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Bioactive In Situ Crosslinkable Polymer-Peptide Hydrogel For Cell Delivery To The Intervertebral Disc In A Rat Model, Marcos N Barcellona, Julie E Speer, Liufang Jing, Deepanjali S Patil, Munish C Gupta, Jacob M Buchowski, Lori A Setton Sep 2021

Bioactive In Situ Crosslinkable Polymer-Peptide Hydrogel For Cell Delivery To The Intervertebral Disc In A Rat Model, Marcos N Barcellona, Julie E Speer, Liufang Jing, Deepanjali S Patil, Munish C Gupta, Jacob M Buchowski, Lori A Setton

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Degeneration of the intervertebral disc (IVD) is associated with significant biochemical and morphological changes that include a loss of disc height, decreased water content and decreased cellularity. Cell delivery has been widely explored as a strategy to supplement the nucleus pulposus (NP) region of the degenerated IVD in both pre-clinical and clinical trials, using progenitor or primary cell sources. We previously demonstrated an ability for a polymer-peptide hydrogel, serving as a culture substrate, to promote adult NP cells to undergo a shift from a degenerative fibroblast-like state to a juvenile-like NP phenotype. In the current study, we evaluate the ability …

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Eating, Drinking And Locations Of Broiler Chickens Reared Under Commercial Conditions With Supplementary Feeder Line Lighting, D. J. Aldridge, M. T. Kidd, C. G. Scanes Sep 2021

Eating, Drinking And Locations Of Broiler Chickens Reared Under Commercial Conditions With Supplementary Feeder Line Lighting, D. J. Aldridge, M. T. Kidd, C. G. Scanes

Poultry Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

The study examined the distribution of Cobb 700 broiler chickens in large (1.524 m × 6.096 m) pens under commercial conditions with 2 nipple waterer lines and a single feeder. The light intensity in the house was 4 lx provided by light emitting diode lighting but with supplementary lighting along the feeder line. There was a gradation of light intensity from 100 lx at bird level by the feeders to 4 lx at the edge of the pen. In addition, a limited time budget was estimated. A video system was employed to record the number of birds eating, drinking, standing …

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Effects Of Hatch Window And Nutrient Access In The Hatcher On Performance And Processing Yield Of Broiler Chicks Reared According To Time Of Hatch, Joshua R. Deines, F. Dustan Clark, Doug E. Yoho, R. Keith Bramwell, Samuel J. Rochell Sep 2021

Effects Of Hatch Window And Nutrient Access In The Hatcher On Performance And Processing Yield Of Broiler Chicks Reared According To Time Of Hatch, Joshua R. Deines, F. Dustan Clark, Doug E. Yoho, R. Keith Bramwell, Samuel J. Rochell

Poultry Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

The effects of hatch window and hatching basket nutrient availability on organ weights, performance, and processing yield of broilers were investigated. Eggs were hatched in illuminated hatchers. At the end of each hatch window period (HWP), hatched chicks were placed into control (CTL) hatching baskets with no nutrients or baskets providing access to feed and water (FAW). This resulted in 6 treatments in a factorial arrangement of 3 HWP (early, middle, or late) and 2 basket types (CTL or FAW). Chicks remained in experimental baskets until 504 h and were then subjected to a …

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More-Than-Human And Deeply Human Perspectives On Covid-19, Elizabeth Lunstrum, Neel Ahuja, Bruce Braun, Rosemary Collard, Patricia J. Lopez, Rebecca W.Y. Wong Sep 2021

More-Than-Human And Deeply Human Perspectives On Covid-19, Elizabeth Lunstrum, Neel Ahuja, Bruce Braun, Rosemary Collard, Patricia J. Lopez, Rebecca W.Y. Wong

Global Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

This multi-authored contribution explores what the COVID-19 pandemic demands of critical inquiry with a focus on the more-than-human. We show how COVID-19 is a complex series of multispecies encounters shaped by humans, non-human animals, and of course viruses. Central to these encounters is a politics of difference in which certain human lives are protected and helped to flourish while others, both human and animal, are forgotten if not sacrificed. Such difference encompasses practices of racialisation and racism, healthcare austerity, the circulation of capital, border-making, intervention into non-human nature, wildlife trade bans, anthropocentrism, and the exploitation of animal test subjects. The …

