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Creator:: Tzeng, Shin-Cheng
Abstract:: Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) continues to be one of the major public health problems in the United States and worldwide. Complicated by factors including gender, polymorphisms of alcohol-metabolizing enzymes, immunologic factors, exposures to other substances/drugs, hepatic viral infections, nutritional deficiencies, and obesity, ALD is a complex disease that requires a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Model Abstract approved: Dr. Claudia S. Maier Alcoholic liver disease (ALD

Creator:: Nirudodhi, Sasidhar N.
Abstract:: Proteins are essential to all biological systems. Proteins participate in numerous cellular processes by interacting with other proteins, other metabolites and membranes in a dynamic environment. Studying the structural and conformational properties of proteins in the solution phase is necessary to understand their protein folding and interaction dynamics. This research...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Conformational Dynamics in Large Protein Complexes Abstract approved: Claudia S. Maier Proteins are essential

Creator:: Wu, Xiangming
Abstract:: A more quantitative understanding of peptide entrapment and elution from otherwise protein-repellent polyethylene oxide (PEO) brush layers will provide direction for development of new strategies for drug storage and delivery. Here we describe criteria for peptide integration and structural change within the PEO brush, and discuss the reversibility of peptide...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: McPhail, Dr. Victor Hsu and Dr. Claudia Maier for all the valuable discussion about my research and for

Creator:: Paraiso, Ines L.
Abstract:: Obesity is a complex multifactorial disease resulting from excessive energy intake compared to energy expenditure. The excess energy is mostly stored as fat in enlarged adipocytes, but some lipids may infiltrate other organs such as the liver to form ectopic fat. Adipose tissue and ectopic fat produce and secrete a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Adrian F. Gombart, Jacob Raber, Claudia S. Maier, Jan F. Stevens Molecular Nutrition

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