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Washington University Record, September 25, 2008

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern Professor Maps Method to Help Protect Health of Population

Structural Studies Of West Nile Virus In Complex With Neutralizing Antibodies., Richard J. Kuhn, Bärbel Kaufmann, Shee Mei Lok, Mick Cherrier, Rushika Perera, Dagmar Sedlak, Grant E. Nybakken, Paul R. Chipman, Wei Zhang, Michael S. Diamond, Daved H. Fremont, Michael G. Rossmann

Department of Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

West Nile virus (WNV) is a positive strand RNA virus in the family Flaviviridae, which includes members such as dengue, Japanese encephalitis, tick-borne encephalitis, yellow fever and Hepatitis C. As with other members of the genus, it is arthropod transmitted and has recently established itself as an endemic virus in the United States. Although most infections are asymptomatic, clinical manifestations of WNV include encephalitis and death. We have been interested in investigating the nature of the immune response with particular emphasis on the role of antibodies in reducing the level of infection. We have used a combination of techniques, but …

The Cytoplasmic Tail Of The Rabies Virus G Protein Is An Essential Domain Controlling Death/Survival In Human Neuronal Cells, Christophe Prehaud, Mireille Lafage, Gene S. Tan, Françoise Mégret, Pauline Ménager, Matthias Schnell, Henri Buc, Monique Lafon

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty Papers

Poster presentation.

Global Health Law: Health In A Global Community, Lawrence O. Gostin

O'Neill Institute Papers

The examination of public health law traditionally focuses on constitutions, statutes, regulations, and common law at the national and sub-national level. However, the determinants of health (e.g., pathogens, air, food, water, even lifestyle choices) do not originate solely within national borders. Health threats inexorably spread to neighboring countries, regions, and even continents. Peoples’ lives are profoundly affected by commerce, politics, science, and technology from all over the world. Global integration and interdependence occur “as capital, traded goods, persons, concepts, images, ideas, and values diffuse across state boundaries.” It is for this reason that law and policy need to be transnational, …

Global Health Law: A Definition And Grand Challenges, Lawrence O. Gostin, Allyn L. Taylor

O'Neill Institute Papers

It has been only recently that scholars have engaged in a serious discussion of "public health law." This academic discourse examines the role of the state and civil society in health promotion and disease prevention within the country. There is an important emerging literature on the international dimensions of health, but no similar systematic definition and exposition of a field we call "global health law." In this article we aim to fill this gap by defining global health law and characterizing the grand challenges. Given the rapid and expanding globalization that is a defining feature of today's world, the need …

Global Health Law Governance, Lawrence O. Gostin

O'Neill Institute Papers

The field of public health law traditionally focuses on law at the national and sub-national level. National legal systems, however, are inadequate to deal with major threats to humans. Despite the inadequacies of national governance, there are fundamental questions that need resolution in the field of global health law: Why should governments care about the health of people far away? Are profound health disparities just and, if not, is there a corresponding obligation to redress the injustice? Can international law effectively bind governments, foundations, and corporations to act for the global good? This article, based on a lecture at Emory …

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

Volume 44 - Issue 02 - Friday, September 19, 2008, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

T-Plausibility: Semantic Preserving Text Sanitization, Wei Jiang, Mummoorthy Murugesan, Chris Clifton, Luo Si

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Alumnus To Recieve Top Nursing Honor, Illinois Wesleyan University

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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2008-09-18 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2008

No abstract provided.

To Love Your Neighbor: A Christian Perspective On The Study Of Microbiology And Immunology, Joy Doan

Faith Learning Integration Papers

I have been blessed with enough of a sense of adventure to have experienced the awe-inspiring beauty of a rain forest at night, the top of Half Dome at Yosemite National Park, the sheer cliffs and rushing waters of the Narrows at Zion National Park, Plateau Point—which seems suspended in the Grand Canyon, and the top of a 14,000-foot peak in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. These are the types of places about which one of the characters in Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance observes, “This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You …

A Theory And Definition Of Public Health Law, Lawrence O. Gostin

O'Neill Institute Papers

The literature, both academic and judicial, on the intersection of law and health is pervasive. The subject of law and health is widely taught, practiced, and analyzed. The fields that characterize these branches of study are called health law, health care law, law and medicine, forensic medicine, and public health law. Do these names imply different disciplines, each with a coherent theory, structure, and method that sets it apart? Notably absent from the extant literature is a theory of the discipline of public health law, an exploration of its doctrinal boundaries, and an assessment of its analytical methodology.

