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Making Intimate Partner Violence Vital
(2023-07-20)Intimate Partner Violence, or IPV, is a physically and mentally violent phenomenon prevalent in today’s society. In order to follow guidelines by governing bodies of health care, a four-year university in the southeast ... -
Making the MOST of Advance Care Planning
(2024-04-01)Background and local problem: This project sought to improve patient confidence and satisfaction in Advance Care Planning (ACP) as applied to completing Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST) forms in a geriatric ... -
Malnutrition defined by dietary problems, not just starvation
(2023-06-14)This newspaper column written by Ashley Strickland RDN, CDN, CNSC explains how and why a person being admitted to the hospital may be screened for malnutrition or hidden nutrition and how it is managed at ECU Health. This ... -
Management of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting: A Quality Improvement Project
(2023-12-07)Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a complex side effect of general anesthesia affecting 30% of the general surgical population and up to 80% of high-risk patients. Prevention and management of PONV are crucial ... -
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games: problematic use
(East Carolina University, 2013)Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) are a form of mass media with potential for behavioral addiction among some users. In past literature on internet addiction, MMORPG users have been included alongside ... -
Mast cells and the IL-33/ST2 axis are essential determinants of carbon nanotube toxicity
(East Carolina University, 2012)The rise of nanomaterial use in a variety of applications, including biomedical imaging and drug delivery, has led to concern about the potentially hazardous impacts on human health. Mast cells are critical for innate and ... -
Maternal cadmium, iron and zinc levels, DNA methylation and birth weight
(2015-07)Background Cadmium (Cd) is a ubiquitous and environmentally persistent toxic metal that has been implicated in neurotoxicity, carcinogenesis and obesity and essential metals including zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe) may alter ... -
A Mathematical Model of Tumor Volume Changes during Radiotherapy
(2013)Purpose. To develop a clinically viable mathematical model that quantitatively predicts tumor volume change during radiotherapy in order to provide treatment response assessment for prognosis, treatment plan optimization, ... -
Matrix Metalloproteinase 12 is Critical for Granuloma Formation in the Murine Model of Granulomatous disease
(East Carolina University, 2019-08-16)Matrix Metalloproteinase 12 (MMP12) is a protein produced primarily by alveolar macrophages that degrades elastin in the extracellular matrix (ECM) and enables infiltration of immune cells that participate in the inflammatory ... -
MCF-7 breast cancer cells transfected with protein kinase C-alpha exhibit altered expression of other protein kinase C isoforms and display a more aggressive neoplastic phenotype.
(East Carolina University, 1995-04)Increased protein kinase C (PKC) activity in malignant breast tissue and positive correlations between PKC activity and expression of a more aggressive phenotype in breast cancer cell lines suggest a role for this signal ... -
Measles vaccine vectors and methods of use
(2003-03-20)The present invention provides a novel vaccine expressing a fusion of the measles hemagglutinin (H) protein and the complement component, C3d, to enhance the titers of neutralizing antibody. Plasmids were generated that ...