Women who have decided to seek legal remedies through civil protection orders are taking bold steps to end abusive relationships. However, the civil protection order process can be complicated by situational and relational ...

This article provides a preliminary look into the ways in which lesbian and bisexual women experience sexual agency through their enactment of masculinity or femininity, delimiting women from their traditionally cast roles ...

Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) is an acute respiratory disease of chickens that can result in decreased egg production and increased mortality. A tissue culture origin vaccine (TCO), several chicken embryo origin ...

The ocular lens is a transparent tissue within the eye that focuses light on the retina and facilitates high-resolution vision. Cataract is an eye disease that results due to the loss of lens transparency and causes severely ...

Previous studies showed that HS-5 cells secret unidentified factor(s) inducing PCa cell death. Herein, the HS-5 derived factor (HS-5 DF) was characterized and identified. HS-5 DF had protein characteristics being trypsin ...

Background: Walking speed has been used to predict the efficacy of gait training; however, poststroke motor impairments are heterogeneous and different biomechanical strategies may underlie the same walking speed. Identifying ...

Legionella pneumophila is a gram-negative opportunistic bacterial pathogen that infects human alveolar macrophages, which causes a severe form of pneumonia known as Legionnaires’ disease. During infection, Legionella ...

Despite the large and far-reaching impact of depression, little is known about the pathophysiology associated with the disorder. This is due in part to limitations of the current diagnostic system, which includes considerable ...

Wnt proteins are a highly conserved family of secreted glycoproteins that act as ligands in receptor-mediated signaling pathways. These complex pathways are present, and tightly regulated, at various stages of development ...