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Bowling Wins New Investigator Award, Alicia Rohan Feb 2013

Bowling Wins New Investigator Award, Alicia Rohan

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Uab Antarctica Website, Researchers Launched This Week, Jim Bakken Feb 2013

Uab Antarctica Website, Researchers Launched This Week, Jim Bakken

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February 15, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2013

February 15, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Uab Unveils Live Penguin Cam To Aid Climate Change Education And Research, Jim Bakken Feb 2013

Uab Unveils Live Penguin Cam To Aid Climate Change Education And Research, Jim Bakken

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February 8, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2013

February 8, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Celebrate Darwin's Birthday At Darwin Day, Jim Bakken Feb 2013

Celebrate Darwin's Birthday At Darwin Day, Jim Bakken

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February 5, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Feb 2013

February 5, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Microbiology's Mestecky Leads This Years Honorees For Service Awards Recognition, Tyler Greer Feb 2013

Microbiology's Mestecky Leads This Years Honorees For Service Awards Recognition, Tyler Greer

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January 29, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Jan 2013

January 29, 2013 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Transverse Myelitis Foundation To Fund Uab Research, Alicia Rohan Jan 2013

Transverse Myelitis Foundation To Fund Uab Research, Alicia Rohan

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New Imaging Method Facilitates Research Into Cystic Fibrosis And Other Pulmonary Diseases, Alicia Rohan Jan 2013

New Imaging Method Facilitates Research Into Cystic Fibrosis And Other Pulmonary Diseases, Alicia Rohan

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Uab Patent, Researcher Key To Breakthrough Named A Top Innovation Of 2012, Jim Bakken Jan 2013

Uab Patent, Researcher Key To Breakthrough Named A Top Innovation Of 2012, Jim Bakken

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Uab Magazine - Spring/Summer 2013, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Jan 2013

Uab Magazine - Spring/Summer 2013, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

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Inquiro 7 (Front Matter), Inquiro Staff Jan 2013

Inquiro 7 (Front Matter), Inquiro Staff

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

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Inquiro 7 (Complete Issue), Inquiro Staff Jan 2013

Inquiro 7 (Complete Issue), Inquiro Staff

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

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Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 4 Positive Allosteric Modulators Attenuate Lps-Induced Inflammation In Microglial Cells, Ranjani Ponnazhagan, Ashley S. Harms, David G. Standaert Jan 2013

Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 4 Positive Allosteric Modulators Attenuate Lps-Induced Inflammation In Microglial Cells, Ranjani Ponnazhagan, Ashley S. Harms, David G. Standaert

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

pp. 22-24


Most Prevalent Drugs In Death Cases: A Six-Year Study, Phillip Ritchey, Justin E. Sanders, Curt E. Harper Jan 2013

Most Prevalent Drugs In Death Cases: A Six-Year Study, Phillip Ritchey, Justin E. Sanders, Curt E. Harper

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

pp. 25-27


Intact Brain Volume Is Related To Therapy Responses In Chronic Stroke And Real-World Arm Use In Hemiparetic Multiple Sclerosis Patients, Ameen Barghi, Victor W. Mark, Tyler Rickards, Chelsey Sterling, Michelle Haddad, Gitendra Uswatte, Edward Taub Jan 2013

Intact Brain Volume Is Related To Therapy Responses In Chronic Stroke And Real-World Arm Use In Hemiparetic Multiple Sclerosis Patients, Ameen Barghi, Victor W. Mark, Tyler Rickards, Chelsey Sterling, Michelle Haddad, Gitendra Uswatte, Edward Taub

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

pp. 32-33


Small Peptides As Treatments For Alzheimer’S Disease, Alana Brock, Valentine Nwachukwu, Inga Kadish, Thomas Van Groen Jan 2013

Small Peptides As Treatments For Alzheimer’S Disease, Alana Brock, Valentine Nwachukwu, Inga Kadish, Thomas Van Groen

