Letter from the Editor:
Focus on Medical Research
In its final issue of 2004, The Journal of Undergraduate
Research is very proud to gather the work of some of the University
of Florida’s brightest students in a focus on medical research.
Wide ranging in subject matter, this research has implications for the treatment of chronic lung disease in low birth weight infants, the mechanism for aqueduct obstruction in hydrocephalic patients, the experience of pain following shoulder surgery, and the effect of drug treatment on stem cells. The work of our featured scholar explores a method for testing working memory in Parkinson’s disease patients.
As are virtually all scientific investigations, these studies are small pieces of very complex puzzles. That fact should give high hopes to our research community, because it proves that University Scholars are fully engaged in the real and practical work of helping humans to lead healthier lives.
-Creed Greer, Editor
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Featured Scholar: Harvey Montijo
In the 2002 New York Times Bestseller Lucky Man, actor Michael
J. Fox opens the memoir on his struggle with Parkinson’s disease by
reliving the moment he first experienced symptoms of the illness while lodging
at the University Center Hotel in Gainesville during the filming of 1991’s
Doc Hollywood.
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Papers
Harvey E. Montijo, College of Public Health and Health
Professions (Mentor: Dawn Bowers)
Measuring Working Memory Dysfunction
in Subjects with Parkinson’s Disease Using an N-back Paradigm
Megan Kinney, College
of Medicine (Mentor: Joyce Koenig)
Cytotoxic Effect of Surviving Neonatal
Neutrophils On Lung Cells
Chinenye Echeazu, College
of Medicine (Mentor: David Silverman and Susan Frost)
The Physiological Function of CA-III
May Be Linked To Its Phosphate Activity
Hien Thai Chau, College
of Medicine (Mentor: Hazel C. Jones)
Lectin Histochemistry in Ventricular and
Aqueduct Ependyma in the Brains of H-Tx Rats with Inherited Fetal-onset
Hydrocephalus
Corey Rosenbaum, College
of Medicine (Mentor:Mary Beth Horodyski)
Outcome of Shoulder Hemiarthroplasty
with Biologic Resurfacing of the Glenoid
Yashash Pathak et al, College
of Medicine (Mentor: Robert McKenna)
Crystal Structure of Mutant HCAII H64A
Complexed with Bicarbonate: Its Implication in Proton Shuttling Mechanism
Roshini Epasinghe, College
of Medicine (Mentor: Dr. James Zucali)
Effects of Etoposide and Doxorubicin
on the Bone Marrow Microenvironment and Hematopoietic Stem Cells
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