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| 1 |  | Alterations in arterial oxygen tension associated with age, weight, and smoking | Judkins, Bonnie Howard | Physiology; Tabacco; Anoxemia | The present study was undertaken to determine relationships between pre- and postoperative arterial oxygen tension levels in selected patients undergoing openheart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. A second purpose was to determine how the variables age, weight, and smoking were related to both ... | 1974-12 |
| 2 |  | Analgesic management of postoperative pain in children: a retrospective study | Manning, Delores Faye | Physiology; Psychological; Analgesic | A retrospective descriptive chart study was conducted to assess the pharmacological management of postoperative pain in 120 children. Four equal groups of children were studied: 1. Children between the ages of 3 through 5 years of age who had surgical procedures to correct structural deformities o... | 1979-06 |
| 3 |  | Axillary and rectal temperatures in females of varying age | Rae, Lonieda E. Eskelson | Physiology; Pediatric Nursing | Temperature is used daily as criteria for diagnosis, for decision, and for plan of care; therefore, the measurement must be accurate for valid use. However, consistant information is not available for the placement time for taking children's temperatures, and the studies that have been done on adu... | 1974-06 |
| 4 |  | Biochemical conversion of progesterone to orchic androgens | Martin, Robert Packard | Physiology; Biosynthesis | 1. A new system of chromatography has been described which allows resolution of the less polar steroids" such as cholesterol and congeners. It is a reversed phase system utilizing odorless kerosene as the stationary phase, and 60 per cent aqueous n-propanol as the developing phase. It has proved ... | 1956-06 |
| 5 |  | Control of cardiac output studied with computer techniques. | Topham, William Sanford | Anatomy; Physiology | This thesis concludes with an analog model which has limitations but provides a solution to the control of cardiac output. This solution is not unique and as a model is used to predict the response to different types of stimulation, changes, will be made. However, a basic model has been presented ... | 2008-02 |
| 6 |  | Effect of aging on dextrostix readings | Sherman, Nan Cecilia | Analysis; Physiology | Nurses working in a Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NBICU) should be aware that premature infants are susceptible to episodes of hypoglycemia. Dextrostix, a rapid method for determining blood glucose levels, are used frequently for detecting hypoglycemia in the newborn. During the process it has been ... | 1975-04 |
| 7 |  | Effect of cortisol and deoxycorticosterone acetate on brain amino acid and electrolyte metabolism | Vernadakis, Antonia | Physiology | Numerous studies have been carried out on the adrenocortical steroids during the last fifteen years. The effects of adrenocortical steroids on carbohydrate, fat, electrolyte and protein metabolism of various tissues and organs, and the specificity of these hormonal actions continue to be investigat... | 1957-06 |
| 8 |  | Effect of uracil incorporation on the precision of HIV-1 (+)-strand DNA initiation | Chen, Xin | Physiology; Genetics | Retroviruses have means to limit the accumulation of uracil in DNA strands, suggesting that uracil affects one or more steps in the viral life cycle. In this work, the effects of uracilated DNA were investigated in biochemical assays of (-)-strand DNA synthesis, RNase H activity and (+)-strand synt... | 2001-05 |
| 9 |  | The effects of 5 days of bed rest on insulin sensitivity and ceramide biosynthesis expression in skeletal muscle of older adults | Tanner, Ruth Ellen | Biology; Nutrition; Physiology | Physical inactivity in older adults is a risk factor for developing glucose intolerance and impaired skeletal muscle function. Elevated ceramide levels have been linked to metabolic disruption and toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling. The purpose of this study is to determine if short-term physica... | 2015-08 |
| 10 |  | The effects of adrenal corticosteroids on oxygen utilization in rats | Roosevelt, Theodore Steven | Physiology; Anatomy | 1. Sham-adrenalectomized and cortisol injected adrenalectomized rats survived exposure to a hypoxic (5% oxygen) atmosphere significantly longer than did adrenalectomized control rats. 2. The difference in survival times between rates with and without corticosteroids was not due to the absence of th... | 1972-06 |
| 11 |  | The effects of chronic Mg deficiency on the distribution of Mg, Ca, Na, and K in brain, muscle, CSF and plasma. | Woodward, David Lee | Physiology; Pharmacology | The relation of Mg to Ca, Na and K was examined during a chronic Mg deficiency. Adults rabbits were fed on of four diets for 18 days at which time brain, muscle, plasma, and CSF were analyzed for total Mg, ca, Na, K and CL as well as for free Mg and Ca. Studies of the kinetics of 28Mg and 45Ca dis... | 1968-08 |
| 12 |  | The effects of commonly used antibiotic medications on the efficacy of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in Philadelphia Chromosome Positive Leukemia | Zhao, Brooke Marie | Pharmacology; Physiology | The main purpose of this thesis project is to develop and validate a high-throughput protocol to test drug-drug interactions. As a model, tyrosine kinase inhibitors were tested with commonly used antibiotics in Philadelphia chromosome positive leukemia patients. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI's), s... | 2017 |
| 13 |  | Effects of high-fat vs. low-fat diets on mammalian target of rapamycin signaling and metabolic measures in spontaneously hypertensive rats | Bosse, John David | Cardiac hypertrophy; Hypertension; Protein synthesis; High-fat diet; Microbiology; Nutrition; Physiology | Preliminary studies in the Division of Nutrition;'s Nutrition; Sciences lab have shown that spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) fed high-fat diets (HF; 60% kcals) have a reduction in cardiac mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling, with no impairments in whole body insulin tolerance. Havin... | 2010-12 |
