Prevalence of Asymptomatic Brucellosis in Children 7 to 12 Years Old by Mohammad Aghaali, Siamak Mohebi, Hosein Heydari

“…Brucellosis is one of the most common diseases of humans and animals and its clinical manifestations differ from asymptomatic infection to chronic illness associated with recurrence of symptoms. …”
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Global dynamics for two-species competition in patchy environment by Kuang-Hui Lin, Yuan Lou, Chih-Wen Shih, Tze-Hung Tsai

“…Our result on the winning strategy for sufficiently large dispersal rate might explain the group breeding behavior that is observed in some animals under certain ecological conditions.…”
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Chemical and Immunological Characteristics of Aluminum-Based, Oil-Water Emulsion, and Bacterial-Origin Adjuvants by Susana Martiñón, Angel Cisneros, Sergio Villicaña, Ricardo Hernández-Miramontes, Edgar Mixcoha, Psyché Calderón-Vargas

“…Freund’s adjuvant is the most widely used oil-water emulsion adjuvant in animal trials; it stimulates inflammation and causes aggregation and precipitation of soluble protein antigens that facilitate the uptake by antigen-presenting cells (APCs). …”
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Rethinking the Role of the Hatata of Zera Yaecob and the Hatata of Welda Heywat in Ethiopian Philosophy by Fasil Merawi

“…Through a critical engagement with these three defences of the treatises, the paper argues that such three articulations of the texts failed to properly examine the colonial world of knowledge production and religious reformation that animated the texts in the first place. With such recognition, a new foundation of Ethiopian philosophy that is founded on the nation’s complex historical and cultural heritage needs to be pursued.…”
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Réinterpréter les musiques régionales du sud-ouest de la France dans les années 1970-1980 by Bénédicte Bonnemason

“…The paths explored by a collective in which several networks of actors, associative and institutional, intertwine together, create an "art world" populated by collectors, dancers, trainers, musicians, animators, makers of musical instruments, producers of discography... …”
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Contribution of In Vivo and Organotypic 3D Models to Understanding the Role of Macrophages and Neutrophils in the Pathogenesis of Psoriasis by Isabelle Lorthois, Daniel Asselineau, Nathalie Seyler, Roxane Pouliot

“…Innate immune cells, more precisely neutrophils and macrophages, provide specific signals involved in the initiation and the maintenance of the pathogenesis. Current data from animal models and, to a lesser extent, three-dimensional in vitro models have confirmed the interest in leaning towards other immune cell types as a potential new cellular target for the treatment of the disease. …”
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Insights into the Transmission, Host Range, Genomics, Vaccination, and Current Epidemiology of the Monkeypox Virus by Yusha Araf, Jannatul Ferdous Nipa, Sabekun Naher, Sumaiya Tasnim Maliha, Hasanur Rahman, Kazi Ifthi Arafat, Mohammad Raguib Munif, Md Jamal Uddin, Nurejunnati Jeba, Sukumar Saha, Jingbo Zhai, S. M. Nazmul Hasan, Mengzhou Xue, Md. Golzar Hossain, Chunfu Zheng

“…Mitigating transmission requires measures like wearing surgical masks, adequately covering skin lesions, and avoiding handling wild animals.…”
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Milk Products Containing Bioactive Tripeptides Have an Antihypertensive Effect in Double Transgenic Rats (dTGR) Harbouring Human Renin and Human Angiotensinogen Genes by Tiina Jauhiainen, Taru Pilvi, Zhong Jian Cheng, Hannu Kautiainen, Dominik N. Müller, Heikki Vapaatalo, Riitta Korpela, Eero Mervaala

“…In conclusion, fermented milk product containing IPP and VPP prevents development of malignant hypertension in an animal model.…”
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Partial Purification and Characterization of Rhodanese from Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Liver by Hossein Tayefi-Nasrabadi, Reza Rahmani

“…Cyanide is one of the most toxic substances present in a wide variety of food materials that are consumed by animals. Rhodanese, a ubiquitous enzyme, can catalyse the detoxification of cyanide by sulphuration reaction. …”
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Prion protein promotes copper toxicity in Wilson disease by Raffaella Petruzzelli, Federico Catalano, Roberta Crispino, Elena V. Polishchuk, Mariantonietta Elia, Antonio Masone, Giada Lavigna, Anna Grasso, Maria Battipaglia, Lucia Vittoria Sepe, Banu Akdogan, Quirin Reinold, Eugenio Del Prete, Diego Carrella, Annalaura Torella, Vincenzo Nigro, Enrico Caruso, Nicole Innocenti, Emiliano Biasini, Ludmila V. Puchkova, Alessia Indrieri, Ekaterina Y. Ilyechova, Pasquale Piccolo, Hans Zischka, Roberto Chiesa, Roman S. Polishchuk

