Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for men and postmenopausal women in the United States. Estrogen is thought to be cardioprotective. An important action of estrogen is increasing endothelial-dependent ...

Hydrogen Fuel Cells offer the vital solution to the world's socio-political dependence on oil. Due to existing difficulty in safe and efficient hydrogen storage for fuel cells, storing the hydrogen in hydrocarbon compounds ...

Pink Pigmented Facultative Methylotrophic bacteria (PPFMs) have been found to be the most abundant microorganisms among phylloplane microflora, and have been recovered from all plants examined. PPFMs are seed-transmitted ...

Ras is a small GTP-binding protein in the signal transduction machinery. In most cell types, activation of Ras by growth factors is essential for normal cell proliferation. A mutation in the Ras gene can lead to a constitutive ...

Nano particles (particles having diameters in the nanometer range) have applications in a variety of areas including medical, environmental, sensor, to name a few. However, the production of nano particles having uniform ...

Myocardial performance is enhanced when adrenergic receptors are stimulated by catecholamines. The enhanced performance is mediated by cAMP dependent protein kinase A (PKA), which phosphorylates several proteins within the ...

Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is a parasitic worm that penetrates and infects soybean roots resulting in billions of dollars in crop loss annually. The most cost effective and environmentally friendly SCN management strategy ...

Hip-hop music emerged in the 1970's as a countercultural strategy to deter inner city youth from the influence of violence and gangs; it was a form of social expression. The dominant images in early hip-hop music videos ...

Due to research in low-power, cheap wireless communications, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has become one of the most exciting new fields of interest within computer science and engineering. Just as the Internet has made ...

Tropisms, the responses of plants to external stimuli, have been studied as important evolutionary adaptations and as possible areas of future advantageous genetic manipulation. The goal of our current research is to ...

DNA methylation alteration, in correlation with gene expression, is involved in development and progression of many cancers. Using a microarray based method, mouse-DMH (Differential Methylation Hybridization), our lab is ...

Anesthesiologists manually control the rate of drug infusion to maintain a desired conscious level (BIS index) for a patient during surgery. With new technological advances, Control Engineers now can automate this drug ...

Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacia), a cool season forage grass, has been utilized by many farmers for over fifty year to feed livestock. Unfortunately, about half of fescue pastures are infected with an endophytic fungus ...

Iron absorption and distribution by an organism needs to be tightly regulated because iron is essential but in excess it can be dangerous and may even result in death. Through microarray analyses of iron-starved Arabidopsis ...

In vivo pattern formation during morphogenesis is dependent upon the migration of cells. Cell movements are directed by the local structure of the surrounding extracellular matrix. It has been shown experimentally that ...

Tornadoes occur frequently across the United States each year, causing millions of dollars in damage. Meteorologists are constantly searching for new and improved methods for predicting these weather phenomenons's in order ...

Nicotiana has been an interest of study due to its variance in autogamy and floral traits. Species N. plumbaginifolia and N. longiflora are characterized by their difference in flower size and the ability to self pollinate. ...

Type I collagen is the most abundant structural protein in the body, playing a major role in the strength and integrity of connective tissues. Alterations in the synthesis and structure of type I collagen result in a number ...

Resident membrane proteins of the yeast trans-Golgi network (TGN) frequently cycle between the TGN and both the early and late (prevacuolar) endosomal compartments. The model yeast TGN protein, A-ALP, which contains the ...

To acquire the necessary iron against harsh competition in the environment, iron starved bacteria synthesize, excrete and retrieve iron scavenging molecules termed siderophores, one of which is enterobactin. TolC protein ...