Temperature stress is one of the crucial factors determining geographical distribution of
insect species. Most of them are active in moderate temperatures, however some are …

Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widely used in various manufacturing processes.
Accumulation of these chemicals has adverse effects on human health, including …

The effect of membrane permeability transition pore dependent mitochondrial apoptotic
activation on yak meat tenderness was investigated. Results indicate that MPTP opening …

Although mitochondria are essential organelles for long-term survival of eukaryotic cells,
recent discoveries in biochemistry and genetics have advanced our understanding of the …

Autophagy and apoptosis, which could be induced by common stimuli, play crucial roles in
development and disease. The functional relationship between autophagy and apoptosis is …

Conventional DNA ladder assay has certain shortcomings such as loss of DNA fragments
during sample processing, involvement of multiple steps and requirement of expensive …

Mitochondria have been shown to play an important role in apoptosis using mammalian cell
lines. However, this seems not to be the case in Drosophila, an insect model organism; thus …

The food flavour additive octanoic acid (C8: 0) is also a metabolite of the entomopathogenic
fungus Conidiobolus coronatus, which efficiently infects and rapidly kills Galleria mellonella …

Spinosad, a reduced-risk insecticide, acts on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and the
gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor in the nervous system of target insects. However, its …

Background Apoptosis is regulated in an orderly fashion by a series of genes, and has a
crucial role in important physiological processes such as growth development …