Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Ing, Nancy"
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Xiong, Caixing (2020-12-04)Due to the worldwide prevalence of pesticide resistance in disease vectors, novel targets and corresponding reagents for alternative pest control are needed. Invertebrate neuropeptide G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) ...
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Chou, Wen-Ko (2013-11-26)The best way to prevent infectious disease is to directly establish mucosal immunity and also induce circulatory immunity to avoid pathogen invasion and spread. In our first study, we tested the hypothesis that a single ...
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Shields, Jordan Elizabeth (2012-02-14)NMES1 is a gene of unknown function first characterized in 2002. Reduction of the expression of this gene has been implicated in skin tumorigenesis in mice. Expression of NMES1 is observed in epithelial tissue but expression ...
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Tessanne, Kimberly J. (2012-02-14)RNA interference (RNAi) is a means of regulating gene expression by targeting mRNA in a sequence-specific manner for degradation or translational inhibition. Short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) and short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) ...
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Mortensen, Christopher John (2009-05-15)Horse owners commonly maintain their broodmares in training and competition during the breeding season. The effect this has on mare reproductive efficiency has received limited attention. Heat stress has shown to be ...
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Rolke, Kristin Rose (2009-05-15)In vitro fertilization is not efficient in the horse, and this may be due to a failure of induction of hyperactivated motility in stallion sperm in vitro. Hyperactivated motility is characterized by high curvilinear velocity ...