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Are insects declining and at what rate? An analysis of standardised, systematic catches of aphid and moth abundances across Great Britain (2020)
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Bell, J., Blumgart, D., & Shortall, C. (2020). Are insects declining and at what rate? An analysis of standardised, systematic catches of aphid and moth abundances across Great Britain. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 13(2), 115-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12412

Although we have known anecdotally that insects have been declining in Great Britain for more than 100 years, insect declines have only been statistically estimated over the last 20 years. Estimation of the rate of those declines is still hotly debat... Read More about Are insects declining and at what rate? An analysis of standardised, systematic catches of aphid and moth abundances across Great Britain.

Outside the Military "Bubble": Life After Service for UK Ex-armed Forces Personnel (2020)
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Gordon, K., Burnell, K., & Wilson, C. (2020). Outside the Military "Bubble": Life After Service for UK Ex-armed Forces Personnel. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, Article 50. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00050

Military personnel who have seen active service can be affected by their experiences. Much of the literature on the mental and physical health battles faced by men and women who leave the Armed Forces is dominated by research in the United States (US... Read More about Outside the Military "Bubble": Life After Service for UK Ex-armed Forces Personnel.

Promoting Patient Utilization of Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation: A JOINT INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL AND CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION AND REHABILITATION POSITION STATEMENT. (2020)
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Santiago de Araújo Pio, C., Beckie, T., Varnfield, M., Sarrafzadegan, N., Babu, A., Baidya, S., …Grace, S. (2020). Promoting Patient Utilization of Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation: A JOINT INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL AND CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION AND REHABILITATION POSITION STATEMENT. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, 79 - 86. https://doi.org/10.1097/HCR.0000000000000474

PURPOSE: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a recommendation in international clinical practice guidelines given its benefits; however, use is suboptimal. The purpose of this position statement was to translate evidence on interventions that increase CR... Read More about Promoting Patient Utilization of Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation: A JOINT INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL AND CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION AND REHABILITATION POSITION STATEMENT..

Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future (2020)
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Kapata, N., Ihekweazu, C., Ntoumi, F., Raji, T., Chanda-Kapata, P., Mwaba, P., …Zumla, A. (2020). Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 93, 233 - 236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.049

Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America (2020)
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Haider, N., Yavlinsky, A., Simons, D., Yusuf Osman, A., Ntoumi, F., Zumla, A., & Kock, R. (2020). Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America. Epidemiology and Infection, 148, Article e41. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268820000424

Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV [SARS-COV-2]) was detected in humans during the last week of December 2019 at Wuhan city in China, and caused 24 554 cases in 27 countries and territories as of 5 February 2020. The objective of this study was to estimate... Read More about Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America.

Vertical farming systems bring new considerations for pest and disease management (2020)
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Roberts, J., Bruce, T., Monaghan, J., Pope, T., Leather, S., & Beacham, A. (2020). Vertical farming systems bring new considerations for pest and disease management. Annals of Applied Biology, 226 - 232. https://doi.org/10.1111/aab.12587

Abstract Vertical farming is an emerging area of food production that aims to provide sustainable intensification of agriculture by maximising the obtainable yield per unit area of land. This approach commonly utilises stacked horizontal levels of cr... Read More about Vertical farming systems bring new considerations for pest and disease management.

Aluminium in Brain Tissue in Non-neurodegenerative/Non-neurodevelopmental Disease: A Comparison with Multiple Sclerosis (2020)
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(2020). Aluminium in Brain Tissue in Non-neurodegenerative/Non-neurodevelopmental Disease: A Comparison with Multiple Sclerosis. Exposure and Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12403-020-00346-9

Human exposure to aluminium is a burgeoning issue. The brain is a sink for systemically available aluminium and a putative target of neurotoxicity. An increasing number of studies continue to confirm the presence of aluminium in human brain tissue th... Read More about Aluminium in Brain Tissue in Non-neurodegenerative/Non-neurodevelopmental Disease: A Comparison with Multiple Sclerosis.

