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Neuroprotection and Neural Plasticity: Unraveling Cell Signaling in Injury and Neurodegeneration
Mycobacterium chelonae in ocular infections, virulence and pathology of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa ocular infections, pathogenesis of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa protease IV, regulation, biochemical characterization, and distribution of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, immune responses of, as related primarily to ocular infections
Staphylococcus aureus ocular infections, pathogenesis of
Vibrio vulnificus-shellfish interactions
• the cardiac effects of inhaled particulate matter and cigarette smoke.
• the cardioprotective effects of estrogenic pathways, including soybean- and plant-derived compounds, and
• the role of lysyl oxidase, a collagen crosslinking enzyme, and related peptides in myocardial ECM remodeling,
1. Patterns of care of cancer patients
2. Application of social justice theories in health care
3. Public-private partnership in health care delivery
Abdominal Imaging
Abdominal pain
Access to health care, applied artificial intelligence, negotiation, clinical effectiveness,
Acquired inhibitors (lupus type anticoagulants
Active properties of dendrites
Acupuncture
Acute lung injury
Acute lung rejection
Acute respiratory distress syndrome
Adaptations to physical exercise and training
Addiction
ADHD in children
Adherence to medication
Adipose tissue fatty acid composition and the relation to atherosclerosis
Adolescent behavior
Adolescent medicine
Adult pathology
Adult spine surgery
Adult Stem Cells
Aerobic and anaerobic infections (clinical and laboratory evaluation of newer antimicrobial agents in treatment)
Aggressive ED Management of DKA
Aggressive Management of Hypertension in the ED
Aging
Aging and dry eye
Aging, Dementia, and Stroke
Aging-related changes that may increase the susceptibility of the elderly to colonic carcinoma and oral diseases
Agricultural Waste Policy
AIDS and alcohol consumption
AIDS pathogenesis
Air Pollution
Airborne particulates
Albumin Replacement
Alcohol immunosuppression of cytokine production and action, and neutrophil migration.
Alcohol Metabolism
Alzheimer's disease
Ambulatory Pediatrics
Amino acid metabolism
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Anatomic pathology
Anatomical pathology
Anemia
Angiotensin Receptor Regulation
Ankle dorsiflexion
Antibiotic therapies, development of
Antibiotics
Antibodies in infectious diseases
Antineoplastic agents in patients with gastrointestinal neoplasms
Anti-viral therapy
Aquaporins and Renin-Angiotensin-System
Arterial diseases and aging in human populations
Artificial ventilation
Asbestosis
Asthma
Asthma and headaches
Asthma in children
Ataxia-Telangiectasia
Atherosclerosis - lipid metabolism, chemistry of arterial wall, Omega 3, Omega 6 fatty acids, trans fatty acid and antioxidants
Atherosclerosis and cancer
Atherosclerosis, evolution and regression of lesions produced in laboratory animals by means of dietary manipulation
Atherosclerosis, inherited factors affecting
Atherosclerosis, natural history of lesions in the coronary arteries and aortas
Atherosclosis and lipoprotein metabolism
Atopic dermatitis
Autoimmunity
Azaftig biology and lipolysis
Bacterial host defenses in the lungs, particularly the adaptive immune response
Bacterial pathogenesis, molecular mechanisms of, especially pathogenic
Bacterial plasminogen activators as initiators of on disease
Bacterial vaginosis
Basic mechanisms involved in regulation of hepatic iron homeostasis
Bayesian modeling
Bayesian Network
Bedside Critical Care Procedure
Behavioral epidemiology
Behavioral Pharmacology
Beverage consumption and it's health impact
Biliary Tract Disease
Biochemical mechanisms of chromosomal translocation gene products in cancer formation
Biochemistry instrumentation
Biochemistry of cell adhesion
Biochemistry of cell differentiation
Biochemistry of cell proliferation
Bioinformatic: DNA microarray; Sequencing-based gene expression profiles; DNA methylation, Gene set enrichment/pathway analysis.
