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Life, Volume 11, Issue 9

September 2021 - 127 articles

Cover Story: The article by Nordeen et al. reviews the background and context of basic studies that have contributed to the ground-breaking clinical trials employing high testosterone therapy to treat castrate-resistant prostate cancer. Studies from the bench will continue to contribute to the optimization of high testosterone therapy and the identification of exploitable vulnerabilities that accompany the adaptation made by cancer cells to manipulate their androgen environment. View this paper
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Articles (127)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,466 Views
12 Pages

The Procoagulant Activity of Emoxilane®: A New Appealing Therapeutic Use in Epistaxis of the Combination of Sodium Hyaluronate, Silver Salt, α-tocopherol and D-panthenol

  • Raffaella Belvedere,
  • Nunzia Novizio,
  • Daniela Eletto,
  • Amalia Porta,
  • Antonino Bagnulo,
  • Andrea Cerciello,
  • Umberto Di Maio and
  • Antonello Petrella

21 September 2021

Epistaxis is one of the most frequent hemorrhages resulting from local or systemic factors. Its management without hospitalization has prompted an interest in locally applied hemostatic agents. Generally, the therapy approaches involve sprays or crea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,060 Views
13 Pages

21 September 2021

Human receptor gC1qR is a 32 kD protein that mediates the cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes (IEs) to human brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBMEC) and platelets. The cytoadherence of IEs to gC1qR has been associated w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,140 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2021

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting due to the lack of dystrophin protein. The acute phase of DMD is characterized by muscle necrosis and increased levels of the pro-inflammatory mediator, pro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
97 Citations
12,773 Views
16 Pages

20 September 2021

Hypertension (HTN) is one of the most prevalent diseases worldwide and is among the most important risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications. It is currently thought to be the result of disturbances in a number of neural, rena...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
14,764 Views
12 Pages

Anemia in Sports: A Narrative Review

  • Marc-Tudor Damian,
  • Romana Vulturar,
  • Cristian Cezar Login,
  • Laura Damian,
  • Adina Chis and
  • Anca Bojan

20 September 2021

Recent years have brought about new understandings regarding the pathogenesis of anemia in sports. From hemodilution and redistribution considered to contribute to the so-called “sports anemia” to iron deficiency caused by increased demands, dietary...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,797 Views
20 Pages

Secreted Effectors Modulating Immune Responses to Toxoplasma gondii

  • Tadakimi Tomita,
  • Rebekah B. Guevara,
  • Lamisha M. Shah,
  • Andrews Y. Afrifa and
  • Louis M. Weiss

20 September 2021

Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite that chronically infects a third of humans. It can cause life-threatening encephalitis in immune-compromised individuals. Congenital infection also results in blindness and intellectual disabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,624 Views
16 Pages

Seminal Plasma Protein N-Glycan Peaks Are Potential Predictors of Semen Pathology and Sperm Chromatin Maturity in Men

  • Tihana Maric,
  • Ana Katusic Bojanac,
  • Ana Matijevic,
  • Marcello Ceppi,
  • Marco Bruzzone,
  • Evangelini Evgeni,
  • Tea Petrovic,
  • Iwona Wójcik,
  • Irena Trbojevic-Akmacic and
  • Gordan Lauc
  • + 2 authors

20 September 2021

Background: Male infertility is increasingly becoming a health and demographic problem. While it may originate from congenital or acquired diseases, it can also result from environmental exposure. Hence, the complexity of involved molecular mechanism...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,590 Views
28 Pages

20 September 2021

The biological consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident have been intensively studied using the pale grass blue butterfly Zizeeria maha and its host plant, the creeping wood sorrel Oxalis corniculata. Here, we performed metabolomic analyses of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,299 Views
16 Pages

19 September 2021

New approaches to assessing the “enzyme–ligand” complementarity, taking into account hydrogens, have been proposed. The approaches are based on the calculation of three-dimensional maps of the electron density of the receptor–ligand complexes. The ac...

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