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Lexical diversity in Parkinson’s disease
(2015-03-02)
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative syndrome of the basal ganglia (BG) believed to disrupt cortical-subcortical pathways critical to motor, cognitive and expressive language function. Recent studies ...
The Influence of Iron on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Physiology: A regulatory link between iron and quorum sensing
(East Carolina University, 2008-06-06)
In iron-replete environments, the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Fur (ferric uptake regulator) protein represses expression of two small regulatory RNAs encoded by prrF1 and prrF2. Here we describe the effects of iron and PrrF ...
Mechanism for Improved Insulin Sensitivity after Gastric Bypass Surgery
(East Carolina University, 2008-12)
Context: Surgical treatments of obesity have been shown to induce rapid and prolonged improvements in insulin sensitivity. Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of gastric bypass surgery and the ...
A Process Improvement Project to Increase the Utilization of Advance Care Directives in Primary Care
(2015-11-15)
Background/Purpose: The Patient Self-Determination Act passed in 1990 brought great attention to the need of advance care directives (ACDs). In the United States, 18-36% of adults have an ACD and less than half of adults ...
Curating MARC Indexing to Optimize Discoverability of Resources at the ECU Libraries
(2014-01-25)
This presentation features a case study of an implementation of VuFind at the East Carolina University Libraries. Cataloging representatives from the main university library, the health sciences library, and the music ...
Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Basic Leucine Zipper Factor (HBZ) Interacts and Inhibits the Acetyltransferase Activity of Multiple Cellular Coactivator Families to Deregulate Transcription
(East Carolina University, 1/13/16)
Of the 20 million individuals infected worldwide with the complex retrovirus, Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1, 5% will develop an incurable and fatal form of leukemia known as adult T-cell leukemia (ATL). During the ...
THE ROLE OF RETINOIC ACID IN DIRECTING INITIATION OF SPERMATOGENESIS IN THE MOUSE
(East Carolina University, 2015-10-23)
The basic tenets of gametogenesis are conserved among metazoans. After lineage commitment, germ cells proliferate, complete meiosis, and then differentiate into gametes capable of fertilization. In the mouse, spermatogenesis ...
FUNCTION OF DISINTEGRIN-LIKE DOMAIN OF KSHV gB IN REGULATING VIRUS INFECTION
(East Carolina University, 2015-12-10)
KSHV, also referred to as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8), is the eighth and latest identified human herpesvirus. It is the causative agent for a variety of malignancies namely Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma ...
Implementation of the FISH! Philosophy in Primary Care: A change in the culture of healthcare delivery
(2016-12-06)
Background: Public Health Departments often serve a disenfranchised patient population. While practitioners are committed to providing exceptional care to vulnerable populations, lack of resources and governmental bureaucracy ...
Auditory and visual sustained attention on tasks with varied motivation and cognitive loads in children with and without ADHD.
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common condition that can make tasks difficult for the children affected, particularly in a school environment. Continuous performance tasks are one means of evaluating ...