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http://www.brainvoyager.com

Brain Innovation B.V. is developing scientific software in the field of human and animal brain imaging, neural network simulation and computer-based experimental control. Our current major product, BrainVoyager QX, is a commercially available cross-platform neuroimaging tool, which is used in hundreds of labs across the planet. Turbo-BrainVoyager is an easy to use program for real-time data analysis, which allows to observe a subject''s or patient''s brain activity during an ongoing functional MRI scanning session. TMS Neuronavigator provides the hard- and software to navigate a TMS coil to desired anatomical or functionally defined brain regions. We also provide free software products. BrainVoyager Brain Tutor allows to learn about brain areas by clicking on rotatable 3D brain models. StimulDX is a powerful stimulation software based on Microsofts DirectX API, which we will make available for free download in the near future.

Proper citation: Brain Innovation: Home of the BrainVoyager Product Family (RRID:SCR_006660) Copy   

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http://rgd.mcw.edu

Database for genetic, genomic, phenotype, and disease data generated from rat research. Centralized database that collects, manages, and distributes data generated from rat genetic and genomic research and makes these data available to scientific community. Curation of mapped positions for quantitative trait loci, known mutations and other phenotypic data is provided. Facilitates investigators research efforts by providing tools to search, mine, and analyze this data. Strain reports include description of strain origin, disease, phenotype, genetics, immunology, behavior with links to related genes, QTLs, sub-strains, and strain sources.

Proper citation: Rat Genome Database (RGD) (RRID:SCR_006444) Copy   

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http://obssr.od.nih.gov/index.aspx

An NIH office devoted to the study of the role of behavioral and social factors in illness and health. Its mission is to stimulate behavioral and social sciences research throughout NIH and to integrate these areas of research more fully into others of the NIH health research enterprise, thereby improving our understanding, treatment, and prevention of disease. To provide the OBSSR with counsel in fulfilling its mission, the Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee (BSSR CC) serves as an internal advisory board. The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) opened officially on July 1, 1995. The major responsibilities of the office and its director, set forth in its formal mission statement, are: * To provide leadership and direction in the development, refinement, and implementation of a trans-NIH plan to increase the scope of and support for behavioral and social sciences research. * To inform and advise the NIH director and other key officials of trends and developments having significant bearing on the missions of the NIH, DHHS, and other federal agencies. * To serve as the principal NIH spokesperson regarding research on the importance of behavioral, social, and lifestyle factors in the causation, treatment, and prevention of diseases; and to advise and consult on these topics with NIH scientists and others within and outside the federal government. * To develop a standard definition of behavioral and social sciences research, assess the current levels of NIH support for this research, and develop an overall strategy for the uniform expansion and integration * of these disciplines across NIH institutes and centers. * To develop initiatives designed to stimulate research in the behavioral and social sciences arena, integrate a bio-behavioral perspective across the research areas of the NIH, and encourage the study of behavioral and social sciences across NIH''s institutes and centers. * To initiate and promote studies to evaluate the contributions of behavioral, social, and lifestyle determinants in the development, course, treatment, and prevention of illness and related public health problems. * To provide leadership in ensuring that findings from behavioral and social sciences research are disseminated to the public. * To sponsor seminars, symposia, workshops, and conferences at the NIH and at national and international scientific meetings on state-of-the-art behavioral and social sciences research. Funding Opportunities Announcements (FOA) Since opening its doors in 1995, The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) has worked to achieve the goals of its authorizing legislation by effectively highlighting and supporting the scientific opportunities that exist in basic and applied behavioral and social sciences research. Guided by its Strategic Plan, OBSSR has been working actively with its IC partners to develop funding opportunities in the behavioral and social sciences. Although OBSSR does not have grant-making authority, it has been active in organizing and funding (through transfers to NIH Institutes and Centers) a variety of trans-NIH research programs. Scientific Areas The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Researchs (OBSSR) leadership is crucial at a time when exciting scientific opportunities, persistent public health needs, and emergent public health challenges face our nation. The vision of the office is to bring together the biomedical, behavioral, and social science communities to work more collaboratively to solve complex pressing health challenges. Notable areas of research where OBSSR has led efforts and encourages research include: * Biopsychosocial Interactions * Methodology (including Systems Science and CBPR) * Genes, Behavior and Environment * Social and Cultural Factors in Health * Health and Behavior * Translation OBSSR Training & Education Opportunities The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) develops and coordinates training and career development opportunities with the NIH Institutes and Centers.

