CHOLESTEROL SUPPRESSES ANTIMICROBIAL EFFECT OF STATINS

Cholesterol suppresses antimicrobial effect of statins

Objective(s):Isoprenoid biosynthesis is a key metabolic pathway to produce a wide variety of biomolecules such as cholesterol and carotenoids, which target cell membranes.On the other hand, it has been reported that statins known as inhibitors of isoprenoid biosynthesis and cholesterol lowering agents, may have a direct Screw antimicrobial effect o

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UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND 3D MODELING APPLIED TO VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN THE BRONCE AGE

The risk of disappearing of cultural heritage of archaeological sites is directly related to the protection level by the corresponding administrations.This is the case of Cortijo Nuevo, an archaeological site with no known precedents in the Iberian Peninsula BACKPACK in the Bronze Age.The recent development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) used as

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Viability and resilience of languages in competition.

We study the viability and resilience of languages, using a simple dynamical model of two languages in competition.Assuming that public action can modify the prestige of a language in order to avoid language extinction, we analyze two cases: (i) the prestige can only take two values, (ii) it can take any value but its change at each time step is bo

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