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Morphological responses to feeding in ticks (Ixodes ricinus)
Zoological Letters, 2018 Background Ticks can survive long periods without feeding but, when feeding, ingest large quantities of blood, resulting in a more than 100-fold increase of body volume.
J. Matthias Starck +6 more
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Cell interactome in sarcopenia during aging
Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2022 Background The diversity between the muscle cellular interactome of dependent and independent elderly people is based on the interrelationships established between different cellular mechanisms, and alteration of this balance modulates cellular activity ...
Laura González‐Blanco +10 more
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2019 Background Metatarsalgia of the lesser toes is a common cause of consultation in the podiatric clinic. However, there continues to be a controversy with respect to which is the best surgical technique, and there is few information in the literature ...
Miguel Lopez-Vigil +4 more
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Intermittent reproduction, mortality patterns and lifetime breeding frequency of females in a population of the adder (Vipera berus) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Female adders (Vipera berus) are “capital breeders” that exhibit delayed maturity and intermittent reproductive frequency. We studied the attainment of sexual maturity, the initiation of annual breeding in mature females, the energy and mortality costs ...
Dirk Bauwens, Katja Claus
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Evolutionary morphology of the lizard chemosensory system
Scientific Reports, 2017 Foraging mode plays a pivotal role in traditional reconstructions of squamate evolution. Transitions between modes are said to spark concerted changes in the morphology, physiology, behaviour, and life history of lizards.
Simon Baeckens +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) compromises fetal development, leading to low birth weight, and predisposes to gastrointestinal disorders. Pigs that suffered IUGR present poor postnatal development, resulting in great economic losses to the ...
Thaís Garcia Santos +12 more
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Brain Sciences, 2021 Suitable in vivo and in vitro models are instrumental for the development of new drugs aimed at improving symptoms or progression of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Eva Martínez-Pinilla +7 more
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022 Background Starting from the idea that unexplored areas may yield new and different ethnobotanical information, we performed a survey of traditional uses of plants in two neighboring districts situated in east Serbia (Bor and Aleksinac), both lacking in ...
Pedja Janaćković +5 more
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Nuclear Morphology and the Biology of Cancer Cells [PDF]
Acta Cytologica, 2020 Background: For more than a century, diagnostic pathologists have used morphologic abnormalities of the nucleus as essential diagnostic features to distinguish benign from malignant cells. These features include nuclear enlargement and increased nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio, nuclear membrane irregularities, hyperchromasia, and abnormal chromatin ...
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Progressive tracking: a novel procedure to facilitate manual digitization of videos
Biology Open, 2020 Digitization of video recordings often requires the laborious procedure of manually clicking points of interest on individual video frames. Here, we present progressive tracking, a procedure that facilitates manual digitization of markerless videos.
Maja Mielke +4 more
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