Biological nanoparticles present in bodily fluids carry diagnostically relevant biomarkers with potential for non-invasive disease detection through liquid biopsy. Howeve [...]

Analysis of social risk and social support on pain severity and nonpharmacologic utilization under Oregon Medicaid's Back and Neck Pain policy using repeated measures lat [...]

This dissertation provides a deep exploration of how mammary epithelial cells respond to microenvironmental signals. Through a progression of increasingly complex models [...]

Myelination in the CNS is essential for neuronal function, and oligodendrocytes achieve this by wrapping axons with multilayered myelin sheaths. We identify FBXW7 as a ke [...]

The cerebellum has traditionally been associated with motor control. However, increasing evidence suggests that it also plays a critical role in cognitive processing. Des [...]

The insular cortex mediates diverse functions, including taste, interoception, decision making, and emotion regulation. However, the cellular and microcircuit mechanisms [...]

The goal of this dissertation was to understand if sex-specific responses to NAcC chemogenetic manipulations indicate differences in reward, or NAcC input and brain regio [...]

Dissertation examining preconceptional/prenatal/pregnancy factors with the potential to influence maternal inflammation during pregnancy and offspring neurobehavioral dev [...]

This dissertation evaluates how the decision-making regarding blood transfusion is done in trauma care and what variables are used. Then the variables discovered in the f [...]

This work explores the structure and function of an important copper monooxygenase: peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase. The canonical reaction mechanism of thi [...]