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A dream came true!! Our paper: "Neutrophil-derived catecholamines mediate negative stress effects on bone" is now published in @NatureComms 🎉

This work is a joint project from my group at @OrthoLabUlm & @MolPsySoUlm! A fantastic cross-discipline collaboration!

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We found out earlier that chronic psychosocial stress during adulthood disturbs long bone growth and fracture healing in mice: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1…

But the question was: what is the mechanism? We answered that in our latest study. Stress leads to catecholamine production ...
... in local immune cells in the bone marrow and the fracture callus. These catecholamines disturb endochondral ossification via the beta2-adrenoreceptor on chondrocyte-derived cells in mice. Most importantly, we could confirm this also in human samples:

Fracture patients...
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Publication productivity and academic rank in medicine.

Via @AcadMedJournal
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32028299
From @EricLehrer @DrEmmaHolliday @PennStHershey @penn_state

[tweetorial] on the impact of h-index and m-index on promotion/tenure.

#academicmedicine #MedEd #scholarship Image
@AcadMedJournal @EricLehrer @DrEmmaHolliday @PennStHershey @penn_state Are metrics for promotion and tenure at academic institutions easy to understand?
@AcadMedJournal @EricLehrer @DrEmmaHolliday @PennStHershey @penn_state Most would say the requirements are nebulous.

e.g., here are requirements from top tier institution, for non-tenure track and tenure-track faculty.

Historically, some said:
Asst prof = regional reputation
Assoc prof = national
Full prof = international ImageImage
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