Sources of Inspiration

SCIENCE


Understanding Fabry Disease

1. Motabar, Omid. Liu, Ke, Southall, Noel, J Marugan, Juan, Goldin, Ehud, Sidransky, Ellen, and Zheng, Wei. High Throughput Screening for Inhibitors of Alpha-Galactosidase. NIH Chemical Genomic Center. Bethesda, MD. Accepted October 13, 2010. Accessed on March 24, 2011. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3040456/)

2. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 1. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21290707)

3. Cooper, Geoffrey. The Cell, 2nd Edition: A molecular Approach. Boston University. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 2000. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9953/)

4. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 3. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21290700)

5. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 7. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21290690)

6. Color Blindness: color deficiency. PubMed Health. National Center for Biotechnology Informations. Bethesda, MD. Reviewed April 13, 2009. Accessed on March 13, 2009.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001997)

7. John Hopkins: Fertility center. Patient resources. Accessed on March 24, 2009.
(http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/fertility/resources/genetic_screening.html)

8. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 18. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21290697)

9. Ahn, V, Faull, K, Whittelegge, J, Prive, G. Crystal structure of saposin B reveals a dimeric shell for lipid binding. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 January 7; 100(1): 38–43. Accessed on March 24, 2011. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC140876/)

10. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 33. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11574/)

11. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 17. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21290689)

12. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 20. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21298206)

13. Molkentin, JD. Calcineurin-NFAT signaling regulates the cardiac hypertrophic response in coordination with the MAPKs. Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Department of Pediatrics. Cincinnati, OH. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
< http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15276472>

14. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 21. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21290670)

15. Warnog, DG. Fabry disease: diagnosis and management, with emphasis on the renal manifestations. Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Birmingham, AL. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15687833)

16. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 31. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21290674)

17. REPLAGAL (Agalsidase Alfa). Endocriologic and Metabolic drug. Advisory commite meeting. TKT, inc. January 14th, 2003. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(www.fda.gov/.../3917B2_01_TKT%20Replagal%20Background%20.pdf)

18. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 39. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21290692)

19. Gupta, D, Tuteja, N. Chaperones and foldases in endoplasmic reticulum stress signaling in plants. International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. New Delhi, India. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21427533)

20. Marshall J, Ashe KM, Bangari D, McEachern K, Chuang WL, Pacheco J, Copeland DP, Desnick RJ, Shayman JA, Scheule RK, Cheng SH. Substrate reduction augments the efficacy of enzyme therapy in a mouse model of Fabry disease. Applied Discovery Research, Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21124789)

21. Mehta A, Beck M, Sunder-Plassmann. Fabry Disease: Perspectives from 5 Years of FOS. Oxford: Oxford PharmaGenesis; 2006. Chapter 13. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21290667)

22. J. Kotnik, F. Kotnik and R. J. Desnick. Fabry Diseae: A case report. Acta Dermatoven APA Vol 14, 2005, No 1. Accessed on March 24, 2011.
(www.mf.uni-lj.si/acta-apa/acta-apa-05-1/3.pdf)

 
Synaptic Function and Plasticity:  The Microscopic Machines That Make Us Tick

NotoriousLTP.  "Neuron to Glia Synapses on Axons?"  Pure Pedantry.  http://scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/2007/03/neuron_to_glia_synapse_on_axon.php.

Zhai, R. G., & Bellen, H. J. (2004). The architecture of the active zone in the presynaptic nerve terminal Physiology (Bethesda, Md.), 19, 262–270. doi:10.1152/physiol.00014.2004



The Marriage of Art and Science: Scanning Electron Microscopy

“Scanning electron microscope”. www.Wikipediaorg. Wikipedia. Web. 26 Mar. 2011.

“Scanning Electron Microscope”. www.purdue.edu/rem/. Perdue University. Radiological and Environmental Management. 2010. Web.  26 Mar. 2011.

“Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility”. Remf.dartmouth.edu.  Dartmouth College. Web. 26 Mar. 2011.


