Publications by authors named "M Whitlow"

Legacy building is a priority for pediatric oncology. Storytelling is one strategy to help children document their legacies. Understanding story content would advance knowledge of how children want to be remembered but this has yet to be explored.

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Background: Compassionate, inclusive, and equitable nursing care begins with integrating concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and social determinants of health (SDOH) into curricula.

Problem: Little is known about RN to BSN students' perception of applying these concepts in practice. The purpose of this pilot project was to assess RN to BSN students' perceptions of DEI-SDOH curricular threads in their nursing practice.

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We examined the roles of indoleamine-2, 3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) in controlling cerebral Toxoplasma gondii infection in both genetically resistant and susceptible strains of mice. In susceptible C57BL/6 mice, IDO expression was immunohistochemically detected only in a minority (22.5%) of tachyzoite-infected cells in their brains during the later stage of infection.

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Fabry disease (FD) is an X-linked lysosomal storage disease caused by a deficiency in the lysosomal enzyme α-galactosidase (α-GAL). This in turn leads to the buildup of globotriaosylceramide, resulting classically in progressive kidney disease, peripheral neuropathy, early-onset cerebrovascular disease, gastrointestinal symptoms, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, corneal whorls, and angiokeratomas. The diagnosis of FD relies on identification of a low α-GAL enzyme activity, identification of a genetic mutation, or histologic evidence of disease.

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