Research Abstracts and Presentations
for Professional Meetings - 2001

(presentations by KCOM faculty and staff arranged by year of presentation)

Behnke BJ, Kindig CA, Sexton WL, Poole DC. 2001. Effects of Prior Contractions on Muscle Microvascular PO2 Dynamics at Exercise Onset. Med Sci Sports Exercise 33:S342.

Carlson CG.: Resting Ca2+ Influx and Muscular Dystrophy; University of Iowa; Iowa City, IA; June 7, 2001.

Carlson CG, Ashmore R, Gueorguiev A, Roshek D, Chu J. 2001. Manganese Quench Rates and Steady State Calcium Concentrations in Cultured Dystrophic Myotubes and Freshly Excised Adult Dystrophic Fibers. Neuroscience Abstract #105.14 (Neuroscience 30th Annual Meeting; San Diego, CA; Nov. 11, 2001).

Cenedella RJ. Cholesterol and Cataracts; Sigma Xi Meeting; Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine; Kirksville, MO; Oct. 25, 2001.

Cenedella RJ. 2001. Lens Membrane Cholesterol: Source, Organization, Function and Relationship to Cataracts. Invest. Ophthal. & Vis. Sci. 42:S526.

Cenedella RJ, Kuszak JR, Sexton PS. 2001. Strain Specific Induction of Cataracts in Rats by Simvastatin: Probing the Mechanism. Invest. Ophthal. & Vis. Sci. 42:S538.

Cenedella RJ, Sexton PS, Carlson CG, Zhu X. 2001. Characterization of Membrane Steroid Binding Protein in Lens Epithelium. Abstracts of 2nd International Meeting of Rapid Responses to Steroid Hormones.

Darmani NA. 2001. The Endogenous Cannabinoid 2-Arachidonoylglycerol Induces Vomiting: Blockade by Marijuana and its Synthetic Analogs. Soc. Neuroscience Abs 26(part II)P2160 (Soc. Neuroscience Meeting; San Diego, CA; Nov. 10-15, 2001).

Darmani NA. 2001. 2-Arachidonoylglycerol and not Anandamide is an Endogenous Cannabinoid Involved in Vomiting Circuits. International Cannabinoid Research Society P31 (International Cannabinoid Research Society; San Lorenzo, Spain; June 28-31, 2001).

Darmani NA. 2001. Antiemetic and Motor Depressant Effects of WIN 55, 212-2 are Reversed by the Selective Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor Antagonist/Inverse Agonist SR 141716A. The FASEB Journal 15 (4, Part II):A911 (ASPET Meeting; Orlando, FL; Mar. 31, 2001.

Degenhardt BF, Kenney RG, McGovern RJ, Johnson JC. Impact of Osteopathic Manual Medicine in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis. Triennial International Congress Integrative Manual Medicine; Chicago, IL; July 23-27, 2001.

Degenhardt BF, Snider KT, Snider E, Johnson JC. Interexaminer Reliability of Osteopathic Palpatory Evaluation of the Lumbar Spine. Triennial International Congress Integrative Manual Medicine; Chicago, IL; July 23-27, 2001.

Ervin H, Cox JL. Cystatin C - Green Fluorescent Protein Fusion Expression in B16f10 Melanoma; AACR; San Francisco, CA; Apr. 6-10, 2001.

Fleschner CR. 2001. Intermediate Filament Peptides Associated with Cortical and Nuclear Membrane Fractions Isolated for Selenite Cataractous Lenses; Assn for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 42(4):S874, #4693. Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; April 30, 2001.

Geisbuhler TP. 2001. Compartmentalization of Pyrimidine Nucleotides in Anoxic Cardiac Myocytes. J Mol Cell Cardiol 33:A167 (Intl. Soc. for Heart Research, XVII World Congress Satellite Meeting, Regulation of Energy Metabolism in the Heart and Vasculature; Banff, Alberta; July 6-10, 2001).

Janoyan JJ, Crim JL, Darmani NA. 2001. Comparison of Cannabinoid Motor Reduction and Attenuation of SR 141716A-induced Head-Twitch and Ear-Scratch Responses by Diverse Cannabinoid Agonists. The FASEB Journal 15 (4, Part II):A911 (ASPET Meeting; Orlando, FL; Mar. 31, 2001).

Johnson JC. Small Group Follow-up – Statistical Analysis of Pilot Activities (Workshop). Triennial International Congress Integrative Manual Medicine post-conference “Tools for Scientific Investigation in Manual Medicine Research”; Chicago, IL; July 28-29, 2001.

Johnson JC. Statistical Techniques to Compare Independent Groups on a Continuous Outcome Measure From a Pre-/Post-Intervention Design (Workshop). Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group; Halifax, NS; October 15, 2001.

Johnson JC. Relationships with IRBs (Workshop). Osteopathic Collaborative Clinical Trials Initiative Conference III; San Diego, CA; October 25-26, 2001.

Kuchera ML. 2001. Osteopathic Physician Reciprocity between Ontario and Michigan; In Report to AOA Council on Federal Health Programs; American Osteopathic Assn.; Chicago, IL

Martin JR, Janoyan J, Darmani NA. 2001. Differential Adaptation of Head-Twitch Response Upon Repeated Administration of DOI to the Rat-Central Versus Systemic Administration. The FASEB Journal 15:A910 (ASPET Meeting; Orlando, FL; Mar. 31, 2001).

