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CD14 Modulates PI3K/AKT/p38-MAPK Licensing of Negative Regulators of TLR Signaling to Restrain Chronic Inflammation
Current thinking emphasizes the primacy of CD14 in facilitating TLR recognition of microbes to initiate proinflammatory signaling events and the importance of p38-MAPK in augmenting such responses….
Received 24 June 2008 18:09 UTC; Posted 25 June 2008
Posted to: Immunology, Microbiology
Peptides as potent antimicrobials tethered to a solid surface: Implications for medical devices
Medical devices are an integral part of therapeutic management; despite their importance, they carry a significant risk of microbial infection. Bacterial attachment to a medical device is establish…
Received 11 June 2008 16:32 UTC; Posted 11 June 2008
Posted to: Biotechnology, Microbiology
An experimental and modelling exploration of the host-sanction hypothesis in legume-rhizobia mutualism
Despite the importance of mutualism as a key ecological process, its persistence in nature is difficult to explain since the existence of exploitative, ‘cheating’ partners that could erode the inte…
Received 10 June 2008 16:23 UTC; Posted 16 June 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology, Evolutionary Biology
How gut sampling and microbial invasiveness/noninvasiveness provides mucosal immunity with a nonmolecular pattern means to distinguish commensals from pathogens: A review
Mucosal immunity distinguishes not only different microbial antigens but also separates those of pathogens from those of commensals. How this is done is unknown. The present view is that the pathog…
Received 16 May 2008 11:51 UTC; Posted 16 May 2008
Posted to: Immunology, Microbiology
Biocommunication of Fungal Organisms
The development and growth of fungal organisms depend on successful communication processes (a) within the organism and between organisms, (b) with the same or related species and (c) with non-rela…
Received 13 May 2008 17:29 UTC; Posted 14 May 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Genetics & Genomics, Microbiology
A Report of the Mosquito Host Range of Pythium guiyangense Su
Mosquito causes problems in both disease transmission and disturbance to people’s daily life. The controlling methods used now are mainly application of chemical pesticides which result in serious …
Received 10 May 2008 06:12 UTC; Posted 12 May 2008
Posted to: Microbiology, Earth & Environment
Integrated disease management using environmental control in tea fields
The occurrence of plant disease depends on interactions between the host plant, a pathogen, and the environment in a dynamic called “the disease triangle”. Bacterial shoot blight (BSB) disease, cau…
Received 25 April 2008 13:22 UTC; Posted 28 April 2008
Posted to: Microbiology, Plant Biology
Cerebral malaria admissions in Papua New Guinea may show inter-annual cyclicity: An example of about a 1.5-year cycle for malaria incidence in Burundi
Best available descriptions of malaria incidence and mortality dynamics are important to better plan and evaluate the implementation of programs to monitor (e.g., remote sensing) and control the di…
Received 06 April 2008 15:26 UTC; Posted 09 April 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Microbiology
Selfish and Altruistic Bacterial Populations Maximize Fitness Under Stress by Local Segregation
Landscapes in ecology have a profound influence on the adaption and evolution of competing populations for resources. We are interested in how altruistic populations survive in the presence of self…
Received 23 March 2008 23:29 UTC; Posted 24 March 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Microbiology
Preincision Processing of Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers in Escherichia coli
In both prokaryotes and eukaryotes cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPD) formed by UV-irradiation are repaired mainly by the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. Evidence has been presented that…
Received 24 March 2008 15:58 UTC; Posted 27 March 2008
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Microbiology, Molecular Cell Biology
