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Plant Sciences
Luiz M. Cabral, Hana P. Masuda, Helkin F. Ballesteros, Janice de Almeida-Engler, Marcio Alves-Ferreira, Karen L. G. De Toni, Fernanda M. Bizotto, Paulo C. G. Ferreira, Adriana S. Hemerly
Summary: This study investigates the role of the plant-exclusive protein ABAP1 in plant reproduction, showing that it regulates cell division and differentiation processes in both male and female gametophytes by binding to specific transcription factors and repressing their target genes.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
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Biology
Elham Basiri, Sayeh Jafari Marandi, Sedighe Arbabian, Ahmad Majd, Mohammad Ali Malboobi
Summary: The study on sporogenesis and gametophyte development in Arabidopsis thaliana revealed that anthers are tetrasporangiate, gynoecium is bicarpellate and ovule is amphitropous, among other findings. This information provides valuable insights for further research in cell biology and genetics.
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Sport Sciences
John W. Orchard, Philippa Inge, Kevin Sims, Alex Kountouris, Anna E. Saw, Richard Saw, Kate Beerworth
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JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN SPORT
(2023)
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Biology
Maria Abellan-Alvaro, Fernando Martinez-Garcia, Enrique Lanuza, Carmen Agustin-Pavon
Summary: Repeated testing affects aggression in postpartum mice, with dams showing escalated aggression and virgins showing no aggression. The medial amygdala plays a key role in the expression of escalated aggression induced by repeated testing.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2022)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Xi Chen, Xiangqian Li, Baifu Chen, Yue Yin, Jianzhong Zhang, Cheng Zhou
Summary: This study investigated the trichoscopic features of female pattern hair loss in Chinese Han patients, revealing decreased hair density and hair shaft diameter alongside increased vellus hair ratio and single hair follicle unit ratio. Minimal gender differences were observed between male and female FPHL patients, with the vertex area being the most affected.
FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
Hershel Raff, Breanna L. Glaeser, Aniko Szabo, Christopher M. Olsen, Carol A. Everson
Summary: Chronic sleep restriction alters the HPA axis diurnal rhythm and sexually dimorphic response to acute stress during opioid abstinence. Male rats show an increase in plasma ACTH and corticosterone in the morning during abstinence, and sleep restriction attenuates the stress response in male rats. Sleep restriction leads to an increase in hypothalamic PVN AVP mRNA and plasma copeptin in male rats during opioid abstinence.
STRESS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS
(2023)
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Behavioral Sciences
Ayaka Kukino, Thijs J. Walbeek, Lori J. Sun, Alexander T. Watt, Jin Ho Park, Alexander S. Kauffman, Matthew P. Butler
Summary: Mistimed feeding in rodents reduces fertility by disrupting the temporal control of ovulation and mating behavior.
HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
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Substance Abuse
Eddy D. Barrera, Patrick D. Timken, Elaine Lee, Kirk R. S. Persaud, Hindy Goldstein, Daleya N. Parasram, Apoorva Vashisht, Robert Ranaldi
Summary: Environmental enrichment (EE) has been found to promote abstinence to heroin use and reduce vulnerability to drug-use resumption. The effectiveness of EE has been demonstrated in both male and female rats and after periods where incubation of craving may occur, suggesting its potential for the development of long-term treatment strategies.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
(2023)
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Developmental Biology
Ahmed Tibary, Alexis Campbell, Jacobo S. Rodriguez, Agustin J. Ruiz, Cristian Patino, Michela Ciccarelli
Summary: Llamas and alpacas are important production animals in South America, with various reproductive challenges such as testicular hypoplasia in males and ovarian and uterine disorders in females. Comprehensive evaluation and advanced techniques like laparoscopy are essential for early identification and treatment of these disorders. More research is needed to further understand the reproductive pathological processes in these species.
REPRODUCTION FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
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Sport Sciences
Bernat de Pablo Marquez, Isaac Subirana, Marcos Quintana, Gil Rodas, Marti Casals
Summary: This study investigates the time-loss injuries among female and male athletes in the Spanish rink hockey league during the 2021/22 season. The results showed that muscle injuries, particularly those affecting the hip adductor muscles, were the most common form. Significant differences in injury nature and type were observed between senior males and females, field players and goalkeepers, as well as between training and game.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE
(2023)
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Plant Sciences
Judit Sanchez-Simarro, Fernando Aniento, Maria Jesus Marcote
Summary: Coat protein I (COPI) and Coat protein II (COPII) coated vesicles play a role in protein transport during early secretory pathway. The role of COPI components in gametogenesis has not been thoroughly studied, unlike the known essential role of COPII vesicles' components. In Arabidopsis, COPI is composed of a heptameric complex with multiple isoforms, and this study found that two isoforms of the beta'-COP subunit are necessary for both female and male gametophyte development. Reciprocal crosses showed that gametophytes lacking both beta'1-COP and beta'2-COP cannot be transmitted.
PLANT REPRODUCTION
(2023)
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Andrology
Yanwei Sha, Wensheng Liu, Songxi Tang, Xiaoya Zhang, Ziyi Xiao, Yuwei Xiao, Hongjing Deng, Huiliang Zhou, Xiaoli Wei
Summary: A mutation in the TENT5D gene has been identified as the cause of OAT and male infertility, and this condition can be improved through ICSI treatment.
