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Spring 2012
Maximizing the possibility of effectively treating cancer requires timely assessment of its aggressiveness and susceptibility to drug intervention. During cancer surgery, the “fast biopsy” is a commonly employed technique to assess a tumor’s invasiveness and guide surgery. Unfortunately, it is...
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Combined Assembly of Metagenomic Libraries from The Faecal Samples of IBD and PSC Patients Allowed The Identification of African Swine Fever Virus-like Sequences
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Metagenomics is an emerging discipline to explore microbial diversity in clinical samples, independent of the limitations of cell cultures. This method is widely accepted as a modern technique to detect novel viruses in clinical and environmental samples and has the potential to contribute to the...
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Pharmacist Management of Hypertension: An Examination of Clinical and Economic Outcomes and Remuneration for Expanded Services
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Background: One-third of Canadian adults with hypertension remain uncontrolled. As drug therapy experts, pharmacists can play a role in addressing this challenge, particularly when utilizing prescribing authorization in Alberta. However, the clinical effectiveness of pharmacist management of...
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Fall 2014
Epidemiological studies correlate vitamin D deficiency with asthma severity. Calcitriol modulates receptor and cytokine expression from various leukocytes in an anti-inflammatory manner. Despite eosinophil activity during mucosal inflammation, knowledge on the direct effect of calcitriol on this...
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Fall 2018
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality and have placed a significant burden on our society both regionally and globally. With the development of information technology, we are accumulating digitalized data at an exponential speed. This growing volume of...
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Spring 2020
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease that has an airborne route of transmission. It is a disease of poverty that exists in every country of the world. Within high-income, low TB burden settings, the disease increasingly affects vulnerable and underserved population groups who are...
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Fall 2019
Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in critically ill children. The development of AKI is not a trivial complication. Accumulating data show suboptimal short-term and poor long-term outcomes after an episode of AKI. Understanding the epidemiology of AKI in the pediatric...
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Spring 2014
CRTh2 (chemoattractant receptor-homologous molecule expressed on Th2 cells) is a marker for Th2 cells and activation through CRTh2 stimulates expression of cytokines that are important for allergic responses such as IL-4, IL-5 and IL-13. We have observed CRTh2+ T cells express the IL-25 receptor...
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The prognosis and outcomes of patients with a ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and the biochemical and clinical inflammatory response
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Acute myocardial infarction, and specifically coronary plaque rupture, has been associated with a systemic inflammatory cascade. Using multiple large clinical trial datasets, we sought to further understand the systemic and clinical inflammatory responses in patients with ST-elevation myocardial...