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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Diabetes -- Research"”.
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Diabetes Research Vortex : a novel information management system for Type I diabetes
… is becoming a necessary task for modem research laboratories. As scientific research within a particular domain progresses, the amount of data and publications in the domain increases drastically. Type one diabetes (TID) research is no exception. The DRV (Diabetes Research Vortex) …
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Omics Techniques Applied to Diabetes Research - Focus on HSL-Null Mice and Clonal β-Cells
Diabetes mellitus is a disease characterized by increased blood glucose levels. For overt type 2 diabetes to develop, both insulin action and insulin secretion must be perturbed. In the work presented in this thesis, two models were analyzed: hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) null mice and a …
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Nurses' Perception of Diabetes: A Comparative Analysis
Diabetes mellitus has arisen as a prevalent group of diseases requiring a multidisciplinary approach towards care and treatment. Associated with many complications and increased patient morbidity, proper diabetes management is vital to improve patient outcomes. Nurses play a major role in providing …
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Experimental simulation of human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP)-pancreatic beta cell membrane interactions: Inferences and implications in the etiopathogenesis of diabetes mellitus type II
… physiological activity in humans and animals. Diabetes mellitus type II is a consequence of the gradual destruction of these important cells, likely by human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) that is co-secreted with insulin. Increasing health care costs, coupled with the World Health …
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The Primary Prevention: What’s causing the rise in Type 1 diabetes—and can it be stopped?
Decades of research have failed to identify the environmental factors behind rising rates of Type 1 diabetes. However, the search has made Type 1 diabetes one of the best studied autoimmune diseases, with a network of clinics and laboratories dedicated to understanding the interplay of genetic and …
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Couple's Relationship with Diabetes: Transformation, Partnership, and Management
… in managing the demanding self-care regimen of diabetes. The model includes a meaning and emotion-oriented construct called relationship with diabetes, a psychosocial relational construct of diabetes-specific partnering support, and their direct and indirect effects on an endogenous construct of …
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Factors influencing disordered eating in young women with and without Type 1 diabetes
… of disordered eating in females with type 1 diabetes. However, the emphasis of diabetes research in this area has been focused on eating issues and associated risk factors in adolescent populations or combined age ranges from young adolescents to older adults, while the young adulthood phase, …
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Venture Philanthropy: A Case Study of Three Nonprofit Organizations
… <p>The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research are three disease-focused foundations that practice venture philanthropy in order to proactively identify and fill key gaps in public funding. Each nonprofit has a …
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An Exploration of American Adolescents' Beverage Intake and Views on Celebrity Endorsement of Beverage Products to Inform Policies that Promote Healthy Beverage Guidelines
… (SSB) associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Research is limited on how celebrity endorsement influences adolescents' SSB choices and intake. This M.S. thesis describes a study with three research objectives conducted among 28 adolescents in Virginia to explore their beverage intake …
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Surface Optochemical Sensors
<p>The objective of my research is to develop new surface optochemical sensors for studying cellular processes by investigating techniques to modify surface properties. The spectral characteristics of the modified surfaces and coatings are designed to show remarkable changes after interaction with …
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Nonprofit disease foundation investments in biotechnology companies : an evaluation of venture philanthropy
… of venture philanthropy, defined in this research as the provision of capital by a nonprofit entity to a for-profit company, has become an increasingly common asset allocation strategy for nonprofit disease-focused foundations.' Both nonprofit organizations and biotechnology firms alike …
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Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase and the risk of type 2 diabetes in a population-based cohort study of older Mexican Americans
… GGT predicts an increased risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in elderly Mexican Americans.</p> <p>Data from a population-based cohort study of 1789 community-dwelling Mexican American men and women, aged 60-101, in the SALSA study were used. Data for 1,203 participants without diabetes at …
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The combined effects of acute aerobic exercise and omega-3 supplementation on glucose metabolism in healthy, normoglycemic men
This study evaluated the effects of acute aerobic exercise and n-3 supplementation on glucose, insulin, and c-peptide concentrations in normoglycemic men. Eleven sedentary, healthy men completed four interventions: rest without n-3 (CON), exercise without n-3 (EX), rest with n-3 (SUP), and exercise …
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Synthesis and dye leakage assay of human and rat islet amyloid polypeptide 10-19 and insulin 14-18
… pancreatic islets of Langerhans. During type 2 diabetes mellitus, human IAPP (hIAPP) fibrilizes to form amyloid deposits that are found post-mortem in more than 95% of people with the disease. Rodents do not suffer from type 2 diabetes mellitus as their IAPP (rIAPP) does not undergo …
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The relationship among health literacy, self-efficacy, and self-management of individuals with diabetes
… and self-management of individuals with diabetes and to determine if self-efficacy mediates the relationship between health literacy and self-management of diabetes. Research demonstrates an association among these variables, however the exact nature of the mechanism is not known. …
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Role of aromatic pi-stacking on the aggregation of human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP)
… pancreas, which also secretes insulin. In type 2 diabetes mellitus, hIAPP undergoes self-aggregation, forming fibrils. This self-aggregation is cytotoxic and is thought to be linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus by causing β-cell membrane destruction. The N-terminus of hIAPP (1-19) contains a …
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