McGovern RJ, Johnson J, Flinn, Hodgson CS. The Student-Physician Belief Scale: a Measure of Medical Student Orientation to the Psychosocial Aspects of Medical Care; The 29th Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group; Halifax, Nova Scotia; 2001

McGovern RJ, Jones D, Pfeiffer CA. The Relationship Between Medical Student Performance Anxiety and Patient Perception of Empathy; 40th Annual RIME (Research in Medical Education) Conference; AAMC; Washington, D.C.; 2001

Mock OB. Anatomic and Physiologic Measurements of Laboratory-Raised Least Shrews, Cryptotis parva; 81st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists; Missoula, MT; June 16-20, 2001.

Noll DR: Benefits of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment for Hospitalized Elderly Patients with Pneumonia; American Osteopathic Association Research Conference; October 2001.

Noll DR, Degenhardt BF, Johnson JC, Matteson M. Can Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Boost General Resistance to Infections in Frail Nursing Home Residents? Federation of Manual / Musculoskeletal Medicine 13th International Congress; Chicago, IL; July 23, 2001.

Noll DR, Degenhardt BF, Johnson JC, Matteson M. 2001. A Pilot Study Using OMT to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Nursing Home Residents. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine Vol. 7, No. 3.

Noll DR, Degenhardt BF, Johnson JC, Matteson M. 2001. Can a Sham Treatment Protocol Blind Nursing Home Residents in a Randomized Controlled Trial Using Manipulative Treatment? Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine Vol. 7, No. 3.

Nyte C, Reader ME. Maxillary Sinus Hemangioma in an Elderly Female; AOCOO-HNS Annual Meeting; April 2001.

Orton T, Reader ME. Patient Outcomes after Tonsillectomy using Harmonic Scapel vs Cold Knife Dissection; AOCOO-HNS Annual Meeting; April 2001.

Patrick GW, Seeger S. 2001. Persistent Pyramidal Cell Dendritic Spine Increase in Early Postnatally Lead Exposed Kittens. Neuroscience Abstract 31 #251.16 ( Society for Neuroscience 30th Annual Meeting; San Diego, CA; Nov. 10-14, 2001).

Rhodes DCJ. 2001. Binding of Tamm-Horsfall Protein to Complement 1 (C1) and Complement 1q (C1q) Quantified with a Resonant Mirror Biosensor. FASEB Journal 15 (5):A894 (Experimental Biology; Orlando, FL; Mar. 31, 2001).

Schad K, Reader ME. Sphenoid Sinus Fracture following Cattle Stampede; AOCOO-HNS Annual Meeting; April 2001.

Sexton PS, Zhu X, Carlson CG, Cenedella RJ. 2001. Characterization of Membrane Steroid Binding Protein in Lens Epithelium. Invest. Ophthal. & Vis. Sci. 42:S538 (Assn. for Research in Vision and Ophthalamology; Apr. 29, 2001).

Sexton WL. Session Chair for Performance; American College of Sports Medicine; Baltimore, MD; June 2, 2001.

Sexton WL. Session Chair for Muscular Training in Women; American College of Sports Medicine; Baltimore, MD; June 2, 2001.

Sexton WL. Hoehne DP. 2001. Diabetes Alters Myosin Heavy Chain Expression in the Rat Diaphragm. Med Sci Sports Exercise 33:S268 (American College of Sports Medicine; Baltimore, MD; June 1, 2001).

Sexton WL. Diabetes and the Skeletal Muscle Microcirculation; Kirksville Chapter of Sigma Xi; Truman State University (Kirksville, MO); February 19, 2001.

Smith L, McGovern RJ. Barriers to Utilization of Services in a Rural Population; Missouri Psychological Association Annual Meeting; Osage Beach, MO; 2001.

Snider KT. 2001. The Relationship Between the Presence of Somatic Dysfunction and Segmental Bmd T-Score Variation in the Lumbar Spine. ISSLS Proceedings.

Snider KT. Imparied Vertebral Mobility & Bone Mineral Density, The International Society for the Study of Lumbar Spine; Edinburgh, Scotland. June 2001. (Poster).

Stuart MK, Chamberlain NR. Monoclonal Antibodies to Elongation Factor-1 Alpha Inhibit In Vitro Protein Translation in Lysates of Sf21 Cells; The Entomological Society of America 2001 Annual Meeting; San Diego, CA; December 10, 2001.

Stuart MK. Production of Monoclonal Antibodies to Elongation Factor-1a from Spodoptera frugiperda; 72nd Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Conference of Entomologists; Woodland Park, CO; August 6, 2001.

Tettambel MA. 2001. OMT and Arthritis. JAOA 4(Supplement).

Theobald RJ Jr. 2001. Cannabinoid Induced Changes in Detrusor Activity. FASEB Journal 15(4, Part 1):A582.

Werden S, Noll DR, Stuart MK, Johnson JC, Degenhardt BF. 2001. Quantitative Analysis of Elderly Immune Responses to Influenza Vaccination with Osteopathic Manipulation. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine Vol. 7, No. 3.