Potential wound healing activity of Quercus infectoria formulation in diabetic rats.

abstract：:Because cancer evolution underlies the therapeutic difficulties of cancer, it is clinically important to understand the evolutionary dynamics of cancer. Thus far, a number of evolutionary processes have been proposed to be working in cancer evolution. However, there exists no simulation model that can describe the dif...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Niida A,Hasegawa T,Innan H,Shibata T,Mimori K,Miyano S

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Acontia, located in the gastrovascular cavity of anemone, are thread-like tissue containing numerous stinging cells which serve as a unique defense tissue against predators of the immobile acontiarian sea anemone. Although its morphology and biological functions, such as defense and digestion, have been studied, the d...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lam J,Cheng YW,Chen WU,Li HH,Chen CS,Peng SE

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of glial cells in pain modulation has recently gathered attention. The objective of this study was to determine healthy spinal microglia and astrocyte morphology and disposition in equine spinal cord dorsal horns using Iba-1 and GFAP/Cx-43 immunofluorescence labeling, respectively. Five adult horses without v...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Meneses CS,Müller HY,Herzberg DE,Uberti B,Bustamante HA,Werner MP

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The massive influx of pelagic Sargassum spp. (sargasso) into the Mexican Caribbean Sea has caused major deterioration of the coastal environment and has affected the tourism industry as well as livelihoods since 2015. Species of Sargassum have high capacity to absorb metals; thus, leachates of sargasso may contribute ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rodríguez-Martínez RE,Roy PD,Torrescano-Valle N,Cabanillas-Terán N,Carrillo-Domínguez S,Collado-Vides L,García-Sánchez M,van Tussenbroek BI

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean warming threatens the functioning of coral reef ecosystems by inducing mass coral bleaching and mortality events. The link between temperature and coral bleaching is now well-established based on observations that mass bleaching events usually occur when seawater temperatures are anomalously high. However, times...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： DeCarlo TM,Harrison HB

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite being geographically central to the Atlantic Americas Flyway for migratory birds, the Caribbean is often overlooked or underappreciated when addressing the conservation of North American shorebirds. To our knowledge, this is the first Caribbean-wide assessment of shorebird use in the region. We analyzed 211,01...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cañizares JR,Reed JM

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invasive species are among the most significant threats to biodiversity. The diet of invasive animal populations is a crucial factor that must be considered in the context of biological invasions. A broad dietary spectrum is a frequently cited characteristic of invasive species, allowing them to thrive in a ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Courant J,Vogt S,Marques R,Measey J,Secondi J,Rebelo R,De Villiers A,Ihlow F,De Busschere C,Backeljau T,Rödder D,Herrel A

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study is to provide a report on scientific production during the period 2010-2014 in order to identify the major topics as well as the predominant actors (journals, countries, continents) involved in the field of eye disease. METHODS:A PubMed search was carried out to extract articles re...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Boudry C,Denion E,Mortemousque B,Mouriaux F

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial learning skills of high and low stress juvenile mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) were tested in a dichotomous choice apparatus. Groups of fish were formed based on background blood cortisol levels and required to learn the location of a food reward hidden in one of two compartments. Low stress fish charact...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Raoult V,Trompf L,Williamson JE,Brown C

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As one of the highest forest ecosystems in the world, Polylepis forests are recognized both as center of endemism and diversity along the Andes and as an ecosystem under serious threat from habitat loss, fragmentation, and climate change due to human activities. Effective conservation efforts are limited, in...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sevillano-Ríos CS,Rodewald AD

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:With rising environmental concerns on potable water safety and eutrophication, increased media attention and tighter environmental regulations, managing animal waste in an environmentally responsible and economically feasible way can be a challenge. In this study, the possibility of using granular anammox process for ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ni SQ,Yang N

更新日期：2014-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Magnetite-mediated direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) between Geobacter and Methanosarcina species is increasingly being invoked to explain magnetite stimulation of methane production in anaerobic soils and sediments. Although magnetite-mediated DIET has been documented in defined co-cultures reduc...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang O,Zheng S,Wang B,Wang W,Liu F

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The MYB transcription factor family is one of the largest gene families playing regulatory roles in plant growth and development. The MYB family has been studied in a variety of plant species but has not been reported in Taxus chinensis. Here we identified 72 putative R2R3-MYB genes in T. chinensis using a comprehensi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hu X,Zhang L,Wilson I,Shao F,Qiu D

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Two non-tuberculous mycobacterial strains, UM_3 and UM_11, were isolated from the trunk wash of captive elephants in Malaysia. As they appeared to be identical phenotypes, they were investigated further by conventional and whole genome sequence-based methods of strain differentiation. Methods. Multiphasic ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chan KG,Loke MF,Ong BL,Wong YL,Hong KW,Tan KH,Kaur S,Ng HF,Abdul Razak M,Ngeow YF

