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Hope from within: Reform in the Islamic Republic and Ayatollah Montazeri's Mission to Fulfill the Promises of the Iranian Revolution
(Creighton University, 2009-05-15)
The primary purpose of this project was to demonstrate the strong degree of support for reform in Iran from within the clergy. Additionally, this study sought an understanding of why the reform movement had failed and ...
T-Regulatory Cells and FLT3-Ligand in the Therapy of Cockroach Antigen-induced Asthma
(Creighton University, 2009-05)
Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways, characterized by airway hyper-responsiveness (AHR) and airway inflammation. Many inflammatory cells, including mast cells, eosinophils, neutrophils, and lymphocytes, are critical ...
Functional Responses of Lung Dendritic Cell Subsets in Flt3 Ligand-Induced Immunomodulation in Allergic Asthma
(Creighton University, 2009-08)
Asthma is an inflammatory airway disease characterized by airway eosinophilia, airway obstruction due to an increased mucus production by goblet cells, airway remodeling, and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) to a variety ...
Communicating in Times of Crisis: How College and Universities Alert their Campuses of Emergencies
(Creighton University, 2009-08-13)
How colleges and universities communicate during times of crisis has come into sharp focus in recent years, with crisis events dominating headlines with what seems like increasing frequency and greater consequence. Concerns ...
Measuring and Comparing the Diffusion Rate of Fluorescent-Lipophilic-Neurotracing Probes in Murine-Peripheral-Nerve Preparations
(Creighton University, 2009-06-11)
Lipophilic-fluorescent dyes are used as probes to study the neural pathways that wire the brain. Since these dyes are able to define neuroanatomic connections through all stages of normal and mutant development, they are ...
Assessment of Vl30 Erythropoietin Responsive Promoters for Erthyroid Gene Therapy
(Creighton University, 2002-06)
Congenital blood disorders such as hemoglobinopathies and thalassemias are common, and yet clinically challenging glob in disorders. Gene therapy was thought to serve as a therapeutic method to treat these disorders through ...
Effects of Homocysteine on Cardiac Neural Crest Cell Formation
(Creighton University, 2002)
Elevated homocysteine (Hcys) causes a wide spectrum of congenital detects, many of which resemble neural crest (NC) cell ablation. However, the etiological mechanism is not known. The purpose of this study was to determine ...
Detection of Plasmid-Mediated AmpC b-Lactamases
(Creighton University, 2004-07)
Although plasmid-mediated AmpC b-lactamases were first reported in the late 1980's, most clinical laboratories and physicians remain unaware of their clinical importance. Current detection methods for organisms producing ...
Cloning and Tissue Distribution of Two NA+/H+ Exchangers from the Malpighian Tubules of Aedes Aegypti
(Creighton University, 2002)
A Na+/H+ exchanger (NHE) on the apical membrane of mosquito Malpighian tubule (MT) cells likely participates in the female blood-feeding mosquito's necessary secretion ofNa+ and fluid. This study presents the molecular ...
Angular Correlation of Emitted Neutrons Due to Giant Dipole Resonance in Ultra Peripheral Collisions
(Creighton University, 2008-05-29)
In an ultra peripheral collision with two gold ions, two virtual photons are exchanged, which excites the nuclei into a mutual giant dipole resonance (GDR) state. This excited state decays most often via neutron emission. ...