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A randomized control trial of azithromycin for the acute management of wheezy pre-school children
DownloadFall 2017
Silbernagel, Patricia del Rocio
Objective: We sought to determine if azithromycin, a macrolide antibiotic with anti-inflammatory(1,2), antibacterial(3) and potential antiviral(4) properties, added to routine therapy of wheezy pre-school children would resolve respiratory symptoms more rapidly, and protect against symptom...
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Spring 2019
Background: Children are at high risk for malnutrition during hospital admission. Over half of children admitted to hospital will exhibit signs of nutrition deterioration such as weight loss. Screening for malnutrition is a critical step in the nutrition care process, however there is currently a...
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Cancer-associated malnutrition, cachexia and sarcopenia: the skeleton in the hospital closet 40 years later
Download2016-01-20
Ryan, Aoife M., Power, Derek G., Daly, Louise, Cushen, Samantha J., Ní Bhuachalla, Ēadaoin, Prado, Carla M.
An awareness of the importance of nutritional status in hospital settings began more than 40 years ago. Much has been learned since and has altered care. For the past 40 years several large studies have shown that cancer patients are amongst the most malnourished of all patient groups. Recently,...
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Fall 2023
Proliferating cells, such as neonatal cardiomyocytes, have a high Warburg effect, which is a metabolic state in which there is high rates of glycolysis uncoupled from glucose oxidation under aerobic conditions. The Warburg effect is typically seen in cancerous cells and actively proliferating...
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Fall 2021
Background: Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune disease that results in inflammation and damage to the small intestine when gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye or barley is consumed. The only treatment for CD is lifelong adherence to the gluten-free diet (GFD). However, dietary intake can be...
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Diet and specific microbial exposure trigger features of environmental enteropathy in a novel murine model
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Borchers, Christoph H., Willing, Benjamin P., Sansonetti, Philippe J., Uhrig, Marco, Vonaesch, Pascale, Reynolds, Lisa A., Scholz, Roland, Wlodarska, Marta, Partida, Oswaldo, & Finlay, B. Brett, Brown, Eric M., Han, Jun, Arrieta, Marie-Claire
Environmental enteropathy (EE) is a subclinical chronic inflammatory disease of the small intestine and has a profound impact on the persistence of childhood malnutrition worldwide. However, the aetiology of the disease remains unknown and no animal model exists to date, the creation of which...
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Exploring the Association Between Frailty and Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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Background and Rationale: Chronological age does not always accurately reflect “biological age”, or the extent of physiological reserve an individual possesses to endure stressors. The concept of physiological reserve is best represented by frailty; a multifaceted syndrome or state that...
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2022-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: Singing is in a vulnerable state as a result of the pandemic. Given the immense benefits that singing affords children on developmental physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and spiritual levels, a world without singing will also impact the general health and wellbeing...
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Giardiasis in children attending daycare centers in Guatemala and the therapeutic potential of ganglioside
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Intestinal enteropathy is a prevalent yet neglected aspect of child malnutrition involving chronic exposure to intestinal pathogens such as Giardia intestinalis. Gangliosides have therapeutic potential for the treatment of giardiasis and intestinal enteropathy. The objectives of the thesis were...