


Research Review, Methods and Policy Papers Diagnostic Instability and Reversals of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Diagnosis in Individuals with Mild to Moderate Airflow Obstruction (Shawn Aaron, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine JIF 13.2, paper).(Lauralyn McIntyre, Dean Fergusson, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, JIF 13.2, paper, lay summary) Cellular Immunotherapy for Septic Shock.Validating the HERDOO2 rule to guide treatment duration for women with unprovoked venous thrombosis: multinational prospective cohort management study (Marc Rodger, British Medical Journal, JIF 20.8, paper, lay summary).Reevaluation of Diagnosis in Adults With Physician-Diagnosed Asthma (Shawn Aaron, JAMA, JIF 44.4, paper, lay summary).Restrictive or Liberal Red-Cell Transfusion for Cardiac Surgery (Dean Fergusson, New England Journal of Medicine, JIF 72.4, paper, lay summary ).Alkayyal, Rebecca Auer, Cancer Immunology Research, JIF 8.3, paper, lay summary) NK-Cell Recruitment Is Necessary for Eradication of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis with an IL12-Expressing Maraba Virus Cellular Vaccine (Almohanad A.Shah, Mathew Tanner, Antonio Colavita, Developmental Cell, JIF 9.2, paper, lay summary) PCP and SAX-3/Robo Pathways Cooperate to Regulate Convergent Extension-Based Nerve Cord Assembly in C.

Julian, William Stanford, Cancer Research, JIF 9.3, paper, lay summary) Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived TSC2-Haploinsufficient Smooth Muscle Cells Recapitulate Features of Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (Lisa M.mTORC1 activates SREBP-2 by suppressing cholesterol trafficking to lysosomes in mammalian cells (Walaa Eid, Xiaohui Zha, PNAS, JIF 9.7, paper, lay summary).Cardiotrophin 1 stimulates beneficial myogenic and vascular remodeling of the heart (Mohammad Abdul-Ghani, Colin Suen, Lynn Megeney, Duncan Stewart, Cell Research, JIF 15.6, paper, lay summary).Top Papers of 2017 by Journal Impact Factor Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital are also affiliated with the University of Ottawa. Papers are referenced in the language in which they were written, however lay summaries are available in English and French. Read more about how the list was developed. The list below represents the “top research papers” from The Ottawa Hospital, as measured by Journal Impact Factor (for 2017) and citations (for 2015-2017), using several different categories. Did you know that researchers at The Ottawa Hospital publish an average of four new scientific papers every single day? Our research is advancing science and improving health on a massive scale – both at home and around the world.