Proper citation: Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (RRID:SCR_006554) Copy   

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http://www.brainvoyager.com/products/braintutor.html

A free award-winning educational program that teaches you knowledge about the human brain through interactive exploration of rotatable 3D models. The models have been computed with BrainVoyager QX using original data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. Besides having fun with the rotatable 3D models, the program contains information about the major lobes, gyri, sulci and Brodmann areas of the cerebral cortex. The program runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Proper citation: BrainVoyager Brain Tutor (RRID:SCR_006737) Copy   

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http://pga.mgh.harvard.edu/primerbank/

Database of human and mouse primer pairs for gene expression analysis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and quantitative PCR (qPCR). A total of 306,800 primers covering most known human and mouse genes can be accessed from the PrimerBank database, together with information on these primers such as T(m), location on the transcript and amplicon size. For each gene, at least one primer pair has been designed and in many cases alternative primer pairs exist. Primers have been designed to work under the same PCR conditions, thus facilitating high-throughput QPCR. All primers in PrimerBank were carefully designed to ensure gene specificity. All experimental validation data for mouse primers are available from PrimerBank. You can submit your primers. They will be added to the database once they are properly QCd.

Proper citation: PrimerBank (RRID:SCR_006898) Copy   

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http://irc.cchmc.org/software/pedbrain.php

Brain imaging data collected from a large population of normal, healthy children that have been used to construct pediatric brain templates, which can be used within statistical parametric mapping for spatial normalization, tissue segmentation and visualization of imaging study results. The data has been processed and compiled in various ways to accommodate a wide range of possible research approaches. The templates are made available free of charge to all interested parties for research purposes only. When processing imaging data from children, it is important to take into account the fact that the pediatric brain differs significantly from the adult brain. Therefore, optimized processing requires appropriate reference data be used because adult reference data will introduce a systematic bias into the results. We have shown that, in the in the case of spatial normalization, the amount of non-linear deformation is dramatically less when a pediatric template is used (left, see also HBM 2002; 17:48-60). We could also show that tissue composition is substantially different between adults and children, and more so the younger the children are (right, see also MRM 2003; 50:749-757). We thus believe that the use of pediatric reference data might be more appropriate.

Proper citation: CCHMC Pediatric Brain Templates (RRID:SCR_003276) Copy   

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http://brainarray.mbni.med.umich.edu/Brainarray/Database/ProbeMatchDB/ncbi_probmatch_para_step1.asp

Matches a list of microarray probes across different microrarray platforms (GeneChip, EST from different vendors, Operon Oligos) and species (human, mouse and rat), based on NCBI UniGene and HomoloGene. The capability to match protein sequence IDs has just been added to facilitate proteomic studies. The ProbeMatchDB is mainly used for the design of verification experiments or comparing the microarray results from different platforms. It can be used for finding equivalent EST clones in the Research Genetics sequence verified clone set based on results from Affymetirx GeneChips. It will also help to identify probes representing orthologous genes across human, mouse and rat on different microarray platforms.

Proper citation: ProbeMatchDB 2.0 (RRID:SCR_003433) Copy   

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http://sagebase.org/

Non-profit biomedical research organization developing predictors of disease and accelerating health research through creation of open systems, incentives, and standards. Formed to coordinate and link academic and commercial biomedical researchers through Commons that represents new paradigm for genomics intellectual property, researcher cooperation, and contributor evolved resources.

Proper citation: Sage Bionetworks (RRID:SCR_003384) Copy   

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http://www.humanvariomeproject.org/

Project facilitating the establishment and maintenance of standards systems and infrastructure for the worldwide collection and sharing of all genetic variations effecting human disease. The Human Variome Project produces two categories of recommendations: HVP Standards and HVP Guidelines. HVP Standards are those systems, procedures and technologies that the Human Variome Project Consortium has determined should be used by the community. These carry more weight than the less prescriptive HVP Guidelines, which cover those systems, procedures and technologies that the Human Variome Project Consortium has determined would be beneficial for the community to adopt. HVP Standards and Guidelines are central to supporting the work of the Human Variome Project Consortium and cover a wide range of fields and disciplines, from ethics to nomenclature, data transfer protocols to collection protocols from clinics. They can be thought of as both technical manuals and scientific documents, and while the impact of HVP Standards and Guidelines differ, they are both generated in a similar fashion. A document has been generated both as a guide for those collecting and distributing data and for those developing policy. Items should include those generated by HGVS/HVP collaborators as well as those generated by groups of individual Societies and Standards bodies in all relevant fields worldwide.

