Metals

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 3-year follow-up of the SISR (Sirolimus-Eluting Stents Versus Vascular Brachytherapy for In-Stent Restenosis) trial. 
  • A polymer-metal composite stent. 
  • A review on the importance of metals and metalloids in atmospheric dust and aerosol from mining operations. 
  • A single nucleotide linked to a switch in metal ion reactivity preference in the HDV ribozymes. 
  • A structural model of the alternative oxidase of plant mitochondria. 
  • Accuracy of a collagen-plug biopsy site marking device deployed after stereotactic core needle breast biopsy. 
  • Accuracy of effective dose estimation in personal dosimetry: a comparison between single-badge and double-badge methods and the MOSFET method. 
  • Additivity and the physical basis of multivalency effects: a thermodynamic investigation of the calcium EDTA interaction. 
  • Amyloid beta peptides do not form peptide-derived free radicals spontaneously, but can enhance metal-catalyzed oxidation of hydroxylamines to nitroxides. 
  • Application of metal coordination chemistry to explore and manipulate cell biology. 
  • Aseptic lymphocyte-dominated vasculitis-associated lesion: a clinicopathologic review of an underrecognized cause of prosthetic failure. 
  • Association Between Pseudotumor Formation and Patient Factors in Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty Population. 
  • Bacterial community responses to a gradient of alkaline mountaintop mine drainage in Central Appalachian streams. 
  • Biliary self-expandable metal stents do not adversely affect pancreaticoduodenectomy. 
  • Biodegradable stents: the future of interventional cardiology? 
  • CMOS-based carbon nanotube pass-transistor logic integrated circuits. 
  • Calculating solution redox free energies with ab initio quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical minimum free energy path method. 
  • Cardiovascular outcomes and the physical and chemical properties of metal ions found in particulate matter air pollution: a QICAR study. 
  • Catalytic enantioselective olefin metathesis in natural product synthesis. Chiral metal-based complexes that deliver high enantioselectivity and more. 
  • Catalytic strategies of the hepatitis delta virus ribozymes. 
  • Cementation of a polyethylene liner into a metal shell. 
  • Comparison of Postoperative Complications Following Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty With Other Hip Bearings in Medicare Population. 
  • Complete resolution of systemic venous baffle obstruction and baffle leak using the Gore Excluder covered stent in two patients with transposition of the great arteries and prior Mustard procedure. 
  • Concerning the role of metals in enzymic transamination. 
  • Concerted O atom-proton transfer in the O-O bond forming step in water oxidation. 
  • Control of hierarchical polymer mechanics with bioinspired metal-coordination dynamics. 
  • Cooperative interaction of divalent metal ions, substrate, and tissue factor with factor VIIa. 
  • Counterions influence reactivity of metal ions with cysteinyldopa model compounds. 
  • Crystal structure of alkaline phosphatase from the Antarctic bacterium TAB5. 
  • DNA nanotubes self-assembled from triple-crossover tiles as templates for conductive nanowires. 
  • Delivery catheter entrapment during deployment of expandable metal stents. 
  • Detailed analysis of polymer response to delivery balloon expansion of drug-eluting stents versus bare metal stents. 
  • Determination of residual manganese in Mn porphyrin-based superoxide dismutase (SOD) and peroxynitrite reductase mimics. 
  • Divalent metal transporter-1 decreases metal-related injury in the lung. 
  • Does Increased Coefficient of Friction of Highly Porous Metal Increase Initial Stability at the Acetabular Interface? 
  • Drug-Eluting or Bare-Metal Stents for Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Dual-band planar electric metamaterial in the terahertz regime. 
  • Effects of heavy metals on the respiratory proteins of marine organisms in relation to environmental pollution. 
  • Escherichia coli MoeA and MogA. Function in metal incorporation step of molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis. 
  • Evaluating the impact of public health notification: Duke clopidogrel experience. 
  • Femoral neck fractures after metal-on-metal total hip resurfacing: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Ferruginous bodies: implications in the mechanism of fiber and particle toxicity. 
  • Folate-targeted pH-responsive calcium zoledronate nanoscale metal-organic frameworks: Turning a bone antiresorptive agent into an anticancer therapeutic. 
  • Foodborne disease outbreaks of chemical etiology in the United States, 1970-1974. 
  • Genetic and crystallographic studies of the 3',5'-exonucleolytic site of DNA polymerase I. 
  • Geometric calibration for a dual tube/detector micro-CT system. 
  • Giant cell interstitial pneumonia in a hard-metal worker. Cytologic, histologic and analytical electron microscopic investigation. 
