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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tulsa, 1990. / Bibliography: leaves 169-178.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2009. / English Dept. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2009. / English Dept. Includes bibliographical references.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-01-26T13:21:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-06-10Bitstream added on 2015-01-26T13:30:37Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000793044_20160731.pdf: 99971 bytes, checksum: 8ad7de8362aa1813828c219bcb43b617 (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2016-08-01T11:29:57Z: 000793044_20160731.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2016-08-01T11:30:55Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000793044.pdf: 846665 bytes, checksum: 7b1e08d3b9f1e489fd31f5d654c44a76 (MD5) / As células tronco mesenquimais (CTMs) estão presentes na maioria dos tecidos adultos, e por isso são atrativas para a terapia celular, pois possuem alto potencial de diferenciação e proliferação, sendo assim, utilizadas na reconstrução tecidual. O presente experimento objetivou obter maior conhecimento sobre CTMs derivadas da membrana amniótica e cordão umbilical de cães, antes e após criopreservação, visando a formação de um banco de células. Assim, oito amostras de membrana amniótica e oito amostras de gelatina de Wharton foram obtidas de cesarianas, as quais foram submetidas a digestão enzimática, e cultivadas em meio basal. Uma porção celular, de cada amostra, foi criopreservada em 1ª passagem, de forma lenta, e armazenada por 4 semanas. As células antes e após a criopreservação foram submetidas à caracterização, onde foi observado características de adesão, proliferação, diferenciação e expressão de marcadores de superfícies utilizando-se citometria de fluxo, e imunocitoquímica. A partir destas avaliações, foi possível demonstrar que as células antes e após a criopreservação exibiram comportamento semelhante, quanto à proliferação e crescimento. A viabilidade celular da membrana amniótica apresentou 97,0% das células viáveis antes da criopreservação e 94,6% após, já a gelatina de Wharton 98,8 antes e 93,5% após a criopreservação. O potencial de diferenciação nas linhagens osteogênica e adipogênica foi mantido, no entanto foi necessário um tempo maior (p<0,05) para que as células de gelatina de Wharton se diferenciassem após a criopreservação. E ainda mantiveram a expressão de CD44, em níveis satisfatórios para que fossem consideradas positivas, onde a membrana amniótica expressou 85,6% antes e 67,8% após a criopreservação e a gelatina de Wharton expressou 86,0% antes e 82,1% após a criopreservação e a ausência de expressão ... / Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are present in most of adult tissues, and are therefore attractive for cell therapy. Because of their high potential for differentiation and proliferation, they are being used in tissue reconstruction. This experiment aimed to enrich knowledge of canine MSCs derived from umbilical cord and amniotic membrane before and after cryopreservation regarding the formation of a cell bank. Thus, eight samples of amniotic membrane and eight samples of Wharton’s jelly were obtained from dogs at birth, which were subjected to enzymatic digestion and basal medium culture. Slow freezing of a sample from each culture was held at the first passage and stored for four weeks. Before and after freezing cells were subjected to characterization being observed adhesion, proliferation, differentiation and expression of surfaces markers using flow cytometry and immunocytochemistry. Based on these analyses it was demonstrated that the cells before and after cryopreservation exhibited similar behavior for proliferation and cell growth. Cell viability of amniotic membrane showed 97.0% of viable cells before freezing and 94.6% after, and the Wharton’s jelly 98.8% before and 93.5% after cryopreservation. The potential of the osteogenic and adipogênica differentiation as well as maintained, however it required a longer time (p <0.05) for the cells from Wharton's jelly to differentiate themselves after freezing. And still maintained the expression of CD44, at satisfactory levels to be considered positive, where the amniotic membrane expressed 85.6% before and 67.8% after freezing and Wharton’s Jelly expressed 86.0% before and 82.1% after cryopreservation and absence of expression of CD34 and MHC II. A peculiar feature observed was that before and after freezing spontaneous differentiation in both lineages (osteogenic and adipogenic) occurred in the controls that were not induced to differentiation. We conclude that ...

