Cleptobiosis in Social Insects by Michael D. Breed, Chelsea Cook, Michelle O. Krasnec

“…In this review of cleptobiosis, we not only focus on social insects, but also consider broader issues and concepts relating to the theft of food among animals. Cleptobiosis occurs when members of a species steal food, or sometimes nesting materials or other items of value, either from members of the same or a different species. …”
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Substance P Increases Cell-Surface Expression of CD74 (Receptor for Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor): In Vivo Biotinylation of Urothelial Cell-Surface Proteins by Katherine L. Meyer-Siegler, Shen-Ling Xia, Pedro L. Vera

“…These cells contained a biotinylated MIF/CD74 cell-surface complex that was increased in SP-treated animals. SP treatment increased MIF and CD74 mRNA in urothelial cells. …”
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Cutting Edge PBPK Models and Analyses: Providing the Basis for Future Modeling Efforts and Bridges to Emerging Toxicology Paradigms by Jane C. Caldwell, Marina V. Evans, Kannan Krishnan

“…Their use in human risk assessment is dependent on the nature of databases (animal or human) used to develop and test them, and includes extrapolations across species, experimental paradigms, and determination of variability of response within human populations. …”
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Possible Protective Effect of Sertraline against Cisplatin-Induced Ototoxicity: An Experimental Study by Murat Ozturk, Selcuk Ucar, Fatih Sarı, Selvet Erdogan, Murat Topdag, Mete Iseri

“…Design. Experimental animal study. Material and Methods. Forty-eight rats were randomly separated in two groups as groups I and II. …”
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Combined Administration of Streptozotocin and Sucrose Accelerates the Appearance of Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms in Rats by Martha Isela Barragán-Bonilla, Juan Miguel Mendoza-Bello, Penélope Aguilera, Isela Parra-Rojas, Berenice Illades-Aguiar, Mónica Ramírez, Mónica Espinoza-Rojo

“…Type 2 diabetes is a disease with a high global prevalence, characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, polyphagia, polydipsia, polyuria, and changes in body weight. Animal models have been very useful for the study of this disease and to search for new therapeutic targets that delay, attenuate, or avoid diabetic complications. …”
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Dark Margins: Invisibility and Obscenity in Thomas Pynchon’s V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow by Paul Jahshan

“…., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow, as they reveal a gradated movement from the struggle between the “animate” and the “inanimate,” to the resistance against the inanimateness of the system through strategies of invisibility, to, finally, the ultimate, obscene challenge posed by the inanimate to humanity as it takes the shape of what is known as the “new technologies.” …”
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The role of neurotrophic factors in retinal ganglion cell resiliency by Alan K. Abraham, Alan K. Abraham, Michael Telias, Michael Telias

“…In this review, we summarize the current methods of RGC identification and quantification in animal models of direct or indirect neurodegeneration, and describe the advantages and disadvantages associated with these techniques. …”
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The Role of Mitochondria from Mature Oocyte to Viable Blastocyst by Scott Chappel

“…Mitochondrial augmentation of oocytes is now reconsidered in light of our current understanding of mitochondrial function and the publication of a number of animal studies. With a better understanding of the role of this organelle in oocytes immediately after fertilization, blastocyst and offspring, mitochondrial augmentation may be reconsidered as a method to improve oocyte quality.…”
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The paneth cell distribution of the small intestine of the rats at postnatal periods by Nejdet Şimşek, Hasan Hüseyin Dönmez

“…Paneth cell count of each animal as determined by counting 2400 crypts in each section and the data were subjected to statistical analysis. …”
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Self-Organized Fission-Fusion Control Algorithm for Flocking Systems Based on Intermittent Selective Interaction by Panpan Yang, Maode Yan, Jiacheng Song, Ye Tang

“…In nature, gregarious animals, insects, or bacteria usually exhibit paradoxical behaviors in the form of group fission and fusion, which exerts an important influence on group’s pattern formation, information transfer, and epidemiology. …”
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Combined Application of Bevacizumab and Mitomycin C or Bevacizumab and 5-Fluorouracil in Experimental Glaucoma Filtration Surgery by Lei Zuo, Jianhong Zhang, Xun Xu

