Developing a community profile tool for improving health in New Mexico rural communities.

Presented at: 2016 Annual Conference of the New Mexico Public Health Association; April 12-13, 2016; Las Cruces, NM.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/prc-posters-presentations/1031/thumbnail.jp

Practical approaches to characterizing health disparities in your community: a workshop and panel.

Presented at: 2015 Annual Conference of the New Mexico Public Health Association; March 31-April 1, 2015; Albuquerque, NM.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/prc-posters-presentations/1037/thumbnail.jp

Usage of tobacco cessation helpline (QUITNOW) in rural New Mexico.

Presented at: Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science; October 29-31, 2015; Washington, DC.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/prc-posters-presentations/1050/thumbnail.jp

Measuring tobacco cessation helpline (1-800-QUIT NOW) usage in rural and urban areas of New Mexico.

Presented at: 2016 Annual Conference of the New Mexico Public Health Association; April 12-13; Las Cruces, NM.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/prc-posters-presentations/1035/thumbnail.jp

New insights into c-Ret signalling pathway in the enteric nervous system and its relationship with ALS.

The receptor tyrosine kinase Ret (c-Ret) transduces the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) signal, one of the neurotrophic factors related to the degeneration process or the regeneration activity of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The phosphorylation of several tyrosine residues of c-Ret seems to be altered in ALS. c-Ret is expressed in motor neurons and in the enteric nervous system (ENS) during the embryonic period. The characteristics of the ENS allow using it as model for central nervous system (CNS) study and being potentially useful for the research of human neurological diseases such as ALS. The aim of the present study was to investigate the cellular localization and quantitative evaluation of marker c-Ret in the adult human gut. To assess the nature of c-Ret positive cells, we performed colocalization with specific markers of cells that typically are located in the enteric ganglia. The colocalization of PGP9.5 and c-Ret was preferentially intense in enteric neurons with oval morphology and mostly peripherally localized in the ganglion, so we concluded that the c-Ret receptor is expressed by a specific subtype of enteric neurons in the mature human ENS of the gut. The functional significance of these c-Ret positive neurons is discussed

Twisted equivariant K-theory, groupoids and proper actions

In this paper we define twisted equivariant K-theory for actions of Lie groupoids. For a Bredon-compatible Lie groupoid, this defines a periodic cohomology theory on the category of finite CW-complexes with equivariant stable projective bundles. A classification of these bundles is shown. We also obtain a completion theorem and apply these results to proper actions of groups.Comment: 26 page