Ochsner's Seventh Annual Research Night, May 11, 2010, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA1 ROLE OF FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL-DERIVED NOTCH SIGNAL IN THE SURVIVAL OF DRUG-RESISTANT B LYMPHOMAS2 ROLE OF MACROPHAGES IN HUMAN B LYMPHOMA PROGRESSION3 INTERACTION OF BREAST CANCER WITH FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELLS INDUCES THE METASTASIS TO DISTANT ORGANS4 LYMPH NODE STROMAL CELLS ENHANCE TUMOR FORMATION OF COLON CANCER STEM CELLS ISOLATED FROM PATIENT SPECIMENS5 TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT MODELS USING ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN (eGFP) EXPRESSING IMMUNODEFICIENT MICE6 LYN INHIBITION INDUCES APOPTOSIS IN CELL LINES DERIVED FROM TUMORS IN KAPOSI SARCOMA-ASSOCIATED HERPES VIRUS K1 TRANSGENIC MICE7 ECFP/ANG II TRANSGENIC MICE DISPLAY RENAL THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHY AND ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE8 EXPRESSION OF A NATURALLY OCCURRING ANGIOTENSIN AT₁ RECEPTOR CLEAVAGE FRAGMENT IS CORRELATED WITH CASPASE-ACTIVATION AND APOPTOSIS9 ANGIOTENSIN TYPE-1A RECEPTOR INTERACTS WITH SUBUNIT 68 OF THE SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE10 THE BUBBLE GUM MYSTERY: A PARTICIPATIVE LABORATORY EXPERIMENT FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS11 EVALUATION OF THE 2009 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ACADEMICS, AND RESEARCH SUMMER PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS12 SALT-INDUCED RENAL INJURY: ROLE OF THE TUBULAR RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM AND PREVENTION BY ANGIOTENSIN II RECEPTOR BLOCKADE13 mTORC2 REGULATES ENDOTHELIAL CELL MIGRATION THROUGH MODULATION OF P27^KIP1 PROTEIN LEVELS14 A NOVEL FUSION PROTEIN FOR THE TREATMENT OF POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS15 TREATMENT OF CHEMOTHERAPY-INDUCED ALOPECIA WITH A NOVEL FUSION PROTEIN16 A PHASE II CLINICAL TRIAL OF A NOVEL COMBINATORIAL ANTI-TUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH HIGH-RISK, RESECTED STAGE III AND METASTATIC MELANOMA17 SALVAGE THERAPY WITH TIMP-3 PROMOTES FAVORABLE CYTOKINE PROFILE IN RAT LIVERS AFTER SUBLETHAL TOTAL HEPATIC ISCHEMIA18 POSTOPERATIVE TREATMENT WITH TIMP-3 PRESERVES LIVER HISTOLOGY BY PREVENTING APOPTOSIS DURING SUBLETHAL TOTAL HEPATIC ISCHEMIC INJURY IN RATS19 END-TO-SIDE NEURORRHAPHY: EFFECT ON AXONAL REGENERATION AFTER DELAYED REPAIR AND ON DONOR NERVE20 VASCULAR RESPONSES TO GLYCERYL TRINITRATE ARE MEDIATED BY ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE BUT NOT BY XANTHINE OXIDOREDUCTASE IN THE RAT21 PULMONARY AND SYSTEMIC VASODILATOR RESPONSES TO THE SOLUBLE GUANYLYL CYCLASE STIMULATOR, BAY 41-8543, ARE MODULATED BY NITRIC OXIDE22 VASCULAR RESPONSES TO NITRITE ARE MEDIATED BY XANTHINE OXIDOREDUCTASE AND ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE IN THE RAT23 ANALYSIS OF RESPONSES TO THE RHO-KINASE INHIBITOR Y-27632 IN THE PULMONARY VASCULAR BED OF THE RAT24 MITOCHONDRIAL ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE MEDIATES VASODILATOR RESPONSES OF GLYCERYL TRINITRATE AND SODIUM NITRITE IN THE PULMONARY VASCULAR BED OF THE RAT25 ETEST® SYNERGY TESTING OF MEROPENEM PLUS LEVOFLOXACIN AGAINST STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA26 POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS IN HUMAN AQUEOUS HUMOR27 IMPACT OF RELATIVE WALL THICKNESS ON LEFT VENTRICULAR GEOMETRY AND MORTALITY IN 47,865 PATIENTS WITH PRESERVED SYSTOLIC FUNCTION: DOES THE METHOD MATTER?28 LEFT ATRIAL VOLUME