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(2020-01-14)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyInvading microbial pathogens must sense and respond to the hostile environment of the vertebrate host to survive and cause infection. Clostridioides difficile, formerly Clostridium difficile, is the leading cause of ...
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(2019-01-25)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyThe cofactor heme is essential to the growth and virulence of the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. S. aureus is capable of synthesizing heme de novo as well as acquiring it from host hemoglobin. The molecular mechanisms ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-05-04)In this week's Journal of the American Medical Association a meta-analysis was published that concluded that use of hemoglobin based blood substitutes result in an increased morbidity and mortality. Included in the same ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2010-01-18)A brief summary of what are hemoglobin based oxygen carriers (HBOC) and where are they in development.
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(2009-07-19)Department: ChemistryBiomineralization is the formation of organic-inorganic composites by organisms. Originally evolved as a protective mechanism, this complex process has also become a recognized contributor to several disease states, ranging ...
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(2010-07-28)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceDuring the pathogenic blood stage of a malaria infection, the Plasmodium parasites degrade hemoglobin as a source of nutrition. As a consequence, free heme, known to be toxic to the parasite, is released. It is believed ...
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(2013-02-26)Department: ChemistryThe emergence of drug resistant strains of Plasmodium spp. creates a critical need for the development of novel antimalarials. Hemozoin, a crystalline heme detoxification biomineral vital to parasite survival, serves as ...
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(Vanderbilt University., 2007-07-13)
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(2008-08-15)Department: Chemical EngineeringThis work focuses on three different aspects of adsorption equilibrium: the measurement of adsorption equilibrium into the Henry's law region for n-pentane, the calculation of the maximum isosteric heat of adsorption ...
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(2012-03-28)Department: ReligionRELIGION HER PREACHING BODY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY IN MEANING, AGENCY AND PROCLAMATION IN CONTEMPORARY FEMALE PREACHERS AMY P. MCCULLOUGH Dissertation under the direction of Professor Ted A. Smith While homiletics has ...
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(2013-12-19)Department: Community Research and ActionTo what extent does a Soviet legacy shape the experiences of former Soviet (FS) immigrants living in the U.S.? This historically grounded question is relevant in a post-Soviet reality as the number of immigrants from FS ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Center for Latin American Studieshttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/clas/, 2012-09)
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(Homiletic, 1999)
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(Henry Colburn, 1813)
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(University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dept. of English, 1977)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
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(2019-08-20)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesResearch shows that access to high-quality early childhood education and care can reduce the achievement gap at kindergarten entry. However, the evidence on medium- and long-term outcomes from early childhood interventions ...
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(Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2010)The refinement in worker fatality risk data used in hedonic wage studies and evidence from new stated preference studies have facilitated the exploration of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life (VSL). Although ...