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Agenter, Michael Kelly
INFLUENCE OF TOOTH CROWN SIZE ON MALOCCLUSION (May 2008)
Ahn, Hyung Soo
A VIRTUAL MODEL OF THE HUMAN CERVICAL SPINE FOR PHYSICS-BASED SIMULATION AND APPLICATIONS (May 2005)
Appleford, Mark
TRABECULAR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE SCAFFOLDS FOR BONE REGENERATION (May 2007)
Bandeen, Timothy Charles
EFFECTS OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE ON GROWTH OF THE CRANIOFACIAL COMPLEXES (May 2005)
Besu, Nicole
SILVER DOPED HYDROXYAPATITE COATING ON TITANIUM SURFACES AND ITS EFFECT ON EARLY BONE RESPONSE AND OSSEOINTEGRATION (May 2007)
Bolden, Lois Vennesta
DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, HAZARDOUS DRINKING, SUBJECTIVE BURDEN, AND REWARDS IN FAMILY CAREGIVERS OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE (December 2006)
Bowles, Ryan Gregory
FIRST PREMOLAR EXTRACTION DECISIONS AND EFFECTS (May 2005)
Brown, Kennard D.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE DIFFERENCES IN PREEMPTIVE KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES (May 2008)

Burr, Frederick Jerome

CEPHALOMETRIC EVALUATION OF ONE-PHASE AND TWO-PHASE TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES IN MATCHED CLASS II SUBJECTS (May 2007)

