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- 15Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
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Spring 2023
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...
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DNA methylation patterns derived from fetal vulnerability to maternal smoking relate to future child outcomes
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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...
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Assessing the Potential for Hybrid Vigour Within a Species: Disparate Population Breeding of Balsam Poplar
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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...
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Oral Porphyromonas gingivalis Infection Induces Epigenetic Changes that Promote Persistence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk
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In the last two decades, periodontitis has become recognized as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), a term that encompasses many circulatory disorders, often underpinned by atherosclerosis. One of the major questions regarding this association has been whether elimination of...
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Anti-Cancer Mechanism of Trastuzumab via Blocking Nuclear HER2 Function and Epigenetic Mechanism of Resistance
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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...
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Nutritional Factors Impacting Intestinal Lipid Metabolism Using a Model of Low Birth Weight Swine
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Introduction: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are increasing at an alarming rate globally. A common feature in these conditions is increased adiposity leading to insulin resistance (IR). Dyslipidemia is a major contributing...
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Spring 2018
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the 6th most prevalent cancer worldwide with rates of human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) dramatically increasing. The overexpression of enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2), a histone methyltransferase...
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Fall 2018
Early mammalian development cannot progress without targeted temporal and spatial expression of genes. Changing the accessibility of DNA to transcriptional machinery is one critical way gene expression is controlled. This process, known as chromatin remodeling, is vital for formation of the...
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Genome wide association studies (GWAS) identify QTL on SSC2 and SSC17 affecting loin peak shear force in crossbred commercial pigs
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Miar, Younes, Wang, Zhiquan, Kemp, Robert A., Boddicker, Nicholas, Yang, Tianfu, Plastow, Graham, Zhang, Chunyan, Charagu, Patrick, Bruce, Heather
Of all the meat quality traits, tenderness is considered the most important with regard to eating quality and market value. In this study we have utilised genome wide association studies (GWAS) for peak shear force (PSF) of loin muscle as a measure of tenderness for 1,976 crossbred commercial...
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The role of starch and fiber composition on nutrient flow, site and extent of nutrient digestion, and microbial profiles in pigs
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Starch is the main energy substrate for monogastrics, including swine. Physico- chemical properties of starch and the cereal grain matrix can change the kinetics of digestion. Objectives of this thesis were to enhance the understanding of how the physico-chemical properties of purified starch and...