Proper citation: Human Variome Project (RRID:SCR_003492) Copy   

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http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/

A multi-center project comprising two distinct consortia (Mass. Gen. Hosp. and USC; and Wash. U. and the U. of Minn.) seeking to map white matter fiber pathways in the human brain using leading edge neuroimaging methods, genomics, architectonics, mathematical approaches, informatics, and interactive visualization. The mapping of the complete structural and functional neural connections in vivo within and across individuals provides unparalleled compilation of neural data, an interface to graphically navigate this data and the opportunity to achieve conclusions about the living human brain. The HCP is being developed to employ advanced neuroimaging methods, and to construct an extensive informatics infrastructure to link these data and connectivity models to detailed phenomic and genomic data, building upon existing multidisciplinary and collaborative efforts currently underway. Working with other HCP partners based at Washington University in St. Louis they will provide rich data, essential imaging protocols, and sophisticated connectivity analysis tools for the neuroscience community. This project is working to achieve the following: 1) develop sophisticated tools to process high-angular diffusion (HARDI) and diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) from normal individuals to provide the foundation for the detailed mapping of the human connectome; 2) optimize advanced high-field imaging technologies and neurocognitive tests to map the human connectome; 3) collect connectomic, behavioral, and genotype data using optimized methods in a representative sample of normal subjects; 4) design and deploy a robust, web-based informatics infrastructure, 5) develop and disseminate data acquisition and analysis, educational, and training outreach materials.

Proper citation: MGH-USC Human Connectome Project (RRID:SCR_003490) Copy   

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http://www.caneucre.org

Cre expressing mice under the control of promoters with a design focus on the brain. Each promoter is derived from human sequence, but the resulting expression is assessed in the mouse for the activation of a LacZ reporter gene by the Cre activity. Promoters tested as large MaxiPromoters (BACs inserted into the mouse genome) and MiniPromoters (plasmid-based sequences inserted either into the mouse genome or introduced within AAV viruses). The Cre-related project continues from the Pleiades Promoter Project. Here is the list of genes for which icre/ERT2 mice are currently in development: AGTR1, CARTPT, CLDN5, CLVS2, CRH, GABRA6, HTR1A, HTR1B, KCNA4, KDM5C, MKI67, NEUROD6, NKX6-1, NOV, NPY2R, NR2E1, OLIG2, POU4F2, SLITRK6, SOX1, SOX3, SOX9,, SPRY1, VSX2

Proper citation: CanEuCre (RRID:SCR_004159) Copy   

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http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/crr/ligand.cfm

This Core at the University of Virginia employs state-of-the-art methods to quantitate peptide and steroid reproductive hormones in blood and tissue. It also develops new methodology, prepares labeled reagents for immunoassays, immunocytochemistry and binding studies and assists in the transfer of technology to participating investigators. Available services: AMH ELISA, 3-ALPHA DIOL G ELISA (ON HOLD), ANDROSTENEDIONE RIA, CORTISOL HUMAN IMMULITE, CORTICOSTERONE RIA, DHEA ELISA, DHEA-SO4 HUMAN IMMULITE, DHT NON EXTRACTION RIA (ON HOLD), ESTRADIOL HUMAN & MOUSE BECKMAN COULTER RIA, ESTRADIOL RAT SIEMENS RIA, ESTRONE- RIA, FSH HUMAN IMMULITE, IGF-1 HUMAN IMMULITE, INHIBIN-A ELISA, INHIBIN-B ELISA, INSULIN HUMAN IMMULITE, LH HUMAN IMMULITE, MOUSE FSH RIA, MOUSE LH SANDWICH IRMA, PROGESTERONE RIA, PROINSULIN RIA, PROLACTIN HUMAN IMMULITE, 17a-OH-PROGESTERONE RIA, RAT FSH RIA, RAT LH SANDWICH IRMA, SHBG HUMAN IMMULITE, TESTOSTERONE RIA, SENSITIVE ESTRADIOL HUMAN & RAT RIA, SENSITIVE PROGESTERONE RIA, SENSITIVE TESTOSTERONE - RIA

