The mTOR Pathway Introduction The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway integrates both intracellular and extracellular signals and serves as a central regulator of cell metabolism‚ growth‚ proliferation and survival. Discoveries that have been made over the last decade show that the mTOR pathway is activated during various cellular processes (e.g. tumor formation‚ insulin resistance‚ adipogenesis and T-lymphocyte activation) and is deregulated in human diseases such as cancer
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Psychology of Personality What Made Freud’s Theory Interesting? Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory explains personality in terms of: Early childhood experiences‚ such as successes and failures or our relationship with our parents and siblings. Our unconscious “issues” which must be confronted in order to have a healthy and happy personality and conflicts. Our struggles with sexual and aggressive impulses. Freud’s View of Our Psyche 1. Freud believed that how we think‚ feel‚ and behave largely
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2. Give an example of social construction. Why is it a construction not a fact? - Issues regarding racial differences and this is a construction because it is socially constructed not biological. 4. What are some cohort differences between you and you parents? - Some cohort differences between my parents and I are our differences in terms of fashion‚ knowledge of modern technology ‚ and the colloquial words we use when talking. 2. How would your life be different if your parents were
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Organ Systems Project (Digestive‚ Excretory‚ Circulatory‚ Reproductive‚ Nervous) There is an enormous variety of life on our planet Earth ranging from simple cell bacteria to complex multicellular animals. Animals are creatures in the kingdom Animilia‚ one of the kingdoms in Whitakers 5 kingdom system. Their bodies consist of 555tanimal eukaryotic cells. Meaning their cell or cells contain a nucleus‚ are surrounded by a cell membrane (phospholipid bilayer) and can self-reproduce in a free
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Azam Khorshidi Dissecting the role of ANRIL in modulating endothelial cells function and atherosclerosis Name: Azam (Anna) Khorshidi Department: Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology Program: PhD Supervisor: Dr. Burton Yang Topic of graduate study: Role of miR-17 in the breast cancer initiation and progression Key words: Atherosclerosis‚ Plaque formation‚ lncRNA‚ Endothelia dysfunction Email: anna.khorshidi@mail.utoronto.ca 1 Azam Khorshidi Impact: Endothelial dysfunction is
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Motor Development Autobiography The motor development was consisted of seven periods across the lifespan‚ each period is characterized by the different motor skills. Progression from one period to another would depend on the changes in three critical constraints‚ as well as individual’s skills and experiences. According to the developmental perspective‚ the changes in the motor skills were defined as sequential‚ cumulative and individual. Everyone would follow the same sequence of the motor development
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction Leukemia has led to a significant change in the world of Science and Technology. It became the basis of research for discovering several possible cures to counter this killer disease. This is the beginning of a new medicinal era. Leukemia is a kind of cancer of the blood or bone marrow which is caused by an immature increase of white blood cells. These are called blasts. For several years‚ there are approximately 256‚ 000 children and adults around the
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Exam 1: The complete set of hereditary information carried by an organism is its genome Human DNA contains 20% C on a molar basis. What are the mole percents of A‚ G‚ and T? A- 30% G- 20% T- 30% In a polynucleotide‚ a phosphate group is linked to the 3’ and 5’ carbons 2 pentoses Which of the following is a transition mutation? A-T —> G-C - transition= purine —> purine or pyrimidine —> pyrimidine - Purines- GA - Pyrimidines- CT The basic building block of nucleic acids is the nucleotide
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D24BT8 Structural Biology Essay - What is the future of structural genomics in academia and industry? Cera Wong April 3‚ 2013 Structural genomics (SG) programs were formed by development of structure biology in large scale. Targets were selected from a specific genome‚ topologically similar types of proteins or protein families. (REF: Maksymilian) SG programs have developed more accurate and efficient methodologies on structure determination over the last decade (REF: Maksymilian)‚ where many
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Allergies have been characterized as a medical disorder for thousands of years‚ yet it was only in the last hundred years scientists have been able to establish the cause behind them. The term allergy/asthma is a collective term for the diseases: asthma‚ rhinoconjuctivitis‚ food allergies‚ atopic dermatitis‚ angioedema‚ urticaria‚ anaphylaxis‚ and insect and drug allergies (Holgate & Polosa‚ 2008). Cases of allergic reactions date all the way back to 3500 BC when Egyptian King Menses reportedly died
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