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Description:: IL-6 is a pleiotropic cytokine involved in both immune and non-immune functions. In the immune system, IL-6 induces terminal differentiation of B cells into plasma cells, thereby promoting antibody production. IL-6 stimulates growth of T cells by enhancing the expression of the IL-2 receptor, and IL-6 also causes differentiation of...
Keyword:: Health Sciences
Subject:: Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
Creator:: Sarah E Staggs
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/30/2018
Date Modified:: 08/30/2018
Date Created:: 2007-12-07
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This thesis contains four essays on the organization (both internal and external) of health care in the US. The first essay examines a mechanism through which individual workers acquire (or maintain) competence, namely that of experience. Specifically, I analyze whether cardiac surgeons who perform more procedures experience an improvement in...
Keyword:: Health Sciences
Subject:: Managerial Economics and Strategy
Creator:: Subramaniam Ramanarayanan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/14/2018
Date Modified:: 08/14/2018
Date Created:: 2007-08-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer (1:6), and the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths in American men (>27,000/year). Metastasis is largely responsible for these deaths. During metastasis, tumor cells travel from the prostate to a distant organ where they establish a secondary tumor. Cell motility...
Keyword:: Health Sciences
Subject:: Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
Creator:: Clarissa Schumacher Craft
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/01/2018
Date Modified:: 08/01/2018
Date Created:: 2007-07-27
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Arsenic trioxide (As203) is an arsenic-derivative that exhibits potent growth inhibitory effects against malignant cells. The remarkable antitumor effects of As203 in vitro and in vivo have prompted the development of various clinical trials that established its activity in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). As203 is part of the standard treatment...
Keyword:: Biology, Cell, and Health Sciences
Subject:: Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
Creator:: Patrick Jang Yoon
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 05/21/2018
Date Modified:: 05/21/2018
Date Created:: 2007-03-12
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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