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Alumni Portrait Unveiling, Hon. Alma Lopez, 2006
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Alumni Portrait Unveiling, Hon. Alma Lopez, 2006
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Alumni Portrait Unveiling, Hon. Alma Lopez, 2006
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Alumni Portrait Unveiling, Hon. Alma Lopez, 2006
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Lawtina Network Summit, St. Mary\u27s University School of Law, 2024
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Lawtina Network Summit, St. Mary\u27s University School of Law, 2024
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Sarita Kenedy East Law Library 40th Anniversary
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Lessons from Roatan: Personal Growth Through Study Abroad
Get PDFStudying abroad is known for being significant and transformative for students. Using a pre and post survey given to 136 students at three universities before and after a goals, study abroad in Roatan, Honduras. This study assessed the goals students had before the program, how they felt when they reached their goals, if they found the program to be transformative, and how their self-esteem and confidence levels grew. It was predicted that the students would find the study abroad transformative and would reach most, if not all, of their goals. Students tended to have mainly academic/professional goals, and most achieved all of their goals and found the study transformative and had raised self-esteem.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/rscpos25/1073/thumbnail.jp
Characteristics of a Marianist Education
No full textThis presentation was given by a first-year student on an essay she wrote for her first-year seminar class on the characteristics of a Marianist Education.
The Society of Mary, which founded our university, is a Catholic religious sect of brothers and priest founded by Blessed William Joseph Chaminade in 1817. It is an organization dedicated to education, social justice and forming communities of faith.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/rsc25pres/1001/thumbnail.jp
Analysis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae CARDS toxin in the air-liquid interface Bronchial Culture Model
Get PDFMycoplasma pneumoniae is a pathogen that can cause severe respiratory infection that can rarely be life threating. There are currently no vaccines against M. pneumoniae, and the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant strains of M. pneumoniae is on the rise.1 During infection, M. pneumoniae produces a toxin called Community Acquired Respiratory Distress Syndrome (CARDS) toxin, which plays a role in establishing infection. Analysis of the crystal structure of CARDS toxin protein reveals three protein domains: D1, D2,and D3.
After entering a cell, CARDS toxin traffics by a retrograde process to the ER of the cell, where it undergoes processing.4 Our current studies support that CARDS toxin is processed into two fragments; a D1-containing fragment, and a D2/D3-containing fragment. Studying this process is crucial to understanding the effects that CARDS toxin exerts on both intoxicated and neighboring cells. The goal of this study is to analyze CARDS toxin processing in a transfection model of A549 and NHBE primary human bronchial cells, as well as study CARDS processing in NHBE air-liquid culture.
We hypothesize that CARDS toxin is processed more selectively by tracheal cells compared to alveolar cells due to observations seen during M. pneumoniae infection. Samples from transfected cells were analyzed by fluorescence microscopy and western blot. Additionally, NHBE cells were grown in an air-liquid interface culture and treated with purified recombinant CARDS toxin to analyze the processing of the toxin and movement of CARDS toxin fragments.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/rscpos25/1033/thumbnail.jp