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The Taurus Mountains, the Hotspot of Western Palearctic Biodiversity, Is in Danger: Marble Quarries Affect Wildlife

Diversity
The Taurus Mountains in the Mediterranean Coastal Basin, considered a biodiversity hotspot, have a rich biodiversity in the Western Palearctic. The number of marble quarries in the Taurus Mountains has dramatically expanded over the past ten years.
Tamer Albayrak, Tamer Yılmaz
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The Devil’s Threat in Medieval Bestiaries: Recognizing and Resisting Evil in the Dragon, Serpent, Wolf, Fox, Ape, Whale, Hawk, Partridge, and Raven

Ítaca
To medieval contemplatives, the devil posed a clear spiritual threat to those seeking to be piously devoted to Jesus. To avoid the plotting of the devil, monastics were advised to pray and study the scriptures.
Jane Beal
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Opposing effects of inhibitors of Aurora-A and EGFR in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD)

Frontiers in Oncology, 2015
Aurora-A kinase (AURKA) overexpression in numerous tumors induces aneuploidy, in part because of cytokinetic defects. Alisertib and other small-molecule inhibitors targeting AURKA are effective in some patients as monotherapies or combination therapies.
Anna S Nikonova, Alexander Y Deneka, Alexander Y Deneka, Louisa eEckman, Meghan C Kopp, Harvey H Hensley, Brian L Egleston, Erica eGolemis   +7 more
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Intestinal helminths of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in north-west Italy

Helminthologia, 2016
A total of 180 foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from an area scarcely investigated of north-west Italy, were examined for intestinal helminths using sedimentation and counting technique (SCT).
Magi M., Guardone L., Mignone W., Prati M. C., Macchioni F.   +4 more
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Identifying putative breast cancer-associated long intergenic non-coding RNA loci by high density SNP array analysis

Frontiers in Genetics, 2012
Recent high-throughput transcript discoveries have yielded a growing recognition of long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs), a class of arbitrarily defined transcripts (>200 nt) that are primarily produced from the intergenic space.
Zhengyu eJiang, Yan eZhou, Karthik eDevarajan, Carolyn M Slater, Mary B Daly, Xiaowei eChen   +5 more
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Examination of D. immitis presence in foxes in Serbia [PDF]

Veterinarski Glasnik, 2014
Dirofilariosis is a parasitic disease that usually affects dogs, but it can occur in other carnivore species. Since the disease appears endemically in dogs in some parts of Serbia, the aim of our investigation was to determine whether ...
Gavrilović Pavle, Vasković Nikola, Živulj Aleksandar, Jovanović Milijan   +3 more
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Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is a rare but life‐threatening metabolic emergency in children that occurs in less than 1% of pediatric cancer cases, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% across different studies. While it is observed in 10%–20% of adult malignancies, pediatric HCM remains relatively uncommon.
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
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Detection of Bartonella spp. in foxes' populations in Piedmont and Aosta Valley (NW Italy) coupling geospatially-based techniques

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Bartonella is a genus of bacteria known to cause various rare but potentially dangerous diseases in humans and wildlife. The objective of this study was to investigate the presence of Bartonella spp.
Annalisa Viani, Tommaso Orusa, Sara Divari, Stella Lovisolo, Stefania Zanet, Riccardo Orusa, Enrico Borgogno-Mondino, Enrico Bollo   +7 more
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Fox in Bashkir Folklore and Religious-Magical Practices

Oriental Studies, 2020
Introduction. The article analyzes vestiges of the fox cult among Bashkirs. The animal used to be a most revered one in religious and mystical beliefs of the nation. Goals. The work seeks to study the fox cult in all its manifestations in everyday life
Azaliya F. Ilimbetova
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High‐level seroprevalence against Leptospira interrogans serovars among wild foxes, jackals and stray dogs in the North Khorasan Province, Iran

Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2022
Background Leptospirosis is an important, neglected zoonotic disease that affects people and animals in humid (sub)tropical regions. Wild canines carry the pathogen and may contaminate natural resources which may then act as a source of human infection ...
Kourosh Arzamani, Gholamreza Abdollahpour, Amir Azimian, Alex vanBelkum, Hamed Ghasemzadeh‐Moghaddam   +4 more
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