Pulmonary surfactant is a mixture of phospholipids and proteins synthesized in alveolar type-II cells that is necessary for maintaining alveolar expansion at end-expiration. Phospholipids comprise ...

To evaluate over a 7-year follow-up period the relationships between changes in body composition, fat distribution and pulmonary function in a sample of elderly men and women. Body weight, waist ...

Let φ be an analytic self-map of the unit disk. The weak compactness of the composition operators Cφ : f ↦ f o φ is characterized on the vector-valued harmonic Hardy spaces h1 (X), and on the spaces ...

Varying immune response to vaccinations could be countered with microbiota-targeted interventions helping infants, older people and others to take full advantage of the benefits of effective vaccines, ...

Climate change is expected to directly alter the composition of communities and the functioning of ecosystems across the globe. Improving our understanding of links between biodiversity and ecosystem ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nutrients, researchers used a novel, ex vivo Systemic Intestinal Fermentation Research (SIFR)® technology to assess the selectivity with which carrot-derived ...

Intestinal infections can change the composition of liver bile, leading to changes in immune function and gut bacteria, ...