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Set manageable goals for the New Year
(2021-12-29)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is all about how to eat healthy, nutritious meals in the coming new year. Improving one's outlook on progress and patterns of ... -
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus- 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Long Term Care Facilities within the State of North Carolina
(2021-07-26)The data of infection and death rates of SARS-CoV-2 in Long Term Care (LTC) Facilities in the United States (U.S) and the State of North Carolina (N.C) demonstrate that residents in this community had a higher rate of ... -
Sex, SIN, and Dirty Books
(East Carolina University, 1974-01)The paper discusses various creative approaches used to involve faculty in library operations and to expand service both to faculty and students in an academic health sciences library. Originally published Bulletin of hte ... -
The Shirt Off His Back
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The Short-Term Effect of Weight Loss Surgery on Volumetric Breast Density and Fibroglandular Volume
(2016-10-26)Purpose: Obesity and breast density are both associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and are potentially modifiable. Weight loss surgery (WLS) causes a significant reduction in the amount of body fat and a ... -
Short-term, high-fat diet accelerates disuse atrophy and protein degradation in a muscle-specific manner in mice
(2015-11-04)Background: A short-term high-fat diet impairs mitochondrial function and the ability of skeletal muscle to respond to growth stimuli, but it is unknown whether such a diet alters the ability to respond to atrophy signals. ... -
Should I take an antibiotic
(2018-12-05)Newspaper column prepared by Chelsea Viscardi under supervision of Kathryn Kolasa -
Sickly Sweet: The Development of a Standardized Method for Testing Lactose and Fructose Intolerance and Malabsorption
(2013)Lactose intolerance has been a known cause of gastrointestinal distress for many years. Recently, it has come to attention that fructose intolerance elicits many of the same symptoms as lactose intolerance. The consumption ... -
Sign up today for the Holiday Challenge
(2022-11-16)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is discussing the Eat Smart Move More holiday challenge, which is used to manage healthy eating habits and weight management. ... -
The significance of mirna pathway in peripheral nerve regeneration following sciatic nerve injury.
(East Carolina University, 2012)microRNAs (miRNAs) are small (21-23 nucleotides) single-stranded RNAs that play important roles in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. The binding of miRNA to its specific target mRNAs at 3' UTR causes ... -
Similarity to peroxisomal-membrane protein family reveals that Sinorhizobium and Brucella BacA affect lipid-A fatty acids
(East Carolina University, 2004-04-06)Sinorhizobium meliloti, a legume symbiont, and Brucella abortus, a phylogenetically related mammalian pathogen, both require the bacterial-encoded BacA protein to establish chronic intracellular infections in their respective ... -
A Simple Scan for Stress Reduction and Safety
(2021-04-28)Communication between first responders and citizens during emergencies can be impacted by communication disorders. If a citizen is unable to effectively communicate personal, medical, or situational information to a first ... -
Single Incision Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair
(2011)Background and Objectives: Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair (LVH) requires several skin incisions for trocar placement. We have developed a single incision approach to LVH repair. The technique was introduced in ... -
A SINGLE-CHAIN GMCSF-MOG TOLEROGENIC VACCINE EXPANDS MOG-SPECIFIC CD25+ FOXP3+ REGULATORY T CELLS THROUGH LOW-EFFICIENCY ANTIGEN RECOGNITION EVENTS TO INHIBIT EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS
(2019-12)Previous studies showed that tolerogenic vaccines comprised of single-chain GMCSF-neuroantigen (NAg) fusion proteins inhibited experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in rodents. The studies detailed here provide ... -
Sinusoidal Cox Regression—A Rare Cancer Example
(2010-11)Evidence of an association between survival time and date of birth would suggest an etiologic role for a seasonally variable environmental exposure occurring within a narrow perinatal time period. Risk factors that may ...