Browsing Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology (MU) by Thesis Semester "2006 Summer"

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  • Lipotoxicity in smooth muscle 

    Mattern, Heather M., 1979- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    Atherosclerosis and bladder dysfunction can both result from the high lipid levels that occur with obesity and diabetes and can cause cell dysfunction and death, termed lipotoxicity, in various cell types. However, ...

  • Thick filament regulation of myocardial contraction 

    Korte, F. Steven, 1975- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    The ability of the heart to function as a pump is governed by mechanisms intrinsic to individual cardiac myocytes. The experiments in this dissertation were designed to examine the effects of sarcomere length and thick ...