Bioinformatics
Biologic effects of immunoglobulins
Bioluminescence and neutrophil function
Biomarkers of exposure and outcome in cancer epidemiology
Biostatistical Methodology
Biosynthesis of neuropeptides in neuroendocrine tissues and brain
BMP/BMP receptors/Smads pathway
Brain Development and Caffeine’s Effects
Brain tumors
Brain-specific transcription
Breast Feeding
breast feeding dynamics
Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome (BOS)
Built environment, social environment, parks, physical activity, HIV
Calcium dynamics
Calcium regulation of mechanosensory transduction
Cancer cytogenetics and prostate cancer
Cancer education
Cancer Epidemiology
Cancer epidemiology; cancer in minority populations; female cancers; cancer registration; descriptive epidemiology, patterns of care of cancer patients, survival analysis
Cancer Epidemiology; female cancers; cancer in minority populations; cancer registration;
Cancer immunotherapy
cancer initiation
Cancer Prevention and Control
Cancer prevention and health promotion
Cancer prevention, Nutrition, Obesity
Cancer, role of antioxidants in the prevention of gastric cancer with emphasis on vitamin C
Candida albicans and candidiasis
Candidiasis, immunoregulation of recurrent vaginal or oral
Cardiac function during endotoxemia
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular Pharmacology
Carnitine deficiency and metabolism
Carnitine metabolism
Carpal tunnel syndrome
catecholamine function in the nervous system
CD1D Gene Regulation in Cancer
CD34 stem cell
Cell biology
Cell biology and signal transduction
Cell biology of retina and hippocampus under normal and pathological conditions
Cell biology of the intra renal Renin-Angiotensin-System
Cell cycle checkpoints
Cell cycle control
Cell Signaling
Cellular and molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease
Cellular mechanisms that maintain stability of the human genome
Centenarian Studies
Central Neural Regulation of Endocrine and Autonomic Functions
Central Regulation of Renal Function
Cerebral Ischemia
Changes in the mammalian brain associated with aging
Chemoprevention
Child Abuse
Child and adolescent psychiatry
childhood cancers
Children with Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia
Children with Special Healthcare Needs
Chlamydia pneumoniae infection
Chlamydia trachomatis infection
Chronic Diaphragmatic Hernia Therapy (NIH Funded)
Chronic illness
Cleft lip and palate
Clinical and Research Ethics
Clinical aspects of movement disorders
Clinical chemistry
Clinical Echocardiography
Clinical genetics
Clinical Pharmacology of Psycho-active Drugs
Clinical relationships among comorbid anxiety disorders
Clinical trials
Clinical: pulmonary infections; cystic fibrosis; sepsis
Clinic-dependent trials: bronchitis, asthma, pleural efflusions
CNS disorders (Krabbe disease)
Co-existence of Typical and Atypical Pathogens in Community Acquired Pneumonia
Community Based Intervention Research
Community medicine
Community-Based Participatory Research
Complications of diabetes
Computational genomics and bioinformatics
Computational Method
Computer-generated 3-D graphical simulations and animations of physiological phenomena
Computerization in practice
Congestive Heart Failure
Connection between DNA methylation and constitutive heterochromatin
Continuing Medical Education
COPD/emphysema
Cord blood
Corneal Myofibroblast Biology
Corneal wound healing after Refractive Surgery
Correlated data methods
COX-2 oxidative metabolism of endogenous cannabinoids in synaptic activity and neuronal survival
CPT1 gene expression in neonatal pig heart
Crew resource management
Critical care
Cryptococcus neoformans
Current topics of study include:
Cystic fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy
Cystic Fibrosis Pathophysiology
Cytogenetics & microdeletions
Cytokine production
Cytokines & regulatory molecules in primary immunodeficiencies (PID)
Data mining and outcomes research.
Delineation of new syndromes
Dendritic excitability and synaptic integration in hippocampal and entorhinal cortex neurons
Dermatoglyphics
Dermatophyte infections of the hair, skin and nails and their treatment
Designs of Experiments. (Multi-state) reliability analysis.
