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Placental Expression Of Angiopoietin-1, Angiopoietin-2 And Tie-2 During Placental Development In An Ovine Model Of Placental Insufficiency-Fetal Growth Restriction., Amy S Erickson Hagen, Ryan J Orbus, Randall B Wilkening, Timothy Regnault, Russell V Anthony

Paediatrics Publications

Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is associated with increased perinatal morbidity and mortality, and often results from functional placental insufficiency. Placentation requires extensive vasculogenesis and subsequent angiogenesis, in both maternal and fetal tissues. Angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) and Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) are angiogenic growth factors expressed in the placenta, and compete for binding to a common receptor, Tunica interna endothelial cell kinase-2 (Tie-2). Our objective was to examine Ang-1, Ang-2 and Tie-2 expression in ovine placental tissue obtained from normal and FGR pregnancies throughout gestation. Fetal cotyledon and maternal caruncle tissue concentrations of Ang-1, Ang-2 and Tie-2 mRNA were assessed by real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase …

Upper-Extremity Phocomelia Reexamined: A Longitudinal Dysplasia, Charles A. Goldfarb, Paul R. Manske, Riccardo Busa, Janith Mills, Peter Carter, Marybeth Ezaki

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Wsu Research News, Winter 2005, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A sixteen page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

Issue No. 66: December 2005, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 Albuquerque Celebrates Tricentennial: "Duke City Founded in 1706"
1 Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
2 Brams Mail Order House Receives Award
2 Historic WPA Gymnasium at Amistad
3 Tests of Faith: Maintaining Religious Tradition in Tough Country
7 Endangered Places of New Mexico, 2005
8 Books, A German POW in New Mexico
8 Aviso! The Historic Society of New Mexico Annual Conference in Albuquerque, April 22-22, 2006
8 Books, Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing

Fisheries Research Report No. 151 - Biology And Stock Assessment Of The Thickskin (Sandbar) Shark, Carcharhinus Plumbeus, In Western Australia And Further Refinement Of The Dusky Shark, Carcharhinus Obscurus, Stock Assessment., Rory Mcauley, R Lenanton, J. Chidlow, R. Allison, E. Heist

Fisheries Research Reports

Final FRDC Report - Project 2000/134

The purpose of this project was to collect the biological and fishery information necessary to conduct a stock assessment of the sandbar (known locally as ‘thickskin’) shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus and to improve and update the existing stock assessment for the dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus. Results from this project have already been used by the Western Australian Department of Fisheries to determine appropriate management arrangements for the State’s shark fisheries to ensure the sustainable exploitation of these species. Results have also assisted the WA target-shark fisheries in conducting Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) assessment in order …

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Technical Guidelines For The Translocation Of Live Aquatic Animals - With Reference To Barramundi Nodavirus, Brian Jones

Fisheries Research Reports

FRDC Project No. 2005/640

A workshop was conducted involving input from most jurisdictions. Technical issues including hazard identification and risk management associated with the translocation of live finfish were documented.

A series of recommendations, which resulted from the workshop process, will be progressed through the National Aquatic Animal Health Technical Working group and the Aquatic Animal Health Committee.

Ard News December 2005

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
Comments from the Interim Dean
William G. Whitmore Student Travel Endowment
David H. and Annie E. Larrick Fund, 2006
Undergraduate Honors Research Program
New or Revised Projects September and October 2005
Proposals Submitted for Federal Grants September and October 2005
Grants and Contracts Received for September and October 2005
Fall 2005 Graduate Census

The Americanization Of Tsuru Aoki: Orientalism, Melodrama, Star Image, And The New Woman, Sara Ross

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

This article contextualizes issues of race and Orientalism in the career of Japanese actress Tsuru Aoki within changing representational strategies and ongoing cultural struggles over the public and domestic roles of women in the modern age. According to the author, Aoki's persona blurred the boundaries between Japanese and U.S. identities.

News From Hope College, Volume 37.3: December, 2005, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

Bayer Ag V. Housey Pharmaceuticals: Protection For Biotechnological Research Tools Under Section 271(G) Found Wanting, Matthew Barthalow

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] "Research tools, a subset of biotechnological inventions protected by process patents, are “tools that scientists use in the laboratory, including cell lines, monoclonal antibodies, reagents, animal models, growth factors, combinatorial chemistry and DNA libraries, clones and cloning tools (such as PCR), methods, laboratory equipment and machines.” Many companies base their business models on the ability to find pharmaceutical products using their proprietary drug discovery research tools. Research tools used for drug discovery ‘include bioinformatic methods for identifying the interaction of certain proteins and their association with disease, methods for confirming protein targets, screening assays to identify molecules active against …

Creche Herald Vol. 9, No. 4, Rita B. Bocher

Creche Herald

The Winter 2005-06 publication features nativity sets and personal reflections from members in the organization; information about nativities and nativity exhibits; and information about the Friends of the Creche annual meeting.

