Identification and characterization of epicuticular proteins of nematodes sharing motifs with cuticular proteins of arthropods.

Specific collagens and insoluble proteins called cuticlins are major constituents of the nematode cuticles.The epicuticle, which forms the outermost electron-dense layer of the cuticle, is composed of another category of insoluble proteins called epicuticlins.It is distinct from the insoluble cuticlins localized in the cortical layer and the fibrou

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Medication-Induced Oral Hyperpigmentation: A Systematic Review

Nada O Binmadi, Maram Bawazir, Nada Alhindi, Hani Mawardi, Ghada Mansour, Sana Alhamed, Sarah Alfarabi, Sara Akeel, Soulafa Almazrooa Oral rab bck-s4 Diagnostic Sciences Department, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Nada O BinmadiOral Diagnostic Sciences Department, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdul

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Towards a rhetoric of cross-cultural identity

This paper explores the involvement of metaphor and allusion in the discursive construction of cross-cultural identity.Cross-cultural identity is regarded as a narrative; as such it is liable to rhetorical analysis and dependent on rhetorical processes for its construction and assimilation.Metaphor is claimed to serve both as an analogy for the cys

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