Browsing by Author "Criscitiello, Michael"
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Herlihy, Sarah E (2014-06-05)The work in this dissertation links two diseases through a protein secreted by Dictyostelium discoideum cells. The protein, AprA, inhibits cell proliferation and induces chemorepulsion (movement away) of Dictyostelium ...
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Ying, Wei; Tseng, Alexander; Richard Cheng-An Chang; Wang, Haiqing; Lin, Yu-lieh; Kanameni, Srikanth; Brehm, Tyler; Morin, Andrew; Jones, Benjamin; Splawn, Taylor; Criscitiello, Michael; Golding, Michael; Bazer, Fuller; Safe, Stephen; Zhou, Beiyan (Scientific Reports, 2016)
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Pollard, Dana Alicia (2017-01-19)The hemoparasite Cytauxzoon felis causes cytauxzoonosis, an emerging infectious disease of cats in the United States. Its life cycle involves sexual reproduction in the tick vector and asexual reproduction (schizogonous ...
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Mirhosseini, Negin (2012-07-16)Proventricular dilatation disease (PDD) was first recognized during an outbreak among captive macaws in the late 1970s. The disease, also known as proventricular dilatation syndrome or macaw wasting disease can occur in ...
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Karhadkar, Tejas Rajeev (2020-11-24)Fibrosing diseases involve the formation of inappropriate scar tissue, but what drives fibrosis is unclear. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis involves the formation of excess scar tissue in the lungs. Sialidases (also called ...
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Molaei, Maral (2019-10-30)Metabolic and innate immune signaling pathways have co-evolved to elicit coordinated responses. However, dissecting the integration of these ancient signaling mechanisms remains a challenge. Using Drosophila, we uncovered ...
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Mwangi, Waithaka; Paul de Figueiredo; Criscitiello, Michael (PLoS Pathogens, 2016)
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Heare, Daniel Lucas (2019-10-17)Orf virus (ORFV) is an ancient Parapoxvirus that causes substantial economic loss worldwide to sheep and goat producers. This virus causes a disease known as Contagious Ecthyma or more commonly “Soremouth” because it most ...
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West, Kelsi O (2020-10-09)While transcriptional control of innate immune gene expression is well characterized, almost nothing is known about how pre-mRNA splicing decisions influence, or are influenced by, macrophage activation. I believe each ...
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Rychlik, Kristal Ann (2017-05-02)There is considerable evidence showing that exposure to particulate matter air pollution during important developmental windows, such as the prenatal period, can cause adverse respiratory outcomes. Mechanisms underlying ...
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He, Wenliang (2023-07-30)Three series of experiments were designed to test the hypothesis that dietary glycine supplementation could improve the growth of postweaning pigs and hybrid striped bass (HSB) fed diets containing soybean meal (SBM) as ...
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Mendoza Rodriguez, Maria G (2013-12-02)Two organic acids, polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) and potassium diformate (KDF) have been researched to only a limited extent with aquatic species but have been shown to have various positive effects on terrestrial animals. Two ...
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Lau, Carmen (2022-01-20)Despite increasing movements towards cleaner air regulations, air pollution remains a critical factor in millions of deaths globally every year. Particulate matter (PM) is one of the many types of air pollution, and ultrafine ...