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James E. West

- Verified email at jhu.edu - Cited by 7615

James West

- Verified email at csiro.au - Cited by 4795

James E West

- Verified email at baylor.edu - Cited by 4565

[HTML][HTML] Endogenous generation of reactive oxidants and electrophiles and their reactions with DNA and protein

LJ Marnett, JN Riggins, JD West - The Journal of clinical …, 2003 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Nonstandard abbreviations used: superoxide anion (O2–); peroxynitrite (ONOO–);
peroxynitrous acid (ONOOH); nitrosoperoxycarbonate (ONO2CO2–); nitroxyl anion (NO–); 8 …

[HTML][HTML] A review of odd-chain fatty acid metabolism and the role of pentadecanoic acid (C15: 0) and heptadecanoic acid (C17: 0) in health and disease

B Jenkins, JA West, A Koulman - Molecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
The role of C17: 0 and C15: 0 in human health has recently been reinforced following a
number of important biological and nutritional observations. Historically, odd chain saturated …

Age-associated epigenetic drift: implications, and a case of epigenetic thrift?

AE Teschendorff, J West, S Beck - Human molecular genetics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
It is now well established that the genomic landscape of DNA methylation (DNAm) gets
altered as a function of age, a process we here call 'epigenetic drift'. The biological …

The material footprint of nations

TO Wiedmann, H Schandl, M Lenzen… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Metrics on resource productivity currently used by governments suggest that some
developed countries have increased the use of natural resources at a slower rate than …

A cluster of hydrophobic amino acid residues required for fast Na (+)-channel inactivation.

JW West, DE Patton, T Scheuer… - Proceedings of the …, 1992 - National Acad Sciences
The inward Na+ current underlying the action potential in nerve is terminated by inactivation.
The preceding report shows that deletions within the intracellular linker between domains III …

Sex and science: How professor gender perpetuates the gender gap

SE Carrell, ME Page, JE West - The Quarterly journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Why aren't there more women in science? This paper begins to shed light on this question
by exploiting data from the US Air Force Academy, where students are randomly assigned to …

Does your cohort matter? Measuring peer effects in college achievement

SE Carrell, RL Fullerton… - Journal of Labor …, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
We estimate peer effects in college achievement using a data set in which individuals are
exogenously assigned to peer groups of about 30 students with whom they are required to …

Does professor quality matter? Evidence from random assignment of students to professors

SE Carrell, JE West - Journal of Political Economy, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
In primary and secondary education, measures of teacher quality are often based on
contemporaneous student performance on standardized achievement tests. In the …

From natural variation to optimal policy? The importance of endogenous peer group formation

SE Carrell, BI Sacerdote, JE West - Econometrica, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We take cohorts of entering freshmen at the United States Air Force Academy and assign
half to peer groups designed to maximize the academic performance of the lowest ability …

Alcohol‐induced neuronal loss in developing rats: Increased brain damage with binge exposure

DJ Bonthius, JR West - Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
A rat model of third trimester fetal alcohol exposure was used to determine whether a
smaller daily dose of alcohol can induce more severe microencephaly and neuronal loss …