Determination of the origin of stromal cells in hemangioblastomas
Developing statistical methodology related to applications of linear models
Developing statistical methods for applications of mixed linear models
Development
Development and Developmental Disorders – Developmental Stuttering
Development and evaluation of animal models of stroke
Development and evaluation of animal models of traumatic brain injury
Development and inhibition of angiogenesis in various pathological scenarios (cancer, heart disease, psoriasis, etc.), and intracellular movement of ligands via endocytic machinery
Development of Immunological radioprotective therapies for cancer patients
Development of peptide and protein based cancer vaccines
Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics
Developmental gastroenteroloty/nutrition
Diabetes
Diabetes and hyperparathyroidism
Diabetes control
Diabetes Prevention and Control
Differentiation and A1c determination using cappilary isoelectric focusing
Disorders of growth
DNA arrays
DNA microarray
Donor-specific immunosuppression for cardiac allografting in infants and children.
Dopamine and neuropeptide interactions in the hypothalamus
Drug abuse in adolescents
Drug Metabolism
Drugs of abuse
DVT Prophylaxis in Post Stroke Patients
Dyslipidemias and the complications of Type II Diabetes
Dysmorphology
Dysmorphology, birth defects
Early Brain Development
Early literacy development
Echocardiography and Heart Failure
Echocardiography of the Rat and Mouse
Economic evaluation of health services: Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Economics and delivery
Effect of Hydroxyurea on Immunity in Sickle Cell Disease
Effect of mechanical strain on various ion channels and pumps that affect vascular function
Effect of normal aging and calorie restriction on the ENS
Effect of Shock resuscitation on Gut Function
Effects of acute alcohol intoxication on the bone marrow response to bacteremia
Effects of conjugated linoleic acid in reducing body fat
Effects of stress and trauma on salivary cortisol in the elderly
Effects of stress on cognition in the elderly
Effects of Violence Exposure on Children
Efficacy of HA Injection Laryngoplasty
Electrical characteristics of regenerating nerve
Electron microscopy
Emergency management of asthma
Emergency Preparedness
Emerging flaviviruses
Emerging Infectious Diseases
EMG
Emphysema
Endocrine Physiology and Weight Control
Endothelial Cells
Energy healing
Enteric nervous system (ENS)
Environmental Sciences
Enzymology of Ras farnesyltransferase and protein geranylgeranyltransferase
Epidemiological modeling using national survey data
Epidemiology
Epidemiology Methods
Epidemiology of neoplasms
Epstein-Barr virus latency, gene expression and replication
Ethanol effects and kinetics
Ethical decisions in end of life care
Ethnic/genetic differences in disease etiology and aging
Etiology of genetic diseases in Louisiana's inbred groups, carrier detection by linkage analysis
Evaluation of blood-brain integrity
Evaluation of New Biochemical Markers Troponin T and Troponin I
Evaluation of normal and disordered vocal fold vibration, using high-speed camera
excretion of ammonia and uric acid
Exercise physiology in health and disease
Experiences of the Old-old: Life After 85, effects of social support and spirituality on quality of life in the elderly
Experimental design
Export Trafficking and Signal Regulation of G Protein-Coupled Receptors
Exposure Assessment
facial recognition
Facial Trauma
Faculty Development
Fat transplantation
fetoplacental interactions
Fever and rash
Fibromyalgia
Food allergies in children
Forensic and clinical toxicology
Forensic Pediatrics
Four Dimensional Echo
Friedreich ataxia
Functional analysis of proteins on p53 pathway
Functional Haplotypes of Human CD1D Gene
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
Gastroesophageal reflux
Gastrointestinal Disease
Gastrointestinal dysfunction
Gastrointestinal dysmotility
Gastrointestinal Pharmacology
Gay and lesbian medical issues
Gene expression analysis and profiling
Gene expression in obstructive uropathy
Gene Therapy
Gene Therapy for Neonatal Lung Disease
Gene therapy, construction of vectors for
Gene trap vectors
General Pharmacology
General psyhchiatry
General Pulmonary Diseases
Genes in cholesterol transport and steroid hormone receptors
Genetic Counselor and genetic education
Genetic Disorders in the Acadian Population
Genetic linkage in Parkinson's Disease
