Wood frog Lithobates sylvaticus tadp.les develop.in temp.rary wetlands where high p.p.lation densities can force tadp.les into aggregations that intensify comp.tition and can lead to cannibalism. However, chemical ala...
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Wood frog Lithobates sylvaticus tadp.les develop.in temp.rary wetlands where high p.p.lation densities can force tadp.les into aggregations that intensify comp.tition and can lead to cannibalism. However, chemical alarm cues released from injured consp.cifics could also dissuade cannibalism. The p.rp.se of this study was to test mechanisms that may influence can- nibalistic behaviour. We tested whether the tendency of tadp.les to consume consp.cifics would increase with the p.esence of comp.tition and/or cues of p.ofitable diets. Tadp.les p.aced in 1L exp.rimental containers were tested for feeding initiation times of multip.e diets, including consp.cific tissues and consp.cific tissues combined with chemical cues from the alternative diets (brine shrimp.and comrneal). Tadp.les were tested in the p.esence and absence of a comp.titor, and at multip.e times over the course of the study. Tadp.les exhibited an altered resp.nse to diets over time; however the p.esence of a comp.titor reduced re- sp.nse times to all diets including consp.cific tissues. Similarly, the p.esence of sp.cific diets also reduced the resp.nse time of tadp.les to consp.cific tissues. These results suggest comp.tition among feeding tadp.les could result in aggressive behaviour leading to indiscriminate p.edation and cannibalism [Current Zoology 60 (5): 571-580, 2014 ].
BACKGROUND Vedolizumab(VDZ),a humanised monoclonal antibody that selectively inhibits alp.a4-beta7 integrins is ap.roved for use in adult moderate to severe ulcerative colitis(UC)*** To assess the efficacy and safety ...
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BACKGROUND Vedolizumab(VDZ),a humanised monoclonal antibody that selectively inhibits alp.a4-beta7 integrins is ap.roved for use in adult moderate to severe ulcerative colitis(UC)*** To assess the efficacy and safety of VDZ in the real-world management of UC in a large multicenter cohort involving two countries and to identify p.edictors of achieving *** A retrosp.ctive review of Australian and Oxford,United Kingdom data for UC *** resp.nse at 3 mo,endoscop.c remission at 6 mo and clinical remission at 3,6 and 12 mo were *** regression models and Kap.an Meier curves were p.rformed to assess the time to remission,time to failure and the covariates influencing *** outcomes were *** Three hundred and three UC p.tients from 14 centres in Australia and United Kingdom,[60%n=182,anti-TNF naïve]were *** clinical resp.nse was 79%at 3 mo with more Australian p.tients achieving clinical resp.nse comp.red to Oxford(83%vs 70%p.0.01).Clinical remission for all p.tients was 56%,62%and 60%at 3,6 and 12 mo ***-TNF naive p.tients were more likely to achieve remission than exp.sed p.tients at all the time p.ints(3 mo 66%vs 40%p.0.001,6 mo 73%vs 46%p.0.001,12 mo 66%vs 51%p.0.03).More Australian p.tients achieved endoscop.c remission at 6 mo comp.red to Oxford(69%vs 43%p.0.01).On multi-variate analysis,anti-TNF naïve p.tients were 1.8(95%CI:1.3-2.3)times more likely to achieve remission than anti-TNF exp.sed(p.0.001).32 p.tients(11%)had colectomy by 12 *** VDZ was safe and effective with 60%of UC p.tients achieving clinical remission at 12 mo and p.ior anti-TNF exp.sure influenced this outcome.
Background:In search of p.tential biomarkers of drug resp.nsiveness the tumour sup.ressor p.K2 has been identified as a mediator of taxane sensitivity in some tumour typ.s,based on its role of G2M checkp.int ***:The c...
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Background:In search of p.tential biomarkers of drug resp.nsiveness the tumour sup.ressor p.K2 has been identified as a mediator of taxane sensitivity in some tumour typ.s,based on its role of G2M checkp.int ***:The current study set out to evaluate p.K2 methylation in breast cancer treated with neo-adjuvant chemotherap. including a taxane,as a biomarker of disease ***:Silencing of p.K2 in MCF-7 cells followed by taxane treatment was assessed using ap.p.otic readout for p.oof of *** was extracted from 64 cases of diagnostic surgical FFp. *** p.rosequencing,levels of p.K2 p.omoter methylation were ***:Silencing of p.K2 resulted in a significantly reduced ap.p.otic resp.nse following p.clitaxel treatment(comp.red with scramble transfected controls).An association with higher levels of Cp. island p.omoter methylation was seen for those cases with a p.ogression-free survival(p.S)of less than 12 ***-Meier analysis showed there was an association between overall survival(OS)and level of methylation(p..06).Conclusions:Thus,based on data obtained from this p.lot study,further larger studies evaluating the utility of p.K2 methylation as a p.tential p.edictive biomarker in breast cancer are warranted.
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