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- 1Chen, Weiping
- 1Donner, Mark
- 1Elshenawy, Osama H. A.
- 1Faucher, Alexandra
- 1Feng, Mengmeng
- 4Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 4Department of Chemistry
- 3Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science
- 3Department of Renewable Resources
- 3Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- 2Department of Physiology
- 2Leslie, Elaine (Physiology)
- 1Ball, Ron (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Betti, Mirko
- 1Catherine B. Chan (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Chen, Lingyun (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Dr. Afsaneh Lavasanifar (Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
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Fall 2012
Glucosamine (GlcN) is an amino monosaccharide that is widely used as a food supplement in the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA). In vitro and animal studies strongly support the therapeutic efficacy of the compound; however, clinical reports and meta-analysis are inconclusive. As compared to the...
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Spring 2010
McKnight-Whitford, Anthony Nicholai
Arsenic is a widespread environmental contaminant whose toxicity depends on its valence and its chemical form. Arsenic species have been typically determined using high pressure liquid chromatography coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (HPLC-ICPMS), however ICPMS cannot...
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Spring 2011
Hydrotreating is the response to the necessity of a cleaner feed for downstream processes and reduced pollution. Hydrotreating catalysts are vital in this process; hence catalyst deactivation is a key issue. The principal objective of this research was the experimental study of hydrotreating...
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Fall 2014
An organoarsenic compound, 3-nitro-4-hydroxyphenyl arsenic acid (also known as Roxarsone), has been used as a feed additive. Roxarsone was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to control diseases in poultry, and to improve weight gain, feed efficiency, and meat pigmentation....
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Spring 2011
The objective of this thesis is to design nanoparticle (NP)-based drug delivery systems suitable for treatment of bone diseases. Two types of nanocarriers, (1) polymer coated bovine serum albumin (BSA) NPs and (2) lipid based NPs (micelles and liposomes) were investigated. The BSA NPs were...
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Cell-electronic Sensing of Cellular Responses and Toxicity Induced by Nanoparticles and Arsenic Species
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We demonstrate the development of a real-time cell analysis (RTCA) platform for studying nanoparticle- and arsenic-induced cytotoxicity with potential applications to risk assessment, environmental toxicity monitoring, and drug development. RTCA is an impedance-based in vitro detection system...
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Spring 2011
Antimony is naturally occurring in the environment. The assessment of human exposure to environmental antimony is limited. This research focuses on the determination of antimony in water, beverages, and fruit. First, we explored whether there is a correlation between arsenic and antimony in...
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Spring 2015
Arsenic (As) concentration above the Health Canada and WHO drinking water guidelines of 10 µg L-1 in the Cold Lake area, Alberta is an issue of concern for environmental and human health. The source of groundwater As is ambiguous. This study was initiated to characterize the surficial deposits...
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Evaluation of the threonine requirement and the bioavailability of threonine in feedstuffs in pregnant sows
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Current recommendations for amino acid intake during pregnancy are for a constant amino acid intake throughout. However, the demand for amino acids changes from maternal tissue growth in early gestation to fetal, conceptus and mammary tissue development in late gestation. The availability of...