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Premature mortality in the United States: the roles of geographic area, socioeconomic status, household type, and availability of medical care.
(East Carolina University, 1999-06)
OBJECTIVES: This study examined premature mortality by county in the United States and assessed its association with metro/urban/rural geographic location, socioeconomic status, household type, and availability of medical ...
Physical and Functional Interactions between the Herpes Simplex Virus UL15 and UL28 DNA Cleavage and Packaging Proteins
(East Carolina University, 1999-02)
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) DNA is cleaved from concatemers and packaged into capsids in infected cell nuclei. This process requires seven viral proteins, including UL15 and UL28. UL15 expressed alone displays a nuclear ...
Essential Role of the Iron-Regulated Outer Membrane Receptor FauA in Alcaligin Siderophore-Mediated Iron Uptake in Bordetella Species
(East Carolina University, 1999-10)
Phenotypic analysis using heterologous host systems localized putative Bordetella pertussis ferric alcaligin transport genes and Fur-binding sequences to a 3.8-kb genetic region downstream from the alcR regulator gene. ...
Quinolone signaling in the cell-to-cell communication system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(East Carolina University, 1999-09-28)
Numerous species of bacteria use an elegant
regulatory mechanism known as quorum sensing to control
the expression of specific genes in a cell-density dependent
manner. In Gram-negative bacteria, quorum sensing ...
Tumour necrosis factor-alpha regulates expression of the CCAAT-enhancer-binding proteins (C/EBPs) alpha and beta and determines the occupation of the C/EBP site in the promoter of the insulin-responsive glucose-transporter gene in 3T3-L1 adipocytes.
(East Carolina University, 1999-03-15)
We have demonstrated previously that treatment of 3T3-L1 adipocytes with tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) results in a rapid (4 h) and significant (75–80%) reduction in the rate of transcription of the GLUT4 gene. Control ...
Calponin interaction with alpha-actinin-actin: evidence for a structural role for calponin.
(East Carolina University, 1999-12)
The purpose of this study was to address the paradox of calponin localization with a-actinin and filamin, two proteins with tandem calponin homology (CH) domains, by determining the effect of these proteins on the binding ...
Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action and Medical Education
(East Carolina University, 1999-08)
Affirmative action programs of all types are under attack legally and politically. Although medical schools have not been specifically targeted, their affirmative action programs, like others in higher education, are ...
Method of treatment using chemotherapy and erythropoietin
(1999-07-13)
The use of human erythropoietin (EPO) to prevent or treat endothelial injury due to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, mechanical trauma, or to a disease state which damages the endothelium (such as inflammation, heart disease ...
Low adenosine agent, composition, kit and method for treatment of airway disease
(1999-11-30)
An oligonucleotide which is antisense to a mRNA encoding a polypeptide involved in airway disease(s) contains up to three adenosines per every 21 nucleotide a method of treating airway disease in a subject in need of such ...
Pharmaceutically acceptable fixed-dried human blood platelets
(1999-11-30)
Fixed-dried human blood platelets and processes for preparing the same are disclosed. The platelets, upon reconstitution; adhere to thrombogenic surfaces; do not adhere to non-thrombogenic surfaces; undergo shape change ...