Interactive Animated Concept Map Generation - Using Dynamic Animations, Suneel Vana

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

We present a visualization tool, which is useful for the illustration of educational concepts using interactive animated concept maps. This system serves as a presentation tool which provides a collection of multimedia elements (images, animations, audios clips and video clips), a collection of animated presentation templates and an interface by using which users can retrieve the multimedia elements from the multimedia database and generate the dynamic animations by placing the selected elements into the placeholders of the templates. The system generates the animated presentation by replacing embedded multimedia objects and their properties as desired by its users. A multimedia information …

Investigation Of Breast Tumor Hemodynamics By Near Infrared Spectroscopy: Applications To Cancer Therapy Monitoring, Jae Gwan Kim

Bioengineering Dissertations - Archive

Hyperoxic gas interventions using carbogen (95% O2 and 5% CO2) or oxygen has been tried to increase the tumor oxygenation since it will enhance the therapeutic effects on the tumors. Others in the laboratory had previously applied near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to monitor the changes in tumor blood oxygenation during hyperoxic gas intervention and found that oxyhemoglobin concentration changes (D[HbO2]) during gas intervention can be fitted by a two-exponential equation containing two time constants. Based on the model, they formed a hypothesis that changes in oxygenated hemoglobin concentration result from well perfused and poorly perfused regions of an animal tumor …

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, December 1, 2005, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee
• Course Approvals
• Syllabus Approval

Decd2005, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From December 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

Dec. 2005

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Infection Of An Invasive Frog Eleutherodactylus Coqui By The Chytrid Fungus Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis In Hawaii, Karen H. Beard, Eric M. O'Neill

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has contributed to declines and extinctions of amphibians worldwide. B. dendrobatidis is known to infect the frog Eleutherodactylus coqui in its native Puerto Rico. E. coqui was accidentally introduced into Hawaii in the late 1980s, where there are now hundreds of populations. B. dendrobatidis was being considered as a biological control agent for E. coqui because there are no native amphibians in Hawaii. Using a DNA-based assay, we tested 382 E. coqui from Hawaii for B. dendrobatidis and found that 2.4% are already infected. We found infected frogs in four of 10 study sites and …

Connections: Library News For Library Staff Vol. 2, Issue 11, University Of Texas At Arlington Library

Connections: Library News for Library Staff

The purpose of Connections was to build community within UTA Library staff by reminding people of upcoming events and dates, introducing new staff members, celebrating a department's achievements, and writing about other items of interest.

An Analysis Of Tricksters In Mythology And Folklore Among The Native North Americans And Peoples Of Africa, Angel Mayorga

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Medicaid Third-Party Liability And Claims For Restitution: Defining The Proper Role For The Tort System In Regulating The Food Industry, Coby Warren Logan

Journal of Food Law & Policy

This comment contends that tort liability can complement legislative and administrative government regulation of the food industry, providing sellers and manufacturers of food with an incentive to prevent consumers from over-consumption and becoming obese. Specifically, this comment supports the proposition that after government regulations are promulgated by Congress, claims should be allowed by state attorneys general to recoup Medicaid costs incurred in treating health conditions and illnesses caused by obesity.

Valuing Earth Intrinsically And Instrumentally: A Theological Framework For Environmental Ethics, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Philosophers have struggled with value theory as one of the most recalcitrant problems for environmental ethics. Theologians can benefit from their efforts when retrieving and reworking notions about the goodness of creation in patristic and medieval texts, particularly those by Augustine, John Chrysostom, and Thomas Aquinas. This process yields a religiously motivated rationale for intrinsic-instrumental valuing of the physical world's constituents for themselves, their relationships to one another, and their common good that can be relevant, meaningful, and helpful for responding to ecological degradation.

