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Endogenous and Exogenous Opioids in Pain by Corder, Gregory, Castro, Daniel C, Bruchas, Michael R, Scherrer, Grégory

“…Opioids are the most commonly used and effective analgesic treatments for severe pain, but they have recently come under scrutiny owing to epidemic levels of…”
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Roles of Arbuscular Mycorrhizas in Plant Nutrition and Growth: New Paradigms from Cellular to Ecosystem Scales by Smith, Sally E, Smith, F. Andrew

“…Root systems of most land plants form arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbioses in the field, and these contribute to nutrient uptake. AM roots have two pathways…”
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Sulfur Assimilation in Photosynthetic Organisms: Molecular Functions and Regulations of Transporters and Assimilatory Enzymes by Takahashi, Hideki, Kopriva, Stanislav, Giordano, Mario, Saito, Kazuki, Hell, Rüdiger

“…Sulfur is required for growth of all organisms and is present in a wide variety of metabolites having distinctive biological functions. Sulfur is cycled in…”
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Cryptochromes: Blue Light Photoreceptors in Plants and Animals by Chaves, Inês, Pokorny, Richard, Byrdin, Martin, Hoang, Nathalie, Ritz, Thorsten, Brettel, Klaus, Essen, Lars-Oliver, Horst, Gijsbertus T.J. van der, Batschauer, Alfred, Ahmad, Margaret

“…Cryptochromes are flavoprotein photoreceptors first identified in Arabidopsis thaliana, where they play key roles in growth and development. Subsequently…”
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Evolution and Diversity of Plant Cell Walls: From Algae to Flowering Plants by Popper, Zoë A, Michel, Gurvan, Hervé, Cécile, Domozych, David S, Willats, William G.T, Tuohy, Maria G, Kloareg, Bernard, Stengel, Dagmar B

“…All photosynthetic multicellular Eukaryotes, including land plants and algae, have cells that are surrounded by a dynamic, complex, carbohydrate-rich cell…”
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Genetic Regulation of Sporopollenin Synthesis and Pollen Exine Development by Ariizumi, Tohru, Toriyama, Kinya

“…Pollen acts as a biological protector of male sperm and is covered by an outer cell wall polymer called the exine, which consists of durable sporopollenin…”
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Cullin-RING Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases by Hua, Zhihua, Vierstra, Richard D

“…The posttranslational addition of ubiquitin (Ub) helps control the half-life, localization, and action of many intracellular plant proteins. A primary function…”
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Sodium Channels in Normal and Pathological Pain by DIB-HAJJ, Sulayman D, CUMMINS, Theodore R, BLACK, Joel A, WAXMAN, Stephen G

“…Nociception is essential for survival whereas pathological pain is maladaptive and often unresponsive to pharmacotherapy. Voltage-gated sodium channels,…”
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Sex Chromosomes in Land Plants by Ming, Ray, Bendahmane, Abdelhafid, Renner, Susanne S

“…Sex chromosomes in land plants can evolve as a consequence of close linkage between the two sex determination genes with complementary dominance required to…”
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Convergent Evolution in Plant Specialized Metabolism by Pichersky, Eran, Lewinsohn, Efraim

“…Plants synthesize a multitude of compounds that contribute to adaptation to their ecological niches. Such compounds serve as attractants of other living…”
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Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in patients on immunomodulatory therapies by Major, Eugene O

“…Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a demyelinating disease of the white matter of the human brain caused by lytic infection of…”
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Lamins: Nuclear Intermediate Filament Proteins with Fundamental Functions in Nuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation by Gruenbaum, Yosef, Foisner, Roland

“…Lamins are intermediate filament proteins that form a scaffold, termed nuclear lamina, at the nuclear periphery. A small fraction of lamins also localize…”
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BioCassava Plus Program: Biofortification of Cassava for Sub-Saharan Africa by Sayre, Richard, Beeching, John R, Cahoon, Edgar B, Egesi, Chiedozie, Fauquel, Claude, Fellman, John, Fregene, Martin, Gruissem, Wilhelm, Mallowa, Sally, Manary, Mark, Maziya-Dixon, Bussie, Mbanaso, Ada, Schachtman, Daniel P, Siritunga, Dimuth, Taylor, Nigel, Vanderschuren, Herve

“…More than 250 million Africans rely on the starchy root crop cassava (Manihot esculenta) as their staple source of calories. A typical cassava-based diet,…”
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Plant Nucleotide Sugar Formation, Interconversion, and Salvage by Sugar Recycling by Bar-Peled, Maor, O'Neill, Malcolm A

“…Nucleotide sugars are the universal sugar donors for the formation of polysaccharides, glycoproteins, proteoglycans, glycolipids, and glycosylated secondary…”
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Folate Biosynthesis, Turnover, and Transport in Plants by Hanson, Andrew D, Gregory, Jesse F. III

“…Folates are essential cofactors for one-carbon transfer reactions and are needed in the diets of humans and animals. Because plants are major sources of…”
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Anion Channels/Transporters in Plants: From Molecular Bases to Regulatory Networks by Barbier-Brygoo, Hélène, Angeli, Alexis de, Filleur, Sophie, Frachisse, Jean-Marie, Gambale, Franco, Thomine, Sébastien, Wege, Stefanie

“…Anion channels/transporters are key to a wide spectrum of physiological functions in plants, such as osmoregulation, cell signaling, plant nutrition and…”
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CO2 concentrating mechanisms in algae: mechanisms, environmental modulation, and evolution by Giordano, Mario, Beardall, John, Raven, John A

“…The evolution of organisms capable of oxygenic photosynthesis paralleled a long-term reduction in atmospheric CO2 and the increase in O2. Consequently, the…”
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Germline Specification and Function in Plants by Berger, Frédéric, Twell, David

“…The flowering plant germline is produced during the haploid gametophytic stage. Defining the germline is complicated by the extreme reduction of the male and…”
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Epigenome and Plant Development by He, Guangming, Elling, Axel A, Deng, Xing Wang

“…The epigenomic regulation of chromatin structure and genome stability is essential for the interpretation of genetic information and ultimately the…”
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Calcium oxalate in plants: Formation and Function by Franceschi, Vincent R, Nakata, Paul A

“…Calcium oxalate (CaOx) crystals are distributed among all taxonomic levels of photosynthetic organisms from small algae to angiosperms and giant gymnosperms…”
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