Mark Ferguson

Long-term survival after esophagectomy for Barrett's adenocarcinoma in endoscopically surveyed and nonsurveyed patients.

Preoperative prediction of the risk of pulmonary complications after esophagectomy for cancer.

TGF-beta3 is required for the adhesion and intercalation of medial edge epithelial cells during palate fusion.

Use of fluorescent sequence-specific polyamides to discriminate human chromosomes by microscopy and flow cytometry.

Transforming growth factor-beta levels during second- intention healing are related to the different course of wound contraction in horses and ponies.

A comparison of three scoring systems for predicting complications after major lung resection.

Severely impaired wound healing in the collagenase-resistant mouse.

Regeneration of the ear after wounding in different mouse strains is dependent on the severity of wound trauma.

Genetic susceptibility to keloid disease and hypertrophic scarring: transforming growth factor beta1 common polymorphisms and plasma levels.

Wound healing: a model of dermal wound repair.

Genetic susceptibility to dupuytren disease: association of Zf9 transcription factor gene.

Histone deacetylase inhibition is associated with transcriptional repression of the Hmga2 gene.

Postpneumonectomy pulmonary edema.

The Journal of Surgical Research increases its science citation index: what's the impact?

"Aggressive keloid": a severe variant of familial keloid scarring.

Sleeve lobectomy or pneumonectomy: optimal management strategy using decision analysis techniques.

Optimal management when unsuspected N2 nodal disease is identified during thoracotomy for lung cancer: cost-effectiveness analysis.

Latent TGF-beta1 activation by platelets.

Coping sense of humor reduces effects of stereotype threat on women's math performance.

Social consequences of disparagement humor: a prejudiced norm theory.

Scar-free healing: from embryonic mechanisms to adult therapeutic intervention.

Papillary renal cell carcinoma containing fat without calcification mimicking angiomyolipoma on CT.

Induction therapy does not increase surgical morbidity after esophagectomy for cancer.

Identification of a novel mitochondrial mutation in Dupuytren's disease using multiplex DHPLC.

Variable impairment of wound healing in the heterozygous collagenase-resistant mouse.

Wound healing enhancement: electroporation to address a classic problem of military medicine.

Studies of transforming growth factors beta 1-3 and their receptors I and II in fibroblast of keloids and hypertrophic scars.

Cytokine gene expression in a murine wound healing model.

Animal models for adult dermal wound healing.

Experimental manipulation of transforming growth factor-beta isoforms significantly affects adhesion formation in a murine surgical model.

Quantification of total and perfused blood vessels in murine skin autografts using a fluorescent double-labeling technique.

Reduction of myointimal hyperplasia after arterial anastomosis by local injection of transforming growth factor beta3.

The development of archosaurian first-generation teeth in a chicken mutant.

Decreased expression of inhibitory SMAD6 and SMAD7 in keloid scarring.

In vivo attenuation of myointimal hyperplasia using transforming growth factor-beta3 in an interposition graft model.

Bowel necrosis associated with early jejunal tube feeding: A complication of postoperative enteral nutrition.

Strangulation of the reconstructive gastric tube by the azygos arch.

The microcirculation in acute murine cutaneous incisional wounds shows a spatial and temporal variation in the functionality of vessels.

Scarring impedes regeneration at sites of peripheral nerve repair.

Visual analogue scale scoring and ranking: a suitable and sensitive method for assessing scar quality?

Characterizing regeneration in the vertebrate ear.

Microscopic and histological examination of the mouse hindpaw digit and flexor tendon arrangement with 3D reconstruction.

Location of injury influences the mechanisms of both regeneration and repair within the MRL/MpJ mouse.

Delivery of plasmid DNA expression vector for keratinocyte growth factor-1 using electroporation to improve cutaneous wound healing in a septic rat model.

Temporal and spatial expression of Pax9 and Sonic hedgehog during development of normal mouse palates and cleft palates in TGF-beta3 null embryos.

The effect of antibodies to TGF-beta1 and TGF-beta2 at a site of sciatic nerve repair.

Tissue engineering of replacement skin: the crossroads of biomaterials, wound healing, embryonic development, stem cells and regeneration.

Lung carcinoma in African Americans.

Bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells do not contribute significantly to new vessels during incisional wound healing.

The dynamic rotation of Langer's lines on facial expression.

Chemotherapy and high dose radiotherapy followed by resection for locally advanced nonsmall cell lung cancers.

Skin tension or skin compression? Small circular wounds are likely to shrink, not gape.

Bioengineering skin using mechanisms of regeneration and repair.

Invited commentary.

Host predisposition by endogenous Transforming Growth Factor-beta1 overexpression promotes pulmonary fibrosis following bleomycin injury.

Interleukin-10 reduces scarring and enhances regeneration at a site of sciatic nerve repair.

The rationale for developing scoring systems for clinical practice.

Is the risk of concomitant invasive esophageal cancer in high-grade dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus overestimated?

Phase I study of induction chemotherapy and concomitant chemoradiotherapy with irinotecan, carboplatin, and paclitaxel for stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

Paxillin is a target for somatic mutations in lung cancer: implications for cell growth and invasion.

Changes in patient presentation and outcomes for major lung resection over three decades.

Analysis of complications following surgical treatment of benign parotid disease.

Scar redness in humans: how long does it persist after incisional and excisional wounding?

Diffusing capacity predicts morbidity after lung resection in patients without obstructive lung disease.

The role of diffusing capacity and exercise tests.

Maturation of the human scar: an observational study.

