Antimicrobial peptides: agents of border protection for companion animals. [PDF]
, 2012 Over the past 20 years, there have been significant inroads into understanding the roles of antimicrobial peptides in homeostatic functions and their involvement in disease pathogenesis.
Affolter, Verena K +2 more
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Reunion overseas: introduced wild boars and cultivated orange trees interact in the Brazilian Atlantic forest [PDF]
, 2019 Little is known concerning novel interactions between species that typically interact in their native range but, as a consequence of human activity, are also interacting out of their original distribution under new ecological conditions.
Borges, R. +6 more
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Animals, 2020 This review will focus on the nutritive characteristics of meat from neo-tropical rodents which have not yet been domesticated. These rodents include the capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), agouti (Dasyprocta leporina), and the lappe (Agouti paca ...
Anwar Jamaal Ali, Kegan Romelle Jones
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The melanocortin receptors and their accessory proteins. [PDF]
, 2013 The five melanocortin receptors (MCRs) named MC1R-MC5R have diverse physiological roles encompassing pigmentation, steroidogenesis, energy homeostasis and feeding behavior as well as exocrine function.
Chan, LF +3 more
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Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2008 Determinou-se o perfil do ionograma e enzimas hepáticas de cutias (Dasyprocta sp.) saudáveis, criadas em cativeiro, como também se avaliou a influência de sexo, idade e interação sexo-idade.
E.E.A. Ribeiro +3 more
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Systematic Analysis of Gene Expression Differences between Left and Right Atria in Different Mouse Strains and in Human Atrial Tissue [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Normal development of the atria requires left-right differentiation during embryonic development. Reduced expression of Pitx2c (paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 2, isoform c), a key regulator of left-right asymmetry, has recently ...
Brown, NA +8 more
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Epigenetic’s role in fish pigmentation
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2014 The agouti coat colour gene encodes a paracrine signalling molecule whose differential expression produces the characteristic dorsal-ventral pigment pattern observed in most mammals.
Laura Cal Delgado +3 more
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Systemic Bacterial Infection in a Captive Agouti (Dasyprocta leporina Linnaeus, 1758)
The Scientific World Journal, 2022 The agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) is a neotropical rodent which has the potential to be domesticated. As such, some research studies have been done on the biology of this animal.
Kegan Romelle Jones +3 more
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Signal Transduction and Pathogenic Modifications at the Melanocortin-4 Receptor: A Structural Perspective [PDF]
, 2019 The melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) can be endogenously activated by binding of melanocyte-stimulating hormones (MSH), which mediates anorexigenic effects. In contrast, the agouti-related peptide (AgRP) acts as an endogenous inverse agonist and suppresses
Biebermann, Heike +10 more
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Improving the accuracy of estimates of animal path and travel distance using GPS drift-corrected dead reckoning [PDF]
, 2016 Route taken and distance travelled are important parameters for studies of animal locomotion. They are often measured using a collar equipped with GPS.
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