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Identification Of Four Complementary Rna Species In Akabane Virus-Infected Cells, Asit K. Pattnaik, G. Abraham

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

The analysis of RNA extracted from purified Akabane virus demonstrated the presence of three size classes of single-stranded RNAs with sedimentation coefficients of 31S (large, L), 26S (medium, M), and 13S (small, S). Molecular weights of these RNA species were estimated to be 2.15 x 10⁶,1.5 X 10⁶, and 0.48 x 10⁶ for the L, M, and S RNAs, respectively. Hybridization analysis involving viral genomic RNA and RNA from virus-infected cells resulted in the identification of four virus-specific cRNA species in infected cells. These cRNAs were found to be nonpolyadenylated by their inability to bind …

The Zinc Status Of Pregnant Vegetarian Women, Michelle J. Abu-Assal

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The zinc status of twelve lacto-ovo-vegetariah pregnant women and seventeen non-vegetarian pregnant women was evaluated. Zinc intakes were calculated from three-day dietary records and twenty-four hour dietary histories. Plasma zinc levels were drawn during the last trimester of pregnancy and approximately ten weeks postpartum. Gestational age at birth, birthweight, and APGAR scores of the infants born were obtained from the medical charts. Dietary zinc intakes for the vegetarians (10.5 ± 4.0 mg) did not differ significantly from the intakes of the non-vegetarians (10.9 ± 3.0 mg). The vegetarian last trimester plasma zinc levels (47.9 ± 12.4 mcg/dl) and postpartum plasma …

Development Of A Mathematical Model Of Renal Function For Clinical Application, Barbara A. Holshouser

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This model describes the orthoiodohippurate (OIH) distribution and clearance in the renovascular system. The model is described by five compartments: the blood, left and right kidneys, bladder and the red blood cell compartment. Data for these compartments, except the RBC compartment, are collected with scintillation detectors monitoring OIH tagged with 1-131 as the radiopharmaceutical passes through each compartment. Time/ activity curves are plotted for the data and used as inputs to the model parameter estimation routine. The compartments are described by a set of first order ordinary differential equations solved using the Adam's methods. For parameter estimation, an iterative predictor-corrector …

Lifeline - City Of Faith Newsletter (July, 1983), Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

City of Faith

Lifeline vol 1, no 6 (Jul, 1983)

Lifeline is the newsletter for the employees and staff of the City of Faith Medical and Research Center. This edition includes the following articles:

• "Counseling Services in Full Swing"
• "PTL Gives City Satellite Dish"
• "HAC Sees 3,100 Gold Card Patients"
• "City of Faith to Produce TV Series"
• "Welcome New Physicians"
• "Welcome New Nurses"
• "Welcome New Employees and Staff"
• "Eileen Baggett: A Special Friend, A Special Ministry to Spouses"
• "From Lasers to Light Bulbs, Materials Management Delivers."

Food Habits And The Utilization Of Drift Organisms By Larval Fishes In The Middle Fork Of Drake's Creek, Kentucky, Shirley Timbrook

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Food habits of larvae of the northern hog sucker, common shiner, rosyface shiner, and Micropterus sp. from the Middle Fork of Drake's Creek, Kentucky were identified from 18 March to 12 August 1982. Eighteen taxa of animals were observed in the stream drift and a total of seventeen taxa, including larval fish, were identified in the stomach analysis. Eggs, rotifers, hydracarina, and diptera represented the greatest component of the drift comprising 34%, 32%, 8%, and 6%, respectively. The major organisms observed in the gut analysis included eggs (fish, rotifer, and copepod species), rotifers (Euchlanis sp.), diptera (Chironomidae), annelida (Naididae), copepoda …

Lifeline - City Of Faith Newsletter (May-June, 1983), Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

City of Faith

Lifeline vol 1, no 5 (Oct 1982)

Lifeline is the newsletter for the employees and staff of the City of Faith Medical and Research Center. This edition includes the following articles:

• "City of Faith Prepares for NMR Unit"
• "Unit Committees Improve Communication, Patient Care"
• "City of Faith Open Heart Program Begins"
• "Welcome New Nurses"
• "Welcome New Employees and Staff"
• "Already Many Requests - COF Speakers Bureaus Established"
• "Faces of Health Fair 83"

Faculty Publications 1982, Lsu Health Sciences Center New Orleans

Historical Faculty Publications

This Faculty bibliography contains 513 publications.

