Most bacterial infections initiate at the mucosal epithelium lining the gastrointestinal, respiratory, and urogenital tracts.At Potentiometer these sites, bacterial pathogens must adhere and increase in numbers to effectively breach the outer barrier and invade the host.If the bacterium succeeds in reaching the bloodstream, effective dissemination
BackgroundStudying prenatal influences of early life growth is relevant to life-course epidemiology as some of its features have been linked to the onset of later diseases.MethodsWe studied the association between prenatal maternal characteristics (height, age, parity, education, pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), smoking, gestational diabetes an
Abstract Background Severe traumatic stressors such as war, rape, or life-threatening accidents can result in a debilitating psychopathological development conceptualised as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).Pathological memory formation during an alarm response may set the precondition for PTSD to occur.If true, a lack of memory formation by ex