نتایج جستجو برای: immunocompetence

تعداد نتایج: 1104  

Journal: :Proceedings. Biological sciences 2003
Gillian Rhodes Janelle Chan Leslie A Zebrowitz Leigh W Simmons

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that a preference for sexually dimorphic traits in human faces is an adaptation for mate choice, because such traits reflect health during development. For male faces, this claim rests on the immunocompetence-handicap hypothesis, which states that the increased testosterone levels needed to develop large masculine traits stress the immune system. We examined w...

Journal: :Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 2009
Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse Amanda L J Duffus

Environmental change has negatively affected most biological systems on our planet and is becoming of increasing concern for the well-being and survival of many species. At an organism level, effects encompass not only endocrine disruptions, sex-ratio changes and decreased reproductive parameters, but also include teratogenic and genotoxic effects, immunosuppression and other immune-system impa...

Journal: :The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases 2007
Michele Paulo Alex Bittencourt Borges Geraldo Duarte Silvana Maria Quintana Marlise Bonetti Agostinho Montes Maria Regina Torqueti Toloi

The objective of the present study was to assess the presence of human papilloma virus (HPV) in HIV-infected women, with comparison between the Papanicolaou cytologic technique and the molecular PCR technique, as well as to determine the type of HPV, to measure cellular immunocompetence and to identify the presence of risk factors for the acquisition of HPV infection. Thirty HIV-infected women ...

2016
Mitsuro Kanda Akira Mizuno Chie Tanaka Daisuke Kobayashi Michitaka Fujiwara Naoki Iwata Masamichi Hayashi Suguru Yamada Goro Nakayama Tsutomu Fujii Hiroyuki Sugimoto Masahiko Koike Hideki Takami Yukiko Niwa Kenta Murotani Yasuhiro Kodera

Evidence indicates that impaired immunocompetence and nutritional status adversely affect short-term and long-term outcomes of patients with cancer. We aimed to evaluate the clinical significance of preoperative immunocompetence and nutritional status according to Onodera's prognostic nutrition index (PNI) among patients who underwent curative gastrectomy for gastric cancer (GC).This study incl...

2015
Wei Dang Wen Zhang Wei-Guo Du

Identifying how developmental temperature affects the immune system is critical for understanding how ectothermic animals defend against pathogens and their fitness in the changing world. However, reptiles have received little attention regarding this issue. We incubated eggs at three ecologically relevant temperatures to determine how incubation temperature affects the immune function of hatch...

2013
Concepción Salaberria Jaime Muriel María de Luna Diego Gil Marisa Puerta

Several techniques in ecological immunology have been used to assess bird immunocompetence thus providing useful information to understand the contribution of the immunological system in life-history decisions. The phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-skin test has been the most widely employed technique being interpreted as the sole result of T lymphocytes proliferation and hence used to evaluate acquire...

Journal: :Journal of insect physiology 2008
Noah Wilson-Rich Stephanie T Dres Philip T Starks

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are of vital economic and ecological importance. These eusocial animals display temporal polyethism, which is an age-driven division of labor. Younger adult bees remain in the hive and tend to developing brood, while older adult bees forage for pollen and nectar to feed the colony. As honey bees mature, the types of pathogens they experience also change. As such, pat...

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