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Social Connectedness on Instagram: Understanding Young Women’s Experience of Thinspiration and Fitspiration on Instagram
DownloadFall 2023
Viewing inspirational content such as Thinspiration and Fitspiration has been found to increase body dissatisfaction, appearance comparisons (Dignard & Jarry, 2020), and negative affect (Griffiths et al., 2019). 85.7% of young social media users use health and fitness-related social media...
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Fall 2018
Protein kinases are critical players in cell signaling processes and their activity leads to the phosphorylation of substrates, often regulating enzymatic activity. 518 protein kinases are encoded in the human genome, however, there are many features within the catalytic domain of these proteins...
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Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Radiolabelled Substrates for Imaging of GLUT5 Expression in Human Breast Cancer Using Positron Emission Tomography
DownloadFall 2012
Overactive glucose transport and metabolism has been widely recognized as one of the fundamental hallmarks of cancer and its progression. The facilitative glucose transporter GLUT1 is widely overexpressed in many tumor types compared to their untransformed counterparts. Due to this, the glucose...
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Fall 2019
Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women worldwide. Fortunately, death rates have been declining since 1990, due to the increase in early detection, testing, and improved treatment. However, despite the advancement of targeted and hormone therapies for certain molecular sub-types...
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The Regulation of p53 by E3 ligases MDM2 and CHIP in Breast Cancer: Analysis of the Role of Hsp70 and Hsp90
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Tumor suppressor p53 is commonly mutated in breast cancer. Mutant p53 protein is highly stable and oncogenic. This study aims to understand the underlying mechanism of the regulation and stabilization of mutant p53 protein particularly folded mutant p53 R280K. The data showed a possible...
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The role of Receptor Interacting Serine/Threonine Kinase 2 (RIPK2) in inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)
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Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare but aggressive type of breast cancer characterized by early and rapid metastasis leading to poor clinical outcomes. The tumor microenvironment (TME), including immune cells, fibroblasts and endothelial cells, has emerged as a major regulator of IBC...