J Insect Physiol
December 2023
More than half of all insect species utilize various natural liquids as primary diet. The concentrated liquids with energy-dense nutrition can provide highly favorable rewards, however, their high-viscosity poses challenges to the insect for ingesting. Here we show that rhinoceros beetles, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), are capable of ingesting sugar solutions with viscosities spanning four orders of magnitude, exhibiting extraordinary adaptability to diverse natural liquid sources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Malignant lymphomas are one of the most common cancers worldwide and with high biologic heterogeneity, while the phosphoinositide 3 kinase (PI3K)/mTOR pathway is crucial in maintaining cell growth and survival both in physiological and in pathological conditions (i.e., lymphoma).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVδ2 T cells represent the major γδ T cell subset in humans and can serve as an important early source of TNF-α and IFN-γ during inflammatory responses. In acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients receiving allogeneic stem cell transplantation, higher γδ T cell count predicted better prognosis. The impact of PD-1 and TIM-3 expression on the function of Vδ2 T cells is yet unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi
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