The southern pine beetle (SPB), Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann, is the most destructive insect pest of pine in the southern United States.A recent historical review estimated that SPB caused $900 million of damage to pine forests from 1960 through 1990 Singlet (Price et a1.1992).This aggressive tree killer is a native insect that lives predomina
Tympanic membrane (TM) is vulnerable to a variety of middle ear diseases.In some cases, reconstruction or repair of the TM is essential for recovering the hearing.Although there are many kinds of materials and therapeutics for TM reconstruction, tissue engineering of the TM is still in its initial steps of advancement.Treatment of damaged TM is usu
BACKGROUND: Celiac Disease (CD) is both a frequent disease (1:100) and an interesting model of a disease induced by food.It consists in an immunogenic reaction to wheat gluten and glutenins that has been found to arise in a specific genetic background; however, this reaction is still only partially understood.Activation of innate immunity by gliadi
Notwithstanding the extensive media coverage of topics related to climate change, communication initiatives in open contradiction with the scientific understanding of climate change as a primarily anthropogenic Enamel Oven Tray phenomenon are still widespread.We focus here on a recent such initiative, which gained notoriety between the second half
BACKGROUND: The intestinal chronic rejection (CR) is the major limitation to long-term survival of transplanted organs.This study aimed to investigate the interaction between intestinal microbiota and epithelial integrity in chronic rejection of intestinal transplantation, and to find out whether fish oil enhances recovery of intestinal microbiota