  • Gone but not forgotten: the case for drug-eluting stents in percutaneous revascularization of the chronic coronary total occlusion. 
  • Growth inhibition and metallothionein induction in cadmium-resistant cells by essential and non-essential metals. 
  • Hardness, softness, and the fukui function in the electronic theory of metals and catalysis. 
  • Heavy metal ion interactions with Callinectes sapidus hemocyanin: structural and functional changes induced by a variety of heavy metal ions. 
  • Hip resurfacing after failed free vascularized fibular graft. 
  • Hip resurfacing-keys to success. 
  • How does infiltration behavior modify the composition of ambient PM2.5 in indoor spaces? An analysis of RIOPA data. 
  • Importance of a nanoscience approach in the understanding of major aqueous contamination scenarios: case study from a recent coal ash spill. 
  • Improved speciation of dissolved organic nitrogen in natural waters: amide hydrolysis with fluorescence derivatization. 
  • Influence of Sulfide Nanoparticles on Dissolved Mercury and Zinc Quantification by Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Passive Samplers. 
  • Influence of dissolved organic matter on the environmental fate of metals, nanoparticles, and colloids. 
  • Influence of metal ions on substrate binding and catalytic activity of mammalian protein geranylgeranyltransferase type-I. 
  • Ingestion of unusual foreign bodies and malrotation: a "perfect storm". 
  • Integrated fabrication and magnetic positioning of metallic and polymeric nanowires embedded in thin epoxy slabs. 
  • Integrated single-walled carbon nanotube/microfluidic devices for the study of the sensing mechanism of nanotube sensors. 
  • Interlaboratory validation of a new assay for DNA-protein crosslinks. 
  • Is Metal-On-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty Associated With Neurotoxicity? 
  • Local drug delivery of argatroban from a polymeric-metallic composite stent reduces platelet deposition in a swine coronary model. 
  • Long-term clinical and economic analysis of the Endeavor drug-eluting stent versus the Driver bare-metal stent: 4-year results from the ENDEAVOR II trial (Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of the Medtronic AVE ABT-578 Eluting Driver Coronary Stent in De Novo Native Coronary Artery Lesions). 
  • MR liver imaging and cholangiography in the presence of surgical metallic clips at 1.5 and 3 Tesla. 
  • Management of occluded metal stents in malignant biliary obstruction: similar outcomes with second metal stents compared to plastic stents. 
  • Mapping of ionomic traits in Mimulus guttatus reveals Mo and Cd QTLs that colocalize with MOT1 homologues. 
  • Mechanism of palladium-catalyzed diene cyclization/hydrosilylation: direct observation of intramolecular carbometalation. 
  • Meeting report ESC forum on drug eluting stents, European Heart House, Nice, 27-28 September 2007. 
  • Metal Artifact-Free and Dose-Efficient Computed Tomography Imaging of a Cardiac Prosthetic Valve Using Spectral Shaping of the X-ray Beam: A Case Report. 
  • Metal Chelation as a Powerful Strategy to Probe Cellular Circuitry Governing Fungal Drug Resistance and Morphogenesis. 
  • Metal hypersensitivity: can it mimic infection? 
  • Metal ion levels in maternal and placental blood after metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty. 
  • Metal-induced formation of metallothionein in rat liver. 
  • Metallic foreign bodies in the stomach: fluoroscopic removal with a magnetic orogastric tube. 
  • Metalloprotein design. 
  • Metallothionein expression and neurocognitive function in mice. 
  • Metals and disorders of cell accumulation: modulation of apoptosis and cell proliferation. 
  • Metals in our minds: therapeutic implications for neurodegenerative disorders. 
  • Microprobe analysis in human pathology. 
  • Minding metals: tailoring multifunctional chelating agents for neurodegenerative disease. 
  • Modifications of boronic ester pro-chelators triggered by hydrogen peroxide tune reactivity to inhibit metal-promoted oxidative stress. 
  • Mortality among sheet metal workers participating in a medical screening program. 
  • NMR and XAS reveal an inner-sphere metal binding site in the P4 helix of the metallo-ribozyme ribonuclease P. 
  • NMR studies of RNA dynamics and structural plasticity using NMR residual dipolar couplings. 
  • Nanoelectronics: Nothing is like a vacuum. 
  • Nanoscale metal-organic matter interactions. 
  • Next generation non-vacuum, maskless, low temperature nanoparticle ink laser digital direct metal patterning for a large area flexible electronics. 
  • PM2.5 constituents and oxidative DNA damage in humans. 