Proper citation: UVA Center for Research in Reproduction Ligand Assay and Analysis Core (RRID:SCR_004318) Copy   

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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Emergency_Medicine

Emergency Medicine is an Open-Content Textbook of Emergency Medicine. This wikibook is intended to be a collaborative communication between physicians, nurses, physician assistants, paramedics, EMTs and other healthcare providers. It is not intended for the general public. It is under development and inevitably contains many errors and omissions. As the information in this textbook can be edited by anyone, regardless of whether they are medically trained or not, it should not be used as a guide to treating yourself or anyone else! Contents * 1 SYMPTOMS AND PRESENTATIONS ** 1.1 GENERAL SYMPTOMS ** 1.2 HEAD AND NECK SYMPTOMS ** 1.3 CHEST SYMPTOMS ** 1.4 ABDOMINAL SYMPTOMS * 2 TOPICS ** 2.1 ABDOMINAL AND GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS ** 2.2 CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS ** 2.3 CUTANEOUS DISORDERS ** 2.4 DISASTER MEDICINE ** 2.5 ENDOCRINE, METABOLIC, AND NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS ** 2.6 ENVIRONMENTAL DISORDERS ** 2.7 HEAD, EAR, EYE, NOSE, THROAT DISORDERS ** 2.8 HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS ** 2.9 IMMUNE SYSTEM DISORDERS ** 2.10 INFECTIOUS DISORDERS ** 2.11 MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS (NONTRAUMATIC) ** 2.12 NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS ** 2.13 OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY ** 2.14 RENAL AND UROGENITAL DISORDERS ** 2.15 THORACIC-RESPIRATORY DISORDERS ** 2.16 TOXICOLOGIC DISORDERS ** 2.17 TRAUMATIC DISORDERS * 3 TESTS ** 3.1 Imaging ** 3.2 Lab Investigations ** 3.3 Point of Care Testing * 4 TREATMENT ** 4.1 Procedures ** 4.2 Resuscitation ** 4.3 Other Treatment * 5 SPECIAL POPULATIONS * 6 PRACTICE AND ADMINISTRATION * 7 KNOWLEDGE AND COMMUNICATION

Proper citation: Emergency Medicine (RRID:SCR_004357) Copy   

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http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/biochem/faculty/truant/truantlab.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on March 21, 2013. Laboratory portal of Ray Truant, PhD. It provides an image gallery and videos.

Proper citation: Ray Truant Lab (RRID:SCR_004301) Copy   

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http://genome.ucsc.edu/ENCODE

Encyclopedia of DNA elements consisting of list of functional elements in human genome, including elements that act at protein and RNA levels, and regulatory elements that control cells and circumstances in which gene is active. Enables scientific and medical communities to interpret role of human genome in biology and disease. Provides identification of common cell types to facilitate integrative analysis and new experimental technologies based on high-throughput sequencing. Genome Browser containing ENCODE and Epigenomics Roadmap data. Data are available for entire human genome.

Proper citation: ENCODE (RRID:SCR_006793) Copy   

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http://humancyc.org/

The HumanCyc database describes human metabolic pathways and the human genome. By presenting metabolic pathways as an organizing framework for the human genome, HumanCyc provides the user with an extended dimension for functional analysis of Homo sapiens at the genomic level. A computational pathway analysis of the human genome assigned human enzymes to predicted metabolic pathways. Pathway assignments place genes in their larger biological context, and are a necessary step toward quantitative modeling of metabolism. HumanCyc contains the complete genome sequence of Homo sapiens, as presented in Build 31. Data on the human genome from Ensembl, LocusLink and GenBank were carefully merged to create a minimally redundant human gene set to serve as an input to SRI''s PathoLogic software, which generated the database and predicted Homo sapiens metabolic pathways from functional information contained in the genome''s annotation. SRI did not re-annotate the genome, but worked with the gene function assignments in Ensembl, LocusLink, and GenBank. The resulting pathway/genome database (PGDB) includes information on 28,783 genes, their products and the metabolic reactions and pathways they catalyze. Also included are many links to other databases and publications. The Pathway Tools software/database bundle includes HumanCyc and the Pathway Tools software suite and is available under license. This form of HumanCyc is faster and more powerful than the Web version.