Cathepsin B-associated Activation of Amyloidogenic Pathway in Murine Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I Brain Cortex (2020)
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Viana, G. M., Gonzalez, E. A., Palacio Alvarez, M. M., Cavalheiro, R. P., do Nascimento, C. C., Baldo, G., …Nader, H. B. (2020). Cathepsin B-associated Activation of Amyloidogenic Pathway in Murine Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I Brain Cortex. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21041459

Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I) is caused by genetic deficiency of alpha-l-iduronidase and impairment of lysosomal catabolism of heparan sulfate and dermatan sulfate. In the brain, these substrates accumulate in the lysosomes of neurons and glia... Read More about Cathepsin B-associated Activation of Amyloidogenic Pathway in Murine Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I Brain Cortex.

Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018 (2020)
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Ghosh, S., Rana, M. S., Islam, M. K., Chowdhury, S., Haider, N., Kafi, M. A. H., …Jhora, S. T. (2020). Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article ARTN 2410. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59109-w

AbstractVaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. We subjected 1327 clinically diagnosed human rabies death and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006–2018 to quantify the impacts of MDV on human rabies inci... Read More about Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018.

Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech. (2020)
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(2020). Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech. Nature Plants, 88 - 94. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0592-8

Many plants benefit from synchronous year-to-year variation in seed production, called masting. Masting benefits plants because it increases the efficiency of pollination and satiates predators, which reduces seed loss. Here, using a 39-year-long dat... Read More about Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech..

Monomeric C-Reactive Protein in Serum With Markedly Elevated CRP Levels Shares Common Calcium-Dependent Ligand Binding Properties With an in vitro Dissociated Form of C-Reactive Protein (2020)
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Williams, R. D., Moran, J. A., Fryer, A. A., Littlejohn, J. R., Williams, H. M., Greenhough, T. J., & Shrive, A. K. (2020). Monomeric C-Reactive Protein in Serum With Markedly Elevated CRP Levels Shares Common Calcium-Dependent Ligand Binding Properties With an in vitro Dissociated Form of C-Reactive Protein. Frontiers in Immunology, 11, Article ARTN 115. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.00115

A monomeric form of C-reactive protein (CRP) which precipitates with cell wall pneumococcal C polysaccharide (CWPS) and retains the ability to reversibly bind to its ligand phosphocholine has been produced through urea-induced dissociation at an opti... Read More about Monomeric C-Reactive Protein in Serum With Markedly Elevated CRP Levels Shares Common Calcium-Dependent Ligand Binding Properties With an in vitro Dissociated Form of C-Reactive Protein.

The interaction of aluminium-based adjuvants with THP-1 macrophages in vitro: Implications for cellular survival and systemic translocation. (2020)
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(2020). The interaction of aluminium-based adjuvants with THP-1 macrophages in vitro: Implications for cellular survival and systemic translocation. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 110915 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2019.110915

Within clinical vaccinations, recombinant antigens are routinely entrapped inside or adsorbed onto the surface of aluminium salts in order to increase their immunological potency in vivo. The efficacy of these immunisations is highly dependent upon t... Read More about The interaction of aluminium-based adjuvants with THP-1 macrophages in vitro: Implications for cellular survival and systemic translocation..

Different Plant Viruses Induce Changes in Feeding Behavior of Specialist and Generalist Aphids on Common Bean That Are Likely to Enhance Virus Transmission (2020)
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Gilligan, C., Pickett, J., Tungadi, T., Murphy, A., Pate, A., Woodcock, C., …Donnelly, R. (2020). Different Plant Viruses Induce Changes in Feeding Behavior of Specialist and Generalist Aphids on Common Bean That Are Likely to Enhance Virus Transmission. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, 1811. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01811

Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV), bean common mosaic necrosis virus (BCMNV), and cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) cause serious epidemics in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), a vital food security crop in many low-to-medium income countries, particularly i... Read More about Different Plant Viruses Induce Changes in Feeding Behavior of Specialist and Generalist Aphids on Common Bean That Are Likely to Enhance Virus Transmission.

