Oral Presentations - Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - University ...

Table of Contentabstract #37 Expression of a multidrug-resistance protein (p-glycoprotein) gene (MDR-1) in the placenta of HIV infectedand HAART-Exposed Women .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Eszter Papp, Deborah Money, Laura Oliveira, Tuhina Imam, Beheroze Sattha, Izabella Gadawski, Evelyn Maan,Jack Forbes, Hélène Côté38 Cardiolipotoxicity and hepatic dysfunction is augmented in Cbs +/- mice with diet-induced obesity .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Melissa B Glier 1 , Dian C Sulistyoningrum 2 , Sanjoy Gosh 1 , and Angela M Devlin 1,239 Promoting pathology and laboratory medicine to medical students: The UBC Pathology and LaboratoryMedicine Student Interest Group (PaLM-SIG). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Serena Siow, Jacalynne Hernandez-Lee40 Characterization of patients with very high plasma HDL-cholesterol, with and without vascular pathology .. . . . . . . . . . 51Ahmad Al-Sarraf MD 1, 2 , Gautamn Sarwal, BMLSc 2, 3 , Catalin Taraboanta, MD MSc 1 , and Jiri Frohlich, MD FRCP(C) 1,241 Deregulation of oncogene and tumor suppressor expression by methylation in early stage oral c .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Shevaun E. Hughes 1 , Ivy F.L. Tsui 1 , Catherine Poh 2,3 , and Cathie Garnis 1,242 Molecular characterization of anaplastic thyroid carcinomas .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Rebecca Towle 1 , Danielle MacNeil 1 , Ken Berean 2 , Don Anderson 1 , Cathie Garnis 143 Is the third AFB smear necessary to remove patients from respiratory isolation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Amanda Wilmer 1,2 , Elizabeth Bryce 1,2 , Jennifer Grant 1,244 Skin aging as an indicator of cardiovascular health in apolipoprotein E knockout mice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Paul R. Hiebert 1,2 , Thomas Abraham 1 , Sara Pazooki 1 , Wendy A. Boivin 1,2 , Hongyan Zhao 1 , David J. Granville 1,245 DNA quantity and quality from paraffin blocks: a comparison of fixation, processing and nucleic acidextraction techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Gulisa Turashvili 1 , Melinda Carrier 1 , Nadia Gale 1 , Ying Ng 1 , Katie Chow1, Lynda Bell 1 , Margaret Luk 2 , Steve Kalloger 1 , Blake Gilks 2 ,Samuel Aparicio 1 , David Huntsman 146 Microbial sequence characterization of ovarian cancer tissue .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57V. Montoya 1 , J. Gardy 1,2 , K. Jewell 1 , S. Shah 1,3 , D. Huntsman 1,3 , P. Tang 1,247 20(S)-protopanaxatriol affects the expression of cytochrome P450 3A4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Nga Ting Colette Chiu 1 , Emma Tomlinson Guns 2 , William Jia 348 Death by boric acid - was Surekiller® a sure killer? .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Walter Martz and Henry Kaliciak49 Combination of high performance liquid chromatography fluorescence detection and modern massspectrometry for analysis of primary amine derivatives in biological fluids and tissues .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Josephine H. Cheng 1 , Christine Joseph 1 , and Bernd O. Keller 150 Protein targets regulated by polyunsaturated fatty acid maternal diet in fetal rat brain.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Katelyn J. Janzen 1 , Elizabeth M. Novak 2 , Sheila M. Innis 2 , and Bernd O. Keller 151 Short antimicrobial peptides immobilized copolymer brushes on titanium surface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Guangzheng Gao, Jason Kindrachuk, Donald E. Brooks, Robert E.W. Hancock, and Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu52 Macromolecular iron chelators: a novel therapeutic agent for the treatment of secondary iron overload .. . . . . . . . . . . . 63Jasmine L. Hamilton, Muhammed Imran ul-haq, Iren Constantinescu, and Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu53 Synthesis of biomimicking glycopolymer brushes containing different carbohydrate residues and theirnon-biofouling properties .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Kai Yu, Jayachandran N Kizhakkedathu54 A novel lung tumor suppressor implicated in somatic and familial cancers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Ian M. Wilson 1 , Katey S. S. Enfield 1 , Emily A. Vucic 1 , Raj Chari 1 , Yu-An Zhang 2 , Ming You 3 , Calum MacAulay 1 , Stephen Lam 1 ,Adi F. Gazdar 2 , Wan L. Lam 155 Amplification status of GAS41 and MDM2 in lung adenocarcinomas.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Larissa Pikor 1 , William W. Lockwood 2 , Raj Chari 1 , Emily A. Vucic 1 , Stephen Lam 1 , Adi F. Gazdar 3 and Wan L. Lam 156 Frequent DNA deletion of miRNA-101, a candidate tumour suppressor, in lung cancer. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Kelsie L. Thu 1,3 , Raj Chari 2,3 , Wan L. Lam 2,38