AND MORTALITY PREDICTION: DOES THE METHOD OF INDEXING MATTER?29 LEFT VENTRICULAR GEOMETRY AND MORTALITY PREDICTION BY DIFFERENT INDEXATION METHODS FOR LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS BY OBESITY STATUS IN 47,865 PATIENTS30 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DETECTION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY: WHICH INDEXING METHOD IS THE BEST PREDICTOR OF CLINICAL OUTCOMES?31 IMPACT OF LEFT ATRIAL VOLUME INDEX AND LEFT VENTRICULAR GEOMETRY ON MORTALITY IN OBESE VERSUS NONOBESE ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION32 IN ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY WITH REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION, THE INTERVAL BETWEEN T-WAVE PEAK AND T-WAVE END PREDICTS BOTH APPROPRIATE ICD THERAPY AND OVERALL SURVIVAL33 INCREASED FREQUENCY OF CIRCULATING CXCR5⁺CD57⁺CD4⁺ FOLLICULAR T HELPER CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS34 THE INFLUENCE OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY ON INFECTION RISK IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS35 THE INFLUENCE OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY ON INFLUENZA, PNEUMOCOCCAL, AND HEPATITIS B VACCINE IMMUNOGENICITY IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS36 ADDRESSING THE NEED FOR ZOSTER VACCINATION IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS37 PATTERNS OF CARDIOVASCULAR RISK AND DISEASE AMONG PEOPLE WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES STARTING INSULIN: BASELINE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE CREDIT STUDY38 PATIENT-DIRECTED TITRATION FOR ACHIEVING GLYCEMIC GOALS USING A ONCE-DAILY BASAL INSULIN ANALOGUE: AN ASSESSMENT OF TWO DIFFERENT FASTING PLASMA GLUCOSE TARGETS—THE TITRATE™ STUDY39 PREDICTIVE VALUE OF THE EL-GANZOURI MULTIVARIATE RISK INDEX FOR DIFFICULT TRACHEAL INTUBATION USING THE CONVENTIONAL MILLER LARYNGOSCOPE BLADE AND THE GLIDESCOPE VIDEO LARYNGOSCOPE AS AN AIRWAY RESCUE DEVICE40 SIX-MINUTE WALK DISTANCE AT SIX MONTHS POST-LUNG TRANSPLANT IS NOT PREDICTIVE OF MORTALITY41 SIX-MINUTE WALK DISTANCE AT SIX MONTHS POST-LUNG TRANSPLANT FOLLOWS A GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION42 SELECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF THE URETHRA AT TIME OF PROLAPSE REPAIR: AN ASSESSMENT OF POSTOPERATIVE INCONTINENCE AND PATIENT SATISFACTION43 ROBOTIC URETERAL REIMPLANTATION FOR IATROGENIC INJURIES AND BENIGN DISEASE44 MODIFIED LATZKO PROCEDURE (PARTIAL COLPOCLEISIS) FOR VESICOVAGINAL FISTULA: TECHNIQUE AND OUTCOMES45 STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNEXPLAINED ELEVATED MATERNAL SERUM ALPHA-FETOPROTEIN AND ADVERSE PREGNANCY OUTCOME46 PARADIGM SHIFTS IN THE TREATMENT OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM: TRENDS IN 721 PATIENTS BETWEEN 1996–200847 ENDOVASCULAR DEBRANCHING OF THE AORTIC ARCH DURING THORACIC ENDOGRAFT REPAIR48 DOES EARLY POUCH EVALUATION LEAD TO INCREASED POUCH COMPLICATIONS?49 DOES STOPPING CLOPIDOGREL FOR COLONOSCOPY CAUSE THROMBOEMBOLIC EVENTS?50 DOES CATHETER DRAINAGE TIME AFFECT OUTCOME OF PERIANAL ABSCESSES?51 APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION DURING SURGICAL RELEASE IN SEVERE CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME IMPROVES REINNERVATION OF THENAR MUSCLE52 VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION IN BREASTFED INFANTS: A PROSPECTIVE TRIAL-RECRUITMENT PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED ALONG THE WAY53 IS HOME MONITORING OF SINGLE-CHAMBER IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATORS