The vascular myogenic response refers to the acute reaction of a blood vessel to a change
in transmural pressure. This response is critically important for the development of resting …

We show that endothelial cell (EC)–generated vascular guidance tunnels (ie, matrix spaces
created during tube formation) serve as conduits for the recruitment and motility of pericytes …

Extracellular matrix (ECM) is known to provide signals controlling cell shape, migration,
proliferation, differentiation, morphogenesis, and survival. Recent data shows that some of these …

Live vaccines have long been known to trigger far more vigorous immune responses than
their killed counterparts 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 . This has been attributed to the ability of live …

Tunneling involves an allowed quantum event which fails to take place classically. Dynamical
tunneling is the subset of such events which do not involve a classically insurmountable …

A total of 23 strains of coryneform bacteria that cause ratoon stunting disease of sugarcane
and Bermudagrass stunting disease were examined. These included 17 sugarcane strains …

The outcome of cryptococcal pneumonia correlates with local macrophage polarization status,
as M1 and M2 polarization marks protective and nonprotective responses, respectively. …

Flow-mediated dilation has been documented in large conduit coronary arteries but not in
coronary arterioles. The goal of this study was to determine whether this response occurs in …

Bacteria associated with phony disease of peach (PDP) and plum leaf scald (PLS) were
consistently isolated from diseased trees but not from healthy trees. Colonies of the bacteria …

Background Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) is a promising new rapid diagnostic technology for
tuberculosis (TB) that has characteristics that suggest large-scale roll-out. However, because the …