Estimating the incidence and diagnosed proportion of HIV infections in Japan: a statistical modeling study.

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：: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：:The ε subunit from ATP synthases acts as an ATP sensor in the bacterial cell to prevent ATP hydrolysis and thus the waste of ATP under conditions of low ATP concentration. However, the ATP binding affinities from various bacterial organisms differ markedly, over several orders of magnitude. For example, the ATP syntha...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Krah A,Bond PJ

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas syringae is the most widespread bacterial pathogen in plants. Several strains of P. syringae produce a phytotoxin, coronatine (COR), which acts as a jasmonic acid mimic and inhibits plant defense responses and contributes to disease symptom development. In this study, we found that COR inhibits early defen...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lee S,Ishiga Y,Clermont K,Mysore KS

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, is intrinsically resistant to many conventional antibiotics. Therefore, alternative antimicrobial agents such as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are extensively studied to combat this issue. Our study aims to identify and understand the mode of action of the...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lee LF,Mariappan V,Vellasamy KM,Lee VS,Vadivelu J

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans and apes, yawn contagion echoes emotional contagion, the basal layer of empathy. Hence, yawn contagion is a unique tool to compare empathy across species. If humans are the most empathic animal species, they should show the highest empathic response also at the level of emotional contagion. We gathered data ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Palagi E,Norscia I,Demuru E

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research investigated the response of silver maple (Acer saccharinum L.) to salt treatment. The short- and long-term effects of NaCl and CaCl2 treatments on plant fitness characteristics (growth parameters, leaf chlorophyll content) and biochemical stress-coping mechanisms (proline accumulation as well as ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Patykowski J,Kołodziejek J,Wala M

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：Background:A key step in embryo implantation is the adhesion to and invasion of the endometrium by the blastocyst trophectoderm. The envelope proteins of HERV-W and -FRD (human endogenous retrovirus-W and -FRD), syncytin-1 and syncytin-2, are mainly distributed in the placenta, and play important roles in the developme...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Guo L,Gu F,Xu Y,Zhou C

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Hand function is essential to a person's self-efficacy and greatly affects quality of life. Adapted utensils with handles of increased diameters have historically been used to assist individuals with arthritis or other hand disabilities for feeding, and other related activities of daily living. To date, mi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： McDonald SS,Levine D,Richards J,Aguilar L

更新日期：2016-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A phylogenetic taxonomy of species in the Cyrtodactylus peguensis group from the Ayeyarwady Basin of Myanmar is constructed based on color pattern, morphology, and molecular systematic analyses using the mitochondrial gene NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2. Newly collected samples from the type locality of C. peguensis and...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Grismer LL,Wood PL Jr,Quah ESH,Murdoch ML,Grismer MS,Herr MW,Espinoza RE,Brown RM,Lin A

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The INDETERMINATE DOMAIN (IDD) gene family encodes hybrid transcription factors with distinct zinc finger motifs and appears to be found in all higher plant genomes. IDD genes have been identified throughout the genomes of the model plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa, and the functions of many members of thi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Su X,Meng T,Zhao Y,Li G,Cheng X,Abdullah M,Sun X,Cai Y,Lin Y

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex determination and sex chromosomes can be very diverse between teleost species. The group of tilapias shows a polymorphism in sex determination not only between closely related species but also between domestic strains within a species. In the Nile tilapia, the major effect genes and therefore the Y chromosome have...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Sissao R,D'Cotta H,Baroiller JF,Toguyeni A

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we map the distribution of scale-rayed wrasse Acantholabrus palloni in eastern Skagerrak based on a combination of verified and personally communicated angling records. Long thought to be occasional vagrants outside its known range in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, we ask if this rare...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Näslund J,Lundgren M

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is a cryptic species complex, including members that are pests of global importance. This study presents a screening of B. tabaci species in China for infection by the primary endosymbiont, Portiera aleyrodidarum, and two secondary endosymbionts, Arsenop...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tang XT,Cai L,Shen Y,Du YZ

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The variation between the actual and perceived lightness of a stimulus has strong dependency on its background, a phenomena commonly known as lightness induction in the literature of visual neuroscience and psychology. For instance, a gray patch may perceptually appear to be darker in a background while it looks brigh...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Mitra S,Mazumdar D,Ghosh K,Bhaumik K

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because etomidate induces prolonged adrenal suppression, even following a single bolus, its use as an infused anesthetic is limited. Our previous study indicated that a single administration of the novel etomidate analog methoxyethyletomidate hydrochloride (ET-26-HCl) shows little suppression of adrenocortic...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Jiang J,Wang B,Zhu Z,Yang J,Liu J,Zhang W

