Glucan-mediated trained immunity activates alveolar macrophages which exacerbates acute lung injury induced by LPS.

IN 1884 a Dane, Christian Gram, while working in Berlin, discovered a method of staining micro-organisms which has gone under his name ever since that date1. Although the method is in daily use by ...

A special dye called Wright-Giemsa stains your red blood cells. The blood cells are examined under a microscope. A blood smear tells your doctor about the different types of cells.

Pityrosporum folliculitis, also known as Malassezia folliculitis, is a common yeast infection of the hair follicles. 1 This condition is caused by Malassezia, a genus of lipophilic fungi that is part ...

It is the cell wall that differentiates Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria; the peptidoglycan layer is thick (≈80 nm) and porous in Gram-positive bacteria, enabling it to retain the crystal ...

The photocatalytic reduction of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) using ZnO nanorods immobilized on kaolin clay was studied. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) ...