Proteins of the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) family are known to have a role in ocular
and skeletal development; however, because of their widespread expression and functional …

Abstract Setting Shambhala is a 5-day electronic dance music (EDM) festival held in rural
British Columbia that annually hosts between 15,000 and 18,000 people on a 500-acre ranch. …

Objectives Best practice guidelines recommend vision testing in children 3 to 5 years of age
for the prevention of amblyopia; however, universal vision screening is controversial. In …

Background In 2016, a public health emergency was declared in British Columbia due to an
unprecedented number of illicit drug overdose deaths. Injection drug use was implicated in …

Unlike laboratory rats and mice, muridae of the Arvicanthis family (A. ansorgei and A. niloticus)
are adapted to functioning best in daylight. To date, they have been used as experimental …

Background Vision is initiated by phototransduction in the outer retina by photoreceptors,
whose high metabolic rate generates large CO 2 loads. Inner retina cells then process the …

The Cacna1f nob2 mouse is reported to be a naturally occurring null mutation for the Ca v
1.4 calcium channel gene and the phenotype of this mouse is not identical to that of the …

Cancer screening guidelines recommend that women over 50 years regularly be screened
for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers. Population-based screening programs use …

Background: Women in rural and remote northern Alberta access breast cancer screening
through a mobile mammogram program (Screen Test). The Enhanced Access to Cervical and …

The most widespread models to study blindness, rats and mice, have retinas containing
less than 3% cones. The diurnal rodent Arvicanthis niloticus retina has around 35% cones. …