Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Department "Veterinary Pathobiology"
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The gut microbiome and its effects on its host’s health has become an important factor when trying to understand that etiology of disease and therefore its diagnosis and treatment. In previous studies, the bacterial species ...
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(2013-09-25)The goal of this study is to evaluate the role of deer in the transmission of Lyme disease (LD) in Travis County, Texas. This disease is transmitted by the bite of an infected Ixodes tick. LD was first identified in Texas ...
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The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis is a medically important tick species that transmits six of the fifteen human tick-borne disease agents in the United States. Without successful feeding, ticks cannot cause damage ...
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(1995)Retroviral vectors are being used as vehicles for transporting foreign genes into mammalian cells for the purpose of human gene therapy to treat viral disease like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In efforts to develop ...
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(1995)Innate resistance of a host to infection is strongly under the influence of genetic factors. Genes coding for histocompatibility antigens are a cluster of genes called the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). MHC gene ...
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(2012-05-04)Rotavirus (RV) causes more than 2 million diarrhea incidents and more than 600,000 deaths around the world every year. In order to prevent and treat this fatal disease, we must study, in depth, the mechanisms and pathogenesis ...
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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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(2013-02-06)Equine Piroplasmosis (EP) is a disease that negatively impacts the horse industry worldwide and is caused by two distinct species of protozoan parasites, Babesia caballi and Theileria equi. Currently the United States is ...
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(1993)Human cDNA probe H1. 6 (clone 10-1) encoding cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) was used to map the bovine homolog of CFTR. Using a panel of bovine X rodent hybrid somatic cells, the homolog was ...
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Fibrotic disorders, including atherosclerosis, are known to concur with endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) induced by cues from the tissue microenvironment such as transforming growth factor β (TGF-β). Nck, a ...
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(2012-05-02)Primary cells from cockatiel and duck embryos were prepared from unhatched cockatiel and duck eggs. They were expanded and frozen for storage and further use and evaluation. To transform the primary cells and generate a ...
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(2011-05-04)Rotavirus (RV) is a viral pathogen that infects everyone worldwide. It initially infects the enterocytes of the small intestine causing severe diarrhea in affected patients, primarily the young. RV nonstructural protein 4 ...
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(1997)Brucellosis is a serious infection in swine, goats, and cattle that may also infect humans through contact with infected animals. The bacteria, known as Brucella, that causes this disease survive within the host by ...
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(2012-05-08)The establishment of a polarized endothelial layer is essential for normal vascular organization. This project examined the role of actin cytoskeleton remodeling by Nck adaptors in the polarized organization of endothelial ...
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(2011-08-08)Tumor cells use actin-based structures capable of degrading the extracellular matrix during the process of invasion and metastasis. Recent studies demonstrate that the adaptor protein Nck-2, an important link between ...
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(2012-04-30)Lyme disease (LD) is the most prevalent tick borne disease in the US with a total of 22,572 confirmed human cases reported to CDC in 2010. LD is caused by the infection of a mammalian host with the bacterial pathogen ...
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(2013-09-26)Avian bornavirus (ABV) is the etiological agent of Proventricular Dilatation Disease, a fatal neurological disease of pet and aviary kept Psittacine birds (parrots). ABV is believed to be transmitted through the fecal-oral ...
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(2013-02-04)Some patients that suffer from epilepsy may become refractory to pharmaceutical treatment. An option with these patients is vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy with neuro-cybernetic medical devices. The purpose of this ...
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(2012-06-06)Rotavirus (RV), family reoviridae, is a deadly pathogen that affects young children and infants worldwide by causing severe watery gastroenteritis. Rotavirus Gastroenteritis (RGE) causes 55,000 to 70,000 hospitalizations, ...
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Stress has been shown to have a negative effect on every stage of an animal’s life cycle, from birth rates to weaning (Clincy, Sheriff & Zanette, 2013). Early socialization through habituation has been shown to decrease ...