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Overview

Bernard Massie is affiliated with the National Research Council Canada. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Social Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work extends into subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Health, and Molecular Biology.

Their research focus includes topics related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery. These themes reflect ongoing investigations into viral diseases, immune response, and genetic technologies.

Massie has contributed to the scientific literature with publications in venues such as the International Journal of Vaccine Theory Practice and Research. A notable recent paper is titled "Potential Conscientious Objection to mRNA Technology as Preventive Treatment for COVID-19," published in 2022 in this journal.

They have collaborated with various researchers throughout their career. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Patrick Provost
  • Nicolas Derôme
  • Christian Linard
  • Jean Caron

Massie's work, often situated at the intersection of biomedical science and social factors, contributes to understanding the complexities of vaccine acceptance and genetic methodologies in addressing infectious diseases.

Best Publications

  • Role of the human heat shock protein hsp70 in protection against stress-induced apoptosis.

    Dick D. Mosser;Antoine W. Caron;Lucie Bourget;Claude Denis-Larose

  • The chaperone function of hsp70 is required for protection against stress-induced apoptosis.

    Dick D. Mosser;Antoine W. Caron;Lucie Bourget;Anatoli B. Meriin

  • The TrkB-Shc Site Signals Neuronal Survival and Local Axon Growth via MEK and PI3-Kinase

    Jasvinder K Atwal;Bernard Massie;Freda D Miller;David R Kaplan

  • The route of administration is a major determinant of the transduction efficiency of rat tissues by adenoviral recombinants.

    Johnny Huard;H. Lochmüller;G. Acsadi;A. Jani

  • Induction of apoptosis in nutrient‐deprived cultures of hybridoma and myeloma cells

    Sylvain Mercille;Bernard Massie

  • Intracellular synthesis, processing, and transport of proteins encoded by ORFs 5 to 7 of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.

    Helmi Mardassi;Bernard Massie;Serge Dea

  • A differential efficiency of adenovirus-mediated in vivo gene transfer into skeletal muscle cells of different maturity

    Gyula Acsadi;Agnes Jani;Bernard Massie;Maude Simoneau

  • The DNA-binding activity of the human heat shock transcription factor is regulated in vivo by hsp70.

    D D Mosser;J Duchaine;B Massie

  • Emergence of Early Region 1-Containing Replication-Competent Adenovirus in Stocks of Replication-Defective Adenovirus Recombinants (ΔE1 + ΔE3) During Multiple Passages in 293 Cells

    H. Lochmuller;A. Jani;Johnny Huard;S. Prescott

  • Gene Transfer into Skeletal Muscles by Isogenic Myoblasts

    Johnny Huard;Gyula Acsadi;Agnes Jani;Bernard Massie

  • Nuclear Retention of MBP mRNAs in the Quaking Viable Mice

    Daniel Larocque;Julie Pilotte;Taiping Chen;Frank Cloutier

  • Hsp72-mediated suppression of c-Jun N-terminal kinase is implicated in development of tolerance to caspase-independent cell death.

    Vladimir L. Gabai;Julia A. Yaglom;Vladimir Volloch;Anatoli B. Meriin

  • The cumate gene-switch: a system for regulated expression in mammalian cells

    Alaka Mullick;Yan Xu;René Warren;Maria Koutroumanis

  • Inducible overexpression of a toxic protein by an adenovirus vector with a tetracycline-regulatable expression cassette

    Bernard Massie;Linda Lamoureux;Dick D. Mosser

  • Dystrophin expression in muscles of mdx mice after adenovirus-mediated in vivo gene transfer

    Gyula Acsadi;Hanns Lochmüller;Agnes Jani;Agnes Jani;Johnny Huard

  • Scale-up of the adenovirus expression system for the production of recombinant protein in human 293S cells.

    Alain Garnier;Johanne Côté;Isabelle Nadeau;Amine Kamen

  • High-level recombinant protein production in bioreactors using the baculovirus-insect cell expression system.

    Antoine W. Caron;Jean Archambault;Bernard Massie

  • Serum-free production of recombinant proteins and adenoviral vectors by 293SF-3F6 cells.

    Johanne Côté;Alain Garnier;Bernard Massie;Amine Kamen

  • Transient immunosuppression by FK506 permits a sustained high-level dystrophin expression after adenovirus-mediated dystrophin minigene transfer to skeletal muscles of adult dystrophic (mdx) mice.

    H. Lochmüller;B. J. Petrof;G. Pari;N. Larochelle

  • The Transcription Factor E2F1 Modulates Apoptosis of Neurons

    Sheng T. Hou;Debbie Callaghan;Marie-Christine Fournier;Irene Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

George Karpati
George Karpati Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Hanns Lochmüller
Hanns Lochmüller University of Freiburg
Amine Kamen
Amine Kamen McGill University
Danica Stanimirovic
Danica Stanimirovic National Research Council Canada
Yves Durocher
Yves Durocher National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Johnny Huard
Johnny Huard The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Sue Fletcher
Sue Fletcher Murdoch University
Jacques P. Tremblay
Jacques P. Tremblay Université Laval
Michael Y. Sherman
Michael Y. Sherman Ariel University
Kay E. Davies
Kay E. Davies University of Oxford

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