• First contact : 

    Bermudez, Carla Jean (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    The innate immune system must react to a wide variety of foreign stimuli, only a relatively small proportion of which may be classified as harmful. The goal of this thesis was to investigate interactions between macrophages ...
  • Gene therapy in mouse models of spinal muscular atrophy : 

    Glascock, Jacqueline J., 1986- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder, is the leading genetic cause of infant mortality. SMA is caused by the functional, homozygous loss of the Survival Motor Neuron-1 (SMN1) gene ...