Orientador: Fernanda da Cruz Landim / Banca: Maria Denise Lopes / Banca: Carlos Eduardo Ambrósio / Resumo: As células tronco mesenquimais (CTMs) estão presentes na maioria dos tecidos adultos, e por isso são atrativas para a terapia celular, pois possuem alto potencial de diferenciação e proliferação, sendo assim, utilizadas na reconstrução tecidual. O presente experimento objetivou obter maior conhecimento sobre CTMs derivadas da membrana amniótica e cordão umbilical de cães, antes e após criopreservação, visando a formação de um banco de células. Assim, oito amostras de membrana amniótica e oito amostras de gelatina de Wharton foram obtidas de cesarianas, as quais foram submetidas a digestão enzimática, e cultivadas em meio basal. Uma porção celular, de cada amostra, foi criopreservada em 1ª passagem, de forma lenta, e armazenada por 4 semanas. As células antes e após a criopreservação foram submetidas à caracterização, onde foi observado características de adesão, proliferação, diferenciação e expressão de marcadores de superfícies utilizando-se citometria de fluxo, e imunocitoquímica. A partir destas avaliações, foi possível demonstrar que as células antes e após a criopreservação exibiram comportamento semelhante, quanto à proliferação e crescimento. A viabilidade celular da membrana amniótica apresentou 97,0% das células viáveis antes da criopreservação e 94,6% após, já a gelatina de Wharton 98,8 antes e 93,5% após a criopreservação. O potencial de diferenciação nas linhagens osteogênica e adipogênica foi mantido, no entanto foi necessário um tempo maior (p<0,05) para que as células de gelatina de Wharton se diferenciassem após a criopreservação. E ainda mantiveram a expressão de CD44, em níveis satisfatórios para que fossem consideradas positivas, onde a membrana amniótica expressou 85,6% antes e 67,8% após a criopreservação e a gelatina de Wharton expressou 86,0% antes e 82,1% após a criopreservação e a ausência de expressão ... / Abstract: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are present in most of adult tissues, and are therefore attractive for cell therapy. Because of their high potential for differentiation and proliferation, they are being used in tissue reconstruction. This experiment aimed to enrich knowledge of canine MSCs derived from umbilical cord and amniotic membrane before and after cryopreservation regarding the formation of a cell bank. Thus, eight samples of amniotic membrane and eight samples of Wharton's jelly were obtained from dogs at birth, which were subjected to enzymatic digestion and basal medium culture. Slow freezing of a sample from each culture was held at the first passage and stored for four weeks. Before and after freezing cells were subjected to characterization being observed adhesion, proliferation, differentiation and expression of surfaces markers using flow cytometry and immunocytochemistry. Based on these analyses it was demonstrated that the cells before and after cryopreservation exhibited similar behavior for proliferation and cell growth. Cell viability of amniotic membrane showed 97.0% of viable cells before freezing and 94.6% after, and the Wharton's jelly 98.8% before and 93.5% after cryopreservation. The potential of the osteogenic and adipogênica differentiation as well as maintained, however it required a longer time (p <0.05) for the cells from Wharton's jelly to differentiate themselves after freezing. And still maintained the expression of CD44, at satisfactory levels to be considered positive, where the amniotic membrane expressed 85.6% before and 67.8% after freezing and Wharton's Jelly expressed 86.0% before and 82.1% after cryopreservation and absence of expression of CD34 and MHC II. A peculiar feature observed was that before and after freezing spontaneous differentiation in both lineages (osteogenic and adipogenic) occurred in the controls that were not induced to differentiation. We conclude that ... / Mestre

This thesis examines the depiction of female characters as New Women in a comparative analysis of the fiction of two authors from fin-de-siècle United States of America and late Ottoman/early Republican Turkey: Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920), and Halide Edib Adıvar’s Raik’in Annesi (Raik’s Mother, 1909), Handan (Handan, 1912) and Kalp Ağrısı (Heartache, 1924). It argues that these novels can be read as examples of New Woman fiction, with their challenge to conventional fictional treatments of womanhood and their depiction of complex female heroines struggling against restrictive social roles, conventions and moral codes. Examining these texts together opens up a hitherto unexplored area of comparison into how the construct of New Womanhood was perceived and dealt with differently (and similarly) in the American and Turkish societies of the era. The thesis brings a new approach to the analysis of the novels under question not only by reading Wharton’s and Adıvar’s fiction in a comparative perspective but also by approaching New Woman fiction by means of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of dialogism, complemented by the work of feminist critics such as Dale M. Bauer, Gail Cunningham, Luce Irigaray and Lyn Pykett. A feminist dialogic approach informs my reading of the novels as texts that present a pluralistic exchange between multiple discourses and that resist a singular interpretation - instead offering multiple “readings”, with a surface narrative and counter narrative: whilst the surface narrative appears as authoritative and seeks to maintain the status quo (through voices that attempt to stabilise the New Woman and assert the authority of conventions and moral codes), this is disrupted and destabilised by the subversive marginal voices of the counter narrative. By attending in this way to the juxtaposition of a multiplicity of conflicting voices on the New Woman question in the texts - particularly as these are expressed in the heroines’ inner dilemmas and conflicts and around the issues of marriage, divorce and sexuality - I attempt to go beyond a reading of the texts as reflections of the biography of the authors or their views regarding a certain model of female identity, instead emphasising the problematisation and unfixing of identity in the novels and their depiction of New Women that are complex, fragmented and contradictory. Furthermore, influenced by the ideas of feminist thinkers such as Judi M. Roller and Elizabeth Bronfen, I propose that the unhappy endings of Wharton’s and Adıvar’s novels can be read as critiques of the oppressive effects of hegemonic discourses about women and a recognition of female agency and struggle. By examining these aspects of the novels, this comparative thesis aims to contribute to feminist studies focused upon the “woman question” and to the growing body of scholarly work on the New Woman.