Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems – such as communities – through …

Ecological communities face a variety of environmental and anthropogenic stressors acting
simultaneously. Stressor impacts can combine additively or can interact, causing synergistic …

WEST is an MA class superconducting, actively cooled, full tungsten (W) tokamak, designed
to operate in long pulses up to 1000 s. In support of ITER operation and DEMO conceptual …

Background Alterations of intestinal microbiota and hypersensitivity to colonic distension
are two features of the irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS ). However, the role of intestinal …

A strictly anaerobic, cellulolytic strain, designated 18P13 T , was isolated from a human faecal
sample. Cells were Gram-positive non-motile cocci. Strain 18P13 T was able to degrade …

Cellulose-degrading microorganisms involved in the breakdown of plant cell wall material
in the human gut remain rather unexplored despite their role in intestinal fermentation. …

A randomized clinical trial was conducted to compare the results of automated percutaneous
discectomy with those of chemonucleolysis in 141 patients with sciatica caused by a disk …

During the course of a study on the xylan-degrading community from the human gut, six
xylanolytic, Gram-negative, anaerobic rods were isolated from faecal samples. 16S rRNA gene …

… (E and F) Representative staining of colons for mastocytes (dark violet; E); the mean of the
number of mastocytes observed in three fields (X400) for each tissue is presented in F. The …

… d Weighted and e unweighted UF distances between samples coming from the same patient
(ie paired distances) compared between upper and lower tumour lobes. The facet name …