Victoria A Bendersky,1 Mohan K Mallipeddi,2 Alexander Perez,2 Theodore N Pappas,2 1School of Medicine, 2Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Abstract: Acute pancreatitis is a common disease that can progress to gland necrosis, which imposes significant risk of morbidity and mortality.In general, the treatment for pancreatitis is
Metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) is widely used to fabricate micro-/nano-structured Si owing to its simplicity and cost-effectiveness.The technique of magnetically guided MACE, involving MACE with a tri-layer metal catalyst, was developed to improve etching speed as well as to adjust the etching direction using an external magnetic field.Howe
Recent evidence shows that small RNAs are transferred from a species to another through cross-species transmission and exhibit biological activities in the receptor.In this study, we focused on tomato-derived sRNAs play a role of defense against Botrytis cinerea.Bioinformatics method was firstly employed to identify tomato-encoded sRNAs as the cros
Background: This article critically analyses housing inadequacy in South Africa and its ramifications.Aim: The study is exploratory in nature and used the Coat qualitative methodology.Setting: Key findings suggest that protests, informal settlements, health challenges, shack fires, flooding, violence and criminality, corruption and xenophobic attac
Abstract Background A controversial topic in evolutionary developmental biology is whether morphological diversification in natural populations can be driven by expansions and contractions of amino acid repeats in proteins.To promote adaptation, selection on protein length variation must overcome deleterious effects of multiple correlated traits (p