Cell-associated proteoglycans provide highly complex and sophisticated systems to control
interactions of extracellular cell matrix components and soluble ligands with the cell surface. …

The extracellular matrix and blood vessel formation: not just a scaffold - Rhodes - 2007 -
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine - Wiley Online Library … John M. Rhodes…

Congenital heart disease is common, occurring in 8 of 1000 live births. 1 With the successes
in cardiothoracic surgery over the past 3 decades and the ongoing improvements in the …

Background The efficacy of closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) in the prevention of
recurrent stroke after cryptogenic stroke is uncertain. We investigated the effect of PFO closure …

Background The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first
palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated …

Background Ulcerative colitis is largely a disease of nonsmokers. Because anecdotal
reports suggest that smoking and nicotine may improve the symptoms of the disease, we …

While hidden class models of various types arise in many statistical applications, it is often
difficult to establish the identifiability of their parameters. Focusing on models in which there is …

Introduction. In the following all semigroups are of finite order. One semigroup Si is said to
divide another semigroup S2, written Si| S2, if Si is a homomorphic image of a subsemigroup …

Many important techniques and results are clearly exposited in book form for the first time,
thereby updating and modernizing the semigroup theory literature and placing all the most …

… and Kr, j-+1 for the low-pass prototype … Rhodes has been the recipient of five
international research awards including the Browder J. Thompson, Guilfirnen-Cauer …