In this study, we demonstrate that mouse-adapted B/Florida/04/06 viruses not only replicate in the upper and lower respiratory tracts of ferrets but they were also efficiently transmitted from infected to naïve animals under both contact and aerosol droplet transmission conditions (Fig. 4). ...
The nasal and oral cavities are the first points of contact with the external environment and serve as gateways to the lower respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts. Inhaled air containing microbes passes through the nares before entering the nasal cavity that connects to the oropharynx and distal pul...
termed as “Excited”, patients exhibited curiosity and enjoyment while interacting with the robot. They were actively involved and found the experience stimulating and rewarding.
The ISME Journal (2015) 9, 1246–1259; doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.250; published online 9 January 2015 Introduction As the point of entry to both the lower respiratory tract and the gastrointestinal tract, the upper respiratory tract (URT) is continuously exposed to the outside world. The ...
Revised stratigraphy of the lower Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona INTRODUCTION PETRIFIED FOREST National Park (PEFO) is a focal point for studies of Upper Triassic terrestrial strata in the American Southwest. Despite numerous studies of plant and vertebrate...
these sequences were relabeled as Switzerland. We also estimate state change counts by calculating the number of expected transitions between two states (countries) called Markov jumps [31] in the dataset. We used an uncorrelated relaxed clock log-normal relaxed distribution and a non-parametric sk...
Beta-diversity analysis for longitudinal nasopharyngeal swab samples obtained from healthy and IAV-infected individuals. Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) of Bray–Curtis distances was done for samples from humans, labeled as influenza positive in red (P, indicating data points with positive IAV qRT...
Upper small intestinal phlorizin infusion alone did not affect glucose metabolism compared to saline control (Figures 2A, 2B, S2A, and S2B), but co-infusion with glucose negated the higher glucose infusion rate (Figure 2A) and lower GP (Figures 2B and S2A) observed with glucose alone, ...
progenitors had lower oxygen consumption at baseline and were unable to ramp up consumption to the levels of term cells when challenged. Although they formed a mucociliary epithelium, ciliary function tended to decline in premature cells as they differentiated, compared to term cells. Together, ...
Pat. No. 7,216,648 and entitled “System and Method for Moving and/or Restraining Tissue in the Upper Respiratory System.” This application also claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/739,519, filed Nov. 23, 2005 and U.S. Provisional Patent Application ...