Variation in the social environment is a fundamental component of many vertebrate societies.
In humans and other primates, adverse social environments often translate into lasting …

Social status is one of the strongest predictors of human disease risk and mortality, and it
also influences Darwinian fitness in social mammals more generally. To understand the …

Eight stallions were used in 2 × 2 crossover study to determine if feeding a nutriceutical rich
in docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) would improve semen quality. Stallions were randomly …

Various physiologic effects of soy food consumption have been attributed to the estrogenic
actions of isoflavones. The order of estrogen receptor binding potency of soy-derived …

The oral bacterium Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is implicated as a causative agent
of localized juvenile periodontitis (LJP). A. actinomycetemcomitans is classified into five …

The CD28 costimulation at TCR signaling plays a pivotal role in the regulation of the T cell
response. To elucidate the role of T cells in periodontal disease, a system of cell transfer with …

High-performance metabolic profiling (HPMP) by Fourier-transform mass spectrometry
coupled to liquid chromatography gives relative quantification of thousands of chemicals in …

Expression oflipooligosaccharide (LOS) antigenic detenflinants during human gonococcal
infection was studied in secretions from seven men with gonococcal urethritis. Five …

Obesity results from a number of factors including socio-environmental influences and rodent
models show that several different stressors increase the preference for calorically dense …

Individuals vary substantially in their vulnerability to physical and psychosocial stressors. The
causes of such variation in susceptibility to stress are poorly understood, but are thought to …