The Olympics are one of the few events that bring most countries together for competition. It brings a lot of pride to the countries that are able to send the athletes to compete in the summer and winter games. Only the ...

Understanding a place like the University of Missouri can be expanded by a visual representation of the activities that occur here. An example is the import and significance of externally-funded research. As an unusual ...

The BMW Motorcycle Owners of America (BMW MOA) was chartered in April of 1972 with the stated goal to “promote the camaraderie and friendship of individual members and BMW motorcycle clubs.” Since then BMW MOA has grown ...

It is commonly known that obtaining a Bachelor's degree or higher will help someone reach a higher household income. The process of earning a Bachelor's degree is timely and expensive, so it logically follows that ...

The U.S. is the second largest beer producer in the world, accounting for 14 percent of the worlds' total market share. The 162 billion dollar industry directly employs 900,000 U.S. workers, and millions of workers indirectly ...

In October 2005, the Zalk Veterinary Medical Library at the University of Missouri-Columbia introduced a clinical librarian service for faculty, interns, and residents of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH). ...

In October 2005, the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri-Columbia introduced a clinical librarian service for interns, residents, and faculty of the Department of Child Health. The clinical librarian ...

Veterinary medical librarians and the EBVMA Librarians Committee are involved in supporting and advancing evidence-based veterinary medicine in clinical care, education, and research. In addition to the important traditional ...

To determine the needs of bioscience researchers in a newly established, multidisciplinary center designed to facilitate collaborative research. Because the center houses researchers from different departments traditionally ...

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a heritable connective tissue disorder generally due to type I collagen defects, is characterized by small stature, reduced bone mineral density, and frequent fractures. Bone is inherently ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence of auditory neuropathy, abnormal auditory brainstem response (ABR) with normal otoacoustic emissions, in newborn patients with craniosynostosis as compared to published standards. ...

Pinnacle Technology has developed successful university collaborations to bring new preclinical research systems to the marketplace. Primary funding for these collaborations has been through the NIH Small Business Innovation ...

Objective: 10-17% of women with LSIL cytology truly have CIN 2+ disease at colposcopically directed biopsy and 20% of the CIN 2+ lesions derive from women with LSIL cytology. No molecular marker has yet been able to triage ...

The engineered regeneration of bone is a significant challenge being undertaken to treat conditions such as traumatic casualties, bone cancer, osteoporosis, etc. Advances in regrowth of hard tissue may potentially lead to ...

Introduction: Dopamine D3 receptors (D3Rs) are G-protein-coupled receptors. These D3Rs inhibit adenylyl cyclase and the downstream formation of cAMP. Due to their preferential expression in the mesolimbic areas, especially ...

Introduction: The acid-sensing ion channel (ASIC) is specifically activated by a drop in the extracellular pH level. These channels are widely expressed in mammalian brains and actively modulate synaptic transmission and ...

Introduction: Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR1/mGluR5 subtypes) and their key scaffolding protein Homer1b/c are densely expressed in the striatum. These receptors are believed to play important roles in ...

This is a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, parallel group multicenter study in women with biopsy confirmed Grade 2 or Grade 3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Two hundred patients will be enrolled and ...

Phycomyces blakesleeanus is a filamentous fungus of research interest because of its ability to sense and respond to its environment. The unicellular sporangiophores show growth responses to light, gravity, wind, chemicals ...

Hyperthermia is used for the treatment of a number of diseases, including muscle injuries, inflammations, tendinitis, and osteoarticular disorder. More recently, hyperthermia has been used as an adjuvant in cancer treatment. ...