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

pp. 38-41


Method For The Determination Of Trajectory Angles Of Directional Secretory Vesicles In Cultured Astrocytes, Chapin E. Cavender, Manoj K. Gottipati, Eric B. Malarkey, Vladimir Parpura Jan 2013

Method For The Determination Of Trajectory Angles Of Directional Secretory Vesicles In Cultured Astrocytes, Chapin E. Cavender, Manoj K. Gottipati, Eric B. Malarkey, Vladimir Parpura

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pp. 48-52


Inquiro 7 (End Matter), Inquiro Staff Jan 2013

Inquiro 7 (End Matter), Inquiro Staff

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

pp. 68-72


Substrate Recognition And Translocation Catalyzed By Aaa+ Chaperones, Tao Li Jan 2013

Substrate Recognition And Translocation Catalyzed By Aaa+ Chaperones, Tao Li

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Both E. coli ClpA and E. coli ClpB belong to the Clp/Hsp100 chaperone family. They share many common features, such as the same conserved motifs (Walker A, Walker B, Arginine finger, Pore loop, etc.), hexameric ring-shaped structure, and double nucleotide binding domains. ClpA and ClpB are closely related to each other. However, they participate in different protein quality control pathways. ClpA regulates cellular functions by either associating with ClpP to form the ClpAP complex (an ATP-dependant protease) to degrade unwanted polypeptides or remodeling inactive proteins to their biological active forms. ClpA can recognize specific sequences located on either N- or …


Intramural Electrical Uncoupling During Long-Duration Ventricular Fibrillation In Rabbit, Trenika A. Madden Jan 2013

Intramural Electrical Uncoupling During Long-Duration Ventricular Fibrillation In Rabbit, Trenika A. Madden

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Ventricular fibrillation is a lethal cardiac arrhythmia which alters electrophysiological properties of the myocardium while concurrently inducing global ischemia and is associated with high mortality rates. Studies on the organization of long-duration ventricular fibrillation (LDVF) have shown that an endocardial to epicardial (i.e. transmural) activation rate gradient exists during ventricular fibrillation in canine and human myocardium; however, the underlying mechanism is unknown. This study tested the hypothesis that the activation rate gradient reflects heterogeneous changes in tissue electrical resistivity resulting in differential transmural electrical uncoupling of the ventricular myocardium. LDVF (>5min) was electrically induced in anesthetized, open-chest rabbits using …


Rhodopsin Trafficking And Retinal Function, Nicholas Joseph Reish Jan 2013

Rhodopsin Trafficking And Retinal Function, Nicholas Joseph Reish

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The health and maintenance of rod photoreceptors depends on the high-fidelity vectorial transport of rhodopsin from its site of synthesis in the inner segment to its final resting place in the outer segment disks. Multiple molecular interactions play a role in this process, including the interaction of the small GTPase rab11a with rhodopsin that was first described in vertebrates in amphibians. We found that the interaction of the small GTPase rab11a and rhodopsin is conserved in mammalian retina. This interaction is direct, is abrogated by human disease-causing truncation mutations in rhodopsin, and does not depend on the nucleotide binding status …


A Bioinspired Multifunctional Nanomatrix For Cardiovascular Applications, Adinarayana Andukuri Jan 2013

A Bioinspired Multifunctional Nanomatrix For Cardiovascular Applications, Adinarayana Andukuri

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Bioinspired solutions for challenges faced by conventional therapies are rapidly emerging, especially as new and innovative improvements in medical devices are constantly being researched and developed. Stents are a common therapeutic device for cardiovascular diseases that have undergone incrementally developmental changes over the last two decades. However, there are concerns about in-stent restenosis with bare metal stents and incomplete endothelialization, late stent thrombosis, and late inflammatory responses with drug-eluting stents. New strategies for stents include the development of bioresorbable stents and the utilization of endothelial progenitor cell capture techniques. Despite the promise of recent developments aimed at overcoming the limitations …


Implications Of Hatchling Sex Ratios And Survival In The Recovery Program For The Endangered Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle, Elizabeth Bevan Jan 2013

