Species diversity assessments are an important step to evaluate the conservation status of a community, both in marine and terrestrial ecosystems.These assessments are pivotal if related to both, the constant increase of human pressure on ecosystems and the anthropogenic climate change occurring nowadays.Sharks and rays are globally threatened, and
Granulomatosis with polyangitis (GPA) is characterized by necrotizing granulomatosis of the upper and lower respiratory tract and glomerulonephritis.If GPA does not respond to appropriate management, it might result in end-stage renal disease, which may remit the disease severity.The overall impression is that immunosuppression following renal tran
Pain is a natural bioassay for detecting and quantifying biological activities of venoms.The painfulness of stings Bowl delivered by ants, wasps, and bees can be easily measured in the field or lab using the stinging insect pain scale that rates the pain intensity from 1 to 4, with 1 being minor pain, and 4 being extreme, debilitating, excruciating