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The Enemy Is The Knife: Native Americans, Medical Genocide, And The Prohibition Of Nonconsensual Sterilizations, Sophia Shepherd Sep 2021

The Enemy Is The Knife: Native Americans, Medical Genocide, And The Prohibition Of Nonconsensual Sterilizations, Sophia Shepherd

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article describes the legal history of how, twenty years after the sterilizations began, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in 1978, finally created regulations that prohibited the sterilizations. It tells the heroic story of Connie Redbird Uri, a Native American physician and lawyer, who discovered the secret program of government sterilizations, and created a movement that pressured the government to codify provisions that ended the program. It discusses the shocking revelation by several Tribal Nations that doctors at the IHS hospitals had sterilized at least 25 percent of Native American women of childbearing age around the country. …

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Re-Imagining Risk: The Role Of Resilience And Prevention, Timothy Malloy Sep 2021

Re-Imagining Risk: The Role Of Resilience And Prevention, Timothy Malloy

Nevada Law Journal

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Pregnancy And Childbirth Expectations During Covid-19 In A Convenience Sample Of Women In The United States, Tishra Beeson, Amy Claridge, Amie Wojtyna, Debra Rich, Gracie Minks, Adrienne Larson Sep 2021

Pregnancy And Childbirth Expectations During Covid-19 In A Convenience Sample Of Women In The United States, Tishra Beeson, Amy Claridge, Amie Wojtyna, Debra Rich, Gracie Minks, Adrienne Larson

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the health care landscape and shifted individuals’ expectations for and interactions with essential health services, including pregnancy-related care. This study explores alterations to individuals’ pregnancy and childbirth decisions during an infectious disease pandemic. A convenience sample of 380 pregnant individuals with an expected delivery date between April and December 2020 consented to enroll and complete an online questionnaire on their pregnancy and childbirth expectations during the COVID-19 pandemic; a subset of respondents (n = 18) participated in semi-structured phone interviews. Survey data were analyzed quantitatively while interview data were analyzed using a thematic content …

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Intellectual Property Jurisprudence, Ryan Vacca, Ann Bartow Sep 2021

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Intellectual Property Jurisprudence, Ryan Vacca, Ann Bartow

Faculty Publications

On September 18, 2020, the world lost an irreplaceable leader. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, after many years of battling cancer, had passed away. Although she will primarily be remembered for her work on gender equality—as both advocate and jurist—Justice Ginsburg signiicantly impacted other areas of the law. One such area is intellectual property. During her time on the U.S. Supreme Court, she authored 20 opinions in these areas—11 copyright, seven patent, and two trademark—and joined the opinions of her colleagues in many others.

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Realigning The Clean Water Act: Comprehensive Treatment Of Nonpoint Source Pollution, Robin M. Rotman, Ashley A. Hollis, Kathleen M. Trauth Sep 2021

Realigning The Clean Water Act: Comprehensive Treatment Of Nonpoint Source Pollution, Robin M. Rotman, Ashley A. Hollis, Kathleen M. Trauth

Faculty Publications

Nonpoint source pollution is the biggest threat to water quality in the United States today. This Article argues for stronger federal controls over nonpoint source pollution. It begins by examining the history of water quality regulation in the United States, including the passage and amendment of the Clean Water Act and the evolving definition of “navigable waters” over time. The Article then discusses recent rulemaking and litigation developments, including the Clean Water Rule, the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, and the County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund case. It offers three recommendations. First, the Article calls for a congressional …

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Volume 26 Of The Journal Of The Assembly For Expanded Perspectives On Learning, Wendy Ryden Sep 2021

Volume 26 Of The Journal Of The Assembly For Expanded Perspectives On Learning, Wendy Ryden

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL), an official assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English, is open to all those interested in extending the frontiers of teaching and learning beyond the traditional disciplines and methodologies. JAEPL is especially interested in helping those teachers who experiment with new strategies for learning to share their practices and confirm their validity through publication in professional journals.