Byers, Dina Jo

PREDICTORS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S PERCEIVED HEALTH STATUS IN THE CONTEXT OF CARING FOR A RELATIVE WITH END STAGE RENDAL DISEASE (May 2008)
Cao, Fei
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE, TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS AND PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE (December 2007)
Cashion, Ann King
MEASUREMENT OF AUTONOMIC FUNCTION IN RENAL DISEASE AND DIABETES (June 1998)
Chance, Charles Allen
DEPENDENCE OF CRANIOFACIAL GROWTH ON STAGES OF CERVICAL VERTEBRAL MATURATION AND STAGES OF MANDIBULAR CANINE MINERALIZATION (May 2006)
Chappell, Tyson
THE LONG-TERM TERATOGEIC EFFECT OF PRENATAL ALCOHOL EXPOSURE ON THE SOMATOSENSORY AND MOTOR CORTEX OF RATS (December 2007)
Coco, Suzanne Kemp
A MECHANICAL AND HISTOLOGICAL STUDY OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED HYDROXYAPATITE IMPLANT COATINGS (May 2008)
Couch, William Max, Jr.
ROOT MORPHOLOGY AND SEXUAL DIMORPHISM: SIZE STANDARDS FOR CROWN AND ROOT DIMENSIONS IN ADOLESCENTS (May 2007)
DeCuir, Desmarie Jackson
HEALTH BARRIERS, HEALTH PERCEPTIONS, AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS OF ADOLESCENT BLACK AMERICAN MALES (May 2007)
Fergus, Kelly-Gwynne Mason
ESTHETIC EVALUATION OF EDGEWISE ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT IN MATCHED CLASS II, DIVISION 1 SUBJECTS, WITH AND WITHOUT A MARA (May 2008)
Gades, Naomi M.
SERUM CHOLESTEROL OF YOUNG CATTLE GRAZING BERMUDAGRASS AND FESCUE PASTURES (December 1999)
Gadgil, William Himanshu S.
ADVANCES IN DNA AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY (June 2001)
Ganesh, Soujanya
DEPTH AND SIZE LIMITS FOR THE VISIBILITY OF VEINS USING THE VEINVIEWER IMAGING SYSTEM (May 2007)
Gilmour, Laura J.
BIOMECHANICAL TESTING OF TWO-LEVEL CERVICAL DISC ARTHROPLASTY (December 2006)
Grimes, Kimberly D.
DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND EVALUATION OF SMALL MOLECULES IN THE DISCOVERY OF NOVEL ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS (May 2008)
Hilal, George
ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF HUMAN LEUKOCYTE DEFENSIN HNP-4 AGAINST GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA (May 2008)
Holmes, Sandra L.
GASTRIC MYOELECTRICAL ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES (May 2007)
Hou, Jack
CHANGES IN INTEGUMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF THE FACE FOLLOWING ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT: A LONG-TERM STUDY ( May 2006)
Khandelwal, Payal
THE N-TERMINAL DOMAIN OF THE Y-BOX BINDING PROTEIN YB-1 PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE IN CELL PROLIFERATION AND APOPTOSIS ( May 2008)
Kotha, Jayaprakash
MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF TETRASPANIN IN CD9 MEDIATED CELL MOTILITY ( May 2007)
Lancaster, Cynthia Sue
CDC45 FUNCTION ALTERS CELL SENSITIVITY TO DNA TOPOISOMERASE I POISONS (May 2008)
Leggas, Markos
CHARACTERIZING ERYTHROCYTE MOTIONS IN FLOWING BLOOD (June 1999)
Lehman-Grimes, Shawn Patrick
A REVIEW OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDER AND AN ANALYSIS OF MANDIBULAR MOTION (December 2005)
Liao, Nan
THE UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE INCREASES PRODUCTION OF PRO-ANGIOGENIC FACTORS BY TUMOR CELL LINES (May 2008)
Liu, Teresa T.
TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF AZOLE ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE IN CANDIDA ALBICANS (May 2008)
Liu, Wei
TETRASPANIN KAI1/CD82 INHIBITS CELL MIGRATION-RELATED CELLULAR EVENTS VIA REORGANIZING ACTIN NETWORK (December 2007)
Mandrell, Belinda Neal
MOLECULAR PROFILE OF WOMEN WITH AND WITHOUT SECONDARY BREAST CANCER THE TREATMENT OF PEDIATRIC HODGKIN LYMPHOMA (May 2008)
Manley, Dana M.
SELF-EFFICACY, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND AEROBIC FITNESS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN: EXAMINATION OF A PEDOMETER INTERVENTION PROGRAMSELF-EFFICACY, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND AEROBIC FITNESS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN: EXAMINATION OF A PEDOMETER INTERVENTION PROGRAM (May 2008)
Marhefka, Craig
STRUCTURAL BASIS FOR THE MOLECULAR RECOGNITION OF ANDROGEN RECEPTOR LIGANDS: INSIGHTS GUIDING THE DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL NONSTEROIDAL LIGANDS (December 2001)
Mariageraldrajan, Natarajansoundarapandian
NOVEL CARBOPOL-WAX BLENDS FOR CONTROLLED RELEASE ORAL DOSAGE FORMS (May 2007)
Marrs, Kevin
THE CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR: REGULATION BY HSP-90 (December 2007)
Martin, Mary Elizabeth
HAND-WRIST BONE AGE IN CHILDREN TREATED FOR ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (May 2006)
Mary, Annapoorna
CARDIOPULMONARY PREDICATORS OF DYSFUNCTIONAL VENTILATOR WEANING RESPONSE AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT (December 2007)
Melnyk, Roman
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION IN A VARIABLE RESOLUTION X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER (December 2007)
Mi, Yanli
PROTECTION MECHANISMS OF EXCIPIENTS ON LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE DURING FREEZE-THAWING AND LYOPHILIZATION (December 2002)
Moisini, Ioana
HUMANIZED CHIMERIC RECEPTORS IN THE THERAPY OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (December 2007)
Nawazi, Fazlullah Salar Khan
GOLGI SPECIFICITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOREACTIVE B CELLS (May 2008)
Nguyen, Vinh
LATE EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATION ON NORMAL MICROVASCULAR NETWORKS (June 1999)
Oak, Shilpa
PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AND MUSCLE CELL SIGNALING VIA SYNTROPHIN (June 2002)
Otieno, Steve
PROBING THE ROLE OF NASCENT HELICITY IN PROTEIN FUNCTION: P27KIP1 AS A REGULATOR OF THE CELL CYCLE (May 2007)
Pace, Diane Todd
EFFECT OF POSTMENOPAUSAL HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY ON HEART RATE (June 1998)
Pimple, Surekha Ravaji
FLAVONOIDS AND RELATED COMPOUNDS AS NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER INHIBITORS (May 2008)
Prabhakarpandian, Balabhaskar
FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UPREGULATION OF ADHESION MOLECULES ON IRRADIATED ENDOTHELIAL CELLS (June 2000)
Pyle, William Glen
k-OPIOID RECEPTOR-DEPENDENT CARDIOPROTECTION IN THE RAT (December 1999)
Rozhkov, Leonid
MAPPING OF CORTICAL MOTOR REORGANIZATION IN SPINAL CORD INJURY (December 2001)
Sawant, Amit
PORTAL IMAGING USING A CSI (TL) SCINTILLATOR COUPLED TO A COOLED CCD CAMERA (December 1999)
Sawrie, Daniel C.
CEPHALOMETRIC EVALUATION OF BIONATOR THERAPY IN THE EARLY TREATMENT OF CLASS II MALOCCLUSIONS (May 2008)

