BackgroundUntil recently, arbovirus surveillance is mainly focused on mosquito and tick vectors, resulting in the discovery of several mosquito- and tick-borne arboviruses.However, the role of sandflies in arbovirus transmission and disease has remained largely unexplored.This study sought to isolate and characterize arboviruses from phlebotomine s
Abstract Background Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the world.In contrast to many other cancers, a direct connection to modifiable lifestyle risk in the form of tobacco smoke has long been established.More than 50% of all smoking-related lung cancers occur in former smokers, 40% of which occur more than 15 years after sm
Assessing, implementing and monitoring ecosystem restoration can be a labor intensive Colour Laser process, often short term (<3 years), and potentially destructive to the habitat.Advances in remote sensing technology are generating rapid, non-destructive methods for siting, executing and monitoring restoration efforts, particularly in fragile m
Objective: To investigate the hepatoprotective effect of Opuntia dillenii seed oil (ODSO) on CCl4 provoked liver injury in rat.Methods: Animals were treated orally with ODSO at a 139 concentration of 2 mL/kg, once daily for one week before the first intraperitoneal injection of CCl4, and thereafter the administration of the oil was continued for 7
Abstract We assess the status of a wide class of WIMP dark matter (DM) models in light of the latest experimental results using the global fitting framework GAMBIT.We perform a global analysis of effective field theory (EFT) operators describing the interactions between a gauge-singlet Dirac fermion and the Standard Model quarks, the gluons and the