A/Victoria/75, and A/Port Chalmers/73 [2].
• A full-length cDNA copy of the phosphoprotein (NS) mRNA of vesicular stomatitis virus (New Jersey serotype) was inserted into pGEM4 vector downstream of the promoter for bacteriophage SP6 RNA polymerase [3].
• Antigenic variants of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) serotypes New Jersey and Indiana (VSV-NJ, VSV-Ind) were selected by using a panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAb) specific for the major surface glycoprotein (G-protein) [4].
• The phosphoprotein (P, previously known as NS) genes of vesicular stomatitis virus serotypes New Jersey and Indiana have been cloned in the Escherichia coli expression vector pET-3a [5].

Psychiatry related information on New Jersey

• This paper describes the use of geostatistical modeling approaches to quantify uncertainty of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin concentrations in Passaic River (New Jersey) sediments and to incorporate this information in decision-making processes, such as delineation of contaminated areas and additional sampling needs [6].
• METHODS: We conducted a retrospective chart review of nursing home patients with psychiatric disorders or dementia in 65 long-term care facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania who had received treatment with risperidone or olanzapine [7].
• Treatment refusal/attrition among adults randomly assigned to programs at a drug treatment campus: The New Jersey Substance Abuse Treatment Campus, Seacaucus, NJ [8].
• Postmortem stored sera were blind-tested and confirmed for the presence of HIV-1-antibody by the New Jersey Department of Health. All cases and IV drug users were dichotomized according to the presence/absence of HIV-1-antibody and were then analyzed for differences in demographic and postmortem characteristics [9].
• The New Jersey Performance Management System (PMS) is a major mechanism used by the leadership of the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Hospitals to contract for, monitor and manage community mental health services [10].

High impact information on New Jersey

• The effects of severe hypothyroxinemia, defined as a blood thyroxine value more than 2.6 SD below the mean for New Jersey newborns, were assessed before and after adjustment for gestational age and potentially confounding variables [11].
• We analyzed 36 months of Medicaid claims data from New Hampshire, which had a three-drug limit per patient for 11 of those months, and from New Jersey, which did not [12].
• SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS--Physician-subjects were selected from among practicing internists in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania who received American Board of Internal Medicine certification 5 to 15 years previously [13].
• In contrast to the highly serotype-specific recognition of G, N is recognized by a major population of CTL able to lyse cells infected with either the Indiana or New Jersey VSV serotypes [14].
• The health of clinical investigation beyond Atlantic City. Presidential address before the 68th annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 3 May 1976 [15].

Chemical compound and disease context of New Jersey

• Identification and characterization of serine/threonine protein kinase activity intrinsic to the L protein of vesicular stomatitis virus New Jersey [16].
• Two infants with major birth defects associated with first trimester exposure to isotretinoin (Accutane, Roche Laboratories) were reported to the New Jersey Birth Defects Registry within 6 months [17].
• The asparagine-linked oligosaccharides of the G protein of the Hazelhurst subtype of the New Jersey serotype of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) have been compared with the oligosaccharides from the G protein of the well-characterized Indiana serotype of VSV, with baby hamster kidney cells in monolayer culture as the host for both viruses [18].
• METHOD: A 15-item questionnaire was sent in January 1994 to the 268 residents in the major specialty training programs at the three clinical campuses of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The residents' responses about HIV were analyzed in light of their specialty, postgraduate-year level, and training location [19].
• Under local anesthetic and Valium (Roche, Nutley, New Jersey) sedation, 20 patients with sciatica, restricted straight-leg raising, and neurological impairment were treated by this simple and safe technique [20].

Biological context of New Jersey

• The predicted amino acid sequence was compared with that of the glycoprotein of the Indiana and New Jersey serotypes of vesicular stomatitis virus and with the glycoprotein of rabies virus, using a computer program which determined optimal alignment [21].
• Because the glycoprotein of the New Jersey serotype does not contain esterified palmitate, we suggest that one or both of these residues are the probable esterification sites in the glycoprotein from the Indiana serotype [22].
• Nucleotide sequence of a cDNA clone encoding the entire glycoprotein from the New Jersey serotype of vesicular stomatitis virus [22].
• Serum HAI (hemagglutination inhibition) antibody responses were compared in two groups of 70 age-matched patients (age range, 17 to 82 years) who were vaccinated with bivalent influenza A/New Jersey/76-A/Victoria/75 whole-virus vaccine [23].
• Descriptive epidemiology of mortality in New Jersey due to combinations of codeine and glutethimide [24].

