Sarah E. Gerdts

Change in systolic left ventricular performance after 3 years of antihypertensive treatment: the Losartan Intervention for Endpoint (LIFE) Study.

Progressive hypertrophy regression with sustained pressure reduction in hypertension: the Losartan Intervention For Endpoint Reduction study.

Change of left ventricular geometric pattern after 1 year of antihypertensive treatment: the Losartan Intervention For Endpoint reduction in hypertension (LIFE) study.

Echocardiographic wall motion abnormalities in hypertensive patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE Study.

Left ventricular mass regression in the LIFE study: effect of previous antihypertensive treatment.

Pulse pressure/stroke index and left ventricular geometry and function: the LIFE Study.

Usefulness of the assessment of the appropriateness of left ventricular mass to detect left ventricular systolic and diastolic abnormalities in absence of echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE study.

[Hypertension and heart disease].

Sex-related difference in regression of left ventricular hypertrophy with antihypertensive treatment: the LIFE study.

Impact of valvular regurgitation on left ventricular geometry and function in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE study.

DNA vaccination in utero: a new approach to induce protective immunity in the newborn.

Association of left bundle branch block with left ventricular structure and function in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE study.

Albuminuria predicts cardiovascular events independently of left ventricular mass in hypertension: a LIFE substudy.

Impact of age on left ventricular hypertrophy regression during antihypertensive treatment with losartan or atenolol (the LIFE study).

A synthetic reaction network: chemical amplification using nonequilibrium autocatalytic reactions coupled in time.

Blood pressure measurements by the Keito machine. Evaluation versus office blood pressure by physicians.

Microfluidic systems for chemical kinetics that rely on chaotic mixing in droplets.

Regression of hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy by losartan compared with atenolol: the Losartan Intervention for Endpoint Reduction in Hypertension (LIFE) trial.

Relation of impaired left ventricular filling to systolic midwall mechanics in hypertensive patients with normal left ventricular systolic chamber function: the Losartan Intervention for Endpoint Reduction in Hypertension (LIFE) study.

Effect of losartan versus atenolol on aortic valve sclerosis (a LIFE substudy).

Essential hypertension in women.

Prognostic significance of left ventricular mass change during treatment of hypertension.

Aortic valve sclerosis relates to cardiovascular events in patients with hypertension (a LIFE substudy).

Left ventricular structure and function in sedentary and physically active subjects with left ventricular hypertrophy (the LIFE Study).

Overview of key phytoplankton toxins and their recent occurrence in the North and Baltic Seas.

Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in hypertensive patients with a history of atrial fibrillation: The Losartan Intervention For End Point Reduction in Hypertension (LIFE) study.

Angiotensin II receptor blockade reduces new-onset atrial fibrillation and subsequent stroke compared to atenolol: the Losartan Intervention For End Point Reduction in Hypertension (LIFE) study.

Infection of newborn piglets with Bordetella pertussis: a new model for pertussis.

FISH and chips: marine bacterial communities analyzed by flow cytometry based on microfluidics.

Using microfluidics to observe the effect of mixing on nucleation of protein crystals.

Impairment of cardiac function in hypertensive patients with Type 2 diabetes: a LIFE study.

Using nanoliter plugs in microfluidics to facilitate and understand protein crystallization.

Aortic valve sclerosis and albuminuria predict cardiovascular events independently in hypertension: a losartan intervention for endpoint-reduction in hypertension (LIFE) substudy.

Risk factors for groin wound infection after femoral artery catheterization: a case-control study.

Impact of diabetes mellitus on regression of electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy and the prediction of outcome during antihypertensive therapy: the Losartan Intervention For Endpoint (LIFE) Reduction in Hypertension Study.

Bacterial diversity in the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea (Pallas).

The host defense peptide beta-defensin 1 confers protection against Bordetella pertussis in newborn piglets.

Association of hemoglobin delivery with left ventricular structure and function in hypertensive patients: Losartan Intervention for End Point Reduction in Hypertension Study.

Mucosal delivery of vaccines in domestic animals.

Maternal immunity provides protection against pertussis in newborn piglets.

Impact of hypertension on left ventricular hypertrophy regression and exercise capacity in patients operated for aortic valve stenosis.

Expression of TECK/CCL25 and MEC/CCL28 chemokines and their respective receptors CCR9 and CCR10 in porcine mucosal tissues.

Electrocardiographic strain pattern and left ventricular diastolic function in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE study.

Role of Na+-K+-Cl- cotransport and Na+/Ca2+ exchange in mitochondrial dysfunction in astrocytes following in vitro ischemia.

Exercise performance during losartan- or atenolol-based treatment in hypertensive patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy (a LIFE substudy).

Time-controlled microfluidic seeding in nL-volume droplets to separate nucleation and growth stages of protein crystallization.

