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- 1Allan, Douglas Watt
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Spring 2024
Introduction: Vitamin A is an essential dietary micronutrient and its active metabolite all-trans retinoic acid is a key regulator of both hepatic retinoid and hepatic lipid homeostasis. Retinoic acid is a potent transcriptional regulator with more than 500 proposed target genes, however the...
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Exploring the Role of ADAM17 in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Macrophages Within the Atherosclerotic Plaque
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Atherosclerosis, characterized by arterial fat deposits, is the root cause of many cardiovascular diseases. Plaque deposition results from a series of events initiated by elevated plasma cholesterol, inflammation of the arterial wall, cholesterol uptake, macrophage-derived foam cell formation,...
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Elucidating the origin of expiratory abdominal activity during sleep and analysis of its manifestation in conditions of an impaired inspiratory drive
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This dissertation explored respiratory control mechanisms during sleep, with a specific focus on the contribution of the lateral parafacial area (pFL) to the generation of abdominal recruitment. Existing theories posit the preBötzinger complex (preBötC) as the inspiratory oscillator and identify...
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Role of A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinases (ADAMs)- 15 and 17 in Cardiac Remodelling Following Pressure Overload
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Myocardial remodeling is a critical process in response to cardiac stress or injury, which includes changes in the cardiomyocyte size, the extracellular matrix (ECM), and cell-ECM interactions. Cardiac hypertrophy is the morphological increase in the myocardial mass by an increase in the...
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Postnatal development of the purinergic signaling system in the preBötzinger Complex; implications for the hypoxic ventilatory response
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Low oxygen (hypoxia) evokes the biphasic hypoxic ventilatory response (HVR), in which carotid-body chemoreceptors trigger a rapid increase in ventilation (VE) followed by a centrally-mediated, secondary hypoxic depression of respiration (HRD) and metabolic rate (VO2) that involves adenosine. In...
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Spring 2023
Atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysms are two major vascular diseases, and extracellular matrix (ECM) plays an important role in both as a non-cellular component of the aortic wall that also regulates vascular cell behavior and function. Atherosclerosis is a major contributor to cardiovascular...
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Egg-white derived bioactive peptides improve insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mice: mechanisms of action
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Zani, Stepheny Carneiro de Campos
Metabolic syndrome is a condition characterized by the presence of multiple co-morbidities including hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity and hyperglycemia. More recently, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been included in this cluster as the hepatic manifestation of the metabolic...
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Fall 2023
Background: Vitamin A status is an important health determinant. Deficiency of this micronutrient is a serious global health issue in the developing nations as the leading cause of preventable blindness in children and is a significant contributor to long-term morbidity and mortality. Nutritional...
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Integrative analysis of the developing diaphragm provides a better understanding of congenital diaphragmatic hernia
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Introduction: Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) is a condition that affects 2.3 births every 10,000 and is characterized by an incomplete formation of the diaphragm. As a result of the incomplete development of the diaphragm, the abdominal organs will protrude into the thoracic cavity,...
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Fall 2023
Infants and children require a net positive calcium (Ca2+) balance to achieve optimal bone mineral density by early adulthood. Vitamin D is a hormone that increases blood Ca2+ levels by increasing intestinal absorption and renal reabsorption of Ca2+ as well as bone remodelling. In both the kidney...