With an estimate of 350 million people chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV)
worldwide, it is critically important to understand how persistent HBV infection is maintained …

As obligate intracellular parasites, viruses need a host cell to provide a milieu favorable to
viral replication. Consequently, viruses often adopt mechanisms to subvert host cellular …

Insomnia is a prevalent sleep disorder that is associated with a multitude of health
consequences. Particularly, insomnia has been associated with cardiovascular disease and its …

The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD; https://card.mcmaster.ca ) is a
curated resource providing reference DNA and protein sequences, detection models and …

Under solution conditions where the native state is destabilized, the largely helical polypeptide
hormone insulin readily aggregates to form amyloid fibrils with a characteristic cross-β …

Context: Organophosphate (OP) pesticides are neurotoxic at high doses. Few studies have
examined whether chronic exposure at lower levels could adversely affect children’s …

Background Manganese is an essential nutrient, but in excess it can be a potent neurotoxicant.
Despite the common occurrence of manganese in groundwater, the risks associated with …

… , 1993; Séguin & Bouchard, 1996) offered initial support for the notion of an antagonism
or competition between the reflective (presumably more mentalized) and the reactive (diversely …

The mammalian kidney develops in three successive steps from the initial pronephros via
the mesonephros to the adult metanephros. Although the nephric lineage is specified during …

OBJECTIVE: The goal was to examine the association between urinary concentrations of
dialkyl phosphate metabolites of organophosphates and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (…