The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine has a rich history of research, scholarship and publication, encompassing the case reports and reviews in the early Digests, the more formally presented articles in the College of Osteopathy's first research journal, Osteopathic Medicine, and current publications in some of the medical and pharmacology fields' leading peer-reviewed journals.
The PCOM Scholarly Papers repository is an archive for pre-publication drafts or final versions of research and editorial articles, abstracts, posters, and unpublished work by faculty and scientists at PCOM's Philadelphia and Georgia campuses.
Submissions from 2012
Evidence-Based Acute Bronchitis Therapy, Kimberly L. Barefield and Aaron Atkins
Pharmacotherapy Options in the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Kimberly L. Barefield and Heather DeBellis
TGFßRIIb mutations trigger aortic aneurysm pathogenesis by altering transforming growth factor ß2 signal transduction, Katherine J. Bee, David C. Wilkes, Richard B. Devereux, Craig T. Basson, and Cathy J. Hatcher
A Motor Vehicle Collision Involving a Veteran: A Teaching Case from the Joining Forces Teaching Curriculum for Medical Students, Murray Berkowitz, Dès Anges Cruser, Alan Podawiltz, Charles E. Henley, Andrew Yuan, Anita M. Navarro, and Tyler Cymet
Application of osteopathic manipulative treatment to a patient with unremitting chest pain and shortness of breath undergoing " Rule-Out Myocardial Infarction" protocol for one week, Murray R. Berkowitz
A resource journal on traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans, Murray R. Berkowitz
Looking back; Looking forward, Murray R. Berkowitz
Military medicine and civilian medicine: a comparison., Murray R. Berkowitz
Military Medicine Content in an Osteopathic Medical School's Curriculum, Murray R. Berkowitz
Occupational and Public Health Considerations for Work-Hour Limitations Policy Regarding Public Health Workers during Response to Natural and Human-Caused Disasters, Murray R. Berkowitz
The Doctor as patient, Murray R. Berkowitz
Triacsin C, a Fatty Acyl CoA Synthetase Inhibitor, Improves Cardiac Performance Following Global Ischemia, Nina Blakeman, Qian Chen, Jasmine Tolson, Brian Rueter, Brian Diaz, Brenan Casey, Lindon H. Young, and Margaret T. Weis
Finasteride in the Treatment of Female Pattern (Androgenic) Alopecia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, Olga Boychenko, Robert M. Bernstein, and Eric S. Schweiger
Ukrain, a plant derived semi-synthetic compound, exerts antitumor effects against murine and human breast cancer and induce protective antitumor immunity in mice, Erica N. Bozeman, S. Srivatsan, H. Mohammadi, D. Daniels, Rangaiah Shashidharamurthy, and Periasamy Selvaraj
Predictors of Successful Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery., F. R. Broder, Stacey C. Cahn, Robert A. DiTomasso, R. J. Petrucci, and P. S. Geno
Development and preliminary results of the Financial Incentive Coercion Assessment questionnaire, M. Byrne, J. Croft, M. French, K. Dugosh, and David Festinger
Sociodemographic analysis of psychiatric emergency services in a state with greater than average veteran density, Livia Cara and Murray R. Berkowitz
Engineering hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus to overproduce its cytoplasmic [NiFe]-hydrogenase, S. K. Chanrayan, P. M. McTernan, R. C. Hopkins, J. Sun, Francis E. Jenney Jr., and M. W. Adams
Definitive specimens of Merlucciidae (Gadiformes) from the Eocene James Ross Basin of Isla Marambio (Seymour Island), Antarctic Peninsula, Kerin M. Claeson, Joseph T. Eastman, and Ross D. MacPhee
Nonprescription steroids on the Internet., C. Clement, D. Marlowe, N. Patapis, and David Festinger
From Adherence to Self-Determination: Evolution of a Treatment Paradigm for People with Serious Mental Illnesses, Patrick W. Corrigan, Beth Angell, Larry Davidson, Steven C. Marcus, Mark S. Salzer, Petra Kottsieper, Jonathon E. Larson, Colleen A. Mahoney, Maria J. O'Connell, and Victoria Stanhope
Georgia Campus-Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, H. William Craver
Georgia Campus-Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine., H. William Craver
Pro-Tumour Activity of Interleukin-22 in HPAFII Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Lindsay M. Curd, Sheena E. Favors, and Randal K. Gregg
Comparative genomics guided discovery of two missing archaeal enzyme families involved in the biosynthesis of the pterin moiety of tetrahydromethanopterin and tetrahydrofolate, V. De Cracy-Lagard, G. Phillips, L. L. Grochowski, B. Yacoubi, Francis E. Jenney Jr., M. W. Adams, A. G. Murzin, and R. H. White
Testosterone-induced relaxation of coronary arteries: Activation of Bk ca channels via the cGMP-dependent protein kinase, Viju Deenadayalu, Yashoda Puttabyatappa, Alexander T. Liu, John N. Stallone, and Richard E. White
Managing Health Worker Migration: A Qualitative Study of the Philippine Response to Nurse Brain Drain, Roland Dimaya, Mary K. McEwen, Leslie A. Curry, and Elizabeth H. Bradley
Oral microparticulate vaccine for melanoma using M-cell targeting, Bernadette D'Souza, Tuhin Bhowmik, Rangaiah Shashidharamurthy, Carl Oettinger, Periasamy Selvaraj, and Martin D'Souza
Restoring balance: a consensus statement on the protection of vulnerable research participants., J. DuBois, L. Beskow, J. Campbell, K. Dugosh, David Festinger, S. Hartz, R. James, and C. Lidz
Clostridium Septicum Growth from a Total Knee Arthroplasty Associated with Intestinal Malignancy: A Case Report, Demetri M. Economedes, Jerome Santoro, and Carl A. Deirmengian
Effect of Age and Vaccination on Extent and Spread of Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection in C57BL/6 Mice, Taylor Eddens, Sarah Beaudoin, Amanda Steinberger, Christopher Scott Little, Dawn Shell, Benjamin Wizel, Brian J. Balin PhD, and Kerin L. Fresa-Dillon
Unusual Ligament of the Scapula, Philip A. Fabrizio
Use of the Anti-Inflammatory Cytokine Interleukin-11 to Reverse HIV-1gp120 Repression of a Natural Killer Cell Line, Sheena E. Favors, Lindsay M. Curd, and Randal K. Gregg
Improving the informed consent process in research with substance-abusing participants, David Festinger and K. Dugosh
Paying substance abusers in research studies: Where does the money go?, David Festinger and K. Dugosh
Denial of Prescription Opioids Among Young Adults with Histories of Opioid Misuse, Meghan Fibbi, Karol Silva, Kristen Johnson, Debra Langer, and Stephen E. Lankenau
Improving Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Dynamics in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Jeffrey S. Freeman
Common Patient Concerns about the Use of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists in Diabetes Mellitus Management, Jeffrey S. Freeman, James R. Gavin, and Craig W. Spellman
Potential Drug Interactions Associated with Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes and its Comorbidities: A Clinical Pharmacology Review, Jeffrey S. Freeman and Benjamin Gross
What Have We Learned about the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes? The Evolving Paradigms, Jeffrey S. Freeman and Edward S. Horton
Myo/Nog cells in normal, wounded and tumor-bearing skin, Jacquelyn Gerhart, C. Hayes, V. Scheinfeld, M. Chernick, Mindy George-Weinstein, and S. Gilmour
Can schools train students as well as the Navy trains pilots?, Frederick J. Goldstein
Avanafil for the treatment of erectile dysfunction: A multicenter, randomized, double-blind study in men with diabetes mellitus, I. Goldstein, L. A. Jones, Laurence Belkoff, G. S. Karlin, C. H. Bowden, and C. A. Peterson
Don't Quit on a Quitter: Helping Your Patient Stop Smoking, Sean Guinane
Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching (FRAP) with a Focus on F-Actin, Lori R. Hardy
Cents and Sensibility: Understanding the numbers, Keith N. Herist and Brent Rollins
Personal Finance, Keith N. Herist and Brent Rollins
Engineering approaches for investigating tumor angiogenesis: Exploiting the role of the extracellular matrix, Abigail Hielscher and Sharon Gerecht
Breast cancer cell-derived matrix supports vascular morphogenesis, Abigail Hielscher, Connie Qiu, and Sharon Gerecht
Shoulder Injuries in the Throwing Athlete, Jason J. Jancosko and Jack E. Kazanjian
Frequency of specific osteopathic manipulative treatment modalities used by candidates while taking COMLEX-USA Level 2-PE, E. E. Langenau, D. J. Dowling, C. Dyer, and W. L. Roberts
Fairness to students top priority, E. E. Langenau, J. Sandella, and J. R. Gimpel
Clinical Skills Assessment of Procedural and Advanced Communication Skills: Performance Expectations of Residency Program Directors., E. E. Langenau, X. Zhang, W. L. Roberts, A. F. DeChamplain, and J. R. Boulet
Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness Among Medical Students, Victoria Lawn, Matthew Jaffa, Catherine Babbitt-Cook, Burton Mark, Jane Dumsha, Marcus G. Bell, and Denah M. Appelt
LEGO-based play therapy for improving social competence in children and adolescents with Autism spectrum disorders, Daniel B. Legoff, G. W. Krauss, and Sarah Levin Allen
Genome-Wide Expression Analysis in Down Syndrome: Insight into Immunodeficiency, Chong Li, Lei Jin, Yun Bai, Qimin Chen, Lijun Fu, Minjun Yang, Huasheng Xiao, Guoping Zhao, and Shengyue Wang
Holistic osteopathic approach to the care of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder: Case report, Andrew Lovy and Murray R. Berkowitz
Agonist of growth hormone-releasing hormone reduces pneumolysin-induced pulmonary permeability edema, Rudolf Lucas, Supriya Sridhar, Ferenc Rick, Boris Gorshkov, Nagavedy S. Umapathy, Richard E. White, and et al.
Clipping of Distal Superior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysm with Preservation of the Parent Vessel: A Case Report, Leslie Lyness and Amir R. Dehdashti
Biomarkers and neuroimaging techniques to detect blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI), Patrick M. Malie and Murray R. Berkowitz
Clinical management and multipotential treatment strategies for blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI), Patrick M. Malie and Murray R. Berkowitz
Understanding blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) through mechanisms and patterns of injury, Patrick M. Malie, M. Q. Sonnier Jr., and Murray R. Berkowitz
Adaptive Programming Improves Outcomes in Drug Court: An Experimental Trial, D. Marlowe, David Festinger, K. Dugosh, K. Benasutti, and J. Croft
Notice on the Ocurrence of Supernumerary Teeth in the Two-toad Sloths Choloepus didactylus and C. hoffmanni, Robert McAfee
Essentials of Executive Functions Assessment, George McCloskey and Lisa A. Perkins
Intellectual, cognitive, and neuropsychological assessment in three-tier service delivery systems in schools, George McCloskey, James Whitaker, Ryan Murphy, and James Rogers
Social Information-Processing and Coping in Adolescent Females Diagnosed with an Eating Disorder: Toward a Greater Understanding of Control, Roger K. McFillin, Stacey C. Cahn, Virginia Salzer Burks, Martha Peaslee Levine, Susan Lane Loney, and Richard L. Levine
Prosthetic Management for the Older Adult with Lower Limb Amputation, Carol A. Miller
Using the Nintendo Wii Fit and Body Weight Support to Improve Aerobic Capacity, Balance, Gait Ability, and Fear of Falling: Two Case Reports, Carol A. Miller, Dawn M. Hayes, Kelli Dye, Courtney Johnson, and Jennifer Meyers
Estrogens, inflammation and obesity: An overview, Colette N. Miller, Lynda M. Brown, Srujana Rayalam, Mary Anne Della-Fera, and Clifton A. Baile
Managing Chronic Plantar Fasciitis: When Conservative Strategies Fail, Laura A. Molloy
Reconstruction of the Cranial Musculature and Masticatory Function of the Pleistocene Panamerican Ground Sloth Eremotherium Laurillardi (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megatheriidae), Virginia L. Naples and Robert McAfee
Correlation of factor IXa subsite modulations with effects on substrate discrimination, P. F. Neuenschwander, Kimberly J. Baker, K. Zepeda, and J. Rutland
Atlas of Osteopathic Techniques, Alexander S. Nicholas and Evan A. Nicholas
To the point: A primer on medical education research, F. S. Nuthalapty, P. M. Casey, A. J. Cullimore, L. Dugoff, J. F. Abbott, A. W. Chuang, J. L. Dalrymple, N. A. Hueppchen, Joseph M. Kaczmarczyk, and et al.
