Bacteria associated with D. melanogaster affect larval growth and adult stem cell activity. Antimicrobial peptide production by the immune deficiency (Imd) pathway and reactive oxygen species (ROS) ...

The nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) signalling pathway regulates immune and inflammatory responses and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several inflammatory diseases and cancer. NF-κB promotes ...

Adipocytes have been studied with increasing intensity as a result of the emergence of obesity as a serious public health problem and the realization that adipose tissue serves as an integrator of ...

Living things have a remarkable ability to function and thrive in a variety of environments that are constantly changing. Despite exposure to wildly different temperatures during heat waves and cold ...

Aging is considered to be a progressive decline in an organism's functioning over time and is almost universal throughout the living world. Currently, many different aging mechanisms have been ...