Comparison of incisional complications between skin closures using a simple continuous or intradermal pattern: a pilot study in horses undergoing ventral median celiotomy.

abstract：:In the Balearic Islands, different trammel net designs have been adopted to promote fisheries sustainability and reduce discards. Here, we compare the catch performance of three trammel net designs targeting the spiny lobster Palinurus elephas in terms of biomass, species composition and revenue from commercial catche...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Catanese G,Hinz H,Gil MDM,Palmer M,Breen M,Mira A,Pastor E,Grau A,Campos-Candela A,Koleva E,Grau AM,Morales-Nin B

更新日期：2018-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The mature spermatozoa of Stephanostomum murielae and Stephanostomoides tenuis are described by transmission electron microscopy. They present several ultrastructural features previously reported in other digeneans. Their spermatozoa possess two axonemes of different length showing the 9 + '1' trepaxonematan pattern, ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Bakhoum AJ,Quilichini Y,Justine JL,Bray RA,Bâ CT,Marchand B

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical ventilation (MV) of patients can cause damage to bronchoalveolar epithelium, leading to a sterile inflammatory response, infection and in severe cases sepsis. Limited knowledge is available on the effects of MV on the innate immune defense system in the human lung. In this study, we demonstrate that cyclic ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Karadottir H,Kulkarni NN,Gudjonsson T,Karason S,Gudmundsson GH

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Multimodal imaging enables sensitive measures of the architecture and integrity of the human brain, but the high-dimensional nature of advanced brain imaging features poses inherent challenges for the analyses and interpretations. Multivariate age prediction reduces the dimensionality to one biologically informative s...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Richard G,Kolskår K,Sanders AM,Kaufmann T,Petersen A,Doan NT,Monereo Sánchez J,Alnæs D,Ulrichsen KM,Dørum ES,Andreassen OA,Nordvik JE,Westlye LT

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Pseudostegana (Okada, 1978) currently contains thirty-nine described species. A number of Pseudostegana were collected from the fieldwork in southwestern China from 2010 to 2017. Eleven new species were discovered and are described from southwestern China: Pseudostegana alpina Zhang & Chen, sp. nov.; Pseudos...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lu J,Zhang Y,Chen H

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Transition zones are of high evolutionary interest because unique patterns of spatial variation are often retained. Here, we investigated the phylogeography of the peacock blenny, Salaria pavo, a small marine intertidal fish that inhabits rocky habitats of the Mediterranean and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean. We screened...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Castilho R,Cunha RL,Faria C,Velasco EM,Robalo JI

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study postulates that underlying environmental conditions and a susceptible population's socio-economic status should be explored simultaneously to adequately understand a vector borne disease infection risk. Here we focus on West Nile Virus (WNV), a mosquito borne pathogen, as a case study for spatial ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kala AK,Atkinson SF,Tiwari C

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Vitamin D 1α-hydroxylase CYP27B1 is the key factor in the vitamin D pathway. Previously, we analyzed the expression of CYP27B1 in human gingival fibroblasts in vitro. In the present study, we analyzed the gingival expression of CYP27B1 in vivo. Methods:Forty-two patients with periodontitis Stage IV Grade C ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Liu K,Han B,Hou J,Zhang J,Su J,Meng H

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are key epigenetic factors in regulating chromatin structure and gene expression in multiple aspects of plant growth, development, and response to abiotic or biotic stresses. Many studies on systematic analysis and molecular function of HDACs in Arabidopsis and rice have been conducted. Ho...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhang K,Yu L,Pang X,Cao H,Si H,Zang J,Xing J,Dong J

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：Aim:Historically, the distribution of Sandhill Cranes included much of North America and extending in summer into northeast Russia. In recent years, observations of sandhill cranes in Asia during the non-breeding period have been frequently reported. However, the distribution and abundance of sandhill cranes during the...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Gao L,Mi C,Guo Y

更新日期：2019-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Banana streak virus (BSV) belongs to the members of the genus Badnavirus, family Caulimoviridae. At present, BSV contains nine species in the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) classification report (2018b release). Previous study indicated that the viral particles of Banana streak virus Acuminata Y...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Li WL,Yu NT,Wang JH,Li JC,Liu ZX

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With their Pan-American distribution, long-nosed armadillos (genus Dasypus) constitute an understudied model for Neotropical biogeography. This genus currently comprises seven recognized species, the nine-banded armadillo (D. novemcinctus) having the widest distribution ranging from Northern Argentina to the...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Billet G,Hautier L,de Thoisy B,Delsuc F

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this experiment were to determine the effects of graded dietary lead (Pb) concentrations on body weight and Pb concentrations in blood, hair, soft tissues, and urine from pigs and to generate equations for estimating daily Pb intake. Sixteen barrows with initial body weight 36.3 kg (standard deviatio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Reddy KE,Park KR,Lee SD,Yoo JH,Son AR,Lee HJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among helminth parasites, Paragonimus (zoonotic lung fluke) gains considerable importance from veterinary and medical points of view because of its diversified effect on its host. Nearly fifty species of Paragonimus have been described across the globe. It is estimated that more than 20 million people are infected wor...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Biswal DK,Chatterjee A,Bhattacharya A,Tandon V

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary biology has entered an era of unprecedented amounts of DNA sequence data, as new sequencing technologies such as Massive Parallel Sequencing (MPS) can generate billions of nucleotides within less than a day. The current bottleneck is how to efficiently handle, process, and analyze such large amounts of da...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Andermann T,Cano Á,Zizka A,Bacon C,Antonelli A

