Purpose: We aimed to examine the changes in choroidal blood flow (CBF), choroidal pulse waveform, and central choroidal thickness (CCT) in a case of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) using laser speckle flowgraphy (LSFG) and enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT) before and after treatment with antihypertensive drugs.Obser
Successful development of molecular diagnostic technology combining mini-barcoding and high-resolution melting for traditional Chinese medicine agarwood species based on single-nucleotide polymorphism in the chloroplast genome
Agarwood is a valuable traditional medicine and fragrance.The production process is a typical injury-induced defense response.Currently, there are approximately 22 known species in the genus Aquilaria Lam., all of which can produce agarwood, whereas there are only two legal species of traditional Chinese medicinal agarwood, Aquilaria sinensis (Lour
Morphology, chemistry and function of the postpharyngeal gland in the South American digger wasps Trachypus boharti and Trachypus elongatus.
Microbes pose severe threats to animals as competitors or pathogens and strongly affect the evolution of life history traits like parental care.Females of the European beewolf Philanthus triangulum, a solitary digger wasp, provision their offspring with paralyzed honeybees and embalm them with the secretion from large postpharyngeal glands (PPG) th
Immunopathologic Effects of Prednisolone and Cyclosporine A on Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Replication and Persistence
Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) induces opportunistic disease in chronically infected cats, and both prednisolone and cyclosporine A (CsA) are clinically used to treat complications such as lymphoma and stomatitis.However, the impact of these compounds on FIV infection are still unknown and understanding immunomodulatory effects on FIV replicat