Diagnostic value of serum procalcitonin, lactate, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein for predicting bacteremia in a...
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Ecological and pest-management implications of sex differences in scarab landing patterns on grape vines.
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Melolonthinae beetles, comprising different white grub species, are a globally-distributed pest group. Their larvae feed on roots of several crop and forestry species, and adults can cause severe defoliation. In New Zealand, the endemic scarab pest Costelytra zealandica (White) causes severe defoliation on different horticultural crops, including g...
Assessing pollinators' use of floral resource subsidies in agri-environment schemes: An illustration using Phacelia tana...
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BACKGROUND: Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) are frequently used in agriculture for pollination services because of their abundance, generalist floral preferences, ease of management and hive transport. However, their populations are declining in many countries. Agri-Environment Schemes (AES) are being implemented in agricultural systems to combat th...
Scarcity of ecosystem services: an experimental manipulation of declining pollination rates and its economic consequence...
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In planta comparative transcriptomics of host-adapted strains of Ralstonia solanacearum
Background. Ralstonia solanacearum is an economically important plant pathogen with an unusually large host range. The Moko (banana) and NPB (not pathogenic to banana) strain groups are closely related but are adapted to distinct hosts. Previous comparative genomics studies uncovered very few differences that could account for the host range differ...
Preference of a native beetle for “exoticism,” characteristics that contribute to invasive success ofCostelytra zealandi...
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Effects of anesthetics pentobarbital sodium and chloral hydrate on urine proteome.
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Urine can be a better source than blood for biomarker discovery since it accumulates many changes. The urine proteome is susceptible to many factors, including anesthesia. Pentobarbital sodium and chloral hydrate are commonly used anesthetics in animal experiments. This study demonstrated the effects of these two anesthetics on the rat urine proteo...
A reproducible approach to high-throughput biological data acquisition and integration.
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Modern biological research requires rapid, complex, and reproducible integration of multiple experimental results generated both internally and externally (e.g., from public repositories). Although large systematic meta-analyses are among the most effective approaches both for clinical biomarker discovery and for computational inference of biomolec...
Urinary microRNA can be concentrated, dried on membranes and stored at room temperature in vacuum bags.
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Urine accumulates traces of changes that occur in the body and can potentially serve as a better biomarker source. Urinary microRNA is a promising class of non-invasive disease biomarkers. However, long-term frozen human urine samples are not a good source for the extraction of urinary microRNA. In this paper, we demonstrate that urinary microRNA c...
Efficacy of a systematic depression management program in high utilizers of primary care: a randomized trial
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BackgroundApproximately 25% of so-called high utilizers of medical care are estimated to suffer from depression. A large proportion of these individuals remain undiagnosed and untreated. This study aims to examine the effects of a systematic screening and collaborative treatment program on depression severity in small primary care practices of the ...