Left atrial size and risk of major cardiovascular events during antihypertensive treatment: losartan intervention for endpoint reduction in hypertension trial.

Expression of mucosal chemokines TECK/CCL25 and MEC/CCL28 during fetal development of the ovine mucosal immune system.

Species-specific bacterial communities in the phycosphere of microalgae?

Impacts of cultivation of marine diatoms on the associated bacterial community.

Bacterial community dynamics during the winter-spring transition in the North Sea.

Design and baseline characteristics of the simvastatin and ezetimibe in aortic stenosis (SEAS) study.

Electrocardiographic characteristics and metabolic risk factors associated with inappropriately high left ventricular mass in patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE Study.

In situ data collection and structure refinement from microcapillary protein crystallization.

Molecular cloning and functional characterization of porcine CCL28: possible involvement in homing of IgA antibody secreting cells into the mammary gland.

Toxic epidermal necrolysis: 15 years' experience in a Dutch burns centre.

Reduced exercise capacity in genetic haemochromatosis.

Electrocardiographic and echocardiographic detection of myocardial infarction in patients with left-ventricular hypertrophy. The LIFE Study.

Brain abscess caused by paradoxical embolization in Ebstein's anomaly.

Innate immunity and new adjuvants.

Commensal bacteria and expression of two major intestinal chemokines, TECK/CCL25 and MEC/CCL28, and their receptors.

A concerted role of Na+ -K+ -Cl- cotransporter and Na+/Ca2+ exchanger in ischemic damage.

The benefits of using diverse animal models for studying pertussis.

Experimental test of scaling of mixing by chaotic advection in droplets moving through microfluidic channels.

Poverty, gender inequities, and women's risk of human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS.

Use of animal models in the development of human vaccines.

Gender differences in left ventricular structure and function during antihypertensive treatment: the Losartan Intervention for Endpoint Reduction in Hypertension Study.

Effects of losartan in women with hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy: results from the Losartan Intervention for Endpoint Reduction in Hypertension Study.

Are spirolides converted in biological systems?--A study.

Libman-Sacks endocarditis and cerebral embolization in antiphospholipid syndrome.

Factors influencing left ventricular structure and stress-corrected systolic function in men and women with asymptomatic aortic valve stenosis (a SEAS Substudy).

Prevalence and covariates of electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy in diabetic patients in Tanzania.

Clinical impact of 'in-treatment' wall motion abnormalities in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE study.

Left atrial volume in patients with asymptomatic aortic valve stenosis (the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis study).

Change in pulse pressure/stroke index in response to sustained blood pressure reduction and its impact on left ventricular mass and geometry changes: the life study.

Impact of left ventricular geometry on prognosis in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy (the LIFE study).

Gender differences in regression of electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy during antihypertensive therapy.

New insights into the dual recruitment of IgA+ B cells in the developing mammary gland.

Infection with Bordetella parapertussis but not Bordetella pertussis causes pertussis-like disease in older pigs.

Left atrial systolic force in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE study.

Left ventricular diastolic function in patients with treated haemochromatosis.

[COURAGE Study shows: angina pectoris despite optimal therapy. Nonetheless, every 4th patient suffers despite drugs and PCI from angina pectoris attacks].

Humoral and cellular factors of maternal immunity in swine.

Intensive lipid lowering with simvastatin and ezetimibe in aortic stenosis.

In vitro production of tumor necrosis factor-alpha by human monocytes stimulated with lipopolysaccharide is positively correlated with increased blood monocytes after exposure to a swine barn.

Early immune response following Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhimurium infection in porcine jejunal gut loops.

Left ventricular long-axis function in treated haemochromatosis.

The plug-based nanovolume Microcapillary Protein Crystallization System (MPCS).

Strategies to link innate and adaptive immunity when designing vaccine adjuvants.

Veterinary vaccines: alternatives to antibiotics?

The left atrium, atrial fibrillation, and the risk of stroke in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy.

Myocardial contrast echocardiography in assessment of stable coronary artery disease at intermediate dobutamine-induced stress level.

Left ventricular long-axis function in myasthenia gravis.

Populations of heavy fuel oil-degrading marine microbial community in presence of oil sorbent materials.

Impact of diabetes on treatment-induced changes in left ventricular structure and function in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy. The LIFE study.

Ultrasound in evaluation of post-interventional femoral vein obstruction: a case report.

Clustered metabolic abnormalities blunt regression of hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE study.

Toll-like receptor 4 variants reduce airway response in human subjects at high endotoxin levels in a swine facility.

Exercise and cardiovascular outcomes in hypertensive patients in relation to structure and function of left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE study.

Novel strategies implemented to ensure high participant retention rates in a community based HIV prevention effectiveness trial in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Microbial consortia in mesocosm bioremediation trial using oil sorbents, slow-release fertilizer and bioaugmentation.

