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The Reading List is a newsletter from the School of Medicine Basic Sciences in which we amplify biomedical research from our four departments and campus-wide collaborators.

Week of April 21

School of Medicine Basic Sciences departments

Cell and Developmental Biology

α- and β-myosin II can be non-uniformly distributed within the cardiac sarcomere. iScience.
James Hayes*, Alaina Willet, Leah Caplan, Ela Knapik, Matthew Tyska, Dylan Burnette*.

Supported by the Cell Imaging Shared Resource.
The Genetic Architecture of Congenital Diarrhea and Enteropathy. New England Journal of Medicine.
Zeenat Gaibee* (Hospital for Sick Children), Suli Mao, Sari Acra, Matthew Tyska, James Goldenring.

VUMC News: Study details genetic architecture of congenital diarrheal disorders in infants
Multiomic spatial atlas shows deleted in malignant brain tumors1 (DMBT1) glycoprotein is lost in colonic dysplasia. Journal of Pathology.
Emily Green*, Subhag Kotrannavar, Megan Rutherford, Hannah Lunnemann, Harsimran Kaur, Cody Heiser, Alan Simmons, Xiao Liu, Borden Lacy, M. Kay Washington, Martha Shrubsole, Qi Liu, Ken Lau, Robert Coffey, Nicholas Markham*.

VUMC News: A link between bacterial infection and colorectal cancer: study

Pharmacology

Prefrontal cortex excitatory neurons show distinct response to heroin-associated cue and social stimulus after prolonged heroin abstinence in mice. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Yunwanbin Wang* (University of Kansas), Junting Liu* (University of Kansas), Erin Calipari.

First or corresponding authors are identified with an *. Faculty with appointments in Basic Sciences are listed in red. Only Vanderbilt collaborators are listed except for first authors.

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