Browsing 2009 Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Biological sciences (MU)"
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Cellular behaviors regulating tangential migration of facial branchiomotor neurons in the zebrafish embryo
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Development of the nervous system is characterized by intricate processes like neuronal migration, axon outgrowth and guidance and synaptic connections to their targets. These processes involve navigation of the migrating ... -
SIRT1 deacetylation regulates NFAT transcriptional activity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The class III histone deacetylase SIRT1 plays important roles in aging, metabolism and biological clock control. We have recently demonstrated that ... -
A study of readthrough therapy for spinal muscular atrophy in a transgenic mouse model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is due to the loss of the telomeric survival motor neuron gene (SMN1) and results in degeneration of motor neurons, ... -
A study of the role of the Atg8 protein in autophagic vesicle formation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Autophagy is the term used to refers to an catabolic cellular cleanup process through the lysosomal machinery. During autophagy portions of cytoplasm ... -
Understanding genomic evolution and segregation distortion in solanaceae : a COSII linkage map in Nicotiana
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Genetic linkage maps are excellent tools to investigate genomic evolution, genomic structure and quantitative trait loci. In our study, we created comparative linkage maps in a reciprocal cross between Nicotiana longiflora ...