Aortic valve stenosis.

A novel vaccine adjuvant comprised of a synthetic innate defence regulator peptide and CpG oligonucleotide links innate and adaptive immunity.

Quantitative contrast stress echocardiography in assessment of restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention in stable coronary artery disease.

Pulse pressure, left ventricular function and cardiovascular events during antihypertensive treatment (the LIFE study).

Low-flow aortic stenosis in asymptomatic patients: valvular-arterial impedance and systolic function from the SEAS Substudy.

CpG oligodeoxynucleotides activate innate immune response that suppresses infectious bronchitis virus replication in chicken embryos.

Characteristic profiles of Ciguatera toxins in different strains of Gambierdiscus spp.

Myocardial deformation in aortic valve stenosis: relation to left ventricular geometry.

The complete genome sequence of the algal symbiont Dinoroseobacter shibae: a hitchhiker's guide to life in the sea.

Mitral E wave deceleration time to peak E velocity ratio and cardiovascular outcome in hypertensive patients during antihypertensive treatment (from the LIFE echo-substudy).

Impact of hypertension on left ventricular structure in patients with asymptomatic aortic valve stenosis (a SEAS substudy).

The potential of polyphosphazenes for delivery of vaccine antigens and immunotherapeutic agents.

A comparison of four condom-use measures in predicting pregnancy, cervical STI and HIV incidence among Zimbabwean women.

All three classes of CpG ODNs up-regulate IP-10 gene in pigs.

A comparison between isolated blood dendritic cells and monocyte-derived dendritic cells in pigs.

An unusual location of a papillary fibroelastoma.

Competitively selected protein ligands pay their increase in specificity by a decrease in affinity.

Measurement of postpartum blood loss.

Impact of ultrasound contrast agents in echocardiographic assessment of ischemic heart disease.

Maternal mortality in developing countries: challenges in scaling-up priority interventions.

Constitutive expression of the proteorhodopsin gene by a flavobacterium strain representative of the proteorhodopsin-producing microbial community in the North Sea.

A mesocosm study of the changes in marine flagellate and ciliate communities in a crude oil bioremediation trial.

In-treatment midwall and endocardial fractional shortening predict cardiovascular outcome in hypertensive patients with preserved baseline systolic ventricular function: the Losartan Intervention For Endpoint reduction study.

Severe obstructive sleep apnea elicits concentric left ventricular geometry.

Asymmetric septal hypertrophy - a marker of hypertension in aortic stenosis (a SEAS substudy).

In-treatment reduced left atrial diameter during antihypertensive treatment is associated with reduced new-onset atrial fibrillation in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy: The LIFE Study.

Effect of obesity on left ventricular mass and systolic function in patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis (a Simvastatin Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis [SEAS] substudy).

Differential activation and maturation of two porcine DC populations following TLR ligand stimulation.

Are coronary revascularization and myocardial infarction a homogeneous combined endpoint in hypertension trials? The Losartan Intervention For Endpoint reduction in hypertension study.

Impact of pressure recovery on echocardiographic assessment of asymptomatic aortic stenosis: a SEAS substudy.

Relationship of left atrial enlargement to persistence or development of ECG left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive patients: implications for the development of new atrial fibrillation.

Prognostic effect of inappropriately high left ventricular mass in asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis.

PCEP enhances IgA mucosal immune responses in mice following different immunization routes with influenza virus antigens.

Prognostic significance of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy and systemic hypertension (the LIFE Study).

Left atrial size and force in patients with systolic chronic heart failure: Comparison with healthy controls and different cardiac diseases.

PCPP (poly[di(carboxylatophenoxy)-phosphazene]) microparticles co-encapsulating ovalbumin and CpG oligo-deoxynucleotides are potent enhancers of antigen specific Th1 immune responses in mice.

Biological roles of host defense peptides: lessons from transgenic animals and bioengineered tissues.

Impact of baseline severity of aortic valve stenosis on effect of intensive lipid lowering therapy (from the SEAS study).

A trajectory analysis of alcohol and marijuana use among Latino adolescents in San Francisco, California.

A polyphasic approach for the differentiation of environmental Vibrio isolates from temperate waters.

Practical application of self-organizing maps to interrelate biodiversity and functional data in NGS-based metagenomics.

Combination adjuvants: the next generation of adjuvants?

Inhibiting the Na+/H+ exchanger reduces reperfusion injury: a small animal MRI study.

Antibody responses in adult and neonatal BALB/c mice to immunization with novel Bordetella pertussis vaccine formulations.

Protein chimeras containing the Mycoplasma bovis GAPDH protein and bovine host-defence peptides retain the properties of the individual components.