Lifeline - City Of Faith Newsletter (March, 1983), Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

City of Faith

Lifeline vol 1, no 4 (March, 1983)

Lifeline is the newsletter for the employees and staff of the City of Faith Medical and Research Center. This edition includes the following articles:

• Jerry Brown Named Administrator
• "Good Press, Bad Press, No Press..." James E. Winslow, Jr.
• "Welcome Physicians"
• "Welcome New Nurses"
• "Welcome New Employees and Staff"
• "HMO Response Termed 'Excellent!'"

Diazepam, Pentobarbital, And Methaqualone Effects On Several Behaviors In The Rat And Antagonism By Ro 15-1788, David J. Mokler, Richard H. Rech

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

The sedative hypnotics may exert their effects through a number of different mechanisms. Diazepam interacts with a specific receptor linked to a GABA receptor and a CL ionophore (Skolnick and Paul, 1981) and enhances the binding affinity of the GABA receptor for its ligand. Barbiturates may act at an additional receptor linked to this complex (Olsen, 1981). The sites of action of methaqualone have yet to be defined. Recently Hunkeler et al. (1981) synthesized a new class of compounds, the imidazodiazepines, the prototype being Ro 15-1788. They showed that Ro 15-1788 inhibits 3H-Diazepam binding to brain synaptosomes, reverses diazepam-induced protection …

Biochemical Characterization Of Human Thy 1, Lynda F. Bonewald

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

The present studies were undertaken in order to a) verify the presence of a human Thy 1 antigen, b) demonstrate its similarity to murine Thy 1, and c) biochemically characterize the molecule. Previously, a 25,000 molecular weight molecule had been isolated from a human T lymphoblastoid cell line, Molt 3, using isolation procedures most frequently used for the isolation of rodent Thy 1. The human Thy 1 (p25) was demonstrated to be biochemically similar to murine Thy 1.2 by molecular weight and ability to bind Lens Culinaris lentil lectin. Recently, we confirmed similarity between the murine and the human molecule …

Area-Related Species Richness: The Uses Of Ecological And Paleontological Data, Earl D. Mccoy, Jorge R. Rey

Integrative Biology Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Lifeline - City Of Faith Newsletter (Jan, 1983)), Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

City of Faith

Lifeline vol 1, no 3 (Jan, 1983)

Lifeline is the newsletter for the employees and staff of the City of Faith Medical and Research Center. This edition includes the following articles:

• "1983 Declared the Year of Research"
• "Quick Growth by a Great Staff"
• "Lay Prayer Partners Recognized"
• "Welcome New Nurses"
• "Welcome New Employees and Staff"
• "Departments Celebrate the Season"

The Utilization Of Response Surface Techniques In Survival Experiments, Leonard Edward Buchner

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Linear regression procedures are described which give an unbiased estimate of the percent functional viability of rat polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN's). These statistical techniques allow discrimination between variables which result in increased PMN survival after freezing. A review of current response surface techniques was made as they relate to optimizing the functional viability of PMN's after freezing. Experimental designs based on the steepest ascent and simplex methodologies were considered. Since the hill climbing efficiency of the steepest ascent and simplex methods are comparable, the steepest ascent procedure was selected as it is more readily adaptable to a batch mode analysis.

Pathology, Jean Holland Saumur

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

Physiology And Pharmacology: 1905-1977; Physiology: 1977-1983, Helge Ellis Ederstrom, Stanley J. Brumleve

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

Neuroscience, Lee A. Christoferson

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.

