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Creator:: Nazari, Mohamad
Abstract:: Our quest for pharmaceutically important marine natural products led to re-isolation of known mandelalides A-D and identification of new congeners E-L from re-collected South African Lissoclinum tunicate specimens. Mandelalides A, B, and L were characterized as selective cancer cell toxins, with an unusual activity profile influenced by their glycosylation /...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Xuemei Wan and Dr. Jeffrey Serrill

Creator:: Axton, Elizabeth R.
Abstract:: Nitric oxide (NO) is a signaling molecule that regulates blood pressure and vascular tone. Humans produce NO by endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), which is impaired in patients with cardiovascular disease leading to increased blood pressure, endothelial dysfunction, and an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Maintaining optimal levels of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: nitrate tolerance and to elucidate the protective role of vitamin C. Metabolomics demonstrated that GTN

Creator:: Wan, Xuemei
Abstract:: Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. To date, over 60% of current anticancer drugs were inspired by the discovery of chemical structure from nature, commonly known as a natural product. This work represents the biological characterization of several marine natural product compounds and their...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: gratitude to my laboratory mates Jeffrey Serrill, Soheila Kazemi, Daphne R. Mattos and Ian R. Humphreys

Creator:: Nosal, Daniel Grzegorz
Abstract:: Superwarfarins are anticoagulant rodenticides that are 100 times more potent and 15 times more persistent than warfarin. They have been used since the 1980s and cause over 10,000 cases of accidental and intentional poisonings per year. Apart from inducing uncontrollable bleeding, by inhibiting the vitamin K cycle, superwarfarins can disrupt...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and X, proteins C, S and Z (regulate anticoagulation), matrix gla proteins (regulate vascular

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