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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A Three Months' Study of the Dark Adaptation of a Texas Family During Activity

Wade, Alice Mays January 1941 (has links)
Recent studies have offered an abundance of evidence which indicates that night blindness is caused by vitamin A deficiency. Both adults and children have been used to investigate the relationship between vitamin A deficiency and night blindness.
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Maturation and aging of the retina in normal and night blind albino guinea pigs : a structural and functional study

Racine, Julie. January 2007 (has links)
No description available.
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The Civil War Diet

Brennan, Matthew Philip 27 June 2005 (has links)
The soldier's diet in the Civil War has been known as poor, and a number of illnesses and disorders have been associated with it. However, a nutritional analysis placed within the context of mid-nineteenth century American nutrition has been lacking. Such an approach makes clear the connection between illness and diet during the war for the average soldier and defines the importance of nutrition's role in the war. It also provides a bridge from the American diet to the soldier diet, outlining correlations between the two and examining the influence of physicians, chemists, and health reformers on the Civil War diet. / Master of Arts
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Identification and functional characterization of gene defects underlying congenital stationary night blindness (csnb) / Identification et caractérisation fonctionnelle de défauts génétiques à l'origine de la cécité nocturne congénitale stationnaire

Neuillé, Marion 27 June 2016 (has links)
Le processus visuel débute lorsque les photorécepteurs transforment la lumière en un signal biochimique qui est ensuite traité et transmis via la rétine. Notre groupe s'intéresse à élucider les défauts génétiques et les mécanismes à l'origine de pathologies rétiniennes comme la cécité nocturne congénitale stationnaire (CNCS), conséquence d'un défaut de transmission du signal entre les photorécepteurs et les cellules bipolaires. Cette thèse apporte de nouvelles connaissances sur la physiologie de cette première synapse visuelle. Nous avons identifié quatre nouvelles mutations dans SLC24A1, un échangeur ionique intervenant dans l'homéostasie du calcium dans les bâtonnets, à l'origine de la CNSC de type Riggs. Nous avons également identifié LRIT3 comme étant un nouveau gène impliqué dans la forme complète de CNCS. Nous avons décrit un modèle de souris invalidé pour Lrit3 avec un phénotype visuel similaire à celui des patients. Nous avons confirmé la localisation de LRIT3 aux extrémités dendritiques des cellules bipolaires ON, suggérant un rôle dans la cascade de signalisation mGluR6. Nous avons montré que LRIT3 était nécessaire à la localisation fonctionnelle de TRPM1. Nous avons de plus démontré un rôle additionnel de LRIT3 dans la formation de la synapse du cône n'impactant probablement que faiblement les voies OFF. Nous avons également réussi à détecter LRIT3 par spectrométrie de masse, ouvrant la voie à l'identification de ses partenaires. La meilleur connaissance de la physiologie et de la physiopathologie rétinienne doit mener non seulement à un meilleur diagnostic et conseil génétique des patients mais également au développement de nouvelles approches thérapeutiques. / The first steps in vision occur when rod and cone photoreceptors transform light into a biochemical signal, which gets processed through the retina. Our group investigates genetic causes and mechanisms involved in inherited retinal diseases as congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB), which reflects a signal transmission defect between photoreceptors and bipolar cells. This thesis gives several insights on the retinal physiology at this first visual synapse. We identified four novels mutations in SLC24A1 underlying the Riggs-type of CSNB, which has a role in calcium balance in rods. We subsequently identified a novel gene, LRIT3, which is mutated in the complete form of CSNB. We delivered a knock-out mouse model lacking Lrit3 which displays a phenotype similar to patients. We confirmed the localization of LRIT3 at the dendritic tips of ON-bipolar cells, suggesting a role of LRIT3 in the mGluR6 signaling cascade. We showed that LRIT3 is necessary for the functional localization of TRPM1. We also revealed that LRIT3 has an additional role in formation of the cone synapse but with probably only a minor effect on OFF-pathway functionality. We finally succeeded in immunoprecipitating and detecting LRIT3 by mass spectrometry, opening the way for the identification of LRIT3 partners. Improving knowledge about retinal physiology and physiopathology will lead to a better diagnosis and genetic counseling of the patients and to the development of novel therapeutic approaches.

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