At present, tropical arid biomes house less woody plant species diversity than tropical moist biomes, which could be due to lower rates of evolutionary diversification in the recent or distant past.Here, we study the evolutionary diversification of Petalidium (Acanthaceae), a genus of 36 species of woody shrubs found in the Namib Desert of southwes
PurposeThe objective of the present study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of published literature to appraise the prognostic value of lymphovascular invasion (LVI) in radical cystectomy specimens.Materials and methodsFollowing the PRISMA statement, PubMed, Cochrane Library, and SCOPUS database were searched from the respective
Non-traumatic injury accounts for approximately half of clinical spinal cord injury, including chronic spinal cord compression.However, previous rodent spinal cord compression models are mainly designed for rats, few are available for mice.Our aim is to develop a thoracic progressive compression mice model of spinal cord injury.In this study, adult
The ability to produce force rapidly has the potential to directly influence sprinting performance through changes in stride length and stride frequency.This ability is commonly referred to as the rate of force development echofix spring reverb (RFD).For this reason, many elite sprinters follow a combined program consisting of resistance training a