Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2008. / Title from title page. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online through Digital Dissertations.

Thesis (Ph.D. in Bioinformatics) -- University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-106).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma. / Bibliography: leaves 93-110.

A pressão positiva contínua nas vias aéreas(CPAP) é a forma mais simples de ventilação não invasiva. O objetivo deste estudo é comparar o desempenho de dois modelos de gerador de fluxo com um ventilador projetado especificamente para ventilação não invasiva no modo CPAP, através de um modelo mecânico de pulmão e em voluntários sadios, em três diferentes alimentações de pressão e em CPAP de 5, 10 e 15 cm H2O. Conclui-se que os geradores de fluxo têm capacidade similar ao ventilador específico para manter o nível de CPAP, se ajustados para sua melhor pressão de alimentação, que foi ao redor de 100 L/min / Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the simplest form of noninvasive ventilation. Mechanical ventilators designed to invasive ventilation, ventilators specifically designed to noninvasive ventilation (NIV-Ventilator) and continuous flow generators can provide CPAP. The objectives of this study is compare the performance of two continuous flow generators with a ventilator designed to NIV to deliver continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and compare flow generators using different oxygen pressure supplies in lung model and healthy subjects, in CPAP of 5, 10 and 15 cm H2O. It was observed that flow generators had similar performance to noninvasive ventilator if they were adjust in their best output flow, that was around 100 L/min

Thesis (Ph.D. in Bioinformatics) -- University of Colorado Denver, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-150). Free to UCD Anschutz Medical Campus. Online version available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations;

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in electronic form as viewed 2/16/2009.

Thesis--University of Oklahoma. / Bibliography: leaf 24.

A pressão positiva contínua nas vias aéreas(CPAP) é a forma mais simples de ventilação não invasiva. O objetivo deste estudo é comparar o desempenho de dois modelos de gerador de fluxo com um ventilador projetado especificamente para ventilação não invasiva no modo CPAP, através de um modelo mecânico de pulmão e em voluntários sadios, em três diferentes alimentações de pressão e em CPAP de 5, 10 e 15 cm H2O. Conclui-se que os geradores de fluxo têm capacidade similar ao ventilador específico para manter o nível de CPAP, se ajustados para sua melhor pressão de alimentação, que foi ao redor de 100 L/min / Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the simplest form of noninvasive ventilation. Mechanical ventilators designed to invasive ventilation, ventilators specifically designed to noninvasive ventilation (NIV-Ventilator) and continuous flow generators can provide CPAP. The objectives of this study is compare the performance of two continuous flow generators with a ventilator designed to NIV to deliver continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and compare flow generators using different oxygen pressure supplies in lung model and healthy subjects, in CPAP of 5, 10 and 15 cm H2O. It was observed that flow generators had similar performance to noninvasive ventilator if they were adjust in their best output flow, that was around 100 L/min

The mammalian protein POT1 binds to telomeric single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), protecting chromosome ends from being detected as sites of DNA damage. POT1 is composed of an N-terminal ssDNA-binding domain and a C-terminal protein interaction domain. With regard to the latter, POT1 heterodimerizes with the protein TPP1 to foster binding to telomeric ssDNA in vitro and binds the telomeric double-stranded-DNA-binding protein TRF2. We sought to determine which of these functions-ssDNA, TPP1, or TRF2 binding-was required to protect chromosome ends from being detected as DNA damage. Using separation-of-function POT1 mutants deficient in one of these three activities, we found that binding to TRF2 is dispensable for protecting telomeres but fosters robust loading of POT1 onto telomeric chromatin. Furthermore, we found that the telomeric ssDNA-binding activity and binding to TPP1 are required in cis for POT1 to protect telomeres. Mechanistically, binding of POT1 to telomeric ssDNA and association with TPP1 inhibit the localization of RPA, which can function as a DNA damage sensor, to telomeres. / Dissertation

Enzymes and biochemical mechanisms essential to survival are under extreme selective pressure and are highly conserved through evolutionary time. We applied this evolutionary concept to barnacle cement polymerization, a process critical to barnacle fitness that involves aggregation and cross-linking of proteins. The biochemical mechanisms of cement polymerization remain largely unknown. We hypothesized that this process is biochemically similar to blood clotting, a critical physiological response that is also based on aggregation and cross-linking of proteins. Like key elements of vertebrate and invertebrate blood clotting, barnacle cement polymerization was shown to involve proteolytic activation of enzymes and structural precursors, transglutaminase cross-linking and assembly of fibrous proteins. Proteolytic activation of structural proteins maximizes the potential for bonding interactions with other proteins and with the surface. Transglutaminase cross-linking reinforces cement integrity. Remarkably, epitopes and sequences homologous to bovine trypsin and human transglutaminase were identified in barnacle cement with tandem mass spectrometry and/or western blotting. Akin to blood clotting, the peptides generated during proteolytic activation functioned as signal molecules, linking a molecular level event (protein aggregation) to a behavioral response (barnacle larval settlement). Our results draw attention to a highly conserved protein polymerization mechanism and shed light on a long-standing biochemical puzzle. We suggest that barnacle cement polymerization is a specialized form of wound healing. The polymerization mechanism common between barnacle cement and blood may be a theme for many marine animal glues. / Dissertation