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Spring 2020

Nami Mollalou, Babak

HER2 receptor tyrosine kinase (encoded by ERBB2 gene) is overexpressed in approximately 25% of all breast cancer tumors (known as HER2-positive breast cancers). Overexpression of HER2 causes overactivation of downstream receptor tyrosine kinase pathways including PI3K/Akt and MAPK pathways and is...

Fall 2021

Hu, Yue

When two or more species are crossed to produce hybrid progeny, some of them can be expected to yield a growth performance far superior to that of either parent (i.e., hybrid vigour/heterosis). To date, there have been few attempts to examine whether hybrid vigour can be achieved by crossing...

Spring 2022

Coatham, Mackenzie L.

Some of the most aggressive endometrial cancer cases display extensive heterogeneity within the same tumor in the form of mixed undifferentiated and well-differentiated phenotypes. The emergence of dedifferentiation in higher grade endometrial carcinomas presents an obstacle for both timely and...

Spring 2021

Ng, Jane WY

Fetuses exposed to maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSP) are at higher risk of developing illnesses such as obesity, diabetes and heart, lung and mental health disease. These disorders are part of a group of non-fatal, non-communicable common complex diseases (CCDs) that form the greatest...

Fall 2012

Almasud, Alaa A

This study aimed to assess the effect of irinotecan / 5-fluorouracil treatment on amount and types of fatty acids in skeletal muscles of tumor-bearing rats fed: a) control diet, b) fish oil diet. Rats bearing the Ward colorectal carcinoma were fed a semi-purified diet with or without fish oil...

Spring 2014

McDonald, Pamela C

The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the nuclear localisation patterns of NFAT-c1, -c2, -c3, and -c4 in relation to chronic low-frequency stimulation induced fibre type transitions. A model has been suggested to describe the roles of all 4 NFAT isoforms in activity-dependent...

Fall 2013

Hosamani, Ishwar V

Epigenetic modifications are carried out by specific enzymes and are reversible making them a viable and attractive target to design inhibitors to reset the epigenetic regulatory machinery of the cell and restore it to its normal state. Suppressor of variegation 3-9 homolog 1 (Suv39h1) is a...

2013

Kruk, Z. A., Xiang R., Rutley, D. L., Thomsen, D. A., Anderson, G. I., Fitzsimmons, C., Ghanipoor-Samami, M., Hiendleder, S., Roberts, C. T., Eindorf, T., Burns, B. M., Greenwood, P. L., Johns, W. H.

Postnatal myofibre characteristics and muscle mass are largely determined during fetal development and may be significantly affected by epigenetic parent-of-origin effects. However, data on such effects in prenatal muscle development that could help understand unexplained variation in postnatal...

2014

Plastow, G. S., Bao, H., Kommadath, A., Guan, L. L., Tuggle, C. K., Stothard, P.

One potential role of miRNAs is to buffer variation in gene expression, although conflicting results have been reported. To investigate the buffering role of miRNAs in response to Salmonella infection in pigs, we sequenced miRNA and mRNA in whole blood from 15 pig samples before and after...

Spring 2023

Gibril, Mumuni

Nutrition of the beef cow during pregnancy influences fetal development and potential changes in phenotype. On average 9-10% of beef cows are below the optimal condition score of 2.5/5 at both pre-breeding and pregnancy tests, indicating potential nutritional stress during gestation (Waldner and...