Dufeau, David and Qadri, Syed

Strabismus “squint eyes” is a common disorder presenting in about 2% of children born each year. While there are several causes to this presentation, we demonstrated presentation caused by Peripheral nerve neuropathies,...

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Wright, Daniel, Dufeau, David, Kriebel, Marque, and Rhodes, Alec

3D visualization software is a useful tool in
patient education because it allows patients to
put an image to what a physician is describing
to them. With an emphasis on education of
young athletes on the potential...

Poster

Lashmet, Matthew

Multiple sclerosis (MS), one of the most
prevalent immune-mediated neurological
disorders, is a chronic demyelinating disease
of the central nervous system that affects both
white and grey matter (Avasarala et....

Poster

Hart, C, Gries, Kevin, Ryan, Z, Kunz, H, Laurenti, M, Polley, E, Zhang, X, Dalla Man, C, Moore, N, Lanza, I, Vella, A, Parvizi, M, and Jensen, M

Obesity is accompanied by numerous systemic and tissue-specific derangements, including systemic inflammation, insulin resistance, and mitochondrial abnormalities in skeletal muscle. Despite growing recognition that adipose...

Article

Kitchen, Deeb

The theoretical paradigm of symbolic interaction has the potential to resonate with students because they can apply it to their everyday lives and to specific social exchanges. However, due to the abstract nature of theory,...

Other

McSherry, Joseph

BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW: Hand hygiene (HH) is the number one way to reduce healthcare associated infections (HAI). These infections account for increased morbidity and mortality and are linked with poor HH among...

Research Paper

Reyes, Z, Ikerd, T, Skinner, B, and Peesapati, Meghna

• Myroides spp. are non-motile, aerobic, gram-
negative bacilli that are traditionally
opportunistic pathogens1.
• P. stuartii is a urease-producing, gram-negative
bacillus2.
• Myroides infections have been reported
60...

Poster

Momeni, Nick , Deosthale, Padmini , Essex, Alyson , and Plotkin, Lilian

Menopause, an age-related loss of sex hormone production in women, is one of the most common causes of osteoporosis. Previous work has established that this loss of sex hormones, in particular estrogen, causes dramatic loss of...

Poster

Overholt, Kathleen MD, Jacob, Seethal MD, Arand, Amanda , and Belsky, Jennifer DO, MS

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in widespread mRNA vaccinations against SARS-CoV2. Side effects include fatigue, headache, myalgia,
fever, nausea, and lymphadenopathy, frequently experienced in younger recipients (16-55 years)...

Poster

Schultz, Valerie and Dufeau, David

Hiatal hernias are a very common medical condition and present as the pathologic passage of the foregut through the esophageal hiatus. While most hiatal
hernias are asymptomatic, presenting symptoms can easily progress to...

Poster

Ritter, Mark

Background and Review of Literature: Lumbar plexus block and fascia iliaca block are two commonly used anesthesia modalities for patients underdoing hip arthroplasty at Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Indiana. Currently, there...

Research Paper

Thompson, Jacqueline

Background: Many patients seek the advise from their primary care providers (PCPs) to provide insight into alternative treatment options, however, little is known about the practices of primary care providers (PCPs) and the...

Research Paper

Schmit, Ann

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for additional health precautions in medically fragile populations. COVID-19 is a respiratory virus demonstrating increased mortality in individuals with risk factors such as...

Research Paper

Tauscher, Markus , Segar, Rachel , and Tauscher, Zenaida

Background: A patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a common diagnosis among
extremely preterm infants. Unfortunately, this left to right shunt may result in
significant complications including pulmonary edema, pulmonary...

Poster

Khan, Salah, McVey, Patrick, Taulbee-Cotton, Brynne, Webster, G, Van Meter, Mariann, Hubbard, Nathan, Dimmitt, Nathan, and Green, Adam

Agglomeration of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) in tablets can lead to decreased bioavailability in some enabling formulations. In a previous study, we determined that crystalline APIs can be detected as...

Article

Walker II, Frederich L.

COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory illness that has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and infected millions more in the United States. Unfortunately, Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities are...

Research Paper

Young, Emily, DuVivier, D, and Togioka, B

America is becoming increasingly diverse. Discrimination against minority groups persists and contributes to negative disparate outcomes for patients and healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals have a responsibility...

Other

Dorsett, Julie K.

The United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends initiating colorectal cancer screening for asymptomatic, average-risk individuals at age 45, which is a new update to the previous recommendation of age 50....

Research Paper

Bhetwal, Bhupal Ph.D and Kakuturu, Abhinav

Bitter melon extract (BME) is known to inhibit breast cancer cells (MCF-7) proliferation. Due to the high metabolic rate of cancer cells, we hypothesized that low glucose levels are detrimental to cell survivability and that...

Poster

Tanchevski, Michael, Hiland, Taylor, and Delery, Elizabeth

1.5 million reported traumatic brain injuries (TBI) per year with varying degrees of severity that inflict injury at the cellular level. The Choroid Plexus (CP) plays a significant role in brain homeostasis. The CP has also...

Poster

Bishop, Wesley

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Ahmad, Azeem, Lisek, Nicole, Medernach, Kevin, and Akbar, Samina

The dramatic increase in the prevalence of antibiotic resistant (AR) genes
in numerous bacterial species has been a heavily discussed topic within
the scientific community. Antibiotic resistant bacteria pose a serious
threat...

Poster

Carrasco, Alejandro J. OMS-2, Akbar, Samina PhD, and Johnson, Brooklynne OMS-2

Antibiotic resistance is not only a major threat to public health, with more than
700,000 deaths per year, but also has serious economic impacts.1 Nosocomial-
acquired antibiotic-resistant infections have well-established...

Poster

Pruett, J, Vital-Garcia, C, Zuniga-Vega, J, Hews, D, Romero-Diaz, C, Ossip-Drahos, Alison, Campos, S, and Martins, E

Behavioural responses to communicative signals combine input from multiple sensory modalities and signal compensation theory predicts that evolutionary shifts in one sensory modality could impact the response to signals in...

Article

Marian University - Indianapolis

Journal

Segarra Hansen, Allison and Ocampo, L

Article

Reasoner, Mark

A Christian never gains all that Scripture offers by reading it with just one approach. Yet too often this is attempted--whether through an academic obsession with the historical-critical method or through a consumerist...

Book

Holman, M, Steding, Catherine, Tucker, M, and Brooks, K

The gene CHEK2 is located at 22q12.1 and codes for the protein checkpoint kinase 2, a protein that functions in cell cycle regulation and is a known tumor suppressor. CHEK2 is activated due to DNA damage generating a cascade of...

Article

Wang, Lou, Staab, Trisha, Radeny, J, McIntyre, Grace, and Chan, Jason

The increase in our aging population in combination with the growing incidence of late-life conditions presents a need for research on healthy aging. Here, we present work examining the roles of sphingolipid metabolism on...

Conference Proceeding

Alshehab, S. M. T., Taslim, N., and Canales, Arthur D.

Gender dysphoria (GD), a conflict between one's self-perceived gender identity and the biological sex has been a wholly enigma
and a source of contention between experts of various disciplines since long. This is a narrative...

Article

Graybill, Sheryl

Background: A child’s pain is different from pain experienced as adults. Different emotional and psychological factors can affect the child’s pain comprehension and stimulate their response to pain. Procedural pain can have...

Research Paper

Petro, Kailee

Background: Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH), defined as recorded temperature at or below 36°C (96.8°F), is a common adverse effect that can occur during any surgical procedure, leading to increased postoperative...

Research Paper

Case, Ellen

Background and Review of Literature: A surgical site infection after posterior instrumented spinal fusion can negatively affect the patient and increase healthcare costs. Spinal fusions are becoming increasingly common as a...

Research Paper

Campos, S, Hews, D, Price, S, Vital-Garcia, C, Ossip-Drahos, Alison, Martins, E, Rivera, J, Romero-Diaz, C, Pruett, J, Seddon, R, and Zuniga-Vega, J

Colorful ornaments are important visual signals for animal communication that can provide critical information about the quality of the signaler. In this study, we focused on different color characteristics of the abdominal...