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Fostering Ethical Engagement Across Religious Difference In The Context Of Rhetorical Education, Michael-John Depalma Sep 2021

Fostering Ethical Engagement Across Religious Difference In The Context Of Rhetorical Education, Michael-John Depalma

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

At a moment in which religious diversity is ever-increasing in the United States and more than three-quarters of the world’s population identifies with a religious tradition, it is important for writing teachers to consider how to best cultivate writers who are equipped to build identifications across religious difference. This essay traces my efforts to engage this exigence in my advanced undergraduate writing course at Baylor University entitled Religious Rhetorics and Spiritual Writing (RRSW). In what follows, I outline my pedagogical goals, course design, and approach to teaching RRSW. I then share the results of a qualitative pilot study that used …

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Acting With Inscriptions: Expanding Perspectives Of Writing, Learning, And Becoming, Kevin R. Roozen Sep 2021

Acting With Inscriptions: Expanding Perspectives Of Writing, Learning, And Becoming, Kevin R. Roozen

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This article argues for increased attention to people’s engagements with inscriptions and inscriptional practices and the long-term implications they have for the ongoing production of persons, practices, and social worlds across heterogeneous times, places, and activities. Based on a multi-year case study, this analysis examines one microbiology major’s production and use of inscriptions at the intersections of his participation in both disciplinary science and religious worship and traces the long-term consequences those uses have for his becoming as a scientist of faith. If, as Paul Prior asserts, “ literate activity is not located in acts of reading and writing but …

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Inserting Oneself In The Story: Queer Literacy, Comics, And An Admonition To Move, Irene Papoulis, Nicholas P. Marino Sep 2021

Inserting Oneself In The Story: Queer Literacy, Comics, And An Admonition To Move, Irene Papoulis, Nicholas P. Marino

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Inserting Oneself in the Story: Queer Literacy, Comics, and an Admonition to Move

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Ferris, Emil. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Fantagraphics, 2017, 416 Pages. Sousanis, Nick. Unflattening, Harvard Up, 2015, 208 Pages., Wilma Romatz Sep 2021

Ferris, Emil. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Fantagraphics, 2017, 416 Pages. Sousanis, Nick. Unflattening, Harvard Up, 2015, 208 Pages., Wilma Romatz

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Ferris, Emil. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Fantagraphics, 2017, 416 pages. Sousanis, Nick. Unflattening, Harvard UP, 2015, 208 pages.

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Eating For Hunger Or Pleasure: A Serotonin Model, Zili Yan, Yanlin He, Xing Cai, Gang Shu, Yong Xu Sep 2021

Eating For Hunger Or Pleasure: A Serotonin Model, Zili Yan, Yanlin He, Xing Cai, Gang Shu, Yong Xu

Division of Basic Science Faculty Publications

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Csd 320.50: Phonological Development & Phonetics - Online, Amy M. Glaspey Sep 2021

Csd 320.50: Phonological Development & Phonetics - Online, Amy M. Glaspey

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

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For Residents, By Residents: Developing A Physician Handoff Tool At A University Affiliated Community Hospital., Lu Chen, Uta S Guo, Siddharth Bhesania, Hardikkumar Shah, Emdad Ali, Parag Mehta Sep 2021

For Residents, By Residents: Developing A Physician Handoff Tool At A University Affiliated Community Hospital., Lu Chen, Uta S Guo, Siddharth Bhesania, Hardikkumar Shah, Emdad Ali, Parag Mehta

Medical Education Articles

The 80-hour per week work limit resulted in an increased number of patient handoffs. A satisfactory handoff system should optimize the exchange of vital patient information while concisely minimizing error. This project describes our experience and lessons learned in successfully developing and implementing an Electronic Health Record (EHR)-integrated handoff system based on the I-PASS model. The handoff system, termed Physician Handoff, was refined through end-user feedback. End-users were evaluated on the quality of handoff in the following categories: Illness Severity, Patient Summary, Action List, and Situational Awareness. Resulting survey showed high adoption and satisfaction rate with Physician Handoff. Success can …

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Ford Motor Company V. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court: Lots Of Questions, Some Answers, Patrick J. Borchers, Richard D. Freer, Thomas C. Arthur Sep 2021

