Thesis - Honours
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Combination of Cardiac Progenitor Cells from the Right Atrium and Left Ventricle provide Synergistic Paracrine Effects for In Vitro Cardiac Repair
Cardiovascular diseases, such as ischaemic heart disease, remain the most common cause of death worldwide. With no effective treatment to replace the loss of cardiac tissue following a myocardial infarction, ischaemic heart ... -
Improving Exercise Compliance in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Background: Regular physical activity offers numerous health benefits to an individual. Worryingly the level of physical activity participation worldwide is at an all-time low and patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease ... -
Vision screening in the Southern and Tairawhiti DHBs: An audit of the B4 School Check
Amblyopia, or ‘lazy eye’, describes visual impairment occurring due to abnormal cortico-visual development as a child, and is the most common ophthalmological condition in children. The critical period for visual development ... -
Pacific youth views on health and wellbeing: a photovoice study
Preliminary findings from an ongoing study partnership between the Pacific Trust Otago and the University of Otago have reported an association between measures of wellbeing, mental health and markers of metabolic ill-health ... -
Healthy & Climate-friendly Eating Patterns for New Zealand
Under the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, New Zealand (NZ) committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs): all major government policies should, therefore, consider impacts on the climate. Given that the Ministry of ... -
The Epigenetics of Coronary Artery Disease: A Study of DNA Methylation
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a complex condition, the development of which involves interaction between both genetic and environmental factors. Epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation, may contribute significantly ... -
The Global Health Classroom: Collaborative Global Health Learning between New Zealand and Samoan Medical Students in a Virtual Classroom
Background Global Health is recognised as an essential component of undergraduate medical curricula to equip future doctors with the relevant knowledge, attitudes, and skills to practice in a globalised world. The Global ... -
'Gathering places' : the mixed descent families of Foveaux Strait and Rakiura/Stewart Island, 1824-1864
[…] This dissertation explores the social world of the mixed descent or 'half caste' population based around Foveaux Strait and Rakiura/Stewart Island up until the purchase of Rakiura by the Crown in 1864. I examine the ... -
Adrenergic stimulation of HK-2 proximal tubular cells in hyperglycaemic conditions
One of the most commonly associated complications of Diabetes Mellitus is nephropathy, with one in five diabetics sustaining renal injury over their lives. Renal denervation has been shown to decrease systemic blood pressure ... -
Dementia and Identity
This thesis explores the multiple ways identity can be affected by dementia. It primarily concerns how ‘personal identity’ is affected in the early to moderate stages of dementia, and secondarily concerns how ‘personhood’ ... -
PKCε Phosphorylation of RyR2: A Novel Link between Diabetes and Arrhythmia.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the world. Arrhythmia is a type of CVD which can be caused by store overload induced calcium (Ca2+) release (SOICR) in cardiomyocytes. SOICR occurs ... -
The individual child : study of the development of social services in education in relation to the first Labour government's educational policy
The subject of this study is the effect which the policy of the individual child, as expressed by the Labour Government in 1939, had on the development of social services in education. This development was examined chiefly ... -
Predisposition to Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Preterm Guinea Pigs
Background: Preterm birth accounts for ~10% of all births and is now an established risk factor for the development of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions responsible for significant morbidity and mortality in New ... -
Stratigraphy, tectonics, and provenance of rocks in the Wether Hill area, Western Southland
A terrane boundary was mapped between the Murihiku Supergroup and the Takitimu Group in the Wether Hill area, Western Southland. The two terranes (Murihiku and Brook Street) are juxtaposed along the gently eastward-dipping ... -
The geology of the Eastern Saddle Road area, Manawatu, N.I., N.Z.
A segment of the Brookstreet terrain (Coombs et. al., 1976) is described from the Bluff Peninsula, Southlando The basement rocks include Lower-Permian volcanogenic sediments and dykes of the Greenhills Group with interbedded ... -
Murihiku lithology and lithostratigraphy across Beaumont and Ardcross stations, southern Wairaki hills
The area mapped (18kni2), crosses the boundary between the Brook Street terrane of Permian - Early Jurassic age and the Murihiku terrane of Triassic, north of Ohai in western Southland. This study focused on the lithology ... -
The geology of Flat Hill-Ocean Beach, Bluff Peninsula
In the Bluff area lower green schist facies Greenhills Group rocks of the Brook Street terrane derived from a Permian volcanic arc have been intruded by igneous bodies inducing contact metamorphism. Facies of contact ... -
The geology of Bluff Hill, Southland, New Zealand.
The mineralogy and structure of two gabbronorite intrusions forming Bluff Hill, is described. They intrude volcanogenic metasediments of the Greenhills Group and together comprise a segment of Brook Street terrane (Coombs ... -
Measuring Markers of Immune Response in Patients Treated with Nivolumab (Opdivo®) and Pembrolizumab (Keytruda®)
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have drastically improved the clinical outcome for many cancer patients. However, not all patients treated with ICIs show a clinical response and the development of a unique spectrum of ... -
Investigating the Site of Innate Lymphoid Cell Division Following BCG Vaccination
Tuberculosis (TB) is the most deadly infectious disease worldwide, killing 1.4 million people each year. Efforts to control the spread of this disease through antibiotic treatments and a century-old preventative vaccine, ...