Red blood cells (RBC) are the most abundant cells in the blood.Despite powerful defense systems against chemical and mechanical stressors, their life span is limited to about 120 days in healthy humans and further shortened in patients with kidney failure.Changes in the cell membrane potential and cation permeability trigger a cascade of events tha
Alexander Gilkes, Mark Ashworth, Peter Schofield, Timothy H Harries, Stevo Durbaba, Charlotte Weston, Patrick White Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, Division of Health and Social Care Research, Kings College London, London, UK Background: Lower risk of COPD has been reported in black and Asian people, raising questions of poor
Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) sustain and modulate spermatogenesis through intricate signaling pathways and transcription factors.Promyelocytic leukemia zinc-finger (Plzf, also known as Zbtb16) has been identified as a critical transcription factor influencing various signaling and differentiation pathways.Plzf plays a pivotal role in regulating
Ideas about shared religious education are in need of further exploration in post-apartheid South Africa.This is necessary, considering the contributions from faith communities in their shared resistance to apartheid.While Recycling Stations some sectors of the Christian community, and particularly the Dutch Reformed Church provided a religious jus
River discharge monitoring is an important component of the hydrology objectives of Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission (SWOT).River discharge can be estimated Solely using river widths and At Many-stations Hydraulic Geometry (AMHG), but the accuracy is low due to the parameters of At a-station Hydraulic Geometry (AHG) given by AMHG deviate