Proper citation: HumanCyc: Encyclopedia of Homo sapiens Genes and Metabolism (RRID:SCR_007050) Copy   

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http://humanconnectome.org/consortia/

Project to map the neural pathways that underlie human brain function for several modalities of neuroimaging data including fMRI. The purpose of the Project is to acquire and share data about the structural and functional connectivity of the human brain. It will greatly advance the capabilities for imaging and analyzing brain connections, resulting in improved sensitivity, resolution, and utility, thereby accelerating progress in the emerging field of human connectomics. Altogether, the Human Connectome Project will lead to major advances in the understanding of what makes us uniquely human and will set the stage for future studies of abnormal brain circuits in many neurological and psychiatric disorders. The sixteen institutes and centers of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience have funded two major grants that will take complementary approaches to deciphering the brain's amazingly complex wiring diagram. An 11-institution consortium led by Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Minnesota received a 5-year grant to enable development and utilization of advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) methods to chart brain circuitry. A consortium led by Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of California at Los Angeles received a grant to enable building and refining a next-generation 3T MR scanner that improves the quality and spatial resolution with which brain connectivity data can be acquired at this field strength.

Proper citation: NIH Human Connectome Project (RRID:SCR_006942) Copy   

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http://www.alttox.org/

A website dedicated to advancing non-animal methods of toxicity testing, both to better protect the health of humans, animals, and the environment and to reduce the numbers and suffering of animals used in current toxicology assessments. The website is designed to encourage the exchange of technical and policy information on in vitro and in silico methods for all types of toxicity tests. The AltTox Forum is a message board for the AltTox community to use for posting news, information, and perspectives as well as encouraging feedback and commentary. This online community is intended to foster progress internationally in the development, validation, and acceptance of in vitro methods, with the goal of decreasing our reliance on animal-based safety testing. The Forum is moderated by a group of internationally-recognized subject matter experts. The Way Forward invited commentaries, which are posted in the TTRC, are opinion pieces written by experts in each relevant subfield. These essays are meant to help chart the course for future developments by advancing opportunities to overcome challenges and barriers to progress. Stakeholders are invited to comment on these essays in The AltTox Forum. AltTox users are encouraged to contribute to the website and interact with other users in several ways, including: :- Participating in the online forum :- Providing invited expert commentaries :- Suggesting or submitting content, events, monthly features, data, and graphics :- Providing feedback through the Website Feedback surve To encourage objectivity, the website content is overseen by an editorial board of distinguished subject matter experts.

Proper citation: AltTox: Non-animal Methods for Toxicity Testing (RRID:SCR_007212) Copy   

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https://www.icts.uiowa.edu/confluence/dashboard.action

A group of software packages for image analysis, mainly used in MRI image processing. BRAINS (Brain Research: Analysis of Images, Networks, and Systems) contains manual and automated tools for structural identification and methods for tissue classification and cortical surface generation. BRAINS2 is most commonly used to analyze magnetic resonance (MR) scans, but the package can also be used to analyze images acquired with positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and functional magnetic resonance (fMR). It is implemented in an object-oriented, cross-platform compatible manner and includes a toolbar and command line interface, a graphical interface, and a computational kernel.

Proper citation: Brain Research: Analysis of Images, Networks and Systems (RRID:SCR_007357) Copy   

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http://hearingimpairment.jax.org/screening.html

The fairly common occurrence of hearing-loss or deafness in both humans and mice, and the anatomical and functional similarities of their inner ears, attest to the potential of mice as models to study hereditary hearing loss. Hundreds of standard inbred, recombinant inbred, and congenic strains are maintained at The Jackson Laboratory, as well as hundreds of inbred strains with spontaneous or induced mutations. To assess hearing impairment in inbred and mutant strains of mice we measure auditory-evoked brainstem response (ABR) thresholds.

Proper citation: The Jackson Laboratory Hearing Research Program (RRID:SCR_007196) Copy   

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