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“Effect of a meditation-based strategy on sleep quality and perceived stress of healthy older adults living in the community.”
The study assessed the comparative effectiveness of two nonpharmacological interventions, Mantram, a meditation-based strategy, and sleep techniques, to improve sleep in the healthy older adults living in the community. ... -
Pain, Disablement Process and Frailty among Older Adults in the United States: Findings from the National Health and Aging Trends Study
Background: Musculoskeletal pain is highly prevalent among older adults and the most common cause of disability. Objectives: To examine 1) whether sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities, depression, obesity and ... -
Effect of Severe Burn Injury on Body Composition and Muscle Metabolism in Pediatric Patients
Muscle wasting in burn injury is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Burn-induced muscle cachexia is partly attributed to lack of physical activity imposed by standard of care. Moreover, evidence supports ... -
Curriculum Vitae
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Bubonic Plague Galveston graph
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Rat Trappers
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Plague Studies in Galveston, Texas
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The role of Hsp60 in Amyloid beta toxicity: Relevance to Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder leading to dementia, affecting millions of individuals worldwide. Currently, there are no successful disease-modifying therapies, due to the complexity ... -
The role of Hsp60 in Amyloid beta toxicity: Relevance to Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder leading to dementia, affecting millions of individuals worldwide. Currently, there are no successful disease-modifying therapies, due to the complexity ... -
The Role of Arginine Vasopressin Receptor 2 in Microvascular Hyperpermeability During Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
Sepsis compromises more than 18 million lives worldwide every year. Moreover, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) sepsis is one of the most severe types. Despite efforts to provide novel therapies for sepsis, ... -
Glucose and Lipid Dysregulation Following Loss of Hepatic Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in Mice.
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a cytosolic, ligand activated transcription factor commonly known for its role in environmental toxicant metabolism. However, the generation of AhR knockout (AhR-KO) mice has shown ... -
Exerting Capacity: A Grounded Theory Study of the Perspectives of Bedside Registered Nurses about Patient Safety in the Adult Acute Care Environment
The concept of patient safety has become a priority focus in healthcare research since 2000 following the release of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) (1999) report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Despite ... -
An Ethnographic Study of Women Using HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Methodg
The purpose of this ethnography was to explore the values, beliefs and perinatal practices of women, who utilized HypnoBirthing. The aim was to explain the culture of HypnoBirthing through women’s perceptions of their ... -
Generation and Characterization of Flavivirus Receptor-Binding Domain Mutants and Chimeras
Flaviviruses are positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses responsible for millions of infections annually. Primarily transmitted by ticks and mosquitoes, their associated diseases range from mild febrile infections to ... -
Ehrlichia chaffeensis Type 1 Secreted Effector TRP47 is a Novel SUMOylated Nucleomodulin
Ehrlichia chaffeensis secretes immunodominant and immunoprotective protein effectors into the host cell using a type I secretion system. The best-characterized of these effectors are the tandem repeat proteins (TRPs). In ... -
Mentoring Up: A Classical Grounded Theory Exploring the Proteges Perceptions of Nurse-to-Nurse Mentoring
Mentoring is widely advocated as a positive relationship in the nursing literature. The literature abounds with opinion-based, descriptive articles addressing mentoring, however few articles are theoretically and research ... -
Amino Acid Sensing in Muscle: Role of the lysosome and the effect of protein supplementation on improving amino acid sensitivity in aging muscle
Protein ingestion is a well-studied stimulus for increasing skeletal muscle protein synthesis. Only recently has the mechanism for this phenomenon been elucidated at the cellular level. To this point, most of the mechanistic ... -
The Effects of Blast-Induced Neurotrauma on Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability, Cell-Cell Junction Protein Levels and the Role of Peroxynitrite
Traumatic brain injury is one of the most common injuries presented in emergency departments in the U.S.. While mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often not reported or treated it may still result in significant ... -
Translating biomedical research data to knowledge through bioinformatics
In this dissertation, we present the application of biomedical informatics, including data mining and knowledge discovery, to extract knowledge from genomics, transcriptomics, and clinical data. To improve our understanding ... -
Group III mGluR8 negatively modulates TRP channels
Several lines of evidence indicate group III metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) have systemic anti-hyperalgesic effects. We hypothesized this could occur through modulation of TRP channels on nociceptors. The following ...