A Broadly Implementable Research Course in Phage Discovery and Genomics for First-Year Undergraduate Students (open access)

A Broadly Implementable Research Course in Phage Discovery and Genomics for First-Year Undergraduate Students

Article discussing a broadly implementable research course in phage discovery and genomics for first-year undergraduate students.
Date: 2014
Creator: Jordan, Tuajuanda C.; Burnett, Sandra H.; Carson, Susan; Caruso, Steven M.; Clase, Kari L.; DeJong, Randall J. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wnt Antagonist, Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 4 (sFRP4), Increases Chemotherapeutic Response of Glioma Stem-Like Cells (open access)

Wnt Antagonist, Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 4 (sFRP4), Increases Chemotherapeutic Response of Glioma Stem-Like Cells

Article on the effect of secreted frizzled-related protein 4, a Wnt signaling antagonist, in chemosensitizing the glioma cell line U138MG and glioma stem cells enriched from U138MG to chemotherapeutics.
Date: 2014
Creator: Warrier, Sudha R.; Balu, Senthil Kumar; Kumar, Alan Prem; Millward, Michael & Dharmarajan, Arunasalam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Targeting the STAT3 singaling pathway in cancer: Role of synthetic and natural inhibitors (open access)

Targeting the STAT3 singaling pathway in cancer: Role of synthetic and natural inhibitors

Article on targeting the STAT3 signaling pathway in cancer and the role of synthetic and natural inhibitors.
Date: January 2, 2014
Creator: Siveen, Kodappully Sivaraman; Sikka, Sakshi; Surana, Rohit; Dai, Xiaoyun; Zhang, Jingwen; Kumar, Alan Prem et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Loss of Rare Fish Species from Tropical Floodplain Food Webs Affects Community Structure and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in a Mesocosm Experiment (open access)

Loss of Rare Fish Species from Tropical Floodplain Food Webs Affects Community Structure and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in a Mesocosm Experiment

Article on the loss of rare fish species from tropical floodplain food webs and how this affects community structure and ecosystem multifunctionality in a mesocosm experiment.
Date: February 3, 2012
Creator: Pendleton, Richard M.; Hoeinghaus, David; Gomes, Luiz C. & Agostinho, Angela A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Botulinum Toxin Suppression of CNS Network Activity In Vitro (open access)

Botulinum Toxin Suppression of CNS Network Activity In Vitro

Article on botulinum toxin suppression of CNS network activity in vitro.
Date: February 12, 2014
Creator: Pancrazio, Joseph J.; Gopal, Kamakshi V.; Keefer, Edward W. & Gross, Guenter W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of Phenoxyacyl-Ethanolamides and Their Effects on Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Activity (open access)

Synthesis of Phenoxyacyl-Ethanolamides and Their Effects on Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Activity

This article discusses the synthesis of two sets of phenoxyacyl-ethanolamides from natural products, 3-n-pentadecylphenolethanolamide and cardanolethanolamide, with structural similarity to N-Acylethanolamines and characterizes their effects on the hydroltic activity of fatty acid amide hydrolase.
Date: February 20, 2014
Creator: Faure, Lionel; Nagarajan, Subbiah; Hwang, Hyeondo; Montgomery, Christa L.; Khan, Bibi Rafeiza; John, George et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Epigenetics as a Source of Variation in Comparative Animal Physiology - or - Lamarck Is Lookin' Pretty Good These Days (open access)

Epigenetics as a Source of Variation in Comparative Animal Physiology - or - Lamarck Is Lookin' Pretty Good These Days

This article discusses the ecological and and evolutionary significance of such epigenetic inheritance in a comparative physiological context, and provides a number of caveats and warnings regarding the interpretation of transgenerational phenotype modification as a true epigenetic phenomenon.
Date: February 26, 2014
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Identifying Cancer Types

Poster for the 2014 MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Annual Conference. This poster discusses a comparison of machine learning algorithms for identifying cancer types.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Saxena, Garima; Helsing, Joseph; Reyes, Omar Costilla & Azad, Rajeev K.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lignin Modification Leads to Increased Nodule Numbers in Alfalfa (open access)

Lignin Modification Leads to Increased Nodule Numbers in Alfalfa

Article on lignin modification leading to increased nodule numbers in alfalfa.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Bhattarai, Kishor; Pislariu, Catalina I.; Nakashima, Jin; Jikumaru, Yusuke; Kamiya, YÅ«ji et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inhibition of STAT3 dimerization and acetylation by garcinol suppresses the growth of human hepatocellular carcinoma in vitro and in vivo (open access)

Inhibition of STAT3 dimerization and acetylation by garcinol suppresses the growth of human hepatocellular carcinoma in vitro and in vivo

Article on the inhibition of STAT3 dimerization and acetylation by garcinol suppresses the growth of human hepatocellular carcinoma in vitro and in vivo.
Date: March 21, 2014
Creator: Sethi, Gautam; Chatterjee, Snehajyoti; Rajendran, Peramaiyan; Li, Feng; Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Wong, Kwong Fai et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
SPHK1 regulates proliferation and survival responses in triple-negative breast cancer (open access)

SPHK1 regulates proliferation and survival responses in triple-negative breast cancer

Article describes study suggesting that the inhibation of sphingosine kinase 1 (SPHK1) can attenuate ERK1/2 and AKT signaling and reduce growth of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells in vitro and in a xenograft SCID mouse model.
Date: March 27, 2014
Creator: Datta, Arpita; Loo, Ser Yue; Huang, Baohua; Wong, Lingkai; Tan, Sheryl S.L.; Tan, Tuan Zea et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
γ-tocotrienol inhibits angiogenesis-dependent growth of human hepatocellular carcinoma through abrogation of AKT/mammalian target of rapamycin pathway in an orthotopic mouse model (open access)

