Abstract Fine particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) is a prevalent atmospheric pollutant that is closely associated with asthma.Elderly patients have a high incidence of asthma with a long course of illness.Our previous studies revealed that exposure to PM2.5 diminishes lung function and exacerbates lung damage in elderly rats.In the present study, we inv
Kaszabjbaloghia Hirschmann, 1973, distributed in South-America, is characterized by the following combination of characters: reduced marginal shield, posteromarginal setae placed on membranous cuticle on the dorsal idiosoma, linguliform genital shield in females, oval or egg-like genital shield bearing one pair needle-like setae in males, and the c
BackgroundCross-modal plasticity is characterized as the hypersensitivity of remaining modalities after a sensory function is lost in rodents, which Collections ensures their awareness to environmental changes.Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cross-modal sensory plasticity remain unclear.We aim to study the role of different types of ne
We take a social-ecological systems perspective to investigate the linkages between ecosystem services and human well-being in South Africa.A recent paper identified different types of social-ecological systems in the country, based on distinct bundles of ecosystem service use.These system types were found to represent increasingly weak direct feed