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Transcriptional Programming By Thyroid Hormone Receptor Beta Maintains Normal Cell Identity And Suppresses Tumor Growth, Noelle Elizabeth Gillis
Transcriptional Programming By Thyroid Hormone Receptor Beta Maintains Normal Cell Identity And Suppresses Tumor Growth, Noelle Elizabeth Gillis
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The overall incidence of thyroid cancer has more than tripled over the past several decades, as has aggressive disease and mortality. The direct relationship between thyroid disease, thyroid hormone levels, and development of thyroid cancer is incomplete. Recent meta-analyses have indicated a higher risk of thyroid cancer for patients with thyroid diseases that reflect an altered thyroid-pituitary signaling axis, which can have profound impacts on the physiology of the thyroid gland. These largely unanswered questions regarding altered thyroid hormone signaling and its consequences for thyroid tumor growth present a significant clinical challenge. This dilemma may come from a lack of …
Effects Of Tumor-Related Factors And Chemotherapy On Skeletal Muscle And The Protective Effects Of Exercise, Blas Anselmo Guigni
Effects Of Tumor-Related Factors And Chemotherapy On Skeletal Muscle And The Protective Effects Of Exercise, Blas Anselmo Guigni
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Cancer patients often experience cachexia, a form of weight loss consisting mostly of skeletal muscle wasting. Muscle wasting leads to physical disability, poor quality of life, reduced tolerance to treatments and shorter survival. Although the causes of cancer-related muscle atrophy have been studied for decades, the exact mechanisms through which cancer and its treatments promote muscle wasting have yet to be defined.
The overall aim of this dissertation is to examine the mediators of muscle wasting in cancer patients during their treatment and examine the modulatory role of exercise to maintain muscle size and function. To address these aims, we …