Browsing by Subject "Inflammation"
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(2014-11-25)Eighteen Quarter Horses were utilized in a randomized complete design for a 28 d experiment to evaluate age-related effects on inflammation and cartilage turnover after induction of a single inflammatory insult using ...
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(2016-07-27)Cellular targets for the majority of dietary phytochemicals remain unknown, presenting a challenge for the understanding of how these dietary components provide health benefits. Recently a new methodology, drug affinity ...
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(2012-02-14)This dissertation investigates the role of limonoids in inflammation to reduce risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease. Radical scavenging activity and apoptotic effects of extracts from lemon seeds were investigated ...
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(2016-12-09)Macrophage inflammatory status governs inflammatory responses in metabolic tissues including adipose and liver tissues, and critically contributes to the development of diet-induced obesity and systemic insulin resistance. ...
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(PLOS, 2015-01-28)Inflammatory response in the dental pulp can alter the collagen matrix formation by dental pulp stem cells and lead to a delay or poor healing of the pulp. This inflammatory response is mediated by cytokines, including ...
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(2010-10-12)Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most devastating form of muscular dystrophy caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene. Defects in the dystrophin gene in DMD, are homologous to that found in mdx mice, and result ...
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(2012-10-19)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an idiopathic neurodegenerative, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS). MS affects females more than males (3:1) and pregnancy reduces the number of relapses especially during ...
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(2018-02-07)Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) effects approximately 1.6 million people in the United States with the incidence and prevalence increasing worldwide. All current treatments for IBD aim to simply mitigate the disease ...
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(2012-12-07)The circadian system provides living organisms a means to adapt their internal physiology to constantly changing environmental conditions that exists on our rotating planet, Earth. Clocks in peripheral tissues are referred ...
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(2009-05-15)Cellular response to inflammatory cytokines involves concerted changes in gene expression. Cytokines, such as IL-6 and TNF-α, regulate gene expression through multiple intracellular signaling pathways. The activation of ...
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(2023-06-22)Stroke is a leading cause of death and long-term disability in the United States. Women over the age of 55 have a higher lifetime risk of stroke and worse outcomes after stroke compared to men of the same age[1]. However, ...
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Mindfulness-based interventions have been effective at reducing symptoms of chronic inflammatory disorders, a phenomenon proposed to be mediated by altered immune system function and inflammatory response. However, the ...
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(2020-05-14)Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a significant, but understudied, consequence of spinal cord injury (SCI). Approximately 11-24% of SCI patients experience MDD, compared to 8% in the general population, yet there are no ...
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(2018-02-20)Cardiac inflammatory response after myocardial infarction (MI) is essential to clear necrotic myocardium for cardiac healing, while excessive and prolonged inflammation extends the infarction and promotes adverse cardiac ...
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(2009-05-15)The role of neutrophils in the pathogenesis of Salmonella typhimurium-induced ruminant and human enteritis and diarrhea remains incompletely understood. To address this question, the in vivo bovine ligated ileal loop model ...
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Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by gingival inflammation and loss of periodontal ligament attachment, which if severe enough can lead to the irreversible destruction of surrounding alveolar ...
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Head and neck cancer (HNC) is comprised of a multitude of malignancies that take place in the oral cavity. Neuropeptides such as Substance P (SP) are important in causing inflammation, proliferation and migration in different ...
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(2009-05-15)Primary cultured astrocytes were treated with Mn in the absence and presence of proinflammatory cytokines to determine their effect upon stimulation of nitric oxide (NO) production. Treatments of manganese and cytokines ...
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(2011-10-21)Although nano-sized metal colloids are used in industrial and medicinal applications, little is known about the potential liver toxicity of these materials after occupational or intentional exposures. To begin to resolve ...
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(2021-10-12)Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a chronic complication associated with diabetes and the number one cause of blindness in working adults in the US. More than 90% of diabetic patients have obesity-associated type 2 diabetes ...