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- 1Abdulsalam Alharbi
- 1Aktary, Zackie M
- 1Al Lawati, Hanan M
- 1Alolayan, Waad Riyad
- 1Alshamsan, Aws
- 12Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science
- 12Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- 10Department of Medicine
- 10Department of Oncology
- 4Centre for Neuroscience
- 4Department of Biological Sciences
- 3Lavasanifar, Afsaneh (Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- 2Baker, Glen (Psychiatry)
- 2Jamali, Fakhreddin (Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- 2Kerr, Bradley (Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine)
- 2McNeely, Margaret (Rehabilitation Medicine)
- 2Michelakis, Evangelos (Medicine)
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Comparative isolation of bacteria from inflamed sites to identify inflammation-tailored bacteria
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Microbial culture collections are fundamental to microbiology research. However, with the advent of next generation sequencing research, the generation and maintenance of comprehensive culture collections has become deprioritized. As such a need exists for the improved isolation of diverse...
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Fall 2015
There is a concern that brain tumours are underreported in the Alberta Cancer Registry (ACR), yet no studies have been performed to investigate this issue. This study addresses the concern of underreporting of brain tumours in the ACR by assessing case ascertainment of primary brain tumours cases...
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Comparison of tooth loss between intensity modulated and non-intensity modulated radiotherapy in head and neck cancer patients
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Advanced radiotherapy (RT) systems (intensity modulated radiotherapy, IMRT) is widely used to treat head and neck cancer. A combination of radiation and chemotherapy potentially increases toxicity as well as dental complications. Tooth loss was retrospectively assessed using oral cavity,...
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Fall 2009
The analysis of wide-angle cellular light scattering patterns is a challenging problem. Small changes to the organization, orientation, shape, and optical properties of scatterers and scattering populations can significantly alter their complex two-dimensional scattering signatures. Because of...
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Contributions of Bim and Nur77 to multiple mechanisms of T cell tolerance following high affinity antigen encounter
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Prevention of autoimmune disease requires the elimination or inactivation of T cells that are highly reactive to self-peptides. During T cell development in the thymus, self-reactive thymocytes undergo negative selection upon receiving a high affinity T cell receptor (TCR) signal following...
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Deciphering the mechanism(s) which limit reovirus spread in resistant lung and HNSCC cancer cells
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Reovirus is a naturally benign virus that preferentially replicates in transformed cells and is currently undergoing clinical trials as a promising oncolytic therapy. In normal mouse fibroblasts, transformation by constitutively activated Ras oncogene is sufficient to promote reovirus infection....
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Delivery of STAT3 inhibitor cucurbitacins to tumor by polymeric nano-carriers : Implications in cancer chemo- and immunotherapy
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Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 (STAT3), a common oncogenic mediator, is constitutively activated in many types of human cancers and plays a critical role in tumor growth and cancer immune evasion. The focus of this dissertation is the delivery of STAT3 inhibitor cucurbitacins...
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Fall 2013
The aim of this work is to develop an effective non-viral carrier and to identify suitable gene targets that would induce apoptosis specifically in lymphoma cells upon down-regulation with short interfering RNA (siRNA). Lymphoma is common in children and young adults, and although survival rate...
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Development of block copolymer based nanocarriers for the solubilization and delivery of valspodar
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One of the major causes of failure in cancer chemotherapy is multidrug resistance (MDR), where cancer cells become resistant to different types of anticancer drugs. Over-expression of membrane efflux pumps like P-glycoprotein (P-gp), which recognizes different chemotherapeutic agents and...
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Development of Genetic Medicines for the Treatment and Prevention of Infectious Disease, Cancer, and Aging
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Gene therapy has potential to become the Holy Grail of modern medicine, however, its clinical success has been hindered due to the lack of a safe and effective nucleic acid delivery platform. The recent success of non-viral RNA delivery platforms has revitalized the field and spurred great...