Public health …

Volume 46, Number 5: September 17, 2008, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Intraretinal Signaling By Ganglion Cell Photoreceptors To Dopaminergic Amacrine Neurons, Dao-Qi Zhang, Kwoon Y. Wong, Patricia J. Sollars, David M. Berson, Gary E. Pickard, Douglas G. Mcmahon

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Retinal dopaminergic amacrine neurons (DA neurons) play a central role in reconfiguring retinal function according to prevailing illumination conditions, yet the mechanisms by which light regulates their activity are poorly understood. We investigated the means by which sustained light responses are evoked in DA neurons. Sustained light responses were driven by cationic currents and persisted in vitro and in vivo in the presence of L-AP4, a blocker of retinal ON-bipolar cells. Several characteristics of these L-AP4-resistant light responses suggested that they were driven by melanopsin-expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), including long latencies, marked poststimulus persistence, and a peak …

Ists E-Newsletter, September 15, 2008, Iowa Academy Of Science

ISTS Newsletter

In this issue:

--Message from the ISTS Chair, Morgan Masters

--Message from the Fall Conference Chair, Traci Maxted

--Message from the Vice Chair, De Anna Tibben

--Announcements

--Opportunities

--News

--Your ISTS Leadership Team

Interneuron Subtypes Are Differentially Altered In Malformed, Epileptogenic Cortex, Amanda George

Theses and Dissertations

The propensity for seizures in patients with epilepsy is due to underlying cortical hyperexcitability, the mechanisms of which are poorly understood. Particularly difficult to treat are patients with developmental malformations of cortex. Using the freeze-lesion rat model of one such malformation, polymicrogyria, we identified, in lesioned cortex, alterations in specific interneuron subpopulations that may promote hyperexcitability. Previous studies demonstrate increased excitatory input to the paramicrogyral region. An increase in the frequency of spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents (sEPSCs) recorded from pyramidal cells has also been shown. We report an increase in sEPSCs recorded from one subtype of interneuron, the low threshold-spiking …

Leading Kidney, Gi Research Physicians Recruited To Uab From Nih, Reporter Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Washington University Record, September 11, 2008

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

Leading Kidney, Gi Research Physicians Recruited To Uab From Nih, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Intravenous Inoculation Of Silver-Haired Bat Rabies Virus, But Not Of A Canine Strain, Elicits Lethal Encephalophathy In Mice By Fast Brain Invasion Via Neurosecretory Hypothalamic Fibers, Mirjam Ar Preuss, Marie-Luise Faber, Gene S. Tan, Bernhard Dietzschold, Matthias J. Schnell, Eberhard Weihe

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty Papers

No abstract provided.

The Bg News September 8, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 8, 2008. Volume 99-Issue 11.

Washington University Record, September 4, 2008

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

The Murray Ledger And Times, September 3, 2008, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Preliminary Phytochemical Screening And Antibacterial Studies Of Leaf Extract Of Solanum Trilobatum Linn., Asirvatham Doss, Rangasamy Dhanabalan

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

Solanum trilobatum Linn. is extensively used in Indian traditional and folklore medicines to cure various human ailments. The preliminary phytochemical screening of the leaves revealed the presence of Sugar, Protein, Alkaloids, Flavonoids, Saponins, Tannins, Cardiac glycoside, Terpenoids and Lipids. In vitro antibacterial studies on the leaf extracts were carried out on eight medically important bacterial strains, including Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Streptococccus pyrogens, Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumonia, Escherichia coli, Proteus vulgaris which were procured from Department of Microbiology, RVS Hospital, Sulur, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu., using agar disc diffusion method. The bacterial strains were exposed to the following four different …

Prescribed Reading: September 2008, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Welcome to these new providers
• Long Prairie Health Fair
• CentraCare breaks ground on new St. Joseph clinic
• Employees of the quarter recognized
• Condolences to . . .
• Kudos to . . .
• Congratulations to . . .
• On the road . . .
• Walk to create awareness of kidney disease
• Melrose offers new depression treatment program
• Turn off the television and enjoy a family dinner
• CentraCare Clinic partners with QUITPLAN
• Welcome to these new clinic employees
• Recognition for Years of Service
• The Hard to Swallow Truth
• Diabetes Center offers healthy cooking classes

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Prevalence And Antimicrobial Resistance Of Pathogenic Bacteria In Chicken And Guinea Fowl, Agnes Kilonzo-Nthenge, Samuel N. Nahashon, Fur-Chi Chen, Nathaniel Adefope

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

This study was conducted to compare the presence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Campylobacter, Salmonella spp., and other enteric bacteria between chickens and guinea fowls. Birds were reared on enclosed concrete floor housing covered with pine wood shavings litter material. Chicken (n = 40) and guinea fowl (n = 40) carcasses, drinking water (10 mL; n = 40), and litter (10 g; n = 40) were aseptically collected randomly from a poultry farm and analyzed within 1 h of collection. Individual pens served as experimental units and were replicated twice. Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp., and other enterobactericeae were isolated and identified …

Neurovirulence Of Polytropic Murine Retrovirus Is Influenced By Two Separate Regions On Opposite Sides Of The Envelope Protein Receptor Binding Domain, Karin E. Peterson, Susan Pourciau, Min Du, Rachel Lacasse, Melissa Pathmajeyan, David J. Poulsen, Mavis Agbandje-Mckenna, Kathy Wehrly, Bruce Chesebro

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Changes in the envelope proteins of retroviruses can alter the ability of these viruses to infect the central nervous system (CNS) and induce neurological disease. In the present study, nine envelope residues were found to influence neurovirulence of the Friend murine polytropic retrovirus Fr98. When projected on a three-dimensional model, these residues were clustered in two spatially separated groups, one in variable region B of the receptor binding site and the other on the opposite side of the envelope. Further studies indicated a role for these residues in virus replication in the CNS, although the residues did not affect viral …