Mack, Laramie, Unroe, Kathleen, and Elsener, Luke

Introduction: OPTIMISTIC is a project funded by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) that is aimed, in part, at the reduction of unnecessary hospitalization of nursing facility residents. Data from the initial...

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Darras, Basil, Miller, Patricia, Snyder, Brian, and Troy, Michael

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) consists of a group of neuromuscular disorders characterized by degeneration of alpha motor neurons, leading to a lower motor neuron-type syndrome. Children afflicted with SMA 1 and 2 are prone to...

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Metzler-Wilson, Kristen, Narra, Seetharam, Wilson, Thad, and Schneider, Artur

Bradykinin, a local dermal kallikrein-kinin system product, increases skin blood flow via a cyclic GMP mechanism but is not the active cutaneous vasodilation molecule associated with cholinergic stimulation. However, the...

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Schmale, Trenton, Rodimel, Benjamin, Metzler-Wilson, Kristen, Wilson, Thad, Schaub, Andrew, Krause, B., and Vrable, Abby

Introduction: In 2012, approximately 19 million adults in the U.S. used some form of manipulative treatment as part of their overall healthcare. Suboccipital release (SOR) is a commonly used manual medicine technique of the...

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Miller, Bethany, Petsche, Elizabeth, Hum, Julia, and Skinner, Brian

Interprofessional education or IPE involves bringing individuals from two or more professions together to learn and communicate to improve future teamwork and collaboration. IPE research has shown that exposing future...

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Fowler, Nicole, Kening, Matthew, Puchalski, Karolina, and Manoharan, Sneha

The United States spends well over $100 billion for millions of people affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and for their family caregivers. Most people with ADRD have multiple chronic comorbid...

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Vernon, Tyler, Turchi, John, and Gavande, Navnath

The DNA dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) is a validated target for cancer therapeutics that drives the DNA damage response (DDR) and plays a critical role as a primary sensor in the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) DNA double...

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Waldherr, Alexander

Paraspinal inhibition is an osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) purported to work via the sympathetic nervous system and aid in restoring autonomic homeostasis. Despite clinical anecdotal evidence, the mechanism of action...

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Bhetwal, Bhupal and Thirumeni, Rajashree

Introduction: Externally added survival/growth factors are essential for the survival of healthy cells, however cancer cells are believed to be self-sufficient in supporting their auto-proliferation without the need of...

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Nelson, Jessica, Ghazzawi, Ziad, Evans-Molina, Carmela, Thompson, William, Cregor, Meloney, Bellido, Teresita, Daniel, Ashley, Delgado-Calle, Jesus, Ferrari, Adam, Sabol, Hayley, and McAndrews, Kevin

Osteocyte (Ot)-derived Sclerostin (Scl) has local actions in bone mediated by Lrp 4/5/6 receptors, inhibiting bone formation and stimulating bone resorption by antagonizing Wnt signaling. Emerging evidence suggests that Scl...

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