“…Also, the cytotoxicity of combined BVZ and 5-Fu was lower. In animal experiments, the observation of filtering bleb survival, hematoxylin and eosin and Masson staining of filtering bleb scars, and mRNA expression levels of fibrosis markers in filtering blebs showed that combined BVZ and 5-Fu had a better antiscarring effect compared with single drugs; however, the antiscarring effect of combined BVZ and MMC was not significantly different from MMC. …”
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Short tandem repeats delineate gene bodies across eukaryotes by William B. Reinar, Anders K. Krabberød, Vilde O. Lalun, Melinka A. Butenko, Kjetill S. Jakobsen

“…Abstract Short tandem repeats (STRs) have emerged as important and hypermutable sites where genetic variation correlates with gene expression in plant and animal systems. Recently, it has been shown that a broad range of transcription factors (TFs) are affected by STRs near or in the DNA target binding site. …”
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Effects of Taxon Sampling in Reconstructions of Intron Evolution by Mikhail A. Nikitin, Vladimir V. Aleoshin

“…According to these criteria, currently available genomic databases are representative enough to provide reliable inferences of the intron evolution in animals, land plants, and fungi, but they underrepresent many groups of unicellular eukaryotes, including the well-studied Alveolata.…”
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Preliminary Data of the Nutritive, Antioxidative, and Functional Properties of Watermelon (<i>Citrullus lanatus</i> L.) Flour and Seed Protein Concentrate by Agata Hahn, Justyna Liszka, Julia Maksym, Agnieszka Nemś, Joanna Miedzianka

“…The growing interest in a plant-based diet leads to the search for new sources of protein in the human diet as an alternative to animal proteins. Plant materials that can supplement protein as additives in food products are being studied. …”
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A motion-responsive injectable lubricative hydrogel for efficient Achilles tendon adhesion prevention by Shujie Cheng, Jihong Yang, Jianguo Song, Xin Cao, Bowen Zhou, Lan Yang, Chong Li, Yi Wang

“…To evaluate the potential of ILH's biofunction in vivo, SD rats' Achilles tendon rupture &amp; repair model was established. The animal experiments' results showed that ILH significantly prevented tendon adhesion and thus promote tendon healing by inhibiting TGFβ1-Smad2/3 pathway. …”
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MOF-derived intelligent arenobufagin nanocomposites with glucose metabolism inhibition for enhanced bioenergetic therapy and integrated photothermal-chemodynamic-chemotherapy by Lihua Chen, Jiaying Yang, Lingyu Jia, Xiaolu Wei, Huijun Wang, Zhuo Liu, Shan Jiang, Pengyue Li, Yanyan Zhou, Hongjie Wang, Nan Si, Baolin Bian, Qinghe Zhao, Haiyu Zhao

“…Additionally, it significantly promoted cell apoptosis by upregulating pro-apoptotic proteins such as Bax, Bax/Bcl-2, cytochrome C. Animal studies have shown that the tumor inhibition efficiency of ZIAMH nanomedicines was three fold higher than that of free drugs. …”
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Assessing Risk of Fumonisin Contamination in Maize Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Cecile Levasseur-Garcia, Sylviane Bailly, Didier Kleiber, Jean-Denis Bailly

“…Because of their toxicity for both human and animals, European Union regulations were created to fix the maximal fumonisin B1 and B2 content allowed in foods and feeds. …”
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Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Current Challenges and Future Concerns by Weiwei Zhang, Bin Jiao, Miaojin Zhou, Tao Zhou, Lu Shen

“…While only a few familial AD cases are due to mutations in three causative genes (APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2), the ultimate cause behind the rest of the cases, called sporadic AD, remains unknown. Current animal and cellular models of human AD, which are based on the Aβ and tau hypotheses only, partially resemble the familial AD. …”
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Dental Approach to Craniofacial Syndromes: How Can Developmental Fields Show Us a New Way to Understand Pathogenesis? by Inger Kjær

“…Specific focus will be given to developmental fields studied on animal tissue and transferred to human cranial development. …”
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Electroacupuncture Stimulation Suppresses Postoperative Inflammatory Response and Hippocampal Neuronal Injury by Xiang-feng Wang, Qin Lin, Guan-hui Wang, Gen-ming Zhan, Wei Liu, Zhi-wei Lin

“…Here, we established the animal model mimicked POCD after femoral fracture surgery, and analyze the effect of acupuncture stimulation on postoperative cognitive function after femoral fracture surgery. …”
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