The key component regulating vertebrate puberty and sexual maturation is the endocrine
system primarily effectuated along the brain–pituitary–gonad (BPG) axis. By far most …

Purpose This systematic review aimed to assess the literature for prevalence, severity, and
impact on quality of life of salivary gland hypofunction and xerostomia induced by cancer …

… Van Der Weerden and Anderson have proposed the classification of defensins into 18 groups
based on species, structure, and function [288]. Plant defensins have potential as medical …

Antibody-based proteomics provides a powerful approach for the functional study of the
human proteome involving the systematic generation of protein-specific affinity reagents. We …

ERA‐40 is a re‐analysis of meteorological observations from September 1957 to August
2002 produced by the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in …

… matched controls with non-epidemic asthma was assayed for immunoglobulin-E (IgE) antibodies
… We studied the relation between epidemic asthma and serum immunoglobulin-E (IgE) …

If much recent academic work defending equality had been secretly penned by conservatives,
could the results be any more embarrassing for egalitarians? Consider how much of this …

Accurate saccadic programming in natural visual scenes requires a signal designating which
of the many potential targets is to be the goal of the saccade. Is this signal controlled by the …

Recent work has shown that the hippocampus contains a class of receptors for the excitatory
amino acid glutamate that are activated by N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) 1 and that exhibit …

The authors have worked on innovation systems for more than a decade. This paper is an
attempt to take stock. In Section 2, we reflect upon the emergence and fairly rapid diffusion of …