Vibrio cholerae colonization of the host requires stringent response activation of TCP, the Toxin-Coregulated Pilus Cholera is an epidemic diarrheal disease caused by the Gramnegative bacterium Vibrio cholerae. In order to...
Persisters are a special group of quiescent and phenotypically unique cells in a given microbial population that survive antimicrobial insults or stresses but retain properties of the original population. Persisters have been...
The goal of the IMPLICATION project is to provide a tool that will keep the already busy Physicians or Scientists up to date on the latest discoveries, in their respective specialties by providing a faster way to access the...
Multiple drug resistance is becoming increasingly problematic in the U.S., where antibiotics are overused both in agriculture and healthcare. One way bacteria can develop this resistance is through acquisition of antibiotic...
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify which texture analysis metrics calculated from apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps from patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) provide quantifiable...
Under the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP), hospitals with high readmission rates are penalized by reductions in Medicare reimbursements. In particular, Parkview Noble hospital has experienced high readmission...
Bristles are mechanosensory organs in the Drosophila peripheral nervous system composed of four cells that adopt different fates and differentiate. These four cells (neuron, shaft, sheath, and socket) arise from a sensory organ...
Many Gram negative bacteria including Salmonella enterica species exhibit evolving multi-drug resistance coded for on their chromosome and on mobile genetic elements. Salmonella species carrying multi-drug resistance plasmids...
Clostridium difficile infection is particularly common in SOT patients and the consequences are severe. Fecal microbiota transplantation is an emerging, highly efficacious therapeutic modality for CDI but data on FMT success in...
We sought to evaluate a novel PPARδ inhibitor and explore whether this compound could synergize with known chemotherapeutic compounds to kill cancer cells in culture. Methods: A novel PPARδ inhibitor compound, Compound 9, was...