Introduction: Eosinophils produce proteases that stimulate invasion in cancers. Due to the more malignant potential of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) compared to cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC), the aim of the present study was to compare tissue eosinophilia between OSCC and CSCC samples to understand whether tissue eosinophilia play a role in different biological...

gmelinoides fasciatus (stebbing, 1899) is a baikal endemic amphipod that has recently become widespread in eurasia. this species accidentally entered the cooling reservoir of the belovo power plant and became successfully naturalised there. this study describes the peculiarities of g. fasciatus distribution in reservoir sites with different thermal regimes and analyses the environmental factors...

Rosetting is a parasite adhesion phenotype associated with severe malaria in African children. Why parasites form rosettes is unknown, although enhanced invasion or immune evasion have been suggested as possible functions. Previous work showed that rosetting does not enhance parasite invasion under standard in vitro conditions. We hypothesised that rosetting might promote invasion in the presen...

One of the most significant threats to biodiversity is alien species invasion, and consequently understanding predicting biological invasions has become an important issue in ecology. While numerous studies have explored effect community diversity structure on invasion success, a systematic comparative analysis system robustness between antagonistic mutualistic networks from metacommunity persp...

Social-economic factors are considered as the key to understand processes contributing to biological invasions. However, there has been few quantified, statistical evidence on the relationship between economic development and biological invasion on a worldwide scale. Herein, using principal factor analysis, we investigated the relationship between biological invasion and economic development to...

Invasion biology and agriculture are intimately related for several reasons and in particular because many agricultural pest species are recent invaders. In this paper we suggest that the reconstruction of invasion routes with population genetics-based methods can address fundamental questions in ecology and practical aspects of the management of biological invasions in agricultural settings. W...

A major challenge of invasion biology lies in the development of a predictive understanding of invasion processes. Attempts to identify the proximate causes of invasion success or to predict rates of spread seldom emphasize behavioral characteristics. Recent experimental work, however, illustrates that insight into the proximate causes of animal invasions often hinges on a careful assessment of...

Evolutionary processes greatly impact the outcomes of biological invasions. An extensive body of research suggests that invasive populations often undergo phenotypic and ecological divergence from their native sources. Evolution also operates at different and distinct stages during the invasion process. Thus, it is important to incorporate evolutionary change into frameworks of biological invas...

conclusions the proliferation and invasion of human bladder cancer cells can be inhibited by rnai-targeting skp2. as a result, skp2 may be a potential target for gene therapy in cases of human bladder cancer. materials and methods the expression of the skp2 gene was knocked down by rna interference (rnai) in t24 cells. the transcription level of skp2 was detected by reverse transcription-quanti...

A fundamental characteristic of any biological invasion is the speed at which the geographic range of the population expands. This invasion speed is determined by both population growth and dispersal. We construct a discrete-time model for biological invasions that couples matrix population models (for population growth) with integrodifference equations (for dispersal). This model captures the ...