Abstract Hypopituitarism with deficiency of one or more pituitary hormones (combined hormone CPHD) can vary in severity and age at presentation. Additionally, the abnormalities may evolve time necessitating frequent evaluation. These hormonal deficits also be present as part a syndrome, patients showing extrapituitary such eye forebrain malformations. Over past decade, there has been an explosi...

A method is developed for determing actual values of circuit elements in a damped sine wave (Lown waveform) defibrillator solely from measurements of the output, using two or more power resistors and a storage oscilloscope. If a defibrillator containing capacitance C, inductance L, and internal resistance RI, is discharged into increasing 5- to 100-ohm resistive loads R, it is shown for underda...

Osteocytes express multiple genes involved in mineral metabolism including PHEX, FGF23, DMP1 and FAM20C. In Hyp mice, a murine model for X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), Phex deficiency results in the overproduction of FGF23 in osteocytes, which leads to hypophosphatemia and impaired vitamin D metabolism. In this study, to further clarify the abnormality in osteocytes of Hyp mice, we obtained d...

Title of Document: ROLE OF EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS AND DEXRAS1 IN GLUCOCORTICOID REGULATION OF GROWTH HORMONE EXPRESSION Jyoti Narayana Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Tom E. Porter, PhD Department of Animal and Avian Sciences Biological Sciences Graduate Program Glucocorticoid induction of growth hormone in anterior pituitary cells of embryonic chickens is an indirect effect...