Larvae of the pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor) sequester toxic alkaloids called aristolochic acids from their Aristolochia host plants, rendering both larvae and adults chemically defended against most predators. Using a chemically controlled artificial diet, we observed substantial among-family variation in sequestration ability and larval developmental rate in a population occurring in ...

Survivorship following modern total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is good with revision rates generally lower than for total hip arthroplasty (THA). Our experience in Belfast supports that fact with original component survivorship of 99% for the low contact stress rotating platform TKA, which is better than our THA survivorship. It is important to discriminate between survivorship and patient satisfa...

BACKGROUND The fast growing demand and the shortage of resources are pushing toward more efficient models of survivorship care delivery. The Associazione Italiana di Oncologia Medica (AIOM) established an interdisciplinary working group with the purpose of promoting organizational improvements at the national level. A survey aimed at assessing attitudes and feelings of oncologists was considere...

The evolution of parasite virulence is thought to involve a trade-off between parasite reproductive rate and the effect of increasing the number of propagules on host survivorship. Such a trade-off should lead to selection for an intermediate level of within-host reproduction (λ). Here I consider the effects of parasite propagule number on selection affecting λ when (i) the effect of each propa...

Survival and growth of monarch larvae, Danaus plexippus (L.), after exposure to either Cry1Ab-expressing pollen from three Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn (Zea mays L.) events differing in toxin expression or to the insecticide, lambda-cyhalothrin, were examined in field studies. First instars exposed to low doses ( approximately 22 grains per cm(2)) of event-176 pollen gained 18% less weight ...

Survivorship is a trait characterized by endurance and virility in the face of hardship. It is largely considered a psychosocial attribute developed during fatal conditions, rather than a biological trait for robustness in the context of complex, age-dependent diseases like coronary artery disease (CAD). The purpose of this paper is to present the novel phenotype, survivorship in CAD as an obse...

Previous work on the phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI) polymorphism of Colias butterflies led to predictions concerning aspects of differential survivorship and fecundity among the polymorphic genotypes in the wild. Explicit assumptions underlying these predictions were that functional differences among genotypes at the in vitro biochemical level reflected roughly corresponding differences in vivo...

PURPOSE A rapid and comprehensive review to identify what is known and not known about the physical and practical problems faced by adult cancer survivors. METHODS A systematic literature review process was used. This focused on published reviews to enable a fast but rigorous identification of both the gaps and well-researched areas within survivorship. RESULTS The search identified 5121 re...

PURPOSE Patient navigation is an intervention approach that improves cancer outcomes by reducing barriers and facilitating timely access to cancer care. Little is known about the benefits of patient navigation during breast cancer treatment and survivorship. This systematic review evaluates the efficacy of patient navigation in improving treatment and survivorship outcomes in women with breast ...

The purpose of this prospective study was to evaluate the outcomes and survivorship of a trispiked, sintered bead-coated titanium shell with a polished inner surface, no screw holes, and an improved locking mechanism. A total of 506 total hip arthroplasties with a minimum 5-year follow-up were available for review at a mean of 7 years (range, 5-11 years). Three sockets (0.6%) were revised for r...