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A recurring theme in pulmonary fibrosis genetics.

In 1980, the question “Is there a fibrotic gene?” was posed in an editorial [1] commenting on a report about pulmonary fibrosis in monozygotic twins. Over the next 37 years, the identification of kindreds of families with pulmonary fibrosis and advances in DNA sequencing provided answers to this question. An early example of a gene associated with pulmonary fibrosis involved a case of familial ...

Pneumoviruses: Molecular Genetics and Reverse Genetics

Pneumoviruses are responsible for significant respiratory disease in their hosts and represent a major problemfor human and animal health. Pneumoviruses are members of the family Paramyxoviridae, subfamilyPneumovirinae and the virus particles consist of a negative-sense, nonsegmented RNA genome within a helical nucleocapsid structure enveloped in a lipid membrane derived from the ho...

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CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS AND ITS IMPACT ON CUSTOMER RETENTION Economic literature has been focusing frequently on the impact of systematic coordination of all communication instmments, coming to the result that well managed corporate communications may strengthen return on sales. The justification of this assumption is the concept of market focused management, i.e. the strict orientation of all...