COST EFFECTIVE?54 A NEW FORM OF EPICARDIAL PACING UTILIZING BIPOLAR SCREW-IN LEADS55 USE OF TRANSESOPHAGEAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY STUDIES IN RISK ASSESSMENT OF ASYMPTOMATIC VENTRICULAR PRE-EXCITATION56 ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES AND ADHERENCE TO ANTIHYPERTENSIVE MEDICATIONS AMONG OLDER ADULTS57 DEPRESSION AND OLDER ADULTS: IMPACT OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS ON MEDICATION ADHERENCE58 UNTANGLING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ANTIHYPERTENSIVE MEDICATION ADHERENCE AND BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL59 SELF-REPORTED ADHERENCE TO ANTIDIABETIC MEDICATIONS IS ASSOCIATED WITH GLYCEMIC CONTROL IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES60 HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AND ANTIHYPERTENSIVE MEDICATION ADHERENCE AMONG OLDER ADULTS61 RESULTS OF A PILOT PROGRAM AIMED AT IMPROVING HANDOFF TRANSITIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF PATIENT SAFETY62 RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN LIVER TRANSPLANTATION63 EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF A 3-PHASE PROJECT ON SUSTAINING HAND HYGIENE COMPLIANCE ON A TRANSPLANT UNIT64 EVALUATING SAFETY OF HANDOFFS BETWEEN ANESTHESIA CARE PROVIDERS, PART II65 INFECTION PREVENTION: THE OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER–NEW ORLEANS EXPERIENCE66 IMPROVING HAND HYGIENE THROUGH INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS67 PALLIATIVE CARE TEAM INITIATIVES IN CRITICAL CARE68 TRANSFORMING THE WORK ENVIRONMENT BY EXEMPLARY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE69 UNDERSTANDING FALL RISK FROM THE MEDICAL SURGICAL PATIENT'S PERSPECTIVE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY70 DRIVING IMPROVEMENTS IN SURGICAL CARE71 EVALUATING OUTCOMES OF ANTI-INCONTINENCE PROCEDURES: DEVELOPMENT OF A MAIL-BASED PAD KIT72 IMPLEMENTING A NEW PROFESSIONAL NURSING MODEL OF CAREC1 ACUTE PAIN MANAGEMENT IN A PEDIATRIC PATIENT FOLLOWING REPTILE LIMB AMPUTATIONC2 ACUTE CEREBRAL ANGIITIS WITH THALAMIC STROKE ASSOCIATED WITH HERPES ZOSTER OPHTHALMICUSC3 DELAYED ONSET POST-TRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS IN POST-MULTIORGAN TRANSPLANT PATIENTSC4 ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GUILLAIN-BARRE: A SPINAL ABSCESS CAUSING ASCENDING PARALYSISC5 EFALIZUMAB-INDUCED INFLAMMATORY POLYARTHRITIS: WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS?C6 IS IT A HEART ATTACK OR A FUNGUS? ANGIOINVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS PRESENTING AS ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTIONC7 TREATMENT OF CORNEAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA WITH INTERFERON THERAPYC8 ABDOMINAL PAIN FROM ALLERGIES?C9 THE RISE OF RHIZOPUSC10 THE BONY TRUTH: VASCULAR CALCIFICATION IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASEC11 A DISEASE IN NO MAN'S LANDC12 IT'S IN THE FEVER: FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN AS AN ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF SARCOIDOSISC13 CHONDROID HAMARTOMA OF THE CERVICAL SPINE IN AN INFANT: A CASE REPORTC14 LONG-TERM ALENDRONATE THERAPY AND SUBTROCHANTERIC FEMORAL FRACTURESC15 SCIATIC NERVE PALSY SECONDARY TO COMPRESSION BY HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATIONC16 VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION IN A PATIENT WITH POMPE DISEASE: A CAUTIONARY TALEC17 COSTELLO SYNDROME: LARYNGEAL MASK AIRWAYS DO NOT RELIEVE ALL CASES OF GLOSSOPTOSIS