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Motor neuron disease (MND) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that leads to progressive loss of motor neurons. Chlamydia psittaci (C. psittaci) is a rare etiology of community-acquired pneumonia characterized ...
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Claudin-2 is a major component of tight junctions (TJs), which play an important role in reovirus entry into host cells. The Bombyx mori cytoplasmic polyhedosis virus (BmCPV) relates to the cypovirus strain of th...
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Open AccessAIV polyantigen epitope expressed by recombinant baculovirus induces a systemic immune response in chicken and mouse models
The protective efficacy of avian influenza virus (AIV) vaccines is unsatisfactory due to the presence of various serotypes generated by genetic reassortment. Thus, immunization with a polyantigen chimeric epit...
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Open AccessFunctional characterization of BmOVOs in silkworm, Bombyx mori
In our previous study, we identified four isoforms of the Bmovo gene, Bmovo-1, Bmovo-2, Bmovo-3 and Bmovo-4 from the silkworm ovary and verified that ovarian development was regulated by the BmOVO proteins. Resul...
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The host resistance of walnut (Juglans spp.) against Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis (Xaj) was evaluated for 18 walnut genotypes in 2016 and 2017 at Chengdu, Sichuan, China, using three assays: one under nat...
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Bombyx mori cypovirus (BmCPV), a member of the Reoviridae, specifically infects silkworms and causes extensive economic losses to the sericulture industry. To date, the entry mechanism of BmCPV into cells is uncl...
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The polycistronic and non-canonical gene tarsal-less (tal, known as pri) was reported to be required for embryonic and imaginal development in Drosophila; however, there are few reports of the tal gene in the sil...
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Bombyx mori cypovirus (BmCPV) is one of the major viral pathogen for silkworm, and the genome of BmCPV is composed of 10 dsRNA segments. As construction system of recombinant BmCPV (rBmCPV) is sc...
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Open AccessEffects of transient high temperature treatment on the intestinal flora of the silkworm Bombyx mori
The silkworm Bombyx mori is a poikilotherm and is therefore sensitive to various climatic conditions. The influence of temperature on the intestinal flora and the relationship between the intestinal flora and gen...
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Receptor-mediated endocytosis using a β1 integrin-dependent internalization was considered as the primary mechanism for the initiation of mammalian reovirus infection. Bombyx mori cypovirus (BmCPV) is a member of...
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The mechanism of how Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) enters cells is unknown. The primary components of membrane lipid rafts are proteins and cholesterol, and membrane lipid rafts are thought to be an ac...
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