Hybrid News for Hybrid Times

Hybrid genres include infotainment, infomercial, arguetainment, communication stampede, spin, and media spectacle.In altered social PROTECT circumstances, the usual elements of existence as a society, citizen, and public are transformed into the market, consumerist and commercial.Conventional information education becomes ad hoc commercial educatio

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DETERMINANTS OF PREVENTIVE BEHAVIOR REGARDING CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AND RISK FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITH ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION AND CHRONIC ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE

Aim.To analyze potential determinants of preventive behavior (PB) in patients with essential hypertension (HT) and chronic ischemic heart disease (CIHD), and to establish their significance and hierarchy.Material and methods.Patients with HT (n=285) and CIHD (n=223) were studied.Questioning of all patients was performed to assess the characteristic

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A synergistic triad of chemotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and caloric restriction mimetics eradicates tumors in mice

We have recently shown that chemotherapy with immunogenic cell death (ICD)-inducing agents can be advantageously combined with fasting regimens or caloric restriction mimetics (CRMs) to achieve superior tumor growth control via a T cell-dependent mechanism.Here, we show that the blockade of the CD11b-dependent extravasation of myeloid cells blocks

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Morphological changes in female reproductive organs in the African monarch butterfly, host to a male-killing Spiroplasma

Background Sexual selection and conflicts within and between sexes promote morphological diversity of reproductive traits within species.Variation in the morphology of diagnostic reproductive characters within species offer an excellent opportunity to study these evolutionary processes as drivers of species diversification.The African monarch, Dana

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