Browsing College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Honors and Undergraduate Research Program by Title
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Large scale production of stable hemolymph juvenile hormone binding protein
(2009)To better understand the pathways of the insect juvenile hormone (JH) action, milligram amounts of pure hemolymph juvenile hormone binding protein (hJHBP) are required. Hence the goal of this study is to scale up the system ... -
LEF/TCF family transcription factors are important in the upregulation and restricted expression of zic genes in the dorsal neural tube
(2009)A central question in biology is how different cell-types arise from an initially one-celled embryo to form an organism. Many cellular differences arise through differential gene expression in space and time via the action ... -
Light emitting diode effects on color stability of frozen beef
(2010)Effects of meat exposure to light (light emitting diode, LED; fluorescent) on color stability of air-bloomed and pure oxygen-bloomed fresh frozen beef steaks were determined. Colorimeter (CIE a*, chroma C*) and reflectance ... -
Lithium and its effects on a novel (non drug-induced) hyperactive mouse model
(2010)Bipolar disorder (BPD) is a devastating long-term disease for which a significant symptom is mania. Researchers have long relied on the use of rodent models to study psychological disorders (like BPD), as well as to develop ... -
Matching between dietary preferences and digestive capacity in passerine birds
(2009)It has been argued that evolutionary shifts in diet preferences are paired with changes in digestive physiology, including digestive enzyme activities. For example, a previous study in birds (Martinez del Rio 1990) found ... -
Measurement of The ADCK3 Transmembrane Helix Self-Association In Escherichia Coli Via the TOXCAT Assay
(2014)The interaction of a-helices in the transmembrane region of certain proteins is important for the function of these proteins. The goal of our project is to study the self-association propensity of the transmembrane region ... -
Measuring mitochondrial nonenyzmatic lysine acetylation
(2017-05-15)Protein acetylation is a regulatory modification affecting numerous biochemical and cellular processes. Over half of the proteins in mitochondria have been identified as acetylated, however mechanism of acetylation has not ... -
Methods for Identifying Substrates of Atypical Mitochondrial Kinases
(2012)Mitochondria are chiefly tasked with the production of ATP. Reversible phosphorylation is postulated to be a central regulatory mechanism in mitochondrial biology, and yet the mitochondrial kinases that perform the ... -
MGAT2 deficiency alters bile acid metabolism
(2017-06-13)MGAT2 deficient mice (Mogat2—/—) are protected from obesity and hyperglycemia. We hypothesize that altered bile acid (BA) signaling contributes to these protective effects. The present study investigates whether Mogat2—/— ... -
MHC class I allele characterization in Indonesian cynomolgus macaques
(2007)There has recently been increased interest in the use of cynomolgus macaques for the study of infectious diseases. However, little focus has been given to studying the immunogenetics of these animals. To improve researcher’s ... -
Mid-life dementia risk scores as a predictor of CSF biomarker and cognitive response to simvastatin therapy in asymptomatic adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease: The ESPRIT trial
(2010)BACKGROOUND: Cardiovascular risk factors at mid-life are associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). OBJECTIVE: Determine relationships between baseline dementia risk, cognitive function, CSF ... -
Minicircle-Derived scn8ab Kock-In Reporter Line Provides a Model to Study Neuronal Regulation of Zebrafish Fin Regeneration
(2022)Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of regenerative zebrafish will advance fundamental knowledge of tissue regeneration. Our previous study identified scn8ab, which encodes a voltage-gated sodium channel, ... -
Mutations in CNGC2 in Arabidopsis thaliana lead to a reduction in fertility due to a sporophytic defect
(2008)While cyclic nucleotide gated channels (CNGCs) are known to play an important role in sensory transduction in animals, little is known about their functions and the mechanisms by which they act in plants. cngc2 plants ... -
Neuronal Ensemble Reactivation in the CA3 Hippocampal Region in Memory Formation due to Pattern Completion
(2017-06-13)The hippocampus functions in many memory processes; not only is it essential to the storage of new memories, but the retrieval of associated memories as well. A postulate of memory recollection called pattern completion, ... -
Neuronal lysosome permeabilization dynamics in ischemia
(2009)The mechanism in which lysosomes are damaged by free radicals during neuronal ischemia is examined in rat hippocampus. There are two hypotheses. The free radicals can degrade the lysosome membrane through liquefaction; all ... -
NF1 ALTERNATIVELY SPLICED EXON EXPRESSION CHANGES DURING SCHWANN CELL DIFFERENTIATION FROM MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS
(2022)Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) is a complex, yet relatively common, monogenic disorder that can lead to a variety of detrimental phenotypes. However, the mechanisms behind these manifestations of the disease are still ... -
Novel insight into the patterns of in vitro short abortive RNA release by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase
(2020-05)E. coli RNA polymerase (RNAP) catalyzes prokaryotic transcription with the σ70 specificity factor, which directs the binding of RNAP to promoter DNA. RNAP operates on the promoter to form an open complex. In transcription ... -
Numerical Understanding in Mind, Brain, and Education Relations (N.U.M.B.E.R.)
(2015-05-01)Past studies have demonstrated that non-human animals, infants and adult humans can process numerical information across multiple sensory modalities, and that number decisions are more accurate when number presented in ... -
Nurr1 knockout in substantia nigra proposed to result in cognitive deficits in Rattus norvegicus
(2017-06-13)Many Parkinson's disease (PD) patients suffer from cognitive impairment. Reduced secretion of dopamine (DA) from substantia nigra (SN) to striatum results in motor deficits in PD patients, but little is known about its ...