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BackgroundBalancing pulmonary and systemic blood flow remains one of the most critical challenges in the management of high-risk neonates with ductal-dependent circulation, particularly in the presence of low birth weigh...

Feeding conditions during the nestling period may significantly affect whole-life fitness in altricial birds but little is known about the physiological mechanisms responsible for these effects. Permanent changes (irreve...

Against the background of global climate change, increasingly severe drought stress exerts a significant impact on plant growth and yield. This study aimed to clarify the leaf anatomical structure, physiology and biochem...

A growing number of studies are now utilizing human organotypic brain slice cultures (OBSC), enabled by improved long-term culture protocols that support the investigation of human-specific cellular physiology. Human OBS...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Over the past three decades, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has evolved from a anatomical revascularization technique ...

Physiological thermal limits can mediate species coexistence at local scales. However, it is challenging to untangle the role they play when coexisting species are also highly related, given that phylogeny may inform phy...

Anatomy and anatomy and physiology (A&P) courses are crucial to prepare quality health care professionals. Considerable research has focused on graduate-level anatomy education, with fewer studies examining course conten...

Function diagrams focus on physiological concepts rather than associated structures and can serve as elaboration tools and mnemonic aids. A function diagram prototype of the gastrointestinal system was recently described...

Flow cytometry has become an important tool in the fields of veterinary, medicine, and biological sciences in general. However, in the introductory and even in advanced university degree courses, students do not have man...

The objectives of this study were to standardize a PCR-RFLP genotyping method for the AY_731081:g.1900T>C SNP of the equine CD14 gene, and to characterize this SNP and two other polymorphisms (AY_005808: c.1530A>G of the...

Abstract Background Microhabitat heterogeneity plays a crucial role in shaping plant water use strategies and ecophysiological processes in arid ecosystems, yet little is known about the coupled response of leaf water is...

ABSTRACT Cystic fibrosis (CF) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) represent distinct pathologies with unique genetic underpinnings; yet, they share remarkable similarities in gut microbiota dysbiosis and intestinal phys...

First-year university students studying medicine and health sciences must acquire and assimilate significant amounts of physiological knowledge, which can result in tedious, passive rote learning. To address such notions...

Abstract Highly K+-selective potassium channels are essential for electrical signaling. The high selectivity of most K+ channels, with relative K+: Na+ permeabilities being as high as 100–1000:1 arises from the conserv...

Drug-induced cardiac arrhythmias are central to physiology and pharmacology education, yet students often struggle to connect electrophysiological mechanisms with dynamic electrocardiographic (ECG) changes. We developed ...

Since most physiology core concepts are equally applicable to humans and other multicellular organisms, human physiology instructors may reasonably wonder whether consistent use of nonhuman assessment questions would enh...

The quantity of physiological data has grown exponentially, yielding insights into mechanisms of phenotypic and disease pathways. Among the powerful tools for physiological omics is the study of RNA, where broad sequenci...

Abstract Clinicians often view exposure to supplementary oxygen in preterm infants as a simple reciprocal trade‐off between mortality and the risk of vision‐threatening retinopathy, but this perspective oversimplifie...

Introduction: Social defeat (SD) in rats, which results from male intraspecific confrontations, is ethologically relevant and useful to understand stress effects on physiology and behavior.Methods: A systematic review of...

ABSTRACT We evaluated the maternal behavior, physiology, and reproductive performance of both Damin (Min-pig × Large White) and Large White gilts to identify the advantages hybrid sows offer with regard to stress reliev...