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- 16Biomarkers
- 4Neurodegeneration
- 3Chronic wasting disease
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- 2Apolipoprotein E
- 1Acevedo Morantes, Claudia Y
- 1Aguzzi, Adriano
- 1Bao, Hua
- 1Baral, Pravas K.
- 1Braithwaite, Shannon Lynn
- 1Cardenas, Maria Eugenia
- 29Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 29Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of /Theses and Dissertations
- 1Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Department of
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Fall 2011
This study was undertaken to examine the economic value of government sponsored control programs to limit the levels of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Alberta. Respondents’ knowledge, attitudes and preferences concerning aspects of CWD including control methods were also addressed. Employing an...
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Fall 2017
Molecular imaging techniques are important for understanding fundamental biological processes and genetic functions in organisms. Non-invasive, high-resolution, deep imaging, as well as the ability to separate molecular species, are all critical to the success of a molecular imaging technique....
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Spring 2018
Lung cancer has the highest mortality rates of all cancers worldwide, with a 5-year survival rate less than 15%. Screening methods are in need for the high risk population, as lung cancer is asymptomatic in its early stages. Proper screening methods would allow earlier diagnosis and curative...
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Fall 2014
Scientists and clinicians involved in the development of biomarkers confront with the challenge of selecting the best analytical methods among dozens that have been reported in the literature. Creation of new and improvement of exist technologies is an integral part of the pathway to analytical...
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The Prion Protein: Modulation of Potassium Channels and a Novel Mouse Model of a Disease-Causing Hydrophobic Domain Insertion Mutation
DownloadSpring 2016
Mercer, Robert Corrigan Curtis
Prion diseases are invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases of humans and other mammals. While they can manifest as sporadic, infectious or genetic etiologies, the central event in prion disease is the structural conversion of the prion protein (PrPC) to an alternative conformer PrPSc. PrP is...
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2014
Maani, Rouzbeh, Kalra, Sanjay, Yang, Yee-Hong
In this paper, we applied texture analysis to evaluate cerebral degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Two well-known methods, the gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and the gray level aura matrix (GLAM) were employed to extract texture features from routine T1 and T2 MR images....
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TIMP1 and MMP9 are predictors of mortality in septic patients in the emergency department and intensive care unit unlike MMP9/TIMP1 ratio: Multivariate model
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Niño, Maria Eugenia, Serrano, Sergio Eduardo, Niño, Daniela Camila, McCosham, Diana Margarita, Cardenas, Maria Eugenia, Villareal, Vivian Poleth, Schulz, Richard
Matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases could be promising biomarkers for establishing prognosis during the development of sepsis. It is necessary to clarify the relationship between matrix metalloproteinases and their tissue inhibitors. We conducted a cohort study...
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Synthesis of porphyrin-based multimeric fluorescent compounds and studies towards the formation of cis-anti-cis linear triquinane
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Prion diseases are life-threatening diseases found in many mammals, including humans, and there is still no effective vaccine, treatment or therapy. In Chapter 1, a concise and effective synthetic route was reported to synthesize a library of porphyrin-based multimeric fluorescent compounds with...
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Structure and dynamics of biomolecules: probing muscle regulation, prion protein unfolding, and drug insertion into DNA by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful approach to study the structure and dynamics of macromolecules in a close-to-native solution environment. In the present thesis I present my investigation of protein and nucleic acid structure and dynamics in a wide variety of biological...