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Sex ratio distorting agents (maternally inherited symbionts and meiotically-driving sex chromosomes) are common in insects. When these agents rise to high frequencies they create strong population sex ratio bias and selection then favours mutations that act to restore the rare sex. Despite this strong select...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Reynolds LA,Hornett EA,Jiggins CD,Hurst GDD

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of calcium sparks in cardiomyocytes can provide valuable information about functional changes of calcium handling in health and disease. As a part of the calcium sparks analysis, sparks detection and characterization is necessary. Here, we describe a new open-source platform for automatic calcium sparks detec...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Laasmaa M,Karro N,Birkedal R,Vendelin M

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporters contribute to multidrug resistance and play major determinants of aluminum (Al) tolerance in plants. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is the most extensively cultivated forage crop in the world, yet most alfalfa cultivars are not Al tolerant. The basic knowledge o...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Min X,Jin X,Liu W,Wei X,Zhang Z,Ndayambaza B,Wang Y

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Bird communities in lowland Neotropical forests exhibit temporal and spatial variation in species composition and abundance at multiple scales. Detecting and explaining such variation requires adequate methods for sampling those bird communities but counting birds in highly diverse lowland forests of the Neotropics ca...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Blake JG

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conserving biodiversity in tropical landscapes is a major challenge to scientists and conservationists. Current rates of deforestation, fragmentation, and land use intensification are producing variegated landscapes with undetermined values for the conservation of biological communities and ecosystem functio...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Costa C,Oliveira VHF,Maciel R,Beiroz W,Korasaki V,Louzada J

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Stridulatory signals are involved in conspecific interactions between bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae). In this study, we compared the qualitative profiles of acoustic signals in three species from the genus Polygraphus Er. Sympatry can be periodically observed in two of them -P. proximus and P. su...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Kerchev IA

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In horses and ponies numerous medical conditions are known to be linked with inflammation in different tissues, especially in the liver. Besides affecting other metabolic pathways such as the expression of certain interleukins (IL), inflammation is associated with stress of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Starzonek J,Roscher K,Blüher M,Blaue D,Schedlbauer C,Hirz M,Raila J,Vervuert I

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonization, sampled at 32-50 days post-inoculation (dpi), was significantly reduced in suppressor of prosystemin-mediated responses2 (spr2) mutant tomato plants impaired in the ω-3 FATTY ACID DESATURASE7 (FAD7) gene that limits the generation of linolenic acid and, consequently, th...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Casarrubias-Castillo K,Montero-Vargas JM,Dabdoub-González N,Winkler R,Martinez-Gallardo NA,Zañudo-Hernández J,Avilés-Arnaut H,Délano-Frier JP

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Müller glia in the zebrafish retina respond to retinal damage by re-entering the cell cycle, which generates large numbers of retinal progenitors that ultimately replace the lost neurons. In this study we compared the regenerative outcomes of adult zebrafish exposed to one round of phototoxic treatment with adult zebr...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ranski AH,Kramer AC,Morgan GW,Perez JL,Thummel R

更新日期：2018-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is demonstrated to be a risk factor in the development of cancers of various organs, such as colon, prostate, pancreas and so on. Leptine (LEP) is the most renowned of the adipokines. As a hormone, it mediates its effect through leptin receptor (LEPR), which is widely expressed in various tissues including col...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Al-Shibli SM,Harun N,Ashour AE,Mohd Kasmuri MHB,Mizan S

更新日期：2019-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification threatens the foundation of tropical coral reefs. This study investigated three aspects of ocean acidification: (i) the rates at which perforate and imperforate coral-colony skeletons passively dissolve when pH is 7.8, which is predicted to occur globally by 2100, (ii) the rates of passive dissolut...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： van Woesik R,van Woesik K,van Woesik L,van Woesik S

更新日期：2013-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In agricultural landscape, there are thousands of young wild animals killed every year. Their deaths are caused mostly by agricultural fieldworks during spring harvest. Among the affected animals there are also fawns of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), which react to danger by pressing themselves against the ground in ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Cukor J,Bartoška J,Rohla J,Sova J,Machálek A

更新日期：2019-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:The purpose of this study is to investigate the patterns of complementary and alternative medicine use and its association with time to conventional treatment. Design:A cross-sectional study design was designed. Setting and participants:The study was performed at the Chonburi Cancer Hospital, with chart re...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Chotipanich A,Sooksrisawat C,Jittiworapan B

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Information on cardiovascular gene transcription is fragmented and far behind the present requirements of the systems biology field. To create a comprehensive source of data for cardiovascular gene regulation and to facilitate a deeper understanding of genomic data, the CardioTF database was constructed. The...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Zhen Y

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Five tropical seaweeds, Kappaphycus alvarezii (Doty) Doty ex P.C. Silva, Padina australis Hauck, Sargassum binderi Sonder ex J. Agardh (syn. S. aquifolium (Turner) C. Agardh), Sargassum siliquosum J. Agardh and Turbinaria conoides (J. Agardh) Kützing, were incubated in seawater of pH 8.0, 7.8 (ambient), 7.6, 7.4 and 7...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mithoo-Singh PK,Keng FS,Phang SM,Leedham Elvidge EC,Sturges WT,Malin G,Abd Rahman N

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00