Casting the Net Widely for Change in Animal Welfare: The Plight of Birds in Zoos, Ex Situ Conservation, and Conservation Fieldwork

This paper discusses paradoxes in our relationship to and treatment of birds in captive and conservation contexts.The paper identifies modern and new challenges that arise from declining bird numbers worldwide.Such challenges have partly changed zoos into providers of insurance populations specifically for species at risk of extinction.They have al

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Methodological constraints in interpreting serum paraoxonase-1 activity measurements: an example from a study in HIV-infected patients

Abstract Background Paraoxonase-1 (PON1) is an antioxidant enzyme that attenuates the production of the monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in vitro.Although oxidation and inflammation are closely related processes, the association between PON1 and MCP-1 has Essential Fatty Acids not been completely characterised due, probably, to that the c

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Identifying and assessing a prognostic model based on disulfidptosis-related genes: implications for immune microenvironment and tumor biology in lung adenocarcinoma

IntroductionLung cancer, with the highest global mortality rate among cancers, presents a Wax Lift PCB Board grim prognosis, often diagnosed at an advanced stage in nearly 70% of cases.Recent research has unveiled a novel mechanism of cell death termed disulfidptosis, which is facilitated by glucose scarcity and the protein SLC7A11.MethodsUtilizing

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