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2869.]. ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Qiu S,Sun H,Liu Y,Kanu JS,Li R,Yu Y,Huang X,Li B,Zhang X

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Aedes aegypti is the major vector of dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya viruses that put millions of people in endemic countries at risk. Mass rearing of this mosquito is crucial for strategies that use modified insects to reduce vector populations and transmission of pathogens, such as sterile insect technique or p...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gonzales KK,Tsujimoto H,Hansen IA

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilated cardiomyopathy is a prevalent and often fatal disease in humans and dogs. Indeed dilated cardiomyopathy is the third most common form of cardiac disease in humans, reported to affect approximately 36 individuals per 100,000 individuals. In dogs, dilated cardiomyopathy is the second most common cardiac disease ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Simpson S,Edwards J,Emes RD,Cobb MA,Mongan NP,Rutland CS

更新日期：2015-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Supertree methods enable the reconstruction of large phylogenies. The supertree problem can be formalized in different ways in order to cope with contradictory information in the input. Some supertree methods are based on encoding the input trees in a matrix; other methods try to find minimum cuts in some graph. Recen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Fleischauer M,Böcker S

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objective of this research was to test central assumptions from the Self-centeredness/Selflessness Happiness Model. According to this model, while self-centered psychological functioning induces fluctuating happiness, authentic-durable happiness results from selflessness. Distinct mediating processes are supp...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Dambrun M

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The functional significance of ADAMs family members in the immune infiltration of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) awaits elucidation. Methods:ADAMs family members with significant expression were identified among differentially expressed genes of PAAD based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database follow...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Qi B,Liu H,Dong Y,Shi X,Zhou Q,Zeng F,Bao N,Li Q,Yuan Y,Yao L,Xia S

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer research is a national and international priority, with the efficiency and effectiveness of current anti-tumor therapies being one of the major challenges with which physicians are faced. OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of exposure to tobacco smoke, arsenic, and phthalates on cervical cancer treatment...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Neamtiu IA,Bloom MS,Dumitrascu I,Roba CA,Pop C,Ordeanu C,Balacescu O,Gurzau ES

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4110.]. ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： van Heteren AH,van Dierendonck RCH,van Egmond MANE,Ten Hagen SL,Kreuning J

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to reports of wild primates, studies of captive primates' flexibility often reveal conservatism: individuals are unable to switch to new and more efficient strategies when task demands change. We propose that such conservatism might be a result of task design and hypothesize that conservatism might be link...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jacobson SL,Hopper LM

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Motion sickness may be caused by a sensory conflict between the visual and the vestibular systems. Scopolamine, known to be the most effective therapy to control the vegetative symptoms of motion sickness, acts on the vestibular nucleus and potentially the vestibulospinal pathway, which may affect balance an...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bestaven E,Kambrun C,Guehl D,Cazalets JR,Guillaud E

更新日期：2016-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphibian skin microbiome has been the focus of recent studies aiming to better understand the role of these microbial symbionts in host defense against disease. However, host-associated microbial communities are complex and dynamic, and changes in their composition and structure can influence their function. Unde...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Estrada A,Hughey MC,Medina D,Rebollar EA,Walke JB,Harris RN,Belden LK

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid development of China's textile industry (TI) has led to severe water environmental stress. Water environmental stress of China's TI mainly comes from large quantities of discharged wastewater and chemical oxygen demand (COD). The sustainable development of the TI is realized to achieve the decoupling between...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li Y,Shen J,Lu L,Luo Y,Wang L,Shen M

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：Background/Aims:Medical and behavioral needs are relevant in organizing and providing support strategies that improve the quality of life for children, along with their families. The present study aims to examine the impact of medical and behavioral needs on the need for support of children with disabilities. Methods:...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Arias VB,Aguayo V,Verdugo MA,Amor AM

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:While studying organisms living in association with the solitary tunicate Phallusia nigra (Ascidiacea, Ascidiidae) from a shallow fringing reef at Zeytouna Beach (Egyptian Red Sea), one of the collected ascidians showed peculiar perforations on its tunic. Once dissected, the perforations revealed to be the openings of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Martin D,Nygren A,Cruz-Rivera E

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a semi-empirical (PM6-based) computational method for systematically estimating the effect of all possible single mutants, within a certain radius of the active site, on the barrier height of an enzymatic reaction. The intent of this method is not a quantitative prediction of the barrier heights, but rather...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hediger MR,Steinmann C,De Vico L,Jensen JH

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Massively parallel sequencing technology is being used to sequence highly diverse populations of DNA such as that derived from heterogeneous cell mixtures containing both wild-type and disease-related states. At the core of such molecule tagging techniques is the tagging and identification of sequence read...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Andrews TD,Jeelall Y,Talaulikar D,Goodnow CC,Field MA

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00