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Gut microbes, 2022 Obesity is a major risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, and gut microbiota plays a key role in influencing the host energy homeostasis.
P. Paone +7 more
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Chronic Inflammation in Ulcerative Colitis Causes Long-Term Changes in Goblet Cell FunctionSummary
Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2022 Background & Aims: One of the features of ulcerative colitis (UC) is a defect in the protective mucus layer. This has been attributed to a reduced number of goblet cells (GCs).
Varsha Singh +10 more
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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2021 BACKGROUND Particulate matter of 2.5 µm or less in diameter (PM2.5) is one of the most complex pollutants in the atmospheric environment and harmful to human health.
Xiang He +8 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Mucus secretion is an important feature of asthma that highly correlates with morbidity. Current therapies, including administration of mucolytics and anti-inflammatory drugs, show limited effectiveness and durability, underscoring the need for novel ...
Hope Steele +5 more
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Disruption-induced mucus secretion: repair and protection. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2006 When a cell suffers a plasma membrane disruption, extracellular Ca(2+) rapidly diffuses into its cytosol, triggering there local homotypic and exocytotic membrane fusion events.
K Miyake, T Tanaka, P L McNeil
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Strategies for measuring airway mucus and mucins
Respiratory Research, 2019 Mucus secretion and mucociliary transport are essential defense mechanisms of the airways. Deviations in mucus composition and secretion can impede mucociliary transport and elicit airway obstruction. As such, mucus abnormalities are hallmark features of
Kalina R. Atanasova, Leah R. Reznikov
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Jurnal Ternak Tropika, 2017 The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of characteristics of cervical mucus before artificial insemination (AI) as conception rate (CR). The study materials were 112 composite cattle in estrus. Fifty five composite heifers and 57 composite
Irfan Irfan +2 more
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Mucus secretions in Cnidarian, an ecological, adaptive and evolutive tool
Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 2022 Mucus secretion provides an interface with unique and multifunctional properties between the epithelial cells of many aquatic organisms and their surrounding environment.
Serena Savoca +4 more
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Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 1998 This work investigated the frog gastric mucosa response to hydrogen peroxide and ethanol induced injury. Acid and mucus secretion were estimated "in vitro" in control animals with intragastric absolute ethanol (1ml/30min.
Hidê Virgínia Estivallet +2 more
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Relationship between GnRH-induced LH increase profiles in the serum and vaginal mucus of Japanese Black beef cows [PDF]
Archives Animal Breeding, 2022 This study aimed to investigate the relationship between increases in the luteinizing hormone (LH) profiles in the serum and vaginal mucus of cows induced by gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). Samples for LH determination were collected from Japanese
N. Yoshimura +12 more
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