Selecman, Audrey Marie

EVALUATION OF OSSEOINTEGRATION BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT MODALITIES OF HYDROXYAPATITE IMPLANT SURFACE COATINGS: PLASMA SPRAYED HA COATED IMPLANTS AND ELECTROPHORESIS DEPOSITED NANO HA COATED IMPLANTS (May 2007)
Shanmugantham, Karthik
DNA BINDING SPECIFICITY OF Mu TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR C AND CRYSTALLIZATION OF C: DNA COMPLEX (December 2007)
Strom, Richelle Cutler
GENETIC ANALYSIS OF VARIATION IN NEURON NUMBER (December 1999)
Sullivan, Dale
DEVELOPMENTAL EXPRESSION OF RAT TARGET OF THE ATIPROLIFERATIVE ANTIBODY (rTAPA) PROTEIN IN THE BRAIN (June 1998)
Sundersingh, Bijoy
QUALITATIVE EVALUATION OF DATA COMPRESSION IN REAL-TIME ULTRASOUND IMAGING (June 2000)

Tang, Lisa

AGE-ASSOCIATED HEPATIC DRUG TRANSPORTER EXPRESSION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PEDIATRIC PHARMACOTHERAPY (December 2007)

Tang, Qing

GENETIC CONTROL OF EYE DEVELOPMENT, A CASE STUDY FOCUSED ON THE MURINE MUTATION BELLY SPOT AND TAIL (Bst) (December 1999)

Tankersley, Mark

WHY PHARMACISTS CHOOSE TO SEEK OR NOT SEEK BOARD CERTIFICATION IN PHARMACY PRACTICE: A COMPARISON OF MOTIVATION AND MOTIVATING FACTORS (May 2008)

Tidwell, Jerithea

SLEEP, FATIGUE AND CAREGIVER BURDEN IN PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (ALL) (May 2008)

Tomar, Alok

TYROSINE PHOSPHORYLATION OF VILLIN: EFFECTS ON ACTIN DYNAMICS, CELL MORPHOLOGY AND CELL MIGRATION (December 2006)
Turner, Patricia Kellie
THE ROLE OF MULTI-DRUG RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 4 AND P-GLYCOPROTEIN IN RESISTANCE OF NEUROBLASTOMA TO TOPOTECAN AND IRINOTECAN (December 2007)
Turner, Robert A.
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FIRST- VERSUS SECOND-PREMOLAR EXTRACTION EFFECTS IN ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT (May 2007)
van der Merwe, Marič
ENZYME ARCHITECTURE AND FLEXIBILITY AFFECT DNA TOPOISOMERASE I FUNCTION (December 2007)
Vazquez-Chona, Felix
GENETIC NETWORKS MODULATING RETINAL INJURY (May 2006)
Wang, Fan
NEUROADAPTIVE CHANGES IN THE MESOCORTICAL GLUTAMATERGIC SYSTEM DURING NICOTINE SELF-ADMINISTRATION AND AFTER EXTINCTION IN RATS (December 2007)
Weathersby, Michael Grey
DENTAL MATURATION IN CHILDREN TREATED FOR ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (May 2006)
West, Alina Nico
UNCOVERING P53 MUTATIONS AND ABNORMAL GENE EXPRESSION IN PEDIATRIC ADRENOCORTICAL CANCER (December 2007)
Williams, Bristol
EFFECTS OF TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE COATED TITANIUM ON ADJACENT EARLY BONE FORMATION (May 2007)
Xie, Xiaohu
ROLE OF MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTICAL GROUP II METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COCAINE SENSITIZATION (December 2007)
Xu, Jin
SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL SULFONAMIDE-BASED CALPAIN INHIBITORS AND THEIR POTENTIAL AS ANTI-TUMOR AGENTS (December 2007)
Yan, Jun
A COMPUTER SIMULATION MODEL OF THE HUMAN HEAD-NECK MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM (December 2006)
Zhang, Ziwei
THE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDY OF GIT1 PAXILLIN BINDING DOMAIN (May 2008)
Zsiros,Veronika
EFFECT OF BACKGROUND SYNAPTIC ACTIVITY ON EXCITATORY-POSTSYNAPTIC POSTENTIAL-SPIKE COUPLING (December 2003)


Date Modified 29 Feburary 2008