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Fall 2011

Armanious, Hanan A R

ABSTRACT Wnt signalling is of great biological importance as it has been implicated in development and cancer. The Wnt canonical pathway (WCP) is the best characterized signalling pathway. Based on my preliminary studies in my first and second years I found that the WCP is not linear and that it...

Spring 2011

Xia, Yunlong

Antimony is naturally occurring in the environment. The assessment of human exposure to environmental antimony is limited. This research focuses on the determination of antimony in water, beverages, and fruit. First, we explored whether there is a correlation between arsenic and antimony in...

Fall 2010

Li, Jun

Widespread tetracycline resistance (TcR) has limited the clinical use of Tc for the treatment of bacterial infections. Tet(O) protein is present in many bacteria and is the major transmissible TcR determinant in Campylobacter jejuni, a common cause of acute bacterial diarrhea worldwide. Tet(O)...

Fall 2011

Bernier, Ashlyn

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in Canadian women. In these patients, mortality is due to metastasis of cancer cells from the breast to distant organs, resulting in impairment of function. To metastasize, cells must move through the stroma of the breast, enter the...

Spring 2011

Stadnick, Hart Peter Argyle

Transfusion medicine is dependent upon the ability to hypothermically preserve red blood cell (RBC) function ex vivo. Recent evidence suggests that the deformability of hypothermically stored RBCs may be compromised, potentially leading to microvasculature occlusion and tissue hypoxia in...