| 14 |  | Effects of NOx compounds on heme-containing enzymes | Lu, Yanxiang | Physiology; Drug Effects | Nitric oxide (NO) has been shown to be involved in many important biological processes. The biochemical pathways of these processes share two common features: the enzymatic synthesis of NO from L-arginine and the formation of an iron-nitrosyl complex in a target (heme) protein to evoke the function ... | 1996-06 |
| 15 |  | Effects of rapid temperature changes and large fields on electrical parameters of frog skin | Clark, Justin Shirley | Physiology | Measurements of slope and chord resistance, capacitance and total potential were determined in experiments in which the temperature was rapidly changed from room temperature to 8°C and in experiments in which the total skin potential was rapidly varied throughout the range of ±250mv. For the sodi... | 1967-08 |
| 16 |  | The effects of trimethadione and ethosuximide on ion movement across the toad bladder. | Chen, Hsinyo. | Physiology; Ethosuximide | The effects of three drugs, pentylenetetrazol (PTZ), trimethadione (TMO), and ethosuximide on ion movement across the isolated toad urinary bladder as deduced from changes in short current (SCC) were studied, singly and in combination. The effects of the drugs were measured under control conditions... | 1975-06 |
| 17 |  | Evaluation of 3-bout exercise laboratory protocol in development of psychophysiological markers of training stress indicative of overreaching | Black, Rebecca Eschler | Cycling; Endurance Athletes; Fatigue; Overreaching; Overtraining; Behavioral psychology; Kinesiology; Physiology | The prevalence of overtraining (OT) may vary anywhere from 10-60%, depending on the sport and athletic level. OT poses many problems to coaches, teams, and athletes as it leads to performance decrements, injury, and lost playing time. The physiological development of OT is not well understood and co... | 2015-08 |
| 18 |  | Exercise intervention to improve glucose tolerance | Wehmanen, Kyle William | CLIX-IR; diabetes; exercise training; HbA1c; insulin resistance; single-leg cycling; Kinesiology; Physiology | In 2012 over 27 million Americans were suffering from Type II Diabetes (T2DM), which cost the U.S. $245 billion dollars in health care costs. Luckily, lifestyle changes and exercise can slow or prevent development of the disease. The purpose of our study was to determine the effect of high-intensity... | 2014 |
| 19 |  | Health effects among refrigeration repair workers exposed to fluorocarbons. | Campbell, David Douglas. | Neuropathy; Refigeration; Physiology | Refrigeration repair workers may be intermittently exposed to fluorocarbons and their thermal decomposition products. An index case of peripheral neuropathy (distal axonopathy) in a commercial refrigeration repairman prompted an epidemiologic investigation of the health of refrigeration repair work... | 1983-12 |
| 20 |  | Health outcomes of mothers and infants following early hospital discharge | Leopardi, Helen Grace | Physiology; Demographs; Puerperium | This study investigated the health outcomes of mothers and infants following early hospital discharge. Nineteen women who self-selected early discharge time within 24 hours of giving birth, 20 women who chose discharge times between 25 and 48 hours and 20 women who selected to leave the hospital aft... | 1987-08 |
| 21 |  | Identification of proteomic changes induced in anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma in response to the heat shock protein 90 inhibitor geldanamycin | Schumacher, Jonathan A. | Physiology | Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a subset of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that commonly express the t(2;5)(p23;q35) chromosomal translocation, resulting in overexpression of the nucleophosmin-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (NPM-ALK) oncoprotein. ALK harbors a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase domain that has ... | 2005-12 |
| 22 |  | Impact of dietary magnesium upon insulin sensitivity, vascular function, and metabolic complications during development of type 2 diabetes | Smith, Alexander James Barker | Endocrinology; Nutrition; Physiology; Epidemiology | Background: Epidemiological data associates low magnesium (Mg) intake with greater risk of metabolic syndrome/diabetes, and Mg status is often compromised in diabetic patients. It remains unclear whether low Mg consumption may exacerbate the metabolic disruptions that occur during diabetes. Objecti... | 2017 |
| 23 |  | Influence of certain hormones on nucleic acids and metabolism by lymphocytes | Brinck-Johnsen, Truls | Physiology; Metabolism | In the present investigation the uptake and prolonged retention of adenine-8-C-14 by lymphatic tissue of mice was demonstrated. The experiments bring support to the idea that the nucleic acids of dead lymphocytes are re-utilized during heteroplastic lymphocytopoiesis. Tumor tissue has been shown t... | 1959-06 |
| 24 |  | The metabolism of intravenous testosterone. | West, Charles Donald | Physiology; Metablism; Biochemistry | The fate of testosterone administered intravenously in experimental animals has been investigated. The injected testosterone diffused rapidly from the circulation into various tissues of the body, the highest concentrations being found in fat. The testosterone was apparently not metabolized in the... | 1951-06 |
| 25 |  | Monocyte nonspecific esterase: a technique for quantifying activity | Simonian, Yasmen | Analysis; Physiology | During a study comparing the results of leukocyte differential counts obtained from the Hemalog-D with those obtained by manual techniques, discrepancies in monocyte counts were observed in patients with lymphomas. It was postulated that these patients might have monocyte nonspecific esterase (MNS... | 1981-12 |
