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Effects of Sex Steroids on Innate and Adaptive Immunity
Estrogens and androgens are classically recognized as reproductive sex steroid hormones because of their well-documented effects on reproductive...
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Caenorhabditis elegans: A Unique Animal Model to Study Soil–Nanoparticles–Organism Interactions
Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged in recent times as a plausible metazoan model to study environmental toxicity, particularly caused by engineered...
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Green Engineering of Silver Nanoparticles Using Leucas aspera Extract: Cytotoxic Efficacy in HeLa Cell Line
The present study describes a cost-effective and eco-friendly method for green engineering of silver nanoparticles using the leaf extracts of Leucas...
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Responses of Terrestrial Plants to Metallic Nanomaterial Exposure: Mechanistic Insights, Emerging Technologies, and New Research Avenues
Metallic nanoparticles (NPs) are being extensively used in electronics, cosmetics, sporting goods, and medicine. Only recently, use of metallic...
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Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Toxicity in Aquatic Organisms: An Overview of Methods and Mechanisms
Nanoparticles (NPs) have been variously used in the areas of agriculture, biomedicine, nanotechnology, human health, and biological applications. The...
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Interaction of Food-Grade Nanotitania with Human and Mammalian Cell Lines Derived from GI Tract, Liver, Kidney, Lung, Brain, and Heart
In light of increasing trends in the application of nanotitania in edible products, food-grade TiO2 NPs: E171 have received serious scientific...
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The Role of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles in Plants: A Critical Appraisal
The role of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) in plants and agriculture attracted huge interests during the last few years. A whole range of...
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Control of Body Weight and the Modern Metabolic Diseases
The increase in the body weight in the world population has become one of the most important public health problems, as it is a major risk factor for...
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Regulation and Integration of Metabolism During Physical Activity
The survival of our ancestors was highly dependent on hunting, gathering, and fighting, behaviors that demanded intense physical activity. A...
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Energy Conservation in Metabolism: The Mechanisms of ATP Synthesis
In living organisms, different types of energy are always interconverting into one another within the cell enabling the distinct cellular functions...
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Fungal Diseases of Bovines
Fungal diseases annually cause significant livestock losses affecting the economy, animal diversity and ecological balance. These diseases are...
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Current Perspective of Dermatophytosis in Animals
In the past few decades, an increasing number of fungal infections in animals as well as in human have been observed. Of these, some severe diseases...
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Application of Systems Biology Approaches for Host-Fungal Interaction in Animals
Invasive fungal infections are an increasing threat to global health and a major concern for patients with immunocompromised condition. The...
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Histopathologic Diagnosis of Fungal Infections of Lab Animals
Fungi are always important for nature as they help in soil fertility, decomposition of organic matter, production of mycotoxins, agro-economic...
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Produktion elektrischer Energie (elektrische Organe)
Einige Elasmobranchier sowie viele Knochenfische erzeugen mithilfe von elektrischen Organen verschiedenartige elektrische Signale. Diese Signale...
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Endokrines System
In Organismen, die aus mehr als einer Zelle bestehen, müssen diese sich so abstimmen, dass Struktur und Funktion der einzelnen Zelle für die...
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Zirkulation
Für die Aufnahme von Stoffen aus dem umgebenden Medium dienen Tiere besondere Körperteile. So findet die Aufnahme von Flüssigkeiten und gelösten...
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Allgemeine Sinnesphysiologie
Tiere verfügen über Fähigkeiten, sich über bestimmte Zustände und Veränderungen in ihrer natürlichen Umgebung sowie über Eigenzustände zu...
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Mechanische Sinne
Mechanische Kräfte (Druck, Zug, Scherung, Torsion) wirken in vielfältiger Weise auf Tiere und den Menschen ein und übermitteln wichtige Informationen...
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Produktion mechanischer Energie
Im Gegensatz zu den höheren Pflanzen sind die meisten Tiere nicht sessil, sondern zeigen ein komplexes motorisches Verhalten. Dazu gehören die...