Single swim sessions in C. elegans induce key features of mammalian exerciseBMC Biology - Tập 15 - Trang 1-17 - 2017
Ricardo Laranjeiro, Girish Harinath, Daniel Burke, Bart P. Braeckman, Monica Driscoll
Exercise exerts remarkably powerful effects on metabolism and health, with anti-disease and anti-aging outcomes. Pharmacological manipulation of exercise benefit circuits might improve the health of the sedentary and the aging populations. Still, how exercised muscle signals to induce system-wide health improvement remains poorly understood. With a long-term interest in interventions that promote ...... hiện toàn bộ
Rapid identification of mosquito species and age by mass spectrometric analysisBMC Biology - Tập 21 - Trang 1-20 - 2023
Iris Wagner, Linda Grigoraki, Peter Enevoldson, Michael Clarkson, Sam Jones, Jane L. Hurst, Robert J. Beynon, Hilary Ranson
A rapid, accurate method to identify and to age-grade mosquito populations would be a major advance in predicting the risk of pathogen transmission and evaluating the public health impact of vector control interventions. Whilst other spectrometric or transcriptomic methods show promise, current approaches rely on challenging morphological techniques or simple binary classifications that cannot ide...... hiện toàn bộ
A nontuberculous mycobacterium could solve the mystery of the lady from the Franciscan church in Basel, SwitzerlandBMC Biology -
Mohamed S. Sarhan, Christina Wurst, Alexandar Tzankov, Andreas J. Bircher, Holger Wittig, Thomas Briellmann, Marc Augsburger, Günter Hotz, Albert Zink, Frank Maixner
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In 1975, the mummified body of a female has been found in the Franciscan church in Basel, Switzerland. Molecular and genealogic analyses unveiled her identity as Anna Catharina Bischoff (ACB), a member of the upper class of post-reformed Basel, who died at the age of 68 years, in...... hiện toàn bộ
ADARs regulate cuticle collagen expression and promote survival to pathogen infectionBMC Biology -
Alfa Dhakal, Chinnu Salim, Mary Skelly, Yarden Amichan, Ayelet T. Lamm, Heather A. Hundley
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In all organisms, the innate immune system defends against pathogens through basal expression of molecules that provide critical barriers to invasion and inducible expression of effectors that combat infection. The adenosine deaminase that act on RNA (ADAR) family of RNA-binding ...... hiện toàn bộ
Lethal (2) giant discs (Lgd)/CC2D1 is required for the full activity of the ESCRT machineryBMC Biology - Tập 18 - Trang 1-21 - 2020
Miriam Baeumers, Kristina Ruhnau, Thomas Breuer, Hendrik Pannen, Bastian Goerlich, Anna Kniebel, Sebastian Haensch, Stefanie Weidtkamp-Peters, Lutz Schmitt, Thomas Klein
A major task of the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) machinery is the pinching off of cargo-loaded intraluminal vesicles (ILVs) into the lumen of maturing endosomes (MEs), which is essential for the complete degradation of transmembrane proteins in the lysosome. The ESCRT machinery is also required for the termination of signalling through activated signalling receptors, as...... hiện toàn bộ
Hibernation-like state induced by an opioid peptide protects against experimental strokeBMC Biology - Tập 7 - Trang 1-10 - 2009
Cesar V Borlongan, Teruo Hayashi, Peter R Oeltgen, Tsung-Ping Su, Yun Wang
Delta opioid peptide [D-ala2,D-leU5]enkephalin (DADLE) induces hibernation in summer ground squirrels, and enhances preservation and survival of isolated or transplanted lungs and hearts. In the present study, we investigated the protective effect of DADLE in the central nervous system. Adult Sprague-Dawley rats were pretreated with DADLE (4 mg/kg every 2 h × 4 injections, i.p.) or saline prior to...... hiện toàn bộ
Genome of the parasitoid wasp Cotesia chilonis sheds light on amino acid resource exploitationBMC Biology - Tập 20 - Trang 1-17 - 2022
Xinhai Ye, Shijiao Xiong, Ziwen Teng, Yi Yang, Jiale Wang, Kaili Yu, Huizi Wu, Yang Mei, Cheng Xue, Zhichao Yan, Chuanlin Yin, Fang Wang, Hongwei Yao, Qi Fang, Qisheng Song, Gongyin Ye, Fei Li
A fundamental feature of parasitism is the nutritional exploitation of host organisms by their parasites. Parasitoid wasps lay eggs on arthropod hosts, exploiting them for nutrition to support larval development by using diverse effectors aimed at regulating host metabolism. However, the genetic components and molecular mechanisms at the basis of such exploitation, especially the utilization of ho...... hiện toàn bộ