Anti-adhesion therapy represents a potentially promising avenue for the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis in a post-antibiotic era. Adhesins are surface-exposed microbial structures or molecules that enable pathogenic organisms to adhere to host surfaces, a fundamental step towards host infection. Although several Mycobacterium tuberculosis adhesins have been identified, it is predicted ...

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asthma is a complex, heterogeneous and chronic airway inflammatory disease with different clinical phenotypes caused by diverse triggers and pathophysiological mechanisms. asthma heritability has been established in many genetic studies but it is evident that only genetic elements are not responsible for the development of asthma. increasing rate of asthma incidence during past decades has impl...

micrornas are tiny, 18-25 nucleotides in length, non-coding rna molecules preserved throughout evolution. these molecules primarily control gene expression at the post-transcriptional and transcriptional levels. micrornas control target gene expression by a phenomenon known as rna interference. rna interference based therapeutics that utilize target gene silencing/degradation by specific micror...