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Hsp70 chaperone Proteins and their Interactions with Various Drugs as Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
(2011)
Chaperone proteins and their cochaperones are perhaps one of the most intriguing systems for investigation. Ubiquitous in nature, they can be found in every organism and that perhaps is the reason that their sequence shows ...
Ultrasound-triggered Drug Delivery Using Acoustic Droplet Vaporization.
(2010)
The goal of targeted drug delivery is the spatial and temporal localization of a therapeutic agent and its associated bioeffects. One method of drug localization is acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV), whereby drug-laden ...
Exploration and Exploitation of Action Selection in the Motor Cortex and Basal Ganglia.
(2010)
The basal ganglia (BG) have been proposed as a possible neural substrate for action selection in the vertebrate brain. In this thesis, I have focused on determining the role of BG circuits in selection of well-trained ...
Regulating Gene Expression Through DNA Mechanics: Tightly Looped DNA Represses Transcription.
(2010)
It is now widely accepted that the mechanical state of DNA can play a major role in regulating the activity of RNA polymerase (RNAP). Not only have the global levels of supercoiling been shown to regulate transcription, ...
Engineering the Quantitative PCR Assay for Decreased Cost and Complexity.
(2011)
The quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is an assay of target nucleic acid concentration. Clinical applications of quantitative PCR include measurement of HIV viral load, measurement of bacterial infection, and ...
Engineering Multifunctional Nanoparticles: Applied Nanoscale Therapeutics
(2022)
Decades of research towards the development of nanomedicines have, to date, yielded minimal
clinical impact. Focused particularly on the treatment of cancer, the relatively low
number of pursued technologies to reach the ...
Pre-Clinical Investigation of Histotripsy for Non-Invasive Ablation of Liver Cancer
(2022)
Liver cancer, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the top ten causes of cancer related deaths worldwide and in the United States. The liver is also a frequent site for metastases originating from colorectal ...