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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:: Huang, Lin
Abstract:: Oxidative stress is deﬁned as an imbalance that favors the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) over an organism's antioxidant defense. ROS have the ability to damage, either directly or indirectly, biomolecules including DNA, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. Various pathological conditions and environmental and chronic diseases have been associated with...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Claudia S. Maier

Creator:: Yang, Liping
Abstract:: The Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR) is a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily of transcription factors that plays a key role in the regulation of bile acids, lipid and glucose metabolisms. The regulative function of FXR is governed by conformational changes of the ligand binding domain (LBD) upon ligand binding....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________________ Dr. Claudia S. Maier

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