 Guam
"Guam" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An island in Micronesia, east of the Philippines, the largest and southernmost of the Marianas. Its capital is Agana. It was discovered by Magellan in 1521 and occupied by Spain in 1565. They ceded it to the United States in 1898. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Department of the Interior since 1950. The derivation of the name Guam is in dispute. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p471)
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D006141
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Z01.639.760.680.435
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Guam" by people in Profiles.
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Monteith LL, Holliday R, Iglesias CD, Sherrill A, Brenner LA, Hoffmire CA. Suicide risk and prevention in Guam: Clinical and research considerations and a call to action. Asian J Psychiatr. 2023 May; 83:103546.
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Pla D, Petras D, Saviola AJ, Modahl CM, Sanz L, P?rez A, Ju?rez E, Frietze S, Dorrestein PC, Mackessy SP, Calvete JJ. Transcriptomics-guided bottom-up and top-down venomics of neonate and adult specimens of the arboreal rear-fanged Brown Treesnake, Boiga irregularis, from Guam. J Proteomics. 2018 03 01; 174:71-84.
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Nelson DS, McManus J, Richmond RH, King DB, Gailani JZ, Lackey TC, Bryant D. Predicting dredging-associated effects to coral reefs in Apra Harbor, Guam - Part 2: Potential coral effects. J Environ Manage. 2016 Mar 01; 168:111-22.
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Gailani JZ, Lackey TC, King DB, Bryant D, Kim SC, Shafer DJ. Predicting dredging-associated effects to coral reefs in Apra Harbor, Guam - Part 1: Sediment exposure modeling. J Environ Manage. 2016 Mar 01; 168:16-26.
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Hermosura MC, Cui AM, Go RC, Davenport B, Shetler CM, Heizer JW, Schmitz C, Mocz G, Garruto RM, Perraud AL. Altered functional properties of a TRPM2 variant in Guamanian ALS and PD. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Nov 18; 105(46):18029-34.
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TILLEMA S, WIJNBERG CJ. Endemic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on Guam; epidemiological data; a preliminary report. Doc Med Geogr Trop. 1953 Dec; 5(4):366-70.
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