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Fall 2021
Background Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity globally. Vertical transmission is the primary mode of HIV acquisition among infants. Although successful interventions have reduced vertical transmission to less than <2.9% in low-to-middle income countries...
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Identification of biomarkers associated with the onset and progression of ketosis in transition dairy cows
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Ketosis is a common metabolic disorder of transition dairy cows during the early lactation period. Cows with ketosis have lower milk yield and reproductive performance, greater risk of other periparturient diseases, and higher culling rate. Although ketosis has been extensively studied, not many...
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Fall 2013
Misfolded prions (PrPSc) are well known for their resistance to conventional decontamination processes. The potential risk of contamination of the water environment, as a result of the disposal of specified risk materials (SRM), has raised public concerns. Ozone is commonly utilized in the water...
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Investigation on the uptake of functional proteins and infectious prions into wheat plants through the root system
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Prions are the proteinaceous particle responsible for infections in a class of neurodegenerative diseases. These diseases affect a number of mammals including cervids where it is termed Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Prions enter the environment and persist for years. Plants have the ability to...
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New Aspects of Nazarov Reaction: Additive Effects, Gold Catalysis and Application Toward the Synthesis of Taxinine
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Methods involving efficient and stereoselective carbon-carbon bond formation enable chemists to synthesize bioactive natural products and drugs. The Nazarov reaction is a versatile tool for the construction of functionalized cyclopentenones. This 4π-electrocyclization provides easy and efficient...
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Fall 2015
Despite considerable research progress towards characterizing the neurobiology of anxiety, the focus on putative behavioral markers and the absence of a common behavioural/neurobiological signature for the different classes of anxiolytic drugs have potentially slowed research into the neural...
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Spring 2018
The presence of natural oil seeps, abandoned well sites (generally containing light oil), and high quality source rocks along the coast of western Newfoundland has refocused interest on the region as an area for potential petroleum exploration and development. Most of the oil seeps and old well...
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Optimization, adaptation and application of protein misfolding cyclic amplification to detection of prions in blood plasma
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The PMCA assay was optimized for adaptation to low level detection of PrPSc in hamster plasma. Evaluation of numerous key variables of the PMCA assay led to an optimized protocol capable of ~3 log10 amplification after 32 cycles (two 16 hour rounds). When commercially purchased normal hamster...
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Fall 2020
Neurodegenerative diseases are a rising concern worldwide. Currently 10% of people aged 65 or more are diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and this number is predicted to triplicate by 2050. In developed societies approximately one percent of the global gross domestic product is allocated...
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Spring 2013
Prions are infectious proteins. In their prion conformation, they catalyze the transformation of non-prion isomers into prions. Another characteristic common to currently identified prions is that they form amyloid aggregates. They occur in several mammals and multiple species of yeast, acting in...