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Fall 2009
β-Glucan is a soluble fibre shown to help regulate blood sugar and lower cholesterol. Incorporation into food, particularly bread, may affect β-glucan’s physicochemical properties and health benefits. The journey of β-glucan through the mixing, fermenting, baking, and storage of bread was...
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Biochemical and Functional Characterization of Inhibitory Leukocyte Immune-Type Receptors in the Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
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Montgomery, Benjamin Christian Sivert
A balance of intracellular signaling events control immune cell functions. In innate immunity, many of these signals are transmitted by subsets of cell surface proteins known as immunoregulatory receptors. Through their recognition of a diverse array of molecules these receptors effectively...
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Spring 2014
The fine balance struck between life and death is key for the health of all multicellular organisms and therefore the pathways that govern life and death decisions are evolutionarily highly conserved. For example, the human TNF and the Drosophila IMD pathways coordinate signaling elements such...
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Characterization and Functional Beverage Development using Coenzyme Q10-Impregnated Beta-glucan
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Pressurized gas-expanded liquid (PGX) technology is a supercritical fluid technique used for producing micro/nano-particles, agglomerates and fibers from an aqueous solution of a high molecular weight biopolymer, which can also be employed for encapsulation or impregnation. PGX-processed...
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Fall 2014
Fungal pathogens are recognized by Dectin-1, a pattern recognition receptor expressed on mammalian innate immune cells. Dectin-1 detects β-glucans, which are polymers of glucose that are a main component of the fungal cell wall. While purified, soluble β-glucans have been used in the clinic as...
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Fall 2009
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) result from the nexus of a genetic predisposition, dysregulated immunologic insult against commensal microflora, and an environmental trigger. The intestinal epithelium is a single cell layer that separates a highly active mucosal immune system from a large...
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Examination of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) leukocyte immune-type receptor-mediated crosstalk regulation of phagocytosis
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Across vertebrates, innate immune cells are capable of initiating a range of potent effector responses that are designed to destroy or contain foreign microbial invaders. The execution and regulation of various innate cellular responses is mediated by a dedicated repertoire of cell...
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Fall 2013
In response to pathogens, immune cells induce protective effector functions, such as degranulation, phagocytosis and cytokine secretion, which are initiated by stimulatory or inhibitory immunoregulatory receptors expressed on leukocytes. Using a fish immunological model system, the focus of my...
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Fall 2009
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) belongs to a group of neurodegenerative diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) which affect many species. From 1986 more than 184,000 cattle in the UK have been confirmed to be infected with this disease, and in Canada total...
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Identification and Molecular Characterization of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Leukocyte Immune-Type Receptors (DrLITRs)
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In response to foreign invaders, innate immune cells use cell surface-expressed receptors to trigger intracellular signalling cascades that control various effector responses designed to destroy microbes. These specialized receptors are known as immunoregulatory receptors and structurally they...