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Orientation to Screening and Treating Patients for Food Insecurity, The MOTHeRS Project - Updated 2022
(2021)This is the presentation/training for staff and volunteers participating in the screening for and treatment of food insecurity in the MOTHeRS project. These materials can be adapted for other clinical sites. This is an ... -
The ornithine decarboxylase gene odc is required for alcaligin siderophore biosynthesis in Bordetella spp.: putrescine is a precursor of alcaligin.
(East Carolina University, 1996-01)Chromosomal insertions defining Bordetella bronchiseptica siderophore phenotypic complementation group III mutants BRM3 and BRM5 were found to reside approximately 200 to 300 bp apart by restriction mapping of cloned genomic ... -
Osteomyelitis Infection of Mycobacterium marinum: A Case Report and Literature Review
(2014-12)Mycobacterium marinum (M. marinum) is a ubiquitous waterborne organism that grows optimally at temperatures around 30°C. It is a nontuberculous Mycobacterium found in nonchlorinated water with worldwide prevalence. It is ... -
Outcomes of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery for severely obese patients with type 1 diabetes: a case series report
(2010)Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (RYGB) reverses type 2 diabetes (DM2) in approximately 83% of patients with morbid or severe obesity. This procedure has been performed in small numbers of severely obese patients with type ... -
Outpatient Colonoscopy by Rural Family Physicians
(East Carolina University, 2005-03)PURPOSE Five percent of family physicians offer colonoscopy services, either in the office or the hospital, often in rural areas that have no gastroenterologist. Two previous large series have shown the quality and safety ... -
Overcoming resistance to molecularly targeted anticancer therapies: rational drug combinations based on EGFR and MAPK inhibition for solid tumours and haematologic malignancies
(East Carolina University, 2007-06)Accumulating evidence suggests that cancer can be envisioned as a "signaling disease", in which alterations in the cellular genome affect the expression and/or function of oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes. This ... -
Oxidative stress response in an anaerobe, Bacteroides fragilis: a role for catalase in protection against hydrogen peroxide.
(East Carolina University, 1996-12)Survival of Bacteroides fragilis in the presence of oxygen was dependent on the ability of bacteria to synthesize new proteins, as determined by the inhibition of protein synthesis after oxygen exposure. The B. fragilis ... -
Oxytocin Modulation of Zebra Finch Vocal Development
(East Carolina University, 2010)Autism spectrum disorder is associated with deficits in three main behavioral areas: social behaviors, repetitive behaviors, and language abnormalities. Accumulating evidence suggests a potential role for oxytocin signaling ... -
OZONE-INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN MACROPHAGE FUNCTION AND THE PROTECTIVE ROLE OF SR-BI
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)Ozone (O3), a criteria air pollutant, is the primary component of photochemical smog. Currently, over 140 million people in the United States are exposed to levels of O3 deemed unhealthy by the Environmental Protection ... -
p53 and NGAL: dual regulatory roles in advanced prostate cancer
(East Carolina University, 2011)The development of prostate cancer from small regions of hyperplasia to invasive tumors requires genetic and epigenetic alterations of critical cellular components to aid in the development of cells more adapted for aberrant ... -
A Pacific Food Guide from the Children's Healthy Living PRogram
(2016-02)The paper describes the development of the Pacific Food Guide. The Food Guide includes fruits, vegetables, fish and animals not typically found in the US Food Guides but are consumed by individuals living int the Pacific. ... -
Participation in Community-Originated Interventions is Associated with Positive Changes in Weight Status and Health Behaviors in Youth
(2012-04-13)Purpose. To assess changes in children’s health behaviors and weight status after participation in community-originated interventions. ... -
Paternal diet and exercise epigenetically program energy expenditure and glucose metabolism in mouse offspring
(East Carolina University, 2014)It is currently estimated that a third of Americans suffer from metabolic syndrome, which is an obesogenic disease shown to increase risk for developing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) by five-fold (Diabetes Care, 2012). The ...