Dr. Sean Patrick Whelan M.D.
Surgeon
761 JOHNSONBURG RD SAINT MARYS PA, 15857Rating
5/5
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Dr. Sean Whelan is a general surgeon practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Whelan specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Whelan provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Identification of a minimal size requirement for termination of vesicular stomatitis virus mRNA: implications for the mechanism of transcription.
- Transcription and replication initiate at separate sites on the vesicular stomatitis virus genome.
- Transcriptional control of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of vesicular stomatitis virus.
- Transcription and replication of nonsegmented negative-strand RNA viruses.
- Endosomal proteolysis of the Ebola virus glycoprotein is necessary for infection.
- Amino acid residues within conserved domain VI of the vesicular stomatitis virus large polymerase protein essential for mRNA cap methyltransferase activity.
- An antiviral role for the RNA interference machinery in Caenorhabditis elegans.
- Viral transgenesis of embryonic cell cultures from the freshwater microcrustacean Daphnia.
- A unique strategy for mRNA cap methylation used by vesicular stomatitis virus.
- Vesicular stomatitis viruses resistant to the methylase inhibitor sinefungin upregulate RNA synthesis and reveal mutations that affect mRNA cap methylation.
- Vesicular stomatitis virus mRNA capping machinery requires specific cis-acting signals in the RNA.
- Subcapsular sinus macrophages in lymph nodes clear lymph-borne viruses and present them to antiviral B cells.
- A conserved motif in region v of the large polymerase proteins of nonsegmented negative-sense RNA viruses that is essential for mRNA capping.
- Response to "Non-segmented negative-strand RNA virus RNA synthesis in vivo".
- Opposing effects of inhibiting cap addition and cap methylation on polyadenylation during vesicular stomatitis virus mRNA synthesis.
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