College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences (Sargent College)
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1166
Sargent College offers both undergraduate and graduate programs to prepare students for a broad range of careers in health care and rehabilitation sciences including medicine and public health as well as professional preparation in athletic training, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech-language pathology. In addition, doctoral degree candidates can pursue an array of programs leading to a PhD or ScD.
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Factors affecting antimicrobial activity of MUC7 12-mer, a human salivary mucin-derived peptide
(2007-11-11)BACKGROUND: MUC7 12-mer (RKSYKCLHKRCR), a cationic antimicrobial peptide derived from the human low-molecular-weight salivary mucin MUC7, possesses potent antimicrobial activity in vitro. In order to evaluate the potential ... -
Gluten degrading enzymes for treatment of celiac disease
(2020-07-15)Celiac disease (CeD) affects about 1% of most world populations. It presents a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, ranging from minor symptoms to mild or severe malabsorption, and it may be associated with a wide ... -
Short-term ONX-0914 administration: performance and muscle phenotype in Mdx mice
(2020-07-19)Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe muscle-wasting disease. Although the lack of dystrophin protein is the primary defect responsible for the development of DMD, secondary disease complications such as persistent ... -
Commensal bacterium Rothia aeria degrades and detoxifies gluten via a highly effective subtilisin enzyme
(2020-12-02)Celiac disease is characterized by a chronic immune-mediated inflammation of the small intestine, triggered by gluten contained in wheat, barley, and rye. Rothia aeria, a gram-positive natural colonizer of the oral cavity ... -
Modelling speech motor programming and apraxia of speech in the DIVA/GODIVA neurocomputational framework
(Informa UK Limited, 2020-05-18)BACKGROUND: The Directions Into Velocities of Articulators (DIVA) model and its partner, the Gradient Order DIVA (GODIVA) model, provide neurobiologically grounded, computational accounts of speech motor control and motor ... -
How did that interaction make you feel? The relationship between quality of everyday social experiences and emotion in people with and without schizophrenia
(2019)People with schizophrenia report positive emotion during social interactions in ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies; however, few of these studies examine the qualities of social interactions (e.g., intimacy) ... -
Associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time with chronic kidney disease: The Framingham Heart Study
(2020)BACKGROUND: Few studies examined the individual and conjoint associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity (PA) and sedentary times with the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) among older adults. METHODS: ... -
Predictors of low birth weight and preterm birth in rural Uganda: findings from a birth cohort study
BACKGROUND: Approximately 20.5 million infants were born weighing <2500 g (defined as low birthweight or LBW) in 2015, primarily in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Infants born LBW, including those born preterm ... -
Aflatoxin exposure in pregnant women of mixed status of human immunodeficiency virus infection and rate of gestational weight gain: a Ugandan cohort study
(Wiley, 2020-09)OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between aflatoxin (AF) exposure during pregnancy and rate of gestational weight gain (GWG) in a sample of pregnant women of mixed HIV status in Gulu, northern Uganda. METHODS: 403 ... -
Chunking of phonological units in speech sequencing
(2019-08)Efficient speech communication requires rapid, fluent production of phoneme sequences. To achieve this, our brains store frequently occurring subsequences as cohesive "chunks" that reduce phonological working memory load ...