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Title: CORTICAL ACTIVITY OF THE SENSORIMOTOR SYSTEM IN PARTICIPANTS WITH CHRONIC ANKLE INSTABILITY
Author: Burcal, Christopher
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Kinesiology, Neurosciences
Description: Patients with chronic ankle instability (CAI) exhibit a wide variety of sensorimotor deficits. These include impairments in feed-forward sensorimotor control (i.e. motor planning) as well as feed-back sensorimotor control, which pertains to refini...

Title: Chemoenzymatic Preparation of Probes for in vitro and Cellular Elucidation of Complex Bacteria Polysaccharides
Author: Reid, Amanda
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Biochemistry, Analytical chemistry
Description: Bacteria play a major role in our health and wellbeing. The microbe-host interaction is often mediated by sugar polymers at the cell surface. An incredibly diverse amount of glycan variation exists throughout these structures, which makes identifi...

Title: EFFECTS OF SILIBININ ON ETHANOL-MEDIATED HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA PROGRESSION IN MALE AND FEMALE MICE
Author: Warner, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Ethanol is a significant risk for the development of hepatic cirrhosis and progression to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). While females are more susceptible to the deleterious effects of ethanol, the incidence of cirrhosis and HCC is significantly...

Title: ENGINEERING OXYGEN TRANSPORT FOR IMPROVING CELL PERFORMANCE IN HEPATIC DEVICES
Author: Shi, Gengbei
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: The bioartificial liver (BAL) advancing medical technology aims to provide temporary liver substitution for patients in dire need of liver transplants and also for drug development. Yet despite nearly fifty years of development, the approval for t...

Title: FACTORS SHED BY BREAST TUMOR CELLS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA CONVERTING ENZYME ACTIVITIES, AND THE GENERATION OF PRO-TUMOR MACROPHAGES
Author: Rego, Stephen
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: The role of the tumor microenvironment, especially of tumor associated macrophages (TAMs), in the progression and metastatic spread of breast cancer is well established. TAMs are activated in the breast tumor microenvironment to express primarily ...

Title: Hepatic Stellate Cell Transdifferentiation: Pro-fibrogenic Effectors
Author: Lakner, Ashley
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Biology
Description: Hepatic fibrosis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and can be described as exacerbated wound-healing marked by excessive deposition of extracellular matrix components, predominantly type I collagen. Chronic injury stimula...

Title: IMPROVEMENTS IN MICROBE RECOVERY AND DETECTION IN WATER SAMPLES: MULTIPLE APPROACHES TO METHOD OPTIMIZATION
Author: Kimble, Gina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences
Description: The accurate recovery and detection of microbes from water samples is important for the protection of public health. However, not all microbes behave similarly, not all water samples have comparable physical properties, and the constituents presen...

Title: INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON PHYSIOLOGY OF MARINE BIVALVES
Author: Matoo, Omera
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Ecology
Description: The continuing increase of carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere leads to increase in sea-surface temperature and causes ocean acidification altering seawater carbonate chemistry. Estuarine and shallow coastal areas, which are hotspots for...

Title: INTERLEUKIN-2 IN AQUEOUS AND LIPID ENVIRONMENTS: UNDERSTANDING MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS THAT IMPACT PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT
Author: Vrikkis, Regina
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Pharmacy--Research
Description: The continued development of pharmaceutical recombinant proteins as therapeutics necessitates a full understanding of the biomolecular interactions impacting structural and functional protein stability within different environments. Two such envir...

Title: Optical Stimulation of the Prostate Nerves: A Potential Diagnostic Technique
Author: Tozburun, Serhat
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: There is wide variability in sexual potency rates (9 - 86%) after nerve-sparing prostate cancer surgery due to limited knowledge of the location of the cavernous nerves (CN's) on the prostate surface, which are responsible for erectile function. T...

Title: Periostin and TGFBI in Breast Cancer Progression
Author: Phelps, Michelle
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Cytology
Description: Dynamic interactions between cancer cells, supportive stromal cells, the extracellular matrix (ECM), and the immune system are critical to breast cancer progression. Periostin is an ECM protein correlated to poor outcomes in breast cancer. Periost...

Title: ROLE OF AQUAPORINS DURING HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA INITIATION AND PROGRESSION
Author: Mattocks, Matthew
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Cytology, Oncology
Description: Aquaporins (AQPs) are ubiquitously expressed proteinaceous water channels involved in numerous physiological processes including bile production and apoptosis. Aquaporins 8 and 9 are expressed in hepatocytes, and are down regulated in a rat model ...

Title: Reducing training effort in biological image classification
Author: Nguyen, Nhat Rich
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: To automatically classify biological images, machine learning techniques have been widely used to train the classifiers from labeled images. For a new category of biological object, a tedious and expensive labeling process is needed from a human e...

Title: SINGLE-STEP, REDUCED SHEAR, MICROFLUIDIC EXTRUSION OF BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER
Author: Wetzel, Isaac
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Biomedical engineering
Description: Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting of living structures with cell-laden biomaterials has been achieved in vitro, however, central nervous system tissues have been limited by the low viability printing of cerebral vessels, using conventional printi...

Title: SUBSURFACE THERMAL COAGULATION OF TISSUES USING NEAR INFRARED LASERS
Author: Chang, Chun-Hung
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Biophysics, Biomedical engineering
Description: Noninvasive laser therapy is currently limited primarily to cosmetic dermatological applications such as skin resurfacing, hair removal, tattoo removal and treatment of vascular birthmarks. In order to expand applications of noninvasive laser ther...

Title: THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL THERAPEUTICS IN PANCREATIC AND BREAST CANCERS: POTENTIAL ROLE OF MUC1
Author: Besmer, Dahlia
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is the 4th leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the US, and breast cancer (BC) contributes to ~40,000 deaths annually. The development of novel therapeutic agents for improving patient outcome is of para...

Title: TISSUE SPECIFIC RESPONSES OF THE ESTUARINE BIVALVE SPECIES CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA AND GEUKENSIA DEMISSA TO HYPOXIA
Author: Khan, Bushra
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Aquatic ecosystems are exposed to multiple stressors simultaneously. Many estuarine sites which show diurnal dissolved oxygen (DO) and pH fluctuations are also exposed to metals which can be toxic to marine organisms. Bivalve mollusks serve as goo...

Title: Topoisomerase II Inhibitors Induce an Illegitimate Genome Rearrangement Common in Infant Leukemia
Author: Bariar, Bhawana
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology
Description: Infant acute leukemias account for ~30% of all malignancy seen in childhood across the Western world. They are aggressive and characterized by rapid onset shortly after birth. The majority of these have rearrangements involving the MLL (mixed line...