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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
- 1Blair, Salvatore D
- 1Clifford, Alexander M
- 1Dymowska, Agnieszka K
- 1Guffey, Samuel C
- 1McBride, Brian William Thomas.
- 1Stobbe, Robert
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Branchial Ionoregulatory Mechanisms of Sodium Regulation in Freshwater Salmonids with Conservational Implications for Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus)
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This thesis on fish osmoregulation focuses particularly on the mechanisms utilized by freshwater salmonids to absorb Na+ ions from dilute hypotonic environments and at the same time, their capacity to make necessary changes in order to tolerate higher saline environments. In this thesis, I...
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Fall 2015
The molecular identity of the Na+ uptake mechanism across the gills of freshwater fish has been the subject of lively debate for decades. Despite the extensive evidence for NHE mediated Na+ uptake, thermodynamic constraints on the function of NHEs at low ion concentrations and low environmental...
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Fall 2010
Osteoarthritis is characterized by pain and inflammation in joints, typically weight-bearing joints such as the knee. An early warning sign of osteoarthritis is the loss of proteoglycan molecules in the cartilage matrix. A surrogate method for measuring proteoglycan loss is detection of sodium...
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Respiration, Acid/Base, Ammonia and Ionoregulatory Strategies in the Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)
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Hagfish feed on putrefied carrion, which poses several environmental challenges to the scavenger including hypoxia (Low PO2), hypercapnia (high PCO2) and high environmental ammonia (HEA). To any other organism, these conditions would be physiologically challenging; however, hagfish seem to have...
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Spring 2010
25 years after the first sodium images of the human brain were created, sodium MRI remains on the periphery of MR research, despite intimate sodium involvement in cellular metabolism and implicated abnormal concentrations in numerous disorders. The difficulties of sodium MRI include not only...
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Fall 2013
I have examined solute transport in two fishes at the whole-animal, tissue, and molecular levels. In the Pacific hagfish, I measured the kinetics of phosphate absorption in isolated gut, skin, and gill preparations, and implicated an NaPi-II transporter based on RT-PCR results and the kinetics of...