Browsing by Subject "Physiology"
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A bidirectional switch to treat colonic dysmotility
(2023)Severe constipation can be life-threatening and disproportionately affects patients who may not benefit from conventional treatments. Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) is an alternative to laxatives and pharmaceuticals, and ... -
A comparison of the effectiveness of the team-based learning readiness assessments completed at home to those completed in class.
(J Educ Eval Health Prof, 2015)PURPOSE: The readiness assurance process (RAP) of team-based learning (TBL) is an important element that ensures that students come prepared to learn. However, the RAP can use a significant amount of class time which could ... -
A Multi-Disciplinary Systems Approach for Modeling and Predicting Physiological Responses and Biomechanical Movement Patterns
(2017)It is currently an exciting time to be doing research at the intersection of sports and engineering. Advances in wearable sensor technology now enable large quantities of physiological and biomechanical data to be collected ... -
A Multi-Modal Approach for Investigating the Physiological Responses to Breath-Holding in Diving Mammals
(2023)The ocean environment poses several adversities to usual mammalian function. Perhaps most consequential to life is the lack of air underwater. For marine mammals, like whales and dolphins, that are required to perform breath-hold ... -
Acoustic Ecology of Sea Turtles: Implications for Conservation
(2012)An understanding of sensory ecology, how animals receive and respond to their environment, can be a powerful tool for the conservation of endangered species because it can allow us to assess the potential success of actions ... -
Arterial blood gases in divers at surface after prolonged breath-hold.
(European journal of applied physiology, 2020-02)PURPOSE:Adaptations during voluntary breath-hold diving have been increasingly investigated since these athletes are exposed to critical hypoxia during the ascent. However, only a limited amount of literature explored the ... -
Brain-Machine-Brain Interface
(2011)Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) use neuronal activity to control external actuators. As such, they show great promise for restoring motor and communication abilities in persons with paralysis or debilitating neurological ... -
Bridging Scales: How Microstructural Features Impact Macroscopic Cardiac Propagation
(2018)Cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia are closely associated with microscopic fibrotic changes in cardiac structure that result in a heterogeneous myocardium. While the incidence of ... -
Ca2+-Mediated Thermal Sensing in Plants
(2017)Temperature is an omnipresent environmental factor that shapes the growth, development and survival of plants. However, global warming has been an inevitable process and caused unusual temperature patterns across the world. ... -
Carnitine Acetyltransferase and Mitochondrial Acetyl-CoA Buffering in Exercise and Metabolic Disease
(2013)Acetyl-CoA holds a prominent position as the common metabolic intermediate of glucose, amino acid and fatty acid oxidation. Because acetyl-CoA fuels the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, the primary source of reducing equivalents ... -
Creation of Versatile Cloning Platforms for Transgene Expression and Epigenome Editing and Their Application to Pancreatic Islet Biology
(2018)Insulin secreting β-cells within the pancreatic islets of Langerhans are vital to maintaining glycemic control. β-cell functional mass is lost during the progression to both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes mellitus, resulting ... -
Discovery of a Novel Signaling Circuit Coordinating Drosophila Metabolic Status and Apoptosis
(2011)Apoptosis is a conserved mode of cell death executed by a group of proteases named caspases, which collectively ensure tissue homeostasis in multicellular organisms by triggering a program of cellular "suicide" in response ... -
Estimating the Cost of Locomotion in Common Bottlenose Dolphins: Calibration, Validation, and Application to Study the Impacts of Disturbance
(2021)Estimates of the energetic costs of locomotion (COL) are necessary to understand one of the potential impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on marine mammals. A new generation of biologging devices has enabled the measurement ... -
Exploring the role for mGluR5 in regulating striatal medium spiny neuron development
(2016)The striatum is a key brain region for learning and producing movement. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms in the early postnatal period that regulate how medium spiny neurons (MSNs), the predominant cell type ... -
Fibroblast Growth Factor 13 Regulates Thermogenesis and Metabolism
(2019)The non-secreted fibroblast growth factor (FGF) homologous factor (FHF) FGF13 is a noncanonical FGF with identified roles in neuronal development, pain sensation, and cardiac physiology, but recent reports suggest broader ... -
Fibroblast Growth Factor Homologous Factors are Important Modulators of Cardiac Ion Channels
(2014)Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) homologous factors (FHFs, FGF11-14) are a family of FGFs that are not secreted, nor activate FGF receptors. Instead, they remain intracellular and bind to the voltage-gated Na<super>+</super> ... -
For the Love of Suffering: The Athlete of God
(2019)This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the relationshipbetween sport and spiritual formation. By inviting to the conversation contributionsfrom sociological research, personal narratives, biblical themes ... -
Investigating Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Cardiac Frequency and Cardiac Contractility Using a Novel Physio-logging Tag
(2021)Vertebrate animals undergo a constellation of physiological responses when they experience submersion. These responses, collectively known as the dive response, include apnea (breath-hold), bradycardia (a reduction in heart ... -
Investigating the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Drivers of Primate Heterothermy
(2016)Seasonal heterothermy—an orchestrated set of extreme physiological responses—is directly responsible for the over-winter survival of many mammalian groups living in seasonal environments. Historically, it was thought that ... -
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers of Renal Structure and Function
(2014)The kidney's major role in filtration depends on its high blood flow, concentrating mechanisms, and biochemical activation. The kidney's greatest strengths also lead to vulnerability for drug-induced nephrotoxicity and other ...
