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The Role Of Cytokines In The Pathogenesis Of Experimental Legionella Pneumophila Infections, Corinna Mary Krinos
The Role Of Cytokines In The Pathogenesis Of Experimental Legionella Pneumophila Infections, Corinna Mary Krinos
Doctoral Dissertations
Legionnaires' disease is an acute lobar pneumonia caused, primarily by the facultative intracellular pathogen Legionella pneumophila. This organism when inhaled by humans descends into the lower respiratory tract and parasitizes alveolar macrophages. L. pneumophila adhered to U-937 cells, A549 cells and peritoneal macrophages from A/J mice in an opsonin-independent fashion. Following attachment, the organism penetrated the cell membrane, replicated within these cells eventually inducing lysis. To better define the adhesion of L. pneumophila to host cells, an E. coli clone (LP 116), expressing the 25 kDa major outer membrane protein (MOMP) of L. pneumophila was used in binding studies. This …
Problem-Based Learning In Athletic Training Education, Kerri-Ann Catlaw
Problem-Based Learning In Athletic Training Education, Kerri-Ann Catlaw
Doctoral Dissertations
The purposes of the study were first to identify the frequency and the degree to which athletic training educators employed Problem Based Learning (PBL), its variants, and traditional methods in their teaching; and second to solicit educators' judgments of the quality of educational outcomes in their coursework. A survey instrument was distributed to a random sample of 101 CAAHEP accredited curriculum athletic training educators. Eighty-three subjects returned the instrument, yielding a response rate of 82%. The survey contained 20 closed-response items and 3 open-response items, and was divided into three sections highlighting demographic information, teaching methods, and educational outcomes. The …
The Effects Of Medicaid And Maternal Depression On Prenatal Care And Infant Health, Lisa C. Defelice
The Effects Of Medicaid And Maternal Depression On Prenatal Care And Infant Health, Lisa C. Defelice
Doctoral Dissertations
While in recent years, the infant health production function literature has expanded to incorporate behavioral inputs into the production of infant health current research fails to incorporate the Medicaid-private insurance choice into the mother's decision making process. This dissertation seeks to address this by treating private insurance and Medicaid as endogenous while considering the effects that the Medicaid eligibility rules have on both kinds of coverage. Medicaid and private insurance are entered directly into the health production function so that quality effects may be captured. In addition, a woman's state of mental health is also incorporated into the health production …