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Mast cells and inflammation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2012
Mast cells are well known for their role in allergic and anaphylactic reactions, as well as their involvement in acquired and innate immunity. Increasing evidence now implicates mast cells in inflammatory diseases where they are activated by non-allergic triggers, such as neuropeptides and cytokines, often exerting synergistic effects as in the case of
Theoharides, Theoharis C., Alysandratos, Konstantinos-Dionysios, Angelidou, Asimenia, Delivanis, Danae-Anastasia, Sismanopoulos, Nikolaos, Zhang, Bodi, Asadi, Shahrzad, Vasiadi, Magdalini, Weng, Zuyi, Miniati, Alexandra, Kalogeromitros, Dimitrios   +10 more
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Correlated seed failure as an environmental veto to synchronize reproduction of masting plants

, 2017
Highly variable, synchronized seed production, called masting, is a widespread reproductive strategy in plants. Resource dynamics, pollination success, and, as described here, environmental veto, are possible proximate mechanisms of masting.
Michael A. Steele, Shealyn Marino, Michał Bogdziewicz, Elizabeth E. Crone   +3 more
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Climate teleconnections synchronize Picea glauca masting and fire disturbance: Evidence for a fire‐related form of environmental prediction [PDF]

, 2019
1.Synchronous pulses of seed masting and natural disturbance have positive feedbacks on the reproduction of masting species in disturbance‐prone ecosystems. We test the hypotheses that disturbances and proximate causes of masting are correlated, and that
LaMontagne, JM, Maringer, J, Adrián Cardil, Davide Ascoli, Cardil, A, Motta, R., Vacchiano, G., Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Motta, R, Pearse, IS, Maringer, J., Cardil, A., Conedera, M., Hacket Pain, AJ, Giorgio Vacchiano, Ascoli, D, Ascoli, D., Hacket‐Pain, A., Pearse, I. S., Marco Conedera, Janet Maringer, Conedera, M, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Renzo Motta, Ian S. Pearse, Vacchiano, G, LaMontagne, J. M.   +26 more
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The plasticity of masting: understanding how and why temporal reproductive patterns vary in trees [PDF]

Long-lived plants like trees often exhibit highly variable, yet synchronised reproduction, commonly referred to as ‘masting’. The boom-and-bust patterns of seed production have complex and far-reaching effects on regeneration and food webs. Understanding
Foest, Jessie
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Masting Dynamics data set

, 2011
This group compiled an extensive data base of time series for masting species with associated climatic data. Individual seed production in 59 populations of plants from 24 species spanning a large range of annual variablilty, from species exhibiting ...

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Masting behaviour and dendrochronology of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in southern Sweden

, 2010
To identify weather controls of beech diameter growth and masting in southern Sweden, we analyze records of monthly weather, regional masting record, and tree-ring chronologies from five beech-dominated stands.
Drobyshev, Igor, Saygin, Igor, Karlsson, Matts, Overgaard, Rolf, Niklasson, Mats, Hickler, Thomas, Sykes, Martin   +6 more
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Araucaria araucana and the Austral parakeet: pre-dispersal seed predation on a masting species El pehuén y la cachaña: depredación predispersión de una especie "masting"

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2008
Pre-dispersal seed predation by Austral parakeets, Enicognathus ferrugineus, on pehuén, Araucaria araucana, was studied to assess the relationship between predation and seed production. We collected falling seeds in four araucaria forests of southwestern
JOHN D SHEPHERD, REBECCA S DITGEN, JAVIER SANGUINETTI   +2 more
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Efectos de la producción de semillas y la heterogeneidad vegetal sobre la supervivencia de semillas y el patrón espacio-temporal de establecimiento de plántulas en Araucaria araucana Araucaria araucana temporal and spatial seedling establishment patterns: masting, seed predation and understory vegetation effects

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2009
El establecimiento de plántulas puede estar limitado por la producción de semillas y asociada a la producción intermitente y sincronizada de semillas (masting) y/o por granivoría, o por falta de micrositios aptos para la germinación y crecimiento de las ...
JAVIER SANGUINETTI, THOMAS KITZBERGER
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Pulsed resource availability changes dietary niche breadth and partitioning between generalist rodent consumers

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Identifying the mechanisms that structure niche breadth and overlap between species is important for determining how species interact and assessing their functional role in an ecosystem.
Ryan B. Stephens, Erik A. Hobbie, Thomas D. Lee, Rebecca J. Rowe   +3 more
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Inter-annual and decadal changes in teleconnections drive continental-scale synchronization of tree reproduction

Nature Communications, 2017
Climate oscillations affect weather on different temporal-spatial scales, which poses difficulty in understanding how they influence tree reproduction. Here Ascoli et al.
Davide Ascoli, Giorgio Vacchiano, Marco Turco, Marco Conedera, Igor Drobyshev, Janet Maringer, Renzo Motta, Andrew Hacket-Pain   +7 more
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