γ-tocotrienol inhibits angiogenesis-dependent growth of human hepatocellular carcinoma through abrogation of AKT/mammalian target of rapamycin pathway in an orthotopic mouse model

Article describing an investigation into whether γ-tocotrienol can abrogate angiogenesis-mediated tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and if so, through what molecular mechanisms.
Date: March 31, 2014
Creator: Siveen, Kodappully Sivaraman; Ahn, Kwang Seok; Ong, Tina H.; Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Li, Feng; Yap, Wei Ney et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hexagonal pixel-array for efficient spatial computation for motion-detection pre-processing of visual scenes (open access)

Hexagonal pixel-array for efficient spatial computation for motion-detection pre-processing of visual scenes

Article discussing hexagonal pixel-array for efficient spatial computation for motion-detection pre-processing of visual scenes.
Date: April 4, 2014
Creator: Tam, Nicoladie D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temporal decoupling of oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin hemodynamic responses detected by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) (open access)

Temporal decoupling of oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin hemodynamic responses detected by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

Article discussing temporal decoupling of oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin hemodynamic responses detected by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)
Date: April 6, 2014
Creator: Tam, Nicoladie D. & Zouridakis, George
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalization of Entropy Based Divergence Measures for Symbolic Sequence Analysis (open access)

Generalization of Entropy Based Divergence Measures for Symbolic Sequence Analysis

Article on the generalization of entropy based divergence measures for symbolic sequence analysis.
Date: September 17, 2013
Creator: Ré, Miguel A. & Azad, Rajeev K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reduction of student's exam grade performance when spending more time in an exam (open access)

Reduction of student's exam grade performance when spending more time in an exam

Article discussing the reduction of student's exam grade performance when spending more time in an exam.
Date: April 21, 2014
Creator: Tam, Nicoladie D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantification of happy emotion: dependence on decisions (open access)

Quantification of happy emotion: dependence on decisions

Article on the quantification of happy emotion and dependence on decisions.
Date: April 30, 2014
Creator: Tam, Nicoladie D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantification of happy emotion: proportionality relationship to gain/loss (open access)

Quantification of happy emotion: proportionality relationship to gain/loss

Article on the quantification of happy emotion and the proportionality relationship to gain/loss.
Date: April 30, 2014
Creator: Tam, Nicoladie D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oleanolic acid and its synthetic derivatives for the prevention and therapy of cancer: Preclinical and clinical evidence (open access)

Oleanolic acid and its synthetic derivatives for the prevention and therapy of cancer: Preclinical and clinical evidence

Article on oleanolic acid and its synthetic derivatives for the prevention and therapy of cancer with preclinical and clinical evidence.
Date: May 1, 2014
Creator: Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Dai, Xiaoyun; Kumar, Alan Prem; Tan, Benny K-H; Sethi, Gautam & Bishayee, Anupam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Keel petal incision: a simple and efficient method for genetic crossing in Medicago truncatula (open access)

Keel petal incision: a simple and efficient method for genetic crossing in Medicago truncatula

Article on keel petal incision and a simple and efficient method for genetic crossing in Medicago truncatula.
Date: January 9, 2014
Creator: Veerappan, Vijaykumar; Kadel, Khem; Alexis, Naudin; Scott, Ashley; Kryvoruchko, Igor; Sinharoy, Senjuti et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Draft Genome Sequence of Cupriavidus sp. Strain SK-4, a di-ortho-Substituted Biphenyl-Utilizing Bacterium Isolated from Polychlorinated Biphenyl-Contaminated Sludge (open access)

Draft Genome Sequence of Cupriavidus sp. Strain SK-4, a di-ortho-Substituted Biphenyl-Utilizing Bacterium Isolated from Polychlorinated Biphenyl-Contaminated Sludge

Article on the draft genome sequence of Cupriavidus sp. strain SK-4, a di-ortho-substituted biphenyl-utilizing bacterium isolated from polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated sludge.
Date: May 22, 2014
Creator: Vilo, Claudia A.; Benedik, Michael J.; Ilori, Matthew Olusoji & Dong, Qunfeng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular evolutionary and structural analysis of the cytosolic DNA sensor cGAS and STING (open access)

Molecular evolutionary and structural analysis of the cytosolic DNA sensor cGAS and STING

Article describes study in which researchers carried out comprehensive evolutionary analyses of the GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS)-STING pathway.
Date: June 30, 2014
Creator: Wu, Xiaomei; Wu, Fei-Hua; Wang, Xiaoqiang; Wang, Lilin; Siedow, James N.; Zhang, Weiguo et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Draft Genome Sequence of Cupriavidus sp. Strain SK-3, a 4-Chlorobiphenyl- and 4-Clorobenzoic Acid-Degrading Bacterium (open access)

Draft Genome Sequence of Cupriavidus sp. Strain SK-3, a 4-Chlorobiphenyl- and 4-Clorobenzoic Acid-Degrading Bacterium

Article on the draft genome sequence of Cupriavidus sp. strain SK-3, a 4-chlorobiphenyl- and 4-clorobenzoic acid-degrading bacterium.
Date: July 3, 2014
Creator: Vilo, Claudia A.; Benedik, Michael J.; Ilori, Matthew Olusoji & Dong, Qunfeng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantification of fairness bias in relation to decisions using a relativistic fairness-equity model (open access)

Quantification of fairness bias in relation to decisions using a relativistic fairness-equity model

Article discussing the quantification of fairness bias in relation to decisions using a relativistic fairness equity-model.
Date: July 10, 2014
Creator: Tam, Nicoladie D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library