Reproductive Failure in UK Harbour Porpoises Phocoena phocoena : Legacy of Pollutant Exposure? [PDF]
, 2015 This research was supported by a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship within the Seventh European Community Framework Programme (Project Cetacean-stressors, PIOF-GA-2010-276145 to PDJ and SM).
Barber, Jonathan L. +11 more
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Biases in the Experimental Annotations of Protein Function and their Effect on Our Understanding of Protein Function Space [PDF]
, 2013 The ongoing functional annotation of proteins relies upon the work of curators to capture experimental findings from scientific literature and apply them to protein sequence and structure data.
Babbitt, Patricia +5 more
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Structure of the ovaries of the Nimba otter shrew, Micropotamogale lamottei, and the Madagascar hedgehog tenrec, Echinops telfairi [PDF]
, 2005 The otter shrews are members of the subfamily Potamogalinae within the family Tenrecidae. No description of the ovaries of any member of this subfamily has been published previously.
A.C. Enders +18 more
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Scorzonera sensu lato (Asteraceae, Cichorieae) – taxonomic reassessment in the light of new molecular phylogenetic and carpological analyses [PDF]
, 2020 Scorzonera comprises 180–190 species and belongs to the subtribe Scorzonerinae. Its circumscription has long been the subject of debate and available molecular phylogenetic analyses affirmed the polyphyly of Scorzonera in its wide sense.
Jones, Katy +6 more
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NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2003 In this study, we analyse some aspects of the macro- and microscopical appearance of gonads of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from Icelandic coastal waters.
Sverrir Daníel Halldórsson +1 more
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Data mining of gene arrays for biomarkers of survival in ovarian cancer [PDF]
, 2015 The expected five-year survival rate from a stage III ovarian cancer diagnosis is a mere 22%; this applies to the 7000 new cases diagnosed yearly in the UK.
Ball, GR +4 more
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Jurnal Veteriner, 2017 The objective of this study was to evaluate the maturation and fertilization ability of oocytes frompre-pubertal sheep ovary in vitro. Prepubertal ovary were collected based on the absence of corpus luteum or absence of corpus albicans in both of the ...
Anita Hafid +2 more
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Gastropod-derived haemocyte extracellular traps entrap metastrongyloid larval stages of Angiostrongylus vasorum, Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and Troglostrongylus brevior [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Phagocyte-derived extracellular traps (ETs) were recently demonstrated mainly in vertebrate hosts as an important effector mechanism against invading parasites.
Gärtner, Ulrich +7 more
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Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2018 Growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) is play a critical role in ovarian follicular development and ovulation rate. The present research was performed to investigate the correlation between single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of GDF9 gene and ...
H. Al-Mutar, L. Younis, H. Khawla
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Comparison of LPS-stimulated release of cytokines in punch versus transwell tissue culture systems of human gestational membranes [PDF]
, 2010 Background Cytokine signaling within the amnionic, chorionic and decidual extraplacental gestational membranes plays an important role in membrane rupture and the timing of birth.
Loch-Caruso, Rita, Miller, Mark F.
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