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Mechanical forces influence the development and behavior of biological tissues. In many situations, these forces are exerted or resisted by elastic compliant structures such as the own-tissue cellular matrix or other surrounding tissues. B022 This kind of tissue-elastic body interactions are also at the core of many state-of-the-art in situ force…[Read more]

Transparent windows on food packaging can effectively highlight the actual food inside. The present study examined whether food packaging with transparent windows (relative to packaging with food- and non-food graphic windows in the same position and of the same size) has more advantages in capturing consumer attention and determining consumers’…[Read more]

High degree of suspicion and appropriate treatment are important for such clinical scenarios.Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) is one of the herpes viruses that is responsible for causing infectious mononucleosis, lymphomas, and carcinomas primarily in immunocompromised individuals. We present a case of EBV-induced pneumonitis in an immunocompetent female,…[Read more]

Dendritic cells (DCs) play a key role in shaping T cell responses. To do this, DCs must be able to migrate to the site of the infection and the lymph nodes to prime T cells and initiate the appropriate immune response. Integrins such as β

integrin play a key role in leukocyte adhesion, migration, and cell activation. However, the role of…[Read more]

Random effects meta-analysis was performed for each outcome, with effect size reported as the standardized mean difference.

There were significant differences between IBD and HC in time domain HRV and significant decreases in high-frequency power measures were also noted, in both IBS and IBD compared with HC.

Parasympathetic…[Read more]

Mathematical models of biological reactions at the system-level lead to a set of ordinary differential equations with many unknown parameters that need to be inferred using relatively few experimental measurements. Having a reliable and robust algorithm for parameter inference and prediction of the hidden dynamics has been one of the core subjects…[Read more]

Incorporation of time delay also gives the scenario of double Hopf-bifurcation. Some control parameters are discussed to stabilize system dynamics. The effect of time delay on (i) growth rate of susceptible phytoplankton shows the extinction and double Hopf-bifurcation in the zooplankton population, (ii) a sufficiently large value of carrying…[Read more]

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Regulatory T cells (Tregs), expressing the transcription factor Foxp3, are defined as immunosuppressive cells able to modulate a variety of immune cells in order to avoid unwanted and excessive immune responses; however, in the tumor context, Treg function contribute to inhibit immune surveillance, thus…[Read more]