Browsing by Author "Johnson, Gregory"
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Mitchell, Christian Danielle (2021-11-12)Cartilaginous fish are located at a pivotal point in phylogeny where the adaptive immune system begins to resemble that of other, more-derived jawed vertebrates, including mammals. For this reason, sharks and other ...
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Campbell, Scott Robert (2016-12-13)Wild pigs are an invasive species widely distributed throughout Australia and the Americas. Wild pigs are carriers of over 30 zoonotic diseases and are a major source of crop destruction, with damages associated with pigs ...
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Eltahan, Rana Abbas Khedr (2018-08-09)Cryptosporidium parvum is a water-borne and food-borne apicomplexan pathogen. It is one of the top four diarrheal-causing pathogens in children under the age of five in developing countries, and an opportunistic pathogen ...
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Exploring the Molecular Interactions Between Host Cells and Cryptosporidium parvum During Invasion Yu, Xue (2018-07-17)Cryptosporidium parvum is a zoonotic protozoan parasite belonging to the Phylum Apicomplexa and a causative agent of mild to severe watery diarrhea in humans and animals. The infection starts with the ingestion of oocysts, ...
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Steinhauser, Chelsie Burroughs (2015-11-03)Commercial sows experience a high incidence of prenatal loss and substantial variation in birthweight among piglets in a litter. These outcomes negatively impact efficiency and profitability in the swine industry and are ...
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Hic-5 mediates the initiation of endothelial sprouting by regulating a key surface metalloproteinase Dave, Jui; Abbey, Colette; Duran, Camille; Seo, Heewon; Johnson, Gregory; Bayless, Kayla (Journal of Cell Science, 2016)
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Levy Piza Fontes, Pedro (2019-11-26)The present research focused on examining how energy restriction, fetal and maternal subspecies (Bos taurus indicus and Bos taurus taurus) interact to impact fetal development events, which can potentially alter nutrient ...
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Dahanayaka, Sudath Anilaka (2016-07-28)Mammary epithelial cells (MEC) are the functional units of the mammary gland during lactation. There are well-established MEC cell lines, such as bovine MAC-T, as well as mouse and human cell lines. Primary MEC lines are ...
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Nutritional and Regulatory Roles for Branched-Chain Amino Acids in Milk Production by Lactating Sows Rezaei, Reza (2015-01-26)Both feeding and cell culture studies were conducted to test the hypothesis that branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) can enhance milk synthesis by porcine mammary epithelial cells (PMEC). In the first in vivo feeding trial, ...
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De Carvalho Cardoso, Rodolfo (2014-06-26)Nutritional and metabolic statuses during postnatal development control the timing of pubertal maturation in mammals. Studies reported herein had two overall aims. In Aim I, objectives were to characterize functional and ...
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Jia, Sichao (2019-12-02)Both feeding and in vitro tissue studies were conducted to test the hypothesis that glutamate (Glu) and glutamine (Gln), consisting of >10% of dry weight in fishmeal (FM), may be nutritionally essential for maximal growth ...
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McLendon, Bryan Anthony (2021-12-10)Pregnancy is a complex period that requires many different biological processes, ultimately resulting in an inefficient system. A large portion of individual conceptus loss occurs during the peri-implantation period and ...
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Chen, Fang; Wang, Taiji; Feng, Cuiping; Lin, Gang; Zhu, Yuhua; Wu, Guoyao; Johnson, Gregory; Wang, Junjun; Picard, Didier (PloS One, 2015)
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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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Yu, Fei (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 ...