ABSTRACT Phagocytosis by innate immune cells is one of the most effective barriers against the multiplication and dissemination of microbes within the mammalian host.Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast, has robust mechanisms that allow survival upon macrophage phagocytosis.C.albicans survives in part because it can utilize the alternative carbon s

BackgroundNon-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) constitute 40 million deaths annually.Eighty-percent of these deaths occur in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.MHealth provides a potentially highly effective modality for global public health, however access is poorly understood.The objective of our study was to assess equity in access to mHealth in an NC

In order to analyze the intake flow characteristics of a four-valve direct injection(DI) diesel engine, the experiments and numerical simulations were conducted to investigate the flow coefficient, swirl ratio and intake flow interference of the following 4 combinations of intake ports: (1) helical (left) and tangential (right), abbreviation ; (2)

While considerable progress has been made towards understanding the complex processes and pathways that regulate human wound healing, regenerative medicine has been unable to develop therapies that coax the natural wound environment to heal scar-free.The inability to induce perfect skin regeneration stems partly from our limited understanding of ho