Publications by authors named "Kristy Meiselbach"
Background: Increasingly, strength-based approaches to health and wellbeing interventions with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are being explored. This is a welcome counter to deficit-based initiatives which can represent a non-Indigenous view of outcomes of interest. However, the evidence base is not well developed.
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- Indigenous people often face more challenges with disabilities than non-Indigenous people and don’t always get the help they need.
- The article talks about how important it is to communicate and engage with Indigenous communities in ways that build trust and respect their cultures when assessing disabilities.
- The research showed that when the communication isn’t culturally appropriate, it can make people feel confused and distrustful of the support services like the NDIS.
Gastrointestinal epithelial cells provide a selective barrier that segregates the host immune system from luminal microorganisms, thereby contributing directly to the regulation of homeostasis. We have shown that from early embryonic development Bcl-G, a Bcl-2 protein family member with unknown function, was highly expressed in gastrointestinal epithelial cells. While Bcl-G was dispensable for normal growth and development in mice, the loss of Bcl-G resulted in accelerated progression of colitis-associated cancer.
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