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Plants and microbes (mycorrhizal fungi to be precise) have evolved together over the past millions of years into an association that is mutualist. The plants supply the fungi with photosynthates and shelter, while the fungi reciprocate by enhancing ...
Matthew Chekwube Enebe, Mariana Erasmus
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Nativity and Disease Susceptibility [PDF]
M,fORTALITY rates from diseases of advanced life in the United States are uniformly higher among the foreign born than among the native born. Furthermore, the mortality rates from these causes are much higher among the Irish and German born than among those born in Italy, Poland and the former Austro-Hungarian empire.
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Susceptibility to Disease. [PDF]
Goddard, Kans., Jan. 14, 1904. To the Editor: —I desire to call the attention of the profession to an important factor in the estimation of susceptibility to disease as influenced by age, namely, the decrease in the number of persons living as age increases.
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Protein tyrosine phosphatases, together with protein tyrosine kinases, control many molecular signaling steps that control life at cellular and organismal levels. Impairing alterations in the genes encoding the involved proteins is expected to profoundly
Wiljan J. A. J. Hendriks +3 more
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Genetic susceptibility in Parkinson's disease
It is hoped that an understanding of the genetic basis of Parkinson's disease (PD) will lead to an appreciation of the molecular pathogenesis of disease, which in turn will highlight potential points of therapeutic intervention. It is also hoped that such an understanding will allow identification of individuals at risk for disease prior to the onset ...
Bras, Jose Miguel, Singleton, Andrew
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The necrotrophic fungus Alternaria alternata contains different pathotypes that produce different mycotoxins. The pathotype Ageratina adenophora secretes the non-host-selective toxin tenuazonic acid (TeA), which can cause necrosis in many plants ...
Jiale Shi +7 more
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X-linked diseases: susceptible females [PDF]
The role of X-inactivation is often ignored as a prime cause of sex differences in disease. Yet, the way males and females express their X-linked genes has a major role in the dissimilar phenotypes that underlie many rare and common disorders, such as intellectual deficiency, epilepsy, congenital abnormalities, and diseases of the heart, blood, skin ...
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Genetic susceptibility to infectious disease
Our understanding of the variation in individual clinical responses to pathogens has become increasingly relevant, particularly in the face of new emerging epidemics as well as the increasing number of multi-drug-resistant organisms. An effective immune response to infection has contributed to the development of host genetic diversity through selective
Segal, S, Hill, A
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This study aimed to directly elucidate cultivar variation in disease susceptibility and disease responses in relation to hormonal status in the interaction of Brassica napus cultivars and Xanthomonas campestris pv.
Md. Tabibul Islam +6 more
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Background: Current evidence suggests that Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors are associated with the occurrence and progression of cerebrovascular diseases.
Mingming Ma +3 more
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