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Cameron Elissa Z.; Linklater Wayne L.; Stafford Kevin J.; Veltman Clare J. 《Behavioral ecology》1999,10(5):472-475
Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain variation inbirth sex
ratios, based on the premise that variation is expectedwhen the profitability
of raising sons and daughters variesbetween individual parents. We tested the
Trivers-Willard hypothesisthat mothers in better condition produce relatively
more sonsand that mothers in poorer condition produce relatively more
daughterswhen male reproductive success is more variable. We examinedbirth
sex ratios in relation to mare body condition at conceptionin horses in which
male reproductive success is differentiallyhelped by slight advantages in
condition. Horses meet the assumptionsof the Trivers-Willard hypothesis
better than many species onwhich it has been tested and in which sex ratio
biases are notconfounded by sexual size dimorphism such that one sex is more
likelyto die in utero in females in poor condition. Mares that hada female
foal were in poorer condition at conception than thosethat had a male foal,
and mares that had foals of differentsexes in different years were in
significantly poorer conditionwhen they conceived their female foal. There
was no relationshipbetween offspring sex and mid-gestation condition, and
therewas no difference in foaling rates in relation to body conditionat
conception. Consequently, sex ratio deviations are not explainedby fetal loss
in utero. Furthermore, differential fetal lossof the less viable sex cannot
explain the greater proportionof males produced by mares in better condition.
Therefore, ourresults suggest that sex ratio modification occurs at
conceptionin wild horses. 相似文献
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Anthony Shakeshaft Christopher Doran Dennis Petrie Courtney Breen Alys Havard Ansari Abudeen Elissa Harwood Anton Clifford Catherine D'Este Stuart Gilmour Rob Sanson-Fisher 《PLoS medicine》2014,11(3)
Background
The World Health Organization, governments, and communities agree that community action is likely to reduce risky alcohol consumption and harm. Despite this agreement, there is little rigorous evidence that community action is effective: of the six randomised trials of community action published to date, all were US-based and focused on young people (rather than the whole community), and their outcomes were limited to self-report or alcohol purchase attempts. The objective of this study was to conduct the first non-US randomised controlled trial (RCT) of community action to quantify the effectiveness of this approach in reducing risky alcohol consumption and harms measured using both self-report and routinely collected data.Methods and Findings
We conducted a cluster RCT comprising 20 communities in Australia that had populations of 5,000–20,000, were at least 100 km from an urban centre (population ≥ 100,000), and were not involved in another community alcohol project. Communities were pair-matched, and one member of each pair was randomly allocated to the experimental group. Thirteen interventions were implemented in the experimental communities from 2005 to 2009: community engagement; general practitioner training in alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI); feedback to key stakeholders; media campaign; workplace policies/practices training; school-based intervention; general practitioner feedback on their prescribing of alcohol medications; community pharmacy-based SBI; web-based SBI; Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services support for SBI; Good Sports program for sports clubs; identifying and targeting high-risk weekends; and hospital emergency department–based SBI. Primary outcomes based on routinely collected data were alcohol-related crime, traffic crashes, and hospital inpatient admissions. Routinely collected data for the entire study period (2001–2009) were obtained in 2010. Secondary outcomes based on pre- and post-intervention surveys (n = 2,977 and 2,255, respectively) were the following: long-term risky drinking, short-term high-risk drinking, short-term risky drinking, weekly consumption, hazardous/harmful alcohol use, and experience of alcohol harm. At the 5% level of statistical significance, there was insufficient evidence to conclude that the interventions were effective in the experimental, relative to control, communities for alcohol-related crime, traffic crashes, and hospital inpatient admissions, and for rates of risky alcohol consumption and hazardous/harmful alcohol use. Although respondents in the experimental communities reported statistically significantly lower average weekly consumption (1.90 fewer standard drinks per week, 95% CI = −3.37 to −0.43, p = 0.01) and less alcohol-related verbal abuse (odds ratio = 0.58, 95% CI = 0.35 to 0.96, p = 0.04) post-intervention, the low survey response rates (40% and 24% for the pre- and post-intervention surveys, respectively) require conservative interpretation. The main limitations of this study are as follows: (1) that the study may have been under-powered to detect differences in routinely collected data outcomes as statistically significant, and (2) the low survey response rates.Conclusions
This RCT provides little evidence that community action significantly reduces risky alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harms, other than potential reductions in self-reported average weekly consumption and experience of alcohol-related verbal abuse. Complementary legislative action may be required to more effectively reduce alcohol harms.Trial registration
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12607000123448 Please see later in the article for the Editors'' Summary 相似文献14.
