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Evaluating the Role of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide on Etiology and Pathogenesis of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
DownloadFall 2014
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or otherwise known as prion diseases are a class of fatal neurodegenerative diseases related to irreversible brain damage. Presently, there is no effective treatment or preventive strategy for this disease because the etiology and biological...
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Fall 2009
The majority of triacylglycerol (TG) utilized for very-low density lipoproteins (VLDL) assembly is derived from lipolysis-reesterification of TG stored in lipid droplets (LDs). At least two types of LDs exist in hepatocytes – cytosolic LDs (CLDs) and the microsomal-associated luminal LDs (LLDs)....
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Fall 2016
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ɛ4 and Clusterin (CLU) C alleles are risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and preclinical cognitive and memory decline in older adults. We investigated whether memory resilience to genetic risk (i.e., Apolipoprotein E [APOE] ɛ4, Clusterin [CLU] CC, and a high additive...