ARTEMISININS INHIBIT ORAL CANDIDIASIS CAUSED BY CANDIDA ALBICANS THROUGH THE REPRESSION ON ITS HYPHAL DEVELOPMENT

Artemisinins inhibit oral candidiasis caused by Candida albicans through the repression on its hyphal development

Abstract Candida albicans is the most abundant fungal species in oral cavity.As a smart opportunistic pathogen, it increases the virulence by switching its forms from yeasts to hyphae and becomes the major pathogenic agent for oral candidiasis.However, the overuse of current clinical antifungals and lack of new types of drugs highlight the challeng

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Reproductive biology of the saddle cichlid, Aequidens tetramerus (Heckel, 1840) (Cichliformes: Cichlidae), in small forest streams in the Machado River basin, southwestern Amazonia

The aim of this study was to evaluate the reproductive strategy Dog-Collars of Aequidens tetramerus in small streams of the Machado river basin, southwestern Amazon.We collected samples in two streams using seine and dip nets along a 50-m stretch of the stream.We collected 86 fishes, 19 males and 67 females (sex-ratio, 3.52 female:1male).Their body

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Voting on Independence and National Issues: A Historical and Comparative Study of Referendums on Self-Determination and Secession

To date there have been fifty independence referendums.Some have been official, Lids others unofficial.Some have been successful, and others have ended in failure.This article analyses how independence referendums have contributed to more civic engagement and how this use of the referendum can - under certain circumstances - enhance the ideals of p

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SAliBASE: A Database of Simulated Protein Alignments

Simulated alignments are alternatives to manually constructed multiple sequence alignments for evaluating Body Wash performance of multiple sequence alignment tools.The importance of simulated sequences is recognized because their true evolutionary history is known, which is very helpful for reconstructing accurate phylogenetic trees and alignments

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