Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most frequent primary bone tumor that affect children and adolescents. This tumor is highly aggressive with high risk of metastasis and the implementation of new drugs has not been successful. The ...

Background/Aims: Myocardial stretch increases cardiac force in two consecutive phases: The first one due to Frank-Starling mechanism, followed by the gradually developed slow force response (SFR). The latter is the mechanical ...

Sea lice (Caligus rogercresseyi) is an ectoparasite which causes major production losses in the salmon aquaculture industry worldwide. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are two of the ...

Leishmaniasis is caused by intracellular parasites transmitted to vertebrates by sandfly bites. Clinical manifestations include cutaneous, mucosal or visceral involvement depending upon the host immune response and the ...

Sea lice (Caligus rogercresseyi) is an ectoparasite which causes major production losses in the salmon aquaculture industry worldwide. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are two of the ...

Selecting animals which have favorable alleles in genes that participate in the genetic control of economic interest traits may increase the efficiency of beef cattle breeding programs. In this way, two papers were ...

Despite being a growth factor, FGF-2 has anti-proliferative and tumor suppressive functions in some cellular contexts. In a murine adrenocortical tumor cell line that has the proto-oncogene K-Ras constitutively amplified ...