Fredrik Dalerum Michael J. Somers Kyran E. Kunkel Elissa Z. Cameron 《Biodiversity and Conservation》2008,17(12):2939-2949
Biodiversity in southern Africa is globally extraordinary but threatened by human activities. Although there are considerable
biodiversity conservation initiatives within the region, no one has yet assessed the potential use of large carnivores in
such actions. Surrogate approaches have often been suggested as one such way of capitalizing on large carnivores. Here we
review the suitability of the large carnivore guild (i.e., brown hyaena Hyaena hyaena, spotted hyaena Crocuta crocutta, cheetah Acinonyx jubatus, leopard Panthera pardus, lion Panthea leo and African wild dog Lycaon pictus) to act as surrogate species for biodiversity conservation in southern Africa. We suggest that the guild must be complete
for the large carnivores to fully provide their role as ecological keystones. The potential for large carnivores to act as
umbrella and indicator species seems limited. However, self-sustaining populations of large carnivores may be useful indicators
of unfragmented landscapes. Moreover, diversity within the large carnivore guild may reflect overall biodiversity. Although
the global appeal of the large African carnivores makes them important international flagships, we stress that international
conservation funding must be linked to local communities for them to be important also locally. In summary, we suggest that
the flagship value of these large carnivores should be used to promote biodiversity conservation in the region, and that the
suggested relationship between large carnivore diversity and overall biodiversity is empirically tested. Finally we suggest
that direct conservation activities should focus on enhancing the keystone values of large carnivores through complete guild
conservation and restoration. 相似文献
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Molecular cytogenetic analysis and resequencing of contactin associated protein-like 2 in autism spectrum disorders 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1 下载免费PDF全文
Bakkaloglu B O'Roak BJ Louvi A Gupta AR Abelson JF Morgan TM Chawarska K Klin A Ercan-Sencicek AG Stillman AA Tanriover G Abrahams BS Duvall JA Robbins EM Geschwind DH Biederer T Gunel M Lifton RP State MW 《American journal of human genetics》2008,82(1):165-173
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of related neurodevelopmental syndromes with complex genetic etiology. We identified a de novo chromosome 7q inversion disrupting Autism susceptibility candidate 2 (AUTS2) and Contactin Associated Protein-Like 2 (CNTNAP2) in a child with cognitive and social delay. We focused our initial analysis on CNTNAP2 based on our demonstration of disruption of Contactin 4 (CNTN4) in a patient with ASD; the recent finding of rare homozygous mutations in CNTNAP2 leading to intractable seizures and autism; and in situ and biochemical analyses reported herein that confirm expression in relevant brain regions and demonstrate the presence of CNTNAP2 in the synaptic plasma membrane fraction of rat forebrain lysates. We comprehensively resequenced CNTNAP2 in 635 patients and 942 controls. Among patients, we identified a total of 27 nonsynonymous changes; 13 were rare and unique to patients and 8 of these were predicted to be deleterious by bioinformatic approaches and/or altered residues conserved across all species. One variant at a highly conserved position, I869T, was inherited by four affected children in three unrelated families, but was not found in 4010 control chromosomes (p = 0.014). Overall, this resequencing data demonstrated a modest nonsignificant increase in the burden of rare variants in cases versus controls. Nonetheless, when viewed in light of two independent studies published in this issue of AJHG showing a relationship between ASD and common CNTNAP2 alleles, the cytogenetic and mutation screening data suggest that rare variants may also contribute to the pathophysiology of ASD, but place limits on the magnitude of this contribution. 相似文献