Ford Motor Company V. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court: Lots Of Questions, Some Answers, Patrick J. Borchers, Richard D. Freer, Thomas C. Arthur

Emory Law Journal Online

In Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, the Supreme Court handed down its seventh personal jurisdiction decision in the last ten years. Ford—involving two consolidated state-court products liability suits alleging defects in the defendants’ cars that injured forum-state residents in their home states—is the only case in the Supreme Court’s decade-long spate of jurisdictional decisions to find the minimum contacts test satisfied. In this Article, we examine all three opinions of the case. Ford is a welcome return to serious consideration of the fairness of the assertion of jurisdiction. Unlike its six immediate predecessors, Ford …

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Opportunities For Youngstown In The Supply Chains Of Northeast Ohio And Pittsburgh Economies, Iryna Lendel, Iryna Demko, Georgina G. Figueroa Sep 2021

Opportunities For Youngstown In The Supply Chains Of Northeast Ohio And Pittsburgh Economies, Iryna Lendel, Iryna Demko, Georgina G. Figueroa

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

The Center for Economic Development at Cleveland State University conducted this analysis to determine opportunities for the Youngstown economy in the supply chains of Northeast Ohio and Pittsburgh economies. Youngstown can account for a greater share of input purchases from the NEO and Pittsburgh regions by focusing on Nonferrous Metal (Except Aluminum) Production and Processing, Alumina and Aluminum Production and Processing, and Plastic Product Manufacturing. Youngstown can develop its economic ties with Pittsburgh’s economy in its aspirational sector – Financial Services.

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Mb4t (Mathematics By And For Teachers): Not All Inequalities Are Created Equal, Jennifer Holm Sep 2021

Mb4t (Mathematics By And For Teachers): Not All Inequalities Are Created Equal, Jennifer Holm

Education Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Nature’S Rights, Christiana Ochoa Sep 2021

Nature’S Rights, Christiana Ochoa

Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law

Do forests and rivers possess standing to sue? Do mountain ranges have substantive rights? A recent issue of The Judges’ Journal, a preeminent publication for American judges, alerts the bench, bar, and policymakers to the rapidly emerging “rights of nature,” predicting that state and federal courts will increasingly see claims asserting such rights. Within the United States, Tribal law has begun to legally recognize the rights of rivers, mountains, and other natural features. Several municipalities across the United States have also acted to recognize the rights of nature. United States courts have not yet addressed the issue, though in 2017, …

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Efficient, Low-Cost Bridge Cracking Detection And Quantification Using Deep-Learning And Uav Images, Chao Sun, Xiangyu Meng, Joshua O. Ogbebor, Shaopan Guo Sep 2021

Efficient, Low-Cost Bridge Cracking Detection And Quantification Using Deep-Learning And Uav Images, Chao Sun, Xiangyu Meng, Joshua O. Ogbebor, Shaopan Guo

Publications

Many bridges in the State of Louisiana and the United States are working under serious degradation conditions where cracks on bridges threaten structural integrity and public security. To ensure structural integrity and public security, it is required that bridges in the US be inspected and rated every two years. Currently, this biannual assessment is largely implemented using manual visual inspection methods, which is slow and costly. In addition, it is challenging for workers to detect cracks in regions that are hard to reach, e.g., the top part of the bridge tower, cables, mid-span of the bridge girders, and decks. This …

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Trapping Soybean Looper (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) In The Southeastern Usa And Implications For Pheromone-Based Research And Management, Daniel E. Fleming, Jeffrey A. Davis, Fred R. Musser, Silvana V. Paula-Moraes, Ronald C. Stephenson, Christopher A. Wheeler, Earl Eugene Ringpis, Tyler S. Crum, J. Khai Tran Sep 2021

Trapping Soybean Looper (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) In The Southeastern Usa And Implications For Pheromone-Based Research And Management, Daniel E. Fleming, Jeffrey A. Davis, Fred R. Musser, Silvana V. Paula-Moraes, Ronald C. Stephenson, Christopher A. Wheeler, Earl Eugene Ringpis, Tyler S. Crum, J. Khai Tran