Lifeline - City Of Faith Newsletter (Dec, 1982), Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

City of Faith

Lifeline 1, vol 2 (Dec, 1982)

Lifeline is the newsletter for the employees and staff of the City of Faith Medical and Research Center. This edition includes the following articles:

• "Hospital Notes First Anniversary; New Psychiatric Unit Opens"
• "Gearing Up for the Partners" by William B. Luttrell
• "Their Only Paycheck is a Smile and a Thank You"
• "Welcome Physicians"
• "Welcome New Nurses"
• "Welcome New Employees and Staff"
• "Runners Promote Fitness Center"
• "Dr. Bill Bright Greets a COF Employee"

Lifeline - City Of Faith Newsletter (Oct, 1982), Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

City of Faith

Lifeline 1, vol 1 (Oct 1982)

Lifeline is the newsletter for the employees and staff of the City of Faith Medical and Research Center. This edition includes the following articles:

• "Major COF Marketing Thrust Begins"
• "The State of Our Institution" by James Winslow, M.D.
• "Hospital Receives Accreditation"
• "Optical Clinic Opens"
• "Fitness Center Goes Public"
• 'New Physicians"
• "New Nurses"
• "Welcome New Residents"
• "Hinshaw Named Medical School Dean"
• "Medical School Departments Move to City of Faith"
• "City of Faith to Pioneer Pre-paid Health Care in Tulsa"

Antibiotic Susceptibility Of Black-Pigmented Bacteroides Isolates From The Human Oral Cavity, Linda Jean Laatsch, Paul R. Hohenfeldt, William L. Kos

Biomedical Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

The minimal inhibitory concentrations of penicillin and six other antibiotics were determined for 66 oral black-pigmented Bacteroides isolates by using the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards proposed standard agar dilution technique. These results plus iodometric determination of β-lactamase activity showed that oral isolates of black-pigmented Bacteroides are remaining relatively susceptible to commonly used antibiotics.

1982 Fall No. 3, School Of Medicine Office Of Alumni Affairs

Medicinews

LSU Medical Alumni Quarterly Number 3 Fall 1982 was edited by Richard M. Paddison, MD, and published by the LSU School of Medicine Office of Alumni Affairs.

This issue consists of 16 pages.

Alteration Of Regional Blood Flow And Autoregulation Test In Patients With Vertebrobasilar Disease, Hiroaki Koga, George M. Austin

The Dr. George M. Austin Neurology Research Collection

Alteration of Regional Blood Flow and Autoregulation Test in Patients with Vertebrobasilar Disease. Hiroaki Koga, M.D., George M. Austin, M.D. Conference presentation. International Symposium on Microsurgical Anastomoses for Cerebral Ischemia. September 1982. 9 pg.

Aspects Of Anuran Metabolism: Effects Of Chronic Hypoxia On Maximal Oxygen Uptake Rates And The Fate Of Lactic Acid, Thomas Charles Solberg

Dissertations and Theses

Some aspects of anuran metabolism are examined, with special emphasis on possible limitations to aerobic metabolism and the effect of chronic hypoxia acclimation on maximal rates of aerobic metabolism and the metabolic fate of lactic acid accumulated after anaerobic metabolism.

1982 May No. 2, School Of Medicine Office Of Alumni Affairs

Medicinews

LSU Medical Alumni Quarterly Number 2 was edited by Richard M. Paddison, MD, and published by the LSU School of Medicine Office of Alumni Affairs.

This issue consists of 8 pages. The publication date is May 1982.