Anatomical context of New Jersey

• A panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAb) reactive with the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) glycoprotein (G-protein) was used to inhibit lysis of infected target cells by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) reactive with VSV serotypes Indiana and New Jersey (VSV-Ind, VSV-NJ) [25].
• A new phosphoglycerate kinase variant (PGK New Jersey) has been purified from muscle and cultured fibroblasts of a patient with recurrent myoglobinuria [26].
• The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of continuous long-term application of a combined cooling and compression system (Cryo/Cuff, Aircast Inc., Summit, New Jersey, USA) on postoperative swelling, range of motion (ROM), pain, consumption of analgesics, and return of function after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction [27].
• A 63-year-old man with osteoarthritis of the right knee underwent TKA with a New Jersey LCS Knee, with cementing on the tibia and patella but not on the femoral component [28].
• We studied the renal effects of a specific dopamine-1 antagonist, SCH 23390 (SCH, MW 398, Schering-Plough, Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA) infused into the renal artery of uninephrectomized conscious dogs (n = 5) in metabolic balance at a sodium intake of 40 mmol/day [29].

Associations of New Jersey with chemical compounds

• Using data on 48 months of claims in the study state (New Hampshire) and a comparison state (New Jersey), we employed time-series analysis to evaluate patient-level changes in the number of prescriptions filled for 16 drugs that varied in their clinical importance and cost [30].
• The emotional issue of withdrawing feeding tubes from incompetent patients was reviewed recently by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the case of Claire Conroy [31].
• Epidemiologic investigation in one hospital indicated that the positive results of blood culture represented pseudobacteremias and implicated a 10% povidone-iodine solution used as an antiseptic and disinfectant (Pharmadine; Sherwood Pharmaceutical Company, Mahwah, New Jersey) as the source of contamination [32].
• PATIENTS AND METHODS: Twenty-one women with CFS and 22 sedentary healthy controls (CON) were studied at the CFS Cooperative Research Center Exercise Laboratory at the VA Medical Center, East Orange, New Jersey. Performance was measured on an incremental treadmill protocol walking to exhaustion [33].
• Two months later, they were treated for two months with: 1) vehicle; 2) AT(1)-ant (L158809, Merck, Rahway, New Jersey); 3) AT(1)-ant + AT(2)-ant (PD-123319, Parke Davis, Ann Arbor, Michigan); or 4) AT(1)-ant + kinin B(2) receptor antagonist (B(2)-ant) (icatibant) (only BN) [34].

Gene context of New Jersey

• New Jersey Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic population data on the PCR-based loci HLA-DQA1, LDLR, GYPA, HBGG, D7S8, and Gc [35].
• Hereditary protein S deficiency in a large New Jersey kindred [36].
• In the M1 protein, there were two substitutions in the A/black duck/New Jersey/1580/78-MA variant (Asn30-->Asp and Gln214-->His) and a single substitution in the A/JapanxBellamy/57-MA variant (Met179-->Lys) [37].
• PURPOSE: The SPARC (American Medical Systems, Minneapolis, Minnesota) polypropylene sling has recently been introduced as an alternative delivery system to TVT (Ethicon, New Brunswick, New Jersey) tension-free vaginal tape for placement of a tension-free mid urethral sling [38].
• In 1996-1997, the authors studied the association of blood pressure, hypertension prevalence, and polymorphisms in the gene for the alpha 2 subunit of Na(+)-K(+)ATPase (ATP1A2) among 220 former organolead manufacturing workers from New Jersey. Subjects were genotyped for a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) on the ATP1A2 gene [39].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of New Jersey

• METHODS: Over a four-year period, 1,486 patients underwent dobutamine stress RTCE with low mechanical index pulse sequence schemes after intravenous injections of commercially available contrast agents (35% Definity, Bristol Myers Squibb Medical Imaging Inc., North Billerica, Massachusetts; 65% Optison, GE-Amersham, Princeton, New Jersey) [40].
• Western blot analysis revealed little or no cross-reactivity of the antibodies with other viral proteins or with the M protein of the New Jersey serotype [41].
• In 1976, the Center for Disease Control coordinated nationwide surveillance for illnesses after influenza vaccination as part of an effort to vaccinate the nation against influenza A/New Jersey/76 [42].
• Three times the common dose of BCG (ImmuCyst, Aventis, Paris, France or OncoTICE, Organon, West Orange, New Jersey) in 150 ml NaCl 0.9% was used for intraurethral BCG perfusion therapy according to an institutional protocol using a modified Foley catheter [43].
• Lung cancer risk in relation to indoor radon was examined in three case-control studies in Stockholm (Sweden), New Jersey (United States), and Shenyang (People's Republic of China) [44].

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