Modifying an evidence-based summer treatment program for use in a summer school setting: A pilot effectiveness evaluation, Briannon C. O'Connor, Katy E. Tresco, William E. J. R. Pelham, Daniel A. Waschbusch, Elizabeth M. Gnagy, and Andrew R. Greiner
Treatment of depression in patients with epilepsy, Mebanga Ojong and Shari N. Allen
Isolated calcaneofibular ligament injuries treated with osteopathic manipulative treatment: A case series, Kristie M. Olds and Murray R. Berkowitz
Total Knee Arthroplasty in a Patient with Skeletal Fluorosis, Mark Paiste, Mathew Levine, and James V. Bono
Therapeutic Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Inclusion Body Myositis, Max Pell, Poovendran Saththasivam, Peter L. Stephens, and George Mychaskiw
The Effects of Modulating eNOS Activity and Coupling in Ischemia/Reperfusion (I/R), Kerry-Anne Perkins, Sailesh Pershad, Qian Chen, Sloane McGraw, Jovan S Adams, Christopher Zambrano, Samuel Krass, Jeffrey Emrich, Brandon Bell, Michael Lyamu, Catherine Prince, Helen Kay, Jane Chun-wen Teng, and Lindon H. Young
Insulin Pump School: Back to the Basics of Pump Therapy, Sara Wilson Reece and Cheryl Williams
Modeling relationships between traditional preadmission measures and clinical skills performance on a medical licensure examination, W. L. Roberts, G. Pugliano, E. E. Langenau, and J. R. Boulet
An Evaluation of Cost and Appropriateness of Care as Recommended by Candidates on a National Clinical Skills Examination, J. Sandella, J. R. Boulet, and E. E. Langenau
Pegloticase: A Novel Agent for Treatment-Refractory Gout, Jennifer A. Shannon and Sabrina W. Cole
Statin-associated myopathy, Jennifer Shannon, Samuel John, Jenna Ferrara, Sylvia Best, and Shari N. Allen
Immunotherapeutic strategies for cancer treatment: A novel protein transfer approach for cancer vaccine development, Rangaiah Shashidharamurthy, Erica N. Bozeman, Jaina Patel, Ramneet Kaur, Jayendra Meganathan, and Periasamy Selvaraj
Hydrodynamic delivery of plasmid DNA encoding human FcYR-Ig dimers blocks immune-complex mediated inflammation in mice, Rangaiah Shashidharamurthy, D. Machiah, Erica N. Bozeman, S. Srivatsan, J. Patel, A. Cho, J. Jacob, and Periasamy Selvaraj
Atraumatic Acute Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in a Patient Taking Dabigatran, Paul A. Sibley and Richard J. Mandel
Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) during labor facilitates a natural, drug-free childbirth for a primigravida patient: A case report, Carolyn R. Smallwood, C. J. Borgerding, M. S. Cox, and Murray R. Berkowitz
A collaborative approach to myasthenia gravis, Carrie Smith PA-C, David Stickler, and Carrie Nold
Blast-induced mild traumatic brain injury as etiology of post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans, M. Q. Sonnier Jr. and Murray R. Berkowitz
Blast-induced mild traumatic brain injury as etiology of post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans, M. Q. Sonnier Jr. and Murray R. Berkowitz
Lipocalin 2 deficiency dysregulates iron homeostasis and exacerbates endotoxin-induced sepsis, Gayathri Srinivasan, Jesse D. Aitken, Benyue Zhang, Frederic A. Carvalho, Benoit Chassaing, Rangaiah Shashidharamurthy, Niels Borregaard, Dean P. Jones, Andrew T. Gewirtz, and Matam Vijay-Kumar
The preformulation stability studies of a proline prodrug of methotrexate, Ann Stephenson, Zhiqian Wu, and Xudong Yuan
NLRP3 Inflammasome is a Target for Development of Broad-Spectrum Anti-Infective Drugs, James D. Thacker, Brian J. Balin, Denah M. Appelt, Sihem Sassi-Gaha, Mitali Purohit, Richard F. Rest, and Carol M. Artlett
On researching the agency of youth: Moving beyond traditional theorizing. Commentary on Nsamenang, Celine I. Thompson
In vivo iontophoretic delivery of salmon calcitonin across microporated skin, Viswatej Vemulapalli, Yun Bai, Haripriya Kalluri, Anushree Herwadkar, Hyun Kim, Shawn P. Davis, Phil M. Fridin, and Ajay K. Banga
Streamlining Undergraduate Medical Education: Something We Should Have Discussed Decades Ago, Mark Vila