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(2011-04-07)Department: Cancer BiologyCancer targeted imaging plays an important role in cancer diagnosis. It allows us to rapidly evaluate tumor responses to certain treatments. Peptide-based imaging probes have been widely used in cancer targeted imaging. ...
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(2023-05-09)Department: Biological SciencesMutations in the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) can be pathogenic. Due to the multicopy nature of mtDNA, wild-type copies can compensate for the effects of mutant mtDNA. The number of wildtype copies available for compensation ...
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(2006-12-04)Department: Cell and Development BiologyThe transcription factor Pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1 (Pdx1) is essential for formation of the pancreas and for glucose-responsive insulin secretion from mature pancreatic beta cells. In humans and mice, heterozygosity ...
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(2017-06-07)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe giant myofilament protein titin is indispensable for the structural integrity and function of the sarcomere, however, little is known regarding the turnover of titin within the complex macromolecular sarcomere structure ...
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(2014-03-28)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyThousands of genes encoding long noncoding RNAs were identified throughout the genome; however, less than 1% of known long noncoding RNAs have been assigned a biologic function. At present, long noncoding RNAs mediate ...
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(2011-08-02)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyDisruption of intestinal epithelial homeostasis, including enhanced apoptosis, is a hallmark of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We have shown that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) increases the kinase activity of ErbB4, a ...
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(2013-06-04)Department: English'To a Certain Degree' uses an understudied archive of formal education materials from New England and Mid-Atlantic states as a lens to disclose how the early U.S. novel dealt with social, political and economic anxieties ...
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(Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1993)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2012-04)
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(2019-06-17)Department: NeuroscienceNeuronal protein refolding and degradation in response to stress is largely mediated by the HSP70 chaperone complex and is critical for maintaining cell function and survival. While some components of the triage machinery ...
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(Dipartimento di storia della società e delle istituzioni, Università degli studi di Milano, 1998)
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(2013-04-03)Department: ReligionIn scholarly literature, the phrase millēʾ yād refers to the ordination of priests. However, of the eighteen occurrences of the phrase in the Hebrew Bible, only thirteen explicitly mention priests or their possible ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2000)
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(2014-06-26)Department: EnglishThis project traces the genealogy of two works by Toni Morrison, Beloved and The Black Book through their shared genesis at the site of the black archive and the dilemma it presents over black presence amidst sustained ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2024-04-24)
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(2012-05-22)Department: ManagementExisting research has argued that entrepreneurs’ identification with their ideas is linked to their persistence, yet scholars have also noted that entrepreneurs’ ideas rarely survive exposure to stakeholder demands. As ...
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(Fordham Law Review, 2011)Human rights law imposes upon States an absolute duty not to transfer an individual to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing he or she will be tortured or subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading ...
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(2014-04-26)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England there was a rise of black ethnic rhetoric in religious preaching and texts. Appropriated from the language and culture of the Renaissance, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-15)With a growing number of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the United States, teachers must understand their specific needs and differences. However, once teachers have educated themselves, they must also become reflective ...
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(2019-04-29)On May 4, 1965, two months after the first Marines landed in Vietnam, Lyndon B. Johnson spoke at a dinner meeting with the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. “So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam," he famously announced, ...