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Plant Terpenes on Treating Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease: A Review
The use of medicinal plants as a therapy alternative is old as human existence itself. Nowadays, the search for effective molecules for chronic diseases treatments has increased. The cardiometabolic disorders still the main cause of death worldwide and pla ...
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD2021Silver nanoparticle toxicity and association with the alga Euglena gracilis
Kristin Schirmer, Laura Sigg, Renata Behra, Xiaomei Li, Laetitia Bernard
The impact of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on aquatic algae has largely been studied with model species that possess a rigid cell wall. Here, we explored the interactions of AgNPs with Euglena gracilis, a green alga having no cell wall but a pellicle. The ...
Royal Soc Chemistry2015Scaling up interventions to achieve global tuberculosis control: progress and new developments
Tuberculosis is still one of the most important causes of death worldwide. The 2010 Lancet tuberculosis series provided a comprehensive overview of global control efforts and challenges. In this update we review recent progress. With improved control effor ...
2012Dynamic Additive Regression Models Applied to the Study of Recurrent Event Data: Childhood Diarrhoea in Salvador, Brazil
In many different areas, one may be interested in the time to some events: death or cancer in medicine, wedding or divorce in sociology, etc. These data are called survival data. Several events or multiple occurences of a single event lead to event histori ...
2010Mobility related physical and functional losses due to aging and disease - a motivation for lower limb exoskeletons
Background Physical and functional losses due to aging and diseases decrease human mobility, independence, and quality of life. This study is aimed at summarizing and quantifying these losses in order to motivate solutions to overcome them with a special f ...
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