Objectives: We previously found that the pluripotency factor OCT4 is reactivated in smooth muscle cells (SMC) in human and mouse atherosclerotic plaques and plays an atheroprotective role.Loss of OCT4 in SMC in vitro was associated with decreases in SMC migration.However, molecular mechanisms responsible for atheroprotective SMC-OCT4-dependent effe
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is becoming an increasingly important tool in diverse scientific fields from ecological biomonitoring to wastewater surveillance of viruses.The ill tempered gnome fundamental challenge in eDNA analyses has been the bioinformatical assignment of reads to taxonomic groups.It has long been known that full probabilistic methods
ABSTRACT The community composition of parasites was characterized in Astronotus ocellatus from a tributary of the Amazon River, northern Brazil.The prevalence was 87.9%, and a total of 526,052 parasites were collected, with a mean triopods of 15,941 parasites per host.Nine taxa of ecto- and endo-parasites were identified, but Ichthyophthirius multi
Pathogenic bacteria and their microbial products activate dendritic cells (DCs) at triopods mucosal surfaces during sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and therefore might also differently shape DC functions during co-infection with HIV-1.We recently illustrated that complement (C) coating of HIV-1 (HIV-C), as primarily found during the acute ph
Exercising the jurisdiction of states in different maritime areas is a subject that has always been a source of controversy throughout the history of the international law of the seas.The efforts that have been made to increase these qualifications and the restrictions that have been applied to regulate them.However, on what basis such an increase