Sex-Based Differences In Regulatory T Cells., Lum Doreen Nebane-Ambe 1975-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Females have a higher incidence of autoimmune diseases than males for reasons that are currently unknown. CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells play an important role in the maintenance of immunological homeostasis and self-tolerance by suppressing autoreactive T cells that could potentially cause autoimmune diseases. Given that autoimmune diseases are more prevalent in women compared to men, we hypothesized that sex steroids could influence the incidence and/or progression of autoimmune disease through an effect on CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cell number and/or function. The overall objective of this project was then to determine whether sex steroids mediate sex-based differences in CD4+CD25+ regulatory T …

Validation Of An In Vivo Model For Monitoring Trabecular Bone Quality Changes Using Finite Element Analysis., Boon Horng Kam

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A combination of three techniques – high resolution micro computed tomography (micro CT) scanning, Archimedes-based volume fraction measurement and serial sectioning or milling – were used to determine the volume fraction, trabecular thickness, trabecular separation, trabecular number and micro finite element analysis combined with mechanical testing was used to determine the apparent stiffness and tissue modulus to quantify bone quality in rabbit distal femur trabecular bone. The objectives of this dissertation were two-fold. First, to develop the capabilities of micro CT scanning and micro CT image segmentation based on a slice-by-slice global thresholding technique to investigate trabecular microstructural changes in …

Explore The Murine Cardiac 20s Proteasomes : Molecular Composition And Regulation., Chenggong Zong

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

20S proteasome, essential component of protein degradation mechanism, is important to maintain homeostasis. Its malfunctions have been associated with several pathological conditions. This study presents an extensive study of murine cardiac 20S proteasome. Using biochemical methods, 20S proteasome have been purified to 95%. Proteomic study identified all 20S proteasome subunits. Endogenous phosphorylation was also documented. Furthermore, several associating kinases and phosphatase were identified. They regulated its activities. In PKCå over-expression mice, 20S proteasome expression level was up-regulated, but its peptidase activities did not increase. áB crystallin were recruited to PKCå subproteome in the transgenic mice, which also associated with 20S …

Forage News [2005-12], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Grazing Conference in Cave City
• Renew KFGC Membership
• National Forage Meetings
• Still Room for Improvement
• Growth Performance by Fall-Calving Cows Grazing Tall Fescue Pastures with Different Proportions Stockpiled Until Late Fall
• Effect of Maturity on Quality of Various Small Grains
• Effect of N Prices on Fertilization of Cool-Season Grasses
• Value and Amount of Nitrogen Fixed by Various Legumes
• Reflections: 2005
• Upcoming Events

Physis And Nomos In Aristotle's Ethics, Thornton C. Lockwood

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In Nicomachean Ethics V.7, Aristotle claims that political justice (to dikaion politikon) possesses a “natural” (phusikon) pail and a “conventional” (nomikon) part In response to those who separated nature and convention and disparaged the latter because it was different from place to place, Aristotle claims that both nature and convention admit of variation, and his language suggests that the two are ultimately parts which need to be interwoven or combined. Scholars who have struggled with Aristotle’s apparently disparate senses of the idea of nature have assumed that nature is an ethical ideal which can be separated from and serve as …

Full Issue, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Que Ondee Sola - December 2005, Michael Reyes Benevides

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: Connecting a History of Latino Student Struggle at NEIU, Latino and Latni American Studies Program, Interview with Professor Victor Ortiz, Student Paper Llas Minor, Student Groups Support the Latino and Latin American Studies Minor, Fall Course Review, Spring 2006 LLAS Courses, Proyecto Pa'lante, El Centro, ENLACE, Special Vida/ SIDA Insert

Index To Volume 73

Nebraska Bird Review

Adams, Chris 32

Alexander,

George 32

Irene 32

Amiotte, Sue 97, 136

Anderson,

Kari 31

Riley 28

Anhinga 46, 51

Armknecht, Henry 4, 32, 96

Audubon Society 22

Aughey, Samuel 125

Avocet, American 46, 54, 87, 102, 140

Fall Field Report, August–November 2005, W. Ross Silcock

Nebraska Bird Review

This fall was notable for its lack of notable events; numbers of migrants reported in all species groups, especially waterfowl, shorebirds, and warblers, were low. Lingering birds were both insectivores and seed-eaters, and, coupled with a rather stable fall weather-wise, it seems that there were no disturbances to concentrate birds or otherwise impede a steady flow of migrants through the state. Without concentrations, migrants are often not noticed or, more accurately here, not reported by observers.

The best Western Grebe count was 2500, very low relative to expected high fall counts of at least 20,000. Mergansers were the only bright …