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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
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Promoting Activity Behaviour in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis: Feasibility, Preliminary Efficacy and Evaluation of Activity Measurement Tools
DownloadFall 2021
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the largest cause of non-traumatic neurological disability in young adults. Canada has one of the highest rates of MS in the world, with nearly 1 in every 385 Canadians living with the disease. People with MS deal with a broad range of symptoms including...
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Spring 2023
Recent thymic emigrants (RTE) are newly generated T cells that have just been exported to the periphery, where they continue their maturation to become mature T cells. RTE have only undergone central tolerance in the thymus but not yet undergone peripheral tolerance. As such, it is imperative...
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Fall 2023
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that is triggered in genetically predisposed individuals by environmental insults. In MS, the body’s own immune cells attack and damage myelin and the myelin-producing cells, oligodendrocytes. Genetic factors...
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Sex Differences in Central Nervous System Plasticity and Pain in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
DownloadSpring 2019
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative autoimmune disease with many known structural and functional changes in the central nervous system (CNS). A well-recognized, but poorly understood, complication of MS is chronic pain. Little is known regarding the influence of sex on the development...
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Spring 2017
MS is a chronic demyelinating disease of the CNS that presents with debilitating symptoms in the later stages of disease progression and therefore a high demand for targeted disease-modifying treatments exists. In order to create effective treatments the causalities between the symptoms and...