Theses and Dissertations
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Vascular Adaptations to Pregnancy in a Rat Model of Advanced Maternal Age: Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress as a Potential Target for Therapeutic Intervention
DownloadSpring 2023
Advanced maternal age (≥35 years) increases the risk of pregnancy-specific complications such as reduced fetal growth and preeclampsia. The Davidge laboratory previously showed poor pregnancy outcomes and vascular dysfunction in a rat model of advanced maternal age. However, vascular adaptations,...
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Fall 2023
Background: During exercise, there is an increase in sympathetic activity, causing vasoconstriction and reduced blood flow. However, to maintain blood flow and oxygen delivery to the exercising skeletal muscle, a phenomenon known as sympatholysis occurs, which is the reduction in sympathetic...
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Fall 2019
Background and Rationale Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by episodic bronchoconstriction and airway hyper-responsiveness resulting in symptoms such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in the...
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Fall 2013
Cardiovascular dysfunction in asphyxiated neonates leads to significant morbidity and mortality and the hemodynamic support is limited to the use of catecholamines. In a pilot study, we showed that low-dose vasopressin improved myocardial tissue lactate levels, suggesting decreased anaerobic...
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Fall 2017
Historically seismic data processing has relied on the acoustic approximation to process single component data under the simplifying assumption that the recorded wavefield consists mainly of compressional wave modes. With the advancement of multicomponent seismic technology there is an increased...