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- 1Alabi, Adekunle
- 1Alles, Sascha R
- 1Alrabeeah, Abdollah A. M.
- 1Bourrie, Benjamin
- 1Causton, Norman D.
- 6Centre for Neuroscience
- 4Department of Pharmacology
- 4Department of Physiology
- 3Department of Medicine
- 3Department of Surgery
- 3Neuroscience
- 2Kar, Satyabrata (Medicine and Psychiatry)
- 2Tse, Amy (Centre for Neuroscience and Department of Pharmacology)
- 1Ballanyi, Klaus (Physiology Department, University of Alberta)
- 1Chen, Xing-Zhen (Physiology)
- 1Clayton T. Dickson (Psychology, Physiology, Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute)
- 1Colmers, William F. (Pharmacology)
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Spring 2016
This thesis examines the cellular basis of the acute (<1 hour) anti-allodynic actions of the clinically-approved neuropathic pain drug gabapentin (GBP) in rats at the level of the spinal dorsal horn and primary somatosensory cortex. Although the clinical effectiveness of the alpha-2-delta (α2δ)...
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Fall 2022
The reason and functional relevance of why we sleep continues to perplex researchers. One fundamental reason behind why sleep remains a mystery is because it is challenging to study given how easily it is disrupted. Anesthesia has been suggested to be a model for studying sleep given the...
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Spring 2014
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the elderly. The major pathological features of AD are extracellular amyloid plaques, intracellular neurofibrillary tangles and neuronal loss. Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide, the main component of the amyloid plaques, has been proposed to...
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Antagonistic modulation of spontaneous neural network activities in isolated newborn rat brainstem preparations by opioids and methylxanthines
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Apnea of prematurity is a common problem among the infants born before term pregnancy. Administration of respiratory stimulating drugs methylxanthines is the most frequent therapy, often in combination with the use of intubation. Opioids are used to reduce the pain associated with intubation,...
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Biochemical Characterization of ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter G1 Mediated Cholesterol Efflux
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ABCG1 mediates cholesterol efflux onto lipidated apolipoprotein A-I and plays an important role in macrophage reverse cholesterol transport, thereby preventing atherosclerosis. However, how ABCG1 mediates cholesterol efflux is unclear. We found that Cys514 located within the third putative...
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Spring 2013
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder believed to be triggered by the accumulation of β-amyloid (Aβ)-related peptides derived from the proteolytic processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP). Research over the last two decades has shown that alterations in the levels...
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Spring 2011
Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease is an autosomal recessive disorder that results in accumulation of unesterified cholesterol in late endosomes/lysosomes (LE/Ls), leading to progressive neurodegeneration and premature death. Microglia are resident immune cells of the central nervous system, which...
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Culture and Characterization of Kefir Organisms to Reproduce the Health Benefits of Traditional Kefir
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Fermented dairy products such as kefir have long been associated with a host of health benefits; however, the role that microbial composition has in these benefits has not been properly examined. This research aimed to examine how kefir impacts host metabolic health, as well as how alterations to...