genetic mechanisms behind common diseases: atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and abdominal aortic aneurysms
Genetic Structure of Populations
Genetic studies of complex traits/diseases such as prostate cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and endometriosis
Genetics and biological roles of Wnt signaling defects in GI tumor development
Genetics and functional analysis of DNA damage-response defects in prostate cancer susceptibility
Genetics education, especially in the field of Cytogenetics
Genetics in isolated populations
Genetics of Aging
Genetics of craniofacial dysmorphology
Genetics of Deafness and Hearing Impairment in mouse and man
Genital ulcer disease
Geriatric Medicine
Geriatrics
Global protein delivery
Glucocorticoid induced apoptosis of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Glucose-regulated gene expression
gout
G-protein-Coupled Receptors and Signal Transduction
Growth and Development of Hard Tissues
Growth disorders
Growth factors
growth rate
Guillain Barré syndrome
H. pylori
Health Disparities
Health insurance coverage and access to care
Health Policy
Health promotion
Health Promotion Interventions and Evaluations
Health Risk Assessment
Health status, health disparities, health-related quality of life, patient satisfaction,
Health system planning and evaluation, managerial epidemiology, decision sciences,
Healthcare for indigent populations
Healthcare outcome research
Healthcare quality improvement
Healthcare reform
Healthy aging
Heart Rate Variability (Computer Algorithms and processing)
Helicobacter pylori infections
Hematopoiesis
Hepatitis C
Hereditary Hearing Loss and Hearing Conservation
Histogenesis of neoplasms
Histological techniques with high-resolution light microscopy
Histopathology and image analysis of the brain after stroke and head trauma
Histopathology of the mycoses
HIV & Nutrition
HIV dementia
HIV gait difficulty
HIV headache
HIV in adolescents
HIV infection in women
HIV neuropathy
HIV,
HIV/Aids
HIV/AIDS, immunology of
HIV-related behavioral studies
Holistic medicine
Homeopathy
Hormonal regulation of metabolism
Hormonal Regulation of the Renal Microcirculation
Hospital based medicine
Host defense mechanisms against pulmonary infection
Host-fungal relationships
Host-parasite interactions: pathogenesis of Leishmania infection, parasite differentiation and replication, host responses to Leishmania.
How individuals cope with chronic illness
How psychological factors influence medical management and outcomes
How shock, particularly hyperthermic, hemorrhagic and burn shock, produces cardiac dysfunction
Human and Mouse Gene Mapping
Human Cognitive Neuroscience – Speech, Language, and Motor Neural systems
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Human-Aided Machine Learning
Hyperbaric Medicine
Hypertension
Hypertension in CKD patients
Hypertension, obesity and the kidneys
Hypo- and hyper-responsiveness of plasma cholesterol to dietary cholesterol
Hyponatremia in Community Acquired Pneumonia
Hypothalamic neurotransmitters and catecholamines in the lean and obese Zucker rat
Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Immune dysfunction and disease
Immune regulation
Immune response to pneumococcal polysaccharides
Immune responses
Immune responses to infections by opportunistic pathogens
Immunizations
Immunochemistry
Immunohistochemistry
Immunologic diagnostic procedures, particularly analytical flow cytometry
Immunological T cell memory
Immunology
Immunology and structure of human papillomaviruses
Immunology, cellular and mucosal
Immunosuppressive actions of exercise
Impact of alcohol abuse on the metabolic and pro-inflammatory counteregulatory responses to shock and trauma
Impact of childhood psychological maltreatment
Impact of chronic alcohol consumption on the disruption of bone marrow progenitor cell differentiation
Impact of chronic alcohol consumption on the progression of AIDS-associated muscle wasting
Impact of infection and alcohol on stem cell biology and the hematopoietic response.
Implantable Hearing Devices
Improved access to primary care
Improving Pediatric Resuscitation
Infant enrichment; fussy babies
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory mediators in hemodialysis
Influence of touch on development
Inhalation lung injury
Inner Ear Perfusion and Neuroprotection
Insulin resistance and diabetes in the elderly
insulinoma associate-1 (IA-1) in SCLC in gene expression
Interaction between chronic alcohol consumption on the progression of simian immunodeficiency virus infection.