Article

Osorio, Alvaro A.

Background and Review of Literature: Subjective methods for assessing airway device cuff pressures (CP) remain in use to determine correct inflation, despite evidence indicating inadequate sensitivity for identifying under and...

Research Paper

Doci, Colleen, Mikelis, C, Akwii, R, and Zemkewicz, J

Cutaneous wound healing is an intricate and multifaceted process. Despite these complexities, the distinct phases of wound healing provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the roles of different targets in these coordinated...

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Vroegop, Joe, Castanon, Mariah , Kruse, Kasey, Hum, Julia, Lowery, Jonathan , Lemmon, Shelby , Fahrholz, Chynna , and Matz, Jordan

Kisspeptin together with its receptor, GPR54 (Kiss1R), are known for their function as the principal regulators of the onset of mammalian puberty. Given the characteristic growth spurt and bone development that occurs during...

Poster

MacLean, Andrew, Choe, David, and Delery, Elizabeth

Klotho is a regulatory anti-aging protein that is significantly expressed
in the choroid plexus, plays an important role in regulating the immune
response in the CNS, and diminishes with age. Klotho deficiency is...

Poster

Runco, D.V., Bishop, Chris, and Franke, Jessica

Purpose: Malnutrition and cachexia during pediatric cancer treatment worsen toxicity and quality-of-life. Clinical practice varies with lack of standard malnutrition definition and nutrition interventions. This systematic...

Article

Runco, D.V., Bishop, Chris, and Franke, Jessica

Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of non-accidental childhood death in the United States[34]. 80% of children experience malnutrition during cancer treatment[34]. Malnutrition effects with cancer treatment: increases...

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Marian University - Indianapolis

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Hum, Julia, Hiland, Taylor, Anloague, Aric , Melchior, Ross, Lowery, Jonathan, and Delgado-Calle, Jesus

Osteoporosis is a disease of low bone mass that places individuals at enhanced risk for fracture, disability, and death. Hospitalizations for osteoporotic fractures exceeds those for heart attack, stroke, and breast cancer...

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Vincze, Jon, Hum, Julia, Conaway, Kory, Skinner, Brian, Tucker, Katherine, and Lowery, Jonathan

The authors present a stereotypical case presentation of X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) and provide a review of the pathophysiology and related pharmacology of this condition, primarily focusing on the FDA-approved medication...

Article

Ahmad, Azeem and Akbar, Samina

The goal of this research was to determine the effects of the growth of invasive plant Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) on the rhizosphere bacterial community composition, and diversity in an urban wetland forest ecosystem....

Article

Rasool, Syeda and Skinner, Brian

Introduction

The treatment of Cushing’s disease (CD) has been advanced well with the introduction of treatment options like transsphenoidal surgery, radiosurgery, bilateral adrenalectomy, and various classes of medication;...

Article

Belsky, Jennifer, Stanek, Joseph , and Arand, Amanda

Chemotherapeutic agents, such as vincristine, are well known
antineoplastic and cytotoxic drugs, affecting patients broadly during
treatment of cancer. Well known side effects, such as constipation
and neuropathic pain,...

Poster

Sowers, Briana , Banaschak, Cory , and Szotek, Paul

Due to the availability of information on the internet, patients are well informed of the several types of hernia repair available to them. They are also increasingly made aware of the litigious environment surrounding...

Poster

Wright, Amanda, Summers, Michael, and Taylor, J.

Context: During the COVID-19 pandemic, many clinicians quickly adapted their way of practicing patient care by offering telehealth and virtual office visits while simultaneously having to minimize direct patient care. The...

Article

Bennett, K., Vincent, T., and Sakthi Velavan, Sumathilatha

Abstract
The patellar ligament (PL) is an epiphyseal ligament and is part of the extensor complex of the knee. The ligament has gained attention due to its clinical relevance to autograft and tendinopathy. A variety of...

Segarra Hansen, Allison

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