Radiation-induced leiomyosarcoma: does antimetabolite chemotherapy contribute? A report of three cases.

A scoring system predicting the risk for intensive care unit admission for complications after major lung resection: a multicenter analysis.

Prevention and reduction of scarring in the skin by Transforming Growth Factor beta 3 (TGFbeta3): from laboratory discovery to clinical pharmaceutical.

Avotermin: a novel antiscarring agent.

Modeling major lung resection outcomes using classification trees and multiple imputation techniques.

New therapeutics for the prevention and reduction of scarring.

The variability of practice in minimally invasive thoracic surgery for pulmonary resections.

Retraction. Long-term quality of life after lung resection.

Lymphatic vessel density is not associated with lymph node metastasis in non-small cell lung carcinoma.

Diurnal variation of the human adipose transcriptome and the link to metabolic disease.

生活质量和老年患者主要肺切除术后的心情。

Prophylactic administration of avotermin for improvement of skin scarring: three double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase I/II studies.

The Patient Scar Assessment Questionnaire: a reliable and valid patient-reported outcomes measure for linear scars.

The European Respiratory Society and European Society of Thoracic Surgeons clinical guidelines for evaluating fitness for radical treatment (surgery and chemoradiotherapy) in patients with lung cancer.

Longitudinal changes in plasma Transforming growth factor beta-1 and post-burn scarring in children.

Avotermin for the improvement of scar appearance: a new pharmaceutical in a new therapeutic area.

Basal cell carcinoma of the nipple-areola complex.

Complete Barrett's eradication endoscopic mucosal resection: an effective treatment modality for high-grade dysplasia and intramucosal carcinoma--an American single-center experience.

Ethnic differences and functional analysis of MET mutations in lung cancer.

Lung function evaluation before surgery in lung cancer patients: how are recent advances put into practice? A survey among members of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and of the Thoracic Oncology Section of the European Respiratory Society (ERS).

Pulmonary complications after lung resection in the absence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the predictive role of diffusing capacity.

MET, HGF, EGFR, and PXN gene copy number in lung cancer using DNA extracts from FFPE archival samples and prognostic significance.

The cellular biology of flexor tendon adhesion formation: an old problem in a new paradigm.

Does induction treatment increase the risk of morbidity and mortality after pneumonectomy? A multicentre case-matched analysis.

Predicting prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma after curative surgery with common clinicopathologic parameters.

MET/PKCbeta expression correlate with metastasis and inhibition is synergistic in lung cancer.

Thoracic surgery in the elderly. Foreword.

Fetal tumors: imaging features.

Estimating lung resection risk: a pilot study of trainee and practicing surgeons.

Foreword.

Imaging of thoracic diseases. Foreword.

Epiphrenic diverticulum of the esophagus. From pathophysiology to treatment.

Retrograde endoscopic-assisted esophageal dilation.

Energy implications of product leasing.

Esophageal resection for high-grade dysplasia and intramucosal carcinoma: When and how?

Long-term outcome of a phase II study of docetaxel-based multimodality chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced carcinoma of the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction.

Invited commentary.

microRNA-122 as a regulator of mitochondrial metabolic gene network in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Therapeutic improvement of scarring: mechanisms of scarless and scar-forming healing and approaches to the discovery of new treatments.

Therapies with emerging evidence of efficacy: avotermin for the improvement of scarring.

Effects of avotermin (transforming growth factor β3) in a clinically relevant pig model of long, full-thickness incisional wounds.

Peripheral nerve regeneration in the MRL/MpJ ear wound model.

Scar-improving efficacy of avotermin administered into the wound margins of skin incisions as evaluated by a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II clinical trial.

Congenital lung abnormalities: embryologic features, prenatal diagnosis, and postnatal radiologic-pathologic correlation.

Endoscopic interventions in Barrett's esophagus: Do the dollars make sense?

Editorial comment: Back to the future: chest physiotherapy comes full circle.

The reinnervation and revascularization of wounds is temporarily altered after treatment with interleukin 10.

The reinnervation and revascularisation pattern of scarless murine fetal wounds.

Prediction of major pulmonary complications after esophagectomy.

A synthetic gene increases TGFβ3 accumulation by 75-fold in tobacco chloroplasts enabling rapid purification and folding into a biologically active molecule.

Proteomic characterization of non-small cell lung cancer in a comprehensive translational thoracic oncology database.

Limitations of using logarithmic transformation and linear fitting to estimate relaxation rates in iron-loaded liver.

Avotermin for scar improvement following scar revision surgery: a randomized, double-blind, within-patient, placebo-controlled, phase II clinical trial.

Predictive genes in adjacent normal tissue are preferentially altered by sCNV during tumorigenesis in liver cancer and may rate limiting.

Meta-analysis of minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy.

Recommendations on clinical proof of efficacy for potential scar prevention and reduction therapies.

Discovery and development of avotermin (recombinant human transforming growth factor beta 3): a new class of prophylactic therapeutic for the improvement of scarring.

Denervation affects regenerative responses in MRL/MpJ and repair in C57BL/6 ear wounds.

Clinicopathologic and gene expression parameters predict liver cancer prognosis.

TGF β 3 Immunoassay standardization: comparison of NIBSC reference preparation code 98/608 with avotermin lot 205-0505-005.

MET and phosphorylated MET as potential biomarkers in lung cancer.

The feeling of healing.

Cardiac MRI in muscular dystrophy: an overview and future directions.

The reinnervation pattern of wounds and scars after treatment with transforming growth factor β isoforms.

Benign Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy Presenting as Cor Triatriatum.