Faculty Publications

Novel strategies for the management of soybean looper, Chrysodeixis includens (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), are needed due to its increasing importance, costs, and challenges of management in soybeans (Glycine max [L.] Merr.; Fabaceae) in the Americas. Pheromone-mediated mating disruption may be 1 such novel strategy, but an effective tool for estimating mating disruption success must be found. The technique of trapping male moths using pheromone baited traps is a common method for assessing mating disruption technology. This paper reports on the testing of 2 trap types and 3 commercially available lures containing (Z)-7-dodecenyl acetate as the major active component. Trapping was …

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Managing Corpses From Different Castes In The Eastern Subterranean Termite, Jizhe Shi, Chi Zhang, Sirui Huang, Austin Merchant, Qian Sun, Chuan Zhou, Kenneth F. Haynes, Xuguo Zhou Sep 2021

Managing Corpses From Different Castes In The Eastern Subterranean Termite, Jizhe Shi, Chi Zhang, Sirui Huang, Austin Merchant, Qian Sun, Chuan Zhou, Kenneth F. Haynes, Xuguo Zhou

Faculty Publications

Corpse management is essential for social animals to maintain colony health. In the eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes, workers carry out undertaking behaviors to mitigate the risks associated with the dead. In this study, we hypothesized that termites would respond differently to the corpses from different castes based on their postmortem chemical signatures. To test this hypothesis, we 1) documented the behavioral responses of the workers toward corpses from different castes, and 2) profile the chemical signatures of these corpses. Corpses from all castes were retrieved inside the nests and cannibalized when they were decomposed <64 >h, regardless of the presence …

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Identifying Areas Of Overlap And Distinction In Early Lexical Profiles Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Late Talkers, And Typical Talkers, Eva Jiménez, Eileen Haebig, Thomas T. Hills Sep 2021

Identifying Areas Of Overlap And Distinction In Early Lexical Profiles Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Late Talkers, And Typical Talkers, Eva Jiménez, Eileen Haebig, Thomas T. Hills

Faculty Publications

This study compares the lexical composition of 118 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) aged 12 to 84 months with 4626 vocabulary-matched typically developing toddlers with and without language delay, aged 8 to 30 months. Children with ASD and late talkers showed a weaker noun bias. Additionally, differences were identified in the proportion of nouns and verbs, and in the semantic categories of animals, toys, household items and vehicles. Most differences appear to reflect the extent of the age differences between the groups. However, children with ASD produced fewer high-social verbs than typical talkers and late talkers, a difference that …

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Deep Belief Network Based Audio Classification For Construction Sites Monitoring, Michele Scarpiniti, Francesco Colasante, Simone Di Tanna, Marco Ciancia, Yong Cheol Lee, Aurelio Uncini Sep 2021

Deep Belief Network Based Audio Classification For Construction Sites Monitoring, Michele Scarpiniti, Francesco Colasante, Simone Di Tanna, Marco Ciancia, Yong Cheol Lee, Aurelio Uncini

Faculty Publications

In this paper, we propose a Deep Belief Network (DBN) based approach for the classification of audio signals to improve work activity identification and remote surveillance of construction projects. The aim of the work is to obtain an accurate and flexible tool for consistently executing and managing the unmanned monitoring of construction sites by using distributed acoustic sensors. In this paper, ten classes of multiple construction equipment and tools, frequently and broadly used in construction sites, have been collected and examined to conduct and validate the proposed approach. The input provided to the DBN consists in the concatenation of several …

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A 3d Printed Vitrification Device For Storage In Cryopreservation Vials, Yue Liu, Andy Lin, Terrence R. Tiersch, William Todd Monroe Sep 2021

A 3d Printed Vitrification Device For Storage In Cryopreservation Vials, Yue Liu, Andy Lin, Terrence R. Tiersch, William Todd Monroe

Faculty Publications

Sperm cryopreservation by vitrification is a promising approach for small-bodied animals such as zebrafish (Danio rerio). However, most vitrification tools adopted in aquatic research were initially designed for applications other than sperm (such as human embryo freezing) and, thus, pose challenges for adoption to sperm vitrification. Three-dimensional (3D) printing combined with open hardware sharing is an emerging strategy to address challenges in the development of cryo-preservation tools. The goal of this study was to develop a 3D printed Vitrification Device for Cryo-Vials (VDCV) that can be integrated with the existing vial storage systems. The VDCV combined the vitrification and handling …

