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- 1Alabi, Adekunle
- 1Aldana Hernandez, Paulina
- 1Azad, Abul K
- 1Darvesh, Nazia
- 1Haave Audet, Elene
- 4Department of Biological Sciences
- 3Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science
- 2Department of Physiology
- 2Physical Education and Recreation
- 1Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
- 1Department of Biochemistry
- 2Proctor, Spencer (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Baksh, Shairaz (Pedritics)
- 1Boutin, Stan (Biological Sciences)
- 1Carson, Valerie (Physical Education and Recreation); Spence, John C. (Physical Education and Recreation)
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Spring 2022
Carotid atherosclerosis is responsible for 15-25% of the nearly 8 million first-ever ischemic strokes that occur each year worldwide. This proportion has remained constant over the past three decades, thus suggesting that some patients with carotid atherosclerosis currently receive suboptimal...
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Fall 2021
The field of animal personality, the study of adaptive among-individual behavioural differences in animal populations, has both exploded in popularity in the last few decades and come under heavy scrutiny by behavioural ecologists. The sudden interest in the field stems from the widespread...
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Spring 2014
Lower-extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a manifestation of atherosclerotic disease in the lower limbs. PAD is a risk factor for poor outcomes including myocardial infarction, stroke, and mortality. Despite the potential benefits of early PAD detection, in the majority of PAD cases...
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Effects of High-Intensity Aerobic Interval Training on Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Health-related Quality of Life in Testicular Cancer Survivors: The HIITTS Trial
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Background: Testicular cancer (TC) survivors (TCS) are an understudied, high-risk group susceptible to late-onset treatment-related cardiovascular disease (CVD), psychosocial, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) deficits in the years following treatment. Importantly, despite having the...
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Exploring the Role of ADAM17 in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Macrophages Within the Atherosclerotic Plaque
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Atherosclerosis, characterized by arterial fat deposits, is the root cause of many cardiovascular diseases. Plaque deposition results from a series of events initiated by elevated plasma cholesterol, inflammation of the arterial wall, cholesterol uptake, macrophage-derived foam cell formation,...
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Insights into Membrane Type-1 Matrix Metalloproteinase cleavage of the Low-density Lipoprotein Receptor
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The Low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) mediated cellular uptake of LDL is the main pathway for plasma LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) clearance. However, the LDLR can be proteolytically cleaved to release its soluble ectodomain (sLDLR) into the extracellular milieu and as such reducing its LDL-C...
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Investigating the role of coiled-coil domain containing protein 3 (CCDC3), a novel secreted protein, in endothelial inflammation
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Endothelial inflammation is critical in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that induces endothelial inflammation via activation of nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) signaling....
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Life history strategies of northern form Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma malma) in the western Canadian Arctic
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Northern form Dolly Varden char (Salvelinus malma malma) inhabit cold-water streams in the western Canadian Arctic. They are an important cultural and subsistence resource to local Aboriginal communities, yet little is known about their complex early life histories. Populations of Dolly Varden...
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Longitudinal and cross-sectional associations between physical activity, screen time, and fitness in a sample of young children from Edmonton, Canada
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Background: High fitness is associated with several positive health outcomes; however, fitness of Canadian children has declined over the past two decades. Correlates of fitness in children under 10 years of age are relatively unexplored, and few studies involving young children have looked at...
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Resources and Reproductive Trade-offs Affect Fitness, Life History Traits, and Sexual Selection in Red Squirrels
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Animals face trade-offs throughout life between competing functions, such as between self-maintenance, reproduction, and survival. Resource allocation between these competing functions leads to different patterns of life history traits, changes in investment in reproductive effort, and different...