Publications by authors named "Erin McMullen"
Introduction: Opioid addiction and opioid-related overdoses and deaths are serious public health problems nationally and in West Virginia, in particular. Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is an effective yet underutilized treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD).
Purpose: Research examining factors that help individuals succeed in MAT has been conducted from provider and program perspectives, but little research has been conducted from the perspective of those in recovery.
Background: Uterine leiomyoma are implicated in certain adverse pregnancy related outcomes such as postpartum hemorrhage. Large submucosal leiomyoma defined as greater than 5 cm, may have higher complication rates; however, high quality data is limited.
Case: A 44-year-old gravida 4 with history of two full-term vaginal deliveries presented at 40 and 2/7 weeks of gestation with premature rupture of membranes and delivered vaginally a viable female infant complicated by a postpartum hemorrhage due to uterine atony.
Article Synopsis
- - Araneoid spiders produce various silks through specialized glands, but the specific fibroin sequences for egg case fibers had not been identified until this study, which isolated "tubuliform spidroin 1" (TuSp1) from the black widow spider.
- - TuSp1 is selectively expressed in the spider's tubuliform gland and closely matches the amino acid composition of raw egg case silk, indicating it is a major component in the construction of egg cases.
- - The analysis reveals TuSp1 has a unique structure with repeating units of 184 amino acids, featuring polyserine and short polyalanine sequences, but lacks similarities to other known spider silk proteins, highlighting its distinct position in the spider