Canine Transitional Cell Carcinoma (TCC) makes up 2% of all canine cancers and is the most common cancer of the bladder for dogs. Usually diagnosed in its later stages, TCC is difficult to treat, with low survival times. Current diagnosis involves invasive techniques, and mainstream screening tests are often ineffective....
Presentation about the OSU Oregon Multicultural Archives' Latino/a community oral history project, "Latinos en Oregón: sus voces, sus historias, su herencia" and specifically stories of migration and settlement of members of the Latino/a community in Madras, Oregon, given at the Oregon Migrations Symposium on November 17, 2016.
Two faculty-librarians in the US led a small group of undergraduate students from Oregon State University on a short-term study abroad to Barcelona in the summer of 2016. While in Barcelona the librarians and one of their students delivered a presentation to librarians in Catalonia. The paper presentation detailed the...
Diet History Questionnaires (DHQ) can only provide general information about a person’s nutritional intake. It is unable to cluster groups of people based on diets or lifestyles, nor identify specific foods that may play a role in disease prevention. The aim of this study was to validate the use of...
Nanophyetus salmincola is a well-studied parasite of their definitive mammal hosts. However, the conditions that signal the time for shedding of N. salmincola cercariae from their first host, the juga snail (Juga silicula), is not fully understood. A digenetic trematode indigenous to the American Pacific Northwest, N. salmincola can be...
Cystic ovarian disease (COD) is one of the main causes of infertility in dairy cattle and has a high economic impact on farmers. COD is caused by an endocrine imbalance within the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis which prevents the mature Graafian follicle from ovulating. The cause at the molecular level is not...
4-H, an agriculture based youth program, promotes a variety of curricula in both agriculture and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (S.T.E.M.) topics. However, science based curricula provided by this organization gravitates away from the programs agricultural roots. An effort was made to pilot a test on lesson plans that would...
Gene expression in plants (and other eukaryotes) is a very complex process. Gene expression is primarily controlled by proteins and their binding sites near the gene in the chromosomal DNA. More specifically, interactions among transcription factors (DNA-binding proteins) and cis-regulatory modules (CRMs-sets of binding sites) control the expression of nearby...
Research in Dolan lab focuses primarily on the adaptive immune system and ways it can be better utilized to eliminate infected or transformed cells. Research focuses on the major histocompatibility (MHC) class I antigen presentation pathway, which plays an important role in alerting the immune system of the presence of...
Presentation as part of the session "Short Papers Panel: Diversity and Cultural Communities" at the 2016 annual Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) conference in Coral Gables, Florida, June 24, 2016. RBMS is a part of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
Sustainability initiatives in the library learning commons have long included paper and container recycling. But for those libraries that allow food consumption in study and learning spaces, collection of compostable food scraps and compostable food receptacles is not yet the norm. Tapping into the libraries’ core value of Sustainability, librarians...
Embryonic development, where organs and major structures begin to develop, requires precise coordination of numerous gene regulatory pathways. Fendrr is an long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) that plays a role in regulating gene expression in mesodermal tissues during early embryonic development in mouse. The lateral plate mesoderm (LPM) is an earlier...
Vibrio cholerae (Vc), the etiological agent of cholera, has developed many mechanisms to combat the great fluctuations in pH, ion content and osmotic conditions of the vastly differing environments it encounters through its infections of the human host. A series of cation antiporters are found in the Vc membrane to...