LICRE: unsupervised feature correlation reduction for lipidomics
Motivation: Recent advances in high-throughput lipid profiling by liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS/MS) have made it possible to quantify hundreds of...
View ArticleA revolution in an eggcup? Supermarket wars, celebrity chefs, and ethical...
This article examines the role of celebrity chefs and other non-state actors in the heated and highly politicized environment of ethical and sustainable consumption. Focusing on the media campaigns of...
View ArticleThe Immunomodulatory and anticancer properties of propolis
Propolis, a waxy substance produced by the honeybee, has been adopted as a form of folk medicine since ancient times. It has a wide spectrum of alleged applications including potential anti-infection...
View ArticleFinding alternative shortest paths in spatial networks
Shortest path query is one of the most fundamental queries in spatial network databases. There exist algorithms that can process shortest path queries in real time. However, many complex applications...
View ArticleTiming is everything: stochastic origins of cell-to-cell variability in...
The diversity of cell populations is regulated by extracellular and intracellular variability. The latter includes genetic, epigenetic and stochastic variability, all contributing to the experimentally...
View ArticleIntroduction: thinking about Caribbean media worlds
This special issue brings together cultural studies of media with current themes in Caribbean studies and anthropology. The papers were part of an interdisciplinary conference panel focused upon...
View ArticleMajor influences on the teaching and assessment of graduate attributes
Efforts to systematically integrate graduate attributes across university curricula have relied on academic staff acceptance and ability to translate top-down policy into teaching practice. The...
View ArticleConstraint-based ACO for a shared resource constrained scheduling problem
We consider a scheduling problem arising in the mining industry. Ore from several mining sites must be transferred to ports to be loaded on ships in a timely manner. In doing so, several constraints...
View ArticleNative Australian fruit polyphenols inhibit COX-2 and iNOS expression in...
Purified polyphenolic-rich extracts from four native Australian fruits, Illawarra Plum (Podocarpus elatus Endl., Podocarpaceae), Kakadu Plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana Exell, Combretaceae), Muntries...
View ArticlePSP activates monocytes in resting human peripheral blood mononuclear cells:...
Polysaccharopeptide (PSP), from Coriolus versicolor, has been used as an adjuvant to chemotherapy, and has demonstrated anti-tumor and immunomodulating effects. However its mechanism remains unknown....
View ArticleTransfection of chimeric anti-CD138 gene enhances natural killer cell...
Reprogramming of NK cells with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) proved an effective strategy to increase NK cell reactivity and recognition specificity toward tumor cells. To enhance the cytotoxicity...
View ArticleBrazilian green propolis and its constituent, Artepillin C inhibits...
Ethnopharmacological relevance: Propolis has long been used as a popular folk medicine by various ethnic groups due to its wide spectrum of alleged biological and pharmaceutical properties including...
View ArticleCulturable endophytes of medicinal plants and the genetic basis for their...
The bioactive compounds of medicinal plants are products of the plant itself or of endophytes living inside the plant. Endophytes isolated from eight different anticancer plants collected in Yunnan,...
View ArticleMicroRNAs involved in anti-tumour immunity
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a category of small RNAs that constitute a new layer of complexity to gene regulation within the cell, which has provided new perspectives in understanding cancer biology. The...
View ArticlePotential antioxidant, antiinflammatory, and proapoptotic anticancer...
Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana Exell, Combretaceae) and Illawarra plum (Podocarpus elatus Endl., Podocarpaceae) extracts were fractionated, using a bioassay-guided approach and screened for...
View ArticleImmunomodulatory activities of Ganoderma sinense polysaccharides in human...
Medicinal mushrooms have been traditionally used as food nutrient supplements in China for thousands of years. The present study aimed to evaluate the immunomodulatory activities of Ganoderma sinense...
View ArticleMicrobiota of the chicken gastrointestinal tract; influence on health,...
Recent advances in the technology available for culture-independent methods for identification and enumeration of environmental bacteria have invigorated interest in the study of the role of chicken...
View ArticleEffects of beta-glucans on different immune cell populations and cancers
beta-Glucan is one of the most abundant and widespread form of naturally occurring polysaccharides found inside the cell wall of bacteria, plants and fungi including the medicinal mushrooms. All forms...
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