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(2012-04-30)Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the causative agent of Lyme disease, is a spirochetal pathogen that colonizes mammalian hosts causing numerous neurological and physiological symptoms. This thesis focuses on the gene expression ...
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(1987)The liver fluke Fasciola hepatica produces eggs with a mechanically tough scleroprotein Shell which is resistant to acids, bases, and proteases. The protein which eventually forms this eggshell is produced and stored in ...
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Expression and Functional Characterization of Amblyomma americanum tick saliva protein, BP6contig8. (2013-10-01)In an attempt to feed on their hosts, ticks secrete saliva proteins to disrupt host defense mechanisms to tick feeding such as blood coagulation and inflammation. To discover tick proteins that are injected into the ...
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(2006-08-16)Brucella spp. are gram-negative, facultative intracellular pathogen that causes an infectious and contagious bacterial disease, brucellosis, in humans and animals. Previous research showed that lipopolysaccaride (LPS) is ...
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(1997)To date, developmental studies investigating liver fatty acid binding protein (L-FABP), an intracellular protein that binds fatty acids, have been performed predominantly in mammals. The purpose of the current study was ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Tottering and leaner mice carry different mutations in the portion of their genetic information (tottering locus) that encodes for the α₁[A] subunit of P/Q-type voltage-gated calcium ion channels. These channels, located ...
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(1982)Several alleles exist for a polymorphic esterase locus located on chromosome-8 in Mus musculus. The locus, which codes for esterase-2, is expressed as four alleles including an Es-2ᴬ (null) allele exhibiting no protein ...
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(2011-04-25)Rhodococcus equi is a Gram-positive bacterium known to cause disease because of its ability to survive and replicate inside macrophages. Macrophages also act as antigen-presenting cells: peptides from bacteria that have ...
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(2012-04-20)The use of bacteriophages offers an appealing alternative to antibiotics for the control of pathogenic bacteria. Recently, bacteriophage AbauYa1 was isolated as part of an effort to find phages to combat Acinetobacter ...
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Literature Review The lack of internet in undeveloped countries and other rural areas is detrimental to the development of the area. Access to internet can have many profound effects on developing countries such as creating ...
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One common research area in computer graphics involves the real-time simulation of water surfaces. Uses of water simulation in movies or video games commonly include simulating large bodies of water, such as oceans or ...
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The magnetic field variability of a young solar-type star delivers a time-varying magnetic flux to its hosted planets. In the case of early Earth prior to the establishment of the magne- tosphere, the associated electromotive ...
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(2015-09-23)Cancer is a collection of diseases that display abnormal cell proliferation with the potential to spread throughout the body. Much remains to be understood about the regulation of cell proliferation. Regulation of proliferation ...
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When out on a search and rescue mission, it is important to have tools that can easily keep track of the situation that is being handled. Autonomous drones have the ability to quickly collect a batch of images of the scene ...
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Graphic processing units (GPU) play a major role in providing faster runtime with its parallel architecture. With hundreds of cores, GPUs help in accelerating the runtime of algorithms in various applications such as machine ...
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Social media has grown to become a fundamental part of our lives over the past two decades and with its growth, the misuse of the platform for extremist purposes has become common. The wide reach of social media has allowed ...
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Two main components for effective cognitive control are top-down and bottom-up processing. Top-down processing is described as the ability to use previously known information to create, seek out and achieve a goal. Bottom-up ...
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(2011-08-04)This project focuses on the synthesis and attachment of metal nanoparticles to Au and GaAs surfaces using a combination of chemical self-assembly and scanned probe lithography. In this project self-assembled monolayers ...
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(2015-11-11)Staphylococcus aureus (SA) lung infections are a major problem for patients with cystic fibrous (CF). As these infections are difficult to treat, they can be life-threatening.1 Moreover, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...
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Fabrication of Shape Memory Polymer Nanocomposite Foams with Surface Modified Nanoparticle Fillers (2015-09-24)Every year, 30,000 individuals in the United States will suffer from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. The Biomedical Device Laboratory seeks to improve on current aneurysm treatment by using a low-density, high-volume shape ...