“…Suppression of PrP significantly reduces Cu toxicity in cell and animal models of Wilson disease. These findings highlight the critical regulatory role of PrP in copper metabolism and open new avenues for exploring the therapeutic potential of PrP suppression in Wilson disease.…”
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Invasion and ecological impact of the biofouling tube worm Hydroides elegans (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) in Korean coastal waters by Sang Lyeol Kim, Ok Hwan Yu

“…Biofouling, the colonization of submerged surfaces by organisms including microorganisms, plants, algae, and animals, involves both natural and artificial environments. …”
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Fast updating feedback from piriform cortex to the olfactory bulb relays multimodal identity and reward contingency signals during rule-reversal by Diego E. Hernandez, Andrei Ciuparu, Pedro Garcia da Silva, Cristina M. Velasquez, Benjamin Rebouillat, Michael D. Gross, Martin B. Davis, Honggoo Chae, Raul C. Muresan, Dinu F. Albeanu

“…Abstract While animals readily adjust their behavior to adapt to relevant changes in the environment, the neural pathways enabling these changes remain largely unknown. …”
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The ADF/Cofilin-Pathway and Actin Dynamics in Podocyte Injury by Beina Teng, Alexander Lukasz, Mario Schiffer

“…Cofilin knockdown and knockout animal models show dysfunction of glomerular barrier and filtration with foot process effacement and loss of secondary foot processes. …”
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Multifunctional health-promoting effects of oolong tea and its products by Shuzhen Wang, Ting Zeng, Shuang Zhao, Yu Zhu, Changchun Feng, Jianfeng Zhan, Shiming Li, Chi-Tang Ho, Alexander Gosslau

“…These promising studies mainly gained from animal studies might broaden the consumption and usage of the phenolic-enriched oolong tea and its products in food and pharmaceutical industries. …”
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Stem cells in Osteoporosis: From Biology to New Therapeutic Approaches by Vasilis Paspaliaris, George Kolios

“…This review is focused on the current views regarding the implication of the stem cells in the cellular and physiologic mechanisms of osteoporosis and discusses data obtained from stem cell-based therapies of osteoporosis in experimental animal models and the possibility of their future application in clinical trials.…”
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Tumor cells escape immunosurveillance by hampering LFA-1 by Shishir Upadhyay, Lewis Murugu, Lena Svensson, Lena Svensson

“…Moreover, we discuss therapeutic strategies targeting LFA-1, including inhibitors tested in laboratory studies and animal models, highlighting their potential as anticancer interventions and the need for further research to evaluate their clinical utility.…”
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METHOD FOR FMD VIRUS 146S COMPONENT CONCENTRATION DETERMINATION WITH REAL-TIME REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION – POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION IN VACCINE RAW MATERIALS by M. I. Doronin, A. M. Timina, D. A. Lozovoy, V. A. Starikov, D. V. Mikhalishin, N. N. Medvedeva, А. V. Borisov

“…It has been experimentally proven that the quantity of the 146S component determined by the real-time RT-PCR method using developed regression model and contained in the inoculation dose of FMD vaccine confers protection to the vaccinated animals against generalized FMD of A, O, Asia-1 types. rtRT-PCR method is highly sensitive and allows rapid and highly reliable estimation of  the 146S antigen concentration in FMD vaccine. …”
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Bilateral Neuropathy of Primary Sensory Neurons by the Chronic Compression of Multiple Unilateral DRGs by Ya-Bin Xie, Huan Zhao, Ying Wang, Kai Song, Ming Zhang, Fan-Cheng Meng, Yu-Jie Yang, Yang-Song He, Fang Kuang, Si-Wei You, Hao-Jun You, Hui Xu

“…To mimic multilevel nerve root compression and intervertebral foramina stenosis in human, we established a new animal model of the chronic compression of unilateral multiple lumbar DRGs (mCCD) in the rat. …”
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Myocardial Regeneration via Progenitor Cell-Derived Exosomes by Janita A. Maring, Christien M. Beez, Volkmar Falk, Martina Seifert, Christof Stamm

“…The body of evidence on beneficial exosome-mediated effects in animal models of heart diseases is rapidly growing. …”
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Exploring the Protective Effects of Xueshuantong Injection on Central Retinal Vein Occlusion by Qiang Chen, Jing Zhang, Xin-Yu Liu, Kai Xu, Hui-Yi Guo, Ya-Min Li, Yu-Qing Guo, Li-Na Liang

“…Materials and Methods: CRVO was induced in rabbits and rats by laser photocoagulation. The animals were then treated with different doses of XST or lyophilized XST (L). …”
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