  • Patch Testing for Evaluation of Hypersensitivity to Implanted Metal Devices: A Perspective From the American Contact Dermatitis Society. 
  • Percutaneous steerable robotic tool delivery platform and metal microelectromechanical systems device for tissue manipulation and approximation: closure of patent foramen ovale in an animal model. 
  • Phosphorylation-dependent metal binding by alpha-synuclein peptide fragments. 
  • Physical constraints on charge transport through bacterial nanowires. 
  • Placental transfer of metals of coal fly ash into various fetal organs of rat. 
  • Plasmonics enhancement of a luminescent or Raman-active layer in a multilayered metallic nanoshell. 
  • Posttraumatic endophthalmitis due to CDC coryneform group A-3 bacteria. 
  • Preliminary observations using optical coherence tomography to assess neointimal coverage of a metal stent in a porcine model. 
  • Protein nitration is mediated by heme and free metals through Fenton-type chemistry: an alternative to the NO/O2- reaction. 
  • Pseudotumor with superimposed periprosthetic infection following metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty: a case report. 
  • Rational design of a calcium-binding protein. 
  • Rational design of nascent metalloenzymes. 
  • Rationale and design of the Drug-Eluting Stents vs Bare-Metal Stents in Saphenous Vein Graft Angioplasty (DIVA) Trial. 
  • Redox signaling: nitrosylation and related target interactions of nitric oxide. 
  • Reply to Selin: Human impacts on the atmospheric burden of trace metals. 
  • Residential metal contamination and potential health risks of exposure in adobe brick houses in Potosí, Bolivia. 
  • Respiratory epithelial cells demonstrate lactoferrin receptors that increase after metal exposure. 
  • Resurfacing for Perthes disease: an alternative to standard hip arthroplasty. 
  • Role of scheimpflug imaging in traumatic intralenticular foreign body. 
  • Rotational isomers of N-alkylpyridylporphyrins and their metal complexes. HPLC separation, (1)H NMR and X-ray structural characterization, electrochemistry, and catalysis of O(2)(.-) disproportionation. 
  • Safety and effectiveness of drug-eluting versus bare-metal stents in saphenous vein bypass graft percutaneous coronary interventions: insights from the Veterans Affairs CART program. 
  • Sample size requirements for estimating effective dose from computed tomography using solid-state metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor dosimetry. 
  • Sensing of molecules using quantum dynamics. 
  • Serum metal ion concentration: comparison between small and large head metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty. 
  • Shape-controlled synthesis of metal nanostructures: the case of silver. 
  • Solvent properties of hydrazine in the preparation of metal chalcogenide bulk materials and films. 
  • Specific absorption rate in electrically coupled biological samples between metal plates. 
  • Stimulus-Responsive Prochelators for Manipulating Cellular Metals. 
  • Structural basis for the 3'-5' exonuclease activity of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I: a two metal ion mechanism. 
  • Surface replacement is comparable to primary total hip arthroplasty. 
  • Survey of the potential environmental and health impacts in the immediate aftermath of the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee. 
  • The Fanconi syndrome and mechanisms of tubular transport dysfunction. 
  • The construction of metal centers in proteins by rational design. 
  • The effect of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy on the prosthesis interface in cementless arthroplasty. Evaluation in a rabbit model. 
  • The impact of coal combustion residue effluent on water resources: a North Carolina example. 
  • The restoration potential of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq. 
  • Thermodynamics of metal ion binding. 1. Metal ion binding by wild-type carbonic anhydrase. 
  • Tongue entrapment in metal drinking bottle. 
  • Toxic metal-responsive gene transcription. 
  • Trends in Bare-Metal Stent Use in the United States in Patients Aged ≥65 Years (from the CathPCI Registry). 
  • Two extended structures constructed from sandwich-type polyoxometalates functionalized by organic amines. 
  • Two-dimensional protein crystallization via metal-ion coordination by naturally occurring surface histidines. 
  • Ultrasonic attenuation measurements in phospholipid dispersions. 
  • Ultraviolet surface-enhanced Raman scattering at the plasmonic band edge of a metallic grating. 
  • Understanding operator stent choice in the catheterization laboratory using a pre-procedure survey: Opportunities for quality improvement. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Badea, Cristian Tudorel, Professor in Radiology, Biomedical Engineering
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Dwyer, Gary, Research Scientist, Senior, Earth and Ocean Sciences
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Jokerst, Nan Marie, J. A. Jones Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Lee, Walter T, Associate Professor of Surgery, Radiation Oncology
  • Vengosh, Avner, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University Energy Initiative