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Title: The Role of Metformin on Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Progression and Skeletal Muscle Health.
Author: Bond, Nicole
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Kinesiology
Description: Lung cancer is the second most common cancer and maintains a relatively small survival rate (~20%). Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) makes up 80-85% of all lung cancer diagnoses. Lung cancer patients routinely undergo surgical procedures, chemot...

Title: The role of the sex steroids in regulation of physical activity levels in mice
Author: Bowen, Robert
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Kinesiology, Physiology
Description: Low physical activity (PA) levels are associated with many chronic diseases and place a massive burden on the health care system. The extrinsic environment has been suggested to regulate activity levels, but an increasing prevalence of physical in...

Title: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF RESISTANCE OF PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA CELLS TO ONCOLYTIC VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS
Author: Felt, Sebastien
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Virology, Cytology
Description: Oncolytic virus (OV) therapy is an anticancer therapy using replication-competent viruses selectively infecting, replicating in and killing cancer cells. Human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell lines are highly heterogeneous in their pe...

Title: EVALUATING BIOFLAVONOID INDUCED DNA DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS AND CHROMOSOMAL TRANSLOCATIONS
Author: Goodenow, Donna
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Dietary bioflavonoids are a class of chemical compounds found in soy, fruits, vegetables, tea, coffee, wine, and dietary supplements. They are separated into 12 different sub-classes based upon their structure, however only six are dietarily relev...

Title: Immunostimulatory Properties of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles
Author: Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) are ubiquitous biomolecules found throughout all living organisms. They can act as genetic information storage and messengers, enzymes, molecular switches, and much more. Although DNA is used almost exclusively for its ...

Title: Understanding and overcoming limitations of vesicular stomatitis virus as an oncolytic agent against pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Author: Hastie, Eric
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Virology, Biology
Description: Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a prototypic nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus. Lack of preexisting immunity against VSV, inherent oncotropism, and genetic malleability make VSV a widely used platform for vaccine, oncolytic, and gene ther...

Title: Inflammation, NLRP3 Inflammasomes, Macrophages and Breast Cancer Progression
Author: Holtzman , Katherine
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Immunology, Oncology
Description: One in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime and while breast cancer mortality has declined since the 1980s, it remains the 2nd leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women. Standard of care is determined by anatomic...

Title: Examining the Contribution of the DNA Damage Response to Sepsis Survivor Myelosuppression
Author: Huff, Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Immunology, Biology, Pathology
Description: A large portion of patients who survive sepsis, a life-threatening hyperinflammatory response to infection resulting in organ dysfunction, experience a higher risk of mortality than non-septic patients. Innate immune cells of sepsis survivors exhi...

Title: Notch Serves as a Molecular Brake on Myogenesis, Protein Synthesis, and Growth in Skeletal Muscle
Author: Huot, Joshua
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Kinesiology
Description: Aging can be accompanied by aggressive loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia) and is a primary prognosticator for the reduced capacity of the elderly to accomplish basic activities of daily living. Several mechanisms within skeletal muscle lead to devel...

Title: THE SYNTHESIS OF PHOTOSENSITIZERS FOR THE PHOTODYNAMIC INACTIVATION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI
Author: Hurst, Alexandra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: The development of antibiotic resistance is a natural phenomenon that occurs when bacteria cells exchange resistant traits amongst each other or when mutations occur during replication. This causes bacteria to be able to withstand attack by antibi...

Title: Genetic Structure and Gene Expression Profile of Plasmodium vivax in East Africa
Author: Kepple, Daniel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Molecular biology, Cytology
Description: Plasmodium vivax malaria is a neglected tropical disease, despite being more geographically widespread than any other form of malaria. P. vivax was previously thought to be rare or absent in Africa because people of African descent often lack the ...

Title: Pleiotropic effects on the transcriptome and genome of transgenic soybeans resulting from transgene integration and expression in seed tissue
Author: Lambirth, Kevin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Biology, Bioinformatics
Description: The seeds of the common soybean (Glycine max) produce and store large amounts of protein, making them an appealing bioreactor for producing valuable recombinant proteins at high levels. However, the effects of accumulating recombinant protein at h...

Title: Echinoderm Transcriptomics
Author: Linchangco, Gregorio
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Tissue regeneration and biomineralization are expressed to a diverse extent across metazoans and their life stages. The potential for repair and regrowth in adult stages varies widely within phyla, class and species. For instance, few adult human ...

Title: Study of the Intracellular Protein Tau and its Relationship with Kunjin Virus and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Author: Lotz, Sarah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Neurosciences, Immunology, Virology
Description: Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, comprise a family of disorders characterized by progressive loss of nervous system function. Neuroinflammation is increasingly recogni...

Title: Regulation of Myosin IIIa Motor/Kinase Activity
Author: Moore, Judy
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Biochemistry, Neurosciences, Cytology
Description: Myosin IIIa, a motor protein that localizes to actin-rich regions of photoreceptors and to stereocilia of inner ear hair cells, is associated with the hearing process in vertebrates and with phototransduction for invertebrates. It contains a large...

Title: Nonsegmented negative strand RNA viruses: viral RNA cap methylation and potential applications as an anticancer therapy
Author: Murphy, Andrea
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Virology, Biology
Description: The viruses of the order Mononegavirales include important human, animal, and plant pathogens and additionally, have great potential as vaccine, oncolytic and gene therapy vectors. This dissertation focuses on two prototypic Mononegavirales, vesic...

Title: Dissecting The Salivary Gland: Epithelial-Centered Dysfunction in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
Author: Noll, Braxton
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology
Description: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is an autoimmune disease of exocrine tissues causing dry mouth and eyes, mainly affecting women. A culmination of etiologic events leads to the loss of epithelial homeostasis resulting in the MMP9-mediated destruct...

Title: Interaction between hydrogen sulfide and endothelin-1 in hepatic perfusion and mitochondrial dynamics in endotoxemia
Author: Pennington, Samantha
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Physiology, Cytology
Description: A mismatch between oxygen supply and metabolic tissue demand leads to the development of hypoxia, which contributes to hepatic dysfunction and liver injury during sepsis. Recent evidence shows that hepatic H2S levels are increased during sepsis an...

Title: Production of Immunomodulatory Proteins in Glycine max for use in Diagnostics and as Therapeutics
Author: Powell, Rebecca
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology
Description: ABSTRACTREBECCA DIANE POWELL. Production of Immunomodulatory Proteins in Glycine max for Use in Diagnostics and as Therapeutics. (Under the direction of DR. KENNETH L. BOST) Immunomodulatory proteins can be utilized in diagnostic assays, as tolera...

Title: RANK-L expression in Staphylococcus aureus- induced osteomyelitis, therapeutic intervention using nanotechnology and use of UV-killed bacteria as an osteoconductive coating for biomaterials.
Author: Somayaji, Shankari
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology
Description: Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for approximately 80% of all cases of human osteomyelitis. RANK-L is an essential signal produced by osteoblasts and is required for full osteoclastic differentiation. PGE₂ - induced bone resorption involves bo...