From the beginning of The North Atlantic Pact has been based on the concept of collective defense.This assumption takes on meaning after 2014.The annexation of Crimea to Russia and the Gun Grease hybrid war in Ukraine are confirming the Increase of military threat to the NATO border states, Including Poland.None of the eastern flank countries it wo

Endotoxin tolerance represents a safeguard mechanism for preventing detrimental prolonged inflammation and exaggerated immune/inflammatory responses from innate immune cells to recurrent harmless pathogens.On the other hand, excessive immune tolerance can contribute to pathological immunosuppression, e.g., as present in sepsis.Monocyte activation i

Abstract Background The causes of an early onset of puberty are still not clearly defined and may vary from subject to subject.In girls, even if 90% of early puberty is idiopathic, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain is performed to exclude secondary causes of precocious puberty, in particular pathological lesions as hypothalamic tumours

Plant-herbivore relationships are essential for ecosystem functioning, typically forming an ecological network with a compartmentalized (i.e.modular) structure characterized by highly Chair specialized interactions.Human disturbances can favor habitat generalist species and thus cause the collapse of this modular structure, but its effects are rare