Research Abstracts and Presentations
for Professional Meetings - 2002

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

Altschuld RA, Carnes CA, Dumitrescu C, Kelley RE, Dech SJ, Geisbuhler TP, Van Wagoner DR; Electromechanical Restitution in Thapsigargin-treated Rat Ventricular Cardiomyocytes; Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms; Connecticut College; New London, CT; 2002.

Behnke BJ, Kindig CA, Sexton WL, McDonough P, Poole DC. Impact of Type I Diabetes on the Muscle Microvascular PO2 Profile Across the Rest-Contraction Transition. FASEB J (Abstract Part II) 16, A864, 2002.

Cenedella RJ, Kuszak JR, Al-Ghoul KJ, Sexton PS. Discordant Expression of HMG CoA Reductase Underlies Simvastatin Induced Cataracts in Chbb: Thom Rats. Exp. Eye Research, (XV ICER Conference)2002, 72: (Suppl), p.37.

Degenhardt BF, Kenney RG, McGovern RJ, Johnson JC. Impact of Osteopathic Manual Medicine in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2002 (Abstract) 102(8):443.

Degenhardt BF, Snider KT, Johnson JC, Snider EJ. Retention of Interexaminer Reliability in Palpatory Evaluation of the Lumbar Spine. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2002 (Abstract) 102(8):439.

Degenhardt BF, Snider KT, Johnson JC, Snider EJ. Interexaminer Reliability of Osteopathic Palpatory Evaluation of the Lumbar Spine. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2002 (Abstract) 102(8):442.

Fleschner CR. Rat Lens Membrane Distribution of Spectrin and Ankyrin. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 43: E-Abstract 459. Available at www.iovs.org. Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; May 5, 2002.

Jacob RF, Tang D, Cenedella RJ, Borchman D. Direct Perturbation of Lens Membrane Structure by U18666A,A Hypocholesterolemic Drug. ARVO abstract # 4633, May 2002.

Lochbaum JB. Innovations in the Teaching of the History of Education/ The Academic Scholars Program for Preparing Future Medical Educators; Annual conference of the History of Education Society; Pittsburgh, PA; November 1, 2002.

Lochbaum JB. Preparing Future Faculty/ KCOM's Academic Scholars Program; Annual Meeting of the Central Group on Educational Affairs (CGEA) of the AAMC; Chicago, IL; March 15, 2002.

Martin JR, Janoyan JJ, Darmani NA. Studies on the Head Twitch Response (HTR) Evoked by Systemic and Central Administration of DOI to the Rat. Program No. 290.14.2002; Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner; Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2002. Presented in Orlando, FL; November 4, 2002.

Martin JR. Differing Mechanisms and Receptors Involved in the Pressor Response Evoked by NPY and PYY Administration to the Posterior Hypothalamic Area (PHA) of the Conscious Rat. Unpublished abstract presented at the Neural Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Regulation FASEB Summer Research Conference; Snowmass Village, CO; July 20-25, 2002.

McGovern RJ, Smith LD. ElderLynk: A Community Partnership for Mental Health Care for the Rural Elderly. The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM), Washington, DC; 2002

McGovern RJ. ElderLynk: A Model of Rural Mental Healthcare for the Elderly. How do we measure effectiveness? Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO., October 22, 2002.

Murphy TL, Stuart, M.K. Characterization of Monoclonal Antibodies to Elongation Factor-1a by Peptide Mapping. Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America; November 14-20, 2002; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Poster No. D0283.

Noll DR, Degenhardt BF, Johnson JC, Burt SA. The Immediate Effect of OMT on Pulmonary Function Parameters in Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2002 (Abstract) 102(8):442.

Noll DR, Degenhardt BF, Johnson JC, Burt SA. Can a Sham Treatment Blind Subjects with Obstructive Lung Disease to Group Assignment? Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2002 (Abstract) 102(8):439.

Poole DC, Behnke BJ, McDonough PJ, Kindig CA, Sexton WL. Muscle Oxygen Exchange in Type I Diabetes. Med Sci Sports Exercise 34: S133, 2002.

Samadi A, Carlson G, Gueorgiev A, Cenedella RJ. Rapid, Nongenomic Actions of Progesterone and Estradiol on Steady State Calcium and Resting Calcium Influx in Lens Epithelial Cells. 3rd International Meeting of Rapid Responses to Steroid Hormones, Snowmass, CO, June 22-27, 2002.

Samadi AK, Gueorguiev A, Carlson CG, Cenedella RJ. Rapid Progesterone Actions on Bovine Lens Epithelial Cells. ARVO abstract # 3540, May 2002.

Sexton PS, Cenedella RJ. Use of Dynabeads® M500 Subcellular to Prove that Lens Membrane Steroid Binding Protein is a Microsomal Protein. ARVO abstract #4634; Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; May 2002.

Sexton WL, Miranda D, Yang Q. Microvascular PO2 Kinetics in Soleus Muscle of Diabetic Rats. FASEB J (Abstract Part I) 16: A520, 2002.

Sexton WL, Lynch A, Yang Q. Skeletal Muscle Microvascular PO2 Kinetics in Response to Step-Wise Increases in Stimulation Frequency. Med Sci Sports Exercise 34: S62, 2002.

Snider KT, Degenhardt BF, Johnson JC, Snider EJ. Low Back Pain, Somatic Dysfunction and Segmental BMD T-Score Variation in the Lumbar Spine. 10th World Congress on Pain; San Diego, CA; August 19, 2002.

Snider KT, Degenhardt BF, Johnson JC, Snider EJ. Somatic Dysfunction and Segmental BMD T-Score Variation in the Lumbar Spine. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2002 (Abstract) 102(8):441.

Snider KT, Degenhardt BF, Johnson JC, Snider EJ. Somatic Dysfunction, Chronic Low Back Pain & Bone Mineral Density of the Lumbar Spine. American Osteopathic Association, Las Vegas, NV; October 2002 (Poster)

Stuart MK, Chamberlain NR. 2002. Immunological Inactivation of Elongation Factor-1 Alpha in Sf21 Cell Lysates. Fourth International Symposium on Molecular Insect Science, May 28-June 2, 2002, Tucson, AZ, poster presentation. Abstract published in: ISMIS 2002. Abstracts of the Fourth International Symposium on Molecular Insect Science. 70pp. Journal of Insect Science, 2:17, Available online: insectscience.org/2.17.

Yang Q, Sexton WL. Fiber-Type Dependent Influence of Diabetes on Capillary-to-Fiber Ratio and Diameter in Rat Skeletal Muscle. Med Sci Sports Exercise 34: S12, 2002.