Implications Of Hatchling Sex Ratios And Survival In The Recovery Program For The Endangered Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle, Elizabeth Bevan

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The Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) sea turtle neared extinction during the mid-1980s, but due to intense conservation efforts its population is now gradually recovering. Hatchling sex ratios and natural predation on nests and hatchlings have been monitored at Rancho Nuevo, Mexico to optimize this species’ recovery. Sand and nest temperatures were evaluated for the 2009 - 2012 nesting seasons in the egg corrals and on the nesting beach. Temperatures were cool during the start of the nesting seasons (i.e. below pivotal temperature), and gradually rose and were at or above pivotal temperatures by mid–May. Temperatures remained warm for the remainder …


Regulatory Mechanisms Of Pathogen-Mediated Cellular Stress Signaling In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Jon Lucas Boatwright Jan 2013

Regulatory Mechanisms Of Pathogen-Mediated Cellular Stress Signaling In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Jon Lucas Boatwright

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SA is a vital signaling molecule responsible for activation of plant defenses against various pathogen infections. Pathogen detection activates salicylic acid (SA) biosynthesis which is paramount to local and systemic acquired resistance in addition to pathogenesis-related (PR) protein accumulation. Recently, NPR1, NPR3 and NPR4 were identified as SA binding proteins and signal transducers; however, conflicting results have been obtained concerning the nature of NPR1 as a SA receptor. These, and other, SA signaling pathways are often heavily influenced by phytohormone crosstalk, whether by inhibiting or potentiating effects. Pathogenic infection can additionally activate defense responses that require increased protein synthesis and …


Effects Of Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taeda) And Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum) Intercropping Techniques On Intermittent Stream Macroinvertebrate Communities, Kelly L. Breland Jan 2013

Effects Of Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taeda) And Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum) Intercropping Techniques On Intermittent Stream Macroinvertebrate Communities, Kelly L. Breland

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Forestry management activities can influence hydrologic regimes of intermittent streams which can influence the macroinvertebrate community of these streams. To test the effects of various harvesting and intercropping techniques, five small watersheds (0.08-0.25 km2) in Greene County, AL have been monitored before and after various treatments. Modified rapid bioassesment protocols were used to sample each stream every two weeks prior to treatments and once a month following treatments. In an effort to capture the full seasonality of these intermittent streams, samples were collected for a full year following the first sampling date. Macroinvertebrate community data has been analyzed using multimetric …


A Collaborative Social Computing Model For Transdisciplinary Problem Solving, Jerry Allen Higgs Jan 2013

A Collaborative Social Computing Model For Transdisciplinary Problem Solving, Jerry Allen Higgs

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The capacity to address and solve today's complex problems is becoming exceedingly more difficult because of the transdisciplinary nature of our current system of knowledge. Innovative solutions are no longer the by-products of centralized offices and laboratories. In fact, crafting solutions for truly complex problems requires a collaborative sharing of knowledge that transcends the artificial boundaries of departmentalized offices and research facilities. For decades, segmented information systems built on distributed platforms have kept transdisciplinary problem solving fragmented, without the ability to effectively share knowledge or data. This segmentation has stifled the progress of research reaching beyond the traditional boundaries of …


Estimation And Forecasting Of Air Handling Condensate Recovery Using Multiple Regression Analysis And Time-Series Autoregressive Models, Atul Nandkumar Kajale Jan 2013

Estimation And Forecasting Of Air Handling Condensate Recovery Using Multiple Regression Analysis And Time-Series Autoregressive Models, Atul Nandkumar Kajale

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According to the U.S. Drought Monitor (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 2011), the majority of the Southeastern states are classified as being in a state of moderate, severe, extreme, and or exceptional drought. The northern part of Alabama including Jefferson County falls into the "abnormal" drought category. Due to the prevailing drought conditions in the Southeastern U.S. in the recent past, it is necessary to conserve water resources by using them as efficiently and responsibly as possible. The increasing population, socioeconomic developments, and industrialization could have significant impacts on the way we consume water today. There will be an imbalance …