A. fumigatus is the principle cause of fatal invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in severely immunocompromised hosts and rapid treatment is compromised by the limitations in the current diagnostic tests. 2-pentylfuran ...

The Transforming Growth Factor β (TGF β) superfamily is involved with regulating many biological and physiological processes. Activins are members of the TGF β superfamily. Four activin subunits (βA, βB, βC and βE) have ...

Introduction Reducing the prevalence of smoking in New Zealand is a priority, whereby greater reductions are required amongst Māori relative to non-Māori in order to reduce widening health-related disparities associated ...

Nearly 3% of the world ’s population is affected by some form of autoimmune disease, with current estimates of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) prevalence at 0.7-1% of Caucasians. This degenerative disorder is characterized by ...

Altered reinforcement sensitivity is an important characteristic of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In order to elucidate the neurobiological mechanisms behind this characteristic, an appropriate animal ...

Inteins are naturally-occurring intervening sequences that are translated along with their host protein. The intein insertion is excised from its host protein post-translationally in an autocatalytic process known as intein ...

Varicose veins constitute a significant financial and social burden. Despite being well documented since Hippocrates, there is still a lack of understanding concerning both the underlying pathogenesis and the rationale of ...

Purpose: A major structure on the posterior aspect of the knee is the oblique popliteal ligament (OPL). Current literature on the morphology of the ligament is inconsistent and provides minimal quantitative data. The aim ...