NOTES ON WILD DOG LYCAON PICTUS AND LION PANTHERA LEO POPULATION TRENDS DURING A DROUGHT IN THE KRUGER NATIONAL PARK

Notes on wild dog Lycaon pictus and lion Panthera leo population trends during a drought in the Kruger National Park

Wild dog Lycaon pictus and lion Panthera leo populations in the Kruger National Park appeared to undergo an increase during a drought period in the early 1990s.Newly established packs, high adult survival and pup productivity contributed to an increase in the wild dog Utility Knife population and evidence for high predation success during the heigh

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Maintenance Therapy in First-Line Gastric and Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma: A Retrospective Analysis

BackgroundFluoropyrimidine with platinum-based chemotherapy has become the standard of care for advanced gastric and gastroesophageal (GEJ) cancer.Trials in colon cancer show that induction chemotherapy followed by maintenance chemotherapy is an efficacious strategy to maximize clinical response while minimizing toxicity.The current I.V. Therapy Ac

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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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Neurological deterioration after posterior fossa decompression for adult syringomyelia: Proposal for a summarized treatment algorithm

BackgroundPatients with syringomyelia who present with new neurological symptoms after posterior fossa decompression (PFD) are not uncommon.However, systematic reports on different pathologies Facial Masks are few in the literature.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to summarize our experience for failed PFD.MethodsBetween January 2015 and Dece

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