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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.
To retrieve all theses and dissertations associated with a specific department from the library catalogue, choose 'Advanced' and keyword search "university of alberta dept of english" OR "university of alberta department of english" (for example). Past graduates who wish to have their thesis or dissertation added to this collection can contact us at erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Items in this Collection
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Role of A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinases (ADAMs)- 15 and 17 in Cardiac Remodelling Following Pressure Overload
DownloadSpring 2024
Myocardial remodeling is a critical process in response to cardiac stress or injury, which includes changes in the cardiomyocyte size, the extracellular matrix (ECM), and cell-ECM interactions. Cardiac hypertrophy is the morphological increase in the myocardial mass by an increase in the...
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Spring 2023
Although many aspects of salinity tolerance in plants have been thoroughly researched, some of the fundamental aspects of plant water relations remain unclear. The main objective of my thesis research was to examine the role of aquaporin-mediated water transport in salinity tolerance of three...
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Fall 2021
Root oxygen deprivation (root hypoxia) in flooding-prone areas is detrimental to most terrestrial plants and results in growth reductions and mortality. Although plants widely vary in their waterlogging tolerance, our understanding of these variations is limited to the ability of some plants to...
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Spring 2019
Oxygen deprivation (hypoxia and anoxia) is an environmental stress affecting plants worldwide in many natural and man-made ecosystems. Aquaporins exhibit multiple physiological functions in challenging environments. The central role of aquaporins in plant water relations has been widely...
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Spring 2016
Spinal cord transection leads to elimination of brainstem-derived monoamine fibers that normally synthesize most of the monoamines in the spinal cord, including serotonin (5-HT) and noradrenaline (NA). Such spinal cord injury (SCI) thus leads to the loss of monoamines, as well as...
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Spring 2016
Background: Huntington’s disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded polyglutamine tract in the huntingtin (HTT) protein. Mutant huntingtin (mHTT) accumulates as toxic oligomers and aggregates inside the cell, when it is not removed efficiently by selective...
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Role of Betaine Homocysteine Methyltransferase in Regulating Lipid Metabolism in McArdle RH7777 Cells
DownloadFall 2013
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common chronic liver diseases worldwide. It is a clinical pathological state characterized by the accumulation of triacylglycerol (TG) in hepatocytes. It can progress to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and in some cases to fibrosis...
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Fall 2012
Recently, a commercially available biodegradable polymer, ethyl cellulose (EC) has been found to be effective in destabilizing water-in-diluted bitumen emulsions. In this study, the role of hydroxyl content and molecular weight of ECs and the effect of mixing and operating temperature in...