South Carolina Journal of Molecular Medicine

 2004

 Volume 5

Table of Contents

 

 

Article (author)

Page No.

Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) Anchors:  A Possible Target against Trypanosoma brucei, the Causal Agent in African Sleeping Sickness (by Dianna Plyler)

1

Anthrax (by Elizabeth Gray)

6

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) use lipid molecules for many of its processes including: lateral assemblies necessary for entry, avoidance of immune eradication, and budding from membrane rafts (by John Morris)

11

An Overview of Ebola (by Keri T. Holmes-Maybank)

15

Legionnaires' Disease (by John French)

22

Cholera:  Mechanism of Infection, History and Treatment (by Kathleen E. Page)

26

Destruction of Lung Surfactant of Alveolar Epithelial Cells through Pneumocystis jiroveci Infection (by Daniel Schwerin)

30

Influenza Virus:  Mode of Attack (by Carmen Polito)

35

The Epstein-Barr Virus:  Backgroung and Summary of Article (by Jamie A. Singleton)

40

Lipid Raft Incorporation in the Measles Virus Budding Mechanism (by Allison B. Giddings)

44

Commercialized Ginseng Products have Estrogen Receptor b Binding Properties with possible correlation to Zearalenone Contamination (by Benjamin Schaeffer Koch and Dr. Sandra L. Gray)

48

Phenylketonuria:  Defects in Amino Acid Metabolism (by Matthew Madden)

57

Antigenic Markers in Ovarian Carcinomas (by Timothy Paul Seybt)

62

The Current State of Amyloidosis (by Natalee Sheppe)

68

The Role of Reactive a-Dicarbonyls  in AGE/ALE Formation and Implication in Diabetic Complications (by Gina M. Iacovella, et. al.

73

Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase:  A genetic marker for CVD?  (by Kristie North)

102

Mechanisms of Acute Transplant Rejection (by Matthew Blake)

109

Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) (by Ryan Altman, Eric Angermeier and Valerie Musgrave)