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Elissa Chairani Takao Fuchigami Hirofumi Koyama Yusuke Ono Mikio Iijima Michiko Kishida Toshiro Kibe Norifumi Nakamura Shosei Kishida 《Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports》2022
Ameloblastoma is an odontogenic tumor located in the bone jaw with clinical characteristics of extensive bone resorption. It is a locally invasive tumor with a high recurrence rate despite adequate surgical removal. In bone disease, tumors and other cells including osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and osteocytes in the bone microenvironment contribute to the pathogenesis of tumor growth. However, the effect of osteoblasts on ameloblastoma cells is not well-understood, and there has been limited research on interactions between them.This study investigated interactions between ameloblastoma cells and osteoblasts using a human ameloblastoma cell line (AM-3 ameloblastoma cells) and a murine pre-osteoblast cell line (MC3T3-E1 cells). We treated each cell type with the conditioned medium by the other cell type. We analyzed the effect on cytokine production by MC3T3-E1 cells and the production of MMPs by AM-3 cells. Treatment with AM-3-conditioned medium induced inflammatory cytokine production of IL-6, MCP-1, and RANTES from MC3T3-E1 cells. The use of an IL-1 receptor antagonist suppressed the production of these inflammatory cytokines by MC3T3-E1 cells stimulated with AM-3-conditioned medium. The MC3T3-E1-conditioned medium triggered the expression of MMP-2 from AM-3 cells. Furthermore, we have shown that the proliferation and migration activity of AM-3 cells were accelerated by MC3T3-E1 conditioned media.In conclusion, these intercellular signalings between ameloblastoma cells and osteoblasts may play multiple roles in the pathogenesis of ameloblastoma. 相似文献
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Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana Katharina Kreppel Nohal Elissa Jean-Marc Duplantier Elisabeth Carniel Minoarisoa Rajerison Ronan Jambou 《PLoS neglected tropical diseases》2013,7(11)
Plague, a zoonosis caused by Yersinia pestis, is still found in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Madagascar reports almost one third of the cases worldwide. Y. pestis can be encountered in three very different types of foci: urban, rural, and sylvatic. Flea vector and wild rodent host population dynamics are tightly correlated with modulation of climatic conditions, an association that could be crucial for both the maintenance of foci and human plague epidemics. The black rat Rattus rattus, the main host of Y. pestis in Madagascar, is found to exhibit high resistance to plague in endemic areas, opposing the concept of high mortality rates among rats exposed to the infection. Also, endemic fleas could play an essential role in maintenance of the foci. This review discusses recent advances in the understanding of the role of these factors as well as human behavior in the persistence of plague in Madagascar. 相似文献
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Kramer EL 《Lymphatic research and biology》2004,2(1):32-37
Radionuclide lymphoscintigraphy is a useful technique for differentiating lymphedema from other causes of swelling, and may sometimes be useful for delineating collateral lymphatics, the level of obstruction, and the presence of lymphoceles or abnormal collections of lymphatic vessels, if they communicate sufficiently with normal lymphatic vessels. Standardization of technique is important to provide better intrapatient and even interpatient comparison. Symmetry, numbers, and locations of lymphatic vessels, lymph nodes, abnormal collections, and dermal collaterals are helpful in the qualitative assessment of lymphoscintigraphy. In addition, region-of-interest analysis may be used to quantitate the clearance of the radiopharmaceutical from the injection site and its accumulation in draining lymph nodes. The constellation of findings may be used to assess the severity of the lymphatic obstruction, the involvement of clinically normal limbs, and to plan therapy. 相似文献