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Pioglitazone Reverses Markers Of Islet Beta-Cell De-Differentiation In Db/Db Mice While Modulating Expression Of Genes Controlling Inflammation And Browning In White Adipose Tissue From Insulin-Resistant Mice And Humans, J. Jason Collier, Heidi M. Batdorf, Kaelan L. Merrifield, Thomas M. Martin, Ursula White, Eric Ravussin, David H. Burk, Chris R. Cooley, Michael D. Karlstad, Susan J. Burke Sep 2021

Pioglitazone Reverses Markers Of Islet Beta-Cell De-Differentiation In Db/Db Mice While Modulating Expression Of Genes Controlling Inflammation And Browning In White Adipose Tissue From Insulin-Resistant Mice And Humans, J. Jason Collier, Heidi M. Batdorf, Kaelan L. Merrifield, Thomas M. Martin, Ursula White, Eric Ravussin, David H. Burk, Chris R. Cooley, Michael D. Karlstad, Susan J. Burke

Division of Basic Science Faculty Publications

Obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes contribute to increased morbidity and mortality in humans. The db/db mouse is an important mouse model that displays many key features of the human disease. Herein, we used the drug pioglitazone, a thiazolidinedione with insulin-sensitizing properties, to investigate blood glucose levels, indicators of islet β-cell health and maturity, and gene expression in adipose tissue. Oral administration of pioglitazone lowered blood glucose levels in db/db mice with a corresponding increase in respiratory quotient, which indicates improved whole-body carbohydrate utilization. In addition, white adipose tissue from db/db mice and from humans treated with pioglitazone showed …

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Fgf21 Prevents Low-Protein Diet-Induced Renal Inflammation In Aged Mice, Han Fang, Sujoy Ghosh, Landon C. Sims, Kirsten P. Stone, Cristal M. Hill, Denisha Spires, Daria V. Ilatovskaya, Christopher D. Morrison, Thomas W. Gettys, Krisztian Stadler Sep 2021

Fgf21 Prevents Low-Protein Diet-Induced Renal Inflammation In Aged Mice, Han Fang, Sujoy Ghosh, Landon C. Sims, Kirsten P. Stone, Cristal M. Hill, Denisha Spires, Daria V. Ilatovskaya, Christopher D. Morrison, Thomas W. Gettys, Krisztian Stadler

Division of Basic Science Faculty Publications

Low-protein (LP) diets extend lifespan through a comprehensive improvement in metabolic health across multiple tissues and organs. Many of these metabolic responses to protein restriction are secondary to transcriptional activation and release of FGF21 from the liver. However, the effects of an LP diet on the kidney in the context of aging has not been examined. Therefore, the goal of the current study was to investigate the impact of chronic consumption of an LP diet on the kidney in aging mice lacking FGF21. Wild-Type (WT; C57BL/6J) and FGF21 knockout (KO) mice were fed a normal protein diet (20% casein) or …

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Population Structure, Gene Flow, And Sex-Biased Dispersal In The Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma Bishopi): Implications For Translocations, Steven T. Williams, Jean P. Elbers, Sabrina S. Taylor Sep 2021

Population Structure, Gene Flow, And Sex-Biased Dispersal In The Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma Bishopi): Implications For Translocations, Steven T. Williams, Jean P. Elbers, Sabrina S. Taylor

Faculty Publications

Understanding patterns of gene flow and population structure is vital for managing threatened and endangered species. The reticulated flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma bishopi) is an endangered species with a fragmented range; therefore, assessing connectivity and genetic population structure can inform future conservation. Samples collected from breeding sites (n = 5) were used to calculate structure and gene flow using three marker types: single nucleotide polymorphisms isolated from potential immune genes (SNPs), nuclear data from the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), and the mitochondrial control region. At a broad geographical scale, nuclear data (SNP and MHC) supported gene flow and little structure (FST …

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