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C-reactive protein is differentially modulated by co-existing infections, vitamin deficiencies and maternal factors in pregnant and lactating indigenous Panamanian women

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2017
Background The usefulness of C-reactive protein (CRP) as a non-specific marker of inflammation during pregnancy and lactation is unclear in impoverished populations where co-existing infections and vitamin deficiencies are common.
Doris González-Fernández, Emérita del Carmen Pons, Delfina Rueda, Odalis Teresa Sinisterra, Enrique Murillo, Marilyn E. Scott, Kristine G. Koski   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supercompliant Lattice Boosts n‐type AgSbTe2 Thermoelectrics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The supercompliant lattice design enables the first realization of n‐type electrical transport in AgSbTe2 by overcoming intrinsic electron‐killer defects and exceeding the doping limits imposed by the conventional Hume–Rothery rule. Accordingly, the best performance n‐type Ag0.8Na0.3Sb0.6Bi0.4Te2 sample achieves a low κ of 0.27 W·m−1·K−1 that ...
Ruoyan Li, Shuai Han, Chunyu Zhang, Suyao Liu, Wen Yin, Yuanguang Xia, Pengfei Liu, Zhen‐Hua Ge, Dongyao Zhao, Bingchao Yang, Lulu Huang, Zhi Zhang, Yongsheng Zhang, Yuan Yu, Bangzhi Ge, Chongjian Zhou   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Absence of Specific Chlamydia trachomatis Inclusion Membrane Proteins Triggers Premature Inclusion Membrane Lysis and Host Cell Death

Cell Reports, 2017
Chlamydia trachomatis is a human pathogen associated with significant morbidity worldwide. As obligate intracellular parasites, chlamydiae must survive within eukaryotic cells for sufficient time to complete their developmental cycle.
Mary M. Weber, Jennifer L. Lam, Cheryl A. Dooley, Nicholas F. Noriea, Bryan T. Hansen, Forrest H. Hoyt, Aaron B. Carmody, Gail L. Sturdevant, Ted Hackstadt   +8 more
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Understanding the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions across scales [PDF]

, 2015
Predicting the emergence, spread and evolution of parasites within and among host populations requires insight to both the spatial and temporal scales of adaptation, including an understanding of within-host up through community-level dynamics.
Alexander, Alizon, Altizer, Altizer, Anderson, Auld, Auld, Barrett, Bellec, Bergelson, Betts, Blanquart, Blanquart, Boots, Boots, Boots, Boots, Brockhurst, Brockhurst, Buckling, Burdon, Capelle, Carlsson-Granér, Davies, Deadman, Decaestecker, Delmotte, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Duffy, Dybdahl, Esser, Fisher, Forde, Gaba, Gandon, Gandon, Greischar, Gómez, Hall, Hall, Hall, Hall, Hoeksema, Imhoof, Johnson, Jones, Jousimo, Keeney, Kerr, Kniskern, Koskella, Koskella, Koskella, Koskella, Koskella, Koskella, Labonté, Laine, Laine, Laine, Laine, Laine, Laine, Lajeunesse, Lemoine, Lopez-Pascua, Lopez-Pascua, Lopez-Pascua, López-Villavicencio, McCoy, McDonald, Morgan, Morgan, Mulvey, Nair, Nemri, Niemi, Nowak, Opdam, Osnas, Paczesniak, Penczykowski, Penczykowski, Penczykowski, Pilosof, Prugnolle, Roth, Rynkiewicz, Salvaudon, Schulte, Seabloom, Searle, Singh, Smillie, Smith, Stokstad, Susi, Susi, Susi, Tack, Tack, Tack, Thompson, Thrall, Thrall, Thrall, Thrall, Toju, Tollenaere, Vienne, Vogwill, Vos, Wilfert, Wolinska   +116 more
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Z‐Scheme Water Splitting Systems Based on Solid‐State Electron Conductors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines the latest advances in Z‐scheme overall water splitting (OWS) systems for solar hydrogen production. These systems consist of suspended or immobilized hydrogen evolution photocatalysts (HEPs) and oxygen evolution photocatalysts (OEPs).
Chen Gu, Takashi Hisatomi, Tsuyoshi Takata, Kazunari Domen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chromatin structure can introduce systematic biases in genome-wide analyses of Plasmodium falciparum [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Open Research Europe, 2022
Background: The maintenance, regulation, and dynamics of heterochromatin in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, has drawn increasing attention due to its regulatory role in mutually exclusive virulence gene expression and the silencing of ...
Jessica Bryant, Sebastian Baumgarten
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Modifications at K31 on the lateral surface of histone H4 contribute to genome structure and expression in apicomplexan parasites

eLife, 2017
An unusual genome architecture characterizes the two related human parasitic pathogens Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii. A major fraction of the bulk parasite genome is packaged as transcriptionally permissive euchromatin with few loci ...
Fabien Sindikubwabo, Shuai Ding, Tahir Hussain, Philippe Ortet, Mohamed Barakat, Sebastian Baumgarten, Dominique Cannella, Andrés Palencia, Alexandre Bougdour, Lucid Belmudes, Yohann Couté, Isabelle Tardieux, Cyrille Y Botté, Artur Scherf, Mohamed-ali Hakimi   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microbubble‐Controlled Delivery of Biofilm‐Targeting Nanoparticles to Treat MRSA Infection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Here, an effective strategy using microbubble (MB)‐controlled delivery of biofilm‐targeting nanoparticles (BTNs) for removal and therapy of methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) biofilm infections is introduced. In vivo delivery of MB with BTN is demonstrated to silence key bacterial genes involved in biofilm formation (icaA), bacterial ...
Ju Yeon Chung, Yujin Ahn, Joo Hun Lee, Seungju Yang, Seung Cheol Lee, Hyunjoon Kong, Hyun Jung Chung   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systems analysis of a host-parasite interaction

Parasitology, 1969
Most epidemiological models assume that disease is the inevitable outcome of infection (see Bailey, 1957). Yet as Dubos (1965) has said; ‘Throughout nature, infection without disease is the rule rather than the exception’. There are, in fact, many diseases whose distribution cannot be explained solely by a consideration of the probabilities of host ...
L. H. Ractliffe, H. M. Taylor, W. R. Lynn, J. H. Whitlock   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Networks Underpinning Symbiosis Revealed Through Cross-Species eQTL Mapping. [PDF]

, 2017
Organisms engage in extensive cross-species molecular dialog, yet the underlying molecular actors are known for only a few interactions. Many techniques have been designed to uncover genes involved in signaling between organisms.
Bird, David McK, Chang, Stella, DiGennaro, Peter, Fudali, Sylwia, Gimeno, Jacinta, Guo, Yuelong, Nielsen, Dahlia M, Williamson, Valerie M   +7 more
core   +2 more sources