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Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that can be found in humans and animals across the world. The disease caused by the infection of the parasite has the greatest effect on people with weakened immune systems and pregnant women.
Toxoplasma gondii (Toxo.) is a unicellular protozoan parasite that causes the disease toxoplasmosis. Although toxoplasmosis only shows symptoms in vulnerable patients, such as pregnant women and immunocompromised, over 40 million people are infected in the United States alone1. Studies have shown that calcium induces egress of Toxoplasma gondii in host cells2. Treating Toxo.
Obesity and its associated metabolic syndrome have become a global epidemic in the past twenty years. Excessive dietary intake is the main driver for the current rise in obesity, referred to as diet-induced obesity (DIO). DIO has been associated with numerous co-morbidities and many genetic factors, however, the complicated molecular mechanisms underlying DIO are incompletely elucidated.
Disease resistance is known to increase with age across a wide variety of plant and animal systems. However, it is unclear whether this increase in resistance is simply a by-product of growth and development, or the result of differential selection for resistance at juvenile and adult stages.
Eating disorders vary from eating far too little to far too much. The cause may be genetic, such as a deficiency of the hormone leptin, which communicates satiety, or environmental, such as the omnipresence of fatty junk foods (i.e. pizza at 2 am).
As the complexity of biological systems and tunability of synthetic materials are further understood, opportunities for engineers to design synthetic materials that interact with the natural world seamlessly are brought to light. For this project, synthetic materials will contain synthetic polymers and complementary peptides.
Hydrophobins are amphiphilic, non-immunogenic proteins characterized by four conserved disulfide bonds and high surface activity, making them valuable in diverse applications. The disulfide bonds are important for surface activity of class II hydrophobins.
In temperate regions, an organism’s ability to rapidly acclimate to varying seasonal temperatures, particularly the subfreezing cold of winter, is essential for its survival. Although less famous than hibernating bears and migrating birds, the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, must also overcome winter’s challenges. One of the mechanisms implicated in D.
In November 2012, I-495 Capital Beltway Express Tolled Lanes (ETLs) were opened in addition to the general purpose lanes. They operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in a variable tolled regime for single and double occupancy. High Occupancy Vehicles (3+), transit vehicles, motorcycles, and emergency vehicles travel for free. The 495 Express lanes operate between Springfield and Tyson’s Corner.
The purpose of this longitudinal observational study is to analyze gait data that quantifies human motion to determine if there is patterned differential gait outcomes between those undergoing antegrade vs. retrograde femoral nailing.
The purpose of the study is to find cultural materials related to manmade/anthropogenic species extinction in the university’s archives not often categorized or recognized as such part of the history of extinction. The first phase of the research project is finding these materials in the Harrison-Small Special Collections Library.
A watershed in the history of his sculptural practice, Alexander Calder’s first monumental stabile, Teodelapio, emerged from a series of favorable circumstances in 1962. For Spoleto, Italy’s open-air exhibition of fifty-three international sculptors, Sculpture in the City, Giovanni Carandente commissioned Calder to design a “triumphal arch” for the ancient hillside town.
Enteroviruses cause or are associated with many health complications such as myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy. In enterovirus infections, viral double-stranded RNA stimulates Mitochondrial Antiviral Signaling protein (MAVS). MAVS activation results in expression of interferons and interferon stimulated genes (ISGs), which have antiviral properties.
Damselflies have four wings that are controlled independently during flight. The fore and hindwings typically beat out of phase and the interactions which enhance or attenuate flight forces of the wing pairs is phase dependent.
Inflammasomes are intracellular multiprotein signaling complexes important in host defense; however, a deregulated activity is associated with a number of inflammatory, immune and metabolic disorders. The nucleation of inflammasomes around cytoplasmic receptors of the nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeating containing receptor (NLR) family occurs upon detection of a microbial.