BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disorder affecting genetically predisposed individuals, triggered and maintained by the ingestion of gluten. Triggered and maintained by the ingestion of gluten, celiac disease is a chronic systemic autoimmune disorder affecting genetically predisposed individuals. Persistent related inflammation of the duodenal muco...

Dissertation title: EFFECTS OF ANNUAL AND PERENNIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS ON TIDAL FRESHWATER MARSH ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING Kristine Noel Hopfensperger, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Katharina A.M. Engelhardt Dr. Sujay S. Kaushal Program of Marine, Estuarine, Environmental Science Tidal freshwater marshes are complex systems with many linkages between the physical, chemica...

Individuals with particular genetic backgrounds develop immune responses to wheat proteins and become 'gluten-sensitised'. Mucosal pathology arises through activated mucosal T lymphocytes, resulting in a graded, adverse reaction between particular genes and wheat proteins. Given these varied influences, the Marsh Classification broadly itemises those stages through which a normal mucosa (Marsh ...

RAMSEY, E. III; WERLE, D.; SUZUOKI, Y.; RANGOONWALA, A., and LU, Z., 2012. Limitations and potential of satellite imagery to monitor environmental response to coastal flooding. Journal of Coastal Research, 28(2), 457–476. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Storm-surge flooding and marsh response throughout the coastal wetlands of Louisiana were mapped using several types of remote sensi...

Saltmarshes in subtropical Queensland, Australia, are assumed to provide habitat for fish, yet there has been no evidence as to whether fish actually occur on the intertidal flats that constitute the main area of marshes. Nor has there been any assessment of differences in fish use of vegetated habitat and the extensive unvegetated saltpans that occur naturally and because of human activities. ...

Open marsh water management (OMWM) is a selective ponding-and-ditching technique for saltmarsh mosquito control that encourages consumption of mosquito larvae by native larvivorous fishes while eliminating or reducing larval rearing habitats. OMWM has been successfully practiced in Delaware since 1979, and after 28 years of use actively continues today. After some refinement of the state’s init...