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Kyra Cowan

Senior Director, Merck KGaA
Verified email at merckgroup.com
Cited by 2166

[HTML][HTML] Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science

…, CM Worthman, L Yardley, K Cowan… - The lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Summary The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound effect
on all aspects of society, including mental health and physical health. We explore the …

The pharmacology and clinical use of methotrexate

J Jolivet, KH Cowan, GA Curt… - … England Journal of …, 1983 - Mass Medical Soc
METHOTREXATE, the most widely used antimetabolite in cancer chemotherapy, has an
essential role in the treatment of such diverse diseases as acute lymphocytic leukemia, non …

Mitogen-activated protein kinases: new signaling pathways functioning in cellular responses to environmental stress

KJ Cowan, KB Storey - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2003 - journals.biologists.com
The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) superfamily consists of three main protein
kinase families: the extracellular signal-regulated protein kinases (ERKs), the c-Jun N …

Development of a definition of postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection

…, C Cordon-Cardo, JL Costello, L Cottrell, K Cowan… - Jama, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with persistent, relapsing, or new symptoms
or other health effects occurring after acute infection, termedpostacute sequelae of SARS …

[HTML][HTML] Overexpression of a novel anionic glutathione transferase in multidrug-resistant human breast cancer cells.

G Batist, A Tulpule, BK Sinha, AG Katki… - Journal of Biological …, 1986 - Elsevier
Adriamycin-resistant (AdrR) human breast cancer cells have been selected which exhibit
cross-resistance to a wide range of anti-cancer drugs. This multidrug-resistant phenotype is …

[HTML][HTML] Ten-year results of a comparison of conservation with mastectomy in the treatment of stage I and II breast cancer

JA Jacobson, DN Danforth, KH Cowan… - … England Journal of …, 1995 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Breast-conservation therapy for early-stage breast cancer is now an accepted
treatment, but there is still controversy about its comparability with mastectomy. Between …

Nonmyeloablative bone marrow transplantation from partially HLA-mismatched related donors using posttransplantation cyclophosphamide

…, MS Leffell, M Phelps, P Rhubart, K Cowan… - Biology of Blood and …, 2002 - tctjournal.org
Cyclophosphamide (Cy) is a potent immunosuppressive agent that is selectively toxic to
lymphocytes proliferating in response to recent antigen stimulation. In animal models, both …

BRCA1 regulates the G2/M checkpoint by activating Chk1 kinase upon DNA damage

RI Yarden, S Pardo-Reoyo, M Sgagias, KH Cowan… - Nature …, 2002 - nature.com
The breast cancer tumor-suppressor gene, BRCA1, encodes a protein with a BRCT domain—
a motif that is found in many proteins that are implicated in DNA damage response and in …

Pannexin 1 and pannexin 3 are glycoproteins that exhibit many distinct characteristics from the connexin family of gap junction proteins

S Penuela, R Bhalla, XQ Gong… - Journal of cell …, 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Pannexins are mammalian orthologs of the invertebrate gap junction proteins innexins and
thus have been proposed to play a role in gap junctional intercellular communication …

Complete reversal of fatal pulmonary hypertension in rats by a serine elastase inhibitor

KN Cowan, A Heilbut, T Humpl, C Lam, S Ito… - Nature medicine, 2000 - nature.com
Progression of pulmonary hypertension is associated with increased serine elastase activity
and the proteinase-dependent deposition of the extracellular matrix smooth muscle cell …