Picard M, Csukly K, Robillard M-E, Godin R, Ascah A, Bourcier-Lucas C, Burelle Y. Resistance to Ca -induced opening of the permeability transition pore differs in mitochondria from glycolytic and oxidative muscles. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 295: R659–R668, 2008. First published May 21, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.90357.2008.—This study determined whether susceptibility to opening of ...

OBJECTIVE Breast cancer survivors do not engage in appropriate levels of physical activity, despite the known benefits of such activity. This study aims to describe physical-activity levels and the barriers to it in a group of Puerto Rican breast cancer survivors, as well as detailing their preferences for an intervention. METHODS Participants who finished their chemotherapy and/or radiothera...

There is a great need in the fields of biology, medicine, and pharmaceuticals to create highthroughput devices for the detection of specific cell states in a heterogeneous mixture of cells. The desire is to differentiate among diseased and healthy cells, cell age, and cell type with the minimum amount of sample pretreatment. This project addresses this need by developing microfluidic devices th...

In this thesis we compare several combinatorial models for the Moduli space of open-closed cobordisms and their compactifications. More precisely, we study Godin’s category of admissible fat graphs, Costello’s chain complex of black and white graphs, and Bödigheimer’s space of radial slit configurations. We use Hatcher’s proof of the contractibility of the arc complex to give a new proof of a r...

BACKGROUND Mothers of an infant are much less likely to exercise regularly compared to other women. This study tested the efficacy of a brief tailored intervention to increase physical activity (PA) in women 3-12 months after childbirth. The study used a pretest-posttest design. Sedentary women (n = 20) were recruited from a parenting organization. Half the participants were ethnic minorities, ...

ples. In: Weir R, ed. Stored tissue samples: ethical, legal, and public policy implications. Iowa City, IA: University Iowa Press, 1998. 19 National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Guidelines on ethical matters in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research. Canberra: NHMRC, 1991. (found at www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/ethics/ asti.pdf) 20 Medical Research Council (MRC), ...

An important goal for cancer patients is to improve the quality of life (QOL) by maximising functions affected by the disease and its therapy. Preliminary research suggests that exercise may be an effective intervention for enhancing QOL in cancer survivors. Research has provided preliminary evidence for the safety, feasibility, and efficacy of exercise training in breast cancer survivors. The ...

BACKGROUND Physical inactivity is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Many patterns of physical activity involvement are established early in life. To date, the role of easily identifiable early-life individual predictors of PA, such as childhood temperament, remains relatively unexplored. Here, we tested whether childhood temperamental activity level, high intensity pleasure, low intensity...

OBJECTIVES Regular exercise during pregnancy is a recommended prenatal care strategy with short and long-term health benefits to mother and child. Unfortunately, most pregnant women are insufficiently active to obtain health benefits and there is evidence that activity levels decrease overall during pregnancy. Physical activity among regionally based women is lower than that of urban-based wome...