Outcome of patients with low-gradient "severe" aortic stenosis and preserved ejection fraction.

Usefulness of contrast echocardiography for predicting the severity of angiographic coronary disease in non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Predictors of postoperative outcome after pulmonary endarterectomy from a 14-year experience with 279 patients.

Stability of expression of reference genes in porcine peripheral blood mononuclear and dendritic cells.

Microplastics in oceans.

Does adjuvanticity depend on the ability to recruit specific immune cells?

Aortic root geometry in aortic stenosis patients (a SEAS substudy).

Occurrence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio alginolyticus in the German Bight over a seasonal cycle.

Differences in cardiovascular risk profile between electrocardiographic hypertrophy versus strain in asymptomatic patients with aortic stenosis (from SEAS data).

Temporal variability of coastal Planctomycetes clades at Kabeltonne station, North Sea.

Long-term efficacy and mortality in Parkinson's disease patients treated with subthalamic stimulation.

Image-based screening identifies novel roles for IkappaB kinase and glycogen synthase kinase 3 in axonal degeneration.

In-treatment stroke volume predicts cardiovascular risk in hypertension.

Analysis of the CD1 antigen presenting system in humanized SCID mice.

Immunization with PCEP microparticles containing pertussis toxoid, CpG ODN and a synthetic innate defense regulator peptide induces protective immunity against pertussis.

Impact of overweight and obesity on cardiac benefit of antihypertensive treatment.

Left atrial systolic force in asymptomatic aortic stenosis.

Influence of maternal antibodies on active pertussis toxoid immunization of neonatal mice and piglets.

Left atrial size in hypertension and stroke.

Evidence for broader autism phenotype characteristics in parents from multiple-incidence autism families.

Induction, regulation and physiological role of IL-17 secreting helper T-cells isolated from PBMC, thymus, and lung lymphocytes of young pigs.

Prognostic importance of atrial fibrillation in asymptomatic aortic stenosis: The Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis study.

A multisite study of the clinical diagnosis of different autism spectrum disorders.

Contrast stress echocardiography in hypertensive heart disease.

The pig: a model for human infectious diseases.

A risk score for predicting mortality in patients with asymptomatic mild to moderate aortic stenosis.

Inappropriately high left-ventricular mass in asymptomatic mild-moderate aortic stenosis.

Seasonal dynamics and modeling of a Vibrio community in coastal waters of the North Sea.

Administration of poly[di(sodium carboxylatoethylphenoxy)]phosphazene (PCEP) as adjuvant activated mixed Th1/Th2 immune responses in pigs.

Impact of QRS duration and morphology on the risk of sudden cardiac death in asymptomatic patients with aortic stenosis: the SEAS (Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis) Study.

Increased relative wall thickness is a marker of subclinical cardiac target-organ damage in African diabetic patients.

Left atrial enlargement: a prevalent marker of hypertensive heart disease.

Association of heart failure hospitalizations with combined electrocardiography and echocardiography criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy.

Composition and dynamics of biostimulated indigenous oil-degrading microbial consortia from the Irish, North and Mediterranean Seas: a mesocosm study.

Nanovolume optimization of protein crystal growth using the microcapillary protein crystallization system.

A model of toxic neuropathy in Drosophila reveals a role for MORN4 in promoting axonal degeneration.

Arterial stiffness is associated with carotid atherosclerosis in hypertensive patients (the campania salute network).

Left ventricular function in children and adults after renal transplantation in childhood.

Pathotypic and molecular characterization of a fowl adenovirus associated with inclusion body hepatitis in Saskatchewan chickens.

Substrate-controlled succession of marine bacterioplankton populations induced by a phytoplankton bloom.

Factors associated with choice of post-abortion contraception in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Hypertension in aortic stenosis: implications for left ventricular structure and cardiovascular events.

Left Atrial Systolic Force and Outcome in Asymptomatic Mild to Moderate Aortic Stenosis.

Contrasting Hemodynamic Mechanisms of Losartan- vs. Atenolol-Based Antihypertensive Treatment: A LIFE Study.

Enhanced immune responses and protection by vaccination with respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein formulated with CpG oligodeoxynucleotide and innate defense regulator peptide in polyphosphazene microparticles.

No gender difference in the extent of myocardial ischemia in non-ST elevation myocardial infarction.

An innovative approach to measuring maternal mortality at the community level in low-resource settings using mid-level providers: a feasibility study in Tigray, Ethiopia.

Left atrial volume index as a marker of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in asymptomatic Tanzanian diabetic patients.

An unequal burden: Risk factors for severe complications following unsafe abortion in Tigray, Ethiopia.

The broader autism phenotype and its implications on the etiology and treatment of autism spectrum disorders.

Femoral pseudoaneurysm with a communicating arteriovenous fistula: a complication after percutaneous coronary intervention.