Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form mutualistic, symbiotic associations with the roots of
more than 80% of land plants 1 . The fungi are incapable of completing their life cycle in the …

Background Staphylococcus aureus is one of the major causes of community-acquired and
hospital-acquired infections. It produces numerous toxins including superantigens that cause …

Clostridium perfringens is a Gram-positive anaerobic spore-forming bacterium that causes
life-threatening gas gangrene and mild enterotoxaemia in humans, although it colonizes as …

Objective: Recently, there have been many reports of intratympanic gentamicin therapy for
the treatment of intractable Meniere's disease. Intratympanic administration of steroids has …

• Aims Arbuscular mycorrhizae are formed between >80 % of land plants and arbuscular
mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. This Botanical Briefing highlights the chemical identification of …

Strigolactones are a group of terpenoid lactones that act as a host-derived signal in the
rhizosphere communication of plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and root parasitic …

• Both root parasitic plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi take advantage of
strigolactones, released from plant roots as signal molecules in the initial communication with host …

The cochlea is principally supplied from the inner ear artery (labyrinthine artery), which is
usually a branch of the anterior inferior cerebellar artery. Cochlear blood flow is a function of …

Group Astreptococcus (GAS) is a gram-positive bacterial pathogen that causes various
suppurative infections and nonsuppurative sequelae. Since the late 1980s, streptococcal toxic-…

Five bufadienolides (1-5) isolated from the leaves of Kalanchoe pinnata and K.
daigremontiana×tubiflora (Crassulaceae) were examined for their inhibitory effects on Epstein-Barr …