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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 The Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits devastating flaviviruses, such as Zika, dengue, and yellow fever viruses. For more effective control of the vector, the pathogenicity of Beauveria bassiana, a fungus commonly used for biological control of pest ...
Yanhong Wang +6 more
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Natural killer cells in placentation and cancer: Implications for hypertension during pregnancy [PDF]
, 2017 Hypertension during pregnancy is the most common medical condition encountered during gestation. Despite this, knowledge of the mechanisms that underlie the disease and the development of new therapies are limited.
Cornelius, Denise C. +3 more
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Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 2018 Among the methods valuable for assessing spatial learning and memory impairments in rodents, the Barnes maze (BM) task deserves special attention.
Kinga Gawel +4 more
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Modeling the effects of variable feeding patterns of larval ticks on the transmission of Borrelia lusitaniae and Borrelia afzelii [PDF]
, 2017 Spirochetes belonging to the Borrelia burgdoferi sensu lato (sl) group cause Lyme Borreliosis (LB), which is the most commonly reported vector-borne zoonosis in Europe. B. burgdorferi sl is maintained in nature in a complex cycle involving Ixodes ricinus
Bertolotti, Luigi +5 more
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A Review of Pain Assessment Methods in Laboratory Rodents.
Comparative medicine, 2019 Ensuring that laboratory rodent pain is well managed underpins the ethical acceptability of working with these animals in research. Appropriate treatment of pain in laboratory rodents requires accurate assessments of the presence or absence of pain to ...
P. Turner, D. Pang, J. Lofgren
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Insects, 2019 Interspecific interaction with host plants have important consequences for the host race formation of herbivorous insects. Plant secondary metabolites, particularly those that are involved in host races specializing on plants, warrant the theory of host ...
Erliang Yuan +5 more
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Accumulation of DNA damage alters microRNA gene transcription in Arabidopsis thaliana
BMC Plant Biology, 2022 Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and other epigenetic modifications play fundamental roles in all eukaryotic biological processes. DNA damage repair is a key process for maintaining the genomic integrity of different organisms exposed to diverse stresses ...
Juan Du +8 more
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Dop1 enhances conspecific olfactory attraction by inhibiting miR-9a maturation in locusts
Nature Communications, 2018 Migratory locusts shift between aggregating together during gregarious phases and living individually during solitary phases. Here, the authors find that the D1-like dopamine receptor regulates the olfactory attraction underlying this behavioral switch ...
Xiaojiao Guo +7 more
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Diffusion and Home Range Parameters from Rodent Population Measurements in Panama
, 2005 Simple random walk considerations are used to interpret rodent population data collected in Hantavirus-related investigations in Panama regarding the short-tailed cane mouse, \emph{Zygodontomys brevicauda}.
Abramson, G. +5 more
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The stressed brain of humans and rodents
Acta Physiologica, 2018 After stress, the brain is exposed to waves of stress mediators, including corticosterone (in rodents) and cortisol (in humans). Corticosteroid hormones affect neuronal physiology in two time‐domains: rapid, non‐genomic actions primarily via ...
M. Joëls +3 more
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