Interaction of Angiotensin II and Nitric Oxide on Renal Function
Interactions of the tat protein with other effector proteins
Intermediary metabolism in living animals
International Maternal and Infant Health
Interpersonal skills
Interpersonal violence
Intrauterine growth restriction
Intrauterine growth retardation
Investigation of phonation onset and offset in younger and older females
Investigational therapeutic approaches in HIV/AIDS
Ion channels in vascular endothelium and smooth muscle
Job stress and hypertension
Juvenile Correctional Medicine
Juvenile Dermatomyositis
Juvenile Justice System Policy, Program, and Practice Development. Adolescent Development, Violence, Family Contextual Issues, and Substance Abuse.
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Kawasaki Disease
Laboratory isolation and identification of fungi and their significance to patient management
Laboratory Management (TQM & Outcomes Management)
Laboratory regulations/QA/QC
Laboratory support for Emergency Medicine
Laboratory systems/automation/information systems
Late effects of cancer and treatment
Legal and ethical issues related to medical genetics, genetics research, and the new reproductive technologies
Lentivirus-based vectors
Leukemia
Linear models
Lipid signaling in hippocampal synaptic transmission and plasticity
Lipid-derived second messengers under normal and pathological conditions
lipidomic pathways that impact neurological and retinal diseases, and the links to genomes and proteomes
Lissencephaly
Longitudinal data analysis
Longitudinal data analysis, meta-analysis, and survival analysis
Lung cancer
Lung injury during sepsis
Lung transplantation
Lymphoma
Macromolecular transport across the intestine
Macrophage-T cell interaction
Malignant mesothelioma
Management of existing health problems
Management of Hyperglycemia in the ED
Massage therapy
Maternal and child health epidemiology
Mechanism for HIV tat protein repression of transcription
Mechanism of the cholera and heat-labile enterotoxins
Mechanisms in the Development and Maintenance of Chronic Pain
Mechanisms of Cell Differentiation
Mechanisms of cellular response to DNA damage
Mechanisms of Corneal Wound Healing
Mechanisms of fungal adaptation and differentiation during colonization and infection of the mammalian host
Mechanisms of marijuana-altered synaptic and cognitive function, and cannabinoid tolerance
Mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease)
Mechanisms of pulmonary host defense against infections
Mechanisms of Renal Blood Flow Autoregulation
Mechanisms of surgically induced weight loss
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation
Medical education
Medical education and curriculum reform
Medical ethics
Membrane electrophysiology
Memory
Men’s Health
Mental health
Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs)
Metabolic bone disease
Metabolic diseases
Metabolic regulation of gene expression
Metabolism
Metabolism and diabetes
Metabolism of Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids in Cultured Cells
Methods for promoting long-term treatment adherence
Methods for quantitative measurement of activation antigens
Microbial ecology
Milk allergy & tolerance
Minor Head Injury
Minority Participation in Pediatric Research
Mitochondrial and Energy Metabolism
Mitochondrial defects in infantile bilateral striatal necrosis
Mixture model
Molecular and biochemical characterization of S. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa virulence factors
Molecular and cellular biology of vesicular neurotransmitter transporters
Molecular basis of viral entry and pathogenesis
Molecular biology of lens
Molecular cardiovascular medicine
Molecular diagnostics
Molecular epidemiology of bacterial infections
Molecular epidemiology of cancer, particularly understanding the molecular characterization of disease susceptibility
Molecular genetics
Molecular mechanisms of inflammation and wound healing in the eye
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity: NMDA receptor signaling and CREB mediatedgene transcription
Molecular pathology
Molecular taxonomy
Mood disorders
Morphometry
Mouse Model of Hemoglobin Glycation Phenotype
Mouse models of cancer
Multidisciplinary Diagnosis and Management of Vertigo, Meniere’s, Migraine Vestibulopathy and Balance Disorders
Multiple myeloma
Multiple organ failure
Multiple sclerosis
Municipal and Agricultural Waste Treatment (Chemical, Physical and Biological Parameters including Pathogen Inactivation and New Process Approval)
Muscle, Bone and Joint Biomechanics
My laboratory utilizes rodent models of cardiac disease, including models of pressure and volume overload.