Inhibition of BACE1, the ß-secretase implicated in Alzheimer's disease, by a chondroitin sulfate extract from Sardina pilchardus. (2020)
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Mycroft-West, C. J., Devlin, A. J., Cooper, L. C., Procter, P., Miller, G. J., Fernig, D. G., …Skidmore, M. A. (2020). Inhibition of BACE1, the ß-secretase implicated in Alzheimer's disease, by a chondroitin sulfate extract from Sardina pilchardus. Neural Regeneration Research, 15(8), 1546 - 1553. https://doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.274341

The pharmaceutical and anticoagulant agent heparin, a member of the glycosaminoglycan family of carbohydrates, has previously been identified as a potent inhibitor of a key Alzheimer's disease drug target, the primary neuronal ß-secretase, ß-site amy... Read More about Inhibition of BACE1, the ß-secretase implicated in Alzheimer's disease, by a chondroitin sulfate extract from Sardina pilchardus..

Molecular Characterization of Circulating Microbiome Signatures in Rheumatoid Arthritis (2020)
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Hammad, D., Hider, S., Liyanapathirana, V., & Tonge, D. (2020). Molecular Characterization of Circulating Microbiome Signatures in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 9, Article 440. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2019.00440

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) has been increasingly associated with perturbations to the microbial communities that reside in and on the body (the microbiome), in both human and animal studies. To date, such studies have mainly focused on the microbial c... Read More about Molecular Characterization of Circulating Microbiome Signatures in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Population genetic structure and predominance of cyclical parthenogenesis in the bird cherry–oat aphid Rhopalosiphum padi in England (2020)
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Morales-Hojas, R., Gonzalez-Uriarte, A., Alvira Iraizoz, F., Jenkins, T., Alderson, L., Kruger, T., …Bell, J. R. (2020). Population genetic structure and predominance of cyclical parthenogenesis in the bird cherry–oat aphid Rhopalosiphum padi in England. Evolutionary Applications, 13(5), 1009-1025. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12917

Genetic diversity is the determinant for pest species’ success and vector competence. Understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes that determine the genetic diversity is fundamental to help identify the spatial scale at which pest populat... Read More about Population genetic structure and predominance of cyclical parthenogenesis in the bird cherry–oat aphid Rhopalosiphum padi in England.

Aluminum and Amyloid-ß in Familial Alzheimer's Disease. (2020)
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(2020). Aluminum and Amyloid-ß in Familial Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 1627-1635. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-191140

Genetic predispositions associated with metabolism of the amyloid-ß protein precursor underlie familial Alzheimer's disease; a form of dementia characterized by early disease onset and elevated levels of cortical amyloid-ß. Human exposure to aluminum... Read More about Aluminum and Amyloid-ß in Familial Alzheimer's Disease..

Electrophysiological properties of neurons grown on soft polymer scaffolds reveal the potential to develop neuromimetic culture environments (2020)
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Evans, M. G., Al-Shakli, A., & Chari, D. M. (2020). Electrophysiological properties of neurons grown on soft polymer scaffolds reveal the potential to develop neuromimetic culture environments. Integrative Biology, 395-403. https://doi.org/10.1093/intbio/zyz033

Tissue engineering methodologies for various physiological systems are seeing a significant trend towards 3-D cell culture in or on ‘soft’ polymeric hydrogel materials, widely considered to provide a more biomimetic environment for cell growth versus... Read More about Electrophysiological properties of neurons grown on soft polymer scaffolds reveal the potential to develop neuromimetic culture environments.

Sensing the Danger Signals: cis-Jasmone Reduces Aphid Performance on Potato and Modulates the Magnitude of Released Volatiles (2020)
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(2020). Sensing the Danger Signals: cis-Jasmone Reduces Aphid Performance on Potato and Modulates the Magnitude of Released Volatiles. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00499

In response to herbivory, plants synthesize and release variable mixtures of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) as indirect defense traits. Such induction of indirect plant defense can also be “switched on” by certain chemicals known as primin... Read More about Sensing the Danger Signals: cis-Jasmone Reduces Aphid Performance on Potato and Modulates the Magnitude of Released Volatiles.

Invasion biology, ecology, and management of western flower thrips (2020)
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Kirk. (2020). Invasion biology, ecology, and management of western flower thrips. Annual Review of Entomology, 17-37. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-011019-024947

The western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, first arose as an important invasive pest of many crops during the 1970s-1980s. The tremendous growth in international agricultural trade that developed then fostered the invasiveness of western... Read More about Invasion biology, ecology, and management of western flower thrips.