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Adolescent BMI: The Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors
(2018-04-13)
Objectives:
Research shows that weight trends in adolescence persist into adulthood, but do the same factors contribute to weight in adolescence
as in adulthood? Are extrinsic factors presumably more important than ...
Best Practices and Innovative Solutions to Overcome Barriers to Delivering Policy, Systems and Environmental Changes in Rural Communities
(2018-08-03)
To better understand the barriers to implementing policy; systems; and environmental
(PSE) change initiatives within Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed)
programming in U.S. rural communities; ...
Adduction to arginine detoxifies aflatoxin B1 by eliminating genotoxicity and altering in vitro toxicokinetic profiles
(2018-01-12)
Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a class 1 carcinogen and prominent food contaminant,
is highly linked to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and plays a
causative role in a large portion of global HCC cases. We have ...
A mixed method analysis of patients' complaints: Underpinnings of theory-guided strategies to improve quality of care
(2018-10-10)
Purpose:
Patients' complaints can be predictors of patient care quality and safety. Understanding patients' complaints could help healthcare organizations target the areas for improvements. The purpose of this study is ...
Development of improved therapeutic mesothelin-based vaccines for pancreatic cancer
(2018-02-23)
Pancreatic cancer is the 5th leading cause of cancer deaths, and there are no effective treatments. We developed a poxvirus platform vaccine with improved immunogenicity and inserted the mesothelin gene to create an ...
Effects of Social Experience on the Habituation Rate of Zebrafish Startle Escape Response: Empirical and Computational Analyses
(2018-02-05)
While the effects of social experience on nervous system function have been extensively investigated in both vertebrate and invertebrate systems, our understanding of how social status differentially affects learning remains ...
Electronic Health Literacy Across the Lifespan: Measurement Invariance Study
(2018-09-07)
Background: Electronic health (eHealth) information is ingrained in the healthcare experience to engage patients across the lifespan. Both eHealth accessibility and optimization are influenced by lifespan development, as ...
Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing in carrot cells
(2018-01-13)
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas9) is a powerful genome editing tool that has been widely adopted in model organisms recently, but has not been used in carrot—a model ...
Emerging Role of Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Pancreatic Cancer
(2018-11-07)
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) with programmed cell death protein-1(PD-1)/programmed death ligand -1(PD-L1) antibodies has revolutionized the management of several cancers, especially non-small cell lung cancer, melanoma, ...
Effects of Monolaurin on Oral Microbe-Host Transcriptome and Metabolome
(2018-11-06)
The aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate the effects of monolaurin against Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (Aa) and determine their effects on the host transcriptome and metabolome, using an oral cell/bacteria ...