Parrots and songbirds learn their vocalizations from a conspecific tutor, much like human infants acquire spoken language.Parrots can learn human Brake Lever Assembly words and it has been suggested that they can use them to communicate with humans.The caudomedial pallium in the parrot brain is homologous with that of songbirds, and analogous to th
Dengue virus (DENV) is the causative agent of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever.The virus is endemic in over 120 countries, causing over 350 million infections per year.Dengue vaccine development is challenging because of the need to induce simultaneous protection against four antigenically distinct DENV serotypes and evidence that, under s
Abstract Heart shape captures variation in cardiac structure beyond traditional phenotypes of mass and volume.Although observational studies have demonstrated associations with cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases, its genetic basis is less understood.We utilised cardiovascular magnetic resonance images from 45,683 UK Biobank participants to c
Rosanna Dammacco,1 Giovanni Alessio,1 Ermete Giancipoli,2 Patrizia Leone,3 Anna Cirulli,3 Leonardo Resta,4 Angelo Vacca,3 Franco Dammacco3 1Department of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Medical School, Bari, Italy; 2Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ophthalmology Unit, University of Sassari, Sassari, Ita
A novel innate immune strategy, involving specific cholesterol oxidation products as effectors, has begun to reveal connections between cholesterol metabolism and immune response against viral infections.Indeed, 25-hydroxycholesterol (25HC) and 27-hydroxycholesterol (27HC), physiologically produced by enzymatic oxidation of cholesterol, act as inhi