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Ginseng Extract Treatment Influences On Preimplantation Development In Vitro, And Pregnancy And Post-Partum Development In The Mouse, Danyka D. Belanger Jun 2012

Ginseng Extract Treatment Influences On Preimplantation Development In Vitro, And Pregnancy And Post-Partum Development In The Mouse, Danyka D. Belanger

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Ginseng is one of the most commonly consumed herbal medicines in the world. Consumption is highest in females, thus my purpose was to define the concentration responsive effects of North American alcoholic and aqueous ginseng extracts on preimplantation development in vitro and on pregnancy and post-partum development in the mouse. 2-cell embryos from female mice were cultured with 5 different concentrations of both extracts, ginsenosides Rb1, Rg1 and Re, a combinatorial ginsenoside solution and a polysaccharide fraction. Embryonic development and recovery from treatment was assessed. To investigate in vivo effects of ginseng extracts, females were gavaged with 50 mg/kg and …


Self-Presentation And Social Physique Anxiety In Injury Rehabilitation Settings, Molly Driediger Apr 2012

Self-Presentation And Social Physique Anxiety In Injury Rehabilitation Settings, Molly Driediger

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The objective of this dissertation was to provide an initial description of self-presentation in injury rehabilitation (i.e., physiotherapy). To accomplish this, one qualitative and two quantitative studies were conducted. Study 1 determined whether self-presentational concerns were present in this setting. Female (n = 134) and male (n = 54) undergraduate students with a mean age of 20.64 years (SD = 1.99) completed measures of Social Physique Anxiety (SPA; Hart et al., 1989), self-presentational concerns, and preferences for features of the social and physical physiotherapy environment. An examination of the relationships between these variables revealed that self-presentation exists …