The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Boyer, Thomas G
Funded by
NIH-NATIONAL INST OF CHILD HEALTH AND HU
Collaborating Institutions
UnivChicago
Uterine fibroids (UFs; leiomyomas) are the most important benign neoplastic threat to women's healthworldwide, but disproportionately affect women of color, particularly African American (AA) women, who have athreefold higher incidence rate and relative risk of UFs than Caucasian (CC) women. While the underlyingcause for this risk disparity is not fully understood, recent studies implicate hypovitaminosis D as a majorcontributor.
59th Medical Wing at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center (WHASC)
The 59th Medical Wing Chief Scientist provides the strategic vision, direction, oversight, project management support and technical resources to advance medical modernization efforts with a unique focus on research activities.
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Walter, Christi A
Funded by
NIH-NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING
Children with a genetic disease or birth defect are hospitalized at a younger age, stay longer, and have ahigher death rate than children hospitalized for other reasons. One in 33 infants born in the US has a birthdefect; the number one cause of infant mortality. Our long-term goal is to change these dire statistics bydelineating the mechanisms that reduce game quality by increasing mutagenesis in male gametes withincreasing age, i.e., the paternal age effect.
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Paukert, Martin
Funded by
NIH-NATL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
Awake behavior is accompanied by fluctuations in vigilance shaping the overall activity state of the brain tooptimize cellular and circuit activity. The cellular and molecular mechanisms for such brain state-dependentadjustments in neural activity are not well understood. Using a mouse locomotion paradigm we have recentlyfound that the transition from a resting state to active locomotion is associated with release of theneurotransmitter norepinephrine and leads to Ca2+ activation of astroglia.
