VOLUME 14, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 1, PAGES 1-397

Frontiers in Bioscience proudly launches this issue by a paper from Dr Freid Murad, 1998 Nobel Laureate
in Medicine for his discovery of nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system

Discovery of the nitric oxide signaling pathway and targets for drug development
Nathan S. Bryan, Ka Bian, Ferid Murad

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1-18, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Pal Pacher]

VOLUME 14, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 2, PAGES 398-795

Trail and kidney disease
Corina Lorz, Alberto Benito, Alvaro C. Ucero, Beatriz Santamaría, Alberto Ortiz

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 570-582, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Corina Lorz]

AMPK/SNF1 structure: a menage a trois of energy-sensing
John W Scott, Jonathan S Oakhill, Bryce JW van Denderen

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 596-610, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Lance Macaulay]

VOLUME 14, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 3, PAGES 796-1196

Ectoenzymes and innate immunity: the role of human CD157 in leukocyte trafficking
Ada Funaro, Erika Ortolan, Paola Bovino, Nicola Lo Buono, Giulia Nacci, Rossella Parrotta, Enza Ferrero, Fabio Malavasi

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 929-943, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Ying-Fu Chen]

Specification of the germ cell lineage in mice
Mitinori Saitou

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1068-1087, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Rabindranath De La Fuente]

VOLUME 14, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 4, PAGES 1197-1595

The evolution of vertebrate opioid receptors
Craig W. Stevens

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1247-1269, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Yingxian Pan]

Regulation of bovine papillomavirus type 1 gene expression by RNA processing
Rong Jia, Zhi-Ming Zheng

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1270-1282, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Zhi-Ming Zheng]

Biochemical properties of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1
Daniel Miotto Dupont, Jeppe Buur Madsen, Thomas Kristensen, Julie Stove Bodker, Grant Ellsworth Blouse, Troels Wind, Peter Andre Andreasen

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1337-1361, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Pia Ragno]

Genomic features of Lactobacillus species
Yong Jun Goh, Todd R. Klaenhammer

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1362-1386, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Marco Ventura]

Cell signaling modifiers for molecular targeted therapy in ATLL
Naoki Mori

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1479-1489, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Franco Buonaguro]

Proteomics of tendinopathy
Mary T Johnson

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1505-1515, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Nicola Maffulli]

Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus ORF57 in viral RNA processing
Vladimir Majerciak, Zhi-Ming Zheng

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1516-1528, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Zhi-Ming Zheng]

Key players in chromosome segregation in Caenorhabditis elegans
Risa Kitagawa

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1529-1557, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Katsumi Kitagawa]

GSK-3 inhibitors and insulin receptor signaling in health, disease, and therapeutics
Akihiko Wada

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1558-1570, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Akihiko Wada]

Extracellular matrix proteases - cytokine regulation role in cancer and pregnancy
Bor-Ching Sheu, Wen-Chun Chang, Chieh-Yang Cheng, Peng-Hui Wang, Shiming Lin, Su-Cheng Huang

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 1571-1588, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Lukasz Wicherek]

VOLUME 14, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 5, PAGES 1596-1989

VOLUME 14, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 6, PAGES 1990-2399

Na,K-ATPase and epithelial tight junctions
Sigrid A. Rajasekaran, Ayyappan K. Rajasekaran

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2130-2148, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Andrei I. Ivanov]

Crumbs proteins in epithelial morphogenesis
Elsa Bazellieres, Emeline Assemat, Jean-Pierre Arsanto, Andre Le Bivic, Dominique Massey-Harroche

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2149-2169, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Andrei I. Ivanov]

Expression of aromatase CYP19 and its relationship with parameters in NSCLC
Tsunehiro Oyama,Norio Kagawa, Kenji Sugio, Hidetaka Uramoto, Osamu Hatano, Nobuhiro Harada, Kazuhiro Kaneko, Toshihiro Kawamoto, Kosei Yasumoto

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2285-2292, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Norio Kagawa]

VOLUME 14, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 7, PAGES 2400-2800

Role of Toll-like receptor mediated signaling pathway in ischemic heart
Yasuchika Takeishi, Isao Kubota

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2553-2558, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Chuanfu Li]

The enterohepatic circulation of bile acids in mammals: form and functions
Alan F. Hofmann

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2584-2598, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Luis Alvarez]

Tollip attenuated the hypertrophic response of cardiomyocytes induced by IL-1beta
Yulong Hu, Ting Li, Yongmei Wang, Jing Li, Lin Guo, Meiling Wu, Xiaohong Shan, Lingli Que, Tuanzhu Ha, Qi Chen, Jim Kelley, Yuehua Li

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2747-2756, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Chuanfu Li]

Consciousness: physiological dependence on rapid memory access
Arthur J. Hudson

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2779-2800, January 1, 2009]
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VOLUME 14, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 2, PAGES 2801-

An overview of systematics and evolution of ticks
Santiago Nava, Alberto A. Guglielmone, Atilio J. Mangold

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2857-2877, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Jose de la Fuente]

Role of bone morphogenetic proteins and their antagonists in healing of bone fracture
D. Brian Dean, J. Tracy Watson, Berton R. Moed, Zijun Zhang

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2878-2888, January 1, 2009]
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The immune control of HTLV-1 infection: selection forces and dynamics
Charles R M Bangham, Kiran Meekings, Frederic Toulza, Mohamed Nejmeddine, Endre Majorovits, Becca Asquith, Graham P Taylor

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2889-2903, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Franco Buonaguro]

Chemical genetic screening of KRAS-based synthetic lethal inhibitors for pancreatic cancer
Zhenyu Ji, Fang C. Mei, Pedro L. Lory, Scott R. Gilbertson, Yijun Chen, Xiaodong Cheng

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2904-2910, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Franco Buonaguro]

Type 3 cystatins; fetuins, kininogen and histidine-rich glycoprotein
Chunsik Lee, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Christian Sollner, Willi Jahnen-Dechent, Lena Claesson-Welsh

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2911-2922, January 1, 2009]
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Modulation of TGF-beta signaling during progression of chronic liver diseases
Koichi Matsuzaki

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2923-2934, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Steven Dooley]

Therapeutic potential of SIRT1 and NAMPT-mediated NAD biosynthesis in type 2 diabetes
Shin-ichiro Imai, Wieland Kiess

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 2983-2995, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Frédéric De Ceuninck]

Advances in myogenic cell transplantation and skeletal muscle tissue engineering
Anthony Scime, Annabelle Z. Caron, Guillaume Grenier

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 3012-3023, January 1, 2009]
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[Managing Editor: Patrick Vermette]

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