The Science of Sex: Arousal- The Male Perspective

Becker, Kleinsmith, and Hardin.  The World of the Cell.  6th Edition.  San Francisco: Pearson Education, Inc., 2006.

“File: Pudendal nerve.svg”. www.Wikipedia.org.  Wikipedia.  2008.  Web.  1 May 2011.

“Friday Weird Science: FINALLY, a clitoris study!”.  www.ScienceBlogs.com/Neurotopia.  Neurotopia. William Westwood 2000.  Web. 30 Apr. 2011.

Katzung, B.G., S.B. Masters, and A.J. Trevor.  Basic and Clinical Pharmacology.  11th Edition.  The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc..  1 May 2011 <www.AccessMedicine.com>.

Komisaruk, Beyer-Flores, and Whipple.  The Science of Orgasm.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Leibovitch, Ilan and Yoram Mor.  “The Vicious Cycling: Bicycling Related Urogenital Disorders”.  European Urology 47 (2005): 277-87.  Web.  Academic Search Premiere.  30 Apr. 2011.


All About Hydrogen Bonding

“Chemical Bonding”.  http://knol.google.com/k/chemical-bonding.  Knol Beta.  Web.  9 May 2011.

Dougherty, RC. “Temperature and pressure dependence of hydrogen bond strength: a perturbation molecular orbital approach”. J. Chem. Phys. 109 (1998):7338-7349.

Legon, AC; Millen, DJ. “Angular geometries and other properties of hydrogen-bonded dimers: a simple electrostatic interpretation of the success of the electron-pair model”. Chem. Soc. Rev. 16 (1987): 467-498.

“Levels of Protein Structure”.  http://teenbiotechchallenge.ucdavis.edu.  University of California at Davis.  Web.  9 May 2011.

“Matthew Pratt”.  http://www.artexpertswebsite.com.  Art Experts, INC.  Web.  9 May 2011.

Smallwood, JC; McAllister, MA. “Characterization of Low-barrier hydrogen bonds. 7. Relationship between strength and Geometry of short-strong hydrogen bonds. The Formic Acid-Formate Anion Model System. An ab initio and DFT investigation”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 119 (1997): 11277-11281.

Stolov, AA; Borisover, MD; Solomonov, BN. “Hydrogen bonding in pure base media. Correlation between calorimetric and infrared spectroscopic data”. J. Phys. Org. Chem. 9: 241-251.

“The Polar Covalent Bond: Examples and Pictures”.  http://www.green-planet-solar-energy.com.  Green-Planet-Solar-Energy.com.  2011.  Web.  8 May 2011.

Williams, Loren. “Molecular Interactions”. http://ww2.Chemistry.GATech.edu/.  Georgia Tech.  2011. Web. 8 May 2011.


OPINION

Monotony in Dichotomy: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

“Map of Israel Palestine physical version”.  www.InterCarto.com.  InterCarto.  Web.  19 Jun. 2011.

Tessler, Mark. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.  2nd ed.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.


TECHNOLOGY

Greater Than The Sum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleverbot

www.cleverbot.com

Abumrad, Jad.  “Talking to Machines.”  Radiolab.  WNYC.  Retrieved July 10, 2011.


PHILOMATHICS


Hunting for Freedom in Modern Life



[1] Poole, Ross.  Morality and Modernity.  Routledge, New York: 1991.


2 Foucault, Michel, trans. Alan Sheridan.  Discipline and Punish:  The Birth of the Prison.  Second
Vintage Books, New York: 1977.

3 Helprin, Mark.  Winter’s Tale.  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York:  1983.

4 Arendt, Hannah, ed. Jerome Kohn.  Responsibility and Judgment.  Schocken Books, New York: 
2003.

5 Riker, John.  The Psychological Grounds for Ethical Life.  Unpublished manuscript, 2009.

6 Wolfe, Tom.  Hooking Up.  Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York:  2000

7 Riker, John.  Class lecture, April 29, 2009.