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L form bacteria growth in low-osmolality medium.
(Microbiology (Reading, England), 2019-08)L form bacteria do not have a cell wall and are thought to require medium of high osmolality for survival and growth. In this study we tested whether L forms can adapt to growth in lower osmolality medium. We first tested ... -
L'appartement de Marie de Médicis au palais du Luxembourg
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L1 arrest, daf-16/FoxO and nonautonomous control of post-embryonic development.
(Worm, 2016-04)Post-embryonic development is governed by nutrient availability. L1 arrest, dauer formation and aging illustrate how starvation, anticipation of starvation and caloric restriction have profound influence on C. elegans ... -
La longévité : passé, présent et futur
(Revue d'économie financière, 2016)The rise of longevity since 1840 is remarkable. In France, life expectancy doubled from 40 in 1840 to 82 today. Analysis of the nature of this increase, including the improvements in survival at older ages, sheds new light ... -
La promoción del trabajo decente en las cadenas mundiales de suministro en América Latina y el Caribe: Principales problemas, buenas prácticas, lecciones aprendidas y visión política
(2016-07-26)El informe se basa en una revisión documental, aprovechando estudios existentes sobre las cadenas mundiales de suministro (CMS), para examinar sus impactos e implicaciones en el desarrollo de las empresas nacionales, su ... -
Labor hoarding and the business cycle
(Journal of Political Economy, 1993-12-01)This paper investigates the sensitivity of Solow residual based measures of technology shocks to labor hoarding behavior. Using a structural model of labor hoarding and the identifying restriction that innovations to technology ... -
Laboratory accuracy improvement in the uk neqas leucocyte immunophenotyping immune monitoring program: An eleven-year review via longitudinal mixed effects modeling.
(Cytometry B Clin Cytom, 2017-05-08)BACKGROUND: The United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service (UK NEQAS) for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping Immune Monitoring Programme, provides external quality assessment (EQA) to non-U.S. laboratories affiliated ... -
Labour and NAFTA: Nationalist Reflexes and Transnational Imperatives in North America, 1991-1995
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Labour, Insecurity and Violence in South Africa: An Afterword
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Lack of B cell dysfunction is associated with functional, gp120-dominant antibody responses in breast milk of simian immunodeficiency virus-infected African green monkeys.
(J Virol, 2013-10)The design of an effective vaccine to reduce the incidence of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) via breastfeeding will require identification of protective immune responses that block ... -
Lack of cross-scale linkages reduces robustness of community-based fisheries management.
(PLoS One, 2009-07-16)Community-based management and the establishment of marine reserves have been advocated worldwide as means to overcome overexploitation of fisheries. Yet, researchers and managers are divided regarding the effectiveness ... -
Lack of evidence for a remote effect of renal ischemia/reperfusion acute kidney injury on outcome from temporary focal cerebral ischemia in the rat.
(Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia, 2013-02)<h4>Objective</h4>Acute kidney injury (AKI) and ischemic stroke may occur in the same cardiac surgical patient. It is not known if an interaction exists between these organ injuries. Isolated renal ischemia/reperfusion is ... -
Lack of evidence for ectopic sprouting of genetically labeled Aβ touch afferents in inflammatory and neuropathic trigeminal pain.
(Mol Pain, 2015-04-10)BACKGROUND: Mechanical and in particular tactile allodynia is a hallmark of chronic pain in which innocuous touch becomes painful. Previous cholera toxin B (CTB)-based neural tracing experiments and electrophysiology studies ... -
Lactic acidosis triggers starvation response with paradoxical induction of TXNIP through MondoA.
(PLoS Genet, 2010-09-02)Although lactic acidosis is a prominent feature of solid tumors, we still have limited understanding of the mechanisms by which lactic acidosis influences metabolic phenotypes of cancer cells. We compared global transcriptional ... -
Lactobacillus acidophilus Endocarditis Complicated by Pauci-Immune Necrotizing Glomerulonephritis
(Case Reports in Medicine, 2020-08-12)<jats:p>Infective endocarditis (IE) is more common in patients with predisposing cardiac lesions and has many potential complications, including stroke and arterial thromboembolisms. Renal manifestations have an estimated ... -
Land Use, Macroalgae, and a Tumor-Forming Disease in Marine Turtles
(2010)Wildlife diseases are an increasing concern for endangered species conservation, but their occurrence, causes, and human influences are often unknown. We analyzed 3,939 records of stranded Hawaiian green sea turtles (Chelonia ... -
Language processing in age-related macular degeneration associated with unique functional connectivity signatures in the right hemisphere.
(Neurobiol Aging, 2017-11-14)Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a retinal disease associated with significant vision loss among older adults. Previous large-scale behavioral studies indicate that people with AMD are at increased risk of cognitive ... -
Laparoendoscopic single site (LESS) nephrectomy using standard laparoscopic instruments: Our initial experience
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Laparoscopic adrenalectomy: 10-year experience, 67 procedures
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Laparoscopic compared with robotic sacrocolpopexy for vaginal prolapse: a randomized controlled trial.
(Obstet Gynecol, 2011-11)OBJECTIVE: To compare conventional laparoscopic and robotic-assisted laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy for vaginal apex prolapse. METHODS: This single-center, blinded randomized trial included participants with stage ...
