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University College Cork
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About: University College Cork is a education organization based out in Cork, Ireland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 12056 authors who have published 28452 publications receiving 958414 citations. The organization is also known as: Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh & National University of Ireland, Cork.
Topics: Population, Context (language use), Irish, Gut flora, Health care
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TL;DR: Strain M114(pCU203) showed enhanced antagonism towards P. ultimum in vitro and significantly increased the emergence of sugar beet seeds in the same soil compared with emergence induced by the parent strain M114.
Abstract: Tn5 mutagenesis and complementation analysis were used to clone a 6-kb genomic fragment required for biosynthesis of 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (Phl) from fluorescent Pseudomonas sp. strain F113. A recombinant plasmid, pCU203, containing this region partially complemented a Phl production-negative mutant (F113G22) derived from strain F113. When sugar beet seeds were sown into an unsterilized soil, in which sugar beet was subject to damping-off by Pythium ultimum, the emergence of sugar beet seeds inoculated with strain F113 was significantly greater than that of seeds inoculated with F113G22. Transfer of pCU203 into eight other Pseudomonas strains conferred the ability to synthesize Phl in only one of these strains, Pseudomonas sp. strain M114. Strain M114(pCU203) showed enhanced antagonism towards P. ultimum in vitro and significantly increased the emergence of sugar beet seeds in the same soil compared with emergence induced by the parent strain M114.
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TL;DR: Abnormal umbilical artery Doppler and EFW <3rd centile were strongly and most consistently associated with adverse perinatal outcome, calling into question the current definitions of IUGR used.
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TL;DR: The “portfolio” concept when applied to ecological research provides important insights into how ecosystems are organized, how species interact, and how evolutionary strategies develop, and it also helps identify appropriate scales for developing robust management and conservation schemes.
Abstract: Biological systems have similarities to efficient financial portfolios; the emergent properties of aggregate systems are often less volatile than their components. These portfolio effects derive from statistical averaging across the dynamics of system components, which often correlate weakly or negatively with each other through time and space. The “portfolio” concept when applied to ecological research provides important insights into how ecosystems are organized, how species interact, and how evolutionary strategies develop. It also helps identify appropriate scales for developing robust management and conservation schemes, and offers an approach that does not rely on prescriptive predictions about threats in an uncertain future. Rather, it presents a framework for managing risk from inevitable perturbations, many of which we will not be able to understand or anticipate.
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TL;DR: The techniques that can be used to characterize the gut microbiota, when they can be applied to human studies and their relative advantages and limitations are discussed.
Abstract: The gut microbiota is a complex ecosystem that has a symbiotic relationship with its host. An association between the gut microbiota and disease was first postulated in the early 20(th) century. However, until the 1990s, knowledge of the gut microbiota was limited because bacteriological culture was the only technique available to characterize its composition. Only a fraction (estimated at <30%) of the gut microbiota has been cultured to date. Since the 1990s, advances in culture-independent techniques have spearheaded our knowledge of the complexity of this ecosystem. These techniques have elucidated the microbial diversity of the gut microbiota and have shown that alterations in the gut microbiota composition and function are associated with certain disease states, such as IBD and obesity. These new techniques are fast, facilitate high throughput, identify organisms that are uncultured to date and enable enumeration of organisms present in the gut microbiota. This Review discusses the techniques that can used to characterize the gut microbiota, when they can be applied to human studies and their relative advantages and limitations.
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TL;DR: Accumulating data suggest an important vasculoprotective function for EPCs, although a maladaptive role underpinning a variety of angiogenesis-dependent diseases is also being investigated.
Abstract: The identification of circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) has prompted an explosion of interest in postnatal vasculogenesis and the role of this mechanism in human health and disease. Previously considered restricted to the embryonic phase, the differentiation in situ of progenitor cells to vascular endothelium is now known to occur in the adult. A role for EPCs in the modulation of angiogenesis has also been recognized. These cells are enriched in the mononuclear cell fraction of peripheral blood but have also been isolated from bone marrow, the vessel wall, and a number of other organs and tissues. Accumulating data suggest an important vasculoprotective function for EPCs, although a maladaptive role underpinning a variety of angiogenesis-dependent diseases is also being investigated. Encouraging results observed with experimental and early human trials of EPC-based regenerative therapies have further underscored the significance of this recently discovered cell type. Notwithstanding the scope and pace of these developments, a number of challenges remain: the precise ontogeny and lineage of these cells is unknown, the true extent to which EPCs participate in neovascularization and vascular repair is still uncertain, and the efficacy of EPC-based regenerative therapies has yet to be proven in randomized controlled trials.
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Stephen J. O'Brien | 153 | 1062 | 93025 |
James J. Collins | 151 | 669 | 89476 |
J. Wouter Jukema | 124 | 785 | 61555 |
John F. Cryan | 124 | 723 | 58938 |
Fergus Shanahan | 117 | 705 | 51963 |
Timothy G. Dinan | 116 | 689 | 60561 |
John M. Starr | 116 | 695 | 48761 |
Gordon G. Wallace | 114 | 1267 | 69095 |
Colin Hill | 112 | 693 | 54484 |
Robert Clarke | 111 | 512 | 90049 |
Douglas B. Kell | 111 | 634 | 50335 |
Thomas Bein | 109 | 677 | 42800 |
Steven C. Hayes | 106 | 450 | 51556 |
Åke Borg | 105 | 444 | 53835 |
Eamonn Martin Quigley | 103 | 685 | 39585 |