Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn) is a pathogenic yeast that is the leading cause of fungal meningitis in immunocompromised patients. Various Cn virulence factors, such as the enzyme laccase and its product melanin, phospholipase,...
Clostridium difficile infection is particularly common in SOT patients and the consequences are severe. Fecal microbiota transplantation is an emerging, highly efficacious therapeutic modality for CDI but data on FMT success in...
Background: Recent studies indicated that chronic Salmonella infection contributes to increased risk of human colon cancer. In our previous studies, we found that Salmonella type III secretion effector protein AvrA can induce...
This novel is a semi-autobiographical work of fiction by Sara Cornelius Allison, wife of Indianapolis businessman and co-founder of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway James Allison. The work details the tumultuous relationship of...
To recognize and celebrate faculty efforts and excellence in teaching, faculty will showcase the innovative and interesting assignments, activities, and/or approaches they are using in their classrooms. in six different...
Instructional leadership can be conceptualized as the leadership approach wherein the school leader collaborates with teachers, to provide both support and guidance to establish the best teaching practices for students...
The work of children is school; despite this, medical providers and educators often live completely separately in their child-family interactions from one another. Yet, medical issues impact school success and school issues are...
The scientific process is nonlinear, unpredictable, and ongoing. Assessing the nature of science is difficult with methods that rely on Likert-scale or multiple-choice questions. This study evaluated conceptions about the...
Highlighting a teaching collaboration between Nursing and Library. Using health/research cases, this team classroom activity and “lightning presentation” allows students to engage and appraise unfamiliar research papers, using...
Multiple human malignancies rely on C-X-C motif chemokine receptor type 4 (CXCR4) and its ligand, SDF-1/CXCL12 (stroma cell-derived factor 1/C-X-C motif chemokine 12), to metastasize. CXCR4 inhibitors promote the mobilization...
A five minute "lightning talk" for an application to correlate LC Classification Outline classes with their respective call numbers, with the goal of the project make Library of Congress call numbers more...
BACKGROUND: Medical school curricula strives to teach as much material as can be retained in a limited amount of time. A common "gold standard" resource used building curricula are medical objectives suggested by national...
BACKGROUND: Medical school curricula strives to teach as much material as can be retained in a limited amount of time. A common "gold standard" resource used building curricula are medical objectives suggested by national...
• The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to the swift development of multiple vaccines
• Common side effects of COVID-19 vaccination include lymphadenopathy and fever in healthy adults
• Fever and...
Ferric citrate (FC) is an approved therapy for chronic kidney disease (CKD) pa-
tients as a phosphate (Pi) binder for dialysis-dependent CKD, and for iron de-
ficiency anemia (IDA) in non-dialysis CKD. Elevated Pi and IDA...
SEMA3F is an antilymphangiogenic signaling molecule expressed in the proliferating basal layer of normal epithelium. In orthotopic models of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, loss of SEMA3F or its receptors results in...
Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from preexisting vasculature, is essential for many physiological processes, and aberrant angiogenesis contributes to some of the most prevalent human diseases, including cancer....