更新日期：2017-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Low intensity repetitive magnetic stimulation of neural tissue modulates neuronal excitability and has promising therapeutic potential in the treatment of neurological disorders. However, the underpinning cellular and biochemical mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study investigates the behavioural effects of l...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Hong I,Garrett A,Maker G,Mullaney I,Rodger J,Etherington SJ

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Systemic inflammation and nutritional status both play roles in the survival of cancer patients. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of prognostic nutritional index (PNI) and lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) on the survival of patients with advanced p16-negative oropharyngeal cancer. Meth...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Tsai MH,Huang TL,Chuang HC,Lin YT,Fang FM,Lu H,Chien CY

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Human population growth has led to biodiversity declines in tropical cities. While habitat loss and fragmentation have been the main drivers of urban biodiversity loss, man-made interventions to reduce health risks have also emerged as an unintentional threat. For instance, insecticide fogging to control mos...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Lee NSM,Clements GR,Ting ASY,Wong ZH,Yek SH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex reversal is a complex biological phenomenon exhibited by Cynoglossus semilaevis. Some genetic females may irreversibly convert to pseudomales, thus increasing aquaculture costs because males grow much more slowly than females. In this study, an integrative analysis of transcriptome and proteome was performed to co...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ye Z,Wang W,Zhang Y,Wang L,Cui Y,Li H

更新日期：2020-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Natural Mortality coefficient (M) is a key parameter for stock assessments. The need to establish age-specific natural mortality coefficients is widely recognized because M decreases rapidly over the early stages of the life cycle until it reaches a stable M value around the age-at-maturity. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Romero-Gallardo S,Velázquez-Abunader I,López-Rocha JA,Garza-Gisholt E

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The cryptic species that make up the Euwallacea fornicatus species complex can be readily distinguished via their DNA sequences. Until recently, it was believed that the Hawaiian Islands had been invaded by only one of these cryptic species, E. perbrevis (tea shot hole borer; TSHB). However, following the 2016 deposit...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Rugman-Jones PF,Au M,Ebrahimi V,Eskalen A,Gillett CPDT,Honsberger D,Husein D,Wright MG,Yousuf F,Stouthamer R

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue studies at the urban scale are scarce and required for guiding control efforts. In Brazil, the burden of dengue is high and challenges city public health administrations with limited resources. Here we studied the dynamics of a dengue epidemic in a single city. METHODS:Serum samples from dengue suspe...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Villabona-Arenas CJ,de Oliveira JL,de Sousa-Capra C,Balarini K,Pereira da Fonseca CR,Zanotto PM

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) is a highly pleiotropic cytokine with antifibrotic activity in wound healing. During the process of wound healing and fibrosis, fibroblasts are the key players. Although accumulating evidence has suggested the antagonistic effects of FGF2 in the activation process of fibrobl...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wu B,Tang X,Zhou Z,Ke H,Tang S,Ke R

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. Exercise at moderate intensity may confer neuroprotective benefits in multiple sclerosis (MS), however it has been reported that people with MS (PwMS) exercise less than national guideline recommendations. We aimed to determine predictors of moderate to vigorous exercise among a sample of older Canadians w...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Ploughman M,Harris C,Wallack EM,Drodge O,Beaulieu S,Mayo N,Health Lifestyle and Aging with MS Canadian Consortium.

更新日期：2015-08-06 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：Background:Prognostic genes in the tumor microenvironment play an important role in immune biological processes and the response of cancer to immunotherapy. Thus, we aimed to assess new biomarkers that are associated with immune/stromal cells in lung adenocarcinomas (LUAD) using the ESTIMATE algorithm, which also signi...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Xu ZY,Zhao M,Chen W,Li K,Qin F,Xiang WW,Sun Y,Wei J,Yuan LQ,Li SK,Lin SH

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:B-mode ultrasound is one of the most commonly used imaging techniques for evaluating thyroid nodules due to its noninvasive property and excellent performance in terms of discriminating between benign and malignant nodules. However, the accuracy of differential diagnosis strongly depends on the experience of...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Wang J,He X,Ma L,Li M,Sun L,Jiang J,Zhou Q

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Agriculture is one of the main drivers of land conversion, and agriculture practices can impact on microbial diversity. Here we characterized the phyllosphere fungal diversity associated with Carménère grapevines under conventional and organic agricultural management. We also explored the fungal diversity present in t...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Castañeda LE,Miura T,Sánchez R,Barbosa O

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic climate change is a significant global driver of species distribution change. Although many species have undergone range expansion at their poleward limits, data on several taxonomic groups are still lacking. A common method for studying range shifts is using species distribution models to evaluate curre...

journal_title：PeerJ

authors： Archis JN,Akcali C,Stuart BL,Kikuchi D,Chunco AJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00