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BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2021 Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD), an age-related neurodegenerative disorder and a serious public health concern, is mainly caused by β-amyloid (Aβ)-induced toxicity.
Xin Zhang +7 more
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The environmental sustainability of insects as food and feed. A review
Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2017 With a growing world population, increasingly demanding consumers, and a limited amount of agricultural land, there is an urgent need to find alternatives to conventional meat products.
A. Huis, D. Oonincx
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Climate change effect on the widely distributed Palearctic plant bug species (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) [PDF]
PeerJInsects are poikilothermic organisms and temperature increase usually accelerates their development rates, population and distribution area growth. Therefore, it is assumed that global warming can be beneficial for the pests and other widespread species ...
Anna A. Namyatova +3 more
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Current Biology, 2011 Polyphenism is the phenomenon where two or more distinct phenotypes are produced by the same genotype. Examples of polyphenism provide some of the most compelling systems for the study of epigenetics. Polyphenisms are a major reason for the success of the insects, allowing them to partition life history stages (with larvae dedicated to feeding and ...
Simpson, Stephen J. +2 more
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Journal of Plant Interactions, 2017 Horned gall is named after its shape of irregular diamond, and is induced by the fluid-feeding aphid Schlechtendalia chinensis (Bell) attacks on the leaflets that are located in the branchlets of Rhus chinensis Mill., which is enriched in gallotannin and
Haiying Wang +10 more
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Targeting serine-glycine-one-carbon metabolism as a vulnerability in cancers
Biomarker Research, 2023 The serine-glycine-one-carbon (SGOC) metabolic pathway is critical for DNA methylation, histone methylation, and redox homeostasis, in addition to protein, lipid, and nucleotide biosynthesis.
Wei Sun +6 more
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Edible Insects as Food–Insect Welfare and Ethical Aspects from a Consumer Perspective
Insects, 2022 Simple Summary For prevalent livestock, animal welfare is important to consumers. With increasing interest in edible insects, one might wonder how this concern translates to consumers’ perceptions of the welfare of insects.
Nora Delvendahl, B. Rumpold, N. Langen
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