Effects Of The Serotonin Depletor Parachlorophenylalanine Upon Shock-Induced Aggression And Pressing Responses In Rats, Robert G. Sewell

Masters Theses

The literature concerning the effects of d, l-parachlorophenylalanine (PCPA) upon shock-induced aggression (SIA) is reviewed and found to be inconsistent. PCPA, a known serotonin depletor, has behavioral effects in a variety of other procedures which collectively suggest that PCPA should produce SIA enhancement. The present study was designed to analyze PCPA (300 mg/kg) effects upon SIA in rats restrained spatially close to an inanimate target and panel operandum. The results showed marked increases in both aggressive biting and panel pressing for several days following each PCPA treatment for each subject tested. These data were interpreted to indicate that serotonin depletion …

Strange Males Block Pregnancy In Lactating Pine Voles, Microtus Pinetorum, And Reduce Survival And Growth Of Nursing Young, Margaret H. Schadler

Eastern Pine and Meadow Vole Symposia

Strange (unfamiliar) males affect survival of progeny of reproductive female rodents in a variety of ways. In mice, strange males block pregnancy before implantation of embryos (Bruce, 1959) but only in females that are not lactating (Bruce and Parkes, 1961). In voles these males can block pregnancy both before and after implantation (Stehn and Richmond, 1975; Marks and Schadler, 1979; Schadler, 1981). Strange males have also been shown to kill nursing pups in lemmings (Mallory and Brooks, 1978) and mice (Labov, 1980 and vom Saal and Howard, 1982).

The present study in pine voles (Microtus pinetorum) examines the …

Proteins Antigenically Related To The Human Erythrocyte Glucose Transporter In Normal And Rous Sarcoma Virus-Transformed Chicken Embryo Fibroblasts., Donald W. Salter, Stephen A. Baldwin, Gustav E. Lienhard, Michael J. Weber

Dartmouth Scholarship

Antibody raised against the purified human erythrocyte glucose transporter specifically precipitated four proteins from normal and Rous sarcoma virus-transformed chicken embryo cells: a major protein of Mr 41,000 and minor proteins of Mr 68,000, 73,000, and 82,000. The Mr 41,000 and 82,000 proteins were found only in a membrane fraction, not in the soluble fraction, and displayed a heterogeneous mobility on NaDodSO4/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, suggesting glycosylation. The Mr 41,000 and 82,000 proteins were increased in amount after malignant transformation in direct proportion to the increase in hexose transport rate, and the increase was dependent on the expression of the src …

Genetically Controlled Variation Of “Acid” Beta-Galactosidase Detected In Rattus Norvegicus By Isoelectric Focusing, T C Douglas, K A Kimmel, P E Dawson

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Two genetically variant forms of rat "acid" beta-galactosidase were found to differ in isoelectric point and pH dependence, but not in thermostability or sensitivity to inhibition by p-mercuribenzoate (PMB). The results of two backcrosses and an intercross indicated that the isoelectric focusing phenotypes are controlled by two codominant alleles at a single autosomal locus, for which we propose the name Glb-1. No significant linkage between Glb-1 and albino (LG I), brown (LG II), or hooded (LG VI) was observed. Strain-specific differences in total levels of kidney beta-galactosidase were detected, but it is not yet known whether the variation is controlled …

Discordant Expression Of Fetal Hydantoin Syndrome In Heteropaternal Dizygotic Twins, Mary C. Phelan , B.S., John M. Pellock , M.D., Walter E. Nance , M.D., Ph.D.

Human and Molecular Genetics Publications

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Factors, Attitudes, And The Frequency Of Pap Smears Of Female Patients In A Rural Health Care Center, Kathy Ann Barnes

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Fifty-seven women over the age of 16, seeking care at a rural health center, completed questionnaires concerning demographic factors and health beliefs and attitudes. Correlation coefficients and Z scores were computed for the variables. There was significant positive correlation in both demographic and health belief and attitude areas. Discussed also are factors possibly contributing to the test results, as well as alternative research models.

Argt Caused By Toxic Antibiodies : Research Report, P Vogel

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

A fortunate coincidence, discovered recently, has provided annual ryegrass toxicity researchers with valuable knowledge which may help them understand how the ARGT toxins affect animals, and further their investigations into vaccine development. A toxic antibiotic, identified years ago, has proved to be closely related to the ARGT toxins. Antibiotics are generally regarded as effective agents for the control of many bacterial and fungal infections. However, some of them are toxic to both the bacteria and the host, whether man or animal.