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Megan E. Rosa-Caldwell, Seongkyun Lim, Wesley A. Haynie, Jacob L. Brown, John William Deaver, Francielly Morena Da Silva, Lisa T. Jansen, David E. Lee, Michael P. Wiggs, Tyrone A. Washington, Nicholas P. Greene
Summary: This study investigated the development and progression of disuse muscle atrophy in male and female mice using the hindlimb unloading model. Results suggest that the etiology of disuse muscle atrophy is more complex and nuanced than previously thought, with females showing greater inductions of atrophic markers early in the development of disuse atrophy.
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(2021)
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Zoology
Solimary Garcia-hernandez, Glauco Machado
Summary: The experiment shows that tail loss through autotomy has a short-term and long-term impact on the locomotor performance of Ananteris balzani, with males being more affected than females. Despite suffering from constipation, autotomized scorpions do not exhibit slower running speeds.
INTEGRATIVE ZOOLOGY
(2022)
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Hematology
Masaharu Tamaki, Kazuaki Kameda, Shun-ichi Kimura, Naonori Harada, Naoyuki Uchida, Noriko Doki, Masatsugu Tanaka, Kazuhiro Ikegame, Masashi Sawa, Yuta Katayama, Shigesaburo Miyakoshi, Takahide Ara, Junya Kanda, Makoto Onizuka, Takahiro Fukuda, Yoshiko Atsuta, Yoshinobu Kanda, Kimikazu Yakushijin, Hideki Nakasone
Summary: Deletion of the Y chromosome (del[Y]) can cause deterioration of the graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT) involving a female donor and male recipient. A study in Japan found that del(Y) was significantly associated with inferior overall survival and an increased risk of relapse in these patients.
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Plant Sciences
Kei Suzuki, Naoki Yamaji, Alex Costa, Eiji Okuma, Natsuko I. Kobayashi, Tatsuhiko Kashiwagi, Maki Katsuhara, Cun Wang, Keitaro Tanoi, Yoshiyuki Murata, Julian I. Schroeder, Jian Feng Ma, Tomoaki Horie
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Zhongchun Zhang, Qingqing Xie, Timothy O. Jobe, Andrew R. Kau, Cun Wang, Yunxia Li, Baosheng Qiu, Qiuquan Wang, David G. Mendoza-Cozatl, Julian I. Schroeder
Review
Plant Sciences
Mengmeng Zhu, J. Grey Monroe, Yasir Suhail, Florent Villiers, Jack Mullen, Dianne Pater, Felix Hauser, Byeong Wook Jeon, Joel S. Bader, June M. Kwak, Julian I. Schroeder, John K. McKay, Sarah M. Assmann
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Yoshiko Yamamoto, Juntaro Negi, Cun Wang, Yasuhiro Isogai, Julian I. Schroeder, Koh Iba
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Cun Wang, Honghong Hu, Xue Qin, Brian Zeise, Danyun Xu, Wouter-Jan Rappel, Walter F. Boron, Julian I. Schroeder
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hans-Henning Kunz, Jiyoung Park, Emily Mevers, Ana V. Garcia, Samantha Highhouse, William H. Gerwick, Jane E. Parker, Julian I. Schroeder
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Junshi Yazaki, Mary Galli, Alice Y. Kim, Kazumasa Nito, Fernando Aleman, Katherine N. Chang, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, Rosa Quan, Hien Nguyen, Liang Song, Jose M. Alvarez, Shao-shan Carol Huang, Huaming Chen, Niroshan Ramachandran, Stefan Altmann, Rodrigo A. Gutierrez, David E. Hill, Julian I. Schroeder, Joanne Chory, Joshua LaBaer, Marc Vidal, Pascal Braun, Joseph R. Ecker
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2016)
Review
Plant Sciences
Cawas B. Engineer, Mimi Hashimoto-Sugimoto, Juntaro Negi, Maria Israelsson-Nordstrom, Tamar Azoulay-Shemer, Wouter-Jan Rappel, Koh Iba, Julian I. Schroeder
TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2016)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Zixing Li, Rainer Waadt, Julian I. Schroeder
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Hyunggon Mang, Baomin Feng, Zhangjian Hu, Aurelien Boisson-Dernier, Christina M. Franck, Xiangzong Meng, Yanyan Huang, Jinggeng Zhou, Guangyuan Xu, Taotao Wang, Libo Shan, Ping He
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Martin A. Mecchia, Gorka Santos-Fernandez, Nadine N. Duss, Sofia C. Somoza, Aurelien Boisson-Dernier, Valeria Gagliardini, Andrea Martinez-Bernardini, Tohnyui Ndinyanka Fabrice, Christoph Ringli, Jorge P. Muschietti, Ueli Grossniklaus
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Christina Maria Franck, Jens Westermann, Simon Buerssner, Roswitha Lentz, Dmytro Sergiiovych Lituiev, Aurelien Boisson-Dernier
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fernando Aleman, Junshi Yazaki, Melissa Lee, Yohei Takahashi, Alice Y. Kim, Zixing Li, Toshinori Kinoshita, Joseph R. Ecker, Julian I. Schroeder
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2016)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jens Westermann, Susanna Streubel, Christina Maria Franck, Roswitha Lentz, Liam Dolan, Aurelien Boisson-Dernier
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Genetics & Heredity
Aline Herger, Shibu Gupta, Gabor Kadler, Christina Maria Franck, Aurelien Boisson-Dernier, Christoph Ringli