Abstract Background Social insects form densely crowded societies in environments with high pathogen loads, but have evolved collective defences that mitigate the impact of disease.However, colony-founding queens lack this protection and suffer high rates of mortality.The impact of pathogens may be exacerbated in species where queens found colonies
Copper-based polycrystalline shape memory alloys (SMAs) have limitations for many practical applications due to their low superelasticity and low ductility.In order to overcome this situation, in recent years, the production of copper-based SMAs by directional solidification process has attracted the interest of many researches.In this sense, the d
Mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons were suggested to be a critical physiopathology substrate for addiction disorders.Among neuroadaptive processes to addictive drugs, structural plasticity has attracted attention.While structural plasticity occurs at both pre- and post-synaptic levels in the mesolimbic dopaminergic system, the present review focuse
Challenge with specific microbial stimuli induces long lasting epigenetic changes in innate immune cells that result in their enhanced response to a second challenge by the same or unrelated microbial insult, a process referred to as trained immunity.This opens a new avenue in vaccinology to develop Trained Immunity-based Vaccines (TIbV), defined a
The article presents data from field studies of the use of biological products and fertilizers with microelements in the cultivation of four crops: winter wheat, sunflower, grain corn, soybeans.Schemes for the introduction of drugs, indicators of the comparative economic efficiency of their use are presented.The results of the conducted studies hav