Publications by authors named "R W ZOLLINGER"
Wildlife exposures to pest controlling substances have resulted in population declines of many predatory species during the past decades. Many pesticides were subsequently classified as persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) and banned on national or global scales. However, despite their risks for non-target vertebrate wildlife, PBT substances such as anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) are still permitted for use in Europe and have shown to threaten raptors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBy 2040, roughly two-thirds of humanity are expected to live in urban areas. As cities expand, humans irreversibly transform natural ecosystems, creating both opportunities and challenges for wildlife. Here, we investigate how the Northern Goshawk () is adjusting to urban environments.
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- Microglia are special cells in the brain that help keep everything balanced, but as mice (and people) get older, these cells can become more easily triggered by things that cause inflammation.
- In older mice, a system called mTOR is more active, which makes proteins that can lead to inflammation to be produced more.
- When scientists turned off the mTOR system, the mice showed less inflammation and sickness, even though some genes related to inflammation were still increased, suggesting that mTOR plays an important role in how microglia react as we age.