My major research focus is the pathogenesis of heart failure.
Myeloproliferative syndromes
Myocardial function, sepsis, preconditioning, alcohol, hemorrhage and resuscitation
Myocardial lipid metabolism
Myocardial Revascularization
National protocols for children's malignancies
Natural history of atherosclerosis in several populations
Natural history of atherosclerosis with specific interest in Rhymic Wrinkling
Neonatal hemodynamics
Neonatal hypoxia
Neonatal infections
Neonatal lung disease
Neonatal myocardial protection: The effect of calcium on left ventricular function measured by conductance catheter and intracellular calcium measurement.
Neonatal Nutrition
Neonatal nutrition and metabolism
Neurobiological and Psychosocial Effects of Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery
Neurobiological mechanisms of alcohol dependence and stress disorders
Neurobiological mechanisms of co-dependence on more than one drug
Neurobiology
Neurobiology of basal ganglia
Neurobiology of reward and reinforcement systems
Neuroendocrine and physiological responses to puberty, sexual differentiation and weight control
Neuroendocrine cancer gene therapy
Neuroendocrine-immune dysfunction in critical illness
Neuromodulation of ion channels
neuromuscular and neuroimmunology disorders
neuronal cell death and neuroprotection
Neuropeptide and neurotransmitter gene expression
Neuropharmacology of drug reinforcement in the drug-dependent organism
Neurophysiology
Neurophysiology of nerve regeneration
Neuroprotection in brain ischemia and traumatic brain injury
Neuroradiology
Neurotoxicity and Neuroprotection in Disease States
Neurotoxicology
neurotransmitter release
Neurotrophic protein (prosaposin) in prostate cancer biology
New and accurate laboratory procedures
nitrogen excretion patterns
NMDA receptor function in the kidneys
Non-clinical animal pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and toxicology studies
non-small cell lung carcinoma
Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Infections
Normal aging
Nosocomial infections
Nosology of genetic diseases
Novel Surgical Approaches to Skull Base Tumors and Acoustic Neuroma
Nutrition
Nutrition & cancer
Nutrition and biomarker research
Nutrition in Critical Care patients
Nutritional status in disease states
Nutritional support of children with chronic lung disease
Obesity and Diabetes among women and children
Obesity and nutrition
Obesity in childhood
Obstetrics
Obstructive lung disease
Occupational asthma
Occupational/environmental medicine
Ocular pathogenesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Of particular interest are the mechanisms responsible for adverse cardiac extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling associated with the progression of congestive heart failure.
