Research Abstracts and Presentations
for Professional Meetings - 2004

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

Cenedella RJ, Sexton PS, Carlson CG, Samadi A. Rapid-Nongenomic Elevation of Lens Eptithelial Cell Calcium by Steroid Hormones: Mechanisms. XVI ICER, Sydney, Australia, 2004, p. 62.

Cenedella RJ, Neely AR, Rose F, Sexton PS. Distribution of Caveolin-1 Isoforms in Bovine Ocular Lens Membranes Fractions. ARVO abstract # 3988, April 2004.

Chamberlain NR, Smart JI, Geisbuhler TP. Purification and Characterization of a Bioactive Pheromone from Staphylococcus epidermidis. The 104th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology; New Orleans, LA; May 23-27, 2004.

Degenhardt BF, Johnson JC, Yang Q, Burt SA, Powell W. Objectifying the Reliability of Palpatory Tests Assessing Positional Asymmetry. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 104(8):343, 2004. American Osteopathic Association Annual Convention & Scientific Seminar; San Francisco, CA; November 7 11, 2004.

Degenhardt BF, Darmani N, Towns L, Rhodes DCJ, Trinh C, Johnson JC. Investigating the Effect of OMT on Circulatory Biochemical Markers. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 104(8):343, 2004. American Osteopathic Association Annual Convention & Scientific Seminar; San Francisco, CA; November 7 11, 2004.

Degenhardt BF, Johnson JC, Powell W. Objectifying the Reliability of Palpatory Tests Assessing Positional Asymmetry. Osteopathic Collaborative Clinical Trials Initiatives Conference; Colorado Springs, CO; March 15-16, 2004.

Degenhardt BF, Darmani N, Towns L, Rhodes D, Trinh C, Johnson JC. Investigating the Effect of OMT on Circulatory Biochemical Markers. Osteopathic Collaborative Clinical Trials Initiatives Conference; Colorado Springs, CO; March 15-16, 2004.

Higbee D, Laird S, Kangas J, Johnson J, McGovern R; Converting from Paper-Pencil Data to Digital Data. Is there an Inherent Statistical Weakness Encountered? Central Group On Educational Affairs; Omaha, NE; March 2004

Higbee D, Laird S, Kangas J, Johnson J, McGovern R; Converting from Paper-Pencil Data to Digital Data. Is there an Inherent Statistical Weakness Encountered? American Association Of Colleges Of Osteopathic Medicine; Baltimore, MD; June 2004

Johnson JC. Regression Analysis: Logistic, Polychotomous, Poisson, and Linear (Workshop). Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group; Orlando, FL; October 12, 2004.

Kuhlmann GM, Grant D, Ricks M, Maiorano CA, Sexton WL. Frequency-Dependent Changes in Microvascular PO2 (PO2m) and Muscle Force Production in the Rat Extensor Digitorum Longus (EDL) Muscle. Med Sci Sports Exercise 36: S119, 2004. American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting; Indianapolis, IN; June 1-5, 2004.

Levkoff SE, McDonel-Herr B, Llorente MD, Tabbarah R, Chen H, Salinas R, Elliott G, McGovern R, Keys L, Wagner D, Lew S, Carpio R, Singer J, McIntyre JS. Increasing Access to Mental Health Services: Innovations in Clinical Programs Overall Symposium. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatrists (AAGP); Baltimore, MD; 2004.

Martin JR. Mechanism by which PYY Evokes Cardiovascular Responses from the Posterior Hypothalamic Nucleus (PHN). 2004 Experimental Biology meeting abstracts [or accessed at http://www.biosis-select.org/faseb/index.html]. The FASEB Journal 18, Abstract #404.2, 2004.

Martin JR. NPY Stimulates the Y1 Receptor Subtype in the Posterior Hypothalamic Nucleus (PHN) to Evoke Cardiovascular Changes. 2004 Experimental Biology meeting abstracts [accessed at http://www.biosis-select.org/faseb/index.html]. The FASEB Journal 18, Abstract #404.1, 2004.

Martin JR, Darmani NA. DOI produces the head twitch response (HTR) from multiple sites in the rat brain. 2004 Experimental Biology meeting abstracts [on CD-ROM or accessed at http://www.biosis-select.org/faseb/index.html]. The FASEB Journal 18, Abstract #637.6, 2004.

McGovern RJ. ElderLynk: Promoting the Health of the Rural Elderly Through Community Linkages. The 57th Annual Scientific Meeting "Promoting the Health of an Aging Population," of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington DC, November 19-23, 2004. The Gerontologist, Volume 44, Special Issue 1, October, 285; 2004.

McGovern RJ, Vittengl J. Response to Gallo et al.: Rural Applications. Annals of Family Medicine, August 23. Invited comments to: Joseph J. Gallo, Cynthia Zubritsky, James Maxwell, Michael Nazar, Hillary R. Bogner, Louise M. Quijano, Heidi J. Syropoulos, Karen L. Cheal, Hongtu Chen, Herman Sanchez, John Dodson, Sue E. Levkoff, and The Prism-E Investigators. (2004) Primary Care Clinicians Evaluate Integrated and Referral Models of Behavioral Health Care For Older Adults: Results From a Multisite Effectiveness Trial (PRISM-E) Ann. Fam. Med, Jul; 2: 305-9; 2004.

McGovern RJ. ElderLynk: Integrating Social and Behavioral Sciences with Medicine and Public Health in Rural Missouri. The Eighth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Mainz, Germany, August 25-28. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Volume 11, Supplement, pp.226-227; 2004.

McGovern RJ, Vittengl J. ElderLynk: Healthy Aging in the Year 2025: A Formative Evaluation of a Demonstration Project in Rural Missouri. National Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Medicine; Baltimore, MD; March 24-26, 2004.

McManus SP, Martin JR. Modulation of Cholinergic Nerve Transmission by Cannabinoid CB1 Receptors in the Posterior Hypothalamic Nucleus (PHN) of the Rat. Society for Neuroscience Program No. 623.8. 2004 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2004.

Noll DR, Baer RW, Sexton WL, Johnson J, Snider E, Slocum PC. Effects of Thoracic Lymphatic Pump with and without Activation on Pulmonary Residual Volumes in COPD. Journal of Osteopathic Medicine 7(2):99-100, 2004. 5th International Conference on Advances in Osteopathic Research; Erie, PA; September 10-12, 2004.

Patterson D, Peterson DF; Vertical Jump and Leg Power Norms for Young Adults; American College Of Sports Medicine; Indiana-polis, IN; June 2004

Sexton WL, Lynch A, Maiorano C. Exercise Training Slows Microvascular PO2 (PO2m) On-Kinetics in Rat Skeletal Muscle. Med Sci Sports Exercise 36: S232, 2004. American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting; Indianapolis, IN; June 1-5, 2004.

Snider KT, Johnson JC, Degenhardt BF, Snider EJ. Association of Low Back Pain and Severity of Somatic Dysfunction. Osteopathic Collaborative Clinical Trials Initiatives Conference; Colorado Springs, CO; March 15-16, 2004.

Theobald RJ, Geisbuhler TP; CB1 Receptor Antagonist SR141716A Effects in Detrusor Smooth Muscle; FASEB J 18: A598; 2004.

Van Meter KE, Stuart MK. Evaluation of Commercial Protein Transduction Reagents for Use in an Insect Cell Line. 2004 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT; Nov 14-17, 2004.

Yang Q, Sexton WL. Capillary-to-Fiber Geometry in Soleus and EDL Muscles of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR). Med Sci Sports Exercise 36: S333, 2004. American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting; Indianapolis, IN; June 1-5, 2004.