Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    Sequences at mitochondrial genome recombination sites are dually used as mRNAs and as rRNAs in actively translating mitoribosomes of T. gondii.
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    Gut microbiota-derived gamma-aminobutyric acid from metformin treatment reduces hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury through inhibiting ferroptosis

    Fangyan Wang, Xiujie Liu ... Wantie Wang
    Gut microbiota-derived gamma-aminobutyric acid is identified as a key metabolite that metformin protect from hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury.

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    University of Helsinki, Finland
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