opioid peptides
Orthopedic Trauma
Otitis Media
Outbreak and cluster investigations
Outcome analysis for head and neck cancer
Outcome measures for analyzing surgical treatments
Outcomes-based, clinical research in children with disabilities
Oxidation of dietary fats
Oxidative stress
Oxidative stress in asthma, atherosclerosis, and colon cancer
Oxidative stress in cancer and reproduction
Oyster defensins with particular emphasis on their role in the modulation of bacterial infections
Pain Management
Pancreatic islet cell growth and differentiation
Parenteral nutrition
Parkinson’s disease in patients with Motor Response Complications on levodopa/carbidopa therapy
Pathogenesis and chemotherapy of viral and bacterial keratitis
Pathogenesis and mother-to-infant transmission of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV and SIV)
Pathogenesis of fungal diseases
Patient safety
Patient safety, quality, health IT
Pediatric anesthesia
Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery
Pediatric foot surgery
Pediatric hip disorders
Pediatric HIV
Pediatric HIV Infection
Pediatric Hospitalists
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Pediatric neuromuscular diseases
Pediatric Orthopedics
Pediatric Pathology
Pediatric pulmonology
Pediatric spine and orthopaedic surgery
Pediatric trauma
Pediatric trauma and post-traumatic problems
Pediatric Tuberculosis
Pediatric Vaccines
Pediatrics
Perinatal Caffeine Exposure
Peripheral nerve injuries and repair
Peripheral nerve lesions
Peripheral neuropathy
Permutation tests
Perturbations to hepatic iron homeostasis associated with infectious diseases and alcohol abuse
Pharmacokinetics and metabolism of legal and illegal drugs and natural substances
Pharmacological treatment of neonatal apnea
Pharmacology of Hearing
Pharmacology of Pain Control
Phenylketonuria
Physician-patient communication
Physician-patient relationship
Physician-patient relationship and informed consent
Physiopathology and cell signaling of resistance arteries
Pneumococcal immunication
Pneumonia
Policy,
Polymicrobial diseases
Population Genetics
Post-traumatic stress disorders
Potential applications of gene therapy to human disease
Practice management
Prader-Willi syndrome
Prenatal & postnatal exposure to caffeine
Prenatal diagnosis of genetic diseases in pregnancy
Prenatal programming of hypertension
Preventative Medicine in Pediatrics
Prevention and population-based medicine
Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse
Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity
Primary immunodeficiences
Primary pulmonary hypertension
Primary-care research
Procedural competency
Procrit, safety and efficacy of
Progression and regression of atherosclerosis in nonhuman primates
prostate cancer
Protein and nucleic acid chemistry
Protein biochemistry
Protein-Energy Malnutrition
Proteoglycan biology
Psychopharmacology and phenomenology of mood and psychotic disorders
Psychosocial Interventions
Psychosocial stress
Psychotherapy with children and adolescents and their families who experienced and/or witnessed trauma
PTSD in the elderly
Public Health
Public Health Education
Public health interventions
Pulmonary circulation
Pulmonary Complications in the Immunocompromised Host
Pulmonary hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension secondary to congenital heart disease
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Reactive Oxygen Species
Recovering function after brain injury (neural plasticity and reorganization), expertise in different neurobehavioral tests
Reference laboratory logistics
Reform of basic research funding
Regulation and Function of Na+,K+-ATPase
Regulation of synthesis and secretion of protein and peptide components of the aqueous layer of pre-corneal tear film
Regulation of transcription factors through phosphorylation
Relation of hormonal contraception to HIV survival and immunologic status of HIV infected women
Renal development
Renal hypoxia
Renal Microcirculatory Physiology
Renin-Angiotensin System
Reproductive tissue cancers - gene expression and regulation
Research: host defense; sepsis; cytokines
Respiratory function during speech
Response to Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Resuscitation Endpoints in Trauma Care
Resuscitation in Critical Care patients
Retroviral oncogenesis
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Risk Behaviors and Behavioral Patterns
RNA transcript profiling using high density oligo-nucleotide arrays
RNA viral polymerase fidelity
RNA viruses in gene therapy
Role of Anti-Oxidant Vitamins
Role of cytokines in pulmonary and systemic host defense. Selected cytokine transcytosis from the intrapulmonary compartment to the blood: Mechanism and Consequence
Role of metabolism and gene expression in immune system function during aging
Role of social support and spirituality on quality of life in the elderly
Role of the Candida albicans and Trypanosoma cruzi 14-3-3 proteins in response to environmental changes and adaptation to the mammalian host.
Role of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Blood Pressure Regulation
Role of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in the regulation of intestinal and oral epithelial cells
Rotavirus infections
Rotavirus VLPs in Plants as Vaccine Candidate
Sampling design
Sarcoidosis
School-based STD screening and prevention
Science education
Scoliosis
Segregation and Linkage Analysis of Hereditary Diseases
Sepsis
Septic shock
Sexually transmitted pathogens, innate and cellular immune responses to
Sickle cell anemia
Sickle cell disease
Signal transduction
Signal transduction by MAP kinases
Signal transduction pathways in various cell types involved in host defense mechanisms
Silicosis
Simulation in surgical education
Small cell lung cancer
Small incision cosmetic surgery
Smoking, hypertension and mortality in dialysis
Social and spatial epidemiologic methods
Social health disparities and contextual influences on health
Socio-cultural Aspects of Disease Management
Soft tissue augmentation
Soft tissue sarcomas
Somatoemotional release
Somatostatin Analogues
Somatostatin receptor targeted analogs in neuroendocrine malignancies
Spectator sport safety and security, statistical process control, quality of public health services,
Spina bifida
Spine deformities
Sports medicine
Sports Medicine- Shoulder, Knee, and Elbow Surgery
Sports Medicine, exercise and nutrition
Statistical design and analysis for cancer research studies, including basic research , gene expression, and statistical genetics
Statistical genetic analysis methods through computer simulation
Statistical modeling in the study of chronic disease
STD education
Stem Cell Aging
Stem cell transplant
Stem cell transplantation in PID patients
Steroid hormone action
steroid hormone regulation of proto-oncogene expression and cellular proliferation
Sterol metabolism in relation to atherosclerosis
stimulation-dependent phosphorylation of tyrosine hydroxylase
Stroke
structure, function, and genomic interactions of glucocorticoid receptor proteins
Study of carnitine deprivation in piglets
Study of specimen variability
Substance abuse
Substance use and mental health
supply and demand
Survey Research
Survival Analysis
Sustainable Development
Synaptic formation, structure and function; Role of ubiquitination in neurodegeneration, synaptic development and plasticity.
Synaptic integration and plasticity
Synaptic Vesicle Transport Proteins
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
T cell dysfunction in patients with tuberculosis and cancer, mechanisms regulating
T cell function
T cells in steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome
TB infection, immunology of
Telemedicine
Texture Analysis of Myocardium (Computer algorithms and processing)
The impact of daily stress on illness
The mechanism of action of Nischarin in tumor cell migration and invasion
The mechanism of catecholamine-induced cardiotoxicity.
The molecular mechanisms of kidney development in Xenopus and mouse.
The roles of ubiquitin and ISG15 conjugation in cellular regulation.
Therapeutic drug monitoring
Thoracic malignancy
Tissue specific transcription
Tobacco Control
Toll-like receptors and pattern recognition of virulence factors from oral and enteric pathogens: induction of intracellular signaling and inflammatory responses
Transcription factors in neuroendocrine differentiation
Transcriptional regulation of insulin gene expression
Transepithelial trafficking of the neonatal receptor for IgG, FcRn
Translational research for head and neck oncology
Transmission and expression of HPV in recurrent respiratory papilloma
Transplant infections
Transplantation imaging
Transport Medicine
Traumatic Brain Injury
Travelers' health
Treatment adherence
Tropical Medicine
Tumor Immunology
Tumors of nerves
Ultrasonographic diagnosis of fetal anomalies
Ultrasonography
Understanding the neuro-endocrine mechanisms that regulate peripheral metabolic and inflammatory responses to hemorrhagic shock and trauma
Understanding the role of ethanol in dysregulating DNA methylation patterns, and the physiologic outcome of these perturbations
Unique drug delivery systems
Use of cell culture systems and animal models to study the intricate relation between poly(ADP) ribose polymerase–1 (PARP-1)
Use of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) in clinical practice and research
Use of Immunonutrition
Use of stable isotopes to study human metabolism
Vaccination, development of novel strategies for
Vaccine development
Vaccines
Value-Added Product Development
Various Application of Theobromine on Hard Tissues
Vascular biology
Vascular ultrasound
Vector development
Vector targeting
Vector targeting approaches
Vibrio species, proteonomic analyses of
Viral receptors
Virus disease, enteric, epidemiology of
Virus evolution
Viruses
Viruses in myeloid cells
Voice Initiation patterns in younger and older females
Water Quality and Resource Management
We also use primary adult cell culture to examine specific pathways involved in the remodeling process.
Women's and adolescent health
x-ray crystallography, protein biochemistry, protein folding and dynamics
Zidovudine-induced Hematopoietic Toxicity
zinc finger transcriptional repressor protein

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