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  • Stapleton, T., Luchman, A., Johnston, J., Browder, L., Brenner, S., Venkatesh, B., Jirik, F. R. Compact intergenic regions of the pufferfish genome facilitate isolation of gene promoters: characterization of Fugu 3 '-phosphoadenosine 5 '-phosphosulfate synthase 2 (fPapss2) gene promoter function in transgenic Xenopus FEBS Letters  2004 556:59-63  DOI:10.1016/s0014-5793(03)01353-x  PMID:14706826
  • Zhang, T., Tan, Y. H., Fu, J., Lui, D., Ning, Y., Jirik, F. R., Brenner, S., Venkatesh, B. The regulation of retina specific expression of rhodopsin gene in vertebrates Gene  2003 313:189-200  DOI:10.1016/s0378-1119(03)00680-2  PMID:12957390
  • Yu, W. P., Pallen, C. J., Tay, A., Jirik, F. R., Brenner, S., Tan, Y. H., Venkatesh, B. Conserved synteny between the Fugu and human PTEN locus and the evolutionary conservation of vertebrate PTEN function Oncogene  2001 20:5554-5561  DOI:10.1038/sj.onc.1204679  PMID:11571655
  • Lotz, M., Zuraw, B. L., Carson, D. A., Jirik, F. R. Hepatocytes produce interleukin-6 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  1989 557:509-511  DOI:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1989.tb24048.x
  • Podor, T. J., Jirik, F. R., Loskutoff, D. J., Carson, D. A., Lotz, M. Human endothelial cells produce IL-6. Lack of responses to exogenous IL-6 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences  1989 557:374-387  DOI:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1989.tb24030.x  PMID:2660697
  • Jirik, F. R., Podor, T. J., Hirano, T., Kishimoto, T., Loskutoff, D. J., Carson, D. A., Lotz, M. Bacterial lipopolysaccharide and inflammatory mediators augment IL